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Palmer Campus in Downtown Charleston, South Carolina celebrated its 2017 Eastside Day Celebration during Spirit Week at Trident Technical College by recognizing retirees, college faculty and community allies by naming them as Pillars of Palmer for significant contributions to the college and the Eastside community. Listen to their stories regarding what the recognition meant to them. The videos and photographs of the honorees were produced by Trident Technical College students in the Film, Media and Visual Arts Division.    

    You can see our new portrait gallery honoring our Pillars of Palmer - faculty, staff, and community members who have contributed to the college and to the community.  You can see the physical exhibit by visiting our Library Commons on the Palmer Campus, and you can also read about it in our online exhibit .    Honoring the Past: Gerald Mackey We here at Trident Technical College seek to honor the past, for knowing where you come from helps you get where you’re going. Gerald Mackey embodies the history of these buildings we move through today. He started his career teaching African American students in the segregated CA Brown High School that created this campus. When Trident Technical College bought the building for its downtown campus, he eventually ended up running it. The TTC downtown Palmer Campus grew under his leadership.   Preserving for the Future:   Dr. Susan Millar Williams and Mary Edwards We here at Trident Technical College also work to preserve the past and the presen

  Created by Maureen Myers and her staff in the Palmer library, the Eastside Collection stands as an important research guide for students writing about their local community as well as for faculty developing curriculum that includes local history. It also allows us to celebrate the work of our faculty, staff, and students in doing research, sharing community resources, and educating the public about the importance of the Eastside community.  And it helps to demonstrate Trident Technical College's commitment to the community it serves.

by Dr. Susan Millar Williams Growing up in Arkansas in the 1960s, I thought of cigar boxes as a real treasure, and I often begged the local drugstore to let me have their discards. Most of the ones I managed to get hold of were made from cardboard printed to resemble wood grain, and they had once held Roi-Tans, which sold for five cents each. Little did I know then that I would someday work in Charleston, right across the street from the building that once housed the American Tobacco factory, where those boxes (and the cigars they contained) were made. One of the most famous brands associated with the factory was called the Cremo, and it gave the factory its local nickname, Cremo College. Roi-Tans and Cremos were marketed as more sanitary than other brands because they were made by machine and pre-drilled so that the smoker did not need to bite off the tips. Most boxes were designed to double as counter displays, so that merchants could prop them open like this and sell the contents in