Charleston Currents – The Citadel

MYSTERY PHOTO: Pointy top

Here’s a building somewhere in the Lowcountry for you to identify. Send your guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo:We had lots of great guesses for our Jan. 6 mystery, “Tunnel of trees. Guesses ranged from somewhere on Hilton Head Island or Edisto Island to River Road in Charleston County. But the tunnel was on Mary Murray Drive at Hampton Park adjacent to The Citadel. The camera can be deceiving!

by Charleston Currents · 01/12/2020 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

BRACK: Saluting a true blue son of The Citadel

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Word came early Wednesday that was expected but not welcome: A good friend, Carroll LeTellier, passed away peacefully that morning. We were an unlikely pair — a 57-year-old liberal writer and a 90-year-old retired Army general who was a child of The Citadel and who didn’t hang out much with my kind.

by Andy Brack · 04/01/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

Roosevelt departing the USS Indianapolis in Charleston on Dec. 15, 1936 following a cruise to South America.

FOCUS: Roosevelt could see Charleston’s popularity coming 80 years ago

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | When Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as assistant secretary of the Navy from 1913 to 1920, he made several trips to Charleston to help “to build up, to some degree at least, this splendid Navy Yard in Charleston,” he recalled years later as president.

These days, the shuttered Navy Yard is a beehive of private and government activity as the North Charleston industrial area continues to redevelop. And the Navy’s presence continues to loom large with thousands of highly-trained specialists working at SPAWAR and in other facilities.

Back in 1935, Roosevelt landed in Charleston aboard the USS Houston after a fishing vacation in the Pacific and Caribbean.

by Andy Brack · 08/28/2017 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

GOOD NEWS: Get ready for some baseball!

The Charleston RiverDogs open the 2015 season this week. More good news on a big check for The Citadel, a neat Kickstarter campaign, North Charleston Business Expo, Dottie Frank to speak, and a grant for the aquarium.

by Charleston Currents · 04/06/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

Image is part of “Flying North,” by Mary Edna Fraser.

Good News: Exhibit to highlight Fraser’s geographic batiks

Above, Between, Below is a new exhibit featuring batiks on silk by Charleston artist Mary Edna Fraser that will be on display March 21 to May 3 at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park.

by Charleston Currents · 03/02/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Good news