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Because today there's no feasible way to bury Because although we're proud of the power the high-voltage lines that carry power from our we're supplying, we're no happier than you are plants. And the cost of converting existing over­ with the way we have to deliver it. head lines in neighborhood areas would be more than we're willing to ask you to pay. SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC AND GM THE MAGAZINE sandl apper. I. JENKINS MIKELL, JR. READERS' COMMENTS 4 NEXT MONTH 4 FROM BEHIND THE PALMETTOS 5 BOUZOUKIA AND BAKLAVA A LA CHARLESTON 9 Jean May NOT ALL BIGHAMS WERE NOTORIOUS 15 John Bigham GREAT NAMES HAVE RACED AT THE G-P 18 Reese Fant MARGOT FREUDENBERG CAN OFFER AID IN 37 LANGUAGES 23 Tom Hamrick • Life Insurance MISS KAT'S AMARYLLISES 31 David D. Buyck Jr. • Pension Plans MT. OLIVET OF SPRING HILL 35 Nat Hilborn • Group Insurance A PLANTATION FINANCED • Health Insurance WITH COOKIES 36 Jackie Odom • Annuities CHILLED SOUPS FOR WARM DAYS 41 Lucille McMaster INTERESTING, UNUSUAL ITEMS AND SER VICES 45 New York Life Insurance Co . MAYWEATHER 46 H. Landers S.C.N. Center, Main St. P.O. Box 11803 SANDLAPPER BOOKSHELF 48 Columbia, S.C. 29211 SANDLAPPER BOOKSTORE 50 252-5657 SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORY ILLUSTRATED II JOURNEY TO SECESSION 52 Louise K. Rankin EVENTS 61 20 FOOT A SELECTIVE GUIDE TO MOVIES 66 Dan Rottenberg MOTOR HOME EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Delmar L. Roberts ART DIRECTOR Michael F. Schumpert GENERAL MANAGER Kay Langley NATIONAL ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Edward J. Keady Rich woodgrain interior ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Charles Alexander Safety glass in all windows ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Brian Taylor Gas range and refrigerator Roof, floor and sidewalls are EVENTS EDITOR Beverly Gregg completely insulated. CIRCULATION MANAGER Kathryn F. Little Roof air conditioning Power plant And many other extras SANDLAPPER is published by Sandlapper Press, Inc., Allen F. Caldwell Jr., president and chair­ man of the board; Delmar L. Roberts, vice-president editorial; Edward J. Keady, vice-president $8995.00 advertising; E. A. Markwalter, vice-president and treasurer; Gertrude Ricker, secretary; and Kay Langley, assistant secretary. SANDLAPPER-THE MAGAZINE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, May 1973, Volume 6, Number 5. Published monthly by Sandlapper Press, Inc. Editorial and administrative offices are located at 305 Superior Motors Inc. Greystone Blvd., Columbia. MAILING ADDRESS: All correspondence and manuscripts should be "The Little Profit Dealer" addressed to P.O. Box 1668, Columbia, S.C. 29202. Return postage must accompany all manu­ scripts, drawings and photographs submitted if they are to be returned. Query before submitting Pontiac• Buick material. No responsibility assumed for unsolicited materials. Second-class postage paid at Colum­ Orangeburg, S.C. bia, S.C. Subscription rates: $9 a year in the United States and possessions; foreign countries, $12. Add 4 percent sales tax for South Carolina subscriptions. Copyright © 1973 by Sandlapper Press, Phone 534- 11 23 Inc. Sandlapper is a registered trademark. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be re­ Columbia Number 256-0200 produced without written permission. May 1973 3 Announcing a New Limited Edition Print by Low Country Artist readers' Jim Booth com1nents Sandlapper welcomes letters to the editor on matters of general in­ terest. We ask that the letters be held to 150 words or less. Excerpts from this month's letters are pre­ sented below. Having read portions of the article [ on William Henry Trescot in the February Sandlapper], I A magnificent four-color shrimp boat painting, size 24 x 36, by the thought that you might find these talented and versatile Low Country artist Jim Booth has been reproduced additional items of interest. in vibrant color of the Low Country marsh atmosphere. Color prints of this Due to the absence by illness of quality are rare. The R. L. Bryan Company will certify to the edition limit General Louis Case, the Secretary of 2,000-all plates and negatives have been destroyed. Send check or of State, Mr. Trescot was the "act­ money order with instructions for artist to sign and dedicate to you. Your satisfaction guaranteed. ing" Secretary of State when South 1000 signed and numbered $20 each Carolina seceded, and in this posi­ 1000 signed $15 each tion, worked diligently to protect the interests of South Carolina-so J\mbnssndor Art finllery much so that one account called it 1830 Savannah Highway Box 3564 treasonous to the United States. Olarleston, S. C. 29407 Phone - 803-556-9162 This might have been a biased (Dealer inquiries invited) opinion for he was to serve the United States well in many capaci­ ties in later years. • While Mr. Trescot is not well known today, the enclosed article next n1onth Ill "Paladins of South Carolina" by James Henry Rice, Jr., printed in The State paper on December 31, sandlapper 1922, stated " .... of all the men treated in this series, Trescot is the THE TOMB OF RA VEN McCLOUD least known in South Carolina. Yet By Poet Laureate Archibald Rutledge he is the only world figure in the lot!" And, after recounting his many activities as plenipotentiary PLANTATION TURNED CHRISTIAN COMMUNE to other countries including China By Laurin Baker and Mexico noted, "This is a record of activity without parallel in diplo­ STAN SMITH: ALL-AMERICAN GENTLEMAN matic annals up to that time. It By Jon Buchan may be open to question if any service since equals it in range and AN UP-COUNTRY WILD FLOWER GARDEN diversity. The Confederate govern­ By Beth Ann Klosky ment could find no use for him. The United States government and many other could not get on without him." interesting articles His writing, "A Few Thoughts on CALENDAR OF EVENTS the Foreign Policy of the United States," is now in the rare book • Art • Theatre • Tours section of the Library of Congress. • Music • Cinema • Fairs Of significance to South Caro­ linians today and visitors to the • Lectures • Dance • Horse Shows State, because it can be seen and 4 Sandlapper Out in Front the New JENSEN INTERCEPTOR III from behind ,,, the palmetfOs ~ When Sandlapper Press published A Piece of the Fox's Hide, a chronicle of the dastardly Pee Dee Bighams, it never occurred to Circa 15,000 us that readers might associate one of our frequent contributors, "If you 're the Kind of Person Columbian John Bigham, with his Who is Particular notorious namesakes. To assure our About the Kind of Car readers that he descended from a respectable branch of the Bigham You Drive, Jensen is For You" family tree, John has cited the contributions of his Scotch-Irish fore­ bears, who include an Associate C:'*<S:PJ Reformed Presbyterian minister, yet. COACH BUILDERS SINCE 1875 John indeed refutes the supposition that "the only good Bigham is a dead Bigham." But John, surely See it now at you don't think a best-seller could be written about your family. One of the lengthiest articles we have published is this month's "South Carolina History Illustrated" selection concerning the development of Southern nationalism which S84 KING ST. Charleston, S.C. S77-406Q ultimately led to South Carolina's secession. Louise Klugh Rankin, who condensed the material from her Clemson University master's thesis, became interested in the subject because two of the signers of the Ordinance of Seces­ sion-David Lewis Wardlaw and Francis Hugh Wardlaw-are her ancestors. The article on Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church returns to our pages the writing of Nat Hilborn. Nat, her husband Sam and their four VISIT HISTORIC children com bed the state a few years ago to research Battleground of Freedom, an account of South Carolina's role in the Revo­ FORT lution.