Category: South Carolina trips
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The Grand Strand, November 10-11, 2018
Hardly anybody from Chapel Hill goes to Myrtle Beach anymore. Snobbism has taken hold. This is too bad because Myrtle Beach can be a fascinating place, and it has a beach! It is a string of beach towns that are marketed as The Grand Strand. I wanted to go somewhere for one night.…
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Columbia and Lexington SC, March 16-17, 2018
I had been to Columbia, the capital city of South Carolina on a couple of occasions, but I had never been all that impressed. I figured I just had not looked at it hard enough. My newlywed parents and infant older sister had lived for two years 1953-55 in Columbia, where my father had a…
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Robeson County NC South of the Border, Feb 26-27, 2018
Robeson County NC does not get much good press. It is one of the poorest counties in North Carolina. Wikipedia describes its population as one third white, one third black, and one third Lumbee American Indian. The state of North Carolina recognizes the Lumbees as an official Native American tribe, although the federal…
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Charleston SC and its suburbs Jan 9-10, 2018
Charleston is a fascinating city. It has a big imprint of very old buildings; it was one of the very few relatively large cities in the South prior to 1860. (In the 1860 census, New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond were the only Southern cities in the top 25 by population in the United States.)…
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