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OnFeb.8,1968,threestudentswerekilledand28peoplewereinjuredintheeventthatcame
tobeknownasthe‘OrangeburgMassacre.’Ayearlater,amonumentwaserectedhonoring
thosewhodied.Whatfewknewwastherewasanerror...
ETCHEDINTIMEMistakeinS.C.State
monumentcontinues
throughouttheyears
By DIONNE GLEATON
T&D Staff Writer
What’sinaname?
Well, to the family of the
late Delano H. Middleton, a
legacy.
Middleton, a
Wilkinson High
School student,
was among three
young men who
were killed on
Feb. 8, 1968, in
what is known as
the “Orangeburg
Massacre.” On
that night, S.C.
Highway Patrol
troopers opened
ﬁre on a crowd of
protestersfollow-
ingthreenightsofescalating
racialtensionovereffortsto
desegregate the All-Star
TriangleBowl.
SouthCarolinaStateCol-
lege sophomore Henry E.
Smith and S.C. State fresh-
man Samuel Hammond Jr.
also died in the incident,
and 28 other people were
injured.
The “Orangeburg Mas-
sacre” is remembered each
year with a ceremony. This
past Feb. 8, a friend and
classmateofMiddletonno-
ticedsomething.
Sam Haynes said while
Middleton was affection-
ately known as “Bump”
by family and friends, his
middle initial has been in-
correctly written as a “B.”
Middleton’smid-
dle name was
Herman.
The incor-
rect initial was
printed on a sign
that the uni-
versity erected
in honor of the
threeslainduring
theincident,and
engraved into a
marker placed
on the campus
in their honor in
1969.
The mistake has also ﬁl-
tered its way into coverage
of the event, including ma-
terials distributed by the
university and news stories
inTheTimesandDemocrat
andotherpublications.
“Havingthecorrectname
printed means everything.
I’m sure if ‘Bump’ was here
anditwasoneofhisfriends,
hewouldadvocatethatitbe
done the right way. That’s
thekindofpersonheexem-
Each year,
members of the
university family
and Orangeburg
community
gather around
the monument to
remember Feb.
8, 1968. The
1992 ceremony is
pictured here.
Delano
Herman
Middleton
LARRY HARDY/T&D
The three students who died in the event that has come to be known as the “Orangeburg
Massacre” were honored with a monument on the South Carolina State University
campus. The monument, which was installed in 1969, incorrectly states Delano H.
Middleton’s name is “Delano B. Middleton.” See NAME, A7
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All across Forgotten South Carolina, stores in once-thriving farm towns sit boarded up, such as this one in Bowman in Orangeburg County along U.S. Highway 178.
Farming no longer needs the number of workers it once did, and factory or service jobs remain elusive for many in these rural parts of the state.
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ForgottenFo
Modern
Pickens
Greenville
Spartanburg
Cherokee
York
ChesterUnion
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Saluda
Edgefield
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Abbeville
Greenwood
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Darlington
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pton
Barnwell
Jasper
Beaufort
The two South Carolinas BY DOUG PARDUE
dpardue@postandcourier.com
T
ake interstate highways between
South Carolina’s largest met-
ropolitan areas and the scene
remains similar — thick forests,
meandering rivers and lush
farms punctuated with thriving
suburbs and vibrant downtowns.
Get off those interstates and something else
emerges — towns where poverty rules, illit-
eracy passes to children like an inherited dis-
ease, and diabetes strikes 9-year-olds because
of bad diets and obesity.
This is the other South Carolina. It runs
along the “Interstate 95 Corridor” through
the mostly majority black counties made
infamous by the “Corridor of Shame” docu-
mentary about inequities in public schools. It
also includes the “Mill Crescent,” the swath of
rural, largely white, old textile mill counties
between the I-85 economic powerhouse and
greater Columbia.
If you took this other South Carolina away,
the state would no longer rank at the bottom
of nearly every list you want it to be at the
top of. Instead, it would basically mirror the
nation as a whole in income, education and
health.
Many crippling disparities linger in these
metropolitan counties, but the areas have
been pushed into the national mainstream
by four decades of economic growth, deseg-
regation and an influx of people from other
states and countries with new ideas and high
expectations.
The other South Carolina remains shrouded
in despair by the legacies of slavery, depen-
dence on a marginally educated workforce,
and political and economic domination by an
elite few.
Additional social, political and economic
forces conspire with that three-part legacy to
keep the region of some 1 million people, a
fifth of the state population, locked in stagna-
tion: The impact of generational poverty, the
shift of political power from rural to urban
areas, the decline of agricultural and textile-
mill employment, and a lack of tax base to
support schools and build infrastructure to
attract business.
Viewed on its own, the other South Carolina
resembles many third-world nations.
Forgotten
South Carolina
AL egacy
of Shame
A Blueprint
for the Future
SPECIAL REPORT | PART ONE OF A FOUR-PART SERIES
More InsideA detailed map and charts comparing
county statistics can be found on Page A13
Special online dataFor an interactive map with
comparative data examining each county in South Carolina,
go to postandcourier.com/forgotten-sc
VideoTo watch a video about Forgotten South Carolina,
Inside today
10-page special section
Pages A11-A20
Editorial: Remember forgotten
counties. A8
SUNDAY, February 10, 2013
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PORTFOLIO
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THIRD PLACE:
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Expo and packet pickup
When: Thursday, April 4, from noon to
8 p.m. and Friday, April 5, from 8 a.m. to
8 p.m. There is no race-day packet
pickup.
Where: (New) Charleston Area
Convention Center, 5001 Coliseum
Drive, North Charleston.
Registration: Regularly priced ($45)
entries are sold out, but organizers
think $150 charity bibs will be
available.
Transportation to expo: Shuttles will
run from the Charleston Visitor Center
bus shelter on Ann Street between
King and Meeting Streets every 15
minutes during the hours of expo.
Kids Run & Wonderfest
When: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, April 5;
races start at 5 p.m.
Where: Hampton Park, Charleston.
Registration: $10 with a T-shirt, free
without a T-shirt; noon- 8 p.m. Thurs-
day, April 4, at Charleston Area
Convention Center in North Charleston
or noon-4:30 p.m. Friday, April 5, at
Hampton Park.
Parking: Brittlebank Park, Stoney Field
and on the east side of Johnson
Hagood Stadium at The Citadel.
Shuttles will take participants to and
from Hampton Park.
Taste of the Bridge Run
What: Sample dishes from about 25
local restaurants at one of three
locations.
When: 5-8 p.m. Friday, April 5.
Where: Downtown Charleston
(Maritime Center, 10 Wharfside St.);
Mount Pleasant (Harborside East, 28
Bridgeside Drive); and North Charles-
ton (Charleston Area Convention
Center, 5001 Coliseum Drive).
Overnight parking
Discounted overnight parking
for $5.
When: 5 p.m. Friday, April 5, to 2 p.m.
Saturday, April 6.
Where: Charleston Visitor Center
parking garage on Mary Street,
between King and Meeting, S.C.
Aquarium garage on Calhoun Street
between East Bay and Concord streets,
and Gaillard Auditorium garage on
Alexander Street between Calhoun and
George streets.
Race day shuttle buses
Runners and walkers must have
official race bibs to gain access to free
shuttle buses.
Before the race: Runners can start
boarding buses at 5 a.m. on Saturday,
April 6, but must be in line before 6
a.m. For the first time ever, buses will
depart from four different locations,
including the major point: Calhoun
Street at Anson Street. Other
locations will be the Charleston Area
Convention Center in North Charles-
ton, Mount Pleasant Towne Centre
and Daniel Island Park. Those parking
in the aquarium garage can catch a
limited number of buses from the
alley north of the garage.
After the race: Buses, clearly marked
for return locations, will leave from
Calhoun Street back to the original
departure points.
Boat shuttle
A boat shuttle will take a limited
number of participants from Fountain
Walk (near S.C. Aquarium) to Patriots
Point, then a bus to the race starting
area. The boat shuttle, however,
usually sells out.
Road closures
Coleman Boulevard in Mount Pleas-
ant and the bike/ped lane on the
Cooper River bridge close at 6:30 a.m.
Saturday, April 6. The bridge closes,
both ways, at 7 a.m. For a detailed list
of road closures, including those for
the Kids Run at Hampton Park on
Friday, April 5, go to
www.bridgerun.com/event.php
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Charleston Area Convention Center,
