Post Tagged with: "Jack Bass"

Nathalie Dupree ran as a write-in candidate in 2010 in an attempt to unseat U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint. 2010 photo by Andy Brack.

BRACK: Here’s to two good friends who will be just a click away

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  Friends make our lives richer.  They open new worlds and ideas.  But they’re so familiar and comfortable that you kind of want them to never change and always be there. 

Two longtime friends, cookbook author and foodie rock star Nathalie Dupree and historian husband Jack Bass, are leaving Charleston soon to live closer to family in North Carolina.  I don’t want them to go, but at the same time, I’m happy they are embracing a change.

by · 11/30/2020 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views
NEW for 11/30: Photographic study; Nathalie and Jack; Suffer the children

NEW for 11/30: Photographic study; Nathalie and Jack; Suffer the children

IN THIS EDITION
PHOTO FOCUS: A study in black and white
COMMENTARY, Brack: Here’s to two good friends who will be just a click away
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SCIWAY
ANOTHER VIEW, Palm: Suffer the children
NEWS BRIEFS: COVID-19 cases in state top 200,000
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO: So, who’s the king?
CALENDAR: Gibbes to offer annual Antique Stroll on Dec. 2

by · 11/30/2020 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue
Charleston Animal Society's Joe Elmore, right, talks with Palmetto Brewery's Collin Clark.

NEWS BRIEFS: Annual chili cook-off raises big money to help animals

Staff reports  | Animal lovers donated almost $400,000 Saturday during the Charleston Animal Society’s 20th annual Chili Cook-off, an event that was virtual for the first time due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Sixty five teams participated in the online cook-off to generate donations from 927 people and organizations for a total of $388,716, according to the Animal Society’s website.   You can view the event, recorded live Saturday, by clicking here.

by · 11/23/2020 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs
BRACK:  S.C. leaders suggest history, fiction titles for summer reading

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 · 08/06/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views
8/6, full issue: Charleston’s rooftop bars; Great S.C. books; Palmetto Poem

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 · 08/06/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue
A 2014 photo of the bowling alley that is part of the story of the Orangeburg Massacre.  Photo by Andy Brack

FOCUS: The Orangeburg Massacre, 50 years ago

By Jack Bass | On the night of Feb. 8, 1968, police gunfire left three young black men dying and twenty-seven wounded on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg. Exactly thirty-three years later, Governor Jim Hodges addressed an overflow crowd there in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium, referring directly to the “Orangeburg Massacre”—an identifying term for the event that had been controversial—and called what happened “a great tragedy for our state.”

The audience that day included eight men in their fifties—including a clergyman, a college professor, and a retired army lieutenant colonel—who had been shot that fateful night. For the first time they were included in the annual memorial service to the three students who died—Samuel Hammond, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith. Their deaths, more than two years before the gunfire by Ohio National Guardsmen that killed four on the campus of Kent State University, marked the first such tragedy on any American college campus.

by · 02/07/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Focus, S.C. Encyclopedia
BRACK: How can S.C. Democrats start winning more?

BRACK: How can S.C. Democrats start winning more?

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | With strings of losses in statewide contests over the last few years, you’d think South Carolina Democrats would be down and out. But with President Donald Trump irritating people left and right, there’s a growing enthusiasm that maybe Democrats can take advantage of new cards being dealt them.

To do so, they’re going to have to be disciplined, raise money, create a more appealing message and target sympathetic voters. And, as one longtime insider notes, they’ll have to have some pretty good luck. But the conditions in reliably red South Carolina are bubbling for Democrats at the state level to have a little more success.

by · 03/20/2017 · 1 comment · Andy Brack, Views
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HISTORY: Harry S. Dent Sr.

Harry Shuler Dent Sr. was born in St. Matthews on February 21, 1930, the son of Hampton Dent and Sallie Prickett. An Eagle Scout and high school valedictorian, he graduated in 1951 from Presbyterian College with degrees in history and English. He married Betty Francis on August 16, 1951. They had four children.

by · 07/25/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Uncategorized
BRACK: South Carolina played critical role in American independence

BRACK: South Carolina played critical role in American independence

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | While many visitors to South Carolina focus on its part in the Civil War, they might be surprised to realize that without the Palmetto State’s leading role in American independence, our nation might not have been formed at all.

Not only was South Carolina home to the first major patriot victory on June 28, 1776 at the Battle of Sullivan’s Island, but South Carolina had more battles and skirmishes during the Revolutionary War — some 254 engagements — than any other state. From a tactical standpoint, all of those conflicts had a draining impact on the patriots’ foes, the British. They were forced to battle on two fronts — the South and the North — which extended supply lines and sapped strength.

by · 07/04/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views
FOCUS: 48 years ago today: The Orangeburg Massacre

FOCUS: 48 years ago today: The Orangeburg Massacre

By Jack Bass | On the night of Feb. 8, 1968, police gunfire left three young black men dying and twenty-seven wounded on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg. Exactly thirty-three years later, Governor Jim Hodges addressed an overflow crowd there in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium, referring directly to the “Orangeburg Massacre”—an identifying term for the event that had been controversial—and called what happened “a great tragedy for our state.”

The audience that day included eight men in their fifties—including a clergyman, a college professor, and a retired army lieutenant colonel—who had been shot that fateful night. For the first time they were included in the annual memorial service to the three students who died—Samuel Hammond, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith.

by · 02/08/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, S.C. Encyclopedia