History's Lost Moments
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
When breezes bearing fall's first hint whisper "Get thee gone," and you wonder where a weekend's adventure can be found on a shoestring budget, ponder no further. Point the Urban 4-wheeler north and mate-up with Old U.S. Highway 1.
You'll discover more nostalgia, more colonial heritage, and more mom-and-pop diners than you'll see in all of the uninteresting interstate freeways combined!
Next year marks the 100th aniversary of Old Number 1, the highway that Model-T motorists once knew as the O ...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
For those of us old enough to remember half a century ago, there was absolutely nothing so spiritually uplifting as driving by an old A.M.E. church, remote on some rural road, and hearing the praise of the choir as those old-time hymns and spirituals ...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Been to a Snee Farm swim meet lately? If not, schedule yourself an evening next June and stroll amid the hundreds of youthful aquatic competitors; savor the sweet smells of hotdogs and chlorine. Revel in the sounds and sights that subsist exclusively ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
If it's true what the old proverb says, that "character is forged on the anvil of adversity," then our former governor James Burrows (Jim) Edwards certainly went out of his way to acquire for himself an extra measure of adverse experiences. By all ac ...
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Charlestonians of olden times boasted of their virtues and published their dueling code of honor to the world; however, the same Charlestonians cultivated their vices discretely behind closed doors -- doors of notorious establishments located on Fult ...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Poor New Orleans. For all the misfortune that has befallen The Big Easy and the white sand Cajun coast, they can blame it on Mother Nature -- La Nina. They can blame the Republican president or the Democrat mayor. They can blame Katrina, BP, or El Ni ...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire," so says sage Mark Twain in "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg." The men of the Washington Light Infantry (W.L.I.) down through the years recall the words "Valor and Vir ...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Tabloids have been a staple of journalism for as long as anyone can remember in Britain and America; the prurient interests of the people demand it. Editors of muckraking rags reap the riches associated with this low order of the fourth estate. McClu ...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Reading American history can be a little like meeting an armadillo up close - there's a hard, shiny outer shell that gets our attention and a soft, ticklish underbelly hardly anyone ever sees. Take the crucial Civil War year of 1864, for instance. Ha ...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Everyone has an opinion about the illegal immigration problem these days on the Arizona border. Corporations and cities are lining up to boycott Arizona resorts because the state's governor has made a bold statement regarding federal enforcement -- o ...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Down south we don't hitch our wagon to the first mule we see in the pasture. We southerners like to know the pedigree of those with whom we associate. Getting to know people is not only a southern mannerism, it's smart business. The name making a big ...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
If this merry month of May has taught us anything thus far, it's that we're sure we made the right decision 200 years ago when we abandoned the idea of parliamentary democracy. At least we don't have a mess on our hands like Britain has now with a co ...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
It could be worse. Scientists say this eruption looks unlikely to impact agriculture outside Iceland itself, in contrast to the much larger 1783 Laki eruption, also on Iceland," thus read Sunday's, April 18 Reuters News headline. Earthquakes, tsunami ...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
It's a sure sign that pop culture trumps tradition when Charleston's locals can tell you more about Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil than they can recall of the Habershams, Tatnalls, Bullochs, and McIntoshes of Old Savannah. There was a time a ...
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Saturday, April 3, 2010, at 0720 hours the local weather was clear and mild with a slight southwest breeze stirring an imperceptible ripple on the Cooper River. The tide was 20 minutes off dead low and a lone observer stood at the Patriot's Point Mar ...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Moseying around Charleston in mid-March lets us meet and greet our fellow townsmen who also endured an Atlantic coastal February -- as well as to see and be seen in the mod spots. Exuberance over a few rays of sunshine and a phalanx of azaleas brings ...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
For 30 years Washingtonians suspected that Alexander Haig was the Woodward and Bernstein's "deep throat" informant of their Washington Post columns that brought down Nixon's presidency. A few beltway-insiders, Haig bashers were disappointed, letdown ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Pity Horatio Alger -- the 19th century "rags to riches" writer. He published more than a 120 novels based upon disadvantaged youth who pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps to make fortunes. No one evoked the ideal of "the American Dream" bett ...
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
By now you may think you've heard it all - North Africans floated across the Atlantic centuries ago with knowledge of pyramid building and that's why we have the Incan ruins that look like they should be in Egypt. Then there's the legend that Vikings ...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
March 11, 1958, Florence, South Carolina"A B-47E accidentally jettisoned an unarmed nuclear weapon without its fissile core at 15,000 feet, which impacted in a sparsely populated area 6- 1/2 miles east of Florence, South Carolina.The bomb's high expl ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
There are still Tiger fans who can recall an autumn afternoon in Death Valley 48 years ago when Auburn brought its own Tigers over to battle Frank Howard's steel cleats. Clemson on October 27, 1962, belonged to another age and another place. It was a ...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
At 4:53 p.m. EST Tuesday, Jan. 12, an earthquake measuring 7.0 (Richter) centered near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It is the greatest natural disaster recorded in western hemisphere history. The last time a news alert grabbed our attention in ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
'Character is forged on the anvil of adversity,' so says the old saw. One problem with acquiring character is how, where, and when does it occur in men? We live in an era of endless excuses and artful dodges. Wouldn't it be refreshing to read of a ti ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
While it may not go down as 'the day that will live in infamy,' the final CBS episode of the prime time drama Dallas airing Friday evening, March 21, 1980, will forever be a red letter day in television history. Arch-scoundrel J.R. Ewing, the connivi ...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
On New Year's Eve a light went out in Charleston. John Stanford Coussons slipped quietly into the pages of history that he himself so cherished. The stately funeral at his beloved Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul on Jan. 4 was a memorial service fi ...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Most history lovers recognize the name Kenneth C. Davis, the popular historian who's made a fortune from his 'Don't Know Much About . . . ' series of books with subjects ranging from the history of the paperback publishing industry (Two-Bit Culture, ...
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