West Ashley Flashback — Sometimes Sugar is Good for You
Recalling traveling salesman’s role in polio immunizations Community is built by many and yet each individual adds an important element to history and its legacy. Some build houses. Some build schools. Some build churches. Some organize clubs. Some gather us for our...
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West Ashley Wanderer — Cooking Up a Blessing
by Joan Perry | Contributing Writer They might not look like traditional elves, but they manage a busy workshop filled with happy chaos, they checklists, and fill something more important than stockings all year round. They fill hungry bellies. Both West Ashley...
West Ashley Flashback — ShaMelLon’s Golden Anniversary
Looking back at the first 50 years of the Shaftsbury, Melrose, and Longbranch neighborhoods Flower Power was a popular peace slogan in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Over time, the ladies that formed neighborhood garden clubs may have seen the power of the flower...
West Ashley Wanderer — Say Yes to the Dress
A comfy, $25 dress on Amazon brings local women together by Joan Perry | Contributing Writer Reviewing past event pictures on my phone, I discovered to my slight embarrassment that I’d been wearing the same colorful, affordable, one piece, washable, dress from Amazon...
Every Picture Tells a Story
As the old idiom says, they are worth a thousand words Sometimes it takes a while to learn the full story that the photograph tells, unless one is very lucky and the photographer inscribed it on the back. The lack of dates, names or details is the norm for many...
West Ashley Wanderer — For the Love of Gates
West Ashley gates are full of color and character I take a lot of photographs. I take so many that they eventually fall into categories. I have collections of tiny houses, sidewalk graffiti, murals, heart-shaped symbols, and favored trees. When I noticed there was a...
West Ashley Flashback — “INTERESTing” Across the Ashley
“INTERESTing” Across the Ashley Facebook, Instagram. Twitter. These are the mechanisms of modern social networking. Jump back a few decades (maybe 8 or more) and the newspaper was the mechanism for learning about the social workings of the community. The News &...
West Ashley Wanderer — Unearthing the Past
Charles Towne Landing is a hotbed of history right in our backyard by Joan Perry | Contributing Writer My weekly walk along the nature paths at Charles Towne Landing takes me by the excavation tent and I’ve often tried to peek in the windows. Staff archaeologist...
West Ashley Flashback — Reel-to-Reel
Decades later, the “Avondale Movie” provides a historic trip down the memory lane of one of West Ashley’s oldest business districts Sometime during the 1950s, a business entrepreneur was considering opening a liquor store in the Avondale Business District. In order to...
West Ashley Wanderer — West Ashley Lends a Hand
by Joan Perry | Contributing Writer Years ago I visited an elderly neighbor before his move to a retirement home. He mentioned that things had become so difficult, even driving to get his hair cut had become impossible. I felt ashamed. I’d lived next door to him and...
A Standing Ovation — A Standing Ovation
Remembering Bernard “Fess” Hester and the many productions he brought to the St. Andrew’s High stage Over the years there have been a few West Ashley Flashback columns featuring the musicals produced by the students of St. Andrew’s Parish High School, which was the...
