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THE MAGAZINE FOR COOPERATIVE MEMBERS VOLUME 75 • NUMBER 10 (ISSN 0047-486X, USPS 316-240)

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Rock Hill’s Kounter restaurant serves up a delicious new chapter in S.C. civil rights history.

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South Carolina’s electric cooperatives issue a challenge to the state’s brightest young minds—find solutions to the problems faced by rural communities.

As a college student in the 1960s, David Williamson Jr. helped desegregate a Rock Hill lunch counter that has reemerged as Kounter, an innovative restaurant serving up a delicious new chapter in S.C. civil rights history.

Photo courtesy of Kounter.

The pros and cons of app-enabled lighting

can be programmed to send an alert to your phone when the smart lightAPPEALING LIGHTS Relatively small investments ing detects an unexpected motion, in smart lighting give homeowners control over either inside or outside the home. their home’s energy use, security and ambience.

Prices start at about $10 per bulb.

Beyond the more practical applications, smart lighting can simply be fun to use. Bulbs are available in various colors and with dimming options to set GONE FISHIN’ ­different themes, moods and color temperThe Vektor Fish & Game Forecast provides feeding and ­migration times. Major periods atures. Blue light, which mimics natural can bracket the peak by an hour. Minor daylight, provides a dynamic environment peaks, ½ hour before and after. during the day; warmer colors at night can AM PM Minor Major Minor Major help release melatonin and lead to a better OCTOBER night’s sleep.

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Pay it forward have modernized communications in the region.

Unfortunately, there remains limited access to dependable electricity in rural villages. So, while there are plenty of cell phones, charging the devices is difficult and expensive.

However, one bright local teenager figured out how to turn a mattress into a mobile phone charging station. The mattress was equipped to absorb the sun’s abundant thermal energy during the day, provide power to the family’s phones and still serve its primary purpose at night. It’s an innovative technology he shared not only with his fellow villagers but also with surrounding villages.

Rural communities in South Carolina are certainly blessed with many more resources than most African villages, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have our share of so-called “deserts.” Many cooperative members live in food deserts, where the nearest grocery store or supermarket is more than 10 miles away. This problem is exacerbated by overlapping transit deserts, where there is little access to transportation. Only a handful of our small towns have thriving local media outlets, like weekly newspapers or hometown radio stations, creating what some call news deserts. The term could be applied to a myriad of needs that burden many of our rural communities—health care, housing, education, infrastructure and much more.

One resource we do not lack in South Carolina is young, innovative minds. Our state boasts three of the best public honors colleges in the nation.

Students come here from all over the country to be a part of the elite programs at Clemson University, South Carolina State University and the University of South Carolina. They are joined in those classrooms by bright South Carolinians, some of whom have seen or even experienced firsthand the troubles that grip their hometown communities.

Unfortunately, many of these students tend to take their intelligence and skills elsewhere once they graduate. The Charlottes, Atlantas and New Yorks are benefitting from our state’s top honors programs at the expense of the McCormicks, Barnwells and Ridgelands.

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honors colleges in a new initiative called Pay it Forward. Beginning this academic year, honors college students will have the option to compete for cash prizes by solving distinct, reparable problems facing rural South Carolina. In lieu of writing a senior thesis or submitting a capstone project, participating students will select and research one of the dozens of rural challenges and propose a solution.

A panel of judges representing the electric cooperatives will determine individual school winners and award them $1,000 prizes. The overall winner will receive a $5,000 prize. In addition, the winning projects will be featured in an upcoming edition of South Carolina Living magazine.

We’re asking the students to address a particular problem in one of our cooperative-served communities and propose a solution that could be replicated across the state. A future architect from Pelion might figure out what to do about aging schools in Williamsburg. A young writer from Beaufort and an engineering student from Illinois may collaborate on improving economic development in Hopkins.

Not only does this initiative create the possibility of improving rural health care or developing an educated workforce, but it also increases our chances of keeping some of these great young minds in South Carolina. I truly believe that if these students make such intellectual investments in our communities, they are more likely to stick around.

By calling the program Pay it Forward, we’re recognizing that these honors students can use some of the advantages with which they are blessed for the benefit of many in the disadvantaged areas of our state. By challenging them with real, local problems and incentivizing them toward solutions, we’re investing in an intellectual infrastructure that can pay dividends for years to come.

Innovative and community-focused thinking solved the problem of rural electrification more than 80 years ago. I’m hopeful it can do the same for the important issues facing our state today.

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HOMETOWN: Columbia.

JUST FOR KICKS: Daley earned an athletic scholarship to play soccer for the University of Alabama–Huntsville and tried out for the 1976 U.S. Olympic team. “If it hadn’t been for that scholarship, I’d have probably joined the service and gone into Vietnam.”

FAVORITE FESTIVAL: The S.C. State Fair. Daley’s Concessions has been a part of the event for 50 years. “It’s like a big family reunion.”

HIS GO-TO MEAL?: “It’s hard to beat a good hot dog, especially with homemade chili and onions and a little slaw.”

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It was the winter of 1975 and Cliff Daley faced a life-changing decision.

He and his wife, Kim, had just married.

She was a geologist, he an executive at a multinational corporation. But in January, his father, Zanelle, died of a heart attack.

His mother, Dorothy, was caught in Alzheimer’s, in need of constant care.

The couple considered the bright yellow concession trailer Cliff had helped his father build in 1962 and one where he still worked weekends, serving handdipped corn dogs. “We said, ‘Hey, we’ve got to commit to it or go on and get out,’ ” Daley recalls. “We committed.”

The Daleys left their jobs, landed new fair contracts and invested in equipment.

Today, three generations of Daleys operate the Daley’s Dogs trailers that are beloved fixtures at festivals throughout the Southeast.

“This concession has held my family together. We’ve been able to grow as a family and work together,” Daley says. His children “grew up in these wagons. They learned people skills. They learned how to serve a good product and take care of customers.”

Cliff is the “Betty Crocker” of the business, safeguarding the family recipe for the traditional batter while also experimenting with alternative flavors like the now-popular jalapeno corn dog.

“We’ve done it all,” he says, citing the Elvis corn dog—banana-flavored batter and slathered in peanut butter—that won the Most Creative award at the North Georgia State Fair.

The pandemic hit the business hard as fairs and festivals were canceled or postponed. “We were very fortunate to stay afloat,” Daley says, crediting the family’s religious faith, as well as a small business loan and generous friends, for seeing them through. Today, they’re stocking up for the 2021 S.C. State Fair (scstatefair.org), scheduled for Oct. 13–24.

“One thing about COVID, we tried to find something good in it, and that was people helping people and our faith in the Lord,” Daley says. “Every time we prayed at night, there was hope.”

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The best seats in the house Rock Hill’s Kounter restaurant writes a new chapter in S.C. civil rights history

BY CELE & LYNN SELDON PHOTOS COURTESY OF KOUNTER

The common noun refers to a long, flat-topped fixture in a building, across which business is conducted. The verb means to act in opposition to something. And, yet, for the Rock Hill restaurant, Kounter, the word stands for both in the continuing quest for racial equality.

Situated along Rock Hill’s Main Street, Kounter occupies the former McCrory’s Five & Dime, a local institution that opened in 1937, selling everything from shoes and clothing to housewares and penny candy, and complete with a popular lunch counter serving up hamburgers and ice cream sundaes.

That counter became a historic icon of the 1960s civil rights movement on Jan. 31, 1961, when students from Rock Hill’s Friendship Junior College sat down and refused to leave until they were served. Arrested for trespassing, all 10 were tried, convicted and sentenced to paying either a $100 fine uu THE TERM COUNTER IS A DOUBLE-ENTENDRE.

KOUNTER CULTURE David Williamson Jr., left, and W.T. “Dub” Massey are two of the Friendship 9 who were arrested in 1961 for refusing to leave the then-McCrory’s Five & Dime lunch counter. Sixty years later, the atmosphere and the food (including fish & tots, pictured) have both improved. “I never expected anything like this,” Williamson says of Kounter’s eclectic menu.

“I hope that people sit down at that counter and are impacted by the change that was made there.”

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Those seated at the historic counter can even watch the innovative cuisine come to life before their eyes, thanks to the open kitchen concept.

COME FOR THE HISTORY, STAY FOR THE FOOD Kounter owner and chef Rob Masone dishes up the important story of this location alongside innovative cuisine such as, from top right, alderwood smoked salmon, whipped key lime pie, cake stand chicken sliders, and smoking tuna poke (with orange-infused smoke).

GET THERE Kounter is located at 135 E. Main Street, Suite 101, in downtown Rock Hill.

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“ The counter chairs are the hottest seats in the restaurant. People sit there and get a taste of the past and a taste of the future.”

—CHEF ROB MASONE

or going to jail for 30 days. One paid the fine, while the other nine refused to pay bail and served out their sentence, becoming known as the Friendship 9​ —pioneers of the “Jail, No Bail” tactic that swept other peaceful protests across the nation.

“It was just something that we did,” reflects Friendship 9 member David Williamson Jr. “We tried to make a change. Progress has been made, RESTORED TO GLORY Kounter’s original pink laminate counter, hidden for years beneath a mahogany bar, gleams after being refurbished. The stools, also original to the McCrory’s era, but there is still a lot of work to be done as far have been reupholstered and each sports a plaque dedicated to a Friendship 9 member. as equality and justice. At least now you can get inside the door and have a conversation.” dusty pink laminate top. “Mr. Williamson sat there, not having Joyce Massey, wife of Friendship 9 member W.T. “Dub” seen it for almost 60 years, and I watched him subconsciously Massey, agrees. “I hope people grasp what the Friendship 9 rub the counter while we were talking,” says Masone. “I knew did. It was a real sacrifice,” she says. “To think that he spent that I had to figure out a way to bring it back to life.” time in jail so that we could sit down and have a hamburger.”

Leaving the original coffee ring stains and nail holes, the Today, the surviving members of the Friendship 9, along craftsmen Masone hired applied a special epoxy that brought with their friends, families and neighbors, can have more the counter back to its original gleam. The counter’s footrail than a hamburger at the same pink Formica counter recogand stool pedestals and seats are also original, although they nized by a historic marker and holding a place of honor on the have been restuffed and reupholstered.

U.S. Civil Rights Trail (civilrightstrail.com). The building that “Kounter is to preserve the history, to educate people about housed the original McCrory’s has reopened as Kounter and what happened then and what’s happening now,” says Masone. is serving up food—and history—that makes the Friendship 9 The restaurant serves up the whimsical and funky food and many others proud. that Masone has become known for. The menu boasts creative Chef Rob Masone, a Rock Hill native who owns restaurants, dishes that are fun to eat and share, food trucks and catering businesses like chicken + waffle sushi, pulled pork, in Florida and North Carolina, Thai shrimp or salmon belly bao tacos, wanted to come back home and was cake stand sliders and SpaghettiOs with surprised to find the old McCrory’s lamb meatballs. Those seated at the site—which he remembers passing historic counter can even watch the by every Sunday on his way to innovative cuisine come to life before church—was available. When he met their eyes, thanks to the open kitchen with Williamson, the idea of Kounter concept. came to life.

“The counter chairs are the hottest “I didn’t really have a vision until seats in the restaurant,” says Masone.

I sat down with Mr. Williamson and “People sit there and get a taste of the had a conversation,” remembers GET MORE South Carolina’s Civil Rights Trail—The past and a taste of the future.”

Masone. “I wanted his blessing to old McCrory’s Five & Dime is one of eight South Carolina For Williamson and the Massey come into the space and change it sites on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail. See the story at family, Kounter is an exciting new but keep the history alive.”

SCLiving.coop/travel/south-carolinas-civil-rights-trail. chapter in the story of the Friendship 9.

The first step was the counter.

The Green Book of South Carolina—Use this “I never expected anything like this,” The original had been covered handy online travel guide to map and explore the says Williamson.

“I hope that people sit with a mahogany bar years earlier. expanding roster of African American heritage down at that counter and are impacted Masone recalls the day he ripped and culture sites across the state. See the story at by the change that was made there.” off the facade and exposed the old, SCLliving.coop/travel/the-green-book-of-south-carolina.

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11–17 Piedmont Interstate Fair,

Piedmont Interstate Fairgrounds, Spartanburg. (864) 582‑7042 or piedmontinterstatefair@att.net.

