Charleston City Paper Vol 26 Issue 32

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North Charleston’s south end still lacks major grocer

Fiber artist

COOKIE

WASHINGTON goes to D.C.

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Washington keeps quilting alive at museum’s March workshops

By Herb Frazier

Charleston fiber artist Torreah “Cookie” Washington will reveal tips on how to create an heirloom quilt during two sold-out sessions March 15 in the Oprah Winfrey Auditorium at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

The secret to creating a quilt that will last through the ages is to use natural fabrics such as cotton, wool, silk and bamboo, she said. Avoid synthetic materials, such as polyester, said Washington, who admitted that early in her quilting career she even violated that rule.

Washington, a fourth-generation needle worker, is an awardwinning master art quilter and curator. She is the first in a long line of needle workers in her family to take up and master art quilting.

Although this is her first appearance at the D.C. museum, her sessions are sold out, she told the Charleston City Paper. About 100 people have signed up for each of her sessions.

“I am so excited,” she said. “This is very exciting.” Washington’s talk at the museum is being held during National Quilting Month. She will also demonstrate how to make fabric ornaments from African fabrics such as Kinte cloth and wax print fabric.

Quilt-making provided African American families, in particular, the ability to pass a family treasure to the next generation in the form of a quilt, Washington said. The Harriet Powers Bible Quilt, made in Georgia in about 1886, is one of the nation’s most celebrated quilts, she said. This quilt, which depicts chapters in the Bible, is on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington.

“This is one of the first pictorial quilts that was made by a formerly enslaved woman,” Washington said. “Harriet Powers is sometimes referred to as America’s most famous quilter. She

Photos provided Torreah “Cookie” Washington of Charleston will demonstrate how to make fabric ornaments (top) from African fabrics such as Kinte cloth and wax print fabric during her March 15 presentation at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

had a brilliant use of appliques and, like many African American women even unto today, we quilt about our faith.”

Washington teaches people how to make folded fabric ornaments that can serve as small heirloom items for people who can’t quilt or don’t have time.

“I am making one for each of my three beautiful granddaughters for occasions throughout the year,” she said. “I will give them to the girls every year at holiday time.

“So, by the time they graduate from college, they will have a box full of small mementos of their Nana Cookie,” Washington said. “I teach this fabric art, because I believe no matter how humble our circumstances are, we can leave even a small legacy for future generations.”

City Paper to begin Friday publication

Starting March 24, you can pick up the new weekly print issue of the Charleston City Paper every Friday. The change from the publication date of Wednesday to Friday offers two big benefits:

• More fun. Advertisers will be able to provide the most up-to-date information to readers about weekend parties, festivals, music shows, specials and other events. You’ll be able to better plan your fun.

• More news. New deadlines mean we’ll cover more timely and developing news from earlier in the week. That means you’ll be better informed about the Lowcountry.

Every Friday starting March 24, pick up your weekly print issue of the City Paper at one of 800 locations in the Lowcountry. —Andy Brack

Charleston farmers markets return this month

Vendors, farmers and artisans will fill Marion Square with goods for the Charleston Farmers Market this month. Every Saturday in March, the market will operate at a limited capacity from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Beginning April 8, the market will return in full swing with 70 participants ranging from growers and vendors to artisans and food trucks in addition to live music.

The West Ashley Farmers Market will return to Ackerman Park on Sycamore Avenue on Wednesdays starting April 19 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. This market will run through Oct. 25, offering local products, produce, craft items and live music. —Staff reports

Real Republicans

“We’ve got enough real Republicans to pass what we want. They’re not driving anything, not affecting anything, other than being a headache on social media.”

—S.C. Rep. Micah Caskey, a Lexington County Republican, told the Charleston City Paper referring to the ultraconservative S.C. Freedom Caucus

Reading curriculum sparks controversy among Charleston teachers

By Skyler Baldwin

Education and political advocates throughout February gathered at Charleston County School District (CCSD) board meetings to vocalize support for a new reading curriculum that right-leaning education leaders have accused of teaching critical race theory and “woke culture.”

Teachers at Mount Pleasant’s James B. Edwards Elementary piloted the Expeditionary Learning (EL) Education program for CCSD in January 2022. With a year under their belt in the new program, some teachers using the curriculum say it is rigorous, but elementary school-aged students who now are writing poetry and essays are rising to the challenge.

“The students are capable of doing so much more than we ever thought,” said 3rd grade teacher Sarah Eckert. “When I was first looking at these lessons, I was looking at it like: ‘How in the world are our 8- and 9-year-olds going to write an essay …’ I couldn’t fathom it. But lesson by lesson it started to develop, and sure enough at the end, they started producing essays that are quality work.”

Fourth grade teacher Sarah Wilkinson said at first she had reservations about the program — the poetry module in particular — because she and her students had already covered some poetry. But, she said, the way the modules tackle larger ideas rather than focusing on simple subjects has helped her

students find success.

“We hadn’t really hit nonfiction super hard,” she said. “But once we started diving into EL, we realized they are very thematic. You’re doing informational writing, reading nonfiction text within a poetry umbrella. Nothing is, ‘Oh you’re only looking at poetry.’ It’s all ‘main idea.’ ”

‘Toxic for teachers and students’

Other teachers and advocates say the EL curriculum has become politicized and could hurt students. In recent weeks, public comments at meetings sparked heated remarks about racism and other controversial topics. Others said the EL content focused more on emotional learning rather than academic study.

Jody Stallings, director of the Charleston Teacher Alliance (CTA), characterized the curriculum as

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Recent CCSD board meetings have been packed with education and political advocates energized by the new EL Education program implemented last year

This was rolled out so poorly [that] we should be embarrassed.”

—Anonymous survey resondent

Murdaugh to enter maximumsecurity prison after processing

By Skyler Baldwin

Convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh is undergoing medical, mental health and education evaluations as he is being processed for life imprisonment, according to officials with the S.C. Department of Corrections (SCDC).

IAAM opening to coincide with historical moments

By Herb Frazier

The opening of the International African American Museum (IAAM) on June 27 coincides with other pivotal moments in Black history in America.

Dr. Bernard Powers Jr., a historian who served as the museum’s interim CEO, told the Charleston City Paper that the museum’s opening this year falls on the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation that freed enslaved people in slave-holding Southern states. This year also is 60 years “beyond the famous march on Washington, the high point of the Civil Rights movement,” Powers said.

The museum’s opening in June also coincides with Juneteenth, the annual commemoration that marks June 19, 1865, as the date when 250,000 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed nearly two years earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth became a national holiday in 2021.

Now that the museum’s June opening “has a relationship to these prior historical events, I hope this will be very positive for the path going forward,” Powers said.

Museum officials announced Feb. 28 that the public will be able to view the museum’s exhibits three days after a June 24 opening ceremony at the museum’s Wharfside Street location on the former Gadsden’s Wharf, one of the nation’s most prolific former slave trading ports along the Cooper River. Museum officials have not disclosed details of the muchanticipated opening event. But several activities are planned prior to the IAAM’s official launch, they said.

“We’re excited to open IAAM’s doors and showcase the incredible breadth of African American history,” Dr. Tonya Matthews, IAAM’s president and CEO said in a press release. “IAAM strives not only to provide a space for all visitors to celebrate and connect to this history, to these stories and to this art, but also to find meaning within their own stories.

“The African American journey is far longer than the 20 years it took to build this museum, and we are humbly proud to step up and play our part in this story. It is time.”

The IAAM’s mission to honor the untold stories of the African American journey and celebrate the connections and contributions to American and global cultures is contained in nine core exhibition galleries and a special exhibition gallery. The museum will also feature a “floating” gallery that weaves

contemporary art throughout the long, narrow 150,000 square feet of exhibit space.

The museum sits 13 feet off the ground on 18 cylindrical pillars. At the top of a wide staircase, a glass front entrance reveals a skylight atrium. Inside, contemporary objects along with 1,000 image and media collection pieces will connect the African American journey to its roots and connections to African and African Diaspora communities and cultures. The museum also contains the Center for Family History, a world-class genealogy and ancestry resource center. It began offering genealogy classes and workshops in 2020.

The museum experience will begin outside in the African Ancestors Memorial Garden, an ethnobotanical garden with indigenous plants from West Africa, the Caribbean and the Lowcountry. Sweetgrass is the garden’s most recognizable local plant.

“As this magnificent new museum demonstrates, Charleston isn’t just a city where history happened — it’s a city where history is still being made every day,” Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg said in the museum’s press release.

“I couldn’t be prouder of this extraordinary achievement, and of all the people who’ve worked so hard over the past two decades to make it a reality.”

The museum was scheduled to open in January. The opening was delayed due to high humidity and temperature levels inside the new building that needed to be adjusted to protect the artifacts on display.

As part of the inmate intake process at Kirkland Reception and Evaluation Center in Columbia, Murdaugh will undergo medical, mental health and education evaluations, and provide other information as needed by the SCDC. The process, standard for all new inmates, takes about 45 days, according to an SCDC press release. After the processing is complete, he will be sent to one of SCDC’s maximumsecurity prisons, alongside other inmates serving life sentences.

Found guilty in less than three hours

Jurors on March 2 found Murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, in 2021. His six-week trial in rural Colleton County gripped the nation. Jurors deliberated for less than three hours before delivering their verdict. Murdaugh, 54, was found guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.

The next day, S.C. Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman sentenced Murdaugh to serve two life sentences without parole. But his days in court are not yet over, as he is still charged with 99 counts of embezzlement, computer crime, money laundering and more in what prosecutors called a wide-ranging scheme to cheat his law firm, clients and the government out of more than $9 million.

An appeal on the murder convictions also is pending. Particularly in focus are around the judge’s allowance of evidence of past financial wrongdoing and deceit as evidence for the murder, according to news reports.

During the trial, which followed a long investigation stemming from the June 7, 2021, shootings, prosecutors argued Murdaugh killed his family to gain sympathy and buy time to cover up the theft from clients of millions of dollars over years that was on the verge of being discovered. They also said that after the murders, he staged an attempt on his own life to secure a multimillion dollar life insurance payout

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The IAAM honors untold African American stories with its 10 exhibition galleries and family history center

Murdaugh

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for his surviving son.

During the six-week trial attended daily by more than 200 people, jurors heard from more than 75 witnesses and saw hundreds of pieces of evidence. This week, they also visited the scene of the killings, the family’s Moselle estate in Hampton and Colleton counties.

Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were found fatally shot near dog kennels at the estate. Alex Murdaugh admitted in court that he previously lied to investigators, telling them he was not at the kennels before finding their bodies. He also admitted to stealing from his clients, but strongly insisted he was innocent in the deaths of his wife and son.

Blotter of the Week

A “highly intoxicated” man on Feb. 23 prompted medical responders to call Mount Pleasant police to a nearby hotel for help when he began aggressively shouting at them to let him nap in peace. And while he may have been the motel’s guest, he was sleeping on the stairs.

Your sign to get better friends

A North Charleston man let a friend borrow his car in January while the friend’s vehicle was in the shop for repairs, according to a North Charleston police report. That (now former) friend has continually denied requests to meet and return the car. Maybe it’s time for him to get his buddy’s car from the shop.

Don’t pin this on Matrix ’s Morpheus Mount Pleasant police Feb. 26 investigated a report of computer hacking after a man called police and explained how several “pornographic images” and “malicious advertisements” continuously appeared on his computer’s home screen. His browser history isn’t detailed in the police report, but if it was, it would probably answer a lot of our questions.

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The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between Feb. 21 and Feb. 27.

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Buster Murdaugh (below) watches as his father, Alex Murdaugh (above) is sentenced to life in prison after his double murder conviction last week

politicized, saying political interference by conservative groups has made it difficult to critique the program fairly. Some teachers, he said, have been silent on academic concerns with EL Education for fear of being labeled as racist. And while he has his share of critiques for the curriculum, he is more against the politics that have been tied to it than the curriculum itself.

“I do not mix politics and education

— I just don’t,” Stallings said. “It becomes a tribal thing: ‘I don’t want to lose.’ But we’re supposed to be teaching kids to read.

[The politicization] has made the curriculum toxic for teachers and students in a really unnecessary way.”

Stallings, who also teaches middle school in Mount Pleasant, released a survey Jan. 9 that he said was completed by more than 200 CCSD teachers. One in eight respondents said they were excited about the EL curriculum. Just over 80% said the curriculum was not an improvement over what they used previously. And 69% said they did not expect to see significant growth and

achievement from their students as a result of this curriculum.

“This was rolled out so poorly [that] we should be embarrassed,” an anonymous respondent said in the survey. “The training provided by EL is just a sales pitch for the curriculum. I spend hours nightly planning for lessons … This curriculum has potential, but we have not been given what we need to be effective … This curriculum will single-handedly drive teachers out of the profession.”

Stallings said teachers using EL Education prepare between 30 and 45 different lessons for their classes every week. Several teachers, he said, have complained that the workload has been way too much for how little results they’ve seen.

“The political angle was barely mentioned in the survey,” he said. “At that time, we didn’t even have an inkling that there were any talks about [critical race theory] or the political elements other people are hammering.”

CCSD leaders flip the script

At a Feb. 21 CCSD board meeting, 30 EL supporters took to the microphone during the public comment period. This included five young students who read poems, essay excerpts and other assignments completed under the EL curriculum. The board was expected to take a vote on the curriculum’s future in CCSD schools later that evening.

