Word: charlestoning
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...Charleston's famed Citadel, where military-minded young Southerners go to learn soldiering, a tradition of 100 years was broken when no grits was available for breakfast. Vexed South Carolina housewives started a small boom in hand gristmills, scoured the countryside in search of corn...
Said one countryman: "If you want to eat corn, you'd better be a hog." Headlined the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier: "CALAMITY...
JANET EVANS LYON Charleston...
Disorderly Teetotaler. Like his contemporary, Benjamin Disraeli, Judah P. Benjamin was a sephardic (of Spanish-Jewish ancestry) Jew. Born in 1811 at Saint Croix, Virgin Islands, he became a U.S. citizen when his drygoods-vending father was naturalized at Charleston, S.C. At 14, Judah was the youngest man in his class at Yale, and a member of the teetotaling Philencratian Society. At 16, Judah was bluntly bounced out of Yale. Probable reasons: "association with a set of disorderly fellows who were addicted to card playing and gambling," theft, mysterious temptations "which he had not the moral force to resist." Judah...
...strains of cabbage that have up to twice as much vitamin C as the old varieties have been developed at the Department of Agriculture's regional laboratory in Charleston. S.C., but seed is not likely to be available to gardeners for several years...