The remnants of the original Keith School stand in front of the Keith School Museu, which is located next to Nelliefield Plantation on Clements Ferry Road.
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Weathered bricks and foundation fragments are all that remains of the original Keith School.
The Clements Ferry Road schoolhouse served African American students during South Carolina’s Jim Crow era. Built solely by community volunteers, the school operated from 1926 to 1956 when students transferred to the brand-new Cainhoy school. The building was then used as a community center until it was destroyed during Hurricane Hugo in 1989.
The surviving bricks and mortar – enclosed by a fence like a memorial garden – are important relics of life in Wando and Huger rural communities.
No tears were flowing as Gregory
tattooed Tom Ratzloff.
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I’m an illustrated man.
My AARP-grade skin was basically an empty canvas a week ago, save for stretch marks and a scar from a girl’s razor-sharp fingernails during a fourth-grade playground marble tussle.
Today, I’m inked, thanks to artist Denise Fuhr Gregory of Lowcountry Tattoos, which is located at 1068 Clements Ferry Road in Wando.
Philip Simmons’ blacksmith shop on Charleston’s East Blake Street is an endangered American treasure, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
On Saturday it felt like sacred ground as the Daniel-Island-born master artisan, 95, and the veteran Civil Rights campaigner, Georgia Congressman John Lewis, 67, sat together on the wrought-iron bench Simmons designed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ refusal to move to the back of a bus.
Last month I wrote about a carriage tour that felt more like a kidnapping than a heavenly afternoon in downtown Charleston.
The problem was our guide – "Jeb" – a cocksure young driver who tormented us with a boring, one-dimensional portrait of this celebrated coastal city. During our rolling tour past Charleston’s amazing historic landmarks, this doofus instead drove us to distraction.
