Pineville, a historic refuge
Part 9: Santee Canal, the beginning
By Warner M. Montgomery Warner@TheColumbiaStar.com
      The defeated Brits left their former colonies, and the Americans set about building a new nation. Free from war, but deep in debt, owners of burned- out Santee River plantations returned home. Gen. Francis Marion and his brother Gabriel returned to their Pond Bluff and Belle I...
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Giant hummingbird seen in Ecuador
By Warner M. Montgomery Warner@TheColumbiaStar.com
      John Cely, South Carolina's Bird Man, recently returned from a birding expedition to Equador, home to 16,000 of the world's bird species, compared to North America's measly 900. He received his BS and MS from Clemson way back when, then spent 26 years as the bird biologist at th...
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