Thursday, May 8

E is for Edgar: Conversation and Barbecue with Walter!

Join us to celebrate his 25th Anniversary as host of "Walter Edgar's Journal" with award-winning Rodney Scott's Whole Hog BBQ

By University South Caroliniana Society

Date and time

Thursday, May 8 · 6 - 8pm EDT

Location

South Carolina ETV

1041 George Rogers Boulevard Columbia, SC 29201

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

Event lasts 2 hours
Free venue parking

Presented by the University South Caroliniana Society

$20 for non-members or

Free to members of the University South Caroliniana Society

5:30 PM: The Annual Business Meeting of the University South Caroliniana Society's membership

6:00 PM: Barbecue by Rodney Scott's Whole Hog BBQ

6:30 PM: Conversation with Walter Edgar

Registration is required and seats are limited!

Walter Edgar retired from the University of South Carolina in 2012, after a forty-year academic career. He was director of its Institute for Southern Studies and held four named professorships, including the George Washington Distinguished Professor of History and the Claude Henry Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies. Born in Mobile, Alabama, he did his undergraduate work at Davidson College and his graduate work at the University of South Carolina. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on South Carolina and the American South, including The South Carolina Encyclopedia (2006), of which he was editor-in-chief. He is also the author of South Carolina: A History (1998) and Partisans and Redcoats: The Southern Campaign that Turned the Tide of the American Revolution (2001). Since 2000, he has hosted “Walter Edgar’s Journal” on South Carolina Public Radio—and since 2005, “South Carolina from A to Z.”

Are you or your guests members of the Univeristy South Caroliniana Society?

If not, you can join today at uscs2025.eventbrite.com. Memberships start at $30 per individual or couple. Then come back here to E-is-for-Edgar.eventbrite.com to register for this event!

Not sure if your Society membership is current?

Do you need to be a Society member to attend?

No. Anyone can attend. Admission for non-members is $20 per person.

What time does it start?

If you are a member of the University South Caroliniana Society, we encourage you to attend the Annual Business Meeting at 5:30 p.m. Barbecue starts at 6 p.m., and conversation with Walter Edgar will start at 6:30 p.m.

Presented by the University South Caroliniana Society with sponsorship from the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina and South Carolina ETV and Public Radio.

Tickets

USCS Member Admission
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FREE
General Admission for Non-Members
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$20.00

Organized by

University South Caroliniana Society

The University South Caroliniana Society is the private, non-profit patron organization supporting the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina. The Society works to acquire and preserve materials documenting South Carolina's history and culture.

The Society was founded in 1937 at the invitation of University President J. Rion McKissick and the Caroliniana Committee to help build the University’s South Carolina collection. To assure the permanence of its work, the Society was incorporated in 1951. Since then the Society has functioned as a private, non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting a better understanding and appreciation of South Carolina, its history and culture.

Membership dues and income from the Society's endowment are primarily devoted to the purchase and preservation of South Carolina materials for the South Caroliniana Library's collection. Scholars from around the globe use the collection to enhance our understanding of South Carolina’s history and how that history has helped shape the South, the United States, and the world.

USCarolinianaSociety@outlook.com

sc.edu/libraries/uscs