Walter Edgar's Journal
An innovative strategy revives the economy of a small town and helps create a major industry
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:29:13
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Synopsis
June 16, 2023 — This week Dr. Jennifer Elfenbein will tell us about an innovative strategy undertaken by the town of Sumter, SC, in the early 1920s to try to survive the economic devastation that came about when the boll weevil came to the state devastating the town’s biggest cash crop: cotton. And that innovation involved the entire community of Sumter.
