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Early America, like today, had its controversial figures. Most early colonists came to America to acquire land and establish a home without much interference from a strong government and certainly no unnecessary taxes. The first European settlers who arrived in…
Living, learning, relating to others. It all comes down to you and me and how we manage our conduct in light of our philosophies, our political and social biases, our love and compassion for each other, our dislike for each…
An Ancient Place in Ireland The world is full of old structures that we modern folks have not yet figured out exactly how or why they were built. Two popular places that readily come to mind are Stonehenge and the…
French explorer Samuel de Champlain first came to North America in 1603 and began laying the groundwork for French occupation of much of what is now Canada and the Mississippi River valley of the United States. At about the same…
Charlotta Drayton understood where she and her home fit into her family’s and her nation’s history. Born in 1884 into one of Charleston, South Carolina’s oldest and most influential families, she grew up listening to her parents and grandparents discussing…
Somewhere in the middle between the size of our vast universe and a tiny neutrino are human beings. We do not know the exact size of the universe. We know it is massive. The farthest we have seen so far…
Following America’s war of independence, 1775 – 1783, Charleston, South Carolina native, John Faucheraud Grimke’, born in 1752, became a successful lawyer, judge, legislator, mayor of Charleston, plantation owner, slave owner, and wrote books on South Carolina law that were…
There is never a good side to a war. But one of its byproducts is that sometimes the people dislocated by it are able to put their talents and abilities to good use in their new home. This was the…
Henry Woodward comes into history as a twenty-year-old on June 22, 1666 aboard the ship Berkeley Bay on a voyage of exploration with Lt. Col. Robert Sandford. They along with twenty others in two small ships had sailed south from…
Having been founded by primarily English and Barbadian settlers in 1670, by 1700 Charles Towne in what is now South Carolina was growing rapidly. The town site had been moved from its original 1670 location on the west side of…
