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News January 23, 2009  RSS feed
Plowing, Praying, Paying, and Poisoning: A Lower Richland family thrives
Part 3: The Staying Power of the Church
      Before there was a church structure, it is said that freed black people of Lower Richland worshipped in a structure made of small tree limbs and branches called a Brush Arbor. Ephraim Neal (1844- c.1905) donated the acre of land on which St. John Baptist Church was built in 1879 and still stands.
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Go Red For Women holds casting calls
      For every heart, there is a story - and the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women movement wants to hear yours. On February 6 and 12, survivors, family members, friends, and heart health professionals in the Midlands area are being asked to share their stories.
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Montgomery will be missed
      Warner M. Montgomery has retired from The Columbia Star as publisher to pursue more dreams. After 20 years of service as a journalist and helping to bring the Star to new heights, Montgomery is taking a new route with his travel experiences and his knowledge of history.
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Invisible people live in S.C.
      Marcy L. Hayden, program coordinator for Native American Affairs at the S.C. Commission of Minority Affairs, spoke to the Greater Piedmont Chapter of the Explorers Club in Columbia January 8. She is a USC anthropology graduate, a protégé of Dr. Jon Leader, SC State Archeologist.
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