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"REAL Charleston News Summer 2008"
WHAT'S GOING ON IN
CHARLESTON...
Summer in Charleston offers an entertaining variety of family
events and outdoor recreation in numerous locations throughout
the sunny, coastal setting.
A traditionally-popular activity is enjoying Charleston Riverdogs professional baseball in the breezy riverside setting
of Joseph P.Riley, Jr. Park. More than three dozen homes games
are on tap at "The Joe" for the Summer of 2008, played in
one of America's most fan-friendly environments. Live music,
video screen and LED scoreboard, fireworks displays and and
outstanding mall-like concession area are only some of the
reasons Riverdogs games have been hugely popular since the
franchise came to Charleston in 1997. Part of the New York
Yankees farm system, the talented team features baseball stars
of the future, as players and fans alike bask in coastal breezes
as sunsets fade over the scenic Ashley River. For ticket
information call 843-577-3647 or e-mail
Admin@RiverDogs.com
Summer sailing regattas are long-standing traditions in the
Charleston area, drawing a very competitive and social crowd.
Even for those who don't sail, the scenes of colorful sails
battling for position in stiff sea breezes is a great visual
experience along Charleston's Battery or Waterfront Park. Summer
regattas include, the James Island Regatta on June 16th and
17th, the Charleston Yacht Club regatta on July 19th and 20th,
the Carolina Yacht Club regatta on July 26th and 27, and the
Rockville Regatta on August 2 and 3.
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Farmers Market
Mount
Pleasant:
Tuesdays and Saturdays are eagerly anticipated in the Charleston
area during the Summer, with popular Farmers Markets offering
the best fresh lowcountry produce. The Mount Pleasant Farmers
Market is held each Tuesday, from 3 p.m. until dark, at Moultrie
Middle School on Coleman Blvd. Sweet honeydews, watermelons and
cantaloupes, zesty peppers, home -baked cakes and pies,
individually-canned jellies, fresh fruits and pit-cooked
barbeque are only some of the fabulous fare that lures folks
from all over the area. Admission and parking are free, as is
the live music. Call 843-884-8517, ext. 578 for additional
information.
Farmers Market
downtown Charleston:
Summer Saturday mornings are deliciously lively at historic
Marion Square, with the ever-popular Charleston Farmers Market.
Here in the scenic heart of the downtown area, people can enjoy
abundant produce from local farms and fields, as well as fresh
flowers, herbs, and plants. Every week brings new forms of live
entertainment and arts and crafts displays, and besides ample
amounts of mouth-watering food to take home, there are vendors
serving fresh breakfasts and brunches as well. For more
information, call 843-724-7305.
For Summer samplings out of the sun, Charleston offers an array
of interesting pursuits from early morning until well after
dark. The South Carolina Aquarium is a showcase of species in a
scenic setting facing Charleston Harbor. Exhibits include the
385,000-gallon Great Ocean Tank,viewable from several levels,
and featuring schools of sharks, grouper, pufferfish and
loggerhead sea turtles.
There is also a Salt Marsh Aviary complete with shorebirds and
varieties of crabs, a Mountain Forest exhibit with splashing
river otters and brook trout, as well as a Coastal Plain gallery
slithering with diamond-back rattlesnakes and alligators. A new
feature this Summer is Camp Carolina, a chance for kids and
parents to grab a sleeping bag and stay in a simulated coastal
forest camp site with live owls, eagles, fish and other
creatures for up-close interactive display.
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CHARLESTON
OUTDOORS - Ghost Tours
Family fun continues after hours in Charleston during Summer
months with the always-entertaining ghost tours and walks.
Charleston is considered to be one of America's most haunted
cities, and there is no shortage of terrifying tales and lurking
legends in old alleys, cellars and creepy graveyards. Several
tour companies offer a full slate of guided walks and tours of
such places as Charleston's Haunted Jail, where inmates were
hanged and tortured in a grisly 1802 structure that stills
stands dark and empty for those who dare enter. Tours also take
visitors through the dungeon of the Old Exchange, where ghosts
of pirates still are said to make chains rattle and swing, as
well as several of Charleston's historic graveyards, were
ghastly "soul effigies" mark faded graves with the chilling
images of those who were said to be buried alive. Ghost tour
information can be obtained from concierges at any local hotel,
or from vendor stands in the City Market area.
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CHARLESTON EXPLORER - Patriots Point
The Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum just cross Charleston
Harbor from the aquarium is another hugely-popular Summer venue
whose centerpiece is the 856-foot U.S.S. Yorktown. Known as "The
Fighting Lady" this famous 33,000-ton aircraft carrier served
from World War II to the Vietnam War, and every deck is crammed
with displays of vintage naval aircraft. From lumbering Tomcat
fighters to sleek F-14 jets, the Yorktown still carries a full
complement of historic fighters, bombers and rescue planes. The
maritime museum also features a Medal of Honor Museum and an
exciting Navy Flight Simulator for those who want to take the
controls in a mock dogfight. There are several other historic
ships on full display, including the U.S.S. Laffey, a destroyer
that survived six kamikaze hits in the Pacific and was known as
"the ship that wouldn't die", as well as the U.S.S. Clamagore,
one of the early diesel submarines, and in whose torpedo decks
visitors can still thrill at battles beneath the sea.
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CHARLESTON ARCHITECTURE - Featured home:
Market Hall
No other Charleston building strikes a grander, more colorful
pose that historic Market Hall at 188 Meeting Street. Built in
1841 in a Roman Revival style designed by famed Charleston
architect Edward Brickell White, the dazzling structure features
an elegant cornice atop four massive Tuscan columns, with a
raised portico lined by wrought-iron railings reached by
handsome brownstone steps atop arcaded loggia on the first
level. The stucco-over-brick exterior includes an ornate frieze
beneath the roof line adorned with reliefs of bull and ram
heads. One of Charleston's prevailing myths states that these
heads indicated the presence of a meat market, and indeed, the
city market sheds behind the Hall did for years include
vegetable an meat vendors. The bull and ram heads, however, are
ancient Roman symbols designating strength and power that were
incorporated by Italian architect Andrea Palladio during the
16th century into the style that became internationally popular
in the 1830's and 40's. Among the historic buildings on which
the Palladian motif of bull and ram heads can be found are
French monasteries, dismissing the myth that such images
designated a meat market. Find out more about Charleston's most famous addresses...
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