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CALENDAR:  Celebrating the Fourth of July

CALENDAR:  Celebrating the Fourth of July

Staff reports  |  There are endless ways to celebrate the nation’s independence Thursday, ranging from cheering the annual Salute from the Shore flyover along the coast (about 1:10 p.m. to 1:24 p.m. along the Charleston County coast) to enjoying fireworks, which can be watched during celebrations at Patriots Point, Isle of Palms, Sullivan’s Island, North Charleston, Summerville, Folly Beach and Edisto Beach.  We continue to maintain that the best place to see lots of fireworks is someplace up high, such as the round Holiday Inn on the Ashley River in Charleston.  

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Three members of the cast of Shear Madness.

CALENDAR:  The Pearl Theatre to offer its first production June 13-30S

Staff reports  |  Charleston Stage’s first show produced at its new Pearl Theatre in West Ashley opens June 13 and runs through June 30.
You’ll love the hilarious whodunit, Shear Madness, the longest-running play in American theatre history.  You’ll be able to follow the trail of clues and get to vote on each turn in the road in a hilarious murder mystery unlike any you have ever seen.

Also inside: Gaillard events; Presidential town hall; Hat Day; Charleston Carifest; more.

by · 06/09/2019 · Comments are Disabled · calendar, Features
PALMETTO POEM: Four eyes

PALMETTO POEM: Four eyes

By Molly Braedon McConnell, special to Charleston Currents

sometimes i take off my glasses               throw away the contact lenses in my cabinet               and               i blur my eyes on purpose               cross them               play double-dutch with my pupils               the lack of focus makes things               better               i can’t explain it               how those little moments in between it all               make everything soft               like living room drapes in old movies  …

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MYSTERY PHOTO: Green Art

MYSTERY PHOTO: Green Art

This creative topiary had a guest photographer laughing so hard that he forgot to write down the location.  We now know where it is.  Do you?   Send your guess to mailto:editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo: Our April 15 mystery, “What is this photo all about?” was a photo from the 1954 election campaign of Charleston’s Ernest F. Hollings when he won the seat to be South Carolina’s lieutenant governor.

by · 04/29/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Features
PALMETTO POEM: Where Your Soul Belongs

PALMETTO POEM: Where Your Soul Belongs

By Matthew Foley, special to Charleston Currents

I know you’ve heard it
all the days of your life.

A voice,
quietly calling.

A song,
for your ears alone.

Over and over again,it has called your name,
pulled you like the moon
calls home the tide. …

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FOCUS: New literary and art collection features S.C. writers, artists

FOCUS: New literary and art collection features S.C. writers, artists

Editor Carol Bass, who lives iduring winter months on Edisto Island, offers an outstanding and fascinating array of poems, paintings, prose and photographs in a new collection, “Ripple Effect: Water Stories.” It includes some of South Carolina’s best writers and artists, such as Jim Harrison, Ben Moise, Josephine Humphreys, Ron Rash and our own Marjory Wentworth.

Bass, who grew up along the Edisto River, described the collection in the preface: “This book, filled with writing and art, was born from my love of a river and my hopes that through art, poetry and love we will grow to understand that rivers are our very own selves.  All rivers of the world are connected to each other just like we are connected to every other person on earth.” Click headline for more — and a great poem.

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PALMETTO POEM: One River, One Boat

PALMETTO POEM: One River, One Boat

By Marjory Wentworth
Because our history is a knot
we try to unravel, while others
try to tighten it, we tire easily
and fray the cords that bind us.

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PALMETTO POEM:  In December Artroom

PALMETTO POEM:  In December Artroom

By Kit Loney, republished with permission

Here is how you get filing cabinets to fly:
Begin with stuffing drawers bulge with pictures–
dragonflies, butterflies, all things on wings.

Airplanes and rocket ships, dancers,
sports page clippings of leaping athletes.
Jam more pictures: Leonardo‘s helicopters,

by · 12/03/2018 · 1 comment · Features, Palmetto Poem
POEM, Rutledge:  On the Fourth Day

POEM, Rutledge:  On the Fourth Day

By Jeremy Rutledge, special to Charleston Currents

On the fourth day
of physical therapy
the material
turned to metaphor

all of us working
to find our weaknesses
and give them
our attention.

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POEMS: Two works by Libby Bernardin

POEMS: Two works by Libby Bernardin

On Waking With Anxiety
By Libby Bernardin

The Pacific could belch up a tsunami
churned from the sea’s floor

a roar of sucking air pulls water back
as it meets shore—

you could be caught unaware
by this wave on its way

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