Journal; Joe Pinner

A production of the South Carolina Educational Television Network. What South Carolinian has been seen by more people than any other in the state

as a good chance the answer may surprise you. In the 60s Joe Carter began working at the NBC affiliate in Columbia and he stayed in an age when people come and go in television. Joe is an institution. One survey said he was the most recognized person in the Midlands. Who is Joe painter and what is it like to live under a spotlight every day. Charles the telly produces our cover story. Photograph by Warren fouché. Joe Kenner a profile today. Yes. God. Joe Pinar is multi-faceted. On Eric w i s TV in Colombia for almost 25 years. He's brought joy into the lives of many. To others incredulity depending on whether or not you happen to be one of his fans or his detractors. I've known Joe on a professional basis off and on for the past 14 years. Having worked with him for five of those years and if the

following seems slightly slanted so be it. I happen to be one of his fans but to be honest with you and with Joe I didn't like him the first time we met. Really the second time I met you I did like really mean. I have never met anyone like you before you know what it was like here is this person coming on like gangbusters and then. I realized I took years of course. What I realized was that for Joe painters exist. And that I liked and admired three of them. I understand them more if you had been there than just the war but there were four of you. There is the the gregarious the gregarious host. OK then after that there's the person who isn't particularly happy when something goes wrong or you know the normal frustrated individual. Then there's the the person who can just charm the pants off anybody.

And then the fourth one is the one that I like the most and that's the person who sits down and talks with you. Gives you advice and helps you grow. How many of you are there. Will the real job understand. Is that a higher classification. Yes I think so yeah I think you've been very good with your analysis. I do love to talk now whether or not i help anybody I don't know but word I'd I'd rather talk than eat. Really my size belies that but no. I think basically that I'm an introvert. No of course I love my large crowds I love to do Christmas festivals at the Colosseum or walk out because I get good seats you see I get the best seat in the house when iam seething and I usually don't have to pay to get it in March. Joe and his wife Peggy celebrated 30 years of marriage. That's a long

time to spend with such a public individual. Peggy met Joe at a television station in Florida. She was a singer on a TV program. Joe was a radio announcer called to fill in for the regular host. Live from broadcast to us in Jacksonville Florida it's the Toby Dolby show you know you always put your head when you and I met Peggy and we had this young crew cut skinny a loud guy was the announcer of the show and his name was Joe painter unless the first time I met him I think what you think of him when you first met. Please don't ask me. To blow that was off. Not a lot I didn't think too much of that time of that e-mail very very honest. If you see the name change I guess over the years I really have. You know. From what to what. But from worse to not so bad I guess. You know he really has made a lot of changes I think the main thing is being. Being a growing type thing. He was an only child is now a child and I think he was very

spoiled and I think when we became a family and had children I think his ho attitude about things changed I think you've mellowed a lot I guess would be the right word. The father is another very good father. He really has enjoyed his two sons and Allison's and has enjoyed watching them grow up and he's also had a change in that area. Remember when the kids were very small he said. You know children a man will listen to rock music and you should have heard the rock music blasting in their house so much. So he had to realize that he could actually dictate to them exactly what they would do Pycke Penner was homemaker and part time model. During the first 20 plus years rearing two sons Mike and Greg Hickey is currently marketing manager for interstate management and investment corporation traveling frequently a strong individual with a sense of humor and great insight. What you see in the camera is Joe disgusting sometimes

because he's always so so happy carefree. Gosh I have to get the natives. I'm intelligent. Snobbish to a degree not really snobbish that he is so opinionated I guess for me the word opinionated opinionated he may be but Joe Petr truly loves people. I don't present a threat to anybody and I do enjoy people and I think they know that and it's just been a nice little reciprocal type thing. I try to make people happy and informed and they certainly make me happy and I get informed a lot new from them. Television the business and the medium draws his praise and condemnation. I would like to see it go in the direction of one. Of your real quality Hallmark Hall of Fame type shows. I like you I like the the 60 Minutes and the 2020s that are done by responsible journalists.

