THE MAGAZINE FOR COOPERATIVE MEMBERS VOLUME 74 • NUMBER 2 (ISSN 0047-486X, USPS 316-240) Read in more than 600,000 homes and businesses and published monthly except in December by The Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina, Inc. 808 Knox Abbott Drive Cayce, SC 29033 Tel: (803) 926-3175 Fax: (803) 796-6064 Email: [email protected] EDITOR Keith Phillips Tel: (803) 739-3040 Email: [email protected] FIELD EDITORS Walter Allread, Josh Crotzer PUBLICATION COORDINATOR Travis Ward ART DIRECTOR Sharri Harris Wolfgang DESIGNER Susan Collins PRODUCTION Andrew Chapman WEB EDITOR Chase Toler COPY EDITORS Trevor Bauknight, Jennifer Jas CONTRIBUTORS April Coker Blake, Mike Couick, Kevin Dietrich, Tim Hanson, Hastings Hensel, Jan A. Igoe, L.A. Jackson, David Novak, Sydney Patterson, Belinda Smith-Sullivan, Paul Wesslund PUBLISHER Lou Green ADVERTISING Mary Watts Tel: (803) 739-5074 Email: [email protected] NATIONAL REPRESENTATION American MainStreet Publications Tel: (800) 626-1181 Paid advertisements are not endorsements by any electric cooperative or this publication. If you encounter a diffiffifficulty with an advertisement, inform the Editor. ADDRESS CHANGES: Please send to your local co-op. Postmaster: Send Form 3579 to Address Change, c/o the address above. Periodicals postage paid at Columbia, S.C., and additional mailing offiffiffices. ©COPYRIGHT 2020. The Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina, Inc. No portion of South Carolina Living may be reproduced without permission of the Editor. SOUTH CAROLINA LIVING is brought to you by your member-owned, taxpaying, not-for-profifit electric cooperative to inform you about your cooperative, wise energy use and the faces and places that identify the Palmetto State. Electric cooperatives are South Carolina’s—and America’s—largest utility network. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS: $5.72 members, $8 nonmembers Member of the AMP network reaching more than 9 million homes and businesses 2 0 2 0 | feb 16 Story time Gather round for the tale of a little festival that’s bringing new life to a quiet Upstate town. 4 CO-OP NEWS Updates from your cooperative 6 AGENDA See why analysts think 2020 will be the decade of the electric vehicle. 10 DIALOGUE Overpriced tulips and our energy future 16 The utility sector is changing and electric cooperatives are working with the state legislature to study what that means for co-op members. 12 CO-OPS & COMMUNITY Powering education Berkeley Electric Cooperative and Google are investing in a brighter future for Berkeley County students. 14 SMART CHOICE Another day at the offiffiffice Tech products to help you get more done at work. 21 STORIES Making the cut A chance encounter led Edisto Electric Cooperative member Wayne Hendrix to a sharp new career. 22 22 SCENE 10 tips for lifelong bliss with a shelter dog Your new best friend may be waiting for you at the local animal shelter. Here’s how to fifind a perfect match. 26 TRAVELS History in black and white A photographer’s labor of love is the only museum in South Carolina to celebrate the civil rights movement. 29 RECIPE The best of South Carolina shrimp Chef Belinda Smith-Sullivan shares four delicious ways to serve up our state’s favorite seafood. 32 GARDENER A is for agapanthus See why this summer-blooming plant, sometimes called lily of the Nile, deserves top billing in your garden this season. 34 MARKETPLACE 36 CALENDAR 38 HUMOR ME Make America decent again Our humor columnist has a few choice thoughts on the American passion for dressing our animals in hats, sweaters and silly costumes. Simon Brooks spins a yarn during a performance at the 2019 Stone Soup Storytelling Institute in Woodruff. Photo by Andrew Haworth. FROM TOP: ANDREW HAWORTH; DAVID CLARK; KAREN HERMANN The art of the story It’s all in how you tell it at Stone Soup SC SCENE Find your bliss with a shelter dog SC RECIPE The best of S.C. shrimp 29 FEBRUARY 2020