Strength in Community
How Washington Park became a neighborhood with organizations that continue to function today Washington Park, the lovely neighborhood adjacent to Maryville, introduced in January’s West Ashley Flashback through the eyes of Cecil Diggs, began with a strong sense of...
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Every Picture Tells a Story
As the old idiom says, they are worth a thousand words Sometimes it takes a while to learn the full story that the photograph tells, unless one is very lucky and the photographer inscribed it on the back. The lack of dates, names or details is the norm for many...
West Ashley Wanderer — For the Love of Gates
West Ashley gates are full of color and character I take a lot of photographs. I take so many that they eventually fall into categories. I have collections of tiny houses, sidewalk graffiti, murals, heart-shaped symbols, and favored trees. When I noticed there was a...
West Ashley Flashback — “INTERESTing” Across the Ashley
“INTERESTing” Across the Ashley Facebook, Instagram. Twitter. These are the mechanisms of modern social networking. Jump back a few decades (maybe 8 or more) and the newspaper was the mechanism for learning about the social workings of the community. The News &...
West Ashley Wanderer — Unearthing the Past
Charles Towne Landing is a hotbed of history right in our backyard by Joan Perry | Contributing Writer My weekly walk along the nature paths at Charles Towne Landing takes me by the excavation tent and I’ve often tried to peek in the windows. Staff archaeologist...
West Ashley Flashback — Reel-to-Reel
Decades later, the “Avondale Movie” provides a historic trip down the memory lane of one of West Ashley’s oldest business districts Sometime during the 1950s, a business entrepreneur was considering opening a liquor store in the Avondale Business District. In order to...
West Ashley Wanderer — West Ashley Lends a Hand
by Joan Perry | Contributing Writer Years ago I visited an elderly neighbor before his move to a retirement home. He mentioned that things had become so difficult, even driving to get his hair cut had become impossible. I felt ashamed. I’d lived next door to him and...
A Standing Ovation — A Standing Ovation
Remembering Bernard “Fess” Hester and the many productions he brought to the St. Andrew’s High stage Over the years there have been a few West Ashley Flashback columns featuring the musicals produced by the students of St. Andrew’s Parish High School, which was the...
How Well Do You Know Our Neighborhood?
by Joan Perry | Contributing Writer We pass the familiar landmarks of our neighborhoods on a regular basis. We barely notice them, but they are there, comforting and familiar, creating the colorful patchwork pieces of our neighborhood quilt. The original premise of...
West Ashley Flashback — Tidbit Tales
The 13th installment in series piecing together tiny nuggets of West Ashley history It has been a while. Time for Part 13 (can you believe it) of this who-knows-how-many-part series where I have started at the beginning of the journals/milk crates/digital...
West Ashley Wanderer — The Magnolia Community Garden is Flourishing
story & photos by Joan Perry | Contributing Writer Spring has sprung in the Lowcountry and giddy gardeners are drooling over seed and plant catalogs, wandering through nurseries, and exclaiming over their sprouts and blossoms. The Magnolia Community Garden on...
