Dr. Walter Edgar has two programs on South Carolina Public Radio: Walter Edgar's Journal, and South Carolina from A to Z. Dr. Edgar received his B.A. degree from Davidson College in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1969. After two years in the army (including a tour of duty in Vietnam), he returned to USC as a post-doctoral fellow of the National Archives, assigned to the Papers of Henry Laurens.
"E" is for Ebenezer Colony. Founded in 1734, Ebenezer is twenty-five miles up the Savannah River on the Georgia side. This unique settlement of Lutheran refugees from Salzburg, Austria, was included in the Lutheran Synod of South Carolina until 1860.
This week Jan. 9 to Jan. 15 marks the anniversary of Fabian becoming pope, the ordination of the first president of The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and the death of the founder of the Quaker movement.
This week Jan. 9 to Jan. 15 marks the anniversary of Fabian becoming pope, the ordination of the first president of The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and the death of the founder of the Quaker movement.