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In This Issue
- Listen to South Carolina Radio Stations Online
- New and Notable South Carolina Web Sites
- New SCIway Advertisers
- 55 SC Libraries Now Have Web Catalogs
- Use DISCUS to Access Library Resources from Home or Work
- Shop Online at SC College Bookstores
- If You Like South Carolina History, We've Got a Job for You!
- SC County Maps Improved Again
- Upcoming Festivals and Events
- Surprise of the Month: Dixie in the Land of Brotherly Love
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Last month we introduced a new South Carolina Webcams page
(http://www.sciway.net/ccr/webcams.html),
which links to more than 20 state
video cameras that are connected to the Internet.
This page has become so popular that we have recently added another page
which features 30 South Carolina online radio stations and programs. You
can find these Webcasts at http://www.sciway.net/news/radio/webcasts.html,
which you may want to bookmark. I think you'll be impressed with the
variety and quality of the music, talk shows, and sports events you can
listen to there.
Regardless of where you live, you can access Internet radio through your
computer, if it has a sound card. You will usually also need to install
an audio and video software plug-in such as RealPlayer, Windows Media
Player, or NetShow Player. You can do this just by clicking the
download button on the radio site you want to listen to.
If you haven't tried Internet radio yet, give it a spin. And if you
know of a South Carolina online radio station or program we've missed,
please send its address to service@sciway.net, and we'll be happy to add
it to http://www.sciway.net/news/radio/webcasts.html .
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- Civil Air Patrol - South Carolina Wing
- http://www.scwg.cap.gov
- Creative Loafing - great source for Upstate entertainment news
- http://www.creativeloafing.com/greenville/newsstand/current/ - page no longer exists
- Edgefield County Government
- http://www.edgefieldcounty.org
- Huguenot Society of South Carolina - French Protestant refugees
- http://www.huguenotsociety.org
- The Hunley Comes Home - 60 great pictures from SC Ladies Auxiliary
- http://www.csa-scla.org - all photographed August 8, 2000
- Jewish Heritage Collection - South Carolina Jews Tell Their Stories
- http://www.cofc.edu/~jhc/
- Midlands Striper Club - catch some beauties!
- http://www.midlandsstriperclub.org
- Northeastern Technical College - formerly Chesterfield-Marlboro
- http://www.netc.edu/
- Sherman's March through South Carolina - 1865
- http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1865/shermans-south-carolina-march.htm
- South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault
- http://www.sccadvasa.org
- South Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles - good info, online forms
- http://www.scdmvonline.com/
- https://www.scdmvonline.com/dmvpublic/
- South Carolina Statewide Minority Business Development Center
- http://www.scmbdc.com - site no longer exists
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In the first issue of SCIWAY News, published in March 1997, we reported
that three South Carolina libraries had new Web-based catalogs (see
http://www.sciway.net/sn/sn1.html).
Web catalogs have graphical
interfaces, as opposed to plain text interfaces, and they do not require
that telnet software be installed on your computer.
Today at least 55 South Carolina libraries have Web catalogs. That's
progress! You can easily use all of these catalogs, which enable you to
find out what books and other resources a library has, by going to this
SCIway page: http://www.sciway.net/lib/webcatalogs.html.
Relatedly, in anticipation of the new school year, we have expanded and
reorganized SCIWAY's directory of South Carolina libraries, archives,
and museums (http://www.sciway.net/lib/).
As always, if you see anything
we've missed, please write us at service@sciway.net.
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While it's convenient to be able to use the Web to find out what
resources a library has, it would save even more time if you could
actually read the information you're looking for from home or work.
Fortunately an innovative, cost-effective state government program
called DISCUS can help you do exactly this.
DISCUS is an acronym for Digital Information for South Carolina Users.
This program (http://scdiscus.org/)
is coordinated by
the State Library in Columbia. State and federal funds are used to
purchase statewide subscriptions for full-text online versions of
magazines, journals, newspapers, encyclopedias, directories, reference
books, and reports. All of these resources can be accessed from public
libraries, K-12 schools (including accredited private schools), and
colleges ... and some can also be accessed from outside these
facilities.
To use DISCUS from home or work, call or visit your county library and
ask for a DISCUS ID and password. Then visit the library's Web site and
follow the instructions on its "databases" page. (In some counties you
may also need your library card number.)
I used DISCUS for the first time yesterday ... to search for and read
articles from The State, the Charlotte Observer, and the New York Times.
Nice!
