Finding "My" Charleston…Digging down on the block I live on…to see what I can find.

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  • The Revolutionary War—1782 and the Letters of Eliza Wilkinson

    I also found this book when I first started researching Charleston and put it on my shelf. It took me four years but once I seriously went looking for a few women to write about, I read it through and fell in love with Eliza. She was not strictly in my neighborhood…but in the next…

  • A Few Women around my Neighborhood…

    A Few Women around my Neighborhood…

    Like with the history of the slaves in Charleston, much work has been done also on women. My little bit of history writing eventually settled on telling the stories of the local women. As I’ve said before, most early history books of the early days of most American cities and towns are written to a…

  • The Cemetery in the Parking Lot…

    First, Dr. Sally Lorbach, Executive Director of Canterbury House, ended her brief history of the building of Canterbury in our monthly newsletter in 2022, with a surprise…for me, anyway…I will quote her: “A couple of interesting facts about Canterbury House property prior to its construction… The last post was about the building of Canterbury’s new…