Gossypium has been spun as “the fabric of our lives” for good reason. Scientists have discovered evidence of cotton...
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
Journey through time with a photographic tour of Charleston’s centuries-old parish churches and chapels-of-ease
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...
On the eve of the Gibbes Museum of Art exhibition “Anna Heyward Taylor: Intrepid Explorer,” take a look into the...
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—...
Santa Claus—and live reindeer—came to town for Charleston’s first Christmas parade in the midst of the Great Depression
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...
When New York philanthropists Victor and Marjorie Nott Morawetz decided to find a winter home in 1929, they had the...
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’...
