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The South Carolina Historical Society has launched a podcast that digs into its vault to unearth stories not yet told within the physical museum space. It is one of the latest moves by the group to make history more accessible, after cutting its admission price at 100 Meeting St. to $1 permanently .
Charleston Museum tries on a 'Killer Fashion' exhibit ahead of permanent addition The project began earlier this year as a way to tap into the society's private collection. Episodes include detailed stories of interesting locals, both famous and not, based on documents. The society’s librarian, Sydney Derrick , said she got the idea from her research to curate engaging social media posts.
The S.C. Historical Society Museum on Meeting Street has more than 2 million documents in its collection.
“I was finding great stories in my research for those, but they needed a longer-format medium. So a podcast was born,” Derrick said. Titled " From the Vault ," episodes will drop monthly on Spotify , Amazon and Apple Podcasts and can be found by searching South Carolina Historical Society.
For now, most will revolve around the American Revolution era. “The goal is to tell the stories of all South Carolinians, so some of the research is reading between the lines of those whose stories are already well-documented for information about other people in their lives,” Derrick said. “Our episode on Susannah Smith Elliott Carnes is an example of that, as well as the episode on Ballifo , who was an enslaved man captured by British soldiers during the Revolutionary War .
” The longtime flat-fee main parking lot at Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum (partly visible, near top left) was closed this month and relocated to a privately managed hourly lot as part of a redevelopment project. It's now pricier to park at Patriots Point. Visitors to the state-owned military maritime museum, the waterfront home of the aircraft carrier Yorktown and destroyer Laffey in Mount Pleasant, are being steered to a new privately managed lot where rates start at $2.
50 for 30 minutes, or $5 an hour, with a $35 daily maximum. The previous parking area, which has been closed, charged a flat fee of $5. The new lot is past the museum's gift shop and is operated by Palmetto Parking .
The changes took effect Sept. 16. For now, the shuttered area can still be used to handle overflow traffic — until it's needed for the future Patriots Annex redevelopment project.
Parking for the museum's Operation Overnight camping program has a separate flat rate, according to Patriots Point. North Charleston hotel will still rent rooms after conversion, just not to visitors Today's Top Headlines Story continues below Helene pummeled parts of SC with wicked winds and driving rain; at least 19 people died. Updated: 3 dead from Tropical Storm Helene identified, Storm knocks out power for 92% of Aiken Electric customers Live updates: SC death toll from Helene climbs to 19 after 2 more found dead in Spartanburg County Helene's water dump in Upstate pushes rivers and streams to brink Celebrated Southern restaurant announces sudden closure after 23 years in Charleston Historic Aiken home goes on the market following owner's federal indictment.
Here's the listing price. 'It was scary.' Midlands residents in Tropical Storm Helene's path recall close calls, trees falling Live updates: Helene damage leaves thousands without power and injures multiple in Midlands 2 SC restaurants landed on the New York Times' list of 'America's Best restaurants' Feds worried about western areas of SC, citing floods, possible dam failures and post-Helene deaths A West Ashley hotel is currently under contract for an undisclosed price, according to a database kept by a commercial real estate firm.
The 77-key Clarion Pointe Charleston at 2455 Savannah Highway near Dobbin Road was built in 2006. The property was last sold to North Carolina-based MSP Hotel Inc. The property was listed on Marcus & Millichap 's website .
Also on on the market is the 95-room Avid hotel at 301 Holiday Drive in Summerville. The IHG -branded lodging was built in 2021. According to LoopNet, an online listing site for commercial properties, the asking price for the hotel near Azalea Square is $14 million, or about $147,368 per room.
The owner is Summerville Lodging LLC , which shares the same Orangeburg address as Courtesy Management . Charleston International passenger traffic ticked up in August. Passenger traffic at Charleston International edged up 1 percent in August to 541,439 arrivals and departures, bringing the year-to-date total to more than 4.
2 million. The newly figure did not include the 15 percent surge CHS reported for Labor Day weekend, which will be reflected in September's numbers released next month. The airport has topped last year's passenger volume every month in 2024.
It's about 1.8 million passengers shy of its record 6-million milestone recorded in 2023. A polished legacy: Nelson Bumpers, longtime Charleston Place shoe shiner, remembered A long list of hotels, meeting destinations and tourism organizations across South Carolina have been nominated as tops in their fields by a regional trade publication.
Convention South Readers’ Choice awards recognizes different facets of the hospitality industry across 16 states. Properties in the Charleston area that are in the running for a nod include Embassy Suites by Hilton Charleston Harbor Mount Pleasant , The Francis Marion Hotel , Grand Bohemian Charleston , Kiawah Island Golf Resort , The Mills House , The Vendue , The View at Morrison Yard , Tides Folly Beach and Wild Dunes Resort . Voting — at conventionsouth.
com/2024-readers-choice-awards-voting — ends Wednesday, Oct. 2. Charleston's building arts college reshapes, relocates its blacksmith program.
