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Image left - WIS Anchor team reporting in 1997 event.
Ben Cook, Managing Partner of Cook Ventures has graciously offered to provide the media with a special cruise to observe and film or tape the Harbor Battle. The 90 Foot Luxury Yacht Island Belle will leave from the Charleston Municipal Marina on the Ashley river at 10:30 a.m. and return after the Battle at 12:00 noon. War at Flood Tide Board Member Linda Pinckney will be on board with press information. To obtain a postion for your film or video crew, pick up press credentials from War at Flood Tide on Friday or Saturday Morning at the main camp at 70 East Bay Street and contact Ben Cook at 800 673-4633 or (803) 958-0200. Tickets for this cruise will also be available to the public and may be obtained from the same number.
Actor Tom Watson, pictured right, who will portray Gen. P.T.G. Beauregard and Robert Bellflower of his staff will be avialble for interviews Thursday afternoon and Friday. Watson will be dressed in an exact copy of the uniform Beauregard had made in Charleston during his stay here. To arrange an interview contact William J. Hamilton at (803) 722-6812 or (803) 870-5299. Read the Beauregard press release.
The following materials are avaiable for use by the media reporting on War at Flood Tide '98. Text files are provided as HTML and Microsoft Word Format for easy retrieval, editing and reuse. Full permission is granted to reproduce and copy the material.
Video Footage of Last Year's event is in the files of WIS Television in Columbia, SC and South Carolina Educational Television, which hold copyrights to that material. Please contact those organizations directly for video footage. A brief overview of last year's event with the WIS report is online.
Graphic Images are available online from our War at Flood Tide Image Gallery. Organizations needing actual photographic prints, may fax a request on their organizations letterhead. The images on our gallery page have been linked to higher resolution files which may be suitable for video and other uses.