5001 Coliseum Drive, North Charleston.
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Bridge Run
Fountain Walk
Boat
shuttle
Patriots Point
Boat
shuttle
Harborside East
Taste of the
Bridge Run
Hampton Park
Kids Run &
Wonderfest
Mount
Pleasant
Charleston
Cooper
River
TownCreek
TownCreek
Mile 3
Mile 4
Mile 5
Corral area (details below)
Mile 6
Mile 2
Mile 1
The 2013 Cooper River Bridge Run starts 8 a.m. April 6. Use this page as a reference to know where to line up at the start, where
to watch the race or how to get to the start. Read The Post and Courier and postandcourier.com/news/bridgerun/ all week
to stay in the know on race updates, results, background, race tips and more.
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Who: Elite runners
who range from
invited athletes to the
very best in local
runners. Limited to
200 runners.
Yellow Blue Orange
Sub-corrals I- K
Who: Runners who
walk/walk run -
approximately 3, 000
per corral.
White
Who: Runners
competing for age
group awards or who
run under 45 minutes.
Limited to 2,000
runners.
Red
Sub-corralsE-H
Who: Runners who
run over 1 hour -
approximately 4,000
per corral.
Green
Sub-corrals A-D
Who: Runners who
run 45-60 minutes -
approximately 4,000
per corral.
Who: Runners
expected to finish
in under 40
minutes. Limited to
1,000 runners.
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Gaillard Auditorium
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Johnnie Dodds Blvd.Johnnie Dodds Blvd.
Corrals and the Wave Start
Participants are assigned to color-coded corrals and number-coded sub-corrals.Yellow and blue corrals, which
include elite and sub-40 minute runners, start at the 8 a.m. gun. Subsequent sub-corrals follow in "waves" at
three-minute intervals.Total of 14 waves this year to further improve the flow of people along the course.
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Shuttle bus staging 5 a.m. race day
Participants will line up on Calhoun and be directed to waiting buses near
the Gaillard. One lane of Calhoun will remain open for emergency vehicles.
Buses
Calhoun Street
shuttle bus staging
Runners and walkers will start
boarding buses at 5 a.m. Saturday,
April 6. Of four departure locations,
the largest will be Calhoun Street at
Anson, where 130 buses are
designated to transport about
12,000 participants to the starting
line in Mount Pleasant.
Participants can start lining up on
Calhoun Street at 5 a.m. Saturday,
April 6, but must be in line by 6 a.m.
The last bus allowed to cross the
Cooper River bridge will be at 6:45
a.m. Buses departing after that will
have to use I-526 to get to Mount
Pleasant.
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The early morning fire on Georgetown’s historic
waterfront destroyed about one-half a block of
businesses, apartments, shops and restaurants
between Screven and Broad streets. Damages are
estimated to be between $1 million and $6 million.
The origin of the fire remains under investigation.
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PORTFOLIO
Open Division
SECOND PLACE:
Chad Dunbar
BY HANNA RASKIN || hraskin@postandcourier.com
M
uch of what grocery shoppers will miss about the Pig-
gly Wiggly can’t be perfectly calculated. It’s nearly im-
possible to quantify intangibles such as the security of
knowing a manager really will make good on his offer to order a
missing item, or the comfort that comes from always seeing the
same smiling clerk at the register. But faithful customers mourn-
ing the scaling back of the chain are also worried about where
they’ll find specific foods and drinks. While many of the follow-
ing items, old and new, aren’t exclusive to The Pig, the store’s fans
firmly believe that buying them elsewhere just won’t feel right.
Mrs. Mac’s
fried chicken
Created in 1967 by
former cafeteria worker
Nel McNaughton, this
peppery, thick-crusted
fried chicken has
picked up fans from as
far away as Oklahoma.
The original recipe still
hangs in the Meeting
Street store’s kitchen.
Pig Swig
Piggly Wiggly’s
private label pilsner
and ale debuted in
2011 as the chain tried
to capture a larger
share of the craft beer
market. Brewed by
Thomas Creek, the
beers have generally
pleased online critics,
with the ale scoring a
respectable “OK” from
Beer Advocate. Most
importantly, it comes
from the Pig.
Grace Bridge wine
Slightly less successful than its
private label beer, budget-friendly
Grace Bridge wines were rolled
out in 2009 for $7.99 a bottle. They
were intended as good-value
sipping that offered “a bridge”
between Lowcountry food and
California wines. The Cabernet
Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir
and Chardonnay are made by
Brownstone Winery in Lodi, Calif.,
and the labels display a vintage,
sepia-toned photo of the John
P. Grace Memorial Bridge, a
predecessor of the Ravenel Bridge.
D’Allesandro’s frozen pizza
The city’s first frozen pizza line is sold at
smaller gourmet markets around town, but
The Pig was the only major retailer to take a
chance on D’Allesandro’s hand-tossed, heat-
and-eat pies. The St. Philip Street pie shop
was opened in 2006 by Philadelphia natives
and brothers Nick and Ben D’Allesandro.
Signature
Savoure Dip
Piggly Wiggly’s
spreadable cheese led
off a list of “THE MAIN
THINGS I’m worried
about disappearing”
submitted by reader
Jean Louisa Steele,
who’s been shopping
at The Pig for 40
years. The recipe was
developed at the
Meeting Street Pig
many years ago.
Mac’s Pride
peaches
“TheMac’sPride
peachesarethebest
I’veevertasted,”reader
KathyCooleywrites
oftheMcLeodFarms
product.“Ilovetheprice,
too.Whentheygoon
sale,Ibuylotsofthem
andfreezethemforthe
winter.”TheMcLeod
familyhasbeengrowing
peachessince1916on
orchardssurrounding
thesmalltownofMcBee,
S.C.,andnowhave650
acresand22varieties.
Hayes
Star Brand
field peas
Ask any
Charlestonian: hoppin’
John is made with rice
and field peas, NOT
black-eyed peas. Piggly
Wiggly, ever attuned
to local tastes, creates
special displays or
fills its aisle endcaps
with them at holiday
time. On a recent visit,
a cashier told us she
planned to stock up on
the bagged field peas
before the store closes.
Blenheim Red
Cap ginger ale
South Carolina’s
Blenheim makes a milder
ale, but drinkers who make
a point of buying their six-
packs at The Pig swore by
the original recipe’s sinus-
cleansing sting. What else
would you expect from
a company that dates to
1903 and is located on the
grounds of the famous
I-95 pit stop, South of the
Border.
Fresh
green
peanuts
Any old grocery
can sell canned
boiled peanuts,
but home cooks
who prefer to
boil their own
batches need
the fresh green
nuts that Piggly
Wiggly makes a
point of carrying.
Mepkin
mushrooms
The attentiveness
that’s a hallmark
of the Trappist
monastic tradition
has led to the
order acquiring
a green-thumb
reputation. Mepkin
Abbey, located
outside Moncks
Corner, is the only
U.S. monastery
that has applied its
growing skills to
mushrooms, sold
first by The Pig.
Turkey necks, small chickens
Southern food diva and Charleston resident
Nathalie Dupree swears by the back shelf of
the Meeting Street store’s meat case. She’s
especially taken with the small chickens,
sized right for frying, and the turkey necks,
which can be served up with such Southern
classics as lima beans, collards and gumbo.
Mr. Bullwinkel’s
Famous Whipped
Cream Cake
When George Bullwinkel
closed his Charleston bakery in
1974, the Piggly Wiggly invited
the 62-year-old to set up shop
in its Meeting Street store.
He brought with him a family
recipe for three-layer cake
made with whipped cream and
raspberries. Around Christmas,
the now-deceased baker would
make more than 1,000 cakes.
12 favorites
Pigfans
squealabout
What Piggly Wiggly shoppers will miss
PHOTOGRAPH BY GRACE BEAHM/STAFF AND GRAPHIC BY CHAD DUNBAR/STAFF
Which product will you miss most.
Vote at postandcourier.com.
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Open Division
FIRST PLACE:
The State
Meredith Sheffer
C O L U M B I A ɀ S O U T H C A R O L I N A
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2013 ɀ WWW.THESTATE.COM ɀ SECTION C
SUNDAY SPORTS BASKETBALL: BIG NAMES
FLOCK TO S.C. PRO-AM C4
BRYN
RENNER
6-3/225, senior
Record vs. USC:
0-0
AARONMURRAY
6-1/208, senior
Record vs. USC:
0-3
AUSTYN
CARTA-SAMUELS
6-1/220,senior
Recordvs.USC:
0-0
BLAKE
BORTLES
6-4/227,junior
Recordvs.USC:
0-0
JALENWHITLOW6-2/208,soph.
Recordvs.USC:0-0
BRANDON
ALLEN
6-3/212,soph.
Record
vs.USC:
0-0
JUSTIN
WORLEY
6-4/213,junior
Recordvs.USC:
0-1
JAMES FRANKLIN 6-2/230,senior Recordvs.USC: 0-1
TYLER
RUSSELL
6-4/220,senior
Record
vs.USC:
0-1
JEFF
DRISKEL
6-4/237,junior
Recordvs.USC:
1-0
ALEX
ROSS6-1/200,soph.Recordvs.USC:0-0
TAJH
BOYD
6-1/225, senior
Record vs. USC:
0-3
A look at the signal-callers
USC will play this fall.
Only one has a win against
the Gamecocks.
INSIDE
Statistics and
analysis of each
of these QBs, C3

