In 1850, P.T. Barnum through misfortune ended up in Charleston, South Carolina where his daughter and team spent Christmas Eve. Learn all about it in this new short video.
About the Video:
On Christmas Eve 1850, after their tour group had been stuck on a storm-ravaged ship and arrived in Charleston, South Carolina exhausted and seasick, P.T. Barnum – along with his 17-year-old daughter Caroline – attended a Christmas dinner party in Jenny Lind’s rooms.
Lind had stunned the group with a decorated tree, and before dinner exchanged gifts ranging from jewelry and fashion accessories to some gag gifts – a statue of Bacchus for teetotaler Barnum and a singing monkey for her fellow singer and conductor Giovanni Belletti.
After dinner, Lind and Barnum danced a cotillion – though Caroline admitted his attempt “afforded us a great deal of amusement.”
Like so many of us that gravitate to the unusual or unknown, Charleston is no different. So when a rare icy freeze looms over the Lowcountry, we take notice and even celebrate in the marvel of this rare treat.
it may not be a white Christmas, but it’s certainly a little icy.
Here are shots from a fountain on James Island. Enjoy the beauty of the sun reflecting off the icicles.
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This is a very rare film of Mrs. Septima Clark of Charleston SC, who mentored Rosa Parks, educated adults about their voting rights, and is considered by many as the “Mother of the Movement.”
Filmed in Columbia SC in 1979. She is interviewed by Dr. Grace McFadden of the University of South Carolina.
South Carolina was the third fastest-growing state in the United States, according to new data released by the U.S. Census.
The new total population in the state is estimated to be 5,282,634 after a 1.7% year-over-year increase. South Carolina ranked sixth in its raw number increase with 89,368 more residents, behind third-ranked North Carolina and just ahead of Tennessee.
Florida and Idaho saw the largest percentage population increases while Texas and Florida saw the largest raw number increases.
“There was a sizeable uptick in population growth last year compared to the prior year’s historically low increase,” said Kristie Wilder, a demographer in the Population Division at the Census Bureau. “A rebound in net international migration, coupled with the largest year-over-year increase in total births since 2007, is behind this increase.”
The South was credited as being the fastest-growing region in the country with a 1.1% increase.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today announced the South Carolina projects that were included in the year-end spending bill set to be debated and voted on in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate this week.
Graham made these funding requests to the Senate Appropriations Committee, a committee on which he serves.
Among the South Carolina funding included in the legislation:
Aiken (City): $4.5 million for water treatment system upgrades.
Aiken – Rural Health Services: $422,000 for facilities and equipment to improve health care access.
Aiken County: $413,000 to purchase updated firefighting equipment.
Aiken County: $5 million for wastewater treatment plant expansion.
Anderson – Restoration Project Foundation: $650,000 to develop and implement curriculum.
Beaufort (City): $800,000 for storm water management.
Beaufort-Jasper YMCA of the Lowcountry: $1.5 million for facility improvements.
Calhoun County: $10.511 million for water infrastructure expansion.
Cayce: $858,000 to upgrade police equipment.
Charleston (City): $200,000 to conduct a feasibility study to mitigate the effects of tidal and inland flooding in the Charleston area.
Charleston (City): $13.325 million for preconstruction, engineering, and design to protect against severe storms and storm surge impacts at the Charleston Peninsula.
Cheraw: $423,000 for water plant improvements.
Clemson: $2.629 million for public infrastructure improvements.
Clemson University: $6 million to improve student health care delivery.
Columbia International University: $915,000 for nursing education program and equipment.
Folly Beach: $500,000 to mitigate extensive shoreline erosion due to severe storms.
Francis Marion University: $1.09 million for equipment for science, health care, and engineering.
Greenville – MetroConnects: $4 million for sewer system upgrades.
Greenville – REWA Renewable Water Resources: $6.3 million to construct wastewater infrastructure sewer and pumping station upgrades in Greenville County.
Greenville Water: $5.4 million for transmission main line upgrades.
Horry County: $22 million for an interchange extension.
Kershaw County Family YMCA: $1.1 million to develop a child care center and training facility.
Kingstree (Town): $4.6 million for park infrastructure.
Laurens County: $14.552 million for road safety improvements.
Lexington (Town): $2.275 million to acquire updated technology for the police department.
Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort: $900,000 to plan and design a new fuel pier.
Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island: $75.9 million for the replacement of recruit barracks.
Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island: $4.8 million to plan and design a new dental clinic.
Medical University of South Carolina: $6.25 million for facilities and equipment to improve cancer care.
Mount Pleasant: $10 million for reimbursement to the state of South Carolina for harbor deepening. The state pre-funded harbor deepening in an effort to accelerate the timeline and ensure the project was not delayed waiting on annual federal appropriations.
Mount Pleasant: $5.677 million for drainage resilience.
Mount Pleasant – Enough is Enough: $960,000 to conduct online exploitation prevention.
North Charleston – Carolina Youth Development Center: $361,000 to enhance security.
Pendleton: $5.3 million for wastewater treatment plant expansion.
Pickens Regional Joint Water: $4 million for a water treatment plant.
Piedmont Technical College: $256,000 to improve student outcomes and increase graduation rates.
Roper St. Francis Hospital: $6.475 million for facilities and equipment to improve oncology care.
