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I'm Beryl Dakers and This is Palmetto Scene.

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo Eleven moon landing American experience and PBS will present a film called Chasing The Moon, a film that takes viewers on a journey during this historic time.

Here in South Carolina we will also mark that historic anniversary with several different observances, among them a very special and unique art exhibit in Florence.

♪ Humans have been fascinated by the moon from time immemorial.

It determines how we measure time.

It determines our tides.

It determines the roughness of the sea.

♪ Several years ago my firm set up a foundation to sponsor public art projects in Florence.

The museum of the moon is a traveling artwork just going all around the world over the last year or so.

In fact this is just the second appearance in the United States.

NASA telemetry was used to create a three D exact replica of the moon.

It's internally lit so it shows up well in the daytime and the night time.

♪ Right now we have one art handler a professional art handler from United Kingdom who does this sort of thing all over the world.

He's here along with the employees of the city of Florence.

It has the lighting system on the inside of it.

So that it has power runs it twenty four hours continuously.

It has a motor regulating the air pressure and there's also a light which is suspended which would be the core of the moon.

Lukes spent a lot of time testing all the different types of light bulbs out there and to get ones that color matched as closely as possible the light of the moon that we recognized.

Outside it's a little more complicated than inside because primarily because of the wind.

It's a lot of looking at weather forecasts and risk assessment and stuff and making sure they're points tightly and in this case we're having to make a point cause there aren't any.

This is controlling the public traffic, the wind and weather and hopefully taking all the boxes and then it will go up.

It comes in a one meter square crate, cubed crate and inflates to about seven meters.

(buzzing sound of an inflation machine) It's made out of hot air balloon material from a company in the U.K.

which pioneered hot air balloon making really.

♪ I think it shows how interested Florence always has been in the arts and the one the particular arts that really appeal to people in this area, the state are performing arts, public arts visual arts, things that the whole community, all ethnic groups at all age levels, all education levels can enjoy.

♪ They'll be flabbergasted and amazed to see such a large public sculpture right in the heart of the city that they can get right up to.

They can get within ten feet of it and really examine the surface.

We've got a video playing that tells about the history of the creation of the moon which is something most people do not know or understand.

It wasn't taught to us in school because they didn't know at that time.

The school systems in South Carolina and in the southeastern part of North Carolina a lot of them have expressed an interest in it.

And they'll be doing field trips for their students.

We expect that people of all ages from eastern South Carolina and the southeastern part of North Carolina will come to see an event like this.

It's such a unique opportunity.

Traditionally the arts all over the world from the beginning of time have brought all people together.

And it creates conversations among people who would never otherwise meet each other.

People just learn that they have a lot in common with their neighbors.

♪ Chasing the moon premieres on July eighth.

Our next story is from students at Legacy Early College High School in Greenville.

They're part of the PBS Newshour Student Reporting Lab, a program connecting students with their local PBS stations to produce original local content.

This group recently learned about an art project that is displayed across the city of Greenville.

This display looks at how the city has transformed throughout the years.

My name is Yuri Tsuzuki and I'm an artist in Greenville South Carolina.

One of the projects that I've done is called the butterfly project and it took about five years to complete and I just completed it last year.

So Greenville is a textile town historically now of course it's a city of advanced manufacturing, automotive and aerospace and I wanted to utilize the symbol of the butterfly because the butterfly transforms itself.

And I thought what a great metaphor for the city of Greenville.

Butterflies mean many things to many people.

There's not a single person that I can think of that doesn't like a butterfly.

And I went to the city and I said I'd like to create a insulation piece where the whole city is the canvas and I'd like to post butterflies on light posts and I like to post them on buildings so that when kids walk around or tourist walk around or grandparents they'll say, "Look!

There's a butterfly."

and that would be a wondrous thing because it would put a smile on their face.

But there's a second part to that project.

And that is there's a sculpture called butterfly journey.

And it's at the entrance of the cancer survivor's park and to many cancer survivors butterfly means hope.

