South
Carolina is home to great writers like
Pat Conroy and
Sue Monk Kidd, but it is also the founder of many of our southern traditions
and styles. As the eighth state to join the union, South Carolina
has a rich history of southern culture as well as a history of
influencing the culture and pastimes of all of the United States.
Pat Conroy
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... military bases
around the South, Pat changed schools frequently,
finally attending the Citadel Military Academy in
Charleston, South Carolina, upon his father
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Sue Monk Kidd
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... While in her
thirties and living with her husband and children in
South Carolina she began to pursue her life-long
interest in writing. ... |
Cassandra King
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... King is married to
best-selling southern writer, Pat Conroy. They live in
South Carolina. |
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
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... They live together
in isolation on a peach farm in South Carolina
until one sweltering summer afternoon in 1964, when Lily is
fourteen, T-Ray tells her things ...
James Dickey
...settled in South
Carolina, where he was poet in residence at University of
South Carolina. He died in Columbia.
Did you
know?
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The
first shots of the Civil War were fired in Charleston Harbor on
April 12, 1861.
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Golf
was first played in the U.S. in Charleston, S.C. The South Carolina
Golf Club was formed in 1786 and was the first golf club in the
United States.
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Yellow jessamine, the state flower, is a climbing vine that
grows wild on trees and fences. Its sweet-smelling yellow
flowers bloom early in the spring.
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South Carolina appointed the first African-American
Associate Justice of a state supreme court - J.J. Wright,
February 2, 1870.
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The Nation's only commercial tea farm, American Classic Tea,
is located on Wadmalaw Island near Charleston.
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