E is for Edgar: Conversation and Barbecue with Walter!

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

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.”

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

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.

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