Category: South Carolina trips
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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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Myrtle Beach SC, March 15-16,2016
I did my first Tour of Myrtle Beach a little over two years ago. In the spirit of investigation, I decided to revisit the place. Let me clear two misconceptions about Myrtle Beach. The main attraction, whatever that attraction is, is probably not the beach. Not everybody who visits here is from The South. So…
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Orangeburg SC, April 8-9. 2015
I had gone to the Wednesday practice round of The Masters golf tournament; an event with tickets so scarce that you have to win a lottery to be able to pay a hefty fee to just watch the guys practice. My friend Tom was gracious in inviting me to this event. Driving the four hours…
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