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Love of reading letter wins February Golden Pen
We get a lot of letters to the editor about libraries these days: From the far right, they argue that anything that even alludes to sex is “pornographic.” From the far left, they pretend that we are turning our backs on the First Amendment and all that is good about America at the suggestion that…
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Raising Readers
Raising readers The concern lately over which books we can read and where those books will be made available is disquieting, but I felt hope blossom on a recent visit to my local library. I parked in the overly full lot and joined a steady stream of folks, most under 3 years old, entering the…
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Baseball Season in Charleston
Baseball season The breeze from the Ashley River carries a rising murmur of voices throughout the ballpark. The organ plays, the crowd rises. “Play Ball!” It’s baseball season in Charleston. Amid cries of “Peanuts, hot boiled peanuts” and “Hot dogs, get your hottttt dogs,” one team takes the field. The other team lines up to…
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County Fair Memories
Letters: Fall days bring back county fair memories County fair season is upon us, a time for eating sugar-sprinkled fried dough, salty cups of fries, smoked turkey legs and wonderfully random treats deep-fried or dipped in chocolate. But looking back on 40-plus years of county fair attendance, those trips seem less about food and more…
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Ice Cream Memories, July 5, 2023
Letters: Ice cream brings back special memories My memories of ice cream are three-fold, involving adventure, excitement and comfort. When I was very small growing up in Massachusetts, I sometimes accompanied my grandfather to purchase pints of black raspberry and pistachio ice cream at Porter’s, a tiny stand at the end of his street. The flavors…
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Signs of Winter, November 20, 2021
Signs of winter Post & Courier, November 20, 2021 The approach of winter here in the Lowcountry is marked by the hoot of an owl, a sound not noticed or heard in the heat of summer, when the air is heavy and thick, and the constant hum of air conditioning and the whir and click…
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Two Great Airshows, April 24, 2022
Two great air shows Post & Courier, April 24, 2022 I was lucky enough to watch the recent Joint Base Charleston air show featuring the Blue Angels from the comfort of my driveway. Three jets swooped and veered above my neighborhood pond, crossing the blue bowl of Sunday sky in unison, a feat that caused me to…
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Make Good Memories at Summer Camp, June 8, 2022
Letters: Make good memories at summer camp Lowcountry children will soon be heading to summer camp. My three children attended Camp St. Christopher on Seabrook Island, happily dragging steamer trunks behind them. They slept in bunks, lulled to sleep by wind and waves. They went kayaking. They went sailing. They leaped into the pluff mud pit…
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The Irresistible Pull of Cursive Writing, August 12, 2022
Letters: The irresistible pull of cursive writing I don’t remember learning to write. I’ve just always known how. The curved C’s, the spiked T’s, the loops of lowercase L’s flowed from my fingers at an age so young that memory doesn’t bookmark the event. But on my first report card, a red Unsatisfactory “U” in…
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Typing Out Memories, November 21, 2022
Typing out memories, Post & Courier It is fall in the Lowcountry, and my thoughts travel not to multicolored leaves and apple pies, but to a long-ago typing class in New England. On a frosty night, halfway between summer and snow, I trudged to night school at Hesser College, a tiny secretarial school in a…
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