14–17 Bicycle Across South Carolina, state parks, statewide. (843) 937‑5458 or basc@postandcourier.com.

16 Central Railroad Festival, downtown, Central. (864) 654‑1200 or info@centralrrfestival.com.

16 Sam Bush Band, Twichell Auditorium at Converse College, Spartanburg. (864) 948‑9020 or music@spartanarts.org.

16 Train Day at the Depot, Hub City Railroad Museum, Spartanburg. (864) 430‑6585 or dwinans4739@charter.net.

23 Dancing with the Carolina Stars, Greenville Convention Center, Greenville. (864) 467‑3660 or dwcs@senioraction.org.

23 Disciples Fall Bazaar, Disciples United Methodist Church, Greenville. (864) 297‑0382 or disciplesumcbazaar@gmail.com.

23 Sunrise Hike—Bald Knob, Table Rock State Park, Pickens. (864) 878‑9813 or sstegenga@scprt.com.

30–31 Magical, Twichell Auditorium at Converse College, Spartanburg. (864) 948‑9020 or music@spartanarts.org.

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6 Feet for Heat 5K & 1-Mile Race, Old Market Square, Easley. (864) 671‑1134 or mjohnson@ucmpc.org.

6 Ranger Guided Battlefield Hike, Battle of Musgrove Mill State Historic Site, Clinton. (864) 938‑0100 or mgmillsp@scprt.com.

19 Energized, Chapman Cultural Center, Spartanburg. (864) 948‑9020 or music@spartanarts.org.

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Pumpkin Patch, Disciples United Methodist Church, Greenville. (864) 297‑0382 or mydisciples@att.net.

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“We Speak of Exchange: Immigrant and Expatriate Artists in the Johnson Collection,” The Johnson Collection Gallery, Spartanburg. (864) 230‑7873 or achandler@johnsondevelopment.net.

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Third Thursdays ArtWalk, downtown cultural district, Spartanburg. (864) 542‑2787.

First Fridays First Fridays Open Studios, Mayfair Art Studios, Spartanburg. (864) 278‑3228 or aheckel@spartanarts.org.

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11–17 Arkhaios Film Festival, virtual event, based in Columbia. info@arkhaiosfilmfestival.org.

13–24 South Carolina State Fair, State Fairgrounds, Columbia. (803) 799‑3387 or geninfo@scstatefair.org.

14–17 Bicycle Across South Carolina, state parks, statewide. (843) 937‑5458 or basc@postandcourier.com.

16 Harvest on the Homestead, Historic Brattonsville, McConnells.

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16 Old South Farm Festival, Old Belleville Road, St. Matthews. (803) 917‑0366 or amike51@yahoo.com.

16 Scatology, Sesquicentennial State Park, Columbia. (803) 788‑2706 or sjensen@scprt.com.

20 Full Moon Hike, Sesquicentennial State Park, Columbia. (803) 788‑2706 or sjensen@scprt.com.

23 A Second Chance Animal Shelter Charity Golf Classic, The Players Course at Wyboo Golf Club, Manning. (803) 460‑0878 or asheltercc@ftc-i.net.

23 2021 Walk for Life and Famously Hot Pink Half Marathon and 5K, Segra Park, Columbia. (803) 434‑2898 or walkforlife@prismahealth.org.

29 Nature at Night, Sesquicentennial State Park, Columbia. (803) 788‑8332 or sesqui@scprt.com.

29–30 Blythewood Fall Festival Rodeo, Blythewood Community Park, Blythewood. blythewoodrodeo.com.

30 Aiken Symphony Orchestra Classical Concert: Lomazov Plays Tchaikovsky, The Etherredge Center, Aiken. (803) 220‑7251 or admin@aikensymphonyorchestra.com.

NOVEMBER

2–20 Carolina Pine Quilters 41st Annual Quilt Show, Aiken County Historical Museum, Aiken. (803) 642‑2015 or gorensekah@gmail.com.

5–6 Pig on the Ridge Barbecue Cook-off, downtown, Ridgeway. (803) 337‑2213 or info@pigontheridge.org.

