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Kate Salley Palmer A native of Orangeburg and a graduate of the University of South Carolina. She began her career  as an artist at
Clemson University’s Media Center and then taught elementary school in Oconee
(6th grade) and Pickens (art) Counties. In the late 1970’s Kate began her career
as an editorial cartoonist with The Greenville News – the first full-time
staff cartoonist in the state of South Carolina. She was one of only two women
nationally syndicated in over 200 newspapers, and in 1981 Kate won the Freedom
Foundation’s Award for Editorial Cartooning. She visits schools around the
Southeast and is a regular speaker at various regional teacher conferences,
writer’s workshops and book festivals. Kate lives in Clemson with
her husband, Jim.
Contact: kspalmer@aol.com
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FIRST SOUTH CAROLINIANS Written by Jim and Kate Salley Palmer
Over 30 tribes of native people lived in present-day South
Carolina before European contact in the 16th century.
This book describes and illustrates ho The illustrations vividly depict how native people lived in harmony with their environment before their way of life was disrupted and their population was greatly diminished. 32 pages. May 10, 2013.ISBN 978-096671-147-9 Softcover $14.95
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Washington's Continental Army. In the northern colonies slaves
and free men fought alongside their white neighbors in many of the
important battles against the British, while in the South very few
slaves were allowed to carry weapons. One southern leader who was
the exception was Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, who had both African
Americans and Native Americans in his brigade. 
ncis Marion and the tremendous impact
he had on the course of that war - both statewide and nationally! Marions
successful campaign of ambushes, hit-and-run attacks, and supply line
disruptions made life difficult for British and Loyalist forces in South
Carolina, and to some extent it prevented them from making a "clean sweep"
through the rest of the colonies, as they intended. 
curred on June 28, 1776, exactly one week before the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. From a
hastily built little fort made of palmetto logs and beach sand on Sullivan's
Island, South Carolina patriots defeated a heavily armed British fleet
determined to take Charleston for the King of England. The British fired their
cannons from close range, but most cannonballs simply sank into the spongy
palmetto logs and sand and did very little damage to the fort or the soldiers
inside. Carefully aiming their cannons, the soldiers of South Carolina's Second
Regiment, commanded by Col. William Moultrie, did great damage to the British
ships and the fleet had to sail away in shambles. After the battle, the palmetto
tree was adopted as the state tree and prominently featured on South Carolina's
beautiful state flag.38 pages. 
e is an
illustrated story of a family vacation to Edisto Beach, SC. The story is told by one of the
cousins, and is a warm account of one day when all the cousins, aunts, uncles,
and even Grandma, come to the "Pink House" where they swim, go fishing with
Uncle Jim, hunt for petrified shark's teeth with Aunt Margaret, sing songs with
Aunt Kate, read books, eat the fish and crabs caught in the surf, play games,
and then go to bed to await what surprises are washed up by the surf the next
day. 