A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
One of the ghost towns I’ve wanted to explore is Kingsbury, in Lancaster County, South Carolina. Located on the Catawba River, Kingsbury started out as a ferry town. It appears on the 1825 Lancaster District Map in Robert Mills’s Atlas of South Carolina. In the late 1700s Andrew McIlwaine chartered a ferry across the Catawba … Read More “From Kingsbury to Stoneboro – Rambling in Lancaster County” »
How’s the house? A casual question,Asked by upon encounter,Much like, “How’s the weather?”,A placeholder for deeper conversation. How’s the house? It’s tarp-covered, leakyWith cracked crumbling plaster,The ceiling open to rafters and wildlife.It sits as it did six months ago. How’s the house? It’s chaotic, A jumble not knowing where anything is,A reminder of too many … Read More “How’s the House?” »
The Edisto River Canoe and Kayak Trail Commission (ERCK) conducts trips on the Edisto River (duh), but for their last scheduled trip for this season they departed from their home river to do a trip on the Combahee. The Combahee is the “C” in the ACE Basin, but I had never paddled it. This looked … Read More “Paddling the Combahee with ERCK” »
OK, dear readers, I’ve been battling a bad case of the flu. I had a blog post about a kayaking trip in the works, but haven’t been able to concentrate long enough to finish writing it. Same goes for research and writing scripts for new podcast episodes. I hate for there to be any interruption … Read More “The Flu interrupts things here” »
I’m getting slack about this. I’ll try to do better. New podcast episode dropped a week ago.
I was browsing through the University of South Carolina’s collection of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. These maps are highly detailed maps of towns and cities from the early 20th Century and are excellent for historical research. According to Wikipedia… Sanborn maps are detailed maps of U.S. cities and towns in the 19th and 20th centuries. Originally … Read More “We’ll Always Have Paris” »