FOCUS: Visionary Whipper has made good things happen COMMENTARY, Brack: Trump on Russia makes S.C. GOP leaders squirm IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SCIWAY GOOD NEWS: New Charleston Waterfront Pass debuts WHAT WE LOVE: Tell us what you love FEEDBACK: Teaching kids to swim makes a difference MYSTERY PHOTO: Extreme close-up S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sassafras Mountain CALENDAR, July 23+: Sales tax free weekend […]
Staff reports | Architect Michael Arad revealed design plans July 15 for a permanent memorial honoring the victims of the 2015 shooting that left dead nine members of Emanuel AME Church on Calhoun Street.
Arad, the architect behind the National September 11 Memorial in New York, conveyed his inspiration for the Emanuel Nine Memorial at the church following a ceremony celebrating its 200th anniversary.
“The inspiration for this memorial draws on Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church as a historic place and as a congregation,” Arad said in a statement. “Throughout its 200-year history, it has endured slavery, discrimination and racism. When worship and assembly were banned, the church resisted and provided a place of fellowship and sanctuary.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | While the world marveled at the miraculous rescue of 12 Thai boys and their coach, the drowning deaths of three South Carolinians years ago haunted my thoughts.
In June 1989, three girls and a boy played in the Edisto River in Charleston County about four miles upstream of U.S. Highway 17. It was hot. Suddenly, three girls, all cousins, got pulled into a swift undercurrent where the 3-foot-deep water sharply dropped. One of the girls’ father jumped in to try to save them. Two other men pulled an 11-year-old girl from the river. The 13-year-old boy got out on his own.
Staff reports | Two of the Lowcountry’s most popular sports mascots will be the grand marshals July 21 during the fifth annual ladybug release at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens.
More than 200,000 ladybugs will be released after a parade of two red Volkswagen Beetles, resembling giant ladybugs, brings mascots Charlie T. RiverDog of the Charleston RiverDogs and Cool Ray of the Charleston Stingrays to the lawn in front of Magnolia’s Main House.
Charleston nature lover and poet Tracee Clapper sent along this poem to “express my love for pluff mud in the morning. :)”
Hip waders, mist nets and sparrow banding make for the best early mornings …
This week’s mystery may be one of the toughest ever. It shows a picturesque outdoor scene in South Carolina, but what and where in South Carolina is it? (We’ll give you a hint … It is NOT in the Lowcountry.)
Send your best guess – plus your name and the town in which you now live – to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. In the subject line, write: “Mystery Photo guess.” (If you don’t include your contact information, we can’t give you credit!)
Last issue’s mystery
The July 9 mystery photo showed a church that looked similar to a Barnwell church we showed a few months back. This one, however, was the Church of the Cross in Bluffton.
IN THIS ISSUE of Charleston Currents #10.36 | July 16, 2018
FOCUS: Architect unveils Emanuel AME Church memorial design
COMMENTARY, Brack: Teach your children to swim
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
GOOD NEWS: Big ladybug release set for July 21 at Magnolia
WHAT WE LOVE: Pluff mud in the morning
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Imagine the bugs in this place
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Edisto River
CALENDAR, July 16+: Shark Week is ahead
By Mike Robertson, College of Charleston | Stephen C. Osborne became the interim president of the College of Charleston on July 2 following the retirement of President Glenn F. McConnell ’69.
Osborne
Osborne, however, is not new to the college, having served as a senior advisor to McConnell for the past year and before that as executive vice president and chief financial officer for the college from 2006 to 2017.
As he takes the helm of his alma mater, Osborne shared some details about himself and his plans for the college in the coming months as the Board of Trustees works toward identifying CofC’s 23rd president.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | President Donald Trump is the bully in the China shop of global trade. If a new trade war sparked by tariffs on goods from China, Canada, Mexico and our European allies continues, South Carolinians will lose jobs – lots of jobs.
“The South Carolina economy is placed at high risk in the current tough talk about trade,” said economist C. Bruce Yandle, dean emeritus of the Clemson University College of Business and Behavioral Science.
By Rene Bufo Miles, special to Charleston Currents
It looked like ribbon my husband said
that long run of river
flattened out in the summer heat,
and at first, that’s what it felt like,
the shining water reflecting the sunlight
as they rafted in the early morning.
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