Living History Park featured in Sandlapper
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The Living History Park in North Augusta is covered in the summer issue of Sandlapper, The Magazine of South Carolina.
"In child-friendly history lessons," Chapin writer Katherine Pettit explores four places along the South Carolina Heritage Corridor where families can have fun and learn something about the area's past. Pettit interviewed Lynn Thompson, the founder and president of North Augusta's 7.5-acre Living History Park. "It's hard to believe, but we have children who visit and like to spend hours churning butter," Thompson said in the article. "They are fascinated at the idea of making butter or working the bellows in the blacksmith's forge."
The two-page article, which is sponsored by the South Carolina Heritage Corridor, also includes information about The National Wild Turkey Federation in Edgefield, Ninety Six National Historic Site in Ninety Six, and The Museum and The Railroad Historical Center in Greenwood. Color photos accompany the article.
Sandlapper is a quarterly magazine about South Carolina's people, places, history and culture. In North Augusta, the magazine is available at Communigraphics and Parks Pharmacy. In Aiken, Sandlapper is available at Aiken Center for the Arts, Aiken County Visitor Center, and Aiken Office Supply & Bookshop.
The summer issue also includes features about baseball great Bobby Richardson of Sumter, who played for the New York Yankees; the mammoth restoration of St. Peter's Church in Columbia and the lingering presence of the past on Edisto Island. Wofford College English professors Deno Trakas and John Lane check out some of the Upstate's most popular fish camps; Rock Hill writer Susan Doyle researches earthquakes of the past and explores the likelihood of future quakes. Associate Editor Daniel E. Harmon interviews two Camden lawyers intent on uncovering and publishing the truth about the American Revolution in their separate magazines. Also covered: USC Salkehatchie, the 60th anniversary of the James F. Byrnes scholarship program, recipes from a Gullah chef on Hilton Head Island and restaurant reports from Abbeville, Columbia and McBee.
Sandlapper (www.sandlapper.org) is published by Sandlapper Society, Inc., a nonprofit, 501 (c) (3) organization. Back issues can be viewed online at www.knowitall.org, via a partnership the society has with SCETV.
For more information, call (800) 908-0308, fax (803) 359-0629, e-mail april@sandlapper.org, visit www.sandlapper.org, or write Sandlapper Society, Inc., P.O. Box 1108, Lexington, SC 29071.
