Category Archives: Charleston

“Creek by Creek” for Charleston Waterkeeper, Mary Edna’s Studio, February 14, 2013

Fundraiser on Valentine’s Day 1723 Oak Point Road, Charleston, SC Thursday evening, 5pm-9pm An art exhibition by Mary Edna Fraser and Jeff Kopish Non-profit Charleston Waterkeeper is alerting our fair city about threatened waterways in our community. You can view a map of impaired locations here. Join us to celebrate this proactive organization and meet […]
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Leave Folly Beach park alone

Folly Beach County Park is rapidly eroding. We agree with the Coastal Conservation League who opposes spending 3 million dollars on a groin which would “partly dam the flow of sand in the current along the shore,” according to the Post & Courier article Dispute between conservationists, officials could doom Folly Beach park (December 12, […]
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Engineering Venice & reflections on Charleston

With the recent news of Venice flooded, we revisit Mary Edna’s batik, Venice, Italy, which was the cover image of A Celebration of the World’s Barrier Islands (Columbia University Press, 2003), co-authored by Orrin H. Pilkey and Mary Edna Fraser. Thinking of Venice also causes reflection on our own city, Charleston, whose flooded version was […]
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