In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

The group out of South Carolina put the kibosh on any sane buy-out.

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.

Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

South Carolina is a great place to be from.