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Today is a very special day for Roswell Eldridge, who's made it a mission in life to help keep the books of John James Audobon intact. (The nature artist's gorgeous pictures are removed from his books and sold for 4-figure sums). Eldridge prefers to make digital copies of the art and keep the endangered Octavos - those books that combine art and text - intact.

To mark Audobon's 222nd birthday, Eldridge is throwing a 24 hour virtal party. The festivities begin at www.audubonoctavos.com, with a colorful 2 minute slideshow explaining the plight of the lesser spotted Octavo; then visitors can skip to Eldridge's main site, where he's holding a draw for a signed, framed, Eldridge-Audubon Print of either the Whooping Crane or the Sandhill Crane.

This morning I filmed an interview with Max Heller, the 88-year-old former mayor of Greenville who was the primary force behind the city's change from a grungepot ("there was grass growing on Main Street," he said) to a thriving, corporation-luring hive of activity.

Arriving here in the US in 1938, he reflected calmly on American anti-Semitism: "It was minimal. Nothing seemed bad to me after Hitler."

This afternoon I hung out at the Upcountry History Museum that I'm shooting footage for on behalf of Michael Schaffer Productions (I'm the cameraman and Director of Photography). I got a chance to see production drawings of the Museum's different areas and it's amazing to watch the bare walls become large-scale exhibits. Having said that, riht now it's a lot like me first thing in the morning - the lights are on but nobody's home.

Walking through the place after those lights had been turned out, I half expected a dinosaur skeleton to start chasing me as in Night at the Museum. Or at least, considering this is the Upcountry, a wild hog and a runaway Nascar automobile. It didn't happen though. Ben Stiller has all the luck.

Greenville, SC

This week I'm in Greenville, filming interviews and other excerpts for the new Upcountry History Museum that's due to open in September. A couple of exhibits will cover the role of religion and the Civil Rights struggle in upstate South Carolina, which has led me to meet some fascinating people.

Guided by my inquisitive producer Michael Schaffer, I've documented a number of "firsts" - the first school to voluntarily integrate down here (St. Anne's Catholic School in Rock Hill), the first African American student to attend a Greenville school that was all-white in the early 60s, and many more.

Driving around, we've filmed many of the churches, religious signs and billboards in the area to show the breadth of biblical fervor here. Finding a church in Greenville is as easy as finding a hair on a dog. Although the camerawork's kept me busy, I've still found time to go downtown to Main Street, a cool area with falls, a park and a nifty suspension bridge. For the locals, all those prayers seem to have paid off - G'ville's an up-and-coming, happening place.