6 Harry Potter Science Saturday, Museum of York County, Rock Hill.

(803) 329‑2121.

6 Life in the Waxhaws, Andrew Jackson State Park, Lancaster.

(803) 285‑3344.

6 Paddle with a Ranger, Goodale State Park, Camden. (803) 432‑2772.

7 Artisan’s Market, Sesquicentennial State Park, Columbia. (803) 788‑2706 or sesqui@scprt.com.

13–14 Battle of Camden Revolutionary War Reenactment, 1208 Keys Lane, Kershaw. socam1780@gmail.com.

13–14 Palmetto Campout, Sesquicentennial State Park, Columbia.

(803) 788‑2706 or sjensen@scprt.com.

19 Lunch and Learn: Indigenous Science and the Three Sisters Diet, virtual lecture through Zoom or in-person at Native American Studies Center at University of South Carolina– Lancaster, Lancaster. (803) 313‑7172 or usclnasp@mailbox.sc.edu.

19 Full Moon Hike, Sesquicentennial State Park, Columbia. (803) 788‑2706 or sjensen@scprt.com.

19–21 Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Show, Jamil Shrine Temple, Columbia. (803) 736‑9317 or ashrader@mindspring.com.

26–27 McConnells Christmas Craft Show, McConnells Community Center, McConnells. (803) 230‑3845 or lmn7806@aol.com.

O N GOING

Daily until Oct. 31 Karey Santos Exhibit, Aiken County Visitors Center, Aiken. (803) 642‑7557.

Daily, Nov. 1 to Nov. 30 Mimi Inman Exhibit, Aiken County Visitors Center, Aiken. (803) 642‑7557.

Second Saturdays The

Edgefield Market, Oakley Park Museum and other venues, Edgefield. (870) 703‑0778 or edgefieldmarket@gmail.com.

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13–16, 21–23 Pawleys

Island Festival of Music and Art, The Reserve Golf Club, Pawleys Island. (843) 626‑8911 or info@pawleysmusic.com.

14–17 Bicycle Across South Carolina, state parks, statewide. (843) 937‑5458 or basc@postandcourier.com.

16 The Art of Indigo Dyeing Fall Session, Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage, Ridgeland. (843) 284‑9227 or info@morrisheritagecenter.org.

16 Loris Bog-Off Festival, downtown, Loris. (843) 756‑6030 or lorischamberofcommerce@gmail.com.

16 Moonlight Canoe Float, Cheraw State Park, Cheraw. (843) 537‑9656.

16 Piecing Together the Past with Archaeology, Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site, Charleston.

(843) 852‑4200.

16 Take a Kid Fishing, Myrtle Beach State Park, Myrtle Beach.

(843) 238‑0874.

22 Rad Scientist & Friends, Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage, Ridgeland. (843) 284‑9227 or info@morrisheritagecenter.org.

23 Groovin’ High: A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie, featuring Jon Faddis, Charleston Music Hall, Charleston. (843) 641‑0011 or jazz@charlestonjazz.com.

29–30 Atalaya Fall Festival and Haunted Castle, Huntington Beach State Park, Murrells Inlet.

(843) 235‑8755.

NOVEMBER

5 Lowcountry Cuisine with

Sallie Ann Robinson, Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage, Ridgeland. (843) 284‑9227 or info@morrisheritagecenter.org.

5 Paddle with a Ranger, Colleton State Park, Walterboro.

(843) 538‑8206.

6 Stargazing at Hampton Plantation, Hampton Plantation State Historic Site, McClellanville.

(843) 546‑9361.

6 Virtual Performance: Groovin’ High: A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie, featuring Jon Faddis, virtual event, based in Charleston. (843) 641‑0011 or jazz@charlestonjazz.com.

9 World War I and the S.C. Home Front, Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage, Ridgeland. (843) 284‑9227 or info@morrisheritagecenter.org.

13 Bilingual Guided Tours, Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage, Ridgeland. (843) 284‑9227 or info@morrisheritagecenter.org.

13–14 Atalaya Sleepover, Huntington Beach State Park, Murrells Inlet. (843) 237‑4440.

13–14 Mythical & Medieval Fest, RH Acres, Socastee. (843) 360‑9052 or calebsdragonflydreams@aol.com.

