The Post and Courier’s former executive editor, Autumn Phillips, has died. She was 52. She was known for her long travel stories and her dedication to journalism.
To see Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Middleton Place or McLeod Plantation is to walk through two epochs simultaneously, and to risk tripping over the lingering detritus of history.
As a philanthropist, Martha Ingram was unlikely to provide financial support only; she joined boards, spearheaded projects, campaigned hard and ensured that others were invested in these enterprises.
So-called “sponge cities” reduce the severity of flooding, and the damage such flooding causes, while also improving biodiversity and resiliency, and reducing the heat island effect.
Archaeology and DNA testing combined have resulted in the identification of one of the young American soldiers who fought the British in the Battle of Camden.
Robert Smith was an unusual member of the Church of England’s clergy: He was a fierce Patriot who inspired his influential Charleston congregation at St. Philip’s Church.
A restored 30-minute documentary about the 1969 Charleston hospital workers strike called “I Am Somebody” will be made widely available on home video, DVD and Amazon Video on Feb. 20.
Bree Newsome Bass is best known for her act of civil disobedience on June 27, 2015, at the Statehouse during a rally following the Emanuel AME Church shooting 10 days earlier.
Nearly 30 years later, the church can finish that essential detail, thanks to an anonymous $160,000 gift, according to Jack McGovern, director of stewardship at Blessed Sacrament.
