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HISTORY: Palmetto Pigeon Plant

While serving as an infantry captain during World War I, the Sumter attorney Wendell M. Levi set up the Pigeon Section of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, having had experience raising homing pigeons as a hobby. Harold Moïse, an air force pilot and a graduate civil engineer with building expertise, shared Levi’s interest in pigeons. In 1923, the two men founded the Palmetto Pigeon Plant on 13 acres of farmland in Sumter County and recruited state senator Davis Moïse to be vice president of the firm.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 03/16/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

REVIEW: The Good Luck of Right Now

Although Matthew Quick explores various aspects of mental illness, the story is never morose. The reader will find himself uplifted by the courage and determination of Bartholomew and his friends. Highly recommended. The Good Luck of Right Now.

by Andy Brack · 03/16/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Reviews

Pluff Mud Kids enjoy last week's Chase The Leprechaun event benefiting Pattison's Academy at Mount Pleasant Waterfront Park.

SABINE: Site offers monthly calendar for kids

By Leigh Sabine | Did you happen to see Pluff Mud Kid’s printable monthly calendar for March?

Each month we aim to highlight a few of our favorite events for children in the Lowcountry. You can print the calendar, add some of your own ideas, and stick it on the refrigerator to remind you to plan your weekends and day trips ahead of time.

by Andy Brack · 03/16/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Kids, Views

An oil-filled bottle that washed onto a Florida beach after the Deepwater Horizon tragedy. Photo by Andy Brack.

Letters on schools, offshore drilling, calendar

Letters on schools, offshore drilling, our calendar.

by Charleston Currents · 03/16/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Feedback

PHOTO: Au naturale

If you see a nature picture on our pages — turtles, birds, alligators or the beautiful avocado symmetry of a palmetto frond — it’s almost a given that contributing photographer Michael Kaynard has been on the loose.

by Michael Kaynard · 03/16/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Photos

ISSUE 7.20: Detoxes, nicknames, kids’ calendar

Learn the latest good news from Charleston. This week: Detoxing your body; nicknames; a kids’ calendar; mystery photo; Calling all poets, four letters, more.

by Charleston Currents · 03/16/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

The Sergeant Jasper building, Charleston, S.C.

FOCUS: Don’t allow a monstrosity on Broad Street

By Margot Rose and Jay Williams Jr. | If you like “The Boulevard,” the apartment-office complex on Coleman Blvd, you’re probably a fan of the proposed new Sergeant Jasper complex on Broad Street!

It may not look the same, but that same developer’s plans for a new Broad Street apartment-retail complex are generating the same anxiety here that “The Boulevard” did in Mount Pleasant.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 03/09/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Views