Post Tagged with: "Folly"

MYSTERY PHOTO: This one should be easy

MYSTERY PHOTO: This one should be easy

We’re betting this orange building on a contrasting blue background will be a pretty easy mystery for you to solve.  What and where is it?  Send your best guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com.  And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.  And if you’ve got a clever mystery photo for our readers, send it to the same address (Try to stump us!)

Our previous Mystery Photo: A gracious reader sent in our most recent mystery, “A brick folly?” It shows the remains of a bell tower at Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site on the Ashley River near Summerville.

by · 10/04/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo
Dome inside the refurbished Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C.

FOCUS: Grad students revel in everything Charleston

Staff reports  |  Looking at Charleston through the eyes of outsiders is revealing.

During Spoleto Festival USA and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, seven graduate arts journalism students from Syracuse University wrote more than three dozen previews, reviews and stories to connect enthusiasts with the city’s bubbling art scene. Along the way, they noticed things about the Holy City.  You might know some of them; others may be novel.  Regardless, their observations highlight the depth and breadth of what it is to be in Charleston — for visitors and residents.  

1: Charleston green. The color “Charleston Green” has a storied past, one that now makes me wonder about the history of other iconic colors. Whether the murky, dark shade came from mold on dark shutters, degrading paint or color-loving locals fighting against government-issued black paint by mixing it with yellow and blue, it has its place in the city.

by · 06/21/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Uncategorized
NEW for 1/18: King’s prescription; Mindless abortion debate; Mitigation

NEW for 1/18: King’s prescription; Mindless abortion debate; Mitigation

IN THIS EDITION
FOCUS: Kick addiction of racism with King’s prescription
COMMENTARY, Brack: Mind-numbing, time-wasting abortion bill on table again
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SCIWAY
NEWS BRIEFS: State shifts to coronavirus mitigation
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Empty field
CALENDAR: From MLK brunch to art display

by · 01/17/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue
WHAT WE LOVE:  Food, beach, history and more

WHAT WE LOVE:  Food, beach, history and more

Jennifer Cashel of Charleston loves a lot about the area, as she recently shared: “The delicious flavoring of food. Having a cold drink from the beach and laying a hammock under Folly pier, watching the moon’s reflection on the waves. Always a breeze off the Atlantic….

by · 06/25/2018 · Comments are Disabled · What We Love