An exhibit focusing on York County's impoverished Blackmon Road community is on display at Winthrop University's Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery.

"Words and Images from Blackmon Road" features pictures and text from an award-winning two-part series by Herald photographer Jim Stratakos and former Herald reporter James Scott.

The two will speak about their experience at 3 p.m. today at the gallery, as part of the university's Sunday Afternoon in the Dark lecture series.

The exhibit continues through March 31. Admission is free.

More S.C. bald eagles die of brain disease

CHARLESTON - Biologists have found more eagles dead from a neurological disease, now thought to be caused by a toxic alga growing on the common aquatic plant hydrilla.

The carcasses of six more dead eagles have been located at Lake Thurmond, where nesting has dropped from 11 territories to one in just two years, said Tom Murphy, Natural Resources Department eagle specialist.

"We could start seeing massive mortality," Murphy said. Experts say the eagles' deaths are alarming.

"It's a scary situation. We know the prevalence of hydrilla," said Billy McTeer, deputy director of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries.

Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy breaks down the central nervous system and causes brain lesions. It was first diagnosed in Arkansas in 1994 and four years later in South Carolina.

"It could take half the eagle territories in South Carolina," Murphy said.

An exhibit focusing on York County's impoverished Blackmon Road community is on display at Winthrop University's Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery.

"Words and Images from Blackmon Road" features pictures and text from an award-winning two-part series by Herald photographer Jim Stratakos and former Herald reporter James Scott.