Posts tagged south carolina
the faux bohemian
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Boo to South of the Border
Making my inability to find South Carolina beer there even worse, I read today that:
“As with other great accidental discoveries like X-rays and penicillin, it took a man of vision to realize SOB’s vast potential. That man was Alan Schafer, who began his rise to roadside immortality in 1950 with a simple beer stand.”
Come on!
Old Bay Marketplace
who shall wear the robe and crown: Just back from my trip to Fayetteville, NC, Beaufort, SC, and Savannah, GA - I expect that uploading photos from this trip should keep me going for a while. This is the Carteret Street Methodist Church in Beaufort, getting ready for the Easter season. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, visited Beaufort and Savannah in the 1730s, and the three Methodist churches in the small town of Beaufort might speak to the impression that he made on the local population.
The Robert Smalls House, in Beaufort, South Carolina. Awesome story about this house - Smalls was born into slavery here, where he worked for the owner (and probably his father), the planter Henry McKee. In 1862, he was working on the CSS Planter, a confederate gunboat, and smuggled his family and three other enslaved families on to the ship after dark, then piloted it to the Union blockade of Charleston, where he and the others received their freedom. Smalls aided the Union army deactivating mines and leading raiding parties into the lowcountry, and used his pay to purchase the house where he was once enslaved. After the war, he was elected one of the first African-American congressmen. Now that’s a story.
