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MYSTERY PHOTO: Kicking back to watch a grand sunset

Sunsets are glorious at this time of year with the evening build-up of clouds. Here’s a relaxing local place to watch the evening ebb, but 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. 26 mystery, “This could be the beginning of something good” included a clue in the title. The photo near the Coast Guard station in Charleston shows the beginning of the Low Battery wall along the Ashley River at the intersection of Tradd Street and Murray Boulevard.

by Charleston Currents · 09/02/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: This could be the beginning of something good

This one could be another tough one. Hint: It’s in Charleston. Where? 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. 19 mystery, “Peeking into where?” was particularly vexing for many. “Hat Lady” Archie Burkel of James Island explains the photo she submitted: “It was taken looking through the keyhole of Old St. Andrews Parish Church, Ashley River Road.

by Charleston Currents · 08/26/2019 · 1 comment · Mystery Photo, Photos

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.

by Charleston Currents · 08/19/2019 · 1 comment · Mystery Photo, Photos

Calvary Church, now an art center, Sutton, Quebec.

PHOTO ESSAY: The skinny churches of the Eastern Townships

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | The distinguishing feature of many churches in Quebec’s Eastern Townships seems to be that they’re skinny with tall steeples that accentuate their comparatively diminutive width.

Inside, these simple churches have 15 to 20 pews and can hold, we guess, up to 100 people when packed. Here are a few that we spied on a recent visit. Enjoy:

by Andy Brack · 08/12/2019 · 3 comments · Photo Essay, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: Pair of crosses

Since we appear to be on a church theme today, here’s something new to the area skyline, but what is it? For a bonus, why is it new? (This may be kind of tough for people who live outside of the Lowcountry.) 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. 5 mystery, “Rusty gate,” showed the gate to the Avian Conservation Center at The Center for Birds of Prey in Awendaw along U.S. Highway 17.

by Charleston Currents · 08/12/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

PHOTO ESSAY: The murals of Montreal

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | The unexpected delights of a recent vacation to Canada were the murals that flourished around Montreal.

According to the city’s tourism website, “street art has become one of Montréal’s core visual identities over the last couple of decades, thanks to the marks left all over the city by intrepid artists like Omen, Bonar, Zïlon, Roadsworth, Chris Dyer, Kevin Ledo, Jason Botkin, the HVW8 and En Masse collectives and so many more. Now with two annual graffiti festivals, one of international renown, there’s something to see on virtually every block.”

by Andy Brack · 08/05/2019 · 2 comments · Photo Essay, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: Rusty gate

If you live in Charleston County, you’ve probably driven by this rusty gate at some point. What 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 July 22 mystery, “Space-rockety sculpture,” was a little odd and hard to identify. But some intrepid souls — most of whom probably drove by it at one point in time — knew it to be a propane tank sculpture along the West Ashley Greenway.

by Charleston Currents · 08/05/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: Space-rockety sculpture

We spied this sculpture recently somewhere in Charleston County. It might be a little tough to identify, but if you can, where is it? For bonus points, what in the world 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 July 15 mystery, “Old brick church,” showed St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley County’s appropriately named St. Stephen, S.C.

by Charleston Currents · 07/22/2019 · 1 comment · Mystery Photo, Photos

PHOTO ESSAY: Lights for Liberty provides powerful, thought-provoking night

By Rob Byko, contributing photographer | On Friday night when most folks in Charleston were just getting home from their work week, meeting friends for dinner or heeding happy hour’s last call, a few hundred folks got together at Riverfront Park to attend “Lights for Liberty – A Vigil to End Human Detention Camps.”

by Rob Byko · 07/15/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Photo Essay, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: Old brick church

A loyal reader sent in this photo of an old brick church somewhere in South Carolina. Where is it? For bonus points, how much did it cost to build? 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 July 8 mystery, “Big old pot,” showed a 30-gallon pot made just before the Civil War by then slave David Drake, also known as “Dave the potter.” It’s in the Atlanta History Center.

by Charleston Currents · 07/15/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos