Old granite fountains for horses, dogs and other thirsty four-leggers still stand across S.C.
GEORGETOWN — Before Paige Sawyer begins one of his walking tours, the self-described “seventh-generation South Carolina redneck” tells his customers to meet him at the fountain. By that he means the big, brown polished granite bowl that sits atop a base and...
From All Directions: America’s Become a Place For Hate
“You know,” the late William F. Buckley Jr. once mused, “I’ve spent my life separating the right from the kooks.” The conservative commentator was famously pugilistic, an ideological brawler, in fact, unrelentingly caustic, if eruditely...News From Around the South, 8/25 to 9/1
SOUTH CAROLINA: A Charleston museum debuts SC-centric Revolutionary War exhibit CHARLESTON — A new Revolutionary War exhibit in the Holy City is one of several museum displays anticipated to go live this year ahead of the American conflict’s 250th anniversary....
The States and the Presidency
“It is (my) intention to … demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States;...
Watch as Experts Preserve a 249-Year-Old Gunboat That Sank During the American Revolution
Badly damaged during the Battle of Valcour Island, the “Philadelphia” is now the focus of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History In October 1776, a small American fleet clashed with British warships on Lake Champlain during...Obiter Dicta
DONEGAL, Pennsylvania — It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You’re hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Sword swap: Statue of general who died after Battle of Camden briefly disarmed for repair A statue in Maryland’s capital honoring Maj. Gen. Baron Johann DeKalb is looking Read More