INNOVATIVE CONCEPT
Open Division
THIRD PLACE:
The Island Packet
Mike McCombs
Preseason Football
special section

INNOVATIVE CONCEPT
Open Division
SECOND PLACE:
The Times and Democrat
Staff
Not just a newspaper anymore

INNOVATIVE CONCEPT
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FIRST PLACE:
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Open Division
THIRD PLACE - TIE:
Index-Journal
Frank Bumb
Saluda mayoral
mileage
reimbursements
Mayor claims $26K in mileage
Saluda’s top official says travel was for economic development
FRANK
ADDY
By FRANK BUMB
fbumb@indexjournal.com
While the cost of gas, getting
to and from work, school and
family activities has risen for
every American during the past
few years, the mileage reimburse-
ments for Saluda Mayor Frank
Addy rose exponentially since
2010.
According to documents
obtained by the Index-Journal,
the reimbursements for travel
Addy received increased by 1,100
percent from 2010 to the end
of 2012. In 2010 Addy received
$2,347.30, $8,849.40 in 2011 and
$26,621.76 in 2012. The mileage
needed to receive such imburse-
ments, paid from the town’s gen-
eral fund, with a reimbursement
rate of 55 cents per mile, would
be 4,267.8 miles in 2010, 16,089.8
miles in 2011 and 48,403.2 miles
in 2012.
Addy said the reimbursements
stemmed from trips seeking eco-
nomic development opportuni-
ties for Saluda.
“We’ve made a sincere effort
for economic development,”
Addy said. “And it’s more than
See MILEAGE, page 5A
By FRANK BUMB
SALUDA — Saluda Mayor
Frank Addy insists mileage
claimed by him from 2010 to
2012 is “above board” and done
“for the best interests of the
town.”
But there is almost no docu-
mentation supporting the legiti-
macy of Addy’s claims.
On Tuesday, the Index-Journal
reviewed vouchers, check stubs
and other information at Saluda
Town Hall in response to a Free-
dom of Information request sent
Jan. 18.
According to information
obtained by the Index-Jour-
nal through that request, Addy
claimed more than 68,760 miles
for reimbursement from Saluda’s
general fund since 2010. That
represents a total of $37,818.46
in reimbursements for mileage
since 2010. Of that total, 48,403.2
miles for $26,621.76 reimburse-
ment were claimed in 2012.
Addy included documentation
supporting his travels for only 60
miles out of the roughly 68,760
claimed since 2010.
The documentation was a
signed thank you card from
a Hometown, South Carolina
Regional Advocacy meeting.
The meeting, according to the
Documents shed little light
FRANK
ADDY
Evidence exists for only 60 miles of Saluda mayor’s claimed mileage
See LIGHT, page 3A
Saluda
passes
mileage
ruling
Resolution does not
require evidence
of trips, only vote
By FRANK BUMB
SALUDA — In response
to growing inquiry about
the reimbursement of travel
expenses to elected officials,
Saluda Town Council voted
unanimously Tuesday to adopt
a resolution
for a for-
mal policy
concerning
future reim-
bursements.
“This sets
some guide-
l i n e s for
reimburse-
ments in
the future,”
Town Administrator Randy
Cole said. “It says you have
to get prior approval before a
trip.”
The town lacked any for-
mal, written policy for the
reimbursement for mileage
by elected officials before the
adoption of the resolution.
The Index-Journal recently
obtained documents that
showed Mayor Frank Addy
claimed reimbursements for
more than 68,760 miles from
Saluda’s general fund since
2010. That represents a total
of $37,818.46 in reimburse-
ments for mileage since 2010.
Of that total, 48,403.2 miles
for $26,621.76 reimbursement
were claimed in 2012 alone.
“I did what I needed to
within policy, and I was try-
ing to do what was best for the
town,” Addy said previously.
“But that’s why we’re going to
have this resolution to sort
everything out.”
The total reimbursements
claimed by the rest of Council,
Cole and Town Clerk/Treasur-
er Claudia Cochran amounted
to $2,184.14 combined, from
2010 to 2012.
Addy previously stated the
determination to seek a for-
mal reimbursement policy
was because of Freedom of
Information Act requests
and increased scrutiny of the
expenses incurred for the
reimbursements.
“But it was also because
Council had asked for more
clarification on how to go
FRANK
ADDY
S SALUDA 3A
Parties deny meeting Addy
Saluda mayor claims reimbursement of 68,760 miles from 2010-12
FRANK
ADDY
By FRANK BUMB
SALUDA — Mayor Frank
Addy insists mileage reim-
bursements he claimed from
2010-12 were proper and done
for economic development
purposes.
However, none of the organi-
zations contacted by the Index
Journal have any record or rec-
ollection of meeting with Addy
on the days claimed on Addy’s
expense vouchers.
As previously reported, Addy
claimed more than 68,760
miles for reimbursement from
Saluda’s general fund since
2010. That represents a total of
$37,818.46 in reimbursements,
paid from the town’s general
fund, for mileage since 2010.
Of that total, 48,403.2 miles
for $26,621.76 reimbursement
were claimed in 2012 alone.
Addy included documenta-
tion supporting his travels for
only 60 miles of the 68,760 he
claimed since 2010. The South
Carolina Law Enforcement
Division (SLED) launched a
preliminary inquiry into the
reimbursements received by
Addy and the role other town
officials played in the reim-
bursements.
Thom Berry, a spokesman
for SLED, said Thursday there
was no new information to be
released.
“At this time, the investiga-
tion is still ongoing,” Berry said.
“Other than that I don’t have
anything I can give you.”
According to documents
obtained by the Index-Jour-
nal, Addy’s claimed trips, often
hundreds of miles during short
time periods, were to a variety
of businesses and organizations
around South Carolina and
surrounding states.
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Scott J. Bryan and
Chris Trainor
GCSO expenditures
By SCOTT J. BRYAN
and CHRIS TRAINOR
Index-Journal staff
H
undreds of thousands of Greenwood
County Sheriff's Office dollars were spent
on a trip to Disney World, restaurants, pag-
eants and even Victoria's Secret, a compre-
hensive look at GCSO's finances reveal.
The Index-Journal reviewed nearly 750 pages of
documents provided by the sheriff's office, through
Greenwood County interim attorney Stephen
Baggett Jr., in response to a Freedom of Information
Act request. The sheriff's office finances are being
investigated by the South Carolina Law Enforce-
ment Division (SLED).
SLED asked Baggett on April 12 to not release the
documents, but Baggett complied with the FOIA
and released all information not exempted.
"The premature release of this information, that
was compiled in the process of detecting and inves-
tigating alleged crimes, could jeopardize our ongo-
ing investigation," SLED executive assistant to the
chief Kathryn Richardson wrote Baggett in an email.
The Index-Journal review of debit expenditures
and checks found a wealth of unusual transactions.
GREENWOOD COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
DOCUMENTS REVEAL
UNUSUAL PURCHASESGCSO spent money on
Disney World, Victoria's Secret,
pageants and more
ComingFriday
■ The Greenwood County
Sheriff's Office spent
thousands of dollars in
funds for food, including
more than $26,000 with
one out-of-town catering
company.
TONY
DAVIS
■ Sandi McAlister-
Owens, the
former GCSO
administrative
assistant, was
fired Feb. 4,
according to a
Greenwood County
Personnel Action
form included in
the FOIA request.
On the personnel
form, dated Feb.
4 and signed by
Greenwood County
Sheriff Tony Davis,
it says McAlister-
Owens would
not be rehired. In
the explanation,
Davis wrote,
"investigation
turned over to
SLED."
"The
investigation
is open
and
ongoing."
— SLED spokesman
Thom Berry, via
a short email
statement
See UNUSUAL, page 7A

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The State
Sammy Fretwell
South Carolina’s effort to
enforce environmental laws
hasn’t stopped companies and
government agencies from re-
peatedly breaking rules to pro-
tect the air, land and water dur-
ing the past two decades.
Nearly 25 percent of the
4,700 businesses and govern-
ments cited for violating envi-
ronmental laws since 1991
have done so multiple times,
and in some cases, their fail-
ures to follow the rules are
continuing today, according to
civil enforcement records ana-
lyzed by The State newspaper.
Repeat offenders in South
Carolina include power com-
panies, local wastewater utili-
ties, military bases, private
shipyards, national garbage
corporations, major cement
factories, farm companies and
public universities, according
to Department of Health and
Environmental Control
records.
EXCLUSIVE | REPEAT OFFENDERS
Environmental lawbreakers still at itFINDINGS
■ About 1,100 of 4,700 companies
and governments cited for state envi-
ronmental violations in the past 20
years have had more than one offense.
■ About 200 violators had five or more
citations, including at least 14 that
broke the law 15 times or more.
■ At least 120 of those with five or
more violations have had violations
during the past five years.
ONLINE
See a full listing of
companies and
governments with the
most violations that
continue to run into
trouble, at thestate.com.
INSIDE
Offenders with more
than 10 violations, A11
Nearly one-fourth of the 4,700 business and government
offenders since 1991 are repeat offenders
By SAMMY FRETWELL
sfretwell@thestate.com
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Meredith Sheffer
Hook, Line and Bubba
J
immy Koosa looks at the roughly
five-foot gap between two cedar
trees, and you can almost see the
gleam of anticipation in his eye.
The trees stand to the right of
the Country Club of Lexington’s driving
range, where on a chilly March morning,
the long-time Irmo- and Lexington-based
golf instructor is demonstrating the art of
thehookshot—specifically,theleft-hand-
ed hook.
If you watched the end of the 2012 Mas-
ters, you saw probably the most famous
example of that little-appreciated skill. On
the second hole of a sudden-death playoff
with Louis Oosthuizen, Bubba Watson —
he of the untamed hair, hot-pink driver
It took the
skill and the
imagination
of Bubba
Watson to
hit the
incredible
hook shot
that won
the 2012
Masters.
By BOB GILLESPIE
bgillespie@thestate.com
SEE HOOK PAGE S3
MASTERS
PREVIEW
S4: Why the Honorary
Starters are the best
tradition at Augusta
National.
S5: Jack Nicklaus’ six
Masters wins on the 50th
anniversary of his first
triumph
S7: Famous golfers’
girlfriends to watch for
during the Masters
ONLINE
Learn how
to hit a hook
from local
golfer Jimmy
Koosa at thestate.com.
MORE SPORTS
A1: Jackie
Robinson’s
impact on S.C.
race relations
C1: What’s the
future of USC’s
“Zone Read”
running game?
C1: Jordan
Mosely, from
Spring Valley,
takes winding
road to NFL
C1: NCAA Final
Four
SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2013
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FIRST PLACE:
Luke Reasoner
BY GENE SAPAKOFF || gsapakoff@postandcourier.com
J
anuary 6 is three months and tons of tailgate
foodaway.Butthecollegefootballelimination
process leading to the BCS National Cham-
pionship Game at the Rose Bowl in Pasade-
na, Calif., is about to get as serious as touchdown
algebra, and Clemson has a front-row opportunity.
A victory over Boston College on Saturday — the
Tigers are 24-point favorites — sets up
No. 3 Clemson vs. No. 6 Florida State on Oct. 19
at Death Valley in what projects as the highest
combined ranking for any game played in South
Carolina.
Official BCS rankings come out the next day.
The five keys to Clemson making it to the BCS
Championship Game — against Alabama or
Oregon. Or Stanford, Georgia or Ohio State are:
Will it all line up?
Five keys to Clemson punching a ticket to Pasadena
Please see CLEMSON,Page C4

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Darren Price and
Dwayne McLemore
Clowney Interactive

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Matt Walsh and
Chris Trainor
The Pursuit of
Heat

ONLINE NEWS PROJECT
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Salary Database

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Charleston Area
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William Fox, Lyn Riddle,
Mykal McEldowney
andMelissaHall
Homeless
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Blacks in baseball

