Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Aiken
  • Aiken lays claim to antebellum poet
  • Novel highlights Aiken's role in Civil War
  • Aiken County Museum reveals treasures inside and out
  • Hopeland Gardens linked to racing controversy
  • Aiken monuments memorialize the "Lost Cause"
  • Pickens-Salley House celebrates two great women
  • Aiken boasts masterpiece of religious art
  • Celebrated pianist once called Aiken home
  • Free-spirited writer led transatlantic life
  • Sculpture depicts America's "assistant president"
  • Courthouse mural sparks controversy
  • Meaning of campus sculpture decoded
  • pt. 2. Augusta
  • Eighteenth-century naturalist explored CSRA
  • Augusta preserves tangible connections to Two Signers
  • Woodrow Wilson boyhood home offers model of restoration
  • Augusta breathes new life into old canal
  • Controversial novels straddle both sides of river
  • Frank Yerby House gets second chance
  • pt. 3. Edgefield
  • Willowbrook Cemetery deserves restoration
  • Enslaved potter left his mark
  • Oakley Park stands as Red Shirt shrine
  • Graves tell stories of two Carolinas
  • pt. 4. And beyond
  • South Carolina native became first national architect
  • Redcliffe Plantation recalls heyday of King Cotton
  • Harlem Museum showcases legendary comedians
  • Park interprets South Carolina's only preserved Civil War battlefield
  • Barnwell's famous sundial marks more than time
  • Artist receives South Carolina's greatest honor
  • Interest in romantic novelist revived
  • Trinity Churchyard serves as state pantheon
  • South Carolina retains ties to Confederate diarist
  • Statehouse monuments offer stories in stone
  • National park commemorates Revolutionary War's longest siege
  • Burt-Stark Mansion recalls end of Civil War
  • Abbeville paintings preserve moments of Southern past
  • Antebellum Charleston mansion has Aiken ties.