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PHOTO ESSAY, Purcell: Botany Bay is a Lowcountry treasure
COMMENTARY, Brack: Protect the magnificence of beautiful, local spots
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston RiverDogs
NEWS BRIEFS: Wallace abstracts on display in January
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Big columns
CALENDAR: Charleston Restaurant Week is to run through Jan. 17
S.C. Encyclopedia | She-crab soup is uniquely Charlestonian-a silky, seafood chowder with a European heritage.
The dish helped put Charleston on the regional culinary road map, as surely as Philadelphia’s cheese steaks or Chicago’s deep-dish pizzas. Shrimp and grits are perhaps the only items appearing more often on the menus of Charleston restaurants than this elegant appetizer.
Hint: This tranquil scene may not be in Charleston County. Third person who is correct in identifying the general location of this photo will get a pair of RiverDogs tickets. Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.
This image steps us back in time thanks to this Lowcountry scene snapped by contributing photographer Michael Kaynard of Kaynard Photography. Be the second to guess correctly and you’ll win a prize. Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.
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