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Folly Beach
4-9 May 2025 With a name referencing the 17th-century meaning of “folly” (densely packed with trees and undergrowth), Folly Island’s first official mention is a land grant document from King William III to one William Rivers, dated 9 September 1696. The island was home to members of the Bohicket tribe until the increasing number of…
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Ft. Sumter
7 May 2025 On Wednesday morning we took advantage of the Hampton Inn parking policy that allowed us to leave our car in the hotel garage until we left the Holy City for Folly Beach later in the day. After breakfast on the patio, we walked the short distance from Meeting Street down Calhoun to…
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Magnolia Plantation
6 May 2025 On our second full day in Charleston, we set out for Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, a 30-minute drive northwest from the Charleston Visitors Center to the 390 acres of the original 1,872 along the Ashley River. One of the oldest in the South, the plantation dates to 1679, when Thomas and Ann…
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Low Country Visit/Charleston
4-5 May 2025 Gosh, the Uber driver who returned me to the Charleston Airport last Friday, born in Dubai to Pakistani parents, is a well-educated former business analyst and a naturalized citizen who believes that America is the land of opportunity. Despite losing his desk job and subsequently maintaining a brutal driving schedule five days…
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April 2025
3 May 2025 April may not be the cruelest month, but this one certainly has been crowded with incident. My neighbor Leo turned 7 on the 5th, David Letterman 78 on the 12th; my dad George would have been 103 on the 22nd, also my parents’ 78th anniversary. And some would reckon the U.S. turned…
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“Spring” Experience
31 March 2025 This liminal season, late March in New Hampshire, challenges body and spirit as the weather toggles back and forth between spring promise and winter redux. Waking this Saturday morning to sleet on the newly uncovered deck furniture left me out-of-sorts, uncertain of how to make best use of the day. Friday the…
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New Orleans Revisited
5-9 March 2025 My much-anticipated visit to dear friends in New Orleans got off to a rocky start a week ago when 15 minutes en route to the Manchester airport, I suddenly could not remember lifting my carry-on suitcase into the hatch of my GTI. A look in the review mirror confirmed it wasn’t there,…
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Performance
4 March 2025 Hard to process, the nauseating, preposterous attack on a genuine hero, Volodymyr Zelensky, perpetrated by the Felon-in-Chief and his Smarmy Vice Suckup last Friday in the Oval Office, where only days before the Unelected Muskrat’s spawn picked his nose and wiped the results on the Resolute desk, an apt summation of the…
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In transition
17 February 2025 Stopping mid-ascent on the stairs yesterday, I spied through the northwest window a small hawk having Sunday brunch at the expense of a fellow feathered creature, whose scattered plumage scudded across snow sculpted smooth by the prevailing wind. Not until I dug out the front entrance and made my way to inspect…
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