South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities

And that's where I found my love for theater.

Then my mother found this beautiful place for me to go for high school, called the Governor's School for Arts and Humanities, which was like a mini Juilliard.

And God blessed me to actually go to Juilliard next.

So I went to Juilliard next.

The Peace Center was already there.

The Governor's School for the Arts was getting ready to happen.

A lot of really good anchor developments.

But downtown, essentially, as you walked around it, had beautiful trees and wide sidewalks, but there was no There was no retail.

Uh, The reason we got David Beasley to see the bridge, though, was minor.

It was when your groundbreaking was taking place.

So they were having a groundbreaking for the Governor's School for the Arts, inviting the governor, and Virginia told me about it.

And I thought,

And one of the people I featured was Virginia Aldrich.

And she was the founder of the governor's school for arts humanities.

And she'd been a art teacher in high school.

And the question is, You know, what do you do next? I mean, how do you go from doing the singing Christmas tree down to the governor's school? And she told me that she'd made a lot of promises to the people she raised resources from, that she'd hired a whole bunch of out-of-the-box people to be her faculty.

And I asked her, I said, well, that's great.

You know, you've made these promises.

Well, you know, that's the part that's resonated with readers the most.

And I'm not sure I really appreciated that.