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April Events
Please Join public historian Nic Butler for a program or three at the Charleston County Public Library this April: Wednesday, April 10th: “The Color of Music 7: Charleston’s Black Musicians in the...
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Graves at Gaillard Center
Most of Charleston has been fascinated by the recent discovery of a previously unknown graveyard at the site of the Gaillard Center renovation project. In February and March of this year, a team led by...
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Gaillard Graves–Follow Up
For those of you who were unable to attend the recent program discussing the graves found at the Gaillard Center, I’m pleased to announce that a video of the entire event is now available online. You...
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Honoring the Palmetto Tree
The palmetto tree (Arecaceae Sabal palmetto) is our state tree and a familiar emblem in South Carolina, adorning our majestic state flag as well as t-shirts, beer bottles, and a myriad of mundane...
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Rice in the Lowcountry
Rice has been an important part of the culture of Charleston and the surrounding Lowcountry for more than three hundred years. The cultivation of rice in early South Carolina was the principal factor...
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Ten Things about Lowcountry Rice
Last week’s inaugural symposium on the history and culture of Lowcountry rice was a phenomenal success, and our community owes a debt of thanks to the Lowcountry Rice Culture Project for its driving...
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The Great Southeast ShakeOut
The Lowcountry of South Carolina has experienced multiple earthquakes over the past three centuries, including a devastating 7.3 magnitude quake in 1886. Many of us in the Charleston area are aware of...
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Wetlands and Inland Rice Fields
Three centuries ago, early settlers and slaves began clearing cypress swamps and low-lying areas around Charleston County for what became an extensive network of inland rice fields flooded by a network...
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Remembering the “Black Loyalists”
In late 1782, in the final days of the American Revolution, the British Army in South Carolina gathered all of its troops and equipment on the wharves of Charleston and prepared to sail for New York....
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Gaillard Graves, Part 2
Remember the graves discovered in early 2013 at the site of the new Gaillard Center near Anson Street in Charleston? Who were those people, and when were they buried there? I’m happy to report that...
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