NASCAR lowers Confederate flags; ‘GWTW’ ‘censored’?
Last week, HBO Max removed “Gone with the Wind” from its library and said the 1939 film was:
“ … A product of its time and depicts some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been commonplace in American society. These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible.”
Living on the West End: ‘Skinny-dipping’ arrives at The Mill Village
The month of June is here! The long and cold winter is over and the time for June-bugs and skinny-dipping has arrived. An old man and his pen are back in a time long ago! He remembers and he writes.
Just one great adventure
By Tom Poland On my way back I crossed Clarks Hill Lake twice. In soft early evening light, the water lay like a mirror. Smooth as glass, as we like to say. Shoreline reflections rendered perfect hourglass illusions. Water mirrors people. It’s moody and can present a calm face or gravity can anger it. Earlier I had watched water rage, funnel, twist and smash against rocks. Other rocks it glided over in glassy bell-shapes, smooth as...
A newspaper cured her Internet addiction
By Katy Byron Poynter Institute For the first time in my life, I am a print newspaper subscriber. I’m 36 years old. And when I confirmed my home delivery subscription to The Wall Street Journal earlier this month, it felt … so good. This is unusual for a couple of reasons. First, I am a third-generation journalist. My grandparents worked in radio and my dad wrote for various newspapers and print publications for over 40 years. Second,...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Darlington County ‘ignores’ Korean War veterans’ project
May is a month that honors America’s Armed Services. May 16 was Armed Forces Day and May 25 was Memorial Day. The pandemic severely limited the usual displays of patriotism. However, South Carolinians found ways to pay tribute to veterans, past and present. South Carolina has always been very supportive of our military, especially those that paid the ultimate price on the battlefields to preserve American freedoms. The Foothills...
A plant that will root you to the spot
By Tom Poland A botanical superstar lives in the South. It’s exquisite, ephemeral and periled, in that much of its habitat lies beneath lakes. I’m writing about the rocky shoals spider lily. As status goes, it’s a national plant of concern, but you’ll find it in just three states: South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. Babylon had its hanging gardens and South Carolina has its watery, undulating gardens. What’s considered the world’s...