Every speaker was in strong support of the new curriculum, and they condemned board members who had spoken against it, with claims of “culture wars” and “antiwoke” attitudes.

“When I hear about those tough topics and people who are concerned about them, I like to talk about how the teacher manual is so sensitive with these touchy subjects,” Eckert said. “It’s OK to talk about hard things. It’s a productive conversation, not a divisive one.”

But five of the nine sitting board members had political backing from Moms for

Liberty, a national right-wing political advocacy group that rose to prominence during the pandemic with anti-mask and vaccination stances. Board member Courtney Waters, a former language arts teacher, said she was in support of the new curriculum.

“Teaching reading is profoundly difficult, and it is even more difficult when students are reading text they are not interested in,” she said. “I think these claims are shallow and political.”

Despite politics, the board voted 6-3 in favor of keeping the EL curriculum in place, at least for now, to the surprise and excitement of many in attendance that night, but to the disappointment of many more teachers watching virtually from home, Stallings said.

Stallings said he was initially worried when he learned of board members’ political leanings, but hoped their goals might align.

“I thought, maybe it will work out, because there is a majority of teachers who don’t want the curriculum in place anyway, and even though I wouldn’t necessarily agree with the motivation, if the outcome is what we need, then fine. But we didn’t even get that.

“Nobody is listening to teachers [or] parents,” he said. “We’re all listening to the same bureaucrats we’ve all been listening to for 30 years. The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

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So nobody is listening to teachers, and nobody is listening to parents. We’re all listening to the same bureaucrats we’ve all been listening to for 30 years.”

—Jody Stallings

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ower. Tower. Tower. Tower. Tower. Tower. All on one street. Then multiply by four.

What you get is 24 chunks of buildings in a six-by-four grid over 70 acres. That’s the nascent plan for redevelopment of Union Pier into a so-called neighborhood that will “blend seamlessly with the surrounding community, complementing the Charleston skyline.”

We’re not sure how cramming as many multi-story buildings as possible into 70 acres complements anything but greed. This plan is too much and just not right for Charleston. And the good folks at the State Ports Authority who are leading the redevelopment effort should know that. They should know we don’t need 600 more hotel rooms and 1,600 multifamily residential units on the peninsula. What we desperately need is way more than the plan’s 50 proposed affordable housing units.

Let’s be crystal clear: The redevelopment plan for Union Pier offered by the State Ports Authority and a private developer would taint Charleston’s charm and steer it to become another concrete jungle on a river. And now, surprise surprise, the developers want to move this thing along by June instead of later this year.

Let’s slow down, folks. We only have one chance to get it right with this incredible opportunity to reshape Charleston a little bit. Junking it up with a bunch of six- to eight-story buildings isn’t our idea of a welcoming environment.

Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg reacted succinctly: “It’s too tall and too dense with too many hotel rooms, too much block-sized development and too little affordable housing. Which

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doesn’t mean the plan is without merit. In fact, it has several positive elements. It just needs to get a haircut and go on a diet.”

Indeed. Union Pier needs more open space and fewer chunks of buildings. We need more affordable housing downtown so firefighters, teachers and police officers can live in a downtown that has become obscenely expensive. We want families living in a real neighborhood that’s not an array of future tenements.

Charleston is our home. We demand a responsible plan that prioritizes our community values, not development values of the State Ports Authority or outside consultants and developers.

We know what we want — a comfortable new neighborhood that truly blends into the Holy City. And we know what we don’t want — buildings that become tenements.

Slow down. We don’t have to meet someone else’s June deadline or an October deadline. Get it right first.

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Judge Richard Fields, a Charleston legal icon

By Danny Martin Jr.

When retired Circuit Court Judge Richard Fields passed away on March 3 at age of 103, Charleston lost a giant in the legal community, but I lost a friend and mentor.

As a 1947 graduate of Howard University School of Law, Judge Fields was determined to be a conduit between Charleston’s Black community and a justice system that was most often not colorblind. He set up his law practice on Spring Street before America warmed up to the idea that fair and equal justice was a right to all citizens, regardless of race and gender.

Before the Civil Rights movement opened doors to Black lawyers in the South, Judge Fields was already ingrained in a legal community dominated by lawyers whose offices lined Broad Street. Veteran lawyers, protective of their traditions and customs, were curious about this young Black lawyer who seemed not at all intimidated by the local racial and judicial hierarchy.

He quickly gained their respect, and soon their admiration. Richard Fields broke down barriers not with marches and boycotts, but with undeniable brilliance, style and affable charm. Numerous lawyers and judges each have their own special story to tell about “Richard.”

Judge Fields influenced three generations of my family. When my father, Daniel Martin Sr., finished law school in 1966, Richard Fields hired him to work in his law office. As a young boy, I knew Judge Fields to be more than a friend to our family. He was a mentor to my father and a big brother to my mother, Ruby Martin.

As the years went by, both my father and I followed Judge Fields’ judicial footprints. Before becoming Charleston’s first Black resident circuit judge, Richard Fields became the city’s first Black municipal judge and the county’s first Black family court judge. Upon his retirement, my father succeeded Judge Fields on the circuit court. Before I ran for the same family court seat he once held, I sought the wise counsel of Richard Fields. With his encouragement, I pursued and won his former seat on the family court. And in the very same solicitor’s office where my father worked in the early 1970s, his grandson, Daniel Martin III, now works as an assistant solicitor.

In January 2019, judges elected by the South Carolina General Assembly attended an annual judicial conference in Columbia. At the conference, a presenter showed a video of an old interview of Judge Fields. For most in the room, the video was their first introduction to the man many had heard about but never had met. Minutes into the video, the room fell silent. By the end, people were crying. Lawyers and judges couldn’t believe Richard Fields excelled in a Jim Crow South Carolina. In the interview, he recalled the values instilled in him by his mother and work ethic by his father.

What Judge Fields brought to the legal profession and later to the bench is something America needs today more than ever — civility. Every new attorney is now required to take an oath of civility when admitted to the bar. Richard Fields never needed to take such an oath. He just did what his momma told him to do. And it worked out rather well.

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Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor spoke with Fields at a 2013 conference

What To Do

THURSDAY

Cheers on the Pier

Wrap up your workday at Cheers on the Pier, returning with live music this week. Catch the signature Lowcountry sunset on the Mount Pleasant Pier overlooking Charleston Harbor and vibe to local tunes by Sticky Pickles, with other artists slated for future events. The nearby cafe offers made-to-order sandwiches, ice cream, smoothies and more. Bring your own chairs and blankets, but leave any brought-from-home alcohol and coolers behind.

March 9. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Mount Pleasant Pier. 71 Harry Hallman Blvd. Mount Pleasant. charlestoncountyparks.com

SATURDAY

Folly Pier Fest

The first-ever Folly Pier Fest is set for this weekend on the reconstructed Edwin S. Taylor Folly Beach Fishing Pier. Come enjoy festivities on the newly reopened pier and raise funds to support the Charleston County Parks Foundation. Enjoy live entertainment including local tunes, juggling and a special guest appearance by a live mermaid.

March 11. 5-8 p.m. $25; Children under 12 free. Folly Beach Pier. 101 E. Arctic Ave. Folly Beach. charlestoncountyparksfoundation.org

SATURDAYS

Charleston Farmers Market

The Charleston Farmers Market at Marion Square will resume at full capacity in April, but to get the community ready, a handful of limited markets are hitting the square on Saturdays in March. These smaller markets host local farmers, growers, artisanal food makers and more. Check online for a full schedule of local markets this season.

SUNDAY

Teddy Bear Picnic

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Kids and their favorite teddies take over Hampton Park this weekend for the 13th annual Teddy Bear Picnic hosted by the Charleston Parks Conservancy and presented by Dominion Energy. This year’s picnic features music by John Cusatis, dancing, games, crafts and more. Bring your own picnic supplies. Food trucks will be on site.

March 12. 1:30-4 p.m. Free. Hampton Park. 30 Mary Murray Drive. Downtown. charlestonparksconservancy.org

March 11. 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Free to attend. Marion Square. 329 Meeting St. Downtown. charlestonfarmersmarket.com

THIS MONTH

Annual Judged art exhibit

Summerville Artist Guild presents its 47th Annual Judged Exhibit. This year’s theme is “simple pleasures,” and features works by more than 30 local artists on display at the Park Circle Gallery through March 25. Guest judge Mary Villon De Benveniste will award ribbons for Best of Show, first place, second place, third place and honorable mentions in multiple categories.

March 1-25. Free. Park Circle Gallery. 4820 Jenkins Ave. North Charleston. summervilleartistguild.org

Explore and learn in Charleston’s off-the-path museums

By Chloe Hogan

See jaw-dropping manuscripts. View a 3 billion-year-old fossil. Soak up the gloom of an old slave market. All three awesome experiences can be found by exploring a museum in Charleston that you may never have visited.

As the largest and oldest city in the state, Charleston is home to a plethora of museums — though they are most often frequented by tourists. Locals already familiar with Charleston’s culture and history may assume museums have nothing new to offer. And they’d be wrong.

There are museums we know and love, like the Charleston Museum, the official start of the city’s Museum Mile, which stretches along Meeting Street. Down the road you’ll find the Gibbes Museum of Art, followed by historical houses like the Aiken-Rhett House and the Joseph Manigault House as well as churches including the Circular Congregational Church.

But stray away from Meeting Street and you’ll find lesser-known museums that also provide interesting looks at the city’s history and people.

First-hand accounts bring history to life

You’ve likely driven past the imposing building with giant Corinthian columns on the corner of downtown’s Spring and Coming streets and

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A page from the fourth edition of the first printed Bible, produced on a Gutenberg printing press

wondered: What is that place?

It’s the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, one of nine manuscript museums in the country. It rotates selections from the Karpeles Library System, one of the world’s

James Turner is the director of the Karpeles Manuscript Museum, which was originally built in 1856 as the Saint James Methodist Church

largest private holdings of original historical manuscripts. The Karpeles collection covers subjects ranging from music and art to politics and historical events, containing Gutenberg Bibles, Star Trek scripts and some 10,000 documents on the Spanish Armada.

“We’ve got these sorts of things that are just jaw-dropping,” said James Turner, the museum’s director since 2016. “Printing plates from original publications by Dickens. One of the first baseball cards that was ever printed has come through here. The flight log from the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. It’s an impressive collection, and it’s extraordinarily broad.”

Turner said he appreciates how the museum offers firsthand accounts of historical figures and events, especially in the exhibits focused on individual stories. For example, Turner highlighted a past exhibition featuring Argentine politician Eva PerÓn’s diaries, letters of correspondence with her husband, former President of Argentina Juan Domingo PerÓn, and even dental records.

“You get to see her as a person, instead of a monolith,” he said.

The exhibitions change three times a year. From early April through September, there is an exhibition on Russian history. A Che Guevara exhibition runs September to December. Admission is free.

“I’m excited for the Guevara exhibit. There are things in there I think people will be surprised to see. There’s a notebook from a CIA operative who was keeping tabs on Che while he was in Cuba. Literally a page-by-page account of who this guy was and what his relationship was with the people around him.”

Turner said the museum has taught him the meaning of the cliché, “History is a living thing.”

“We tend to look at things in history like they are written in stone, this is what happened. And the reality of that is completely the opposite,” he said. “We’re constantly learning new things about the way certain things unfolded. You look at something like the Bay of Pigs, and the documents reveal this whole other side of this event that we never really understood before. Perception is much of history, so it can be quite illuminating to go back and read the firsthand documents.”

Ponder your place in geological time

Just down the street is the Mace Brown Museum of Natural History, a public museum on the second floor of the College of Charleston (CofC) School for Sciences and Mathematics on Calhoun Street. The museum displays almost 1,000 vertebrate and invertebrate fossils, including dinosaur bones, extinct mammals and plants of North America, ocean life through time and more. The oldest fossil in the museum is nearly 3 billion years old.

The reconstructed Megalodon jaw is “everyone’s favorite,” said Collections Manager Sarah Bossenecker.

The museum is free and manned by geology undergraduates who work as stu-

dent docents offering guided tours of the museum. Bossenecker said the docents can cater the museum experience for any age.

The museum’s namesake, Mace Brown, was a financier with a fossil obsession who donated his collection to CofC in 2010. Bossenecker has worked there since 2015 along with her partner Robert Bossenecker, who teaches geology at CofC and conducts research on the assemblage of early whales. Sarah Bossenecker said she and her husband have expanded the collection over the years with the help of

The Gibbes Museum of Art ’s special exhibition Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art runs until April 16 and explores the diverse ways contemporary artists use animal imagery to address humanity’s interconnectedness with the natural world.

The Charleston Museum presents J. Drew Lanham: A Feel Guide to John James Audubon’s Birds of America through April 28. Work by award-winning poet and Clemson cultural ornithologist J. Drew Lanham reimagines Audubon’s classic field guide.

The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and the College of Charleston Studio Art Department present Young Contemporaries 2023, opening on March 17. The annual exhibition, now in its 38th year, is a celebration of talented student artists at the College of Charleston.

The City Gallery presents the 2023 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition March 17 through May 7. The top three prize winners will be on display during the 2023 Piccolo Spoleto Festival from May 26 to June 11.

Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet shows a collection of sculptures by iconic 19th century sculptor Auguste Rodin through April 24. Rodin: Contemplation and Dreams is made up of 46 works including nine life-size statues, portraits, full figures, torsos, fragments and reliefs.

