For fans of Charleston culture
Woof Gang will host a book signing for author Tracy M. Graley. Her book Olive The Rescue Dachshund is a story about the power of kindness, resilience, and self-worth.
Woof Gang will also have a holiday backdrop available for pups and their people to use, with a QR code for donations to Charleston Animal Society.
See you there! 341 King Street
Volunteers from Mothers Against Drunk Driving will be at 2nd Sunday on King Street this weekend to promote 2024 Walk Like MADD Lowcountry.
What you can expect at this month’s 2nd Sunday; lots of world class shopping, seeing neighbors and friends, live music, Charleston culture and so many memorable experiences.
Brian Livingston Author of The Habits of Squirrels will be at the Info Tent at Liberty Street.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with an irate squirrel.
In this charming, thoughtful meditation on all of life’s journeys, Brian Livingston finds humor, grace, and sunburn on one of the country’s great hikes. His character encounters the Trail’s eccentric inhabitants, who will help him, challenge him, and ultimately shape his journey and determine what kind of person he wants to be.
Meet Bryan, pick up a copy of his book—we have ours!—and join him on this wonderful squirrley journey.
Music
In addition to our eclectic group of talented buskers, The Charleston Vibes, the Charleston Opera Theater, The Trippentones, an encore performance by the excellent jazz trio you saw at 2nd Sunday last month, and bagpipes leading the Westie Pawrade down king street.
Join the Charleston Symphony Orchestra League (CSOL), and fellow interior design and architectural aficionados for the fall must do “do,” the 27th Annual Kiawah Island Tour of Homes. As the longest running island house tour in the Lowcountry, the Symphony Tour has become an annual fall destination for Charleston locals and hundreds of visitors to the Lowcountry.
At Wagoween, pups parade through the beautiful Charleston Place courtyard at 205 Market Street, where local celebrity judges award drool-worthy prizes across several costume categories.
Watch as the courageous K9 Unit of the Charleston Police Department demonstrates how it keeps our city safe at 1 PM. Meet Watson and Holmes, the hero horses of the Mounted Patrol and discover more Wagoween surprises!
Wagoween benefits the Charleston Police Department's courageous K9 Unit and public safety initiatives through the LENS Foundation.
Evensong at st Philip’s At 4:00 p.m. on the second Sunday of the month (October through May), St. Philip's offers a service of Choral Evensong, a time of contemplative worship, psalmody, and prayer. Please join; public is invited! A note about Evensong from the Rev. Brian McGreevy: The term “Evensong” is derived from the Old English ǣfensang, originally applied to the pre-Reformation service of Vespers during the Middle Ages. Contemplative in tone, the liturgy for this service has remained essentially unchanged for some 500 years, and connects us to the countless host of saints who have gone before.
Charleston Opera Theater
Is that a magic window opening up in Sunday’s forecast just for us?
Join us Wednesday, Oct. 19th at 5:30 pm, as Blue Bicycle Books (corner of King and John Streets in downtown Charleston) welcomes journalist Jack Torry in conversation with historian James Scott on Torry’s newest work of military history, The Last One Out: Yates McDaniel, World War II’s Most Daring Reporter. This is a FREE event.
Jack Torry was the Washington bureau chief for the Columbus Dispatch and Dayton Daily News. Prior to joining the Dispatch in 2000, he was a Washington correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade covering Congress, the Supreme Court and Ohio politics.
A nationally respected expert on the Ohio political scene, Torry was a frequent guest on CNN and Meet the Press Daily with Chuck Todd.
About the Book
When Yates McDaniel died in Florida in 1983, few outside his family paid much attention. The only hint of his fame came in a brief obituary buried on the inside pages of the New York Times. The obit suggested bravery and a past far more exciting than almost anyone knew. Even those who worked alongside him in the 1960s at the Associated Press were startled to learn what McDaniel had been, what he had done when he was a young man and the world was at war.
Yet, this remarkable reporter covered more of the Asian war than anyone else—from the savage Japanese assault on Nanking in 1937 to the fall of Singapore in 1942 to landing with US Marines on New Britain in 1943. He took risks no other reporter ever accepted, and colleagues joked that Japanese bombers followed him wherever he went.
“The Last One Out,” is Torry’s third book. His other books are “Endless Summers, The Fall and Rise of the Cleveland Indians,” published in 1995, and “Henderson’s Light – Drinking, Driving and a Deadly Encounter” in 2009.
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Have a lovely December afternoon downtown! 12-5:00 pm + brunch before and dinner after. Lucky you!
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