To Hear Them Tell It

“If you put two Charlestonians in a big room full of people, somehow they are going to find each other and they will start talking about Charleston and their memories of it,” says Mary Coy, author of To Hear Them Tell It: Memories of Growing Up in Charleston. This...

When Presumption Meets Providence

For six long days in the heat of a Charleston August, West Ashley resident Cynthia Pulsifer coached nine volunteer actors and a number of crew members through the production of a film that had come to represent as much of a journey for her as it had to her main...

Doing What Must be Done

“What must be done eventually, should be done immediately” – anon. Over the past several months, West Ashley resident Skyla Campbell has spent countless hours collecting and shipping school and art supplies, toys, shirts and shoes for more than 12 non-profit...

Love, Loss, and Lingering Souls

Losing anyone in the course of life is tragic, but losing the love of your life can be as close to dying as you can get without crossing the threshold. But what if that person came back in the form of a spirit that only you could see and hear? Would you still be able...

A Look into Legend

The people who make up Charleston’s illustrious and often infamous past are not always the ones that get into history books. Take Ralph Johnson, for example, the person for whom the Veteran’s Hospital downtown is named for. Johnson was a 17-year-old African American...

The Victory Season

Author Robert Weintraub visits the Jewish Community Center this Sunday, Oct. 27 to talk about his book , The Victory Season: the End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball’s Golden Age, along with The Citadel’s associate athletic director Andy Solomon. In 1945...

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