MYSTERY PHOTO: Peeking into where?

Dedicated James Island reader Archie Burkel, a.k.a. The Hat Lady, submitted this as a Mystery Photo and, boy, is it ever clever.  Hint: It was taken in Charleston County. But what is the viewer looking at and where is it?  Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo

Our Aug. 12 mystery, “Pair of crosses,” showed the new steeples at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church on Savannah Highway in Charleston.  Thirty years ago next month, Hurricane Hugo blew down the church’s original steeples.  

Hats off to this week’s successful sleuths:  Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant; David Deen, Irene Smith, Rebecca Davis and Kristina Wheeler of West Ashley; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Stephen Yetman and Mia Maness of Charleston; and Jay Altman of Columbia.

Davis recalls the original steeples being installed when she attended Blessed Sacrament’s school.

Graf provided more context according to The Catholic Miscellany web site: “When Hurricane Hugo raked a path of destruction through Charleston on Sept. 22, 1989, among the storm’s most visible casualties were the twin steeples of Blessed Sacrament Church.  The wind toppled the spires into the middle of Savannah Highway in front of the church.

“Father Romanoski said, ‘Many of the founding and longtime members have dreamed of replacing them, and this one family took it upon themselves to save for that occasion.’  In 2017, family members told him they had more than $160,000 to donate to the parish, with the stipulation that it be used only for new steeples. The new steeples were designed by Gary Boehm of Glick Boehm Architecture of Charleston, which has done several projects around the diocese.’

• Send us a mystery:  If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!)   Send it along to editor@charlestoncurrents.com.