There are some who you know go for the juggler commercial television and have some pretty gross things on it. And I'm sure that the television industry would be the first to admit that the commercial industry but there are many good things on commercial television quality in television is not just a dream for Joe. He fights that battle on a daily basis at Channel 10 and it's a busy day at noon. It's Carolina today. OK well we have some new territory to cover today that's pretty expensive isn't it. Are you a good listener. I think so. When Carolina today ends at 12:30. Joe walks across the studio to begin work as weatherman on the Midday Report. We have a beautiful body of air that is going to be invading our beloved southeast this afternoon especially here in South Carolina. Then a short time to check messages before it's time to don his coat for perhaps the most special part of his Tuesdays.

And watch with both what your no your. Yes no no no no I want you keep your TV on. It is my pleasure to speak for television station wy US TV in Columbia South Carolina and to submit an entry for George Foster Peabody Award in the category youth and children's programs. The program is called Mr knows it. From the ground I was in goes and welcome to those of land. He's Mr knows it. In the latest version of this Peabody winning children's show. Now titled Pink Panther In knows it land. I mean Scott Young you've been telling stories to boys and girls and grown ups too for a law time not that long but a long time. That was the Saturday knows it show. Well there's another one to follow. And Joe just waits in the studio for the group of kids to file on through. Joe gets a lot out of children and he tries to instill values.

Well good morning everybody it's Sunday the 6th of September 1987 and I hope you have a nice day. But what's going to be a nice day for you perhaps a day at church and Sunday school with the family maybe going to take a little drive or just stay around the house and have a ball with everybody just having a good good time. Well we have I mean very happy to be here. Bill a part of the Attorney General Travis Mudlarks soon be free to succeed as a drug and alcohol campaign. And I believe I've got it twisted that a little bit or not twisted but modified it a bit to say be free to succeed or be free to even fail. But be free to make a sane decision not to give your Something your best shot. Then it's time to read mail return phone calls. I work with meteorologist Jim Gandy and hit the studio once again for his most watched broadcast. The seven o'clock report.

And you will notice that most of the rain was in the midlands area and in the coastal plain section. Very dry upstate Greenville didn't see a drop during the past 24 hours only 500 hundreds at Clinton I think they say instead of plus and awards and mementos fill his office and a room at home he saves even small pieces of paper which have special meanings. This poster found in his office was a gift from Susan on day Fisher. It perhaps sums up his approach to living life to the fullest. Another honor is heading Joe's way. He'll be the cover story in the November issue of guideposts a national religious magazine. The article details in upsetting encounter with a man who committed suicide. The unsuccessful his attempt to help the man is just one example of Joe pinners willingness to go the distance. A profile of Joe painter produced by Charlotte's a chilling and photographed war Bushay.

The Maryland Journal Marc Schaefer of WRGA TV Sumter examines the controversy surrounding the relocation of the state's main prison CCI. Charleston and the low country are rich in visual and performing arts. None more so than a wide range created by African-Americans in the past. And now the MoJ arts festival running from October 1st to the 14th in Charleston recognizes this excellence with a comprehensive mix of performance film poetry music lectures and drama. Our guest in Charleston on two segments at the Medical University of South Carolina will give us a better idea. They are Gil

yog chairman of the festival committee. And when he hires the visual arts coordinator for the festival. Welcome to both of you. Thank you. All right let me go to you first give us an idea I gave just a brief survey of some of the content areas of the entire festival is covered in a brochure that is nearly 20 pages long right here and it covers day by day hour by hour to give us an idea of what is the festival. Well first I'd like to say that mojo is a Swahili word meaning one of our unity and we've decided to accept the term meaning source. We've gone back to the African countries the Caribbean islands and pull from them ideas that are still indigenous to vis the low country area in the form of art whether that be dance the visual arts performing arts theater arts we've taken idea years that came from the motherland from Africa and the Caribbean islands

