Area middle schoolers celebrate Black History Month with music
Leavelle McCampbell Middle School hosted a Black History program featuring Midland Valley High School chorus under Vanessa Cox and Redcliffe Plantation interpreter Elizabeth Laney. They presented spirituals and their influence on jazz blues rap and hip hop, with the Leavelle McCampbell chorus led by Carla Coffin. The program highlighted the slave oral tradition and coded messages in songs like Steal Away and Follow the Drinking Gourd, and will be featured again at the plantation on Feb 25.
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Leavelle McCampbell
Midland Valley High School Chorus
Vanessa Cox
Redcliffe Plantation Park
Elizabeth Laney
Carla Coffin
Kerri Wesley
Midland Valley
Laney
Cox
Aiken Choral Society
Moses
Kye Kye Ryle
Africa
Lane
Tricks of the Trade oil painting workshop in Aiken
Equestrian artist Booth Malone led an American Academy of Equine Art workshop at Louise Mellon’s studio in Aiken focused on brushwork and technique. Nine artists attended, half locals, with Malone emphasizing seeing, weathering skies, foggy trees, and placing horses in recognizable environments to elevate artwork.
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Louise Mellon
Aiken
Booth Malone
American Academy of Equine Art
Malone
Mellon
Duo probes Blue Row ruins in Graniteville dig project
George Wingard and Dr. Keith Stephenson of the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program conducted shovel tests Friday and Saturday on a vacant lot at the Gregg Street neighborhood once housing 28 mill workers cottages from 1846 to 1870. They found broken glass, ceramics, nails, marbles, and a Civil War era button as they map sites and plan a book with public updates via the Horse Creek Valley Historical Society.
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George Wingard
Keith Stephenson
Savannah River Archaeological Research Program
Gregg Street
Blue Row
William Gregg
Graniteville Company
Gregg-Graniteville
USC Aiken
Graniteville
St. John United Methodist Church
Wingard
Deborah Tritt
Gregg-Graniteville Library
Stephenson
Horse Creek Valley Historical Society
Savannah River
University of South Carolina
Department of Energy
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