20 Colonial Trades and Harvest Day, Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site, Charleston.

(843) 852‑4200.

20 Holiday Glass Mosaics with Pat Stone, Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage, Ridgeland. (843) 284‑9227 or info@morrisheritagecenter.org.

20 Live Birds of Prey in Flight, Myrtle Beach State Park, Myrtle Beach. (843) 238‑0874.

ONGOING

Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 30

St. Phillips Island Excursion, Pier Nature Center at Hunting Island State Park, Hunting Island. (843) 838‑2011.

Wednesdays Arts & Crafts Market, Bay Creek Park, Edisto Island. (843) 869‑3867.

Wednesdays Awendaw Green Barn Jam, Sewee Outpost, Awendaw. (843) 452‑1642 or awendawgreen@gmail.com.

Wednesdays, Oct. 13–Nov. 3

Master Garden Series, various locations, Charleston. (843) 405‑1050.

Thursdays through Nov. 4

Master Architecture Series, multiple historic homes, Charleston.

(843) 405‑1050.

Fridays, Oct. 15–Nov. 5

Master Photography Series, French Quarter and other locations, Charleston. (843) 405‑1050.

Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 6 Piazzas and

Gardens Tours, Old Historic District, Charleston. (843) 405‑1050.

First Thursdays through December First Thursdays Gullah

Spirituals (part of the Festival of Houses and Gardens Live Like a Local event series), Unitarian Church, Charleston. (843) 722‑3405 or (843) 723‑1623.

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Grow wild with native asters

OCTOBER IN THE GARDEN n While cutting back herbaceous perennials as the first frosts start nipping at their leaves, don’t be so quick to whack away at the plumes of ornamental grasses. These fluffy tufts can not only survive the coming chill to flaunt their special beauty in the winter garden, but they can also be used to accentuate indoor arrangements during the coldest months.

BY L.A. JACKSON

WHILE THE SIGHT OF FALL FOLIAGE

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Jindai is a shorter cultivar of the six-foottall Tatarian aster from eastern Asia.

TIP OF THE MONTH Although not native to our shores, the Tatarian aster (Aster tartaricus), imported from eastern Asia, is certainly another fancy-flowering possibility for your fall garden. And it will be hard to miss because this impressive aster can reach up to six feet in height—that’s a biggie! For gardeners faint of heart or lacking in space to accommodate such a sizeable plant, the popular cultivar Jindai restrains itself to around three to four feet high, but what it lacks in stature, it makes up for with an impressive purple coat of autumn blooms on sturdy stems. Jindai is normally an easy find both online and at local garden shops.

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Many asters save their regal shows for the arrival of autumn.

ROYALTY IN THE GARDEN New England aster is one of the easiest native asters to find at local garden shops. Mature plants top out at five feet in height and reward gardeners with an explosion of starry purple blooms in fall.

that does best in well-draining sites.

Although not as readily available at local garden shops as its New England kin, it is not hard to find online.

Climbing aster (Symphyotrichum carolinianum). While typical asters are somewhat mounding in their growth habit, climbing aster is a rambler.

Behaving like a vine, this pretty can stretch out to over eight feet long, making it a perfect candidate to doll up a bare trellis or clunky fence in the fall with sweeps of pleasing, pinkish-purple blossoms.

In spite of it originating in the Southeast, climbing aster is not a usual offering on the web or at local nurseries, which is unfortunate, but I have found that haunting native plant sales at this time of year is a good way to find this fun plant.

L.A. JACKSON is the former editor of Carolina Gardener magazine. Contact him at lajackson1@gmail.com.

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n Bagworms been bugging your evergreen pride-and-joys such as cedars, arborvitaes or junipers? Insecticides are more effective when applied in the spring, but what can you do now?

Simple—if you see any bagworm bags (which contain moth eggs) dangling on branches like ugly, brown, oblong Christmas ornaments, snip them off and toss away in a trash bag.

lighting up the landscape in flaming colors is seasonably enjoyable, I also temper such brightness with cooler hues in my garden. Purple is an excellent counter-color, and it is served up in heapin’ helpin’ portions with asters, many of which save their regal shows for the arrival of autumn.