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John Devlin
Dozen Dynasties
ORANGEBURG — Of all Bill
Hamilton’s accomplishments
as South Carolina State’s first
and only sports information
director — and over 40 years
working at his alma mater,
that covers a lot of territory —
perhaps none is as astound-
ing, or mind-numbing, as the
landfill-like mayhem that is
his desk.
Enter Hamilton’s cozy of-
fice in S.C. State’s Nix Hall,
and the first impression is:
When does the HAZMAT
team arrive? A seeming ava-
lanche of paper — media
guides, press releases, news-
papers — plus a few unex-
pected finds (reading glasses,
a ball cap, a small sports tro-
phy, a Carolina Hurricanes
hockey puck) creates a
moundrisingaboutsixinches
BILL HAMILTON | SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR
S.C. STATE’S BIGGEST FAN
Bill Hamilton, the sports information director at South Carolina State,
is retiring after 40 years. Hamilton will be honored at a ‘Roast and Toast’
in Orangeburg on June 28.
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY KIM KIM FOSTER-TOBIN/KKFOSTER@THESTATE.COM
By BOB GILLESPIE
SEE HAMILTON PAGE C7
SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 2013 ɀ WWW.THESTATE.COM ɀ SECTION C
SUNDAYSPORTS USC: SUMMERVILLE’S SMALLS COMMITS C3
BRAVES: BREWER COLLECTS 300TH SAVE C4
Phil Savitz has been on hand for
parts of four decades of success as
the boys soccer coach at Irmo.
The veteran coach says the recent-
ly completed 2013 season might be at
the top of his personal highlights list.
HisfinalYellowJacketssquadlimped
through an unimpressive regular
season, but put together a brilliant
postseason run to claim the pro-
gram’s 16th state championship.
It was the 14th state title under Sa-
vitz, who went 634-83-5 in 33 sea-
sons, and puts the Irmo boys soccer
program among The State’s Dozen
Prep Dynasties in the Midlands.
“We started the season with a
young, inexperienced team, and I
really had no idea what to expect,”
Savitz said. “We lost our first three
gameswithoutscoringagoalinapre-
season tournament. We lost the last
three games in the regular season.
Blythewood and us took turns giving
the region championship back before
we finally won it. We were the first
Irmo team to lose to Chapin and the
first Irmo team to lose on Senior
Night.
“It’s safe to say that we never did
establish an identity.”
All that changed in the state play-
offs. Perhaps it was motivation to
send Savitz, who is leaving to launch
the program at first-year River Bluff
SAVING
THE BEST
FOR LAST
IRMO TITLES
Irmo boys
soccer state
championships:
1978
1979
1982
1987
1988
1989
1990
1993
1995
1996
1997
1998
2000
2003
2004
2013
COMING MONDAY
The Lexington girls golf
team.
ONLINE
Follow the Dozen
Dynasties series with
additional photos at
thestate.com
Coach Phil Savitz closes his
career at Irmo with another title
By JOHN DEVLIN
Special to The State
SEE IRMO PAGE C6
W
E SHOULD
not be sur-
prised by the
recent vandalism to
Howard’s Rock, one of
the more iconic sym-
bols in college football.
We live in an age where
it is not enough to win
games and capture
championships. We
must also taunt our
opponents, chastise
them publicly and, yes,
damage and defame
their history and
traditions.
Such is life in 2013 college
athletics.
We do not know who broke into
Clemson’s Memorial Stadium and
smashed the Plexiglas case before
taking a chunk out of the rock in
Vandalism
is fandom
for losers
Ron
Morris
Columnist
rmorris@
thestate.com
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2013 COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE
MARCUS
LATTIMORE
MARCUS
LATTIMORE
GREATEST GAMECOCK
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Charles Rowe
I
n November, the Charleston County
School Board found itself in violation of
the state’s freedom of information law
when six members turned up for a tour
of the renovated campus of the former Rivers
Middle School. School officials explained that
they didn’t expect a majority of the board to
attend, thereby triggering the FOIA require-
mentfor publicnotificationofboardmeetings.
Anaccident?That’showadistrictspokesman
explained it.
Butaniteminarecentdistrictnoticeemailed
to school board members suggests that the
practicemaybemorecommonthanimagined.
Under the heading of “Small Group Meeting”
it states:
“AmeetingisscheduledattheTownofMount
Pleasant at 9 a.m. on January 31st to discuss
schoolfunding.Mr.[Michael]Bobbyisextend-
inganinvitationtoMr.[John]Barterandthree
other Board members to attend. ... Since no
publicnoticewillbedoneforthismeeting,only
fourboardmembersareallowedtoattend.An-
other meeting will be scheduled if others are
interested in this topic.”
If five members were in attendance, it would
constitute a quorum, requiring public notice
to be given.
Mr.Bobby,thedistrict’schieffinancialofficer,
tells us that the meeting will give new board
membersachancetohearaboutissuesrelatedto
fundingschoolsinMountPleasant.Mr.Barter
is among the recently elected board members.
Town officials also are expected to attend.
Mr. Bobby explained the reasoning behind
having a meeting of board members that
doesn’t trigger FOIA requirements:
“We have to have the ability to do work,” he
explained. “We’re not doing the public’s busi-
ness. We’re doing training.”
Tothecontrary.Whattheyarereallydoingis
circumventing the law, which gives the public
access to the public’s business.
Schoolfundingdiscussionsthataredesigned
toavoidtherequirementsofthestateFOIAwill
erodeconfidenceinthewaythedistrictspends
school money — or to put it another way, the
public’s money.
The board should stick to transparency as it
discusses the public’s business.
Meanwhile, if an unexpected trustee or two
weretoshowupattheJan.31meeting,thedis-
trict would again find itself in violation of the
FOIA. That’s what happened at the November
tour of the former Rivers Middle School cam-
pus,whichisnowbeingsharedbytheCharles-
ton Charter School for Math and Science and
the new Lowcountry Tech Academy.
Such a repetition of that blunder would di-
minish confidence in the board and the dis-
trict.
Elected school board members shouldn’t
countenancemeetingsthataremeanttoevade
thepublic’seyebylimitingattendeestoanum-
ber below a quorum. It violates the spirit of
the law.
No school secrets allowed
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Scott J. Bryan
School board sings
a disturbing tune
From time to time, it might seem we overly espouse our
belief in transparency in government and open records.
In fact, it might seem a limitless, unabated chorus, with the
newspaper singing the same song again and again, as if we
were trapped in the closing credits of Lamb Chop's Play-Along.
"This is the Freedom of Information Act that never ends.
Yes, it goes on and on, my friends."
After countless stories, columns and editorials stressing the
importance of elected officials adhering to the law, it could be
understood readers are exhausted by the constant reminders to
public entities and their representatives — state leaders, council
members and school board members — of how to best serve
the public in an open manner.
And perhaps there are some good, honest people who think
there could simply be no way elected officials would violate the
law, not after repeated press clippings reveal illegal behavior.
We've got bad news for you. You've got a better chance of
finding a leprechaun riding a unicorn in downtown Atlantis
than you do of elected officials behaving transparently.
Today's front-page story by Index-Journal education report-
er Michelle Laxer testifies to the sad reality. No matter how fre-
quently we lambaste public officials for indiscretions, the same
behavior persists. This time, the McCormick school board is
disregarding the law.
Based on emails received from the McCormick County
school district, the school board formed a consensus, via email
or some place other than in public, to institute a hiring freeze
and try to keep former superintendent Earlean Smiley in place
during this past spring's budget process.
First Amendment lawyer and South Carolina Press Associa-
tion attorney Jay Bender said that violates the law.
"It avoids public debate and the fact that it's been polled in
advance means that action can be taken immediately without
anybody really having an opportunity to weigh in on one side
or the other," Bender told the Index-Journal.
How do we know the McCormick board violated the law?
The chairman of the board, Jim Lambeth, spelled it out in an
email dated Jan. 14 to fellow board member Al Bell.
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March 30
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Area students write about their favorite teachers
CLASSBack-to-School Special Section

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J
immy Koosa looks at the roughly
five-foot gap between two cedar
trees, and you can almost see the
gleam of anticipation in his eye.
The trees stand to the right of
the Country Club of Lexington’s driving
range, where on a chilly March morning,
the long-time Irmo- and Lexington-based
golf instructor is demonstrating the art of
thehookshot—specifically,theleft-hand-
ed hook.
If you watched the end of the 2012 Mas-
ters, you saw probably the most famous
example of that little-appreciated skill. On
the second hole of a sudden-death playoff
with Louis Oosthuizen, Bubba Watson —
he of the untamed hair, hot-pink driver
It took the
skill and the
imagination
of Bubba
Watson to
hit the
incredible
hook shot
that won
the 2012
Masters.
By BOB GILLESPIE
SEE HOOK PAGE S3
MASTERS
PREVIEW
S4: Why the Honorary
Starters are the best
tradition at Augusta
National.
S5: Jack Nicklaus’ six
Masters wins on the 50th
anniversary of his first
triumph
S7: Famous golfers’
girlfriends to watch for
during the Masters
ONLINE
Learn how
to hit a hook
from local
golfer Jimmy
Koosa at thestate.com.
MORE SPORTS
A1: Jackie
Robinson’s
impact on S.C.
race relations
C1: What’s the
future of USC’s
“Zone Read”
running game?
C1: Jordan
Mosely, from
Spring Valley,
takes winding
road to NFL
C1: NCAA Final
Four
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COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
WWW.THESTATE.COM • SECTION S