William Sweetlove/Courtesy the Gibbes

Sarah Bossenecker (above), collections manager for the Mace Brown Museum of Natural History, said newly discovered fossils are consistently added to the collection

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the amateur paleontology community.

“We try to really highlight things that you can find in your own backyard. We want to highlight how unique they are to Charleston,” she said. “It’s a really important area for early cetaceans, whale and dolphin evolution — 20 to 30 million years ago, the ocean was further inland and all of Charleston was underwater. So we have fossils that you can’t really see anywhere else.”

The city’s violent history

The Old Slave Mart Museum at 6 Chalmers St. shares stories of the domestic slave trade. The building is located at the former site of Ryan’s Mart, Charleston’s most prominent location for public slave auctions from 1856 to 1863.

Walter Boags, who has worked at the museum for eight years and as a tour guide since 1990, said the museum “serves as a reminder that Charleston is a city built on and sustained by slave labor for nearly two centuries,” and encouraged locals to visit the museum to continue to educate themselves and pay respect to the city’s past.

Embark on a self-guided tour through the two-story building with reading materials that provide an informative learning experience about a tragic piece of national history. Some information is produced by CofC’s Center for the Study of Slavery under the direction of the program’s founder and

director, Dr. Bernard Powers. The rest is from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research division of the New York Public Library.

“The building evokes an uncomfortable feeling of the past, but don’t expect the inside to look like it did when people were sold there. In order to maximize your visit, plan on spending at least an hour reading the very informative posters and soaking in the environment,” according to the museum’s website.

The heavy feeling of standing in the space is palpable. Ryan’s Mart was a fourbuilding complex stretching from Chalmers to Queen streets. It included a “barracoon,” or slave jail, a kitchen and a “dead house,” a morgue. The museum is housed in the last remaining structure, which served as a sales and showroom. The museum recently added a replica of the original structure.

“We are here to carry this museum on and to carry it forward to carry the history forward,” Boags said. “We’re here to educate people because this is a legacy that we all live and have to deal with today.”

Walter Boags (above) and other museum educators provide onsite tours of the Old Slave Mart Museum (right)

Photos by Rūta Smith

Weinstein works to empower women in hospitality

By Chloe Hogan

Randi Weinstein wants women in Charleston’s hospitality industry to be badasses.

The City Paper caught up with Weinstein at her West Ashley home which also serves as the headquarters for her educational business workshop called FAB. The bright, art-filled house overlooks the Wappoo Creek. A stunning stained-glass window hangs above the area where Weinstein works in her kitchen, filling the space with colored light. Her art collection includes works by Richard Hagerty, Mary Edna Fraser and Sermet Aslan, pointing to her love of the area.

Sitting on her blue velvet couch with her morkie, Roscoe, Weinstein explained how she found the inspiration for FAB — and the skills she needed to pull it off — through her career in the hospitality industry, which included working at the thennamed Charleston Food and Wine Festival for seven years and serving as Butcher & Bee’s project manager. She also started a scholarship fund called “Bad Bitches” which in 2014 raised more than $50,000 in scholarships for women in the food and beverage (F&B) industry.

Weinstein’s career successes deepened her passion for educating and empowering women in hospitality and forged the path for the creation of FAB, which kicked off its first workshop in June 2017.

The annual Charleston-based workshop continues to grow, now bringing together more than 400 women in the industry each year. The intent of FAB is to be a place for women to connect, share stories, become each other’s resources, champions, and ultimately, empower one another. Tickets are on sale now for this year’s threeday June workshop at thisisfab.com.

The winding path to FAB

Originally from Long Island, New York, Weinstein moved to Charleston in 1988.

“My family was a garment-center family. My father manufactured sweaters. I worked in food and bev in my teenage years, managing restaurants, waiting tables and bartending.”

Weinstein said one of her first real jobs was working in a children’s showroom.

“I wound up actually buying the showroom. And I loved working there,” she said. “At that same time, I started dating my now exhusband, who was born and raised in Charleston. I’m a very ‘go with the flow’ person, so I moved here in 1988. Seven years later we divorced, and then it was a big decision, should I stay or should I go? And I wound up staying here. And that really propelled my whole journey.”

Weinstein said the success of FAB relies on her personal pillars of “total transparency and zero bullshit.”

She said nothing she did in New York was transferable to Charleston, which had no garment industry.

“I didn’t want to work in retail, and so I wound up working for someone who does promotional items. It was not the most exciting thing, but it was fine, and it enabled me to take care of my young son.”

Then her dad died suddenly.

“I had this epiphany — life is short, and I need to really kind of do whatever it is I want to do. And I had always wanted to own a restaurant.”

Planting the seeds

Weinstein started working with Sermet Aslan to open the downtown location of Sermet’s Corner, located on Wentworth and King streets until 2017. She loved the fast-paced role but she needed something more sustainable while she was raising her son Seth. So, she put a pin in her restaurant career, and moved into the mental health space for a while. She created educational and recreational programming for schizophrenic and bipolar individuals while working for a now-defunct nonprofit called Palmetto Pathways.

“That’s when I started getting to plan events, because I had to fundraise for my position. And I just loved it because it was kind of melding my passions of doing events and helping a population that really needed it.”

Everything changed for Weinstein when she attended the first year of the Charleston Food and Wine Festival in 2005.

“I went to year one as an attendee and I loved it. I said f*** it. I’m just going to email this executive director. I wrote this

super-long email about the virtues of hiring me. The director at the time, Angel Postell, emails back like, ‘We’re not hiring right now.’ And I was just like, ‘No, you want me on your team.’ ”

Weinstein laughed and said she “was pretty relentless” until Postell finally brought her in for an interview.

Weinstein said the first seeds of FAB were planted in that first year while working at the festival, especially in overseeing its trade day event.

“It was basically an information trade [of things like] how to design a restaurant, how to make an award wine list. And it always stuck in the back of my mind.”

been the one to contact all of the scholarship recipients. It was really rewarding. We sent people to culinary school. We sent Denise Richardson to chocolate making class in Chicago. Stephanie Burt started her podcast from that money. We had a number of people take their sommelier certifications.”

Weinstein decided she wanted to take her work empowering women in the hospitality industry a step further by providing educational resources.

“These women needed to understand, though, the business of the industry — what opening a restaurant means, what you have to do — tax returns, paperwork, all that stuff that people don’t think about. So that’s when I started planning FAB. I wanted to create an educational workshop with the overarching message to invest in yourself.

THE LOWDOWN ON RANDI WEINSTEIN

Age: 59 (ugh).

Birthplace: New York City.

Education: Northeastern University and Fashion Institute of Technology.

Family: Husband and four children.

Something people would be surprised to learn about you: “I use a shoehorn to put on all my shoes; yes, sneakers too.”

Favorite thing to do outside of work: Shoot hoops.

Books on bedside table: Think Again, by Adam Grant, and Black, White and Grey, by Mashama Bailey.

Favorite food to eat: Pasta or anything Italian.

Favorite cocktail or beverage: Ketel One on the rocks with a slice of lemon — simple like me.

Five foods you always need in your refrigerator: Castelvetrano olives, hearts of palm, chicken, mustard and lemons.

Three people (alive or dead) you’d like to dine with: “If I can have two groups, Jerry Garcia, Tom Petty and Chris Cornell. The other group is my dad, mom and poppa Sam.”

What meal would you want served to you for your last supper: “Slice of pizza from New York, baked ziti and a chicken parm hero; also a smoked fish sampler from Russ & Daughters.”

Guilty pleasure: Phish Food ice cream by Ben & Jerry’s.

There are multiple points in Weinstein’s story that point to her tenacity — and her ability to craft an impactful email.

“When I left there in 2014, I sent out this email saying, ‘I’m starting a new journey.’ And Michael Shemtov, who owns Butcher & Bee, reached out probably within three minutes, like, ‘I have no idea what for, but I would love to hire you.’ It was being back in restaurants that I was really excited about.”

She organized events in that role, including a themed dinner series with all-female chefs. That’s when she met chef Sarah Adams and pastry chef Kelly Kleisner, with whom she created a scholarship fund called “Bad Bitches” in 2014.

Weinstein, Adams and Kleisner decided that, in tandem with the dinner series, they wanted to raise scholarship money for the women who were working the events.

“We raised just under $50,000. I had

“You have to know one thing about me: I am never afraid to ask anyone for anything. If I see it, I can believe it. I’m just not going to ever take ‘no’ for an answer, because if I think it’s a good idea, I’m going for it.”

Weinstein said her hope with FAB is that people in Charleston, and especially women, learn the value of investing in themselves.

Of 120 national applicants this year, 48 were awarded. Weinstein said only 12 of those applications were local, and she would like to see that change.

“Invest in yourself, know your worth and knowledge is power. I love seeing people flourish. I love hearing all of the connections that people have made at FAB. I love when people are making those connections, expanding their businesses and being able to take other people under their wing. That’s what really makes me continue this journey.”

Describe your best day in 50 words or less: “Wake up, have coffee, exercise, listen to music, have lunch on my dock, chill and go out for dinner and drinks — and have someone come on board as a big financial supporter of FAB. That would be a 10-out-of-10 day.”

Philosophy: “ASK. All they can say is no, but also know, I never take no for an answer.”

Your advice for better living: “Have fun. Life is way too short for bullshit.”

Your advice for someone new to Charleston: “Get involved in the local politics and understand how this city works.”

‘I won’t take ‘no’ for an answer’

Photos by Rūta Smith

Weinstein’s home is filled with bright colors as exemplified by her husband Victor’s English cameo glass perfume bottles (top) and stained glass windows (above).

Weinstein works out of her art-filled West Ashley home overlooking the Wappoo River.

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Don’t throw shade at the shade in your yard

By Toni Reale, Roadside Blooms

Many look at the shady spots in their yard and only see problems or disappointment. Instead, think of those spots as opportunities to plant some fun varieties that you’d miss out on otherwise. Try these five plants to transform your shady spot into an area that you can find joy on those oppressive midsummer days.

Giant Elephant Ears

Alocasia macrorrhiza, commonly known as Giant Taro or Giant Elephant’s Ear, is a show-stopper of a shade plant. Their mature size alone is remarkable. The shape of the leaf resembles an elephant’s ear with ruffled edges. These plants grow quickly with little maintenance. While they will die in the frost, they will come back year after year and spread. The sap of the plants can irritate hands, so don’t let your kids play with them. (Unfortunately, I know this firsthand after my kids cut them, and the sap made their hands feel as if on fire.)

Tractor Seat plant

Farfugium japonicum, or the Tractor Seat plant, is becoming very popular in Lowcountry landscaping, particularly the variegated kind. Its interesting shape pairs well with most other shade plants as it really doesn’t look like anything else. It shoots up a petite yellow flower in the fall that attracts pollinators. These are slow-growing so it’s better to plant more than you would with a fast-growing plant. You can divide the clumps in the spring to spread out their coverage.

Fringe tree

Chionanthus virginicus, otherwise known as the Fringe Tree, is blooming right now all throughout the Charleston-area. This Southeastern native tree is petite and has beautiful showy ivory-colored flowers that resemble fringe. In the fall, birds are attracted to the small berries it produces.

Japanese pieris

Pieris japonica’s bell-shaped flowers would be a beautiful addition to your shade garden. They are evergreen bushes with floral varieties in white, pink and dusty rose. The flowers make an excellent cut flower with a long vase life. This shrub will mound and grow over time, so be patient.

Plantain lilies

Hostas, or plantain lilies, are a no-fuss option for shade gardens. There are more than 40 varieties, some of which are variegated and really stunning. There’s no shortage of hostas to fit your overall design aesthetic. They also make a great border or edging. They spread overtime through underground runners and will fill in nicely. Note: Deer love hostas so they might not be

good in some suburban environments.

Autumn ferns

Hands-down, my favorite fern to plant in a shade garden is the autumn fern. It is unique in that its leaves emerge a copper color that matures to dark green. These plants will spread and fill in the shade garden. Don’t fret when they die back as they will emerge in the spring.

As you plan your shade garden, take into consideration the growth habits of each plant selected and how one might impact another. Additionally, think about color when choosing your varieties. The plants in this article are low maintenance, but they do need some care. Be sure to keep the soil moist and pay attention to the leaves to ensure that nothing is getting over or underwatered. With any plant, research its optimal environment to create that at home. Set yourself up for success and some shade-loving times this summer!

Toni Reale is the owner of Roadside Blooms, a unique plant, flower, crystal, and fossil shop in Park Circle in North Charleston. roadsidebloomsshop.com

Giant Elephant’s Ear will come back year after year — but beware of the irritating sap.

6 ways to keep your pets happy and healthy

From Staff Reports

Warmer weather means it’s time to spring clean, get grooming and prepare your pets’ diets to support them through the season. Keep your furry friends happy and healthy this spring with these six tips from the experts at Zesty Paws:

Give skin and coats a little TLC

Many pets form winter coats during the colder months to help them stay warm and comfortable. They then shed the coats in the spring to prepare for warmer temperatures. Some pets may need extra help maintaining their shiny, healthy coats, especially if mats have formed in their fur or if they are breeds that develop a thick undercoat.

Professional grooming, at-home brushing and regular bathing can be helpful ways to speed up the process to remove some of the extra fur and decrease the prevalence of dander, dust and pollen that can attach to fur and skin.

