Charleston Currents

FOCUS: The photo sleuth

By Elizabeth Halberstadt | Sunday, July 19, was a particularly hot and humid summer day in Charleston. I planned to browse in the extra-cold air conditioned Barnes & Noble, but instead found myself drawn to the estate sale signs on the road near the bookstore.

The estate sale was for multiple estates and I found a room with black and white photographs. Old photographs have always piqued my interest. I sat on the floor for an hour, sifting and admiring the images with imprints from studios around the country.

by Charleston Currents · 08/10/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

BRACK: Acts of forgiveness may be key to real power

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | The whole notion of forgiveness has been in the front of many people’s minds in the weeks since the massacre at Emanuel AME Church. Just how, they wonder, could family members of the victims, one after another, forgive the accused shooter so quickly after such a reprehensible deed?

by Andy Brack · 08/10/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

MYSTERY: Looks familiar, but where?

MYSTERY: The dappled light dances along this green tunnel of foliage over a sandy path. It’s in Charleston County, but where? Send your guesses to editor@charlestoncurrents.com to win baseball tickets — and make sure to include your contact information and hometown.

by Charleston Currents · 08/10/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

8/10, full issue: Photo sleuth; forgiveness; more

In the Aug. 10 issue of Charleston Currents, West Ashley educator Elizabeth Halberstadt tells of how she reconnected old family photos with today’s descendants. Publisher Andy Brack offers words on forgiveness and how a new book by Vally Sharpe may be helpful. Calendar, photo, much more…

by Charleston Currents · 08/10/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

CALENDAR, Aug. 3+: Tax free weekend, musical, back-to-school

Calendar events in Charleston from Aug. 3 and beyond

by Charleston Currents · 08/03/2015 · Comments are Disabled · calendar

HISTORY: The Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine

S.C. Encyclopedia | Clergyman and civil rights activist Joseph Armstrong DeLaine was born on July 2, 1898, near Manning, one of thirteen children born to Henry Charles DeLaine and Tisbia Gamble. He was raised primarily in the Manning area but spent some time in the nearby Summerton community while his father pastored the Liberty Hill AME Church. After completing high school in Manning, DeLaine attended Allen University in Columbia, earning tuition money by working as a laborer.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 08/03/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

REVIEW: Murder of Magpies

Murder of Magpies is a romp through the world of British publishing. Samantha Clair is an experienced editor at Timmons & Ross, a stodgy London publishing house that seems like the furthest place from danger.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 08/03/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Reviews

LETTER: Horses pull heavy loads in searing heat

Polls may be only a snapshot (“Good News; Community raises concerns about carriage horses”). 00_icon_feedbackThe reality of equines being forced to pull heavy loads (17 Adult passengers by ONE horse) for eight hours a day in searing heat and humidity day after day is a reality that citizen/taxpayers living and working in Charleston understand. It’s common sense.

by Charleston Currents · 08/03/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Feedback

BRACK: Time to deal with elephant in state’s room

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Removing the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds doesn’t confront something lurking in rooms across South Carolina for generations — the elephant of racial division.

So that made us wonder — how can the state move forward to reconcile and heal generations of slights, violence, fear, prejudice and deaths? What can be done to level the playing field, to thwart dreams lost because of skin color or poverty?

“Using any measure, the prospects of success for an affluent white baby born today in South Carolina are significantly higher than those of a baby whose skin color is not white and whose parents are poor,” says Steve Skardon, head of the Palmetto Project.

by Andy Brack · 08/03/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

POEM: In Season

Palmetto Poem author: Originally from Vidalia, Georgia, home of the world’s best onions, Katrina Murphy is a poet and baker living in Charleston, S.C. Both of her English degrees are from Georgia Southern University, and she is active in Charleston alumni events and planning.

by Palmetto Poem · 08/03/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Palmetto Poem