When it comes to asters, I tend to lean toward native selections showing off their finest flower exhibits in my garden. Need examples? Below are three pretty picks to consider for your autumn landscape.

New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae). From big-box hardware store nursery centers to online garden shops, this is probably the easiest indigenous aster to find, and for good reason: It can stretch to about five feet high and wide while saluting the approaching autumn with an explosion of starry purple blooms.

True to its tough native roots, New England aster is drought-tolerant and also deer-resistant. In addition, it is an early autumn favorite of lingering bees and butterflies. Plant breeders like it, too, and have created many cultivars, with the dwarf Purple Dome (two feet tall and wide) probably being one of the more popular selections.

Aromatic aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium). Automatic in its appeal to gardeners, aromatic aster is as advertised with pleasantly scented leaves that serve as a solid green backdrop for a profusion of dazzling lavender flowers. Although usually short in stature—about three feet high and wide—this native aster makes up for it v­ isually with its bloom boom that starts in September and usually lasts until November.

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Drop the reins and grab your hoop

BY JAN A. IGOE

read this, a pumpkin or two may be grinning from your porch, but deadlines come early in magazine land, so I’m writing this column as the 2021 Summer Olympics draw to a close. For two weeks, I was riveted.

Five new sports made their debut for a total of 339 medal events comprised of popular sports, unpopular sports and sports inspired by psychedelic mushrooms. As mushroom sports go, the modern pentathlon wins the gold medal.

The original Greek version featured running, jumping, spear hurling, discus throwing and the first known (or rumored) wardrobe ­malfunction. While sprinting down the stadium field, one athlete blew right out of his loincloth, which featured the Nike logo. Since all the competitors and spectators were men, they decided to ditch regulation attire and have everyone compete naked.

Today’s modern pentathlon ­combines running, swimming, shooting, equestrian skill and fencing. Worthy ­disciplines, yes, but no less random than accounting, brain surgery, jazz saxophone, dog grooming and hopscotch to many viewers. That’s because the ­pentathlon is based on survival skills for a 19th-­ century cavalry officer, according to theguardian.com. Of course, a soldier had to be adept with his revolver and saber. He might even have to swim across a river to evade the enemy and flee on the nearest trusty steed. Today, not so much.

Here’s where it gets crazier. All the Olympic equestrian events are “BYO

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All the Olympic equestrian events are “BYO horse” except this one, where there’s a little speed dating in the mix. horse” except this one, where there’s a ­little speed dating in the mix. Pentathlon competitors are paired with a random horse by lottery—aka sheer luck—20 minutes before they’re expected to jump over obstacles as if they’ve been practicing for years. Seems like a good way to get killed if you ask me, which no one did.

Imagine being assigned a new doubles partner right before your championship tennis match. Maybe you’ll get Roger Federer. But you might get a lemon like Artem Bahmet, the mysterious Ukrainian player who seems confused about which end of the racket is supposed to hit the

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ball. (Either way, you wouldn’t have to convince them to jump over the net with you on their back.)

But pentathlon athletes have to do exactly that. And the 1,400-pound-ish beast they’ve just met may not be in a jumping mood.

He or she might be in a bucking mood. Or an “I’m not going anywhere until I’ve had my coffee” mood. In Tokyo, several horses put their hoofs down, smashing the Olympic dreams of their flustered riders. Athletes can train for any contingency except a first date with an obstinate horse.

When the Olympic committee does ask me, I’ll suggest replacing the whole horse fiasco with Unicycle Hula Hooping.

It will be easier for viewers to appreciate the difficulty in that sport than, say, artistic swimming, where the women look unhappier than those horses.

No one wearing a nose plug has ever looked happy.

Once they make the switch, you’ll never see another rider whipping (or a coach punching) an innocent unicycle.

Should we still need more “wow” factor, we can bring back loincloths, which had roughly the same amount of fabric as the women’s beach volleyball outfits.

Just saying.

JAN A. IGOE ,

who never chews gum while walking, is in awe of every gymnast, pole vaulter and artistic swimmer—all the athletes. She holds the World Couch Potato record for marathon Olympics viewing.

Have a happy Halloween and join us at HumorMe@SCLiving.coop.

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