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BRACK: S.C. leaders suggest history, fiction titles for summer reading

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Summertime and vacation conjure images of spending time with a light novel – a “beach read” – to while away the time and recharge the brain’s batteries.

But what if someone wanted to read something a little more substantive to learn about South Carolina’s history or politics? Or read a great novel that inspires?

At the top of the history list should be “The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina,” a 2009 examination of modern South Carolina history by Jack Bass and Scott Poole that gives context to everything going on today.

by Andy Brack · 08/06/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

8/6, full issue: Charleston’s rooftop bars; Great S.C. books; Palmetto Poem

IN THE AUG. 6 ISSUE:
FOCUS, Crossley: Rooftop bars offer great views of Holy City
COMMENTARY, Brack: S.C. leaders suggest history, fiction titles for summer reading
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston RiverDogs
PALMETTO POEM, Gold: If, Then
GOOD NEWS: Red Cross has emergency need for more blood
WHAT WE LOVE: Tell us what you love about the Lowcountry
FEEDBACK: Two say column on lynching markers was right on point
MYSTERY PHOTO: Tall structure may be a clue
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Josephine Pinckney
CALENDAR, Aug. 6+: Art, tours, engagement and more

by Charleston Currents · 08/06/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

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 Charleston Currents · 06/25/2018 · Comments are Disabled · What We Love

FEEDBACK: On how things were and “barbaric” gun solution

P.C. Coker, Charleston: “I hate to propose a barbaric response to this [gun] issue, but nothing will galvanize the public to demand more stringent controls on assault weapons and comprehensive background checks than for the media to start showing the dead in living color.” Also, a comment by Charleston’s Bryan Harrison.

by Charleston Currents · 10/09/2017 · Comments are Disabled · Feedback

HISTORY: Asparagus

S.C. Encyclopedia | Asparagus was an important cash crop in South Carolina from the 1910s until the mid-1930s. Commercial asparagus production began in response to the “cotton problem.” With cotton prices low and the boll weevil creeping ever closer, farmers in the “Ridge” counties of Aiken, Edgefield, and Saluda began planting asparagus to supplement their dwindling cotton incomes.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 01/16/2017 · 1 comment · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

Depression-era photographer Marion Post Wolcott snapped this image in 1939 of tomato pickers on their lunch break in a field near Homestead, Fla. Charleston County once was home to a huge truck farming industry, which included tomatoes that were shipped to northern markets. Photo from the Library of Congress.

FOCUS: Toward a more truthful — and useful — Charleston history

By Charlie Smith, Special to Charleston Currents | When the Charleston County Planning Commission’s subcommittee on historic preservation announced last year that consultants had been hired to conduct the 2016 update of the Historic Resources Survey, I was initially very excited that we would finally be addressing some of our past failures to protect important historic sites and buildings throughout Charleston County.

Realizing that we did not have endless funds with which to work, we began to narrow the scope to a task that was feasible given our limited resources. I was initially not happy at all with the 1940-1975 time frame chosen for the limited study.

Charleston has a deeply-rooted complicity at every level in the atrocious politics of skin color …

by Andy Brack · 09/05/2016 · 1 comment · Focus, Good news

HISTORY: Ferries

S.C. Encyclopedia | The earliest ferries in South Carolina carried settlers across the Ashley, Cooper, Santee, and other Lowcountry waterways. Early ferries, sometimes called “boats” or “galleys,” were important for transportation but were frequently poorly constructed, haphazardly manned, and expensive to the everyday traveler.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 05/16/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

HISTORY: Prisons and penitentiaries

S.C. Encyclopedia | The first significant jail in South Carolina, a twelve-foot square designed to accommodate sixteen prisoners, was built in Charleston in 1769. Additional jails were built following the division of South Carolina into judicial districts. According to one account, “These jails were forbidding structures, reared to prevent escape and make life gloomy for their inmates.” South Carolina was […]

by Special to Charleston Currents · 02/22/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

Colleton County Courthouse, Walterboro, S.C.

HISTORY: Colleton County

S.C. Encyclopedia | First visited by Robert Sandford in 1666 while he was reconnoitering the southeastern seaboard of North America for Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, Colleton County was one of three original counties organized in the English province of Carolina in 1682. However, Colleton was divided into three parishes by 1730 (St. Bartholomew’s, St. Paul’s, and St. John’s Colleton), which took over most county responsibilities, including oversight of elections.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 01/11/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

HISTORY: Spanish moss

S.C. Encyclopedia | Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) is a gray tree-borne epiphyte native to the coastal plain of the southeastern United States. As an epiphyte, Spanish moss gets water and food from the air and does not harm the host tree. It is not a true moss but a relative of the pineapple family in the genus Bromeliaceae.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 12/21/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia