We keep reading superlatives connected with shipwreck discoveries. Are they true? Part is undoubtedly hype. Some companies release PR with bogus or over-reaching claims, hoping to increase public interest and raise the market value of both the salvaged artifacts and their company’s stock. Such claims make great headlines, so newspapers are eager to publish them. But, a […]
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Today I got a post from someone who didn’t understand why I was allowing looters to post on Sea Research Society’s group page. (https://www.facebook.com/groups/searesearchsociety/) But, looters is the wrong term! Looters are people who are breaking the law. I don’t condone such crimes in any way. If I become aware of someone looting (i.e. committing […]
I just learned that on March 12, 2012, Senator Glenn McConnell became the new Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. That was actually a major step down in power for the senator who was head of the South Carolina senate and arguably the most powerful man in South Carolina. The change in job & title was not […]
Share on Facebook George Alfred Trenholm, Blockade Runner & Banker This article is about George Alfred Trenholm and my discovery and research proving he was the historical figure behind Margaret Mitchell’s fictional Rhett Butler in “Gone With The Wind.” Why literary scholars and other historians hadn’t seen the link previously still mystifies me, but the […]
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