There are a couple of clues in this week’s Mystery Photo, but the location of this place might be kind of tough to guess – unless you’ve been there. 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: The Aug. 20 mystery were some of the houses along Rainbow Row in Charleston, which was identified by several loyal readers.
If two red-tailed hawks nest in your tree,
then call your sister and tell her to sell the Studebaker.
If one cloud breaks off and fights the current,
then name your daughter Linoleum.
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.
S.C. Encyclopedia | The Battle of Sullivan’s Island was the first major patriot victory in the Revolutionary War. In February 1776, after British plans to capture Charleston were revealed, South Carolina patriots began construction of a fort on Sullivan’s Island close to the main shipping channel at the mouth of Charleston harbor. Colonel William Moultrie was given command of the island’s forces and ordered to supervise the fort’s construction.
By Carol Peters, special to Charleston Currents
brings an instant gush of
happiness, this measure of wanting
to live, feeling joy surge at the sight of
a steel bridge, not a shape of nature
like a heron launching into flight
or a pelican sinking like a hull into a wave —
Barred tail feathers, round brown face.
I wish you would wake, wish you could.
In this sleeping posture – lying
on your back (unnatural, I know),
you appear relaxed.
By Loren Mixon, special to Charleston Currents
Good for:
Wandering minds, i.e. I dreamt myself walking down the street to the thrift store, losing my life in old broaches and lessons in a woman’s fading memory before I found my body sitting in a pew—running from a catholic childhood.
S.C. Encyclopedia | One of twenty-eight liberal arts colleges of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Newberry College was chartered in December 1856 by the South Carolina Lutheran Synod. Under the leadership of the Reverend John Bachman as chairman of the board of trustees, a building was erected in the town of Newberry, a president and several faculty secured, and classes begun in 1859. Almost immediately came the devastating impact of the Civil War, which resulted in the closing of the college. Its buildings were utilized in 1865 as a Confederate hospital and then occupied by federal troops, who inflicted much damage.
S.C. Encyclopedia | A historically black college in Columbia, Benedict College was founded in 1870 on the site of an eighty-acre plantation. Rhode Island native Bathsheba Benedict, serving with the Baptist Home Mission Society, purchased the property with the long-term goal of educating recently emancipated African Americans.
Originally named Benedict Institute, the school began with a class of ten men, one building (a dilapidated former slave master’s house), and one teacher, the Reverend Timothy L. Dodge, a college-educated northern minister who would become the school’s first president. These first students followed a curriculum of grammar school subjects, Bible study, and theology. Later, additional courses were added to train Benedict’s students for work as teachers and ministers.
S.C. Encyclopedia | The enfranchisement of women in South Carolina was first discussed publicly during the Reconstruction period. A women’s rights convention held in Columbia in December 1870 received a warm letter of support from Governor R. K. Scott. In 1872 the General Assembly endorsed a petition of the American Woman Suffrage Association to grant women political rights, but it adjourned without taking any specific action. The earliest suffrage clubs in the state were not organized until the 1890s, but suffragists were beginning to receive notice. Writing for the Charleston News and Courier in 1882, the journalist N. G. Gonzales described the typical suffragist as “thirty to sixty, a majority of considerable embonpoint, a majority passable looking, a majority with gray hair and a majority wearing bright colors.”
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