Charleston Chapters

Explore the fascinating history, architecture, and culture of the famous "Holy City" with 9th-generation South Carolina native Michael Trouche.

Bricks And Stucco On Show At Rainbow Row 06/08/2025

Bricks And Stucco On Show At Rainbow Row Shaping Charleston's character has largely been by design that durable and curable, in the form of clay beds turned to brick, lime and sand mixed as stucco, and a panorama of pastels that is the most photographed in town. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/36908340

Novel Native Names 06/08/2025

Novel Native Names The Origins Of Our Curious Collection of Coastal Cognomens come from a diversity of backgrounds and cultures, and often offer and energetic exercise in elocution. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/36908195

Rich With A Stitching Niche - Lasting Lowcountry Ties That Never Die 06/08/2025

Rich With A Stitching Niche - Lasting Lowcountry Ties That Never Die With street names such as Ropermakers Lane, Charleston's weaving wonders have a common thread in the talents of fingers nimble with shuttle and thimble /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/36907985

Optic Topics - Vivid & Venerated Visuals Of The Holy City 06/06/2025

Optic Topics - Vivid & Venerated Visuals Of The Holy City Charleston is historically picturesque, with a collage of captivating colors in its streetscape and landscape. Enhancing the eye appeal has come in various forms and methods that manipulated light to magnify the delight of the site. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/36898090

Landmark Lighthouses & Beckoning Beacons 05/21/2025

Landmark Lighthouses & Beckoning Beacons What has shone light for so many nights in Charleston history has a singular history that is completley double in historic truth.. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/36661000

Hydrated Harvest - Shrimp Trawling, Clam Scratching & Oyster Grabbing 05/12/2025

Hydrated Harvest - Shrimp Trawling, Clam Scratching & Oyster Grabbing Scouring mud banks, ocean bottoms and sand flats for incredible aquatic edibles has long been a Charleston tradition. And all tough not an easy task, the results are perpetually palate pleasing. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/36539390

Trains, Tracks and Trolleys 05/12/2025

Trains, Tracks and Trolleys Tales of Charleston rails in varying scales that had the city on a centuries-old roll. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/36539325

Taming Flames 05/12/2025

Taming Flames The heights and depths of ingenuity that doused Charleston’s damnable flammable dilemma. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/36539035

Spiritual, Sacred and Serene - Uplifting Natural Treasures 05/12/2025

Spiritual, Sacred and Serene - Uplifting Natural Treasures The monastic majesty of Mepkin, the wondrous water at Healing Springs, and the towering cypress cathedrals in area swamps make for a tangible spiritual awakening. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/36538725

Riveting Romain Regeneration - A Spectacle of Shoreline Species Survival 04/29/2025

Riveting Romain Regeneration - A Spectacle of Shoreline Species Survival Each Spring, the pristine expanses of Cape Romain host a renewal of South Carolina's most vulnerable and precious species with the nesting of shorebirds and loggerhead sea turtles. Barren beaches and windswept sand flats provide a rugged haven for creatures that hang on by the barest of necessities. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/36357300

Replete With Fabled Fleets - Famous Shipwrights and Ship Fights 04/16/2025

Replete With Fabled Fleets - Famous Shipwrights and Ship Fights Ship building has had a distinguished legacy in Charleston, with vessels made of wood, iron and steel. From the row galleys of the Revolution, to ironclads during the Civil War, and powerful destroyers the helped win World War II, Charleston-made ships have embarked on victorious voyages. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/36187500

Making the Most of Hosting Ghosts 04/14/2025

Making the Most of Hosting Ghosts Historic Charleston's surfeit of spooks and spirits has made visitors rave over tantalizing tales beyond-the-grave. And with an abundance of colonial graveyards and historic buildings and alleys, the ghostly glare seems everywhere. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/36136475

Spires, Choirs, Buttresses and Bells - highways to heaven in the Holy City 03/20/2025

Spires, Choirs, Buttresses and Bells - highways to heaven in the Holy City Charleston's steepled skyline offers and alagamation of historic denominations where few forsake the pew /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/35795475

