By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Last year at Elvis Presley’s boyhood home in Tupelo, Miss., I was thrilled to see a white metal bowl with a red rim. It was the same kind of bowl my grandmother used to make biscuits.
A lot of things in the two-room home looked familiar – an oilcloth on a kitchen table, the icebox, pieces of furniture, a butter churn, a metal flour sifter.
You may have seen the word “guida” on the side of a building somewhere in Charleston County, but where? Contributing photographer Michael Kaynard of Kaynard Photography sent along this perplexing image. Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live. First to guess correctly gets a pair of RiverDogs’ ticket vouchers.
We Can Do Better, South Carolina! (2019) by editor and publisher Andy Brack offers incisive commentaries on the American South, politics, the common good and interesting South Carolina leaders. Available exclusively for Kindle for $7.99. A paperback version will be ready soon. Learn more.
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