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Parks and Outdoors Review of University of South Carolina

Away Travel Expert: Mike Sigalas

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• The Longstreet Theatre was built in 1855 for later-named onetime college president and pioneer local colorist, August B. Longstreet. Longstreet once gave such an electrifying speech in favor of secession that his audience, the all-male student body, immediately rushed out and, to a man, enlisted in the Confederate Army. The college shut down for the duration.
• The cement and rebar Welsh Humanities Building and the adjacent Welsh Classroom Building were, for many years, the haunts of poet/novelist/critic James Dickey, who had an office in the former. He taught workshops on poetry while here as resident poet from the late 1960s until his death in 1997. Dickey's most famous student? Pat Conroy.
• The buildings on the Horseshoe survived Sherman's burning of Columbia because they were being used to house injured Union and Confederate troops.