A Tasty American Wheat

Full disclosure, friends: I had my first Bell’s Oberon of the year this week. I know, I know. I can hear it now: “Beer Snob, it’s just barely spring! Hey, that’s a wheat beer! A summer beer! Aren’t you a self-proclaimed ‘seasonal drinker?” In my defense, the...

Sue Them All!

You sweated through enough Lowcountry summers and finally bought a backyard pool. Now you float around on your own personal inland ocean, listen to your radio, and enjoy your favorite beverage. Life is good. But while you’re at work one day, a neighborhood kid hops...

Good News Keeps Coming For Palmetto State

With recent doom and gloom columns about the myriad challenges faced by South Carolina, it’s time to take a step back in this season of rebirth and take a good look at other happenings. Yes, one in five South Carolinians live in poverty and need health insurance. But...

Full Nelson

When West Of last interviewed young Tyler Nelson in 2012 he was a budding wrestling talent. Wrestling at 55 pounds, Tyler had just won the state title in only his first year of real organized wrestling. People began to notice that Tyler had a knack for the sport, a...

Time Machine … Engaged!

Middleton Place will host a reenactment of U.S. Gen. Nathaniel Greene’s encampment there during the Revolutionary War this weekend. Costumed historians will portray the Continental Army sent here in the fall of 1782 by Greene’s superior officer, Gen. George...

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