♪ >> Hello, I'm Beryl Dakers.

Welcome to a new season of Palmetto Scene.

We're happy to have you join us as we continue to strive to bring you unique and extraordinary stories.

that make South Carolina so special.

We start this edition with the rebirth of a popular coastal venue.

In 2018, SCETV produced Charlie's Place an Emmy Award winning documentary, it was about an historic Black nightclub in Myrtle Beach.

At the time, a group of citizens was working with the city to renovate both the club and an adjoining motel.

While the first phase of the renovations is now complete.

Travel with us for a sneak peek at the new Charlie's Place.

<Narrator> They say music brings people together.

It certainly did at Charlie's place in the African American Carver Street neighborhood of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina during segregation.

The Summer of 1950 was not especially hot for South Carolina.

But racial tensions across the state were heating up and Charlie's Place was about to become a target.

On August 26, the Association of Carolina Klans headed for Myrtle Beach.

♪ All she wants to do is rock.

♪ Charlie's Place was full of customers when the Klan drove by.

Charlie Fitzgerald called the police warning that there would be trouble if they came back.

Around midnight the Klan returned.

>> The Klan kind of took that as you can't tell the damn Klan not to come back.

<gunshots> >> My brother and I was at the house across the street on the porch laying on our belly looking at people running they were shooting and screaming and calling names and bullets flying everywhere.

<Narrator> A few people were injured and one person, a Klansmen was gravely wounded, under his robe, he wore a policeman's uniform.

Charlie Fitzgerald stood his ground.

But the mob overwhelmed him and threw him in the trunk of a car.

>> They took him to a deserted area somewhere, tied him to a tree and beat him badly.

And they marked him.

They marked him by snipping the lobes of his ears off.

<Narrator> Charlie Fitzgerald recovered, he returned to Carver Street and reopened his club.

But he died of cancer five years later.

Sarah Fitzgerald operated the club until 1965 when it finally closed.

Today, Carver Street is very different from the old days.

Charlie's Place is gone.

Although a portion of the Fitzgerald's motel and home remains.

A group of Myrtle Beach citizens and the city are working together to develop the property into a catalyst for economic development of a Carver Street community.

>> We're going to restore this building.

So, we'll have one room for the 40s.

The front of the building will have a plate glass window, kind of like a department store so you can see it even at night as you come by.

We'll take another room 1950 same idea with 1950s.

Stage be over there and it'd be facing here.

This would be the picnic area, the concert area, you've got vendors a row going up toward Carver Street, where vendors can set up their booths.

This structure here was the home of Sarah and Charlie Fitzgerald.

We're going to renovate it too.

With the help of the city.

We're going to have a large meeting room.

We're going to have education facilities for children and old folk, where going to use it for many purposes, but everything's going to be themed around those.

The Charlie's Place the heyday of Charlie's Place.

♪ >> Right now we are coming off of our phase two to completion for the Charlie's Place project.

Now we are in the phase of curating the site, the inside the museums in the Green Book room.

We have also started moving in our business tenants that was always in the works early on.

Right now, we're in the early stages where the community is now getting abreast to the completion.

A lot of people are having an interest in what's happening.

So now we are promoting the site to be available to community members for rental services, such as our small meeting spaces, our outdoor area that we have and our large meeting spaces.

So today is a celebration of life for Mr. Herbert Riley, who was one of the visionaries for the project along with other community members.

Unfortunately, he's not here today to see the fruits of his labor and his passion for the project.

But community members, his wife, Miss Mary Riley, and those of his organization, Carver Street Renaissance, economic Renaissance are here to celebrate his contributions to not only his city, but to his neighborhood.

<Mary Riley> This was Herbert's vision, because even in the years of the years prior to this, they did this, Charlie's.

Charlie's has always been the place where people came together and had fun and did fun, like things.

I'm just so happy that everybody's here today, they supported us.

We've just got a great group of people working with us.

Hopefully, we will get everything accomplished that we set out to do.

It's just phenomenal.

It really It's a great feeling.

<Brenda Bethune> The city has been involved since day one.

And that is because of Herbert and Mary Riley's passion and their vision for Charlie's Place.

If they had not followed, I say hunted down City Council at the budget retreat years ago, who knows what would have happened to Charlie's place.

