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Visiting the Mabry-Hazen House
Gunfights, Civil War strategy, lawsuits, and scandal mark much of the history of the Mabry-Hazen House, but from its serene perch atop Mabry’s Hill with towering magnolia trees shading the wide veranda you could hardly imagine this notorious past. The Mabry-Hazen House was home to three generations of the same family and showcases their original…
Read MoreGrace and Grit
If you watched the DNC last night, you know what I’m talking about. It was pretty awesome!
Read MoreSummer Reading Review: Charleston
This book hurt my heart but in this poignant rush that was utterly captivating. **This post contains affiliate links, but only because I highly recommend this book! Charleston by Margaret Bradham Thornton tells the story of Eliza Poinsett who journeys home to a city so filled with tentacles of memory and connection she can’t shake…
Read MoreMy Summer Reading List
I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a mile long list of books that I want to read, and I am constantly adding to it. So in order to shorten that list just a bit, I’ve decided to focus on 10 books that I will read by the end of the summer. Some of…
Read MoreTouring Brookgreen Gardens
All these gorgeous spring blooms have me fantasizing about our tour through Brookgreen Gardens this past summer. Brookgreen is just south of Myrtle Beach down in Murrells Inlet. With thousands of acres of gardens to explore, Brookgreen offers a mezmerizing blend of horticulture and art. In the early 1930’s Archer and Anna Hyatt…
Read MoreControversy over Planned Parenthood
Are you having trouble understanding why members of the GOP are trying to de-fund Planned Parenthood? What is in the videos people keep taking about? What do they have to do with abortion? What is fetal tissue research anyway and why should I care? Here is a breakdown of some of the most helpful articles…
Read MoreOde to the gloriously outrageous place names of the South
The highways and byways of the Southern states are filled with road signs announcing towns and cities with often unusual, sometimes baffling, and on occasion gloriously outrageous names. On family road trips and vacations headed to the beach or to see some relative twice removed, my mother and I have made it a game to…
Read MoreCatching up…
Pender & Peony has been inexplicably silent lately, and I’m sorry. There are a billion and one excuses I could blame it on: work, which has been unusually hectic, or our house renovation, or even our latest family addition — Henry ( an utterly adorable rascal for a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel). None of this…
Read MoreRecord and Plan 2015
The New Year approaches as do those pesky resolutions everyone will be making and breaking. I’m not sure I want to make any resolutions this year per say, but I do want to identify some habits I plan on improving, and the first is being organized and staying that way. For me the tried and…
Read MoreState of the Art/Art of the State: Breaking Down Art World Elitism
We hear about art world elitism over and over again. Sometimes it seems like a constant critical mantra or self-congratulatory boast depending on where you position yourself on this appraisal. I myself sit somewhere in the middle of this debate fully understanding the often stifling effect elitism has on art, not to mention the very…
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