Famous Fighting Forts Shaped by Shot and Shell 03/20/2025

Famous Fighting Forts Shaped by Shot and Shell Charleston has always been fired up for a fight, and fortifications still stand as a testimonial to our truculent traditions. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/35795295

In Search of "Mr. No-Shoulders" - The Knack Of Neutralizing Snakes And Alligators 03/20/2025

In Search of "Mr. No-Shoulders" - The Knack Of Neutralizing Snakes And Alligators Spring brings creatures who frighten with their bitin', but whose chops can be clevery circumvented both by hand and with a bag of marshmallows. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/35795215

Windmills, Waterwheels, and the touch of the Dutch 03/20/2025

Windmills, Waterwheels, and the touch of the Dutch A wealth of wind and water showered Charleston with power long ago, with the introduction of ingenious inventions that came from Dutch master engineers. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/35795145

Charlestonese and The Charleston 02/28/2025

Charlestonese and The Charleston Our manner of speech is beyond the reach of some ears to comprehend. Blending Old English, Scots-Irish and the West African-influenced dialect of Gullah is a parlance as unique as our famous flailing dance from the roaring twenties whose name is still famed today. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/35486190

Medicinal Misdirection 02/28/2025

Medicinal Misdirection With its long legacy of deadly fevers that killed more than any war, hurrican or earthquake, old Charleston was said to be "a heaven in Spring, a Hell in Summer, and a hospital in the Fall". Our history of healers offered an array of unconventional remedies that not only affected the body, the mind, the community, and our historical perspective. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/35486070

Looking At What You Don't See In Charleston 02/27/2025

Looking At What You Don't See In Charleston Some of the Holy City’s most famous landmarks are not quite what they appear to be, and a closer inspection often reveals and unturned page in history. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/35474095

A Peculiar Slant on Plants 02/27/2025

A Peculiar Slant on Plants From Spanish Moss that is neither Spanish nor moss, to a state tree that has no wood, to flowers that can just as easily kill you as thrill you, Charleston has a profusion of plant infusion that boggles the mind and the eye. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/35473835

Charleston Video Tour with Michael Trouche 02/01/2025

Charleston Video Tour with Michael Trouche Video link: Michael Trouche take viewers on an amazingly edifying exploration of the charm and character of America's most historic city. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/35112070

Maritime Marvels 01/31/2025

Maritime Marvels Charleston is famously known as "The City by the Sea", and our water surroundings have provided some of the most remarkable aspects of our history. It was here that the CSS Hunley made the first successul submarine attack in world history, and still amazes us with its return from 140 years on the ocean bottom that unfolds a compelling story. We also learn about the building of the Old Santee Canal, the harbor jetties, and the hydroelectric dams, locks and fish lifts on Lake Moultrie, all of which still captivate the public with their presence today. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/35102740

Five who Helped Charleston Thrive 01/31/2025

Five who Helped Charleston Thrive This episode is dedicated to five individuals who were not native to Charleston, and two who never even saw the city, yet whose efforts and legacy contributed significantly in helping the small original develop into an industrious and opulent Holy City. Their work was the basis for our religious freedoms, architectural grandeur, independence, and agricultural foundation. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/35102645

Wholly Holy City 01/31/2025

Wholly Holy City The oddities that abound around old Charleston have purposes that are often clouded by stories that are not quite right. These aspects of our "Holy City" include the famous "single house" design, the menancing iron gates with spiked "Chevaux-de-Frise", our prevalent patterns of "earthquake plates, the sidewalk bollards annd upping stones, and, of course, the famous "joggling board". /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/35102490

Charleston's Not-So-Firm Foundations 01/31/2025

Charleston's Not-So-Firm Foundations The historic Charleston peninsula is very much different than what the original colonists encountered in 1670. We explore the creation and details of the what was one of only four walled cities in North America, and explain the building of "bridge" wharfs, the old surfacing of streets with cobblestones, Belgian blocks and wood, as well as the origins of many of street names from past and present. /episode/index/show/34feb62f-bda0-4d97-b7cd-a18346ff0f92/id/35102335

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