Roper St. Francis Hospital: $3.775 million to increase access to health care.
Sumter (City): $510,000 to upgrade their ballistic evidence system.
South Carolina Emergency Management: $7.5 million for facility upgrades and modernization.
Tri-County Technical College: $1.211 million for an automotive training center.
University of South Carolina Aiken: $830,000 for equipment for STEM program.
University of South Carolina Beaufort: $1 million for facilities and equipment improvements to nursing simulation center.
University of South Carolina Lancaster: $110,000 for facilities and equipment to improve health care education.
University of South Carolina School of Law: $950,000 for Rule of Law curriculum development.
University of South Carolina: $2.505 million for facilities and equipment to improve stroke research and care.
University of South Carolina: $4.5 million for facilities and equipment to create a shared biomedical research core.
University of South Carolina: $7.75 million for facilities and equipment to enhance clinical diagnosis and care for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Walterboro – Genesis Health Care: $1 million to improve the delivery of health care.
Other notable funding items related to South Carolina organizations and institutions included in the legislation:
$1.2 Billion for Plutonium Pit Production at Savannah River Site: Allows for the continued construction on the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF) project to achieve a production capability of at least 50 pits per year within South Carolina consistent with the NNSA’s recommended alternative for pit production. This advances our nation’s nuclear capability to counter threats like Russian and China.
$71.764 Million for Surplus Plutonium Disposition at Savannah River Site: The Surplus Plutonium Disposition (SPD) project will add additional glovebox capacity at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to accelerate plutonium dilution and aid in the removal of plutonium from South Carolina.
$12.137 Million for Savannah River Site Community and Regulatory Support: The Atomic Energy Act authorizes payments to communities to help offset losses in property taxes due to the presence of non-taxable federal lands within their boundaries. This critical funding is used in a variety of ways in South Carolina, including supporting public schools.
$10.5 Million for Procurement and Industrial Base Protection. This request supports the production of the M240 machine gun in Columbia. Without additional procurement funding, the M240 line would be at risk and restarting the line in the future creates an unacceptable risk to American warfighters.
Please join NCPD in congratulating Ptl. Caroline Yeargin, the recipient of our agency’s “Lifesaving Award” and “Employee of the Month” for August 2022. On August 3, Ptl. Yeargin responded to a call from a woman in distress. Officer Yeargin prevented the woman from harming herself.
Today NCPD neighborhood resource officers and police recruits assisted WCBD TV News 2 in a Toys for Tots drop-off blitz. The effort will make a lot of Lowcountry children happy on Christmas morning.
The Goose Creek Domino’s is one of the newest recipients of the newly rolled out Electric Vehicle fleet of cars being rolled out by Domino’s nationwide.
Domino’s recently unveiled 800 Chevy Bolt EVs across the nation and Goose Creek was one of the locations chosen.
Thank you, Kerri Hayman, Franchise Owner for Charleston, SC, and Augusta, GA for this share.
A pioneer in grassroots citizenship education, Septima Clark was called the “Mother of the Movement” and the epitome of a “community teacher, intuitive fighter for human rights and leader of her unlettered and disillusioned people” (McFadden, “Septima Clark,” 85; King, July 1962).
The daughter of a laundrywoman and a former slave, Clark was born 3 May 1898 in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1916 she graduated from secondary school and, after passing her teacher’s exam, taught at a black school on Johns Island, just outside of Charleston. For more than 30 years, she taught throughout South Carolina, including 18 years in Columbia and 9 in Charleston.
Clark pursued her education during summer breaks. In 1937 Clark studied under W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University before eventually earning her BA (1942) from Benedict College in Columbia, and her MA (1946) from Virginia’s Hampton Institute. Clark also worked with the YWCA and participated in a class action lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) that led to pay equity for black and white teachers in South Carolina. In 1956 South Carolina passed a statute that prohibited city and state employees from belonging to civil rights organizations. After 40 years of teaching, Clark’s employment contract was not renewed when she refused to resign from the NAACP.
By the time of her firing in 1956, Clark had already begun to conduct workshops during her summer vacations at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, a grassroots education center dedicated to social justice. Rosa Parks participated in one of Clark’s workshops just months before she helped launch the Montgomery bus boycott. After losing her teaching position, Myles Horton hired Clark full-time as Highlander’s director of workshops. Believing that literacy and political empowerment are inextricably linked, Clark taught people basic literacy skills, their rights and duties as U.S. citizens, and how to fill out voter registration forms.
When the state of Tennessee forced Highlander to close in 1961, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC) established the Citizenship Education Program (CEP), modeled on Clark’s citizenship workshops. Clark became SCLC’s director of education and teaching, conducting teacher training and developing curricula. King appreciated Clark’s “expert direction” of the CEP, which he called “the bulwark of SCLC’s program department” (King, 11 August 1965). Although Clark found that most men at SCLC “didn’t respect women too much,” she thought that King “really felt that black women had a place in the movement” (Clark, 25 July 1976; McFadden, “Septima Clark,” 93).
After retiring from SCLC in 1970, Clark conducted workshops for the American Field Service. In 1975 she was elected to the Charleston, South Carolina, School Board. The following year, the governor of South Carolina reinstated her teacher’s pension after declaring that she had been unjustly terminated in 1956. She was given a Living Legacy Award by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and published her second memoir, Ready from Within, in 1986.
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