“…to catch lightning in a bottle…”: A Boy’s Fishing Trip with His Father.
One partly cloudy afternoon an inquisitive young boy looked up into the sky. His father watched as his son stood silhouetted in the late afternoon ... Keep Reading
Discovering Diamondback Terrapins
If you were a Lowcountry artist, looking for a beautiful subject, you might look closely at one of our resident salt marsh reptiles, the diamondback ... Keep Reading
Beating the Odds: Sea Turtle Survival
About 30 years ago, a loggerhead hatchling sea turtle emerged with a hundred others from one sandy hole on a dark Hilton Head ... Keep Reading
The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893
On Sunday night, August 27, 1893, the eye of the huge, slow-moving Category 3 hurricane landed just south of Savannah. It ripped ... Keep Reading
A Christmas Tradition that Originates in the Lowcountry
There’s a rich, sometimes quirky history behind our holiday traditions. Most of the ones we still observe today originated in ‘Merry Olde England,’ ... Keep Reading
