Charleston Currents – Pat Conroy

LETTERS: On Conroy, “Democrat”

Joe Mendelsohn: “With Conroy, it wasn’t the score that counted, but how the ball got there.”

by Charleston Currents · 03/14/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Feedback

PHOTO: The water is wide

The Combahee River churns past the Harriet Tubman Bridge at the Beaufort-Colleton county line on a recent sunny day. This kind of typical Lowcountry scene — an expanse of marsh, pluff mud and black water — was captured better by the late Pat Conroy than any other writer. Read a tribute to him and his words in Andy Brack’s commentary today.

by Andy Brack · 03/07/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Photos

BRACK: Celebrating, honoring Pat Conroy’s gifts

By Andy Brack | Writer Pat Conroy, who died Friday night, had a way with words that can only be described as an incredible gift. Perhaps no one more aptly painted word pictures of love, loss, beauty, yearning, pain, grief and aspiration.

Whether fiction or memoir, Conroy could tell a story like no one else. Just read his ebullient description of the inimitable author and chef Nathalie Dupree, the subject of the first chapter of his cookbook, The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life

by Andy Brack · 03/07/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

CALENDAR, Oct. 26+: Mayoral history to spookiness galore

History of Charleston’s mayor: 6 p.m., Oct. 28, Main Library, Calhoun Street, Charleston. Just in time for the 2015 election, the library will host a talk that delves into the evolution of Charleston’s executive office, from “intendant” to mayor. More.

by Charleston Currents · 10/26/2015 · Comments are Disabled · calendar