Word: charlestoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proud, slumbering, self-contained city is Charleston, S. C. Charleston society, penuriously descended from South Carolina's ante-bellum aristocracy, looks down on rich Yankees who have bought and restored great estates, on Northern industrialists who in the last ten years have built factories on the city's outskirts-looks down even on the rest of South Carolina when it stoops to push for prosperity. The temperament of old Charleston invigorates the bosom of 71-year-old, baggy-suited Dr. William Watts Ball, editor of the Charleston News & Courier...
...last fortnight South Carolina's Public Service Authority announced that it was closing its Charleston office, moving to the State capital at Columbia. Reason given: the Charleston headquarters were only for preliminary work, now done. Along with the Authority would go PWA employes in Charleston...
...Charleston's merchants (who, unlike the old families, have long since warmed to the little TVA) rose in arms. Cried Mayor Henry W. Lockwood: "It seems that . . . the constant nagging of the newspaper on the Authority and everything the New Deal is for has brought this thing to a head. . . . The next thing you are going to do is lose your Navy Yard...
...gallantly: "Is it expected and demanded that a newspaper calling itself honest should stand by in silence, lest some of its friends suffer loss by not sharing in extravagant and wasteful spending of public money by genial politicians? ... If the editor of the News & Courier is an obstacle to Charleston, a thorn in its flesh, he ... is prepared at a moment's notice to remove himself. He is not prepared to move from his opinion...
Barrelhouse music is the sort of piano music you hear coming softly through the flaking shutters of the questionable little frame houses on the streets down by the railroad station in Charleston, Memphis, Birmingham, Mobile. Still preserved here & there in the squalid social amber of the deep South, it is a fusion of ragtime and blues that flowered in the 20th Century's first decade. And it is important as a U. S. folk-music form because it almost died giving birth to jazz. It got its name from the place where it was (and occasionally still is) played...