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Known as a beautiful Southern city and distinguished by its opulent
homes, towering church steeples and gracious hospitality,
Charleston, South Carolina, has long been associated with the
genteel side of Southern living. However, beyond the outward
appearances that most people associate with Charleston, there is
another side that most visitors and residents alike would not
believe is part of the very fabric from which the city??'s history
was woven. Wicked Charleston: The Dark Side of the Holy City, by
local resident and tour guide Mark Jones, opens the door to the
dark alleys and seedy characters not often associated with the
Charleston of today. From the sexual escapades of an original Lord
Proprietor and the comings and goings of the most notorious
pirates, to secret brothels and nightclubs, Jones leads the reader
back to a time when "drinking, eating and whoring with more than
fifty wenches" was more common in the Holy City than one may
imagine.
In 1827 Pvt. Edgar Perry arrived at Ft. Moultrie on Sullivan's
Island near Charleston and served for 14 months. The haunted,
turbulent atmosphere of the South Carolina Lowcountry was a perfect
environment to feed Pvt. Perry's poetic despair and dark
sensitivity. Twenty years later he was internationally known as
Edgar Allan Poe. His tortured literary genius is perfectly
reflected in these four Charleston-based tales from the Master of
Melancholy.
FROM RAGS TO RAGTIME - THEY CREATED THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE 20TH
CENTURY For the first time, here is the stirring story of the
Jenkins Orphanage Band and its role in American popular music. From
slavery to freedom, follow the inspirational rags-to-riches story
of some of America's greatest jazz musicians brought together by
the determination of one man, a freed black slave named Rev. Daniel
Jenkins. His Jazz Nursery revolutionized the music world One cold
December day in 1891, Rev. Jenkins discovered four black children
huddled together in a railroad car. He had more than 500 children
in his care. To support the Orphanage, Jenkins organized a brass
band which performed on the Charleston streets for hand-outs. Ten
years later, the Jenkins Band appeared in London, played for
President Teddy Roosevelt and premiered on Broadway. Members of the
Jenkins Band played with Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis
Armstrong. Then, tragically in 1919, one of the Jenkins' musicians
committed a brutal murder which shocked America During the next
decade, the Roaring 20s, America underwent a tumultuous change in
which everybody was soon DOIN' THE CHARLESTON ILLUSTRATED WITH MORE
THAN 70 PHOTOS
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