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When it comes to hosting a Thanksgiving gathering at your home, whether this is your first year, or your 20th, it’s always nice to incorporate some new and exciting ideas into your tablescape. With its unique mix of southern history, "water-centric " coastal lifestyle, and rustic Lowcountry charm, Charleston offers up an unlimited array of Thanksgiving

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By Susan Buck, PhD, Art Conservator and Paint Analyst There is a certain delight that comes with being asked to write about my work as a Paint Analyst and Art Conservator for the Historic Charleston Foundation. This is the perfect clear, cool week to be in Charleston studying the surviving paint and original construction evidence

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Late last year we took time to explore a large tract of land on Hwy. 61 between West Ashley and Summerville. It was right in the middle of the Ashley River Historic Plantation District but, having been particularly touched by the ravages of time, it had become a largely wooded, and marshy old phosphate strip

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By Terry Bell-Aby, Realtor, CNE, Luxury Simplified Real Estate In the 1930’s when Harold Arlen wrote “I love a parade” who would have envisioned families, church congregations, drag queens, and rugby players parading one and all down King Street with as many as 10,000 people waving rainbow flags during Charleston’s Pride Parade? Indeed, who could