Captain's Corner: Cast a net to get threadfins

Source: TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times

By Doug Hemmer, Times Correspondent Doug Hemmer Tampa Bay Times In Print: Monday, May 28, 2012 P ast trips: Catching bait would start at sunup at the drop-off of the shoals. The threadfins would hang in 6-9 feet. ...
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At USC, Edgar is history

Source: The State

When historians record the most influential South Carolinians of the late 20th-early 21st century, they may turn not to politicians or the purveyors of popular culture but to one of their own, a courtly bespectacled profess ...
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Edgar’s retirement dinner, from the history books

Source: Myrtle Beach Sun News

COLUMBIA -- Don’t ask historian Walter Edgar to pick his favorite South Carolinian. That, he suggests, is a rather silly parlor game. But he conceded to organize, on paper, an imaginary retirement dinner that would include some of South Car ...
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