It means rebirth.

It means the fragility of life.

It means fighting for yourself to get out of that cocoon and to make yourself beautiful in any way that you are.

So I work in the medium of steel.

Steel when you think of it, you think of it being unbending and cold and very hard to to destroy or to form.

And for me it's a challenge.

An interesting challenge to make it into something that is very airy.

That something that seems to float.

Something that's fragile and I try to achieve that in the butterflies because it's almost ironic that a butterfly which seems so gentle and beautiful and flattering is actually made out of steel.

So there are butterflies that are made out of stainless steel.

There are some butterflies made out of regular steel.

And then there's some butterflies that have powder coated blue for the butterfly journey.

And I like the way that depending on the light and the seasons, the color blue would change.

It would be almost iridescent.

And to me that was really important and that's why I chose that color.

A typical day for me is my (I) may go to the fabrication shop and which is not a pretty environment.

It's noisy and to me it's ironic that from out of that noise and grit and dust that something beautiful comes out and especially a butterfly.

It's almost as if out of it's cocoon this butterfly flutters out.

And it's magical.

So in Greenville, there are probably three hundred fifty or so butterflies.

Have you found them?

(laughter) For more on the PBS Newshour Student Reporting Lab, please visit our website at SCETV.org.

We turn now to our continuing series honoring women that have made an impact here in South Carolina it's E.T.V's Women Vision SC series.

These two women have made significant impacts not only in their regions but throughout the state.

First Greenville business woman and philanthropist Minor Mickel Shaw.

When you're a leader, I think that you need to be willing to step forward and to take a stand on issues.

If you feel strongly about those issues, you need to be able to to reach out to others and try to to bring people together and try to address problems together.

But you you many times need to be the one who can be out front and and define the issue.

Defining issues and leadership are skills Minor Mickel Shaw learned early on in a family who played a major role in the development of Greenville and the region.

My family has always been business oriented.

So I grew up at the dinner table.

We would talk about business and my dad was with Daniel Construction company and they were building the company, building Daniel.

And in building Daniel that's really like building that the southeast and because of all the business that they would bring in and that sort of thing.

So I think I learned about business just sitting around the dinner table and with family conversations.

Her father Buck Mickel had been chairman of Daniel International Corporation and later held leadership positions with the Fluor corporation, which acquired Daniel.

But beyond business the family also focused on service and education.

I was lucky enough to have some wonderful mentors along the way.

And the men, certainly my parents always had confidence in me.

And they they're the ones they're the reason that my brother and I feel strongly about giving back to the community because they did.

And they they made sure that we understood that when you live somewhere you you participate and give back.

And that foundation has led to her own trailblazing in both business and public service.

As I grew older we had a family business that we have different investments and I was, first started working at Citizens and Southern National Bank of South Carolina here in South Carolina.

And later I was asked to go on the board what was called CNS bank of South Carolina.

So that really that particular role really started my business career and board career.

But I've been lucky enough to have some wonderful mentors along the way who had confidence in me.

Probably a lot more confidence than I had in myself and they gave me opportunities.

For instance, CNS bank of South Carolina, Bob Royal who lives down a little part of the state gave me that opportunity and Roger Milliken gave me the opportunity to go on the airport commission and now I'm service chairman for that.

Her chairing of the Greenville Spartanburg airport commission caps almost two decades of efforts to transform and expand the airport and the region as a whole.

We actually started working to try to recruit Southwest Airlines to the Greenville Spartanburg airport back in two thousand and one.

And then we were very close at that point.

And then of course we had nine eleven happen and Southwest Airlines along with all the other airlines had a lot of difficulties after that and had to regroup.

And they changed their their model of where they would go.

And so we had to.

We waited a long time and about ten years after that we had a lot going on in the Greenville and Spartanburg and upstate region.

A lot of very exciting things were going on.

And we decided to approach Southwest Airlines again.

And we were lucky enough to be able to get an interview out at Southwest.

And we brought them to town.

And they were able.