and even campuses all in a 14 day festival hopefully to show the community that the art form has not died since we've crossed the rivers but that it is still thriving and that in some cases it has taken on a contemporary form. Talk a bit about a little more about that about. One of the art forms we have seen enjoyed participated in in this century date from Africa from the Caribbean. How much of what we collectively in this country in South Carolina see OK as an example during the music segment we will have an opportunity to see music in the form of jazz gospel contemporary as well as classical. And those are all the art forms in certain cases derives from the motherland the contemporary forms will still highlight its. Heritage. As

Ghana and the visual art forms using as an example the poster art is his form encompasses basket weaving dancing women in women going getting warmer. It tells the story of the same kind of story of guru would have told is told in this pollster. So to me that is a contemporary version of what existed in the motherland. When you hire a dog what is the range of Visual Arts. We've extended our show to include a juried show as well as an invitational. And this year we're now include a children's program called coon Rafiki which is creating with friends and we got a good response from the public school of the general school system in the low country area. Our jury chair was extended this year to the south east an area it has grown from a local thing done in 84

with just local artists of the Charleston area to a statewide last year. And now we're us out east in area wide. We've also included the invitational show which of features many of South Carolina's most prominent black artists and also included in the show will be a wash. Robert Washington the poster artist. But we have people from our inch by Jesse Guinness who's a sculpture that does it. Very beautiful wood carving. Excellent very unique wood carvings we have a lot of the low country painters are watercolor is an impressionist featured in the show also the juried show is inclusive of the local artist nonprofessional as well as some professional. The amateur artists that would like to see have his work shown are have his work displayed and let it be

know. It shows a wealth of talent and diversity in all OT form. As I said we have wood carving we have iron work Water Colors oils. We really extend the gamut and including the children in our program. We've extended it to the younger member of the community an opportunity to not only participate in their cultural heritage but also a form of expressing their selves and are the children's art show will be shown along King Street giving the community an opportunity to participate in moocher. The Office of Cultural Affairs specifically Debbie Patrol has worked exceedingly hard in making this art. Program very successful. I'd like to thank her and also Greg Jenkins who works at the give. Our gallery and who is also a local Charleston artist who works for Dell for dominantly in eggs for their support

in making this festival successful this year. You mentioned the King Street Children's Art Group and some other sites for Visual Arts. The visual arts will be held at the City gallery that's where the invitational and the juried show would be held and then the children's art will be on display in the local stores along King Street. We also have some visual art in the form of films vintage films black films being shown at the College of Charleston and the public library on King Street between King and cat. And the Gibson of has an exhibit which will be talked about later on in this program that will also be participating in moocher extending for the whole month. The jury chair and the invitational show will be going from October 1st to October 30 first it will extend longer than the festival. I want to make that point clear so that we can get people to come out even after a

major festival has been over the fest. The art exhibits do not stop there. They will extend the whole month. From Europe assembling working with the visual arts do you find any commonality things in common that run as a thread between the children amateurs and professionals. I was well I just got a vast. Amount of drawings from Fred Johnson High School NJ and middle school on James Island and they must have done a project at Mass because they've given us tremendous amount of beautiful work dealing with African mess entirely in the relationship with the good. Most of the work is very spontaneous from the children. Some of the children artists you can see the potential. For their future in the art media they're very creative taking the theme and

just you see the gamut of their imagination going from paperwork and working with construction paper to pen fill drawings then a few water colors but it was just so well in relating to the. The adult work that it's the same diversity. It's using all forms of media here to express a common thread. It's all Indigenous of our heritage in terms of being black are having some flow from our background in our use of collars and our use of all types of meteors. So like I said we've got woodwork and we've got ions culture. We didn't limit ourselves to just oil of paintings or watercolor. Before we move on to our next interview segment could you give us some of the background of mojo. And in Charleston and how it has grown.