Some South Carolina libraries provide additional, non-DISCUS online
resources that you can also access from home or work. You may need a
different password to access these resources. Please contact your local
library for complete information.
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With the beginning of the fall semester and football season, lots of
South Carolinians get a yearning to reconnect to their favorite college.
Thanks to the Internet, this is a lot easier than it used to be, as a
dozen SC college bookstores now sell caps, shirts, mugs, jewelry,
stuffed animals, and other souvenirs online. All you need is your
credit card and this address: http://www.sciway.net/bus/collegestores.html.
SCIWAY's college bookstores page is part of our Buy South Carolina site
(http://www.sciway.net/shop/),
where you can order a wide variety of
interesting products–from house plans to sweetgrass baskets–from 70
South Carolina online businesses.
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One of the most popular parts of SCIway is our Ask SCIWAY forums,
where
anyone can ask and answer questions
about South Carolina. Four of the six forums deal with South Carolina
history and genealogy, and three of these are moderated by the South
Carolina Historical Society (http://www.southcarolinahistoricalsociety.org/).
We are
looking for a moderator for the fourth forum: South Carolina History -
Other Questions.
If you know a lot about South Carolina history, have ready access to
reference resources, and can spend two to four hours a week researching
and answering questions about South Carolina history, please write me at
rod.welch@sciway.net.
We can definitely use your help!
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Last month's issue of SCIWAY News included a link to a new set of South
Carolina county maps that were considerably better than our original
county maps. Since then, more than 10,000 people have viewed these maps
(http://www.sciway.net/maps/cnty/),
and many have suggested additional
improvements. So ... we have gone back to the drawing board and
corrected several mistakes, labeled more communities, and added
literally hundreds of secondary roads and road numbers. Thanks to
everyone who took the time to help us make these maps more useful.
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For the latest information on upcoming South Carolina events, please
see http://www.sciway.net/calendar.html.
Like April and May, September and October are peak festival months in
South Carolina. For the latest information on upcoming events, please
see http://www.sciway.net/calendar.html.
- Southern 500 - Darlington Raceway - NASCAR auto racing - Sep 3
- Labor Day Festival - Chapin - Sep 2-4
- South Carolina Apple Festival and Rodeo - Westminster - Sep 4-9
- Kiawah Island Triathalon - swim, bike, run - Sep 10
- Pee Dee Home and Garden Festival - Florence - Sep 16
- Scottish Games and Highland Gathering - Mt Pleasant - Sep 16
- SC Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Conference - Greenville - Sep 16
- Art in the Park - Greenville - Sep 16-17
- Delta MUSC Children's Classic - charity golf - Kiawah - Sep 20-25
- Fall Candlelight Tours of Homes - Charleston - Sep 21-Oct 28
- Old Time Horse Farmers Gathering - Blackville - Sep 22-23
- National Hunting and Fishing Day - West Columbia - Sep 23
- EdTech 2000 Conference - North Charleston - Sep 26-28
- SC State H.O.G. Lennium Rally 2000 - Myrtle Beach - Sep 28-30
- Okra Strut - Irmo - Sep 29-30
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Earlier this month I spent more than an hour at an express ticket
counter in Philadelphia's airport, trying to rebook a flight to
Charleston. The standing was made considerably more pleasant by two
banjo players strumming a steady stream of American songs near the
entrance to Concourse C.
About midway through my vigil, I heard a familiar tune that I haven't
heard in a public place in a long time: Dixie. It turned out to be an
extended version: first joyful, then mournful, then jubilant.
As the banjoists played, I closely watched the faces of literally
hundreds of passersby–black and white. No one glared at the musicians,
or shook their heads, or asked the two gentlemen to cease their song. A
few, like me, smiled.
In South Carolina we can freely play the Battle Hymn of the Republic–a
favorite of Union soldiers during the Civil War–as well as the national
anthems of America's enemies in much more recent wars. I hope that
someday we can enjoy Dixie together too. Fast or slow, it's a beautiful
song ... about a special place that has so much promise ... if only we
can learn to walk in each other's shoes.
Dixie was written in September 1859 by Daniel Decatur Emmett, an Ohio
native whose Virginian parents were strict abolitionists. Emmett
composed Dixie's six verses for a minstrel show ... on a cold, gray New
York City Sunday. During the Civil War he was loyal to the Union and
often apologized for writing the song that became the South's unofficial
national anthem.
On the other hand, Dixie was one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite tunes.
You can learn a lot more about Dixie–and listen to it too–by going to
this SCIway page: http://www.sciway.net/hist/dixie.html.
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