Some of the people were the same team members that we have dealt with in two thousand and one.

And they were able to see the difference.

See the the growth of this area.

See the job growth.

See the opportunities.

And the reason we were able to get solicit, get Southwest is because we worked as a team.

Not just the airport, but we worked with all of the economic developers in the upstate.

We worked with all the chambers.

And it was the number one issue on everybody's list.

We needed more air service and better air service and lower cost air service at Greenville Spartanburg Airport.

And what's the result of that?

What has happened since they've been here?

Well it certainly was exciting that they came in and I think people realized that for Greenville Spartanburg to be able to get Southwest, it really helped put us on the map.

In many ways and in addition to that the other airlines have increased their service.

We recently got Frontier Airlines.

They're they've just started at Greenville Spartanburg.

And we have announced new flights to Laguardia.

We have one starting in December down to Miami every day.

And so we've we've been able to grow significantly at G - S - P. Her determination to see business growth in the Greenville area and the state is only one part of the equation.

Well I think quality of life is critical.

You have to have, everybody needs a positive strong quality of life in your community, and also just in your life.

Being able to see the arts.

And being able to see music and the arts and education and what that does for a community but what that does for your life and what it does for your children's life.

How do you go about determining which non profits to affiliate with?

And you have had such an influence in so many organizations.

Art Education, the Duke endowment.

Well I think it just you know as you grow and you're involved in in various aspects your life grows and your your interests grow.

And I started out in my volunteer work being more involved in the activities that really affected my family and my children.

And certainly education was one, childcare and was another and I've always been interested in the social services.

So I have been fortunate enough to be involved in non profits to deal with things like childcare, with housing issues, transportation and also non profits that look at the big issues.

I've been on the South Carolina Competiveness Council and Darla Moore's Palmetto Institute looking at the larger issues.

I think my husband and I have always tried to make sure that when we are involved in community activities that we're trying to make the community better.

Not just for ourselves but for the whole community.

And that inclusiveness extends to her thoughts about succession.

I think also leadership is trying to make sure that other people have these opportunities to lead so that you're not going to be the sole leader.

I think it's much better when you can develop a larger group of leaders around you and hopefully empower those people, hopefully younger people to stand up and go forward and be the leaders for the next generation.

And that's what I enjoy doing.

♪ Next, we'll meet Women in Vision honoree Joanne Turnquist president and CEO of the Central Carolina Community Foundation, a group revolutionizing charitable giving and philanthropy across the Midlands.

♪ The Central Carolina Community Foundation doing this Midlands Gives is a great thing for our community.

We've done this for five years and raised five point five million dollars.

It brings all the non profits together.

Whether you're bigger or small.

Have a huge following or small following you all get to have a voice today.

And the opportunity to promote the good that you do for our community.

♪ Midlands Gives is just one of the initiatives JoAnn Turnquist leads as president and CEO of Central Carolina Community Foundation, based in Columbia.

Leading the Foundation reflects her vision.

I would define my overriding vision as lifting as I climb.

I think there are two aspects to that statement.

The first is climb.

To aspire to be the best that I can be, to achieve as much as I can but while doing so, to ensure that I'm helping other people overcome barriers, overcome obstacles, really be the best that they can be.

Turnquist puts into motion her philosophy of lifting as she climbs through her work at CCCF.

It's a Foundation serving eleven counties in the Midlands with over one hundred forty million dollars in assets.

The Foundation invests with donors about thirteen to fifteen million dollars annually in non profits.

By way of disclosure I served on the board of CCCF for more than five years.

We are very focused on three key things.

First working with charitable individuals, who want to make a difference.

We invest their funds and we help them find organizations that are making a difference.

The second is we invest in our community primarily in connecting community.

And lastly we are a convener.

We help people collaborate around key issues because we don't have a dog in the hunt but we do have funds to invest.

So people usually answer our call to come join us.

And that call to come join us is evident in Midlands Gives.

Whose funds support more than three hundred seventy non- profits in the region.

