“This was the tip of Charleston’s Battery. The place where rogue pirates had been hanged, where British cannons had bombarded the city during the Revolutionary War, and where old Civil War cannons still stood like sentinels. Edging the park was a row of elegant mansions. Here, fanciful Victorian homes stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Federal, Italianate, Gothic Revival, and Georgian-style homes. And like so many buildings in the romantic city once known as Charles Town, these homes were painted i...n a soft French palette: alabaster white, pale pink, pastel blue, and soft gray. As Theodosia and her dog pounded across the grass, winds from the Atlantic caressed them, stirring up ions and intoxicating sips of sea air. “Have you had enough?” Theodosia asked Earl Grey, as they bounced across East Bay Street and headed down a narrow cobblestone alley. “Did you blow out the carbon?” Earl Grey tossed his head and strode easily alongside Theodosia.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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