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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Sullivan’s Island hero gets award 100 years later
This Saturday, April 27 one of the most heroic life saving rescues on Sullivan’s Island will be remembered in an awards ceremony at the old......Full Story
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Monday, February 25, 2013
WOW! That is absolutely wonderful. The other pup I know of in Belle’s litter is Fritz von Kolnitz’s dog, also aging. It was a great...Full Story
Oakland Plantation: One of Mount Pleasant’s treasures
Friday, February 22, 2013
(This column is of particular interest since Oakland Plantation, normally not open to the public, will be hosting a 5k run and oyster roast, with...Full Story
Too big for the beach?
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Can you imagine taking the USS Yorktown and plopping it on the front beach of Sullivan’s Island? From my understanding, given the...Full Story
Why Sullivan’s Island has no trees
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Saturday’s Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast was Verdi’s “La Forza Del Destino” (The Force of Destiny). For me, this...Full Story
Usually it’s man eats shark in SC, not other way around
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
(With the recent news reports of the Great White shark named Mary Lee prowling our offshore waters, we thought a revival of this column about some...Full Story
Bird: Remembering a true Lowcounty dog
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
I said farewell to my soul mate this week. Bird Dog, my black Lab, was 14 (that is 98 in dog years) and it was time to say goodbye. I’ve wept many...Full Story
Oh you little Dickens
Monday, January 14, 2013
Another version of “A Christmas Carol” is on television. This one is a cartoon version and a badly animated Ebenezer Scrooge...Full Story
Lessons from Amahl, my night visitor
Monday, January 14, 2013
When I lived in the Old Village a while back, every night for about three years my kitchen (more specifically, the cat bowl in my...Full Story
Castle Pinckney: Silent sentinel in Charleston harbor
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
It is the “other” island in Charleston harbor, the one closest to peninsula Charleston and easily seen from the Battery,...Full Story
Hungry Neck
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
How Mount Pleasant came to get the nickname 'Hungry Neck' is one of the gnawing history mysteries I've yet to see fully solved.Full Story
Charleston rose from the ruin of the Earthquake of 1886
Thursday, September 13, 2012
I once lived in a lovely single house downtown, complete with requisite piazzas, walled garden and a chandelier hanging in the formal...Full Story
August light marks change of seasons
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
"Maybe I have already done it," ponders a character in William Faulkner's book, "Light in August." "Maybe it is no longer waiting to be...Full Story
Rum essential to building of Gadsden's Bridge to Sullivan's Island
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful places in all of Mount Pleasant (if not the entire Lowcountry) is the park and promenade at the...Full Story
Crossing the big water always an adventure
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Back in the days of B.D. (before development), my family lived in the country on a plantation near the crossroads town of Huger,...Full Story
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