The fact that they were steadfast and resolute in what they wanted is why we're here today.

This is one of the largest financial projects that the city has ever taken on in any given neighborhood.

That is just how important this is.

Myrtle Beach is a young city.

We don't have a lot of history here.

But the history that we have is very rich, especially in our Black community.

And we need to tell these stories, if we don't preserve the history, if we don't teach our young people what it's about then generations to come will not know what Myrtle Beach was founded on.

And that is why this is so important.

It's a part of preserving that rich history that we have.

For generations, I think we have to take the initiative.

And whether that means starting a youth council, to hear the young people and make them a part of the events, I was telling someone earlier.

This is a place we need to have events all the time, not just today.

But we need to have events for our youth.

And if we make them a part of planning those events, they will come they're not going to come if I plan it.

But if they have a voice in what those events are, they will come out and we need to share the history with them so that they appreciate it and honor it, but that they can tell those stories <Mary Riley> later on.

They're more educated now.

You know, we're encouraging them to go to school and do things and get out and just support one another.

You know, so we're hoping that this idea would encourage them to, to come back home and Bill the kids from this community they graduate, they go to college, and they go other places to get employment.

We'd love to see some people come back here with great ideas and build up our own community.

<Beryl> With everyone talking about getting their shots, we're going to take a look at a different type of needle.

This is not your typical needle it's four times smaller than a hypodermic following traditions rooted thousands of years back in ancient China, through her company, a new acupuncture and wellness for years, Noemi Martinez has helped others experienced the possibilities that acupuncture and its surrounding elements can offer for both mind and body.

>> My name is Noemi Martinez, and I am a Chinese medicine practitioner, which encompasses several different modalities, which is acupuncture, Chinese herbs, cupping Gua sha, tuina, that's all part of Chinese medicine.

Acupuncture basically stimulates the body to naturally heal itself.

The thing about Chinese medicine is that it's got deeper roots and functional medicine back 5000 years ago to 2000 years ago.

They didn't have labs, they didn't have hospitals to take tests.

So they had to figure out how to read the internal body in different ways.

And so one of the ways was through pulse taking, which is very much a skill that's learned over a period of time.

I mean, there's some Chinese medicine doctors that I've studied with that can feel for gallstones and thyroid issues like in the polls like the tactile skills of that are Just incredible.

<Debra Galloway> I'm a general practice attorney, but predominantly, what I do is I represent parents and vulnerable adults and abuse and neglect cases.

So it's a stressful job, every case tends to be kind of horrible.

And that keeps my stress level at 10.

And it's not something that's going to change tomorrow.

Just kind of the nature of the job, and so I come regularly to help to manage the stress, the acupuncture and the cupping both kind of work cohesively to circulate the energy to reduce some of the inflammation in my body so that I can be effective at my job.

I also have a lot of headaches and migraines as a result of the stress level.

And so she does a bloodletting technique.

It instantly relieves the pressure.

<Noemi> There are veins or arteries that go behind the ear to the head, where the pressure builds up in the head.

So this is a great way of instantly relieving pressure from the head, whenever there's a headache, that's kind of stubborn, this will help relieve the pressure.

And then acupuncture can do its thing by circulating blood and chi to the areas that needs it.

Yes, it's totally safe.

We use sterile needles, and it doesn't hurt.

Pain is an interesting word, right.

It' means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.

There's definitely sensations that you feel with acupuncture.

But like if you've gotten a tattoo, or you've had blood drawn, those needles feel totally different from acupuncture needles, acupuncture needles, are like hair like then.

You could fit 10 acupuncture needles into one intradermal needle.

So that's how thin they are.

So like I said, you're going to feel sensations.

And I am trying to feel into your energy fields like in the body, so in the meridians.

So there may be some electrical feeling, electrical sensations under the skin.

Some areas are more sensitive, like the hands, the feet, they're more sensitive, because they have more nerve endings, or the face has more nerve endings.

There's different lines on the head and scalp acupuncture that relate with this line relates to motor function.

So I'm measuring here, we're going to get the motor line so that we can work on the function of his muscle.

And then we'll go to the sensory line.

<Robert Shafer> I don't understand it.

I don't know how it works.

I don't know if it would work for everyone.