OR SECTION
All Daily Division
SECOND PLACE:
The State
Staff
J
erry Jackson’s football coaching career had come to a crossroads. He sat in his 1998 Dodge Caravan in the
spring of 2004 and watched as a couple of red lights cycled through at the corner of Chestnut Street and
Barhamville Road, the intersection that frames C.A. Johnson High School.
Jackson’s 21st season as an assistant high school coach in South Carolina had not gone so well, and it had
nothing to do with the fact C.A. Johnson did not win any of its eight games.
His frustration had everything to do with a lack of commitment at every turn to the football program. Two games
that season were cancelled because C.A. Johnson could field a mere 15 players. Never had Jackson dealt with a
fluctuating roster, players joining the team from one week to the next or dropping from the lineup without notice.
He found most C.A. Johnson players to be lacking in discipline. Support from home was minimal.
“I got depressed,” Jackson
said.
“Coming from Fairfield
(Central High),” he contin-
ued, “we had been there and
established a program. Jerry
Brown came in and got the
program going, then Buddy
Pough came in and took it to
another level. We won a cou-
ple of championships. The
kids had gotten in the habit
of working hard and not
missing practice and things.”
Jackson paused as he
stood eight years later at that
same corner of Chestnut and
Barhamville, this time in his
fourth season as C.A. John-
son’s head coach. Then he
continued.
“You get over here and it’s
just the opposite,” he said.
“You can’t get them to prac-
tice, and they have an apa-
thetic attitude about practic-
ing football and the amount
of work that it takes to get it
done.
“It was two different mind-
sets. It was just
overwhelming.”
Jackson was headed to
church services that Sunday
morning in 2004. It was as if
his mini-van — like his ca-
reer, for that matter — was
stuck in park, unable to pull
through the intersection and
down the block to the Pro-
gressive Church of Our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Jackson said he heard a
voice.
“You need to be here,”
Jackson said God told him.
“That’s why I’ve got you
here.”
From that day forward,
Jackson stopped complaining
about his situation. He
stopped bemoaning the
shortcomings of his job. He
no longer pleaded with the
administration for help.
Jackson said he realized
his calling was at C.A.
Johnson.
“God directs our path,
regardless of what we say
we’re going to do with our
lives,” he said. “He puts us in
situations where we can
either work those situations
out or let them go to rest.
“We are put in situations to
see if we can help somebody
or be an example for them.
We won’t have an effect on
everybody here, but a lot of
people here we have some
positive effect on them.
“We supply them love.”
That love was never in
short supply throughout the
2012 season, one that started
in mid-August with 18 play-
ers at the first practice and
concluded in early November
with 24 players for the final
game.
In between, Jackson and
his assistant coaches went
about teaching more than the
fundamentals of football.
Those coaches — like the
C.A. Johnson administration
and the faculty — recognize
that this is not just about
teaching a group of young
men how to play football and
then saying OK, ‘See you
later,’ at the end of the game.
This is about affecting those
players’ lives, beginning
during the season and per-
haps lasting forever.
Coaching at C.A. Johnson
is about forming a family
within the team, a family that
can trust one another even in
the most challenging of situa-
tions, a family that learns to
respect and trust other male
figures. For some, being on
the football team means be-
ing part of a family for the
first — and perhaps last —
time in their lives.
It was a season in which
C.A. Johnson dealt with far
more downs than ups. It won
only two games. It made the
postseason playoffs for only
the ninth time since integra-
tion of the schools in 1970.
The older sister of one
player died of sickle cell ane-
mia and the younger brother
of another was killed when
he was struck by a truck.
Team members learned to
hug one another and march
off the field arm in arm no
matter the game’s outcome.
Before and after every
practice, and before and after
every game, Jackson huddled
his team and asked that each
member touch another. In
unison, he asked them to
chant one phrase that had
nothing to do with perform-
ing well on the field or calling
for a good outcome in a
game.
“One! Two! Three!” Jack-
son shouted.
“I believe!” The team
answered.
‘I BELIEVE!’
There were more downs than ups
for the C.A. Johnson football team
but forming a family was an amazing
accomplishment
C.A. Johnson’s Caesar Nieto leads the team as it makes its way onto the field for the game against Pelion.
Corresponding video
Visit thestate.com for a photo gallery and a video
produced by photojournalist Gerry Melendez
exploring the tight weave of C.A. Johnson High
School students’ personal lives and their identity as
football players.
Reporter Ron Morris and
photographer Gerry
Melendez spent the 2012
season following the C.A.
Johnson football team.
Ron Morris
The State’s sports
columnist has won
numerous state and
national awards and is a
five-time winner of the
South Carolina sports
writer of the year by the
National Sportscasters
and Sportswriters
Association.
Gerry Melendez
Twenty years of
assignments have taken
him throughout the U.S.
and abroad. His work has
been recognized by state,
regional and national
contests. He is a four-time
South Carolina
Photographer of the Year
by the South Carolina
News Photographers
Association.
Designer
Meredith Sheffer,
Assistant Sports Editor -
Presentation
Editor
Rick Millians,
Executive Sports Editor
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RBC Heritage

REVIEW PORTFOLIO
All Daily Division
THIRD PLACE:
Bo Petersen
BY BO PETERSEN
THE LAST TRAIN TO ZONA VERDE. By Paul
Theroux. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 353 pag-
es. $27. Ebook $27.
M
aybe the most astonishing thing about
Paul Theroux’s travel writing is that a lot
of people don’t like it. He’s considered
the grumpy old man in the field, continually
railing on about this or that disruption of au-
thentic culture by modern incursions instead of
tour-guiding hungry escapists to the wonders of
Bora Bora.
This is his genius. Theroux is a real-world
traveler: He drops you smack into the dirt and
desires of a land and its people.
In “The Last Train to Zona Verde,” the chapter
called “Three Pieces of Chicken” is one of the
finest bits of travel gristle you can chew. Strand-
ed in the Angolan bush when the folk taxi he’s
riding in breaks down, he writes:
“We drank beer, we muttered, we listened, and
then it occurred to me that if I didn’t claim a
place in the car I would have nowhere to sleep.
While they were talking, I went back to the
Land Cruiser. I cranked the seat into reclining
position, covered myself with my jacket, and to
the drumming in the distance and the mutter-
ing of boys sitting on the steps of the shed, I sub-
sided into sleep. From time to time I awoke, and
I was surprised by the gusto of the drumming,
but in the darkest hours of morning, it ceased.
... In daylight the place was ugly,
more littered and beat up than it
had seemed the day before.”
The chapter revolves around a
bucket holding three blackened
limbs of skinny chicken, covered
with black flies, offered for sale.
He turns them down at first, but
then buys them one by one be-
cause there’s nothing else to eat.
“The Last Train to Zona Verde”
might well not be the last go-
round from the prolific Theroux.
It is, after all, his 46th book of
travel, fiction or criticism. He
took off on the trip to Southwest
Africa after finishing a novel.
But it has the feel of his coda.
The septuagenarian started his travel life as a
Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi in the 1960s
and has returned repeatedly to trek and write
about a continent he unabashedly loves.
This time, though, he’s brooding about his age
and mortality in the early chapters, then in the
closing chapter, “What Am I Doing Here,” he
is coming to terms with his disillusion about
what’s become of West Africa:
“Of course, I could put my head down and
travel farther, but I knew what I would find: de-
caying cities, hungry crowds, predatory youths
and people abandoned by their
governments, people who saw
every foreigner as someone they
could hit up for money.”
Theroux takes you on a rocky
safari across infringed wilds,
disenfranchised poverty and
coven luxury. He introduces
you to a boil of angry indig-
enous peoples and unsettled
migrants you won’t meet on an
itinerary tour.
This trek opens with him on
a spear hunt in Namibia, step-
ping over termite hills with
bush people, one of the world’s
oldest cultures, “pouch-breasted
women laughing among them-
selves, an infant with a head like a fuzzy fruit
bobbing in one woman’s sling, men in leather
clouts clutching spears and bows.”
Go on, turn the first few pages. Then I dare
you to put it down.
Reviewer Bo Petersen is an environmental
reporter for The Post and Courier.
Theroux’s ‘Last Train’Author’s brooding, brilliant stories of Africa hard to put down
BY BO PETERSEN
STORM KINGS. By Lee Sandlin. Pan-
theon Books. 260 pages. $26.95.
There’s no way that saying anything
like, “This book is a history of tornado
science,” can convince you just how cool
it is to read about Ben Franklin as a pre-
statesman youngster, offering himself as
an agent to a theatrical performer who
uses static electricity in a magic show. Or
Franklin as a performer himself, setting
up stunts like the Lady’s Kiss:
“The lady in question would sit in a
chair while several aurora tubes were
passed over and around her. Then a suc-
cession of young men would attempt to
kiss her. Each time, the crackling static
discharge from her lips and forehead
would knock the suitor to the floor.”
Lee Sandlin’s “Storm Kings” is full of
tales like that, stories with human di-
mensions that go well beyond the 1800s
controversies over whether, first of all,
there were such things as tornadoes, and
second, whether they whirled. There are
the heroes you’ve never heard of: the Sig-
nal Corps officer whose groundbreaking
work on twisters was rejected, grudg-
ingly accepted, then curtly dismissed by
backstabbing federal bureaucrats before
becoming a standard of the science. Of-
ficer John Finley’s near fatal midwinter
climb up Pikes Peak is riveting, as he
brings life-saving supplies to the men in
one of the country’s first weather stations:
“They were obliged to leave the mules
behind with the mountaineer to trudge
up on foot. The snow grew so deep they
were often wading up to their armpits.
The weather became increasingly foul.
Storms were cresting the mountaintop
and spilling down along the slopes; there
was thick fog in the ravines and a con-
tinuous pelting of rain, sleet and snow.
There were terrifying lightning displays
and gigantic echoing booms and crashes
of thunder. At one point they were caught
in a mysteriously charged snowstorm,
where every flake left a trail of cold fire
through the air, and their hair, beards and
fingertips were emitting endless showers
of sparks.
Whoa. That’s what “Storm Kings” is
like. And along the way, Sandlin fends
through a line of deadly, twisting historic
storms that stand your hair on end.
Any story that starts with the wild
Franklin and ends with “Mr. Tornado,”
the singular tornado researcher Tetsuya
Fujita, is a tale worth the telling. Enjoy.
Reviewer Bo Petersen is an environ-
mental reporter at The Post and Courier.
‘Storm’ a vortex of good storytelling
BY BO PETERSEN
bpetersen@postandcourier.com
BACK TO BLOOD. Tom
Wolfe. Little, Brown and Co.
704 pages. $30.
“Huge huge huge brilliant
brilliant brilliant lurid lurid
lurid.” Now don’t be alarmed;
that’s not the reviewer. That’s
the provocateur-legend Tom
Wolfe describing the neon
sign for the Honey Pot
strip club. Or how about
“AhhggghHAHAHHHHock
hock hock hockdjou,” his
onomatopoeic rendition of a
character’s hacking laugh.
This is what you’re in for
opening “Back to Blood,” the
latest carving up of Ameri-
can culture by the author of
groundswell books such as
“The Right Stuff,” “The Elec-
tric Kool-Aid Acid Test” and
“The Bonfire of the Vanities.”
Check your serious face at
the door. This is lampoon:
over-the-top fun with the
boiling unrest of cultures in
the unmelting pot of social
caste Miami.
There are A LOT OF CAPI-
TAL LETTERS in this book.
Say, for instance: “BEAT
thung BEAT thung BEAT
thung BEAT thung BEAT
thung BEAT thung” repli-
cating lurid music booming
from the loud speakers dur-
ing a yacht club regatta that
devolves deck to deck into an
offshore orgy.
Wolfe burst into popular
conscience in the 1960s with
New Journalism classics such
as the “Acid Test.”
No sooner did he become an
established anti-establishment
figurehead then he turned
to produce classics like “The
Right Stuff,” the real-people
account of NASA astronauts
that knocked vaunted James
Michener’s “Space” clean off
the literary shelf. Then Wolfe
wrote “From Bauhaus to Our
House,” putting the thumb
tacks to malformed 20th-
century architecture.
So give him slack. “The Bon-
fire of the Vanities” had good
passages and tedious stretch-
es, “A Man in Full” was less
than that and “I Am Charlotte
Simmons” a sometimes bril-
liant but long-winded, not-
quite-nailed-down satire of
conflicted North Carolina folk
and academic cultures. Heck,
Clyde Edgerton did it better if
far less edgier in “Raney.”
But when Wolfe is good, he
is very good. “Back to Blood”
reels out of control from the
interplay of two young, star-
crossed Cuban lovers and
their body slams into various
Miami cultural walls. One is a
policeman who wants nothing
more than to be respected by
his family and community;
one a darting socialite wan-
nabe who wants nothing more
than to shed both.
To be sure, there’s some
wading to get through this tall
tale. But there’s also some real
scene gobbling going on, and
an ending that packs a hyper-
bolic punch.
If you want onboard, grab
the Dramamine: “And every
time a boat rocked, usually
thanks to the rolling wakes of
speed boats, the bottles and
beer cans would roll across
the deck ... the beer cans with
a cheap junky aluminum rat-
tle ... the bottles with a cheap
junky hollow moan ... rolled
rolled rolled over the flat
garbage, the stamped out ciga-
rettes, the cheap plastic beads,
the spilt-beer slicks, the used
condoms, the puke fritters.”
Reviewer Bo Petersen is
a reporter at The Post and
Courier.
Wolfe
lampoons
Miami