Okay. Yes it came out of a dream the dream of Mayor Riley. It was his desire to have a festival that would all along with being a fall festival would be a festival for the other people in the community he realized that there was a nother minority in the area. I'm trying to think of a better word but that we had two groups of people to serve in this community. And it's true that Piccolo and Spoleto focuses on European art forms. This is an opportunity to focus on black art forms. And in that sense it became a cooperative effort between the city of Charleston and the community. The community members serve mainly as coordinators. And what they do is they select an area of of the art that they have a particular interest in. Then they start collecting names of given artists and then they evaluate the work. And

after the evaluation process is over then they make a decision as to which work they think qualify for the festival. Then we have to find a funding source. And once again we have to be very thankful and appreciative to the south Arts Commission as well as the city of Charleston for their generous donation. At the same time we need we need to be thankful to our local business and business partners because they have taken it upon themselves to fund certain individual projects. And once the funding is complete then we just go around finding locations. Finding volunteers to man these locations and planning a schedule that will be both entertaining as well as educating to the community. OK. We will talk about in just a moment. Thanks to art and Lenny. On our first bit of our second segment. So with us will look at more detail of the festival which begins tomorrow in Charleston.

And we're back with another look at the mojo festival in Charleston which begins tomorrow and runs through the mid part of October. Alphonso Brown with the choral ears is with us and Neil Noakes a collector with the Gibson. Welcome to both of you thank you for being with us. Thank you thank you. Let's talk first Mr. Noakes about the collection together. Lenny Highers was talking about the visual arts and Gibbs collection is part of that. Yes well my collection part of my life. They hear it for. The money. And we're right. Here. For you.

It's all traditional African art. And I liked it when I lived in West Africa. OK if we can see some of those we can take a look at that and you can talk about. How long did it take you to collect. The pieces. Three years approximately. But I think you were about. To. Tell us what we see from left to right place. OK from left to right on the left are your pieces and individually twin figure. Use. By your to bring about a special blessings of the birth of. Twins. Which is considered extremely lucky which is good because your women have about 44 percent. Birth. Rates are. Very popular thing to have. And next to that is with the white guys I'm from Liberia. Swearing to you today in court. Similar to how we would use the Bible in our courts. The tall standing figure is from from one of the desert private scientists you can see it's

not decorated it's very sparse very abstract. So you're. Standing male figure out from the bottom bar a tribe in Mali. And down below it is a mask from the same tribal bombard tribe we're battling for Ana. And our shelves. Our shelves I could see them again on the. Shelf around our face next to our always indicate about the life force the spiritual life forced into the objects. The masks are used to attract the spirit. And then the Master will demonstrate power that spirit represents to the surrounding people and to the various initiatives of various societies on the very far out and we have a built on. Pace. For a very old building on decent ancient ancestor peace and here's kind of a personal offer for the family as a way of communicating with the spirits. The piece covered with our shells is a

part of society fetish from the dock tribe in Liberia. Its use by the society and their planning rituals. What are some of the other pieces. At the Gibson. Well mostly together so will have pieces come. I repose. Sierra Leone Ghana Nigeria. From Mali from Senegal and from here we just noticed you were now too often so brown with the Corps leaders talk about your group's. History of performance in Charleston and what you're doing in particular for mojo right. They call as music club incorporated as a very active music club it was formed in 1959 and has been very active ever since and 1970 they formed a nucleus off point for the production of Porgy and best. Bargain best. And again and I think it was in 1984 85 and it was

formed here in Charleston. All productions ran for two weeks. Our director Mr. James Edwards was a it was a corner shop before both productions but the core and truckle both productions and he was also one of the founders of the choral as and I met the president members are still very active. They were all found as Mr. Brown Mr. Nokes thank you mojo begins tomorrow in Charleston. Thank you for watching. Good night.