But I do know that it has definitely worked for me.

About a month ago, I had a Bell's Palsy attack while I was on vacation.

The right side of my face is paralyzed.

You know, I've had success with acupuncture in the past, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to try it again.

Probably about 10 years ago, I had a knee issue where the cartilage is gone.

The doctor told me that all they could do is give me cortisone shots until they didn't work any longer.

Then I could have a partial knee replacement.

And someone suggested acupuncture.

I came in and gave it a try.

And the knee pain went away and never returned.

Once my knee was better, you know, I was a believer that acupuncture would work.

And when I had the Bell's Palsy attack, I knew that I could come to know me and get some help.

<Noemi> So each point we put in has an indication.

And the indication sends a specific message to the brain like hey, this is the issue.

This is where the issue is, fix it.

And your body fixes it.

It's amazing.

Like it's really, really cool.

Then the Chinese herbs just kind of go hand in hand with that, and would help support like the body and in different ways.

So a patient today that's coming in that has been throwing up.

He's got some food poisoning from last night.

And so we're going to give him some raw herbs to the concoct to help his digestion, boost his immune system and just help him feel better.

>> My name is Patrick Herring.

I generally come here between once or twice a month depending on how our schedules line up.

<Noemi> Alright, so we're giving you these hers today.

This is the prevention formula.

Yeah, mulberry leaf, licorice root, Yin Chen.

I don't know what the English translation is, but this is to help clear heat from the lungs.

<Patrick> I come here pretty routinely for maintenance or any other variety of health issues, physical pain to any sort of digestive issues, any sort of sleep issues.

And by staying up on it, I feel pretty good on a regular basis.

<Beryl> Next from our digital series, Our Town we're heading to a place in South Carolina with the perfect blend of arts culture and history.

At first glance, Lancaster may seem like your typical small South Carolina town.

But the longer you stay, the more surprises it has to offer.

>> Lancaster is a small town with big city ambitions is how I would put it.

>> I think Lancaster still got kind of the old town feel.

Everybody knows everybody and everybody gets along.

There's a good community in this area.

it's larger than this small little town on a country drive, but it still has that small feeling.

♪ >> Well, I've been here my whole life.

My claim to fame here is my next door neighbor walked on the moon.

I'm a sculptor, and owner of Bob Doster's Back Street Studio.

My father had a sculpture studio for a while, and he let me play with a blowtorch, when I was eight years old, the first piece I ever sold, I sold it to a bank president here in Lancaster when I was probably about 12 years old.

It was copyright in 1961, Two ducks, I got $5 for them.

It came from an oak tree.

each limb being a series, I may work on one 10 years ago a series and then I may come back to it.

And then that limb will get bigger and as I go up, the more limbs come on the tree, then my age now I've got a pretty full tree.

You know, my work is, generally it'd be some sort of abstraction.

Although we do some realistic stuff, too.

I'll see a piece of scrap land somewhere and that'll inspire me to do a 20 foot sculpture.

And you know, if I'm working with school kids now what we do is we go into the schools, and we'll do hand sculptures.

And we traced all the children's hands on a piece of stainless and then they with hand over hand me help them they cut it out with his plasma cutter.

So they get to experience actually cutting the steel.

Of course, you're young and you're full of optimism, you know, like I was and still am, you know, you can go literally to the moon and everything in between.

I worked up town on Main Street at a clothing store when the whole Main Street just bustled and then I've seen it, you know, basically the downtown collapse.

And then now it's coming back, which is a good thing.

The Native American Center I think is a good catalyst for that.

<Chris> The Native American Studies Center is a 15,000 square foot facility in the heart of historic downtown Lancaster.

We're part of the university we offer classes.

We have about 10 different classes a semester that are taught here we teach other classes on main campus which is a mile and a half away.

We're open from Tuesday through Saturday free of charge and galleries rotate on about a six or 12 month rotation.

Our main emphasis here is on Catawba pottery, the Catawbas have been practicing a folk tradition of pottery for almost 5000 years.

And our collection is the largest in the world.

It's about 1200 pieces.

And it's largely from about 1970 forward.

We do have some late 1800s pieces in the collection.

We also have baskets, we have jewelry, we have feather art, you have a large collection of both clay and stone pipes.

In the archaeological collections.

