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 - ...
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- 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...
- Jul 22, 2022
TOMATO/TOMAHTO
However you pronounce it, Johns Island tomatoes are famously delicious, and prized well beyond the Lowcountry. (A friend arriving at a...
- Jul 2, 2022
DANCE CITY
If you're partying this holiday weekend and get to dancing, don't forget the steps that made our Holy City famous. The Charleston took...
- Jun 2, 2022
THE NAME GAME, PART TWO
Jenkins, one of the most common Lowcountry names, appears all over Johns Island and, of course, here on Seabrook Island's Jenkins Point....
- May 28, 2022
TACKY TALK
Horses have been present on Seabrook Island for generations, none more highly prized than the Carolina Marsh Tacky, now the official...
- May 17, 2022
ON CATFISH ROW
We traveled downtown to this week to learn about the origins of the landmark, Charleston-set opera Porgy & Bess and its ties to one of...
- May 12, 2022
SPOLETO RETURNS
We're fortunate to live so close to one of America's premier cultural centers, especially with the return this spring of the performing...
- Apr 23, 2022
IRON, BEER & GARDENS
We’ve been back downtown quite a bit this month, starting with a tour of one of Charleston’s signature features - the ironwork of Phillip...
- Apr 5, 2022
ON THE PENINSULA
Downtown Charleston's rich history has been drawing us to the Peninsula this month. One walking tour on our SINHG Trip schedule visited...
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