Two Women and the Devil (Alice Ohlandt’s remake of John Bennett’s Death and the Two Bachelors)
One late spring night, Jane turned to her friend Liz as they finished the quarterly billing for the company, “doesn’t it seem strange that we’re spinsters, Liz? That we do not have the “right” life according to some people?” Liz knew what her friend was trying to say, that there was no way to have […]
The Trapman Street Hospital
Trapman Street hospital, census records from the 1861 Charleston city council identifies this site as Dr. Chisholm’s hospital, located at 3 Trapman St. at the corner of Trumbo St. the history of this hospital is somewhat foggy. What is referenced was that Dr. John Julian Chisholm established a free hospital for enslaved people and that […]
Turning Charleston History into a Historic Destination Site
A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston by Stephanie E. Yuhl is a chronology of how Charleston came to possess the preserved historic quarters of the city while modernity gradually impacted its other portions. Beginning rightly when Charleston was founded in 1670 as Charles Town, A Golden Haze—introduction through chapter 1—primarily focusses […]
Repeating history/Dramatic Irony of Alice Childress
A great pleasure in reading The Wedding Band by Alice Childress is it’s use of dramatic irony, the foreshadowing and conscious effort placed in scenes to reference what would have already been experienced by the audience and will be by the characters. My journey through this irony began with Childress’s reference to the flu pandemic […]