Get back to more exercise

The change in weather means more time for outdoor adventures with your pets, but don’t forget to cool down and warm up as you and your pets ease back into the season. Plan for short, leashed walks and timed play sessions to help your

pets gradually prepare their hips and joints for fun, warm weather activities.

Watch out for pests

Once temperatures start to rise, tiny, creepy critters start crawling. Fleas, ticks and other pests can cause serious health concerns for pets. Make sure your pest control programs are primed and ready this spring for added protection. Talk to your veterinarian about the best routine and products for your pets.

Freshen bedding and bowls

It’s important to keep a clean environment by scrubbing, sweeping and vacuuming regularly to decrease allergens in the home. When you’re tackling this year’s spring cleaning, remember to put your pets’ bedding and bowls on the list, too. Updating or disinfecting your pets’ blankets, litter boxes, toys and other supplies is a good way to keep them feeling safe and comfortable.

Schedule an annual visit to the vet

Spring is a good time to schedule your pets’ annual vet visits. Make sure they’re up to date on all vaccinations, get their dental health checkups and re-evaluate nutrition plans.

Add seasonal allergy support

Just like humans, furry friends can develop and experience seasonal allergies. Giving your pets’ immune systems some extra support can help ease some common allergy symptoms. There are all sorts of chewable supplements that provide seasonal allergy support by aiding normal immune functions, skin health and gut flora. They may also help maintain normal histamine levels. Check with your local pet store or veterinarian for suggestions.

Photos by Getty Images

Pets shouldn’t be excluded from annual health checkups.

Don’t just dive into long walks and runs in the heat, ease your pet back into the warm-weather season.

Arts

Artifacts

Redux offers art collection panel discussion

Redux offers a “new collectors panel” 5-6 p.m. on March 16 featuring Julia Deckman, Cara Leepson and Greg Colleton . Guests will hear advice on starting an art collection and supporting local art. After the event, Redux studio artists offer open studio hours until 8 p.m.

Paintings, soundscapes, projections explore grief at Silver Hill Studios

By Chloe Hogan

The two-day, immersive Resurgence exhibition at Silver Hill Studios explores themes of grief, nostalgia and memory. The show is curated and organized by visual artists Sam Rueter, Morgan East and Bri Wenke, who will unveil 25 new paintings in a space transformed by an immersive light projection created by Seth Abrahamson, known as Lazer Catcher, and a soundscape by audio engineer Preston Dunnavant. In October 2021, long time artist-pals and collaborators Wenke and Rueter presented their first independently curated show, Consumption. They raised $20,000 from art collectors to put together a onenight show which 600 people attended.

“We got hundreds of comments like, ‘We want more of this — when’s the next one?’” Rueter said.

Rueter said she and Wenke have a shared mission “to push the boundaries on the contemporary art scene in Charleston,” and their hope is to continue on that mission with this next show.

“We can say what we want to say when we curate independently,” Wenke said. For the Resurgence show, Wenke and Rueter brought on fellow Charleston-based figurative painter Morgan East.

“There was no doubt in my mind that I wanted to be a part of the direction that they’ve been taking art in Charleston,” East said.

Since moving to Charleston from New York seven years ago, Rueter said she’s noticed a pattern of artists leaving Charleston for bigger and better art markets.

“I’ve met so many incredible, talented people in this city,” Rueter said. “It’s kind of been a pattern where we make friends, and then within two years, they’re out. It’s easy to drop into these bigger cities with these bigger networks. But there’s such a need and a longing for this kind of work here in Charleston — I know that people want it. So it’s a matter of fighting against that old system here of what kind of art is acceptable … It’s been a fun challenge.”

East emphasized accessibility as an important goal for the show. “We’re doing $5 a ticket so people can come and have the experience, and even if they can’t afford to collect art, we are inviting people to come and to think about the things in question.”

Each artist approaches the show’s themes of grief, nostalgia and memory in different and personal ways.

“How do we manage grief, and how do we use it to propel us forward?” Wenke said. “What’s the quote — ‘Grief is just love with nowhere to go.’ Since Covid, so much has changed and forced us all to go inward, literally, metaphorically, emotionally. For me, the grief element also encompasses a personal transition in life, a loss of an older self and resurgence of a newer self.”

East’s inspiration for this show is more literal. When her father was diagnosed with, and later died from, vascular dementia, she was moved by the experience of community while grieving.

“I didn’t realize how you could go through a grieving process while somebody was alive,” East said. “So that was just something that I started making work about — not just about the grieving process, but also

about the support systems and community that you build as you go through that.”

Rueter added, “When we think about grief, we think about the all encompassing aspect of losing someone. But then there’s also the healing aspect to it, and the communal aspect — all these different kinds of relationships that can kind of come together and help you to reemerge — to come back to the surface.”

The show is open 6-9 p.m. March 17 at 2140 Amaker St. in the Neck area, with viewing hours the following day from 1-4 p.m. and again from 6-9 p.m. Advance tickets are $5, or $10 at the door. Resurgence is partially funded by the Lowcountry Quarterly Arts Grants Program.

Lazer Catcher will present a visual projection the artists describe as immersive and emotional.

“That will be a part people can really step into and experience and hopefully feel something,” Wenke said. “It’s going to have a lot to do with water, surging and rising — the cyclical waves of grief.”

The projections will move in tandem with the immersive soundscape created by Dunnavan. The artists collected sound bites from friends, family and other creatives of sounds that they find nostalgic. “Think, boots walking on gravel, or a motorcycle revving up, or the sound of birds on your morning walk,” Wenke said.

The main idea Resurgence will drive home, Rueter said, is the idea of a collective sense of belonging. “I hope the show can be a reminder that we all are in this together, we are all connected, and I think that is what art is meant to do. That’s our hope.”

Multi-sensory exhibit displayed at Public Works Art Center

Fort Mill artist Anna G. Dean takes over the West Gallery at the Public Works Art Center in March with multi-sensory exhibition Fluid Dynamics featuring projections, sculptures, 2-D work, auditory components and more. In her artist statement, Dean said, “This body of work utilizes fluid as a vehicle to think about factors that we can control, and how to let go of those that are uncontrollable.” There will be a free opening reception from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on March 16.

Catch CofC’s Becoming We dance concert

Presented by the College of Charleston Department of Theatre and Dance , the Becoming We concert features works by eight student choreographers. Expect to see a variety of genres including tap dancing in rain boots, Latin social dance and a piece with ballet and modern styles of dance. The concert is at the college’s Sottile Theatre with shows at 7:30 p.m March 25 and 2 p.m March 26. Individual tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors, military and youth and $12 for CofC students and faculty. For tickets, visit sottile.cofc.edu.

—Chloe Hogan

Photos by Chad Savage; provided

Rueter (left) and Wenke (center) met selling work at the City Market and are now represented by the Grand Bohemian Gallery. For their second independently curated show, they brought on fellow figurative painter Morgan East (right).

Courtesy Public Works Art Center

Miller Gallery hosts largest exhibition to date at Hed Hi Studio

By Chloe Hogan

Statement Pieces: A Departure from Neutrality this month will offer an exciting pop-up exhibition of paintings presented by the Miller Gallery. Featured artists on the gallery’s roster include Liv Antonecchia, Kate Hooray Osmond, Julia Deckman and more, as well as a number of invited guest artists.

After switching to an online-focused model at the end of 2022, the gallery will host its first exhibition of the year at Hed Hi Studio, 654 King St. This exhibition will mark the gallery’s largest to date.

The opening reception is on March 10 from 6-10 p.m. and features a live DJ. After the Friday night opening, Hed Hi will open its doors for limited viewing hours on March 11 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and March 12, 12-2 p.m.

Established in 2017, the Miller Gallery called East Bay Street home for five years before switching to a new model of online sales and pop-up exhibitions in November 2022.

“I just felt like it was time for a change,” said owner and founder Sarah Miller Gelber. “The plan is to host pop-up shows at different locations throughout the year, and keep the gallery’s presence mostly online.” Gelber said the move to online sales helps potential buyers by giving them a low-pressure way to consider buying a work of art.

“I feel, even as someone that admires art, sometimes I still feel uncomfortable walking into an art gallery,” Gelber said. “Sometimes it just feels stuffy, almost as if they’re doing you a favor by being open and showing you artwork.”

The gallery has uploaded its entire inventory online, with listed prices, close-up detail shots and even videos of some works. (No intimidating “inquire for price” stickers here.) Appointments can also be made to view artwork in person at the new Miller Gallery headquarters on Meeting Street.

“The art buying process, it’s personal. And it’s not meant to be something that’s intimidating. We want to make purchasing an original piece of art easy and accessible,” Gelber said.

The gallery represents 27 artists, a large majority of whom are female and working in the Southeast. Gelber said the reason she wanted to open her own gallery five years

ago was to create a place for contemporary abstract artists, mixed media artists and female artists.

“I wanted there to be a place for artists to feel freedom to really express themselves in a way that maybe doesn’t feel ‘Charleston.’ We as a city are known for a little bit more traditional artwork, lots of landscapes and marsh scenes, birds, wild fowl, that kind of stuff. And I love that, but there’s more to art in Charleston than just those subjects — the Hed Hi exhibition will show that.”

After the opening weekend, the exhibition will be available to view and purchase online at themillergallery.com.

Images courtesy Julia Deckman; Kate Hooray Osmond The exhibition will showcase bold statement artwork by more than a dozen regional artists

Years later, North Charleston’s south end still lacks major grocer

By Amethyst Ganaway

Residents in the south end of North Charleston and surrounding areas have been without a major retail grocery store for almost two decades.

Pinehaven Shopping Center on Rivers Avenue, once considered the largest retail complex in South Carolina when it opened in 1958, has seen better and busier days. Later known as Shipwatch Square, it was built before there were any outdoor shopping centers in the city or surrounding area and was a hub for sailors, longshoremen and Navy base workers.

Although North Charleston became its own entity from the city of Charleston in 1972, Black freedmen created the North Area’s first neighborhoods, transforming them from the rice and indigo plantations to predominantly African American communities. Some of those communities — including Liberty Park, Union Heights, Winslow, Silver Hills, Rosemont and Accabee — thrived through the 1960s when neighborhoods touted sporting fields, movie theaters, houses of worship and neighborhood grocery stores.

Now the neighborhoods north of the neck of the Charleston peninsula look a bit different than the days when the old Navy base brought thousands of jobs to the area. With more than 117,000 residents, North Charleston is the third largest city in the state with African Americans making up the majority of the population and Latinx communities quickly on the rise.

In the Union Heights and Chicora-Cherokee neighborhoods, residents have gone without a major chain grocery store after WinnDixie in Pinehaven closed in 2005 when the retailer declared bankruptcy across the state. Since then, many area residents have largely relied on local food drives and grassroots organizations for food, and while many say they are grateful, they often get items that aren’t healthy or can’t make full, well-rounded meals.

When nonprofit Fresh Future Farm (FFF) took over a space on Success Street near the old Chicora Elementary School in 2016 and created a neighborhood grocery store, residents had already been struck with the debilitating blow of living in a food desert for a decade. FFF told the City Paper it’s expanding operations to an additional rural location, but will remain on Success Street as long as possible on a month-to-month lease. Many residents live on a fixed income and often don’t have transportation, relying on the bus system or ride-sharing companies like

Longtime Chicora-Cherokee resident Nathalie Purnell relies on Fresh Future Farms for produce but wishes her neighborhood had more options

Uber and Lyft, which can be expensive — if a driver accepts the ride in the neighborhood at all.

Outside of the urban farm, residents have to travel at least three miles to the nearest Save-A-Lot on Durant Avenue, or even further for better options in West Ashley or further up Dorchester Road for Food Lion and Rivers Avenue for a Walmart.

According to North Charleston spokesman Ryan Johnson, the problem lies therein with grocery retailers. He said the city has offered incentives to many grocery chains to move into the unoccupied spaces, but stores refuse.

“We’ve offered them the land and even offered to pay them to come, but they go off of the income of the residents and a few other metrics, and they just don’t see it as an opportunity,” he said.

Neighborhood residents and community workers believe there’s more at play, however, and see the lack of a grocery store as an intentional act, a distant echo from the past coming back to loudly haunt them.

In 1962, the construction of Interstate 26 began. It was built directly through Union Heights and other communities in the area, displacing Black families in the neighborhood and all along the full stretch of the highway. Now, North Charleston residents who were taken advantage of decades ago feel they’re being pushed out once again thanks to the planned billion dollar widening of

Interstate 526 and the rise of costly new housing and businesses being built in the area alongside the revitalization of the naval shipyard.

“The [interstate] cuts totally through Black areas in the entire state,” said one resident who wished to remain anonymous. “It was an artery for the state that cut directly through Black communities. As the surrounding industries leave and the highways are built, the areas become more depressed

“The Navy base pulled out and once again, showed how Charleston has historically put too many eggs in its one basket. For example, agriculture and slavery: Once slavery was abolished, there was no longer an economic drive. The same thing happened with textiles next, and then the port and bases with contractors right behind them.”

When trade jobs came and left, so did the opportunity for building generational wealth in those Black communities. Now in these areas there are only a handful of fast food spots and low-wage jobs, exacerbating poverty and crime, perpetuating a stereotype that makes it easy for developers to move in and take over the communities under the guise of revitalization.

