"Built mainly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the cosmopolitan charm of the burgeoning port city had attracted wealthy merchants and planters who had enthusiastically built homes to escape the hot summers inland. The first Civil War shots fired at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor marked the beginning of the rapid decline of the South's-and Charleston's- affluence. Even during the difficult Reconstruction years, most Charlestonians were financially unable to replace their early structures with the more modern Victorian homes being built elsewhere in the country. It was simply because of circumstance that over eight hundred original structures had survived not only the war, but later hurricanes, fires and earthquakes, to stand before him today. And so Charlie had grown up knowing the narrow, crooked alleys, fine wrought iron, boot scrapers, brass locks, and arched fanlights. He wouldn't have it any other way."
........Margaret Ann Reid
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| one of my most favorite alleys |
Summer Reads
I finished the book below, it was good!
These books are in my "to read" stack:
These two by Lisa Wingate and Patti Callahan Henry I finished and they were very good!
I hope everyone is staying safe from the high heat and the storms that went through.
Take care
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