Find out how the purple berry has been used to keep bugs at bay
Learn the long history of Shutes Folly and Castle Pinckney
And why the raptors like to make their nests in the Lowcountry
You can't keep a good hull down
Created in 1903 on the upper west side of the Charleston peninsula, Hampton Park is the city’s largest park. The 61-...
The building now houses the South Carolina Historical Society Museum
Find out why they're so hard to catch
Learn more about this familiar Carolina native
Charleston is famous for its multi-steepled skyline and with some 400 houses of worship on the peninsula alone, one can...
Why the once rare birds are increasingly being spotted in Charleston
Oh, what tangled webs they weave—huge, remarkably intricate nets that can be as large as six feet across. Strong enough...
The colorful flower has deep roots in the Lowcountry
How they navigate those big ships into port
Named for the richly colored zigzag pattern resembling lightning bolts on the shells of juveniles, the lightning whelk...
And how not to get it confused with dolphin
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For more than 260 years, this iconic building has served as a commercial exchange and custom house, watch house, public...
Charleston’s oldest surviving public building was designed for a special purpose—to store gunpowder.
Tracing the origins of a holiday decorating tradition
This is Lowcountry cooking: a simple, yet flavorful, one-pot meal that combines fresh local shrimp, corn on the cob,...
Brightly striped and spotted in orange and black, the colorful Gulf fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) is a familiar sight...
Gossypium has been spun as “the fabric of our lives” for good reason. Scientists have discovered evidence of cotton...
Ghost crabs scuttle across the sand faster than you can say Ocypode quadrata, the scientific name for this sand crab...
What started out as informal races in the late1700s between oar-powered plantation boats carrying crops to town became...
Anywhere sharks have swum, their teeth are sure to be found. And Lowcountry rivers and beaches provide bountiful...
Avenues of oaks and their deep-rooted history in Charleston
From Edisto and Beaufort to McClellanville and Georgetown, each morning during shrimp season the air fills with the...
On March 18, 1839, the Irish organization known as the Hibernian Society laid the first cornerstone for a new hall at...
Explorer John Lawson—who visited South Carolina in 1700—gives an apt introduction to Aix sponsa, whose nicknames...
