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Glimpses of Charleston

A local's eye view

Two Suns

The morning sun seems to have replicated itself along the southwest corner of Colonial Lake.

Stroll Stolls

Stolls Alley is one of Charleston’s great hidden cut-throughs. With the wall on your right, you know you are facing Church Street with East Bay Street behind you.

Tradd Scene

This house on Tradd Street is unusually set far off the street. Its driveway is guarded by two very mature crepe myrtle trees, which are the longest flowering plant in Charleston.

Good Morning Charleston

The sun rising over Charleston harbor illuminating the Schooner Pride in the foreground and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown silhouetted in the back.

Cathedral

The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist on Broad Street is a wonderful building. One of its most interesting historical facts is that the spire of the steeple was added 120 years after the cornerstone of the building was laid.

Charleston Window Box

Charleston is full of wonderful window boxes. With so many of the houses fronting directly on the sidewalk, they often take the place of a front yard — so much love and tending go into them.

Illuminated

The afternoon sun is lighting up the flag and the piazzas on this pretty Charleston single house on Queen Street. The side porches on a single house are specifically called “piazzas.” Porches are the broad classification. So all piazzas are porches, but not all porches are piazzas.

A Little Charleston Humor

If you walk along West Street (which is all of one block long), you can spy this humorous historical marker on #7. While Charleston full of lots of history, it’s not everywhere.  🙂

Colors of Charleston

Broad Street is not only colorful, it is one of the most significant colonial era streets in America.

Camellia!

Wonderful camellias, in a spectacular array of colors,  are blooming all over Charleston.

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What’s the deal with the City Market? Were slaves sold there or not?

asks John H., from Seattle, Washington… The City Market is what was called the “Slaves’ Market,” not the “Slaves Market.”  That apostrophe makes all the difference in the world. While a shocking number of humans were sold into slavery in Charleston (a very dark period in the City’s history), they were not sold at what […]

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