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MYSTERY PHOTO: What a grand Lowcountry home

Now a private residence, this house has particular significance, according to a reader who submitted the picture. Two-part mystery this week: Where is the house and what is its significance. 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 March 4 mystery, “There’s a big clue in this mystery,” was the perfect pre-St. Patrick’s Day photo. It showed Hibernian Hall on Meeting Street in Charleston (the harp with the green background was the clue).

by Charleston Currents · 03/11/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY: There’s a big clue in this photo mystery

There’s a giveaway clue in this photo, but you’ll have to look closely. Send your guess to feedback@statehousereport.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo: Our Feb. 25 mystery, “Top of building shows wear and tear,” was a photo submitted by loyal reader Bill Segars of Hartsville. It shows the top of the old Babcock Building at the former S.C. State Hospital in Columbia, or what some readers called the old Bull Street lunatic asylum!

by Charleston Currents · 03/04/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: Top of building shows wear and tear

Today’s mystery could be kind of tough. A reader sent along this shot, accompanied by a good story. The photo is in South Carolina, but that’s the only hint you’ll get. 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 previous mystery, “Who’s this old guy?,” was a Charles Fraser painting of South Carolina’s Henry Laurens that is on display at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston.

by Charleston Currents · 02/25/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

FOCUS: Photos from a Lowcountry oyster roast

Staff reports | Local Realtor Rob Byko has a real eye for capturing the essence of the world around us. Whether he’s scouting birds in the wild or people with his camera, his photos provide a real feel that puts you inside the spaces and places he sees.

In this issue, we welcome Byko, who lives on Sullivan’s Island, as a contributing photographer who will provide periodic photo essays of what he’s seeing around the area. In today’s essay, you get a real feel for the grittiness and steaminess of a Lowcountry oyster roast. It’s easy to smell and taste the briny sweetness of oysters as they left the cooker and were dumped on the tables of hungry patrons of a roast earlier this month on Sullivan’s Island. Enjoy these — and future — photos from Rob.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 02/18/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Photo Essay, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: Who’s the old guy>?

This long-dead South Carolinian isn’t someone you might recognize easily. But there’s a pretty good bet he was pretty important to the United States at some point in his life. Who is he? end your guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous mystery, “Curly hair,” is a bust in the Gibbes Museum of Art on in front gallery under the Tiffany-style dome that is of George Washington in a Roman style by an Italian sculptor. FYI: If Washington were alive, he’d turn 287 on Feb. 22!

by Charleston Currents · 02/18/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: Curly hair

This may be a pretty tough identification (who is it? And where is it?), so we’ll give you one hint: It’s in Charleston. 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 previous mystery, “This should look familiar,” looked familiar to people in Charleston. It was the roofline of the U.S. Custom House on East Bay Street.

by Charleston Currents · 02/11/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: This should look familiar

This building should look familiar to people in Charleston, but where and what 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 previous mystery, “Lowcountry-style building might be tough to identify, was sent in by reader Frank Bouknight of Summerville. And boy, was it tough. One person guessed it was a clubhouse. Another guessed something else. But only Cheryl Smithem of Summerville got it right, correctly identifying the building as being part of the Cummins Memorial Theological Seminary.

by Charleston Currents · 02/04/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

Cummins Theological Seminary, Summerville, S.C.

MYSTERY PHOTO: Lowcountry-style building might be tough to identify

A reader sent in this red-roofed Lowcountry-style house, which makes sense because it’s located in the Lowcountry. But what and where is it? Hope this one isn’t too hard. 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 previous mystery, “It’s not a resort,” sparked some interesting guesses, such as a golf clubhouse on Kiawah and a visitors’ center in Berkeley County. But the image was of the main laboratory building at the Baruch Institute in Georgetown County …

by Andy Brack · 01/28/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

PHOTO ESSAY: Neglecting part of our history

By Don Campagna, special to Charleston Currents | During World War Two, Charleston was homeport for 23 Army-operated hospital ships and was where 75,000 of those most grievously wounded in the European and African campaigns returned to America.

But now, Palmetto Railway, a division of the S.C. Department of Commerce, is in the process of demolishing buildings on the National Register of Historic Places that are located in the Charleston Naval Hospital Historic District in North Charleston.

by Andy Brack · 01/21/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Photo Essay, Photos

PHOTO MYSTERY: It’s not a resort

It may look like a beach resort, but it’s not. What is it and 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 previous mystery, “Maybe this one will be easier,” was, in fact, easier for photo sleuths than the earlier mystery. This photo, taken by Charleston-area photographer Josh Corrigan, showed a beautiful silhouette of the lighthouse on Sullivan’s Island. Thanks to Ellis Creek Photography for providing the image.

by Charleston Currents · 01/21/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos