When a loved one is in the hospital, life is overwhelming enough. What happens when the hospital is far from home? Where will you stay? Where will you eat and shower? If you have to relocate, how will you afford it? Hope House in Mount Pleasant is the answer to all these tough questions. Celebrating the 10th anniversary since it opened its doors, Hope House is a hospital … [Read more...]
We Are Mount Pleasant
Oh, Mount Pleasant. How very interesting a town we live in – it’s where people are flocking to come, and where locals are reluctant to leave. As with every one of these “We Are” features, we try to shed light on some of the people who make our town special. You don’t have to be born here, you don’t have to have lived here for any minimum number of years, but we like to … [Read more...]
PGA Hope
Helping Veterans Trade Nightmares and Flashbacks for Golf Dreams and Friendships According to the Charleston Veterans Association, there are over 3.5 million disabled veterans nationwide, .including more than 40,000 who live in the Charleston area. Following their military service, many veterans struggle to reintegrate back into society as they battle conditions such as … [Read more...]
The 2019 Mount Pleasant Christmas Parade
We love the Mount Pleasant Christmas parade, probably because putting together our Mount Pleasant Magazine float brings the spirit of the season to the forefront of our minds. I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “stop and smell the roses.” Well, if you want to be immersed in the joy and excitement of the holiday season, take a break from the hustle and bustle, build a float and … [Read more...]
Can You Avoid the Cold and Flu Season?
Colds and flus have become synonymous with the holiday season. Once the kids are back in school, noses start to sniffle and throats begin to tickle. Getting sick is unavoidable, or is it? In a sea of crumpled Kleenexes and cough-drop wrappers, is there hope for a germ-free season? Some local experts gave their best advice on prevention, vaccinations and … [Read more...]
Welcome to Medicare!
Consider it a birthday present. Once you turn 65 (actually up to three months before and after that milestone), you can enroll in Medicare, a federal government program that provides health care coverage for people 65 and over. For many who have lived either underinsured or uninsured, being eligible for Medicare is a welcome benefit to older age. But there are many things … [Read more...]
Mark Sanford Targets the Debt and the Deficit
Mark Sanford has been a two-term governor of South Carolina, twice represented the state’s 1st District in the U.S. House for six consecutive years — 12 total — and taught politics at the University of Chicago for a semester. Now he’s running for the highest office in the land. Well, sort of. “I’m not delusional about my prospects,” said Sanford in mid-September, as he … [Read more...]
Meet Congressman Joe Cunningham
It’s not unusual to run into someone I know when I’m back in Charleston, but when the man who had been following his toddler through the refrigerated aisle at Harris Teeter picked up the boy and waved at me, it took me a second to place him. The only other time we’d met, I was the one trying to keep up with him as we walked from his office to the floor of the U.S. House of … [Read more...]
The Roaring ’20s: Life in the Lowcountry 100 Years Ago
The Roaring ‘20s. The phrase suggests flappers, frolic and frivolity. But, the prosperity that much of the country experienced was not replicated here. Most local residents struggled in a stagnant economy. Droves of men left to find work in cities up North. Tourism became the hope for economic growth. In 1923, Charleston’s Mayor Thomas Stoney dubbed Charleston “America’s … [Read more...]
A Reflection of Our Community: MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital
You have to look down to enjoy the design on the hallway walls of the brand-new, soon-to-be-open, Medical University of South Carolina Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital. Why? Because the artwork is at the eye level of a child, of course. And the aquariums that welcome hungry visitors to the cafeteria on the seventh floor are managed in partnership with the South Carolina … [Read more...]