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SECOND PLACE:
The State
Otis R. Taylor Jr.
NORTH CHARLESTON
A
fter two
decades
serving a
sentence on
a chain
gang, it’s not
the laborious conditions
of his past life that cause
Jean Valjean, the
protagonist in “Les
Miserables,” to wail in
agony.
It’s the slip of paper he
must carry. It’s a mark, a
scarlet letter of
condemnation. By the
time he sings a soliloquy,
falling to his knees at
center stage, his pain has
become your pain. In
other words, you’re
hooked.
The Broadway in
Columbia production of
“Les Miserables” is the
musical to bring the
non-musical fan to see.
The two-act stage
adaptation of Victor
Hugo’s novel, which
opens Tuesday at the
Koger Center, runs
through March 24.
A film version of “Les
‘Like
visiting
an old
friend’
Revamped for its
silver anniversary,
‘Les Misérables’
opens at the Koger
By OTIS R. TAYLOR JR.
otaylor@thestate.com
Genevieve Leclerc rehearses her part of Fantine at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center as the cast and crew prepare for ‘Les Miserables.’
The show is opening in Columbia at the Koger Center. Opening night is Tuesday; its run concludes March 24.
KIM KIM FOSTER-TOBIN/KKFOSTER@THESTATE.COM
IF YOU GO
‘Les Miserables’
When: 7:30 p.m. Tues-
day-Friday and 2 and
7:30 p.m. Saturday
and March 24
Where: Koger Center,
1051 Greene St.
Tickets: $46-$66
Information: (803)
251-2222 or www.ca-
pitoltickets.com
One of the props used
in ‘Les Miserables.’
BY THE
NUMBERS
9 Number of
53-foot semi-
trucks it takes to
transport the show.
16 Hours it
takes to erect
the elaborate set.
8 Hours it takes to
tear the set down.
15 Number of
traveling set
crew members.
75 Number of
local stage
hands used in each
city to build and take
down the set.
15 Number of
musicians in
live orchestra.
400 Number
of lights
the crew installs in
each theater, 100 of
which have moving
heads.SEE LES MIZ PAGE E2
Kenny Chesney’s return to Williams-
Brice Stadium was triumphant, and it was
apparent early in the afternoon that the
threat of poor weather wasn’t going to
keep No Shoes Nation, the name given to
Chesney’s fervent fans, from hanging out
with their best friend. Hours before Satur-
day’s concert, they arrived to party at the
pre-concert tailgate called KennyGate.
Though official numbers won’t be re-
leased until this week, organizers estimat-
edtheattendanceat45,000,animpressive
number since walk-up ticket sales may
have been hampered because of the cool
temperatures.Thefollowingareahandful
of observations from the daylong event
that began at 10 a.m.
Get on the good foot: On the very first
song of his 2008 stadium concert, Ches-
ney broke his foot because of a stage mal-
Kenny Chesney pumps up the crowd during his performance Saturday at Williams-Brice Stadium.
RENEE ITTNER-MCMANUS/RITTNERMCMANUS@THESTATE.COM
ONLINE: Concert
photos and fan
snapshots. Did our
photographer shoot
you? Go online and
find out at
thestate.com
METROSUNDAY, MAY 5, 2013
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COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA
KENNY’S COLUMBIA COMEBACKBy OTIS R. TAYLOR JR.
otaylor@thestate.com
SEE CHESNEY PAGE B6
H
ip-hop has, unfair-
ly, been oft-ma-
ligned in Colum-
bia. It has existed
– thrived, even – in
pockets of the city, but tradi-
tionally it has been separated,
held at a distance from local
clubs,barsand,especially,fes-
tival stages.
Love, Peace and Hip Hop:
Columbia Hip Hop Family
Day seeks to be inclusive with
the genre as the gathering’s
foundation. Organized by
Non Stop Hip Hop
Live, the city’s long-
running hip-hop
catalysts, the festi-
val is one of a hand-
ful of music events
related to The Indie
Grits Festival.
Arrested Devel-
opment’s perfor-
mance at St. Pat’s in
Five Points last
month might
have satiated
some who
have
yearned for hip-hop
to be added to the fes-
tival.But,forsome,
a bitter taste lin-
gers from when
Wet Willie’s
jolted the Free
Times Music
Crawl in November
2011, two days before
the event. It canceled the
scheduled sets citing the
performers’ foul and violent
language.
Love, Peace and
Hip Hop is an
opportunity
to show-
case
hip-
hop
culture and hip-hop as a cre-
ative art form that includes vi-
sual art, fashion, dance and
poetry.
The event is headlined by
Kool Moe Dee, a rapper
known as much for his wrap-
around sunglasses as he is for
his rhymes. His hits include
“How Ya Like Me Now,” “Wild
Wild West” and the burning
ballad “Go See the Doctor.”
His verse on “Self Destruc-
tion,” the hip-hop unity track,
was a prescient invective
against a community’s – and
genre’s – agitated evolution.
“Back in the ’60s our broth-
ers and sisters were hanged/
How could you gang bang?/ I
never ever ran from the Ku
Klux Klan/ And I shouldn’t
have to run from a
black man.”
Of course,
Kool
Moe Dee feuded with fellow
rapper LL Cool J in the ’80s.
The rappers lobbed sublimi-
naldissesateachother.Onthe
cover of his 1987 album, “How
Ya Like Me Now,” Moe Dee
stood in front of a white jeep
that had a crushed red Kangol
under its left front tire. The
significance: The Kangol, a
type of hat, was to LL what the
sunglasses were to Kool Moe
Dee.
Moe Dee, a former member
of the Treacherous Three, was
the first rapper to perform at
the Grammy Awards, so he
brings history with his perfor-
mance in Columbia. There is
hope that this festival is histor-
ical in a similar manner.
Kool Moe Dee
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HIP-HOP
A FAMILY AFFAIR
The Love, Peace & Hip Hop festival Saturday on Main Street is a
free showcase of the culture and creative art form that is hip-hop
Otis R.
Taylor Jr.
otaylor
@thestate.com
(803)
771-8362
Yameezy
PROVIDED PHOTOGRAPHS
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WEEKEND
INSIDE: Otis Taylor picks his
top 15 South Carolina
rappers. Page E3
IF YOU GO
Love, Peace & Hip Hop
When: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat-
urday
Where: Main Street
Tickets: Free
Late night: At 9:30 p.m., DJ
Shekeese Tha Beast, one
of the festival’s organizers,
will have his birthday bash
at New Brookland Tavern.
Special Ed, whose glorious
song “I Got it Made” was,
arguably, the genesis of
popular hip-hop’s addic-
tion to lyrical expositions
on excess, is the headlin-
er. NBT is at 122 State St.,
West Columbia. $8
Information: www.lovepea-
cehiphop.com
THE SETLIST
11a.m.: DJ Q Jack
Noon: Hip Hop History 101
with the founders of Non
Stop Hip Hop Live, DJ She-
keese Tha Beast and DJ
Kingpin. DJ Prince Ice will
spin music through the
decades.
12:45 p.m.: Performances
by Kevlar and Randy Bruce
1 p.m.: Breakdancing by
Battle Holex Crew World-
wide
by DJ T.O., Ida Divine and
Abys and Redd
by Collard Green, Preach
Jacobs, B-Familia Muzik
and FatRat Da Czar with
Grand Royal
3:15 p.m.: Performance by
The Reggie Sullivan Band,
Yamin Semali and Kool
Moe Dee
TODAY AT INDIE GRITS
A daily guide to Colum-
bia’s film and arts festival,
going on through April 21
7 tonight: The Indie Grits
Festival opening party. The
free party will be held on
the 1600 block of
Main Street.
Say Brother
and The Roy-
al Tinfoil will
perform.
There will also
be a DJ, food
trucks and beer and wine
sales. Let’s hope the
weather cooperates
unlike it did for last
week’s First Thurs-
days on Main;
www.indiegrits.com
Look for more
stories on the
Indie Grits Festi-
val at thes-
tate.com/
entertainment
Ida Divine
Rap Shoot
MOVIES
‘42’ tells the story
of baseball great
Jackie Robinson.
Review, story, Page E4

