At the beginning of the year, we’ll shift our weekly Mystery Photo to the Charleston City Paper and publish it every Monday in our morning newsletter. Every weekday, the City Paper publishes a roundup of recent news. Every afternoon, there’s a specialty newsletter on a range of issues from food (Tuesday) and music (Thursday) to arts (Monday) and opinion (weekends).
IN THIS EDITION
TODAY’S FOCUS: One Region releases business, restaurant guidelines for reopening economy
COMMENTARY, Brack: Crisis yields some good news for planet, neighbors
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston International Airport
NEWS BRIEFS: Charleston reps call for end to citizen arrests
FEEDBACK: Lines will be long on primary election day
MYSTERY PHOTO: Old picture of old place
CALENDAR: More county parks are open
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: William Washington
Click here to read the latest issue. Inside this issue:
MYSTERY PHOTO: It’s a mystery if you’ve been living under a rock
FOCUS: Charleston region to continue strong growth, forecast predicts
COMMENTARY, Brack: Are smartphones, social media making us dumber?
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston Gaillard Center
GOOD NEWS: Pearlstine gift helps to launch new West Ashley Theatre Center
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Erskine College
CALENDAR, March 26+: Business workshops, Vietnam Vets Day, Bluegrass Fest
A mystery by Michel Bussi | On December 23, 1980, a plane flying from Istanbul to Paris crashed in the Jura Mountains on the border between France and Switzerland. All passengers and crew but one perished in the accident. A baby was miraculously thrown free of the wreckage and found by emergency crews.
Reviewed by Tameka Gordon | A mystery by Laura Childs — Although not a mystery fan, I thought of some personal association, I’d feel as I begun reading this story, having walked the streets of Charleston. I’ve seen the cobblestone alleys, horse drawn carriages, old plantation homes and war relics The Battery and Fort Sumter, all familiar sights serving as backdrops for the story that would play out in these pages.
By C. Hope Clark, special to Charleston Currents | A beach with no franchises where the loggerhead turtles take priority over the tourists. A beach where the locals preserve history, embrace their Southernism, and refuse to allow motels. A beach where you go to do what beaches were meant for. . . get away and bask in no responsibility and the sun, the rollers in the background lulling you to sleep.
Here’ a scene that should be pretty familiar to folks who walk around downtown Charleston. There’s no prize this week — just the satisfaction of knowing you guessed it right — if you do. Send your guess — and the town you live in — to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. Photo by Michael Kaynard, Kaynard Photography.
MYSTERY: The dappled light dances along this green tunnel of foliage over a sandy path. It’s in Charleston County, but where? Send your guesses to editor@charlestoncurrents.com to win baseball tickets — and make sure to include your contact information and hometown.
Here’s another flower found at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. It’s something you’d hear about in novels by Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen, but what it it? Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include your contact details (hometown, phone number).
We’re betting this image won’t be too tough for many long-time Charlestonians, but then again, who knows? Fourth correct answer of the location of this photo gets a pair of RiverDogs tickets. Send your entry — plus your name and hometown — to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. Photo by Michael Kaynard, Kaynard Photography.
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