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The RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing is more than a week of professional golf on scenic Hilton Head Island. Devyn Whitmire sits down with tournament director and Heritage Classic Foundation president Steve Wilmot to trace the tournament from its beginnings at Harbour Town Golf Links to its place on the PGA Tour today. Along the way, they talk Arnold Palmer, plaid jackets, cannon fire, and the locals who make tournament week a community tradition.

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23 years into his career with South Carolina’s state park system, Jayson Sellers is building something ambitious. As park manager for Black River State Park, South Carolina’s first linear state park, he’s helping shape a network of sites stretching along the river—and thinking about what those places could offer adventurous visitors decades from now. Devyn and Jayson meet at the new park site to talk about the challenge of building a park from scratch, and why he believes in making good memories in the great outdoors.

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Chefs Jordan Heyd and Guichard “Chef G” Ulysse took very different roads to the kitchen. Jordan’s path carried her around the world, before a life-changing diagnosis transformed how she thought about food. Chef G grew up in Haiti, where his mother showed him how a meal could turn a house full of people into a family. Now, as South Carolina Chef Ambassadors, the two are bringing those experiences to their restaurants—finding friendship, community and a shared purpose along the way.
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In small towns across South Carolina, there are stories waiting to be told. Join host Devyn Whitmire as she explores hidden gems—and even finds new adventures in popular destinations. All guided by the people who call these places home.
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City Scape Winery owners Deb and Josh Jones fell in love with wine while they were falling in love with each other. A home winemaking hobby led them to a tiny winery in the South Carolina countryside, then to the enormous gamble of buying it—and together, they eventually transformed City Scape into a much larger hospitality-driven operation. Devyn sat down with Deb to talk about their journey.

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Ed Currie—or Smokin’ Ed, as he is known around the world—is the mad scientist behind the Carolina Reaper and Pepper X. But long before the world records and internet fame, Ed was fighting a much more personal battle. From building a new beginning in Fort Mill, to growing record-shattering peppers, Ed shares with Devyn how faith, family, and an unlikely obsession helped shape the life and business he has today.
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It takes six years to grow a Christmas tree — talk about a commitment! But in the small town of Monetta, families look to Tom Sawyer for their annual tradition of picking the best tree for their home. And yes, that’s his real name. Devyn ventures down to the farm, and chats with Tom about how his farm gets both young and old into the holiday spirit.
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Lydia Wherry’s family has been connected to the Edgefield Advertiser—the Palmetto State’s longest continuously running newspaper—for six generations. Lydia shares with Devyn what it was like growing up with the "ink on the walls", the newspaper's impact on locals and how it inspired her to launch Ancesserie, a bespoke letterpress studio.

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The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of the enslaved Africans who lived in the coastal regions of South Carolina. But their stories—and relevance to state history—didn’t end at liberation. Bridgette Frazier, founder of the Bluffton Gullah Cultural Heritage center, speaks with Devyn about her work to preserve some of the area’s most unique cultural landscape in the face of an ever-changing Lowcountry.
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A typewriter in her closet. That’s what Hartsville’s Elizabeth Boatwright Coker used to write her novels, at a time where a woman’s ambition usually took a backseat to everything else. That’s why the local Coker University, formerly a college for women, honors her hard work and pursuit of the arts through its programs of study. Eliza Ingle, her granddaughter, teamed up with her mother Penelope Coker Hall to chronicle her grandmother’s life. She meets Devyn on the university grounds to talk about her family, and how the arts continue to nourish this unique Southern community.
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