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FIRST PLACE:
Adam Parker BY ADAM PARKER
aparker@postandcourier.com
WASH. By Margaret Wrinkle. Atlantic Monthly
Press. 405 pages. $25.
A
mong America’s biggest problems is its failure
to come to terms with its greatest sin: slavery.
We know the wound is insufficiently healed.
We see its legacy every day in the way forms of rac-
ism persist. And we watch, often too passively, as
some among us act to prevent healing — exempli-
fied most profoundly by the common attitude that
“the past is the past,” that the great-great-grandchil-
dren of slave owners cannot be held responsible for
the actions of their ancestors, that blacks should just
get over it already.
We know, of course, that these arguments are at-
tempts, sometimes deliberate, sometimes subcon-
scious, to evade the truth. And the truth is: We need
much more of it, along with a lot of reconciliation.
Maybe this can eventually happen. Maybe not.
Meanwhile, the wound festers. Consider the Tray-
von Martin case.
So it comes as a terrific surprise, a shock really, to
read Margaret Wrinkle’s novel “Wash,” which is all
about slaves and slave owners in the early years of
the new Republic. It is a graceful book filled with
the brutality of slavery and the humanity of those
involved. It does not avoid the truth. It does not cut
corners.
It presents people in full dimension and in con-
text, showing how slavery was a complicated and
perverse phenomenon that easily educed the evil
in some people, but could not simply be dismissed
as a mere distortion of history. An entire economic
system, a whole culture depended on it. If you were
unfortunate enough to be born into this system and
culture, whether black or white, you were pretty
much stuck.
This is not to say that the abolitionist pursuit was
either misguided or futile (Wrinkle touches on it in
her novel). Many thoughtful people fought against
slavery, and that opposition succeeded in chipping
away at the institution. Eventually, it won the day.
Let’s admit right off that writing novels about
slavery is a difficult endeavor indeed. Few have suc-
ceeded in conveying the nature of the system while
simultaneously presenting believable and sympa-
thetic characters. But this did not stop Wrinkle, a
native of Birmingham, Ala., who grew up with an
intimate knowledge of unresolved racial issues. The
title “Wash” reflects the name of its slave-protago-
nist, Washington, but it also might be an allusion to
the writerly effort to scrub the grime from the issues
so they may be seen clearly.
‘Eyes on the clouds’
The story is set in the early 1800s, in Western Ten-
nessee, which saw an expansion of the domestic
slave trade as settlers ventured forth into the coun-
try’s heartland, and it presents characters engaged
in a particularly distasteful aspect of slavery: human
breeding for commercial purposes.
Wash is the child of Mena, a captured African
woman purchased in Charleston by the soldier-
landowner Richardson. He lends Mena to his friend
Thompson, a humane recluse who takes the young
African with him to a remote North Carolina island,
where he chooses to live out his remaining days.
Mena, it turns out, is pregnant. On the island she
gives birth to Wash (named by Thompson) and
steadfastly holds onto her culture and heritage, pass-
ing her knowledge slowly and surely to her young
son. Thompson tolerates the “mojo,” affording
Mena and Wash plenty of slack.
His interest in Mena is infused by affection. In one
particularly lovely sequence in which Thompson dis-
covers her pregnancy, he teaches her how to swim:
“Soon as she lay back, soon as her dark billowy
dress lay drenched against her front, I saw her belly
for the first time. It reared up so round, I couldn’t
believe I hadn’t seen it before. She was good and
pregnant. Five months by my best guess. My mouth
dropped open as she lay there floating in my palm
but she kept her eyes on the clouds. Wouldn’t look
at me but she started breathing shallow just like I’d
showed her. When I took my hand away, she floated
on her own.”
Eventually, the old man dies. Mena and Wash are
claimed by Thompson’s two brutal sons and put to
work on a Tennessee plantation.
Wash finds the adjustment difficult. He has
grown up to be a hard-headed outsider, unwilling to
forfeit his “African” or forget his ancestors. He is tall,
dark, handsome, mysterious, and he strikes fear in
his fellow slaves who hug their Christian bible and
worry about anyone too reluctant to cast his eyes
downward in the presence of whites.
This gets him a load of trouble, and Wrinkle ren-
ders it with all the violence and cruelty it demands,
but without excess, always attuned to the context
and history of the time.
The story is told from the differing perspectives
of its main characters; Wrinkle writes mostly in the
first-person, shifting quickly from one to another,
but she also inserts sections written in the third
person. It’s a testament to her achievement that this
mash-up unifies into a cohesive, flowing narrative.
The reader is pulled along, eager to understand what
is going through the minds of each of these fascinat-
ing people.
Clinging to identity
It is perhaps first and foremost a sweeping psy-
chological portrait, a lesson in how people under
stress adapt, how they connect with one another
even when forces beyond their control regularly tear
them to shreds.
“It’s always the dead who got to stretch out to the
living,” Wash says. “You get so you can read a liv-
ing man’s mind. See straight into his heart. But
what you got to tell him ain’t always what he wants
to hear, and the living can be some kind of hard-
headed, acting blind to us even when we could save
em some real time and trouble. But some things
stay slow to learn and I know it can seem easier to
slog on the hard way. I remember making that exact
same choice myself.”
We learn about Richardson’s ambivalence toward
slavery, his dependence on Wash, both for com-
mercial gain and human interaction. We learn
about African traditions and how they were tenu-
ously conveyed to the U.S. and into the hearts and
minds of those able to listen. We learn about the
dysfunctional dynamics among slave communities
and between whites and blacks. Above all, we enter
the minds of Wash, Mena, Pallas and Rufus, each
clinging hard to their African identities in the face
of overwhelming odds.
To read about how the young Pallas, destined
eventually to become an accomplished medicine
woman and companion of Wash, was sequestered
in an isolated cabin for the purpose of providing
sexual relief to the young sons of a slave owner, how
she emerged nearly dead inside but somehow found
the strength (and the help) to reclaim her soul, is to
come face to face with just one of the terrible lega-
cies we have yet to confront fully as a society. It is a
particularly heartbreaking passage in this remark-
able book, yet full of hope and humanity.
Or there is the story of Rufus the blacksmith, who
takes the young Wash under his wing. After the
woman he loves is sold away, he descends into a
pit of alcoholism and depression, never to emerge
whole again.
And there is Wash himself, confused by the
changing circumstances into which he has been
thrust, yet eloquent and insightful at the same
time. The character is fully formed, endearing
and sympathetic. He grows and learns, sometimes
fretfully, “falling back into the grip of his story,”
sometimes with such grace and poetry the reader
is left trembling.
“It was pretty soon after that day when my time
came for me,” Wash recounts. “I guess living full
on like I did wore me out. I’d learned not to let my
anger light me up so bad, and Pallas stayed steady
helping me smooth my edges. But still, my day came
much sooner than I thought it might. ... It came
right on me out of the clear blue sky. Didn’t have no
time to fight it. Felt myself lifted up out of myself,
like I’d felt plenty of times before, but I could tell
this time was something different. I could tell this
time I wasn’t coming back, so I turned my eyes to
Pallas.”
The reader, privy to the immense psychologi-
cal and physical abuse Wash must endure, is left
marveling at how his mind and soul could have re-
mained intact. In the end, it was his heart that gave
out.
Wrinkle renders all of this with a carefully simpli-
fied language that somehow rings true. She is con-
cerned less with capturing the precise nuances of
actual speech and more with finding a way to reveal
authentic thoughts, ideas, expressions. Her special
vernacular is perhaps the key that unlocks this Pan-
dora’s Box without permitting the furies of slavery
to fly off in all directions. Instead they swirl and
churn before us, contained by the intelligence of the
writer and the beauty of her novel.
It seems to me that “Wash” achieves something
extraordinary: a full-fledged confrontation with one
of the most difficult aspects of our nation’s history.
With a careful, thoughtful application of her pen,
Wrinkle has given us an honest and important ex-
pression of hope. She has illuminated the darkness
of slavery and invited us to explore it as the accom-
plices we surely are.
With “Wash,” Wrinkle has given us a firm foot-
hold that leads in the direction of truth and recon-
ciliation. We would do well to take this step. And to
thank her for her help.
Reviewer Adam Parker is the arts writer and
book page editor for The Post and Courier.
‘Wash’Poignant novel on slavery clears view of America’s great sin
BY ADAM PARKER
When it rains it pours.
Twice this spring Charleston audi-
ences have been treated to perfor-
mances of the monumental Verdi
Requiem, first presented by the
Charleston Symphony Orchestra
and Chorus in a special April con-
cert, and now again under the baton
of Joseph Flummerfelt, the Spoleto
Festival’s artistic director for choral
activities, who is ceding his position
after years of transition to the very
talented Joe Miller.
Flummerfelt, 76, chose to leave
the festival on this note because
the Requiem has been one of those
pieces close to his heart for a long
time. And among the initiated, who
doesn’t love it?
At TD Arena Thursday night, the
Westminster Choir, joined by the
CSO Chorus (its recent performance
still reverberating in the singers’
ears) and by the Spoleto Festival
USA Orchestra, tried to blow the top
off the venue, which had been bat-
tened down by festival stagehands
and acoustician David Greenberg
for the occasion.
And they sounded fine, if not es-
pecially present in the big space. The
special concert shell built for the oc-
casion was a lot better than nothing,
but it couldn’t project the music into
the arena with adequate focus and
intensity.
Nevertheless, patrons were treated
to a brisk and beautiful rendition of
a work that features divinely hushed
moments of spiritual angst and
bombastic, full-orchestra flares her-
alding the “days of wrath.”
Flummerfelt, blessed with a fine
chorus and orchestra, and four
thoughtful soloists, opted for a
somewhat compact interpretation.
His tempi were on the quick side,
but handled deftly by the singers,
who never sounded rushed.
His skills were most apparent
when the choral “Sanctus” was
sung. The singers performed with
crystalline precision, a beautiful
tone, perfect diction and a joyous
understanding of the Latin text
(“Holy, holy, holy ... Hosanna in the
highest!”)
The piece begins with a shimmer-
ing, hushed “Requiem” and “Kyrie,”
beautifully sung by the chorus and
tightly controlled by Flummerfelt.
It is critical to keep this opening as
quiet as possible (though in the are-
na there’s such a thing as too quiet),
both to convey a mood of longing
and resignation and to provide the
necessary contrast to the next sec-
tion, the roaring “Dies irae,” which
featured two pairs of trumpeters
positioned at the top of the arena on
either side of the stage, providing a
wonderful stereophonic effect.
Verdi
Requiem
in the
arena
REVIEW
BY ADAM PARKER
ALL THAT IS. By James Salter. Knopf. 304
pages. $26.95.
J
ames Salter, a writer who does not waste
words (or mince them), strikes me as the lit-
erary equivalent to painter Andrew Wyeth,
who’s masterpiece “Christina’s World” shows
a gaunt young woman, unable to walk because
of polio, propping herself up in a dry field some
distance from her home. We see her from be-
hind, looking with what we imagine in longing
and frustration at her farm house.
The house and its companion buildings seem
unreachable astride the top of the bluff, and it’s
as if the small grouping of buildings mocks poor
Christina, her hair disheveled by the relentless
breeze. The horizon line runs high across the
painting, and the leaden sky appears to have as
much substance and weight as the hard earth.
The sense of isolation is palpable. The human-
ity in the picture is like a scream.
Salter, who shares Wyeth’s northeastern sen-
sibilities and writes sparse, poignant prose that
captures the essence of things, reminds me of
the muted grays and browns, and the careful de-
tailing, that the painter applies to his canvases.
Never is there too much information; indeed,
often there is very little. We get only the basics,
yet they convey centuries’ worth of human
frailty.
In his latest book, the novel “All That Is,”
Salter’s famously detached style — his pristine
prose, his supernatural ability to get to the heart
of the matter and his keen descriptions and
dialogue — are on full display, beginning with a
remarkable opening about war that establishes
the character of Philip Bowman.
Salter’s perspective — that detachment, that
ability to observe from a distance — perhaps
was forged during his years as an Air Force
pilot. He turned to writing full-time in his 30s,
then pursued a brief career in Hollywood before
settling into fiction and memoir.
“All That Is” is his fifth novel, and the first
since “Solo Faces” was published in 1979. It is
quasi-autobiographical insofar as its main char-
acter shares certain experiences with its creator:
military experience, failed relationships and a
certain deer-in-the-headlights wonder at the
world, both its beauty and cruelty.
The plot, which is really the arc of a whole life,
tells of Bowman, who took an early interest in
literature and fell into the publishing business
in New York City after World War II. He sus-
tained a respectable career, met some interesting
people and aged with some grace, but not with-
out leaving a carcass or two in his wake, and not
without hard blows to his naivete.
As a writer, Salter is like a bird of prey scan-
ning his targets from on high. There is no need
to linger one’s gaze on the looming mountains
or roiling seas if the object of one’s focus simply
scurries along the barren path.
In his short stories and novels, Salter hones in
on the essence of things, often using just a few
perfect words to execute his moves.
His dialogue is at once austere and complex,
conveying depths of meaning between the lines.
Consider this passage from the new novel:
Other guests were coming in. Diana left to greet
them. Baum stayed to talk on with Christine, he
liked her looks. After the party, he asked his wife,
“What did you think of Philip’s new girlfriend?”
“Is she new?”
“Well, not exactly new but certainly not old.”
“No, she’s quite a bit younger.”
“It’s made him a bit younger.”
“Yes, that’s the general belief,” Diana said.
From that quick scene, which despite its ca-
sualness reveals key details, Salter immediately
climbs to a higher altitude and tells us that Bow-
man’s ailing mother died that spring.
“She had never told him all she knew, nor could
he remember all the days of childhood and things
they had done together. She had given him his
character, a part of it, the rest had formed itself
somehow.”
This describes, somewhat, Salter’s own writ-
ing. He does not tell you all he knows, and his
books, including this one, have a magical ef-
fect, as if they are meticulously formed by their
author yet ready to absorb all that the reader
brings along, his own worldview and prejudices,
his own failures at love and his halting accom-
plishment.
Some have accused Salter of misogyny. His
male protagonists don’t seem to understand or
respect women. Rather, they view women as
vessels of sexual desire and mystical creatures
meant to consummate some abstract notion of
manhood. But I don’t view this as insensitive;
Salter is who he is, a product of his time and ex-
perience, and he is, I think, acutely aware of this
conundrum (which every writer endures, even if
they don’t always admit it).
When he tells us about Bowman’s cruel ex-
ploitation of the young daughter of the woman
who had used him mercilessly, mocking his
ardor and innocence, Salter seems to be confess-
ing his own lifelong misunderstandings and
failures.
“All That Is” is a deceptively ambitious book.
Its relaxed pacing belies its scope and reach. As
we follow Bowman through his life and watch
(somewhat voyeuristically) his nonchalance,
loneliness, sexual escapades, disappointments
and bewilderment, we are bearing witness to
something truly fundamental: the inescapable
reality of the modern, middle-class experience.
Bowman is one example of the millions of
American men who grope and question and
exalt and fail during the course of their compli-
cated lives. “All That Is” is Bowman’s particular
story, Salter’s version of an imperfect existence.
We follow along as a life raft bobbing in gentle
waves follows the subtle ocean current. The cur-
rent has its direction, yet is infinite. It concen-
trates the waters while blending them into the
surrounding sea. It knows where it is going but
meanders along as if blind to the energies at play
all around it.
Salter’s lifelong literary work (he is now 88) is
like this current: a force that plows through the
turmoil of the world but can hardly be felt when
we are immersed in its flow.
Reviewer Adam Parker is book page editor.
‘All That Is’
James Salter plumbs meaning of modern life in latest novel

