Sunday, October 21, 2012

The Old City Jail and the Ghost of Lavinia Fisher

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Charleston Old City Jail, 21 Magazine Street Halloween is on its way with its creepy crawlies and things that go bump in the night.......
Friday, September 28, 2012

The first "Free" Church...St. Stephen's Episcopal and the Three Sarahs

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67 Anson Street      Nestled comfortably among the historic homes and gardens of the quiet neighborhood of Ansonborough is a church tha...
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Friday, September 7, 2012

The Confederate Home......Mary Amarinthia Snowden's Legacy of Sanctuary

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The Confederate Home, 62 Broad Street      Perhaps you have glimpsed this stately Victorian building as you hurried along Broad St. It s...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Rev. Daniel Jenkins and the Jenkins Orphanage Band

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Portrait of Rev. Daniel Jenkins displayed in the City Council Chamber  in Charleston City Hall, 80 Broad St.          On a cold D...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Elizabeth Timothy.......America's First Female Newspaper Editor and Publisher

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  97 King Street, Timothy Printing Shop      In 1731, Louis Timothee, his wife Elizabeth and their four children - ranging in ag...
Thursday, August 2, 2012

Porgy and Bess....the Charleston connection

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Catfish "Cabbage" Row, Church Street    The setting .......the fictional Catfish Row (based on the real Cabbage Row) i...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

The Grimke Sisters, Sarah and Angelina -- and the Remarkable "Rest of the Story"

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329 East Bay St., home of the Grimke family Prominent jurist and Revolutionary political leader, Judge John Grimke and his wife Mary e...
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