See a frosty fellow built on the Cistern lawn by members of the ATO Beta Xi chapter at the College of Charleston
A parade of snowmen, including this frosty fellow built by members of the ATO Beta Xi chapter at the College of Charleston, popped up across the Holy City on March 11, 1960, after the area’s first measurable snowfall in 16 years. “I had to show these Southern guys how to make a snowman!” recalls Melvyn Boyd Smith, pictured third from right on the Cistern lawn with friends (left to right) artist Manning Bethea Williams, Charles Douglass Stilwell, Stephen Thomas Lindbergh, and Reinhardt Carl Frederick Hanold (reach out to us if you know the names of the two handsome gentlemen on the far right). “March weather roared lion-like across the Lowcountry yesterday,” reported The News and Courier the next morning, chronicling the closure of local schools, roads, and the Cooper River Bridge, as well as moments of “happy snow madness” across the Lowcountry.
Check out some favorite photos and videos from the “snowmageddon” of January 2018.
