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In 1932, Eastman Kodak released an 8mm film specifically designed for home movies. It was a filmstrip eight millimeters wide and available on small reels. The film was fragile, subject to easy breakage and damage from the usual suspects – Read More …
2017 is the 100th Anniversary for two popular Carolina-born products. Eugenia Thomas Duke began making sandwiches in 1917 for Greenville, South Carolina area textile mills and soldiers at nearby Camp Sevier during WWI. Her sandwiches, featuring homemade spreads, became a Read More …
I encountered my first Venus Flytrap many years ago as a teenager, while exploring a wooded area in Horry County with some friends who lived in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Since that time I have always been fascinated with this Read More …
228 years ago today… On May 23, 1788, my home state of South Carolina became the 8th to ratify the U.S. Constitution and join the United States of America.
Donkey Kong was an extremely popular video game released by Nintendo during the 1980’s. The video below is reported to be part of an upcoming production by Banks, a professional graphic designer. Learn more about him at My Name is Read More …
See the green “X” overlaid on one of the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina? That’s Morgan Island, commonly referred to as Monkey Island. I marked the spot because neither name appeared on Google Maps when I searched Read More …
Digital resources for research and family genealogy are growing rapidly. One of the most valuable research tools are old newspapers. Perhaps one of the largest online collections is from Google News. Google Newspapers has been around for about ten years Read More …
DNA testing and Genetic Genealogy caught my attention several years ago. Since that time, I have submitted saliva samples to both FTDNA and Ancestry in an attempt to confirm my heritage, and hopefully, find previously unknown relatives. I have been Read More …
Photo books are an affordable option for telling a story in print, or simply preserving photographic memories. Photo books (or printed photo albums) have quickly become a popular old-school choice in our digital world. There is something satisfying about viewing photos in a Read More …