But nearby in Park Circle, there has been massive reinvigorating efforts in the past few years, bringing in new residents, businesses, apartments and condos. The neighborhood has also received $45 million to revamp Danny Jones Gym and build a new inclusive city playground.

While residents of the Park Circle community see positive change with action and money from the city, their neighbors aren’t seeing changes or similar benefits. What they are seeing are rapid increases in their

Johnson

“We’re not trying to take something that’s reprehensible. We should be proud of where we are from and we should be able to demand more”

—Anonymous resident

rent and residential displacement.

Nathalie Purnell has lived in the Chicora-Cherokee neighborhood for more than 20 years, and has seen the changes of gentrification. She primarily relies on Fresh Future Farm for her fresh food, but also for other household goods and resources that it provides.

“Even though we had Winn-Dixie, at some point the food stopped being good quality,” Purnell said. “And a lot of it was sold in bulk.”

Residents question why there aren’t more convenient lower-priced stores like Aldi, Lidl or IGA.

Johnson in the mayor’s office said the lack of a grocery store has been something the city has been working on for years. He said it hopes by building affordable housing, a major retailer will come to the area. However, only about 20% of the affordable housing that would be built would be for low-income residents, meaning that 80% of the current residents would have to find a new place to go.

It also leaves residents wondering how affordable the housing would actually be — most of the housing being built for sale in the areas that are being considered affordable, are upwards of $200,000, nowhere near what people can actually afford. Residents who have literally built the communities from the ground up, just want to be a part of the growth and change that is happening in their communities and have access to not only necessities like grocery stores in their neighborhoods, but conveniences and a better life that they’ve been working toward for years.

“We’re not trying to take something that’s reprehensible,” said the anonymous resident. “We should be proud of where we are from and we should be able to demand more.”

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also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as Richard Roe; and any unknown minors, incompetent or imprisoned person, or persons under a disability being a class designated as John Doe; Claudia Wenicke; Courtney Sanders, Defendant(s).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (Non-Jury) FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/ Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

commonly described as: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Town of Lincolnville, Charleston County, State of South Carolina, located on the corner of E. Pinckney Street and E. Cain Street, having such size, shape, dimensions as an actual survey will show and being identified on the Tax Maps of Charleston County as 385-01-00-016. Said property is also shown on that certain plat by Moses A. Thomas dated August 6, 1977, “Plat of a 0.75 Ac Tract and a 0.66 Ac. Tract

Located in the Town of Lincolnville St. James - Goose Creek Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina”, recorded in Plat Book AJ, Page 63, Office of the RMC for Charleston County.

This being the same property conveyed to Joseph Henry Sanders and Pauline Powell Sanders by Deed of Rachel B. Barber dated April 29, 1977 and recorded May 4, 1977 in Book H112 at Page 19 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

TMS No. 385-01-00-016

Property Address: 780E Cain St Lincolnville, SC 29485

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE

NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on December 28, 2022.

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM AND APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the filed Petition for Appointment of Kelley Woody, Esquire as Guardian ad Litem for unknown minors, and persons who may be under a disability, and it appearing that Kelley Woody, Esquire has consented to said appointment.

FURTHER upon reading the filed

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Deutsche Bank National Trust Company formerly known as Bankers Trust Company of California, N.A., as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2001-3, Plaintiff,

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been or will be commenced in this Court upon complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendant(s) for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given by Joseph H. Sanders and Pauline Powell Sanders to Money First Financial Services, Inc. dated June 5, 2001 and recorded on July 5, 2001 in Book K376 at Page 603, in the Charleston County Registry (hereinafter, “Mortgage”). Thereafter, the Mortgage was transferred to the Plaintiff herein by assignment and/or corporate merger.

Suite 110

Columbia, SC 29210

Phone (803) 454-3540

Fax (803) 454-3541

Attorneys for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

C/A NO.: 2022-CP-10-03953

Bank of America, N.A., Plaintiff,

Petition for Appointment of Kelley Woody, Esquire as Attorney for any unknown Defendants who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, and may be, as such, entitled to the benefits of the Servicemember’s Civil Relief Act, and any amendments thereto, and it appearing that Kelley Woody, Esquire has consented to act for and represent said Defendants, it is ORDERED that Kelley Woody, P.O. Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260 phone (803) 787-9678, be and hereby is appointed Guardian ad Litem on behalf of all unknown minors and all unknown persons who may be under a disability, all of whom may have or claim to have some interest or claim to the real property commonly known as 780E Cain St, Lincolnville, SC 29485; that he is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendants, unless said Defendants, or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of Guardian or Guardians ad Litem for said Defendants.

v. Any heirs-at-law or devisees of James Larry Potter, deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons or entities entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons or entities with any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as Richard Roe; and any unknown minors, incompetent or imprisoned person, or persons under a disability being a class designated as John Doe; Any heirs-at-law or devisees of Judith M. Potter, deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons or entities entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons or entities with any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as Richard Roe; and any unknown minors, incompetent or imprisoned person, or persons under a disability being a class designated as John Doe; Robert Timothy Potter; James Troy Potter; Hiott Homes, Inc.; Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc. f/k/a South Carolina Electric & Gas Company; Bank of America, N.A., Defendant(s).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (Non-Jury) FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been or will be commenced in this Court upon complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendant(s) for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given by James L. Potter and Judith M. Potter to Bank of America, N.A. dated August 15, 2013 and recorded on August 22, 2013 in Book 0355 at Page 443, in the Charleston County Registry (hereinafter, “Mortgage”). Thereafter, the Mortgage was transferred to the Plaintiff herein by assignment and/or corporate merger.

The premises covered and affected by the said Mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof were, at the time of the making thereof and at the time of the filing of this notice, more particularly described in the said Mortgage and are more commonly described as: ALL that lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, shown and designated as Lot 76, on a plat entitled: “REVISED PLAT SHOWING SHADOWMOSS SUBDIVISION, SECTION 1, ST. ANDREWS PARISH, CHARLESTON, S.C.”, by George A.Z. Johnson, Jr., Inc., R.L.S. and C.E., dated July 19, 1974, and recorded July 26, 1974, in Plat Book AD, Page 84, R.M.C. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina.

SAID lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear.

The premises covered and affected by the said Mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof were, at the time of the making thereof and at the time of the filing of this notice, more particularly described in the said Mortgage and are more

AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Kelley Woody, P.O. Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260 phone (803) 787-9678, be and hereby is appointed Attorney for any unknown Defendants who are, or may be, in the Military Service of the United States of America and as such are entitled to the benefits of the Servicemember’s Civil Relief Act aka Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940, and any amendments thereto, to represent and protect the interest of said Defendants, AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED That a copy of this Order shall be forth with served upon said Defendants by publication in Charleston

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for Plaintiff.

This being the same property conveyed to James Larry Potter and Judith M. Potter by deed of Hiott Homes, Inc., dated August 16, 1979, and recorded August 24, 1979, in Book D120 at Page 252 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina. Thereafter, Judith Miller Potter passed away on June 29, 2019, leaving her interest in the subject property to her devisees, James L. Potter, Robert Timothy Potter, and James Troy Potter, as is more fully preserved in File Number 2020-ES-10-01437 in the Probate Records for Charleston County. Thereafter, James Larry Potter passed away on February 24, 2020, leaving the subject property to his devisees, Robert Timothy Potter and James Troy Potter, as is more fully preserved in File Number 2020-ES-10-01432 in said Records.

TMS No. 358-07-00-076

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover RECYCLE THIS PAPER

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order

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Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 25, 2022. A Notice of Foreclosure Intervention was also filed in the Clerk of Court’s Office.

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM AND APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the filed Petition for Appointment of Kelley Woody, Esquire as Guardian ad Litem for unknown minors, and persons who may be under a disability, and it appearing that Kelley Woody, Esquire has consented to said appointment.

FURTHER upon reading the filed

Petition for Appointment of Kelley Woody, Esquire as Attorney for any unknown Defendants who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, and may be, as such, entitled to the benefits of the Servicemember’s Civil Relief Act, and any amendments thereto, and it appearing that Kelley Woody, Esquire has consented to act for and represent said Defendants, it is

ORDERED that Kelley Woody, P.O. Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260 phone (803) 787-9678, be and hereby is appointed Guardian ad Litem on behalf of all unknown minors and all unknown persons who may be under a disability, all of whom may have or claim to have some interest or claim to the real property commonly known as 20 Hunters Forest Dr, Charleston, SC 29414; that he is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendants, unless said Defendants, or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of Guardian or Guardians ad Litem for said Defendants.

AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED

that Kelley Woody, P.O. Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260 phone (803) 787-9678, be and hereby is appointed Attorney for any unknown Defendants who are, or may be, in the Military Service of the United States of America and as such are entitled to the benefits of the Servicemember’s Civil Relief Act aka Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940, and any amendments thereto, to represent and protect the interest of said Defendants,

AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED

That a copy of this Order shall be forth with served upon said Defendants by publication in Charleston City Paper, a newspaper of general circulation published in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons and Notice of Filing of Complaint in the above entitled action.

Brock & Scott, PLLC

3800 Fernandina Road

Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone (803) 454-3540

Fax (803) 454-3541

Attorneys for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

C/A NO.: 2023-CP-10-00408

DLJ Mortgage Capital Inc, Plaintiff, v.

Walter Henry Brooks; Rivers Bend Association, Inc.; The United States of America, acting by and through its agency, The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Defendant(s).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES

(Non-Jury)

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/ Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto.

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE

NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on January 25, 2023. A Notice of Foreclosure Intervention was also filed in the Clerk of Court’s Office.

Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone (803) 454-3540 Fax (803) 454-3541

Attorneys for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

C/A NO.: 2022-CP-10-04052

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff, v. Raul Martinez, Defendant(s).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (Non-Jury) FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED:

by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/ Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto.

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE

NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 31, 2022.

Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone (803) 454-3540 Fax (803) 454-3541

Attorneys for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO.: 2022-CP-10-04427

Bank of America, N.A., Plaintiff, v. Any heirs-at-law or devisees of Lawrence W. Burks a/k/a

Lawrence Wayne Burks, deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons or entities entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons or entities with any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as Richard Roe; and any unknown minors, incompetent or imprisoned person, or persons under a disability being

a class designated as John Doe; Shirley Burks a/k/a Shirley Sheffield Burks; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.; Citywide Mortgage Corporation; South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, Defendant(s).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES

(Non-Jury) FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/ Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been or will be commenced in this Court upon complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendant(s) for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given by Lawrence W. Burks and Shirley Burks to Bank of America, N.A. dated February 12, 2010 and recorded on October 12, 2010 in Book 0148 at Page 783, in the Charleston County Registry (hereinafter, “Mortgage”). Thereafter, the Mortgage was transferred to the Plaintiff herein by assignment and/or corporate merger.

The premises covered and affected by the said Mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof were, at the time of the making thereof and at the time of the filing of this notice, more particularly described in the said Mortgage and are more commonly described as:

All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in St. Pauls Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina, designated as Tract “F”, 3.00 acres, on that certain plat dated January 18, 1994, prepared by H. Exo Hilton, R.L.S., entitled “Plat Showing the Subdivision of Tracts “D”, “E”, & “F” Property of Nathan K. Peeples, St. Pauls Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina”, and recorded March 24, 1994, in Plat Book EA at Page 483 in the RMC Office for Charleston County; said property having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to the aforesaid plat more fully and at large appear.

Also included herewith is that certain 1998 Horton manufactured home bearing VIN H84843GL&R. This being the same property conveyed to Shirley Burks by deed of John P. Richardson and Virginia B. Richardson dated October 13, 2000, and recorded October 18, 2000, in Book X356 at Page 496 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina. Thereafter, Shirley Burks conveyed the subject property to Lawrence W. Burks and Shirley Burks, as joint tenants with right of survivorship, by Quitclaim Deed dated and recorded May 4, 2006, in Book A582 at Page 432 in said Records. Subsequently, Shirley Burks conveyed her interest in the subject property to Lawrence W. Burks and Shirley Burks by deed dated February 12, 2010, and recorded October 12, 2010, in Book 0148 at Page 782 in said Records.

TMS No. 179-00-00-090

Property Address: 6754 Caddin Rd Ravenel, SC 29470

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE

NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on September 21, 2022. A Notice of Foreclosure Intervention was also filed in the Clerk of Court’s Office.

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM AND APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the filed Petition for Appointment of Kelley Woody, Esquire as Guardian ad Litem for unknown minors, and persons who may be under a disability, and it appearing that Kelley Woody, Esquire has consented to said appointment.

FURTHER upon reading the filed Petition for Appointment of Kelley Woody, Esquire as Attorney for any unknown Defendants who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, and may be, as such, entitled to the benefits of the Servicemember’s Civil Relief Act, and any amendments thereto, and it appearing that Kelley Woody, Esquire has consented to act for and represent said Defendants, it is

ORDERED that Kelley Woody, P.O. Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260 phone (803) 787-9678, be and hereby is appointed Guardian ad Litem on behalf of all unknown minors and all unknown persons who may be under a disability, all of whom may have or claim to have some interest or claim to the real property commonly known as 6754 Caddin Rd, Ravenel, SC 29470; that he is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendants, unless said Defendants, or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of Guardian or Guardians ad Litem for said Defendants.

AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Kelley Woody, P.O. Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260 phone (803) 787-9678, be and hereby is appointed Attorney for any unknown Defendants who are, or may be, in the Military Service of the United States of America and as such are entitled to the benefits of the Servicemember’s Civil Relief Act aka Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940, and any amendments thereto, to represent and protect the interest of said Defendants,

AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED

That a copy of this Order shall be forth with served upon said Defendants by publication in Charleston City Paper, a newspaper of general circulation published in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons and Notice of Filing of Complaint in the above entitled action.

Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone (803) 454-3540 Fax (803) 454-3541

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Notice

To all persons claiming interest in 2020-11’-Seadoo-00030LC00YDV58321C020 Allen Bross will apply to SCDNR for title on watercraft. If you have any claim to the watercraft, contact SCDNR at 803-734-3699. Upon 30 days after the date of the last ad if no claim of interest is made and the watercraft has not been reported stolen, SCDNR shall issue clear title. case#20220118950047

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF THE COMMON PLEAS CASE NUMBER: 2023-CP-10-00650

Lavenia Palmer Jamison, Plaintiff, vs. Robert Broom, Jhanara Ullah and JOHN DOE, adults, RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military service of the United States of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons who may be an heir, distribute, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Martha Lee Palmer Ullah who is deceased, and any or all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint herein filed,

Defendants,

SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the Action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiff, through her Attorneys, Thomas H. Brush and J. Chris Lanning, at their office, 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof exclusive of the day of such Service; and, if you fail to answer the Compliant within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in the Action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for the aforesaid County which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53, South

Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter final judgment in this case. An appeal from the final judgment entered by the Master-in-Equity/ Special Referee shall be made directly to the Supreme Court.

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Lis Pendens and Complaint in the above entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on February 8, 2023. Dated at Charleston, South Carolina on February 8, 2023.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is pending in this Court upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above named Defendants and that the Plaintiff seeks an in kind partition of the property described in paragraph Three (3) of the Plaintiff’s Complaint and to have the property divided into 2 separate and distinct parcels subject to the provisions of Section 15-61-10 et. seq., South Carolina Code of Laws, as amended. In the alternative, if the Property cannot be divided equally, the Plaintiff seeks to have a partition by sale and the Property sold at a private sale subject to the provisions of Section 15-61-10 et. seq., South Carolina Code of Laws, as amended.

That said property affected by said Complaint in this Action hereby commenced was, at the time of the commencement of this Action, and at the time of the filing of this Notice is described as follows:

ALL, that piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being on the West side of Parkers Island Road, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, measuring and containing on Parkers Island Road 50 feet, on the North line 698 feet, on the West line 468 feet, on the South line 205 feet, on the East line 202 feet, and on the South line 303 feet, measuring and containing 2.1 acres, more or less.

TMS # 583-00-00-080

GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Conrad Falkiewicz, Esquire, 6 Carriage Lane, Charleston, South Carolina, 29407, by Order of this Court Common Pleas dated March 2, 2023 and filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina has been appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the Defendants herein as may be unknown infants, persons insane, or otherwise incompetent or under legal disability, claiming any right, title, estate claim, interest in, or lien upon the property described in the Complaint herein, such appointment to become absolute unless they or someone on their behalf shall procure an Order appointing a Guardian ad Litem for such persons within (30) days after past publications of the Summons herein.

BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A.

s/ J. Chris Lanning

J. Chris Lanning 12-A Carriage Lane Charleston, SC 29407 Phone – 843-766-5576

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON

IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

DOCKET NO. 2022-DR-10-3595

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

JEKENDRA SMALLS, WESLEY WITHERSPOON, HAZEL SMALLS, AND TONY BROWN, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF:MINOR CHILDREN BORN

MONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on December 13, 2022 at 4:17 PM. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Steven Corley, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Ave., Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Steven Corley, SC Bar #103431, 3685 Rivers Ave., Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29045. (843) 953-9625

ESTADO DE CAROLINA DEL SUR CONDADO DE CHARLESTON ANTE EL TRIBUNAL DE FAMILIA DEL NOVENO CIRCUITO JUDICIAL N.° DE EXPEDIENTE 2022-DR10-2585

DEPARTAMENTO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES DE CAROLINA DEL SUR CONTRA

MARCOS RODRIGUEZ Y MIRNA PALACIOS, DEMANDADOS. EN BENEFICIO DE: MENOR DE EDAD NACIDO EN 2008.

PARA EL DEMANDADO: MARCOS RODRIGUEZ POR EL PRESENTE DOCUMENTO SE LO CITA e informa que debe contestar a la demanda de terminación de su derecho de patria potestad respecto del menor en este caso, cuyo original fue presentado en la Secretaría Judicial del condado de Charleston, 100 Broad St., Charleston, SC 29401, el 6 Septiembre de 2022 en 2:28 PM; una copia de este se le entregará si lo solicita. Debe enviar una copia de su contestación a la abogada suscrita del Demandante a 3685 Rivers Ave., Suite 101, N. Charleston, SC 29405 en un plazo de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de su notificación, sin incluir el día en que recibe tal notificación. Si no contesta a la demanda dentro del plazo señalado, el Demandante solicitará que se dicte sentencia en rebeldía contra el Demandado por los recursos subsanatorios que por la demanda solicita. Regina Parvin, n.º de matrícula de Carolina del Sur 65393, 3685 Rivers Ave., Suite 101, N. Charleston, SC 29405. 843-953-9625.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON

IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

DOCKET NO. 2022-DR-10-2706

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

Tracee Jackson, Anthony Johnson, Quentin Grant, and Akeem Grant DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2006, 2009, 2011, & 2012

TO DEFENDANT: Tracee Jackson and Anthony Johnson YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on September 19, 2022. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of

after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE

that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference of this case to the Master-inEquity/Special Referee in/for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 203(d)(1) of the SCACR, effective June 1, 1999.

NOTICE OF FILING OF SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE

NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint, was filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina, on October 4, 2022.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE

INTERVENTION

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the South Carolina Supreme Court Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, you may have a right to Foreclosure Intervention. To be considered for any available Foreclosure Intervention, you may communicate with and otherwise deal with the Plaintiff through its law firm, Hutchens Law Firm LLP, P.O. Box 8237, Columbia, SC 29202 or call (803) 726-2700. Hutchens Law Firm LLP represents the Plaintiff in this action and does not represent you. Under our ethical rules, we are prohibited from giving you any legal advice.

You must submit any requests for Foreclosure Intervention consideration within 30 days from the date of this Notice. IF YOU FAIL, REFUSE, OR VOLUNTARILY ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION, YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY/ AGENT MAY PROCEED WITH A FORECLOSURE ACTION. If you have already pursued loss mitigation with the Plaintiff, this Notice does not guarantee the availability of loss mitigation options or further review of your qualifications.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY FOR DEFENDANT(S) IN MILITARY SERVICE

TO UNKNOWN OR KNOWN DEFENDANTS THAT MAY BE IN THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ALL BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS RICHARD ROE: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED that Plaintiff’s attorney has applied for the appointment of an attorney to represent you. If you fail to apply for the appointment of an attorney to represent you within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you Plaintiff’s appointment will be made absolute with no further action from Plaintiff.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF

A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATU-

TORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

Hutchens Law Firm LLP

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

PHH Mortgage Corporation, PLAINTIFF, vs. Glenda N Seymour; South Carolina Department of Revenue; Bank of America, N.A., DEFENDANT(S)

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT AND NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION AND CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE CORONAVIRUS AID RELIEF AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY ACT (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE)

C/A NO: 2022-CP-10-03353

DEFICIENCY REQUESTED

TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, Hutchens Law Firm LLP, P.O. Box 8237, Columbia, SC 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference of this case to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 203(d)(1) of the SCACR, effective June 1, 1999.

NOTICE OF FILING OF SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE

NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint, were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court on

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the South Carolina Supreme Court Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, you may have a right to Foreclosure Intervention.

To be considered for any available Foreclosure Intervention, you may communicate with and otherwise deal with the Plaintiff through its law firm, Hutchens Law Firm LLP, P.O. Box 8237, Columbia, SC 29202 or call (803) 726-2700. Hutchens Law Firm LLP represents the Plaintiff in this action and does not represent you. Under our ethical rules, we are prohibited from giving you any legal advice.

You must submit any requests for Foreclosure Intervention consideration within 30 days from the date of this Notice. IF YOU FAIL, REFUSE, OR VOLUNTARILY ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION, YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY/ AGENT MAY PROCEED WITH A FORECLOSURE ACTION. If you have already pursued loss mitigation with the Plaintiff, this Notice does not guarantee the availability of loss mitigation options or further review of your qualifications.

CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE CORONAVIRUS AID, RELIEF, AND ECONOMIC SECURITY ACT

My name is: Gregory Wooten

First Middle Last

I am ( ) the Plaintiff or (X) an authorized agent of the Plaintiff in the foreclosure case described at the top of this page. I am capable of making this certification. The facts stated in the certification are within my personal knowledge and are true and correct.

1. Verification Pursuant to the South Carolina Supreme Court Administrative Orders 2020-04-30-02 and 2020-05-06-01 and based upon the information provided by the Plaintiff and/or its authorized servicer as maintained in its case management/database records, the undersigned makes the following certifications:

Plaintiff is seeking to foreclose upon the following property commonly known as 1335 Witter Street, Charleston, SC 29412 Street Address & Unit No. (if any) City, State Zip code

I verify that this property and specifically the mortgage loan subject to this action:

( ) is NOT a “Federally Backed Mortgage Loan” as defined by § 4022(a)(2) of the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act.

(X) is a “Federally Backed Mortgage Loan” as defined by § 4022(a)(2) of the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act. Specifically, the foreclosure moratorium cited in Section 4022(c)(2) of the CARES Act has expired as of May 18, 2020, and the property and mortgage are not currently subject to a forbearance plan as solely defined in Sections 4022(b) and (c) of the CARES Act.

I hereby certify that I have reviewed the loan servicing records and case management/data base records of the Plaintiff or its authorized mortgage servicer, in either digital or printed form, and that this mortgage loan is not currently subject to a forbearance plan as solely defined in Sections 4022(b) and (c) of the CARES Act. Pursuant thereto, I certify that the facts stated in this Certification are within my personal knowledge, excepting those matters based upon my information and belief as to the said loan servicing records and case management/data base

records of the Plaintiff or mortgage servicer, and to those matters I believe them to be true. See, Rule 11(c), SCRCP; BB&T of South Carolina v. Fleming, 360 S.C. 341, 601 S.E.2d 540 (2004).

2. Declaration

I certify that the foregoing statements made by me are true and correct. I am aware that if any of the foregoing statements made by me are willfully false, I am subject to punishment by contempt.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

Hutchens Law Firm LLP

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL

Name and address of Purchaser:

JUAN LUIS SILVA & MARGARITA COA SILVA 409 E WILLIAMSBURG DR, STARKVILLE, MS 39759-4217.

LIBERTY PLACE VACATION SUITES: A fee simple undivided 0.01682244733133270% ownership interest in and to the Project in perpetuity as tenant(s) in common with the Owners of other Vacation Ownership Interests in the Project, as established by and subject to that certain Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrument for Liberty Place Vacation Suites, recorded September 25, 2019 in Book 0824, Page 157, et seq. of the records of the R.O.D. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina, as amended or supplemented from time to time (the “Declaration”), having Interval Control Number:98-0301-25B, Deed Book 0849, Page 930. You are in DEFAULT under the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrument for Liberty Place Vacation, via your failure to pay property owners association dues, assessments, special assessments, and/or taxes (collectively “Assessments”) to Liberty Place Vacation Owners Association, Inc., as more particularly described in that certain Claim of Lien recorded in Lien Book 1157, at Page 484, records of Charleston County, South Carolina. Total amount presently delinquent $5998.06.

PURSUANT TO SECTION 27-32325, S.C. CODE ANN., 1976, AS AMENDED, YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING: IF YOU FAIL TO CURE THE DEFAULT OR TAKE OTHER APPROPRIATE ACTION WITH REGARD TO THIS MATTER WITHIN THIRTY CALENDAR DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE, YOU WILL RISK LOSING YOUR INTEREST IN THIS TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH A NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE. HOWEVER, UNDER THE NONJUDICIAL PROCEDURE, YOU WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT OR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED EVEN IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT

TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. YOU MAY OBJECT TO THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE AND REQUIRE FORECLOSURE OF YOUR TIMESHARE INTEREST TO PROCEED THROUGH THE JUDICIAL PROCESS. AN OBJECTION MUST BE MADE IN WRITING AND RECEIVED BY THE TRUSTEE BEFORE THE END OF THE THIRTY-DAY TIME PERIOD. YOU MUST STATE THE REASON FOR YOUR OBJECTION AND INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS ON THE WRITTEN OBJECTION. IN A JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR OBJECTION, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT AND PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. FURTHERMORE, YOU ALSO MAY BE SUBJECT TO A PERSONAL MONEY JUDGMENT FOR THE COSTS AND ATTORNEY’S FEES INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER IN THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING IF THE COURT FINDS THAT THERE IS COMPLETE ABSENCE OF A JUSTIFIABLE ISSUE OF EITHER LAW OR FACT RAISED BY YOUR OBJECTIONS OR DEFENSES. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE YOUR DEFAULT AT ANY TIME BEFORE THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE, BY PAYMENT OF ALL PAST DUE LOAN PAYMENTS OR ASSESSMENTS, ACCRUED INTEREST, LATE FEES, TAXES, AND ALL FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER AND TRUSTEE, INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEFAULT. Any response or inquiry should be made in writing to King Cunningham, LLC, Attn: Jeffrey W. King, Esq. who is serving as Trustee in this matter, at the following address: 1000 2nd Ave S, Ste 325, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582.

