When Barbara VornDick lifted a yellowed letter from a gray archival box at William & Mary, she didn’t expect to feel a voice grab her by the collar. The handwriting was frantic, the words desperate. “I am now in distress, in ill health, & in a foreign country,” the writer…
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Charleston SC – The City That Refuses to Let Its Dead Rest
You don’t have to believe in ghosts to feel Charleston’s pulse after dark. Walk its cobblestone streets on a humid night, when the live oaks lean low and the gas lamps hum, and you’ll understand what I mean. This city doesn’t just remember its past—it lives with it. I’ve been…