And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Daniel Island near Charleston. That's where I'd live if I had my druthers. Pluff mud. Seafood. BBQ. Gators laying about near any water. Lordy, what's not to love!
The thing is you saw the change from happy place to too many people. Pining for what once was but knowing it never can be again grew too great. So you beat it for a new happy place unspoiled by teeming masses. But who have you invaded? For years I've told newcomers to keep their trap shut, just watch and listen. Don't even vote in local elections. Because here is not there. It is why you moved to here from there. Don't make here into there.
I grew up on Tradd Street, South of Broad. Charleston has not been itself in over 30 years. Glad I left. The newcomers (Yankees) are embarrassed by its great history.
Yeah, I grew up there. I'm an SOB (South of Broad). Pluff mud, 5-cent bags of boiled peanuts in Battery Park, steamed oysters, real barbecue sauce, sailing, slate roofs, shark's teeth, shiny exposed brick on lower Church Street, CDS on Elliot Street... So many memories, some gone now. I left in 1975, visited in 1994, to show my wife where I grew up. You can't go home again.
The American Southeast is way too hot, too humid, too buggy and frequent hurricanes worry me. That is why I live on the plains within sight of Pikes Peak, in Colorado. No humidity. When the sun goes down it cools off at least 20 degrees in both the summer and winter. No bugs. And besides an occasional blizzard in the winter, the wind is a breeze and not a hurricane.
Too damn hot this time of year. Can't beat winters though.
ReplyDeleteThanks CW and yeah anonymous, it does get a trifle warm this time of year. Wednesday thru Friday heat indexes are forecasted to be 107, 108, 111.
ReplyDeleteDaniel Island near Charleston. That's where I'd live if I had my druthers. Pluff mud. Seafood. BBQ. Gators laying about near any water. Lordy, what's not to love!
DeleteBorn & lived in Charleston for 55yrs, best thing I ever did was move out of SC & I doubt I'll ever go back. Too many invaders ruined the place.
ReplyDeleteI hear you loud and clear.
DeleteThe thing is you saw the change from happy place to too many people.
Pining for what once was but knowing it never can be again grew too great. So you beat it for a new happy place unspoiled by teeming masses.
But who have you invaded?
For years I've told newcomers to keep their trap shut, just watch and listen. Don't even vote in local elections.
Because here is not there. It is why you moved to here from there. Don't make here into there.
I grew up on Tradd Street, South of Broad. Charleston has not been itself in over 30 years. Glad I left. The newcomers (Yankees) are embarrassed by its great history.
ReplyDeleteWonderful history.
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ReplyDeleteSo, you were there with my good friend, John Sullivan. And the late Pat Conroy. BTW, Beaufort ain't ruined yet.
DeleteThat somehow keeps electing Lindsay Graham....so there is that...
ReplyDeleteYeah, I grew up there. I'm an SOB (South of Broad).
ReplyDeletePluff mud, 5-cent bags of boiled peanuts in Battery Park, steamed oysters, real barbecue sauce, sailing, slate roofs, shark's teeth, shiny exposed brick on lower Church Street, CDS on Elliot Street...
So many memories, some gone now.
I left in 1975, visited in 1994, to show my wife where I grew up.
You can't go home again.
The American Southeast is way too hot, too humid, too buggy and frequent hurricanes worry me. That is why I live on the plains within sight of Pikes Peak, in Colorado. No humidity. When the sun goes down it cools off at least 20 degrees in both the summer and winter. No bugs. And besides an occasional blizzard in the winter, the wind is a breeze and not a hurricane.
ReplyDeleteTheir crescent always turns me off.
ReplyDeletePogan's Porch in Charleston. Great southern food.
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