Category Archives: Charleston
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, […]
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 […]
“Creek by Creek” for Charleston Waterkeeper, Mary Edna’s Studio, February 14, 2013