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MYSTERY:   Mmm, looks tasty

MYSTERY: Mmm, looks tasty

Where in the world might this recent (pre-Matthew) photo by Steve Lepre have been taken? Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.

by · 10/09/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos
Depression-era photographer Marion Post Wolcott snapped this image in 1939 of tomato pickers on their lunch break in a field near Homestead, Fla.  Charleston County once was home to a huge truck farming industry, which included tomatoes that were shipped to northern markets.  Photo from the Library of Congress.

FOCUS: Toward a more truthful — and useful — Charleston history

By Charlie Smith, Special to Charleston Currents | When the Charleston County Planning Commission’s subcommittee on historic preservation announced last year that consultants had been hired to conduct the 2016 update of the Historic Resources Survey, I was initially very excited that we would finally be addressing some of our past failures to protect important historic sites and buildings throughout Charleston County.

Realizing that we did not have endless funds with which to work, we began to narrow the scope to a task that was feasible given our limited resources. I was initially not happy at all with the 1940-1975 time frame chosen for the limited study.

Charleston has a deeply-rooted complicity at every level in the atrocious politics of skin color …

by · 09/05/2016 · 1 comment · Focus, Good news