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For more than 260 years, this iconic building has served as a commercial exchange and custom house, watch house, public...
Charleston’s oldest surviving public building was designed for a special purpose—to store gunpowder.
Tracing the origins of a holiday decorating tradition
This is Lowcountry cooking: a simple, yet flavorful, one-pot meal that combines fresh local shrimp, corn on the cob,...
Brightly striped and spotted in orange and black, the colorful Gulf fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) is a familiar sight...
Gossypium has been spun as “the fabric of our lives” for good reason. Scientists have discovered evidence of cotton...
Ghost crabs scuttle across the sand faster than you can say Ocypode quadrata, the scientific name for this sand crab...
What started out as informal races in the late1700s between oar-powered plantation boats carrying crops to town became...
Anywhere sharks have swum, their teeth are sure to be found. And Lowcountry rivers and beaches provide bountiful...
Avenues of oaks and their deep-rooted history in Charleston
From Edisto and Beaufort to McClellanville and Georgetown, each morning during shrimp season the air fills with the...
On March 18, 1839, the Irish organization known as the Hibernian Society laid the first cornerstone for a new hall at...
Explorer John Lawson—who visited South Carolina in 1700—gives an apt introduction to Aix sponsa, whose nicknames...
Since 1687, the French Protestants known as Huguenots and their descendants have worshipped at the corner of Church and...
One of the Lowcountry’s most prolific evergreens is the wax myrtle (Morella cerifera). It grows easily and everywhere—...
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...
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...
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...
