Open Season
Our island's main tourist season may be a few weeks off, but another and equally crucial season's about to begin, South Carolina's...
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- Apr 14
The Wright Stuff
Hidden away deep in the Lowcountry is a rare architectural gem with the unusual name Auldbrass. The only project in the South designed by...
- Apr 7
Tea Season
"There are few hours in life more agreeable," Henry James once observed, "than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon...
- Mar 24
Whose Hair Is It?
There's an amusing story about one of the South's most emblematic sights, one so common that Lowcountry residents hardly notice it....
- Feb 23
Truck to Table
The official start of spring may be a few weeks away, but the agricultural year has already begun on Johns Island. Fields are being...
- Feb 17
Fancy Footwork
Its exact origins may be obscure, but it's a fact that South Carolina's official state dance, the Carolina Shag, has deep roots in the...
- Feb 11
The Limehouse Legacy
If you've shopped at Rosebank Farms, or crossed the bridge on Main Road over the Stono River, you've noticed the name Limehouse. The...
- Feb 3
Remembering The Struggle
February is Black History Month and a time to mark the important role Johns Island played during the Civil Rights era. Important figures...
- Jan 13
JOINED AT THE HIP
Charleston can claim quite a few firsts in its three-hundred years as the anchor of the Lowcountry, and this month marks two of them - ...
- Dec 30, 2022
BACKWARD AND FORWARD
It's the season of reflection and and anticipation as we look back over the past year and look forward to the new one on the horizon. Our...
- Dec 16, 2022
SANTA CLAUS & THE NIGHTINGALE
It may be hard to imagine Christmas without Santa Claus or Christmas trees, but these traditional symbols of winter's main festival were...
- Nov 25, 2022
FIRST ON THE WATER
Today may be "Black Friday" for many of us, the unofficial opening of the Christmas gift shopping season, but a less commercial...
- Nov 18, 2022
THE NATIONAL BIRD
That's what Ben Franklin famously thought the turkey should be. It was, he wrote, "a much more respectable bird" than the eagle, which he...
- Nov 4, 2022
FIRST PEOPLE
November is designated as Native American Heritage Month, a good time to remember the pre-colonial era people who once called the...
- Oct 28, 2022
BEWARE THE BOO HAG
No Lowcountry Halloween would be complete without a warning about the Boo Hag, a troublesome vampire-like creature that features in...
- Sep 9, 2022
THE MOVING STAR
The structure pictured above may not look like much but it is, in fact, a National Historic Site and was once the heart of...
- Aug 19, 2022
ODE TO THE LADY FINGER
We'll start this post with a Dad joke: where does the Lowcountry's favorite vegetable come from? Okra-homa! (Pause for the groan...) And...
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