Our Charleston, Volume III

Arts & Photography

The Post and Courier

Photography & Video

Evening Post Books

Last summer, 16 skippers set off from Charleston on a 27,000-mile ocean odysey around the world. Each one alone in a boat powered only by the wind. 
Battling time, frigid cold, isolation and waves as tall as buildings, they've raced from South Carolina to South Africa, New Zealand and South America, experiencing adventures they never expected. A former Russian commando was forced to perform surgery on himself while his yacht crashed through the Atlantic. A world-famous female skipper found herself upside down in her boat in the frigid waters off Antarctica, while a wiry Italian braved furious seas to come to her rescue. 
This month, a few of the original 16 will sail the final leg back to Charleston. One will be the victor. But all are heroes. 
An award-winning team of Post and Courier writers and photographers has tracked these daring solo sailors, recording the triumphs and terrors of their trek in hundreds of interviews and vivid color photographs. This action-packed coverage has been compiled into a collectible, hardcover book titled Into the Wind.

Into the Wind, Around Alone: The story of the world's longest race

Sports & Outdoors

Hicks, Brian

Bartelme, Tony

Water Sports

Yancey Yarboro is home from the war and growing tomatoes on his father's ground. Susan Drake, married, beautiful and neglected, lives in a beach house not far away. They have never met, at least not yet. When real estate developers come looking for land to expand a golf course, Yancey wonders if he is about to lose everything. But Yancey has four hundred pounds of marijuana salvaged from a dope run gone awry. And he has Gator Brown, near-sighted hoodoo doctor, whose spiritual machinations sometimes fly wide of the mark. It's the Lowcountry of South Carolina. The jasmine is blooming and the moon and the magic are working overtime.

Reefer Moon

Pinckney, Roger

Literature & Fiction

Take a journey into Chef Charlotte Jenkins' creative kitchen, and also into her life. Charlotte and her husband Frank grew up Gullah at a time when the Old Ways were giving way to the New Ways, part of the generation that bridged those two worlds. Charlotte learned to cook the way her mama, her grandmamma and all the mamas that have come before her - by working alongside one another. She also trained at Johnson &amp; Wales Culinary Institute in Charleston, where she adapted the traditional recipes to be more healthful. In1997, she and her husband Frank opened Gullah Cuisine in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and were widely acknowledged as offering the best of authentic Gullah cooking. This book brings Charlotte's wonderful recipes to you - and more than that. It's a tale of connection, sharing a world the Gullah built. Narrative is by critically-acclaimed author William P. Baldwin, photographs by Pulitzer Prize-nominee Mic Smith, and art by beloved Gullah painter Jonathan Green.

Gullah Cuisine: By Land and by Sea

Biographies & Memoirs

Baldwin, William P.

Professionals & Academics

Strolling through downtown Charleston's four major parks-White Point Garden, Marion Square, Waterfront Park and Washington Square-has just been made easier and more informative with John R. Young's guidebook.With this book, Mr. Young, a registered Charleston tour guide and docent at the Powder Magazine, enables readers to self-tour these parks with the knowledge and authority of a city tour guide. Included in each park's section are the location of the park and a brief history; a map of the monuments, numbered for ease of reference; and the details, history, and full-color picture of each monument described.The book's size, along with its waterproof cover, makes it perfect for stashing in a backpack or purse for the tourist on the go, whether you're from out of town or just down the road.

A Walk in the Parks: The Definitive Guide to Monuments in Charleston’s Major Downtown Parks

Young, John R.

Genre Fiction

Ken Burger uses words like a surgeon's scalpel to peel the skin off his native state, that asylum we all know as South Carolina, exposing its haunted history and some infamously flawed people who crawl out of his mangy imagination.

Sister Santee

Burger, Ken

United States

Bound in handsome bonded leather and trimmed in goldleaf, The Way It Was is the first in the Evening Post Book's Charleston Reader Series. The on-going series will offer snapshots of local history and each volume will be numbered. This first book in the series also includes Blair Halford's images of Ashley Hall, where Author Laura Witte and her five sisters grew up, and a summary history of the school by Dr. IleanaStrauch, an Ashley Hall School alumna. As with the book's previous edition, it contains a superb forward by the late News and Courier columnist "Lord Ashley Cooper," Frank Gilbreth. As Mr. Gilbreth noted in his forward, "Laura Witte, in later life, set down these recollections at the insistence of her children, with no thought of publication. Endowed with a prodigious memory and a natural gift for vivid description, she has given us a picture of Charleston from 1882 to 1895 not found in our history books." An especially interesting book element involves the old images that family members provided, including a rare photograph of a picnic at Middleton Place in the 1880s. Overall, the volume takes to the current day what Tom Waring did in 1980 with his edited version, including an afterward that provides additional historical notes on the Witte, Reeves and Waring families. The new elements serve to link the education and experiences of the Witte girls with a century of educating young ladies at Ashley Hall School. Keen observers of local history may recall with amusement that the Wittes enjoyed exotic pets. Thanks to the input of living family members, the book explains that the black bear was named Frederick and the alligator in the fountain was known as Wishy Washy. Various new details and perspectives help bring this classic memoir into an era in which Ashley Hall begins its second century of educating Lowcountry ladies.

The Way It Was in Charleston, SC

History

Waring, Laura Witte

Americas

When freedom came to enslaved Africans who toiled on rice plantations in lower Berkeley County, South Carolina, many remained to farm the land and raise their families in settlements near the plantation gates. Four generations later, their descendants have shared for the first time family joys and sorrows in Behind God’s Back: Gullah Memories of Cainhoy, Wando, Huger, Daniel Island, St. Thomas Island, South Carolina, by Charleston-based writer Herb Frazier and illustrated with the paintings of Columbia, South Carolina artist John W. Jones. Behind God’s Back is a compilation of accounts of the experiences of Gullah people who struggled after Emancipation, through the Depression and into the middle of the twentieth century to maintain their African-based lifestyles in rural communities near Charleston. Gullah people live in the coastal area of the Southeastern United States. They have preserved more of their African cultural heritage than any other black community in the country.

'Behind God's Back': Gullah Memories: Cainhoy, Wando, Huger, Daniel Island, St. Thomas Island, South Carolina

Frazier, Herb J

Community & Culture

A non-fiction account of an ex-slave's life, this story gives a snapshot view of Charleston from 1862-1931 through the eyes of Janie Mitchell, based on her own writings. Janie Mitchell, Reliable: An ex-slave's recipe for living chronicles Janie's life as well as her relationship with her owners, the Rutledge family, and her later employment with other Charleston families. It offers readers a unique perspective on Charleston during the Civil War and Reconstruction and sheds light on attitudes toward slavery during this time.

Janie Mitchell, Reliable Cook

Lisa Foster

This book of poetry, songs and photographs is a tribute to the faded glory of South Carolina's rural past. It features haunting images of abandoned farmhouses, leaning tobacco barns, and boarded up redbrick towns of another era in Lowcountry South Carolina. Combined with powerful verse, these images inspire an appreciation for the often-overlooked region that is withering away.

The Unpainted South: Carolina's Vanishing World

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