We have about 50,000 artifacts from Lancaster Kershaw County, the local area that date from the last ice age about 11,000 years ago, on up to European contact.

Our goal is to collect as much as possible from the documentary record.

We know that Native Americans have been in this area since the last ice age, so maybe as much as 12 13,000 years.

And one of my projects has sort of been documenting this over time on up to the arrival of Europeans.

And this area saw a number of European explorers, and there's documentary evidence of those travels and so we get a kind of a snapshot of what's going on here prior to European arrival.

There's a lot of supporting the local community for what we do.

It's a very welcoming place.

I think what makes Lancaster unique is all of the really neat stuff is behind closed doors.

<Shannon Munn> This Race track has been around for I think it's 60 or 70 years or so.

I think it's the longest consecutive run in dirt track in the Carolinas.

Been kind of a way of life for people around Lancaster.

A lot of families have grown up here.

But people in this area, this is what they do.

Racing is fun.

This just something that everybody says you can't never get out your blood once you do it one time you hooked on it.

You know, you just can't get away from it.

We quit for a little bit, but you can't get away from it.

This track is probably the biggest form of entertainment in Lancaster County, as far as attendance and stuff like that.

So it's half mile high bank dirt track racing every Saturday night from pretty much March through September.

That's a lot of the same families has grown up here.

Pretty much you know, everybody up here, everybody helps each other out.

Sometimes people that don't get along.

They let each other borrow parts.

So it's just a bunch of good people up here.

It sounds pretty close knit too.

Our people are nice in Lancaster.

There is a lot a lot of stuff to do down here.

>> We're a production brewery designated in South Carolina by the Depart of Agriculture as the only agricultural destination brewery in the state.

The brewery started as a hobby.

It matured itself into a full time opportunity.

We're not downtown, on a corner of a major street corner so we don't get the high traffic, we are a destination you have to want to come out here.

And so our customers are not just random people, they research this place.

They want to come here and we get a very diverse group of people from bikers to families.

When people get here, they decompress and they start chilling out and so it becomes more than a place to come have a beer becomes a whole experience.

Fermentation is a very interesting process.

This basically four simple ingredients water, barley multi product it could be oatmeal or corn or whatever hops because what is bitters the beer and yeast and basically we're making a sweet tea tincture pulling the sugars out of the malts and we were feeding the yeast in the yeast Eat the sugar and creates the alcohol.

We don't make beer.

Yeast makes beer.

So we give the ingredients to the recipe for the yeast to do their jobs.

And there's no other way it could happen.

The city of Lancaster they've been very supportive.

What we do here, my wife was from Indian Land.

I bounced around from Charleston and Greenville.

I lived in Concord, North Carolina.

I've seen all these cities grow and explode and the growth is coming this way.

And that's going to change this town a little bit probably for the better for all industries and businesses.

But that small town feeling is still here.

This is our town Lancaster, South Carolina.

This is our town, Lancaster, South Carolina.

This is our town Lancaster, South Carolina.

>> This is our town Lancaster South Carolina.

We proud of it.

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I'm Beryl Dakers.

Good night.

Stay well, and thanks for watching.

>> Hi I am Nick Yoder.

I'm the naturalist here at Cypress garden, which is 100 and about 170 acre blackwater swamp with cypress trees and tupelo trees mainly is the two main trees in the swamp.

One of the main features of the swamp is to be able to get out here in one of the paddle boats that we have.

We have self guided tours, as well as tours that are led by some of our employees who tell a good history of the park as they take you along the boat trail.

It's about a 40 or 45 minute boat trail and it takes you around the swamp and you get to see a bunch of different areas and different types of plants and animals as you go and learn a little bit about the history of the park.

Some of the other exhibits that we have in the park here are the swamp area in which is basically a reptile, and amphibian as well as fish aquarium.

A lot of those animals come from the park itself, the same species that we have here.

Others are species, exotic species from different places around the world.

So it's a great place to go in there and check out and cool down for a little bit, walk around, learn a little bit about the animals and you really get to see them up close at that point.

You know, we really invite you to come out here to Cypress Gardens and enjoy what we have.

There are so many different things to offer.

There's no one time it's better to come than others.

Definitely come out and check us out and you'll have a good time.

I promise.

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