I think we were invading his space.
Hello from Charleston! We are thoroughly enjoying our time here! It is a quaint Southern city with lots of charm, historic mansions, plantations, art, music, huge boats and ship traffic and lots of history!
The highlight of Charleston spending time with our daughter, Jana and husband, Brian. They joined us for 2 & 1/2 days of our week long stay here. We toured the city, ate some awesome food, saw a lot of historical architecture and just had a good time together. Here Jana and I are on a huge branch of an old oak tree on the Boone Hall Plantation. Some of these huge old trees are over 400 years old!
Beautiful gardens and a beautiful mansion..several movies and TV shows were filmed here -
The Notebook, inspiration for Gone With the Wind and more.
This is a picture of the big house on the Boone Hall Plantation. Many of the slave cabins have been restored on this plantation and are used to tell the story of slavery in the South. About 50% of the slaves brought to our country came through Charleston.
Friday the four of us took our boat over to Fort Sumter (only accessible by boat). This is where the first shot of the Civil War was fired (ferry boat docked in the background).
Yes. Thanks Jana. And thank you Brian as well. It was really great to have you guys join us for a while.
We closed out the week with a visit to the Farmer's Market Saturday morning, with the historic St. Phillips Cathedral in the background. There are many churches here (sometimes known as the Holy City).
Then Saturday evening we went to an awesome musical show - The Sound of Charleston - from Gospel to Gershwin. It was held at the historical Circular Congregational Church, so we checked out the adjoining cemetery there while waiting for the music to start. Some markers dated as far back as 1696!
John Newton who wrote "Amazing Grace" attended the Circular Congregatinal Church for several Sundays shortly after his conversion while at sea. His inspiration to write "Amazing Grace" come from a sermon he heard here. The musical closed with the entire cast and audience singing this hymn. Sunday we attended services at the historic Second Presbyterian Church of Charleston (building is 202 years old). Their guest choir was the Charleston Symphony Orchestra Gospel Chorus. Wow!! This is an integrated group with a half dozen token whites. You would have to be dead to not be moved by their singing. Made this old Dutchman want to jump up and "shout". Definitely a high light of our stay here. db
To be continued next week....
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