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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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