Tag: South Carolina
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A Tuskegee Airmen Memorial
While wandering around in South Carolina we ran across a small memorial to WWII’s Tuskegee Airmen, the first black Americans to be trained and deployed as fighter pilots. This is significant because at the time, in spite of prior demonstration of their ability to fight like white men in the Revolutionary, Civil and Indian wars,…
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… to the Sea
It would be a shame to cross half the country, camp within an hour-and-a-half of the ocean and not get our feet wet. So we did. Edisto Beach State Park, on the Atlantic south of Charleston, is on an ‘island’ of sorts, surrounded by salt marshes. It’s somewhat quiet in winter and out of the…
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Congaree
We’ve spent the last few days camping in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Part of my half-thought out plan for this trip was to check out one of the few National Parks in the Eastern US, Congaree National Park. The park preserves thousands of acres of hardwood bottomlands, some of which are old growth. In…
Michael Janke 