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL

Name and address of Purchaser: DAISY GOODNIGHT WALDREP 234 CHEROKEE CIRCLE, CEDARTOWN, GA 30125.

LIBERTY PLACE VACATION SUITES: A fee simple undivided 0.00841122366566636% ownership interest in and to the Project in perpetuity as tenant(s) in common with the Owners of other Vacation Ownership Interests in the Project, as established by and subject to that certain Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrument for Liberty Place Vacation Suites, recorded September 25, 2019 in Book 0824, Page 157, et seq. of the records of the R.O.D. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina, as amended or supplemented from time to time (the “Declaration”), having Interval Control Number:98-0301-9-E, Deed Book 0839, Page 520. You are in DEFAULT under the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrument for Liberty Place Vacation, via your failure to pay property owners association dues, assessments, special assessments, and/or taxes (collectively “Assessments”) to Liberty Place Vacation Owners Association, Inc., as more particularly described in that certain Claim of Lien recorded in Lien Book 1157, at Page 485, records of Charleston County, South Carolina. Total amount presently delinquent $7808.11.

PURSUANT TO SECTION 27-32325, S.C. CODE ANN., 1976, AS AMENDED, YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING: IF YOU FAIL TO CURE THE DEFAULT OR TAKE OTHER APPROPRIATE ACTION WITH REGARD TO THIS MATTER WITHIN THIRTY CALENDAR

DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE, YOU WILL RISK LOSING YOUR INTEREST IN THIS TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH A NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE. HOWEVER, UNDER THE NONJUDICIAL PROCEDURE, YOU WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT OR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED EVEN IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. YOU MAY OBJECT TO THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE AND REQUIRE FORECLOSURE OF YOUR TIMESHARE INTEREST TO PROCEED THROUGH THE JUDICIAL PROCESS. AN OBJECTION MUST BE MADE IN WRITING AND RECEIVED BY THE TRUSTEE BEFORE THE END OF THE THIRTY-DAY TIME PERIOD. YOU MUST STATE THE REASON FOR YOUR OBJECTION AND INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS ON THE WRITTEN OBJECTION. IN A JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR OBJECTION, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT AND PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. FURTHERMORE, YOU ALSO MAY BE SUBJECT TO A PERSONAL MONEY JUDGMENT FOR THE COSTS AND ATTORNEY’S FEES INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER IN THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING IF THE COURT FINDS THAT THERE IS COMPLETE ABSENCE OF A JUSTIFIABLE ISSUE OF EITHER LAW OR FACT RAISED BY YOUR OBJECTIONS OR DEFENSES. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE YOUR DEFAULT AT ANY TIME BEFORE THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE, BY PAYMENT OF ALL PAST DUE LOAN PAYMENTS OR ASSESSMENTS, ACCRUED INTEREST, LATE FEES, TAXES, AND ALL FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER AND TRUSTEE, INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEFAULT. Any response or inquiry should be made in writing to King Cunningham, LLC, Attn: Jeffrey W. King, Esq. who is serving as Trustee in this matter, at the following address: 1000 2nd Ave S, Ste 325, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582.

Notice of Master In Equity Sale 2022-CP-10-04020 Deficiency Waived BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, heretofore issued in the case of United Bank, Successor By Merger To Crescom Bank against Richard W. Lingenfelter I, the undersigned, as Master In Equity for Charleston County, will sell on April 4, 2023 at 11 o’clock a.m. at the Charleston County Public Services Building, Third Floor Room B339, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC. to the highest bidder:

Legal Description: ALL THAT CERTAIN APARTMENT, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN OTRANTO SUBDIVISION, IN THE CITY OF NORTH CHARLESTON, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AND BEING KNOWN AS “APARTMENT NUMBER 2183 PALERMO PLACE IN BUILDING 17 OF OTRANTO CLUB VILLAGE HORIZONTAL PROPERTY REGIME III, PHASE II, AND BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED BY REFERENCE TO MASTER DEED ESTABLISHED SAID HORIZONTAL

PROPERTY REGIME; SAID

MASTER DEED DATED APRIL 27, 1984 AND RECORDED APRIL 27, 1984 IN THE RMC OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY IN DEED BOOK S-136, PAGE 809, AND AMENDED JULY 30, 1984. SAID AMENDMENT RECORDED JULY 30, 1984 IN DEED BOOK A-139, PAGE 264 OF THE RMC OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

Together with all and singular improvements thereon and the rights, members, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any way appertaining; all the rents, issues, and profits thereof (provided, however that, unless otherwise agreed, the Mortgagor shall be entitled to collect and retain the said rents, issues, and profits until default hereunder); and including all heating, plumbing, and lighting fixtures and equipment now or hereafter attached to or used in connection with the real estate herein described (herein collectively the “Property”)

TMS No.: 485-00-00-148

Property Address:

2183 Palermo Place North Charleston, SC 29406

Derivation: BEING the same property conveyed to Mortgagor herein by deed of Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation dated July 21, 2014 and recorded August 26, 2014 in Book 0425 at Page 550, ROD Office for Charleston County.

TERMS OF SALE: For cash. The purchaser to pay for papers and stamps, and the successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff therein, does, upon the acceptance of his or her bid, deposit with the Master In Equity for Charleston County, a certified check or cash in the amount equal to five percent (5%) of the amount bid on said premises at the sale as evidence of good faith in bidding, subject to any resale of said premises under Order of this Court; and in the event the said purchaser or purchasers should fail to comply with the terms of sale within thirty (30) days, the Master In Equity shall forthwith resell the said property, after the due notice and advertisement, and shall continue to sell the same each subsequent sales day until a purchaser who shall comply with the terms of sale shall be obtained, such sales to be made at the risk of the former purchaser. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the legal rate of interest. Purchaser is to pay for Deed Stamps and costs of recording the Deed.

As a personal or deficiency judgment is waived, the bidding will not remain open for a period of thirty (30) days after the date of sale as provided by law in such cases.

If the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff’s representative does not appear at the scheduled sale of the abovereferenced property, then the sale of the property will be null, void and of no force and effect. In such event, the sale will be rescheduled for the next available sales day.

SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES.

Mikell R. Scarborough Master In Equity, Charleston County 14th day of February, 2023

LAW OFFICE OF STEVEN B. LICATA, P.C. 311 Bird Island Rd. Ridgeway, South Carolina 29130 (803) 337-0467

Attorneys for Plaintiff

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371ES with Keith Kornahrens, Probate Judge of Berkeley County, 300 B California Avenue, Moncks Corner, SC 29461, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred.

Estate of: ALBERT LLOYD YELVERTON IV 2022-ES-08-1315 DOD: 08/19/22

Pers. Rep: Albert Lloyd Yelverton, V 3005 CRUSADE STREET LADSON SC 29456

Atty: O. Grady Query 147 Wappoo Creek Drive Suite 202 Charleston, SC 29412

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SPARTANBURG IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2022-DR-42-2999 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS YOLANDA TATE, ET AL, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTEREST OF: MINOR CHILD, BORN 2005, MINOR CHILD, BORN 2011, MINOR CHILD, BORN 2014, MINOR CHILD, BORN 2016.

TO DEFENDANTS: QUINCY

WHITE

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the complaint for Non-Emergency Removal in and to the minor children in this action, the original of which has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Amy Cox, on December 8, 2022, a copy of which will be delivered to you upon request; and to serve a copy of your answer to the complaint upon the undersigned attorney for the Plaintiff at 630 Chesnee Highway, Spartanburg, SC, 29303 within thirty (30) days following the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time stated, the Plaintiff will apply for judgment by default against the Defendants for the relief demanded in the complaint.

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that:

(1) the Guardian ad litem (GAL) who is appointed by the court in this action to represent the best interests of the children will provide the family court with a written report that includes an evaluation and assessment of the issues brought before the court along with recommendations; (2) the GAL’s written report will be available for review twenty-four (24) hours in advance of the hearing; (3) you may review the report at the GAL Program county office. Jonathan Neal, SC Bar No. 73915, 630 Chesnee Highway, Spartanburg, SC 29303. (864) 345-1110/(864) 596-2337.

PUBLIC NOTICE

Twin Oaks Farms Ravenel LLC has applied to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management for a permit to build/ install a floating dock for private use at 4704 Savannah Hwy on the Wallace River. Comments will be received by the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, Jo-Ann Danner Program Coordinator, Critical Area Permitting Section 1362 McMillan Ave Suite 400 Charleston , S.C. 29405. by February 23, 2023.

Savannah Music Festival is well worth the journey

By Kevin Murphy Wilson

The Savannah Music Festival (SMF) has long been one of the region’s largest annual musical arts events. Artistic Director Ryan McMaken told the Charleston City Paper that for its 34th season, which runs March 21 through April 8, the SMF team decided to make the festivities bigger than ever.

“There are a total of nine venues this time,” McMaken said. “For the most part, in the past, we’ve always been in indoor venues scattered throughout the historic district of Savannah. So, what’s significantly different about this year is that we opted to expand things enough to include a major outdoor offering that broadens the menu and increases our capacity for accommodating headlining acts.”

While McMaken insists chamber music, jazz and dance are very important to the underlying aesthetic of the SMF, the current lineup veers heavily into the Americana, folk and blues territories.

Emerging artists Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno will pull double duty performing as the quirky duo, Viv & Riley, as well as part of a more traditional group called the Onlies.

Calcagno characterizes the Onlies as a quartet that is “focused on really old-time Appalachian string band music. There’s singing but also a lot of fiddle tunes coming through,” he said. Whereas, according to Leva, the duo is “pretty much playing all original songs that venture into lots of other genres.”

Master mandolinist and bluegrass bandleader Sam Bush will also perform at SMF, although in a decidedly different way than anyone has likely seen him before. This time around, he’ll primarily showcase the songs of American folk musician and renowned fiddler John Hartford. This is an undertaking Bush, who is also an award-winning fiddler, clearly relishes.

“I had been a big fan of John’s music long before we ever crossed paths,” Bush said. “Then I finally got to meet him in the summer of 1971 at Bill Monroe’s Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival. The band John had with him included Tut Taylor, Norman Blake and Vassar Clements, and they just blew minds that night. Late in the evening, I got to spend some time around the campfire with those guys, and I had never before met anyone that liked to jam or play music more than John. He literally would rather pick than eat. That initial encounter led to a working relationship and a friendship that lasted decades.”

Perhaps most notable at SMF 2023 are the pair of concerts from legendary bluesman Buddy Guy — especially since these are bound to be his final shows in the area. The crowd-pleasing octogenarian is in the midst of his “Damn Right” farewell tour. Remarkably, even after all these years on the road, Guy’s performance philosophy is simple. “When people come to see me play, I just hope that I can hit a note that makes them smile and forget about their

Pulse

Lineup of singersongwriters lands on IOP

Charleston musician Dave Landeo brings back his Isle of Palms Songwriters Festival from 3-10 p.m. March 12 at The Dinghy bar and grill showcasing diverse singersongwriters. Catch performances from Jamisun , Lauren Hall, Abbey Elmore , Travis Allison , Chris Dodson and Landeo. The event is free and donated items will be auctioned throughout the day to raise funds for Lowcountry Orphan Relief. For more information, visit isleofpalmssongwritersfestival.com.

Catch a night of folk rock downtown

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problems for a while,” Guy told the City Paper. “Music makes people happy and that’s why I’ve gone on doing it for so long. I like to see people smile,” Guy said. “But whether you like what you hear or not, I want you to walk away saying, ‘He gave me everything he got.’ Because if people come to see you, I think you should give them every damn thing you got.”

In the end, McMaken is pleased to have assembled such an eclectic array of acts. Other 2023 highlights include S.G. Goodman, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Infamous Stringdusters, Tedeschi Trucks Band, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Los Lobos, Jerry Douglas Band, Sierra Hull, Leo Kottke, Galactic and more.

In addition to providing a fun run of carefully curated shows each spring, McMaken said SMF continues to operate year-round to produce a music education curriculum, an annual high school jazz band competition, a mentorship program for young acoustic musicians, a weekly radio series entitled Savannah Music Festival LIVE and other broadcast and digital initiatives.

For tickets and further information, visit SavannahMusicFestival.org.

Charleston Americana duo Finnegan Bell, in partnership with St. Thomas Anglican Church and Awendaw Green, present a listening room experience at High Wire Distilling Company downtown at 8 p.m. March 10 featuring Kristian Bush of Sugarland for a night of folk rock and country music. Tickets are $45 and available at citypapertickets.com.

Don’t miss an evening with They Might Be Giants

Renowned alternative rock act They Might Be Giants celebrates 40 years as a band with a 2023 U.S. tour that stops at Charleston Music Hall at 8 p.m. March 12. The band will perform the 1990 album Flood in its entirety. Tickets are $35-$55 and available at charlestonmusichall.com.

Avant garde chamber music takes over the Gibbes

Charleston alternative chamber music company New Muse Concerts continues its fourth season with the “Carnival of Animals,” featuring pianists Ronaldo Rolim and Xiaohui Yang . The free preview concert takes place at 6 p.m. March 14 at MUSC’s Ashley River Tower downtown. The full concert happens at 6 p.m. March 15 at the Gibbes Museum of Art. Tickets are $30-$40 and available at gibbesmuseum.org.

