Good Morning, Lowcountry! Living in the South Carolina Swamp
by Harriet McLeod
Parts of this book are based on my Good Morning Lowcountry columns that ran in the early part of the 21st century in The Post and Courier, the South’s oldest daily newspaper, founded in 1803. The rest is not-so-common knowledge.
Bin’yuhs (see Chapter 8) have been around here long enough to know much of this stuff already, although they do forget. Cum’yuhs (ibid) will find this information vital to their survival in the heat, on the streets, among the gators and gnats and at cocktail parties. People visiting from Off should first read Chapter 2 to find out what smells so, well, aromatic when the wind blows in off the marsh.
Here in the Lowcountry, where eccentricity is prized, we citizens don’t hide our crazy people in the attic. We put them right out there on the front porch where everybody can see them, and sometimes they do wander off. This little book is like that, too. So take your time and please enjoy!
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Parts of this book are based on my Good Morning Lowcountry columns that ran in the early part of the 21st century in The Post and Courier, the South’s oldest daily newspaper, founded in 1803. The rest is not-so-common knowledge.
Bin’yuhs (see Chapter 8) have been around here long enough to know much of this stuff already, although they do forget. Cum’yuhs (ibid) will find this information vital to their survival in the heat, on the streets, among the gators and gnats and at cocktail parties. People visiting from Off should first read Chapter 2 to find out what smells so, well, aromatic when the wind blows in off the marsh.
Here in the Lowcountry, where eccentricity is prized, we citizens don’t hide our crazy people in the attic. We put them right out there on the front porch where everybody can see them, and sometimes they do wander off. This little book is like that, too. So take your time and please enjoy!
About the Author
Harriet McLeod grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, fishing, shrimping, crabbing, going to the beach, and keeping an eye on the backyard alligators. She graduated from Winthrop University in the upper part of the state, and spent part of her 20s hitchhiking across Europe and teaching English before heading to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication to earn a master’s degree in journalism. She then moved to Virginia where she worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch and spent spring and fall weekends crewing racing sailboats on the Chesapeake Bay. McLeod won state press association awards for feature writing and a national writing award for music criticism before returning to Charleston to work as a columnist and editor at The Post and Courier. A full-time freelance journalist, she writes for Reuters America, Charleston Magazine, The Daily Beast, MSNBC’s The Grio and other publications and websites.