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January 2010

: Odes to the Lowcountry

Click here to read odes submitted by our readers.

Noted local authors, writers, novelists, and poets share their personal reflections on this place we love to call home, expounding upon every thing from shrimp and muscadine vines to backcountry roads and voodoo


Boiled Peanuts By Bessie Gantt The true power of the humble snack food	Life by Tides By Sandy Lang Paying attention to the rise and fall, and to what the water brings	Jazz By Jack A. McCray The protocol and improvisation of being Charleston

The Friendliest City By Marjory Wentworth A storyteller’s welcome home	Broken Doorbells By Nathalie Dupree Crossing the threshold of modern etiquette	Secret Places By Stephanie Hunt Finding wonder and welcome in Charleston’s hidden alleys

Hoodoo, Herbs, & Horns By Roger Pinckney Don’t matter how you preserve the Lowcountry, so long as you get it done	Backcountry Roads By Peter Wentworth A unique perspective on the Lowcountry’s rural character	A Sensory Feast By Barbara G.S. Hagerty The indoctrination of a Lowcountry voluptuary

Shrimp By William P. Baldwin Books I wish I’d written, and how Pat Conroy got there first	The Charleston Accent By Jonathan Sanchez An appreciation for our wonderfully strange and unique native tongue	Rainstorms By Melissa Bigner The joy of being washed awake by a Charleston downpour

Muscadines By Josephine Humphreys Heady, sweet memories plucked from the vine	Share Your Ode Post your personal “Ode to the Lowcountry.” Write what you love most about living in Charleston in your own words, whether it’s a few or 400.	Contributors The noted authors, writers, and poets who penned our feature "Odes to the Lowcountry"