Lean on Me

In 2001, West Ashley resident Jo Carson strolled the beach with her husband, Larry, after finishing chemotherapy, and quietly gathered white oyster shells. “I’ll make an angel out of these,” she thought. Little did she know the shells would lead far beyond a healing...

For the Love of Folly

Stratton Lawrence first fell in love with Folly Beach from a photograph. It was a simple black and white of the Morris Island lighthouse hanging on his friend’s dorm room wall at Davidson College and without knowing where the photo was taken, Lawrence knew he wanted...

Sanford Victory Pre-Determined By Redistricting Shenanigans

­If state Democrats want to win big elections like the one they lost Tuesday on the coast, they’re going to have to get busy and retake control of the state Senate. Why? Because the outcome of Tuesday’s election was practically determined two years before the special...

Crisp, Creamy, Bitter

The warm and muggy days of summer are quickly approaching and one category of beer that goes hand in hand with summer is the wheat beers from Belgium, Germany, and the U.S. While the American wheat beers of the late ’80s and early ’90s were a pale imitation of their...

Getting Out There

I’ve decided to try something different. This new thing I’m trying is outside my comfort zone. In fact, it involves getting outside, period. As the weekly readers of this column may know, I travel frequently for my job.  And, it’s not the glitz and glamour you may...

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