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BY DAVID SLADE
dslade@postandcourier.com
When South Carolina voters got rid
of the state’s odd requirement that li-
quor be served from minibottles, sup-
porters said the change would reduce
drunken driving and increase alcohol
treatment funding.
Neitherofthosepredictionshascome
true, a Post and Courier analysis has
found.
Instead,thestatehasbeentappingits
general revenue fund for more than $1
million yearly since free-pour liquor
drinks became legal in 2006, to make
upforlosttaxesthatsupportanetwork
ofalcoholanddrugtreatmentagencies.
And the average number of drunk
driversinvolvedinfatalSouthCarolina
accidentsslightlyincreasedintheyears
afterfree-pourbecamelegal,insteadof
declining.
“WhatIdobelieve,personally,isthat
ifwestillhadtheminibottle,wewould
have a lot more accidents related to al-
cohol,moredivorcesrelatedtoalcohol,
and so on,” said former Republican
state Rep. Bill Cotty, who led the leg-
islative push to get rid of minibottles.
IttookachangeinthestateConstitu-
tion to allow liquor drinks to be “free
MINI IMPACTFree-pour fails to raise funds, lower DUIs
GRACE BEAHM/STAFF
Bartender Kathy Wiggins pours drinks from minibottles at Terri’s Sports Bar on James Island. Wiggins, who has worked
at the bar for 23 years, has always used the 1.7-ounce bottles.
200
300
400
500
’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10
DUI deaths
South Carolina fatal wrecks involving
intoxicated motorists* in the five years
before and after free-pour.
Before After
*A blood-alcohol level of .08 percent or more.
SOURCE:NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMIN.Please see MINIBOTTLES,Page A6

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MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2013 | THESTATE.COM
The state Senate Education Committee
will hear this week from state lawenforce-
ment and education officials on what
South Carolina can do to ensure its class-
rooms are safe in the wake of last month’s
massacre of children and educators in
Newtown, Conn.
Meanwhile, educators across the state
are taking steps to improve school safety
and assessing whether additional chang-
How safe are S.C. schools?
Senate panel plans hearing
By JAMIE SELF
jself@thestate.com WANT TO GO?
The Senate Education Committee
will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday in
Room 105 of the Gressette Build-
ing on the State House grounds to
discuss the safety of S.C. schools.
SEE SCHOOLS PAGE A6
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Guns and money compete for new
Congress’ attention, A3
Gov. Nikki Haley wants to fold the
S.C. Arts Commission into the State
Museum, a move that would eliminate
the arts group’s board and director but
leave intact its grants program.
Asked about Haley’s proposal Tues-
day by state House budget writers, Ken
May, the commission’s executive direc-
tor, said, “It eliminates the Arts Com-
mission, so you can imagine I’m not the
biggest fan of that.”
Haley has proposed severe cuts to
the Arts Commission before.
In 2012, the first-term Republican
governor recommended eliminating
the agency, saying its administrative
costs were too high. When lawmakers
ignored her, Haley vetoed the agency’s
funding. Lawmakers overrode her
Haley wants to merge Arts
Commission into State Museum
By JAMIE SELF
jself@thestate.com
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