Staff reports | The Charleston Museum will present The Lowcountry in Living Color: Making Historical Photographs Come to Life starting June 7 as the latest offering in its Lowcountry Image Gallery.
Staff reports | Celebrate Women’s History Month with a talk about women creators in the Lowcountry through the ages with a special March 25 talk at the Charleston Museum. Virginia Theerman, curator of historic textiles, will highlight women creators currently featured in Designers + Artisans: Made in the Lowcountry, now on view in the Historic Textiles Gallery.
In this issue:
FOCUS: Charleston Parks Conservancy launches April litter cleanup program
COMMENTARY, Brack: Don’t buy specious logic on unsafe gun proposal
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston RiverDogs
NEWS BRIEFS: $500 million fund is new to state’s $10 billion spending plan
FEEDBACK: Yes, budgets are important
MYSTERY PHOTO: Old church
CALENDAR: Learn about women creators at special history talk
IN THIS EDITION
TODAY’S FOCUS: Peaceful protest followed by looting, clean-up and curfew
COMMENTARY, Brack: Return home and say a prayer for the country
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SCIWAY
NEWS BRIEFS: Free parking downtown after 6 p.m.
FEEDBACK: Yep, put on the mask
MYSTERY PHOTO: Pipes and stuff
CALENDAR: Charleston Museum reopens
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Granby
There are seven great things to do online this week through the Charleston Museum. Check out these activities:
IN THIS EDITION
TODAY’S FOCUS: County parks resume operations, more openings ahead
COMMENTARY, Brack: State needs to promote more absentee voting
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Titan Termite & Pest Control
NEWS BRIEFS: State’s public health agency overwhelmed, underfunded
FEEDBACK: On getting back to work and school
MYSTERY PHOTO: Maybe our most difficult mystery yet
CALENDAR: Charleston #MuseumWeek: 7 days, 7 themes, 7 hashtags
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Havilah Babcock
We’re suspending the in-person event calendar for the time being to encourage people to stay home and stay safe during the coronavirus crisis. We do, however, offer some online virtual events that you might want to consider.
If you have any online events, drop us a line (editor@charlestoncurrents.com) and make sure to put “Online event” in the subject line. Similarly, if you’ve got cool ideas for stuff to do while in isolation at home, send them our way.
Staff reports | The Charleston Museum will offer three lectures in association with the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Carolina colony. The Charleston 350 Commemoration Lecture Series will feature leading scholars who will look at the early history of the colony that would become South Carolina. The lectures will examine the three cultures that came together to influence the area’s early history – Native Americans, enslaved people and Europeans.
IN THIS EDITION
TODAY’S FOCUS: Remembering adventurer and author Clive Cussler
COMMENTARY, Brack: Do something to reduce frenzy at presidential debates
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Morris Financial Concepts, Inc.
NEWS BRIEFS: Rotary Club of Charleston celebrates 100th with project, statuary
FEEDBACK: Exhausted by Graham
MYSTERY PHOTO: Historic photo
CALENDAR: Charleston Museum announces Charleston 350 lecture series
Staff reports | Dill Sanctuary will be open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 5 for a free look at the protected land protected through the Charleston Museum. The largest area of privately-protected land on James Island, the Dill Sanctuary is a 580-acre wildlife preserve on the Stono River, rich in historic and natural features. Guests are invited to tour the property (which is normally only open for select programs) to learn more about its significance.
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