Pays tribute to South Carolinian Charles Joyner's fifty year career as a southern historian, folklorist, and social activist. Exceptional writers of fact, fiction, and poetry, the contributors to the volume are among Joyner's many friends, admirers, and colleagues as well as those to whom Joyner has served as a mentor.

Eldred E. "Wink" Prince, Jr., a native of Loris, South Carolina, is a professor of American history and director of the Waccamaw Center for Cultural and Historical Studies at Coastal Carolina University. His research interest is Southern economic history, and his publications include Long Green: The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolina and The Great Harvest: Remembering Tobacco in the Pee Dee. Prince and his wife, Sallye, reside in Conway and Surfside, South Carolina.