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So Charleston

September 2021
Find out how the purple berry has been used to keep bugs at bay

August 2021
Learn the long history of Shutes Folly and Castle Pinckney

July 2021
And why the raptors like to make their nests in the Lowcountry

May 2021
You can't keep a good hull down

April 2021
Created in 1903 on the upper west side of the Charleston peninsula, Hampton Park is the city’s largest park. The 61-...

March 2021
The building now houses the South Carolina Historical Society Museum

February 2021
Find out why they're so hard to catch

January 2021
Learn more about this familiar Carolina native

December 2020
Charleston is famous for its multi-steepled skyline and with some 400 houses of worship on the peninsula alone, one can...

November 2020
Why the once rare birds are increasingly being spotted in Charleston

October 2020
Oh, what tangled webs they weave—huge, remarkably intricate nets that can be as large as six feet across. Strong enough...

September 2020
The colorful flower has deep roots in the Lowcountry

August 2020
How they navigate those big ships into port

July 2020
Named for the richly colored zigzag pattern resembling lightning bolts on the shells of juveniles, the lightning whelk...

June 2020
And how not to get it confused with dolphin

April 2020
Post your own photos using the hashtag #wisteriahysteria

March 2020
For more than 260 years, this iconic building has served as a commercial exchange and custom house, watch house, public...

January 2020
Charleston’s oldest surviving public building was designed for a special purpose—to store gunpowder.

December 2019
Tracing the origins of a holiday decorating tradition

November 2019
This is Lowcountry cooking: a simple, yet flavorful, one-pot meal that combines fresh local shrimp, corn on the cob,...

October 2019
Brightly striped and spotted in orange and black, the colorful Gulf fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) is a familiar sight...

September 2019
Gossypium has been spun as “the fabric of our lives” for good reason. Scientists have discovered evidence of cotton...

August 2019
Ghost crabs scuttle across the sand faster than you can say Ocypode quadrata, the scientific name for this sand crab...

July 2019
What started out as informal races in the late1700s between oar-powered plantation boats carrying crops to town became...

June 2019
Anywhere sharks have swum, their teeth are sure to be found. And Lowcountry rivers and beaches provide bountiful...

May 2019
Avenues of oaks and their deep-rooted history in Charleston

April 2019
From Edisto and Beaufort to McClellanville and Georgetown, each morning during shrimp season the air fills with the...

March 2019
On March 18, 1839, the Irish organization known as the Hibernian Society laid the first cornerstone for a new hall at...

February 2019
Explorer John Lawson—who visited South Carolina in 1700—gives an apt introduction to Aix sponsa, whose nicknames...