Makenna Kaminski “Bitter Madame Margot”, a Remake of John Bennett’s “Madame Margot”

[84-85] Among the residents of the battery was an old white woman of the name Marguerite Lagoux. By her intimates called Rita, by familiar acquaintances, Morgoton, by those who despised her completely, she was known as Bitter Madame Margot. But, among the pale, wealthy residents of the South Battery, the most disliked was she.  Marguerite […]

“Why We Danced the Charleston” (Gabi Loue’s Remake of Greene’s “Why We Never Danced the Charleston” Peacock Alley Scene)

Lilly led the way and we followed. Cars rushed past us, our feet pattering over the worn-out and ever-changing grooves of the Charleston sidewalks. We were excited, the energy of King St infectious and the anticipation for the show fueling our steps that warm evening. We always come here later in the night, when the […]

The Cigar Factory – An analysis of Meliah’s family relationships.

While discussing The Cigar Factory, a majority of our focus went to our thoughts and opinions on the character Cassie. I will focus on the relationships between Meliah Amey, Joe, and their son Kofi/Vincent de Paul. How does their relationship change as the story goes? Meliah and Joe  Meliah and Joe have an interesting relationship […]

Makenna Kaminski Analysis of a Published Research

In chapter four of Stephanie Yuhl’s A Golden Haze of Memory, the author offers a view of certain groups working to preserve the history of the low South through spirituals. Her writing mainly focuses on groups and the presence of music within the 1920s. Yuhl talks first about how these groups were established. She says […]

"The Literary Packaging of America's Most Historic City"

“The Literary Packaging of America’s Most Historic City”

In chapter three of A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston, “History Touches Legend in Charleston: The Literary Packaging of America’s Most Historic City,” Stephanie E. Yuhl describes the history and significance of the Poetry Society of South Carolina (PSSC) and its major writers. She relates how writers of the Charleston Renaissance […]

The Thompson Auditorium in 1910, the location of the Charleston Museum as Miss Bragg knew it.

The Charleston Museum: A Place of Purpose in “Why We Never Danced the Charleston”

The Charleston Museum was founded in 1773, right in the midst of the American Revolutionary fervor. America’s self-proclaimed “first museum” opened to the public in 1824, and years later hired the first ever woman public museum director; Laura Bragg, hired in 1920. Laura Bragg is the inspiration behind the character Miss Wragg in Harlan Greene’s […]

From Charleston in Black and White

“Charleston in Black and White” – Analysis of Published Research

Steve Estes’s “Charleston in Black and White” is a dive into the history of Charleston’s race relations between Black and White Charlestonians. Mainly the Civil Rights Movements in Charleston. Estes talks of however since he moved to Charleston in 1977 when he was five years old, he felt he was just an outsider in a […]

Eight not so tiny poems about Charleston – Rick Mullin’s remake of Marcus Amaker

June South of Broad NISHIKI It was the month of June when my Nishiki mountain bike was stolen. Never mind the South of Broad address. Never mind the fence and gate. Never mind the blooming smatter of rust pits beginning to show in places through its candy-apple red and pearlescent white paint. I miss its […]

A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life Research Analysis

A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life Research Analysis

Jewish Americans started their journey in the US around the same time as other Americans. In the book, A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life readers get an in-depth history of where and why Jews left their home countries and what their lives were like in South Carolina once they […]

Significant Location: Saint Mary's Church (The Cigar Factory)

Significant Location: Saint Mary’s Church (The Cigar Factory)

In Michele Moore’s novel, The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston, Saint Mary’s Church in Charleston is mentioned repeatedly. St. Mary of the Annunciation Catholic Church is located at 95 Hasell Street in Downtown Charleston. In Moore’s The Cigar Factory, Cassie and Brigid attend Saint Mary’s. Throughout Parts I-III of the novel, religion (Catholicism) plays a significant […]

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