Deep South, Nonfiction by Paul Theroux
Reviewed by Andy Brack | Noted travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux’s new book about our region, Deep South, causes me to have very mixed reactions. On more than one occasion, I wondered, “Where does this guy get off saying that?” And I grab the book and want to hurl it through the window. These fits particularly came after one of Theroux’s elitist, degrading attempts at phonetically capturing the Southern accent.
S.C. Encyclopedia | Formed in 1919, Allendale is South Carolina’s youngest county, yet it contains the oldest known human habitation in the state. Archaeological investigations in Allendale have found evidence of human settlement dating back more than sixteen thousand years. These prehistoric people used “Allendale Chert” in making stone tools.
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PHOTO: Guard dog
FOCUS, Doug Holmes: Real estate prices rising in sellers’ market
BRACK: #JohnNotLeon
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Kaynard Photography
PALMETTO POEM, Samuel Henry Dickson: “Written at the North”
GOOD NEWS: From a bikeway study to a new community garden
FEEDBACK: Remembering loved pets
CALENDAR, Nov. 9+: Food to festivals to books
REVIEW: Deep South, by Paul Theroux
MYSTERY: Substantial building, but where?
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Allendale, S.C.
By Doug Holmes, contributing editor | Charleston real estate has recovered nicely from the torture of 2008-2011. Back then, the country was in recession and a lot of it was due to the real estate crisis caused by banks giving money away too freely. It became very difficult to sell homes and buyers had it all their way. We were mired in a buyer’s market of unprecedented proportions. It’s interesting to compare months of inventory for that market to months of inventory for the market today.
A draft study for the City of Charleston outlines how the James Island Connector could be modified to include bike lanes to allow bicyclists to cross the Ashley River safely. Over the last few years, there has been much controversy about turning a lane of U.S. Highway 17 over the Ashley into a bike lane. The new study suggests an alternative, which would cost about $3.6 million to implement.
Our friend Deborah Getter of Johns Island sent along this photo of a beautiful building with bright red brick. But where is it? (Hint: It could be in another Carolina.) Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com– and be sure to but your name and town in which you live.
By Andy Brack | updated 11.7.15
After all of Leon Stavrinakis’s whining about negative campaigning in the race to replace Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, you might have been surprised that the first thing out of his mouth after the polls closed was an attack.
Stavrinakis, who has been a frontrunner for so long that he was obviously stunned that he came in a close second to commercial real estate agent John Tecklenburg on November 3, criticized the lead vote-getter as a “developer” in comments to the press.
In the Nov. 2, 2015 issue:
PHOTO: Fall color
FOCUS: Charleston Currents, version 8.01
BRACK: If you want a friend, get a dog
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Titan Termite & Pest Control
GOOD NEWS: YALLFest coming soon with 60 young adult authors
FEEDBACK: Send us your letters
CALENDAR, Nov. 2+: Festivals, tours, roasts galore
REVIEW: Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening
MYSTERY: Somewhere on the peninsula
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Boykin Spaniel, state dog
Oyster roast, Harvest Festival, Blessing of the Vines
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