Carolina Stories

Battle of Camden

One of the worst American battle defeats in the Revolution was fought in Camden, South Carolina. Revolutionary war re-enactors help tell the story of this crucial event in American history.

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Thursday - August 14, 2008 at 9:00 pm
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The Turtle Ladies of Charleston County

Tells the story of the dedicated team of women (and a few men) who are making a positive impact on the endangered sea turtle population along the SC coast.

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Thursday - August 21, 2008 at 9:00 pm
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When the Mill Closes Down

When the Mill Closes Down examines South Carolina’s rich textile history and the people who worked it. The program follows recent mill closings and profiles mill town revitalization efforts. Featured are Avondale, Ware Shoals, Newberry, Honea Path and Pacolet mills.

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Thursday - September 11, 2008 at 9:00 pm
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Finding Clovis

Finding Clovis takes viewers on an archeological adventure at the Topper dig site in Allendale County, South Carolina. Famous for Clovis and pre-Clovis artifacts there is recent evidence that may support the theory that a comet suddenly wiped out the Clovis culture 13,000 years ago. The Topper dig annually attracts scientists, students, volunteers, and observers. As part of Finding Clovis, world-renowned scientists such as Allen West, Dennis Stanford from The Smithsonian, David Anderson, Scott Jones, and Al Goodyear from the University of South Carolina will offer their opinions about these significant first Americans—where they came from, how they lived, and what may have been their fate. Producers are Steve Folks and Alejandro Baez.

Following "Finding Clovis" at 9:30 is Spokes and Strings. This program features the challenges and triumphs of three South Carolina athletes who play wheelchair tennis on the international level.

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Thursday - September 18, 2008 at 9:00 pm
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Early every weekday morning, a fleet of small motorboats launches from the Mount Arena landing on Sandy Island, taking residents to work along South Carolina’s Grand Strand. The children board the school boat, the Prince Washington, for the daily trip to mainland schools. However, residents do not seem to mind that there are no roads on or off the island. In fact, they fought to keep it this way.

The program takes a multi-faceted look at the sensitive issue of environmental development along this stretch of South Carolina’s coastline.

A year in the making, this program explores thecomplex issues surrounding the threat of development to Sandy Island, the residents and the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. Perspectives from all the main players in the debate – from the residents who are descended from freed slaves, to the environmentalists, to the developers themselves – are offered during this unflinching look.

This program premiered on Carolina Stories in February 2006 and won a 2006 Telly Award. Saving Sandy Island was selected for official screening at the Charleston Documentary Festival in October 2006

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Thursday - July 31, 2008 at 9:00 pm (Repeat)
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This hour-long documentary delves into the mysteries behind the most notorious criminal in South Carolina’s history, Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins.

Fifteen years ago last month, Gaskins was executed in an electric chair by the South Carolina Department of Corrections. This was the end to a life that was filled with extreme violence.

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Thursday - July 24, 2008 at 9:00 pm (Repeat)
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Special programming in memory of Sir John Templeton

Divining the Divine explores issues of spirituality and religion through a number of interviews with a global spectrum of religious views. Sir John Templeton, who founded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, was interviewed for the program, originally broadcasted in May of 1996.

Carolina Stories follows at 10 p.m. with "Sketches from 'Chronicle'" performed by the USC Dance Company and the Restaging Martha Graham's "Sketches from 'Chronicle" documentary.

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Thursday - July 17, 2008 at 9:00 pm
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For the pirates who once wreaked havoc on our shores are returning to ETV's airwaves, and they are coming for you.

"Carolina Stories: Pirates of the Carolinas," digs up the true tales of treachery and villainy that occurred off the coasts of North and South Carolina during the Golden Age of Piracy. The hour-long documentary airs on the 289th anniversary of the death of the most infamous marauder of them all, Blackbeard.

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Thursday - July 10, 2008 at 9:00 pm (Repeat)
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Jolly is the story of Anderson County legend and Confederate soldier Manse Jolly.

South Carolina lore recounts how Jolly purportedly killed as many as 100 Union soldiers in post-Civil War Anderson, SC. Allegedly, his hatred of Yankees and the deaths of his five brothers during the war sparked this killing spree.

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Thursday - July 03, 2008 at 9:30 pm (Repeat)
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DOWN (but not out) follows one man’s daily routine as he survives on the streets of Columbia, South Carolina. From the shelter to the temp labor services to the soup kitchens, Eric “Protein” Moseley takes the viewer on a journey through his world, encountering anger, desperation and hope in one brief breath. The documentary is an ongoing conversation with the streets. The participants in this dialogue are prophets, poets, preachers, and musicians. Many of them are drug addicts, criminals or mentally ill. All of them are either homeless or work directly with the homeless.

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Thursday - June 26, 2008 at 9:00 pm (Repeat)
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