When Philip Simmons (1912-2009) began to study the craft of ironwork as a 13-year-old apprentice to Holy City...
Throughout history, locals have laid their dead to rest with love, respect, and—at times—unparalleled Charleston style...
Named for its unusual shape, the American horseshoe crab has been called a “living fossil,” as it has been on Earth...
Find yourself envisioning Jurassic Park’s flying dinosaurs when you see a brown pelican mid-air? You aren’t far off. ...
The ”Great Shake” of August 31, 1886, was one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded on the East Coast. Its epicenter...
Remembering Charleston’s famous (and famously dashing) aerobatic pilot, Bevo Howard
Tomato pie, tomato pilau, tomato gumbo, okra and tomatoes, fried green tomatoes, tomato relish: no question about it,...
Despite their great size, long lifespan (50-plus years), and an armor-like shell that helps protect them from natural...
Silver was the preferred metal for dining, drinking, lighting, and decorative ware in the early Charleston home, and...
Each spring, the bright yellow flowers of Carolina jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens) announce the new season in...
The brown, floppy-eared pooch known as the “Boykin spaniel” today seems omnipresent in the Holy City—especially during...
Samuel F. B. Morse (yes, that Morse) was once Charleston’s most fashionable portraitist
They’re affixed to structures throughout the Historic District and beyond: circular plaques mingling English and Latin...
At four Holy City churches, bells are rung to changes in the English tradition—an art form more rare than many realize
The svelte, long-legged bird known as Meleagris gallopavo is quite a different beast than the fat and juicy turkey that...
“When you steps in it, you sticks,” say the Gullah people of the gooey marsh mud that lines Lowcountry creeks. “Smells...
During periods of drought, folks uninitiated in the magical ways of Pleopeltis polypodioides may spy the epiphyte fern’...
If you’ve never grown an okra plant—merely enjoying someone else’s crop deliciously fried, boiled, steamed, stewed,...
Everyone who went through Hurricane Hugo has a story—a memory as dramatic and unforgettable as the storm itself. Hugo...
