Famed Swedish songstress Jenny Lind performed in Charleston during the Christmas of 1850
Impossibly thin, subtly sweet, and crunchy with sesame seeds, the benne wafer is a time-honored staple of Charleston...
If the Holy City could count its blessings this month, the iconic public building at the corner of Church Street and...
Rembering Henry and Blanche Holloway, the hermits of Goat Island
Among the largest of the 14 species of bats indigenous to South Carolina, these creatures of the night regularly set up...
This graceful member of the heron family (Egretta thula) is distinguished from other tall white wading birds by its...
The Sewee tribe of Native Americans was first to live along this waterway’s shores and gave it the name “Shemee” (...
Perhaps the most notable change that will soon affect the creek is the multistory office building being erected at...
Shem Creek’s natural tidal flow and marshlands have long provided a habitat for an array of marine plants, fish,...
Kayaks, SUPs, pleasure boats, fishing and touring charters, and commercial fishing boats share the busy channel
“They say we’re a dying breed,” says fourth-generation shrimper Franklin Rector. “That’s nowhere near true. Every year...
How Shem Creek fares in Mount Pleasant’s current population and development boom is a microcosm of growing pains...
On the night of February 17, 1864, the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley slipped out of Breach Inlet and headed for...
Brought to the Carolina shores 400 years ago by Spanish explorers and traders, these sure-footed animals are esteemed...
As a whole, South Carolinians (and plenty of vacationers who fall in love with this place) adore our state flag. We...
The Holy City still uses the 17th-century term “piazza”—which comes from the Italian word meaning “open space”—instead...
Native to rivers, inlets, and bays, the osprey (Pandion haliaetus) is one of the Lowcountry’s most admired and...
Towering over 65 feet high, this majestic Southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) is said to be the oldest living thing...
This mildly potent punch is credited to South Carolina’s oldest and most exclusive social institution, the St. Cecilia...
Berkeley County’s boozy history as a corn-liquor capital during prohibition
Lowcountry anglers will tell you that fall’s the best time to cast for Sciaenops ocellatus, the state’s most popular...
This forbidding-looking structure at 21 Magazine Street holds a darker, more haunting side of Charleston history....
Few would argue that the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is among the most charming members of the Lowcountry...
On July 16, 2005, the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge (named for the state senator who spearheaded the campaign for its...
Of all the stinging, biting, buzzing insects inhabiting the Lowcountry, mosquitoes may bug us most. Some 3,200 species...
The early 18th-century British explorer Mark Catesby called this tall, slender perennial grass the “sea-side oat,”...
One writer’s annual search for native spring wildflowers evokes memories of her Lowcountry upbringing and her beloved...