It says it says that people care.

It says that people are learning that you don't have to be Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey to be a philanthropist.

That when a Community comes together to support the non-profits that are making a tremendous difference we can do incredible things.

One point eight million dollars in twenty four hours.

Holy moly!

Now I do have to say I remember there was one year where there was a glitch in the online.

How did you overcome that?

People weren't able to go online for a period of time.

No the platform that we were using, in fact we had numbers of communities across the country crashed.

It crashed in the middle of the day and no one could make a gift.

So took a deep breath, said to my team, "How can we fix this?"

Within in hour they had another platform.

We reached out to our sponsors.

Who said we will continue to support the non profits.

I spoke on television, spoke to non profits.

Tried to keep everyone calm and off we went.

And as I recall you met or exceeded your goal.

We did.

We did.

JoAnn Turnquist has led the foundation for a decade but her roots were in the corporate world.

The turning point in my life was when I went to work for the Clorox company.

And I was entrusted with running a brand new product rollout, with very little direction.

And what that did for me was to build confidence that I could do things that I had never done before.

That I could make a difference in the future of my company.

And that anything was possible.

You've held roles with a number of fortune five hundred companies including Clorox.

Why did you decide to make the move into the non-profit area?

It is a big change.

My husband Ernie and I don't have children.

And as you move into your fifties at least for me.

Thinking about legacy became more critical and while it's fabulous to have a great career and watch people around you succeed.

The opportunity to give back to a community.

To have a, make a difference in a different way.

To see the impact of your work on communities was the driving reason for me to make the change.

After the flood of twenty fifteen you actually expanded what Central Carolina Community Foundation does with a fund that would serve victims of the flood statewide.

It did.

We established a fund the day after the floods hit, The Midlands of South Carolina.

And the initial mission was to support non-profits who were helping with recovery and relief in our eleven county area.

Two weeks later Governor Haley reached out and asked if we would take on supporting the entire state.

And we said absolutely yes.

So the One SC Fund was born and we went to work.

The governor was very instrumental in helping us raise money.

And since that time, we have invested over three point six million dollars into relief and recovery.

We have helped close to nineteen thousand families return home.

And with this most recent disaster Hurricane Florence, we have raised close to one point eight million dollars and have already started deploying grants to those communities that were really really hard hit.

Although Turnquist has worked in the non-profit world for many years.

She still draws from her corporate days.

One of the big issues was balancing work and life.

I was in an industry that was predominantly male and I was always the only woman executive on the team.

So the expectation was that I could be there as long or longer than the men.

That I should be there as long or longer than the men work days.

And that I should pull more than my weight.

Which made it tough having a life and having a relationship and wanting to be involved in other things.

I think the secret to having work life balance, especially today, is to say when you're hired.

To say to your managers.

To say as you go up the ranks.

That these are my boundaries.

This is what I will do for the company.

I will excel.

I will help us succeed but I will also excel and succeed at being a mom, at being a wife, at being a volunteer.

But is it the case today, that women still have to work harder in order to be successful because women are still not making as much money as men for example?

I believe that women believe we have to work harder to prove ourselves.

I have seen it over and over again that unless a woman is ninety five percent certain that she can do something.

She won't raise her hand and say I can take that promotion.

Where as often times a man at fifty five percent certainty will say absolutely I can do that.

So I think part of that is internal.

I also think part of that is cultural.

That often times we aren't given the credit to take the risk.

And do you think that's going to change a lot in the next say ten or fifteen years?

I believe it will change if women exert confidence.

If women help one another.

If the networks are built because those key networks help overcome a lot of those obstacles.

And we're getting better at building that new girls network to compete with the old boys network.

♪ For more stories about the Palmetto state please visit our website at Palmettoscene.org.

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As we leave you tonight our Palmetto Postcard comes from the waters of Horry County.

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Send them to Palmettoscene@SCETV.org For ETV and Palmetto Scene, I'm Beryl Dakers.

Thanks for watching.

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