Chelsea Grinstead

This year’s Savannah Music Festival encompasses Americana, folk, jazz, classical and zydeco music. Blues titan Buddy Guy (above) will perform two concerts at the fest.

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Mandolinist Sam Bush, a pioneer of progressive bluegrass, will play SMF

High Fidelity: Your Top 5

Charleston artist and photographer Caroline Herring specializes in visual storytelling and offers clients a comprehensive experience complete with styling and set design. Her vibrant still-life photography and fashion portraits evoke whimsical adventure and eye-catching composition. As an avid music lover, she’s prone to blast tunes to start her day and pump her up as she drives to photoshoots singing her heart out with the windows down. She gave the City Paper her top five albums that are getting her through lately. The playlist alternates between high-energy and mellow tracks to keep her energized yet grounded:

Wild Planet by The B52’s Frank by Amy Winehouse

Mordechai by Khruangbin

Maggot by Dazey & The Scouts

Heaven or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins

Dreaming, falling with keyboardist Bogan

By Chelsea Grinstead

Charleston keyboardist Ross Bogan, known for his role in synthwave band Doom

Flamingo and instrumental act Lureto, dives into another musical concept with his latest experimental synth project, Wolf Mask. Bogan released his third single on March 3, “dreaming // falling.”

“I like making music in a conceptual way,” Bogan told the Charleston City Paper. “I’ve been writing a lot of dance music and that was the impetus for Wolf Mask. I want it to be fun.”

His material for Wolf Mask surfaced over the years as he worked on other projects and fleshed out rough ideas. He pulled together the wolf character on the fly for a music video released last year, which he created for Lureto’s cover of The Doors’ “People Are Strange” on the EP Walk Thoughts.

“Masks make people have the confidence or the boldness to act [differently] than they normally would,” Bogan said. “People put on a mask [and] they start doing strange things — and I liked writing for this character, but also it’s a lot of me.”

On “dreaming // falling,” the cascading rhythm ebbs and flows like a tide invoking a dream state. Bogan’s soft vocals and offbeat lyrics unfurl a welcoming dissociation: “I’m seeing / visions / different / it’s imminent / It’s good to see you / It’s good to be seen / Everything’s cool / Critical dream / Serene / Falling / Visions / Tentative / But Sweet.”

The new recording, tracked with producer/ engineer Wolfgang Zimmerman at The Space downtown, is stacked with Charleston musicians including drummer Ron Wiltrout, guitarist Thomas Kenney, bassist Corey Stephens and vocalist Eliza Novella.

Experimental recording artist Dylan Dawkins of Persona La Ave collaborated with Bogan on the music video for Wolf Mask’s second single, “ticket2thesun,” which has a more straightforward pop-rock edge.

“The sound of Wolf Mask is just pure Ross,” Dawkins said. “I think an artist’s leastfavorite question is ‘What do you sound like?’ Wolf Mask seems to operate in multiple genres — whatever Ross is vibing with at the time, he writes the tunes and records them.”

Staying true to his love for instrumental music, Bogan released instrumental versions of each single available on all streaming services. As he continues with Wolf Mask, he said he wants to be more intentional with writing new material and collaborating with musicians versus rehashing previous material from the past few years.

He said a lot of Wolf Mask’s musical atmo-

sphere arose from working within the ’80s music aesthetic for Doom Flamingo material and digging into songwriting that distills deeper meanings in an upbeat sonic landscape, such as Steely Dan or the “ ’80s Gothic heartbreak stuff” from Tears for Fears.

“They’re pouring their heart out, but you still want to dance to it,” he said. “I have an affinity for that music, so that definitely comes through.”

Wolf Mask takes over the Pour House stage at 9:30 p.m. March 10, and Bogan will be joined by Doom Flamingo bandmates Kenney and drummer Sean Bing with bassist Aaron Utterback of Charleston alt-rock band Human Resources.

Tickets for Wolf Mask with Kairos Creature Club are $12-$15 and available at charlestonpourhouse.com.

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Keyboardist Ross Bogan’s synth project Wolf Mask performs as a four piece March 10 at Pour House with Jacksonville psych rockers Kairos Creature Club

“SPORTS ROUNDTABLE” —it rings true.

Across

1. Cherished ones

6. Suspicious

11. Biopsy processor

14. Plumed bird

15. Suffix similar to “-ish”

16. “And now, without further ___”

17. MY THEORY, PART 1

20. “We’re on!”

21. Jazz Masters org.

22. Check deposit spots, for short

23. Video doorbell brand

25. “And ___ Davis as Alice” (end of “The Brady Bunch” opening credits)

27. MY THEORY, PART 2

34. “Cloud Shepherd” sculptor Jean

35. Senator Klobuchar

36. Reggae proponent

37. 151 in Roman numerals

38. MY THEORY, PART 3

41. Pugilistic wordsmith

42. “47 ___” (2013 Keanu Reeves film)

44. Dark-hued juice brand

45. “Kenan & ___”

46. MY THEORY, PART 4

51. Express mail carrier?

52. Heavy book 53. Dull pain 56. Round figure? 58. “I can’t hear you!” sound 62. PART 5 (FOLLOW-UP TO THE THEORY)

65. Org. that lets you e-file 66. Like some mouthwash 67. First name in late-night TV 68. Relieved sigh 69. Got in the game 70. Cause of slick roads

Down

1. Half of an early TV couple

2. 2023 achievement for Viola Davis 3. “A Farewell to ___” 4. Gain anew, as trust 5. Cigar, in slang 6. “30 Rock” creator Tina 7. “This one ___ me” 8. Mouse sound

Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Repressed feelings and dormant passions are rising to the surface. I bet they will soon be rattling your brain and illuminating your heart, unleashing a soothing turbulence of uncanny glee. Will you get crazy and wise enough to coax the Great Mystery into blessing you with an inspirational revelation or two? I believe you will. I hope you will! The more skillful you are at generating rowdy breakthroughs, the less likely you are to experience a breakdown. Be as unruly as you need to be to liberate the very best healings.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You finally have all you need to finish an incomplete mission or resolve a mess of unsettled karma. The courage and determination you couldn’t quite summon before are now fully available as you invoke a climax that will prepare the way for your awe-inspiring rebirth. Gaze into the future, dear Taurus, and scan for radiant beacons that will be your guides in the coming months. You have more help than you know, and now is the time to identify it and move toward it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Our sun is an average star in a galaxy of 100 billion stars. In comparison to some of its flamboyant compatriots, it’s mediocre. Over 860 light years away is a blue-white supergiant star called Rigel, which is twice as hot as our sun and 40,000 times brighter. The red supergiant Antares, over 600 light years away, has 12 times more mass. Yet if those two show-offs had human attitudes, they might be jealous of our star, which is the source of energy for a planet teeming with 8.7 million forms of life. I propose we make the sun your role model for now, Gemini. It’s an excellent time to glory in your unique strengths and to exuberantly avoid comparing yourself to anyone else.

13. Word after Backstreet, Pet Shop, or Beastie

18. French-Italian cheese that’s milder than its similarly named relative

19. Part of Fred Flintstone’s catchphrase

24. Like pheasant or venison

26. “Traffic” agent?

27. Mother-of-pearl

28. Russian count who lent his name to a veal dish

29. State your views

30. Kind of node or gland

31. Japanese city home to Panasonic

32. Former Phillies great Chase

33. Call at a coin toss

38. “Hold ___ your hats”

39. Frost or Dove

40. “You got my approval”

43. How checks are signed

47. Strand, as a winter storm

48. Despot

49. Spam, for example

50. “Sunny” 1990s Honda

53. Setting of Shanghai and Chennai 54. “Iron Chef America” chef Cat

55. Meat-and-potatoes concoction

57. Computer data unit

59. Real estate measurement

60. Debussy’s “Clair de ___”

61. “Second prize is ___ of steak knives” (“Glengarry Glen Ross” quote)

63. 1950s singer Sumac

64. Former Pink Floyd guitarist Barrett

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The philosophical principle known as Occam’s razor asserts that when trying to understand a problem or enigma, we should favor the simplest explanation with the fewest assumptions. While that’s often a useful approach, I don’t recommend it in the coming weeks. For you, nuances and subtleties will abound in every situation. Mere simplicity is unlikely to lead to a valid understanding. You will be wise to relish the complications and thrive on the paradoxes. Try to see at least three sides of every story. Further tips:

1. Mysteries may be truer than mere facts.

2.If you’re willing to honor your confusion, the full, rich story will eventually emerge.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “There are no unsacred places,” wrote Leo poet Wendell Berry. “There are only sacred places and desecrated places.” Poet Allen Ginsberg agreed. “Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!” he wrote. “Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements! Holy the cafeteria! Holy the mysterious rivers of tears under the streets! Holy the sea, holy the desert, holy the railroad.” With Berry’s and Ginsberg’s prompts as your inspiration, and in accordance with current astrological imperatives, I invite you to invigorate your relationship with sacredness. If nothing is sacred for you, do what it takes to find and commune with sacred things, places, animals, humans and phenomena. If you are already a lover of sacred wonders, give them extra love and care. To expand your thinking and tenderize your mood, give your adoration to these related themes: consecration, sublimity, veneration, devotion, reverence, awe and splendor.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My favorite Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, wrote the following: “In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears.” I bring this meditation to your attention, Virgo, because I hope you will do it daily during the next two weeks. Now is an excellent time to cultivate an intense awareness of your feelings — to exult in their rich meanings, to value their spiritual power, to feel gratitude for educating and entertaining you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How might your life come into clearer focus when you uncover secrets that inspire your initiative and ingenuity? What hap -

By Rob Brezsny

pens when resources that had been inaccessible become available for your enjoyment and use? How will you respond if neglected truths spring into view and point the way toward improvements in your job situation? I suspect you will soon be able to tell me stories about all this good stuff. PS: Don’t waste time feeling doubtful about whether the magic is real. Just welcome it and make it work for you!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s not the best time to tattoo a lover’s likeness on your abdomen. Maybe in May, but not now. On the other hand, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to see if your paramour might be willing to tattoo your name on their thigh. Similarly, this is a favorable period to investigate which of your allies would wake up at 5 a.m. to drive you to the airport, and which of your acquaintances and friends would stop others from spreading malicious gossip about you, and which authorities would reward you if you spoke up with constructive critiques.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Redwoods are the tallest trees in the world. They may grow as high as 350 feet. Their roots are shallow, though, reaching down just six to 12 feet before spreading out 60 to 100 feet horizontally. And yet the trees are sturdy, rarely susceptible to being toppled by high winds and floods. What’s their secret? Their root systems are interwoven with those of other nearby redwoods. Together, they form networks of allies, supporting each other and literally sharing nutrients. I endorse this model for you to emulate in your efforts to create additional stability and security in your life, Sagittarius.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What’s the best way to be fulfilled? Hard work and discipline? Are we most likely to flourish if we indulge only moderately in life’s sweet pleasures and mostly focus on the difficult tasks that build our skills and clout? Or is it more accurate to say that 90 percent of success is just showing up: being patient and persistent as we carry out the small day-to-day sacrifices and devotions that incrementally make us indispensable? Mythologist Joseph Campbell described a third variation: to “follow our bliss.” We find out what activities give us the greatest joy and install those activities at the center of our lives. As a Capricorn, you are naturally skilled at the first two approaches. In the coming months, I encourage you to increase your proficiency at the third.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Mackerels are unusual fish in that they must keep swimming nonstop. If they don’t, they die. Do they ever sleep? Scientists haven’t found any evidence that they do. I bring them up now because many of you Aquarians have resemblances to mackerels — and I think it’s especially crucial that you not act like them in the coming weeks. I promise you that nothing bad will happen if you slow way down and indulge in prolonged periods of relaxing stillness. Just the opposite in fact: Your mental and physical health will thrive as you give your internal batteries time and space to recharge.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A financial advisor once told me I could adopt one of three approaches to running my business: 1. Ignore change. 2. Always struggle with change, half-immobilized by mixed feelings about whether to change. 3. Learn to love and thrive on change. The advisor said that if I chose either of the first two options, I would always be forced to change by circumstances beyond my control. The third approach is ultimately the only one that works. Now is an excellent time for you Pisceans to commit yourself fully to number three — for both your business and your life.

Homework: Who or what do you belong to in ways that keep you free? Newsletter. FreeWillAstrology.com

HOUSES & GARDENS 2023

CHARLESTON MARCH 15-APRIL 16, 2023

Join Historic Charleston Foundation for our 76th Annual Festival of Houses & Gardens. Become an insider with intimate glimpses into some of the most private, beautiful homes and gardens in Charleston. With home and garden tours, concerts, lectures, and Live Like a Local events (selected events below, more online), you’ll get a front row seat to a world of preservation, architecture, history, and culture.

For more information, to order a brochure, and to purchase tickets, scan QR code or visit: HistoricCharleston.org/festival

SOUTHERN FLAVOR BLUEGRASS BAND: Thursday, March 30; 5:30-6:30pm

ROSÉ & ROSES IN THE GARDEN: Saturdays; March 18, March 25, April 1, April 15; 5:30-6:30pm

HARBOR HISTORY TOURS AT SUNSET: Wednesdays; March 22, April 5; 6-7:45pm