Mark Powell’s Palmetto Past & Present: Horse Racing History
"Before there was a Kentucky Derby, there was colonial horse racing in South Carolina ..."...
Palmetto Past & Present
Mark Powell’s Palmetto Past & Present: South Carolina’s ‘Chill Doc’
by Mark Powell
"Shut the freezer door!"...
Mark Powell’s Palmetto Past & Present: Why Alex Murdaugh Should Watch His Back
by Mark Powell
For convicted killers, the end is often just the beginning ......
Mark Powell’s Palmetto Past & Present: South Carolina’s Favorite Irish Son
by Mark Powell
The legacy of James F. Byrnes ......
Mark Powell’s Palmetto Past & Present: Lost Confederate Gold
by FITSNews
Myth? Or "king's ransom" waiting to be found ......
Mark Powell’s Palmetto Past & Present: ‘The Big Apple’
by Mark Powell
The Palmetto State has been associated with plenty of dance crazes over the years. Flappers made the 1920s roar doing The Charleston. And who among...
Palmetto Past & Present: The Trial Of The Century … In 1718
by Mark Powell
It was all folks could talk about. In shops and at church, in bars and on street corners, people were saying the same thing over...
Mark Powell’s Palmetto Past & Present: The Trial Of The (Nineteenth) Century
by Mark Powell
The country’s attention is focused on the Colleton County, South Carolina courthouse this week as Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial begins in Walterboro. South Carolina...
Mark Powell’s Palmetto Past & Present: Loyalty Oaths? Been There, Done That
by Mark Powell
Compulsory coercion never has a happy ending ......
Mark Powell’s Palmetto Past & Present: ‘Print, Shout, Shoot’
by Mark Powell
That time a South Carolina politician killed a journalist ......