March 2025
Spring AheadAs we put the finishing touches on this issue, the sun’s shining in a baby-blue sky, and temps are warming. Hallelujah! It’s a welcome reprieve from our uncommonly frigid and gray January and a harbinger for beautiful spring days ahead. For me, March always marks a return of the city’s vibrancy with its plethora of events and celebrations—Charleston Wine + Food (March 5-9), Historic Charleston Foundation’s expansive Charleston Festival (March 13- April 13), and the many home and garden tours—luring me from hibernation to get out and explore.
February 2025
Shell, Yeah!When it comes to oysters, there’s not a whole lot of wiggle room—people either love them or hate them. I’m happy to report I’m from “Camp Love ’em!”—whether they’re roasted, fried, smoked, broiled, or (my personal favorite) chilled and briny on the half shell.
January 2025
Golden YearY’all should see my office right now. It’s the kind of chaos only a half-century of content could create. You read that right; Charleston, “the city magazine since 1975,” is turning the big 5-0 this year! For many months, I have been flipping through my archive of back issues, from the very first in August 1975—with its watercolor of the French Huguenot Church by Virginia Fouche Bolton on the cover (below)—and through the decades. So you can imagine the piles of magazines, dog-eared and sticky-noted, that surround me.