Charleston, SC

I'm trying to post some pics from my trip to Charleston, but I can't get the size right...

anyway, this is John Calhoun. Cool Statue.



John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was the seventh Vice President of the United States and a leading Southern politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun was an advocate of slavery, states' rights, limited government, and nullification. He was the second man to serve as Vice President under two administrations (as a Democratic-Republican under John Quincy Adams and as a Democrat under Andrew Jackson), the first Vice President to have been born after the American Revolution, and the first Vice President to resign from office. Calhoun briefly served in the South Carolina legislature. There he wrote legislation making South Carolina the first state to adopt universal suffrage for white men.

hey, it worked


The cemeteries are really spooky...but really cool.

Hey, thanks for sharing those rainyday!

This photo here:



What do you suppose that's all about!? And are those goat symbols above the door? It's also odd that the traffic lights are like literally right in front of the door? Maybe I'm looking at it wrong...

Charleston is a really strange place. I've been there once, lots of history there.

Actually, those lights are across the street. The building is so big that I had to stand way down the street to take the pic. The building is called Market Hall. Slaves were never sold there, but it was a gift from the city to the newly freed slaves so they would have a place to work and sell goods to financially support themselves. Technically, there is more history to the slaves than people realize. You wouldn't believe how many black non-slaves owned black slaves in this city. It's not just a white man deal even though history is told that way. I mean, after all, who sold the slaves to the white man? Black Africans. Yep, sold their own into slavery... As a matter of fact, I recently found out my gr, gr grandmother was purchased, from the Cherokee tribe. HELLO! Can you imagine buying a wife.

This is the info I found on the symbols: Market Hall

Market Hall at 188 Meeting Street. Built in 1841 in a Roman Revival style designed by famed Charleston architect Edward Brickell White, the dazzling structure features an elegant cornice atop four massive Tuscan columns, with a raised portico lined by wrought-iron railings reached by handsome brownstone steps atop arcaded loggia on the first level. The stucco-over-brick exterior includes an ornate frieze beneath the roof line adorned with reliefs of bull and ram heads. One of Charleston's prevailing myths states that these heads indicated the presence of a meat market, and indeed, the city market sheds behind the Hall did for years include vegetable an meat vendors. The bull and ram heads, however, are ancient Roman symbols designating strength and power that were incorporated by Italian architect Andrea Palladio during the 16th century into the style that became internationally popular in the 1830's and 40's. Among the historic buildings on which the Palladian motif of bull and ram heads can be found are French monasteries, dismissing the myth that such images designated a meat market.

Aries and Taurus.
Study the qualities of those astrological archetypes and how those qualities would be imbued onto this building and this building's purpose.

Archetypes for Taurus:
The builder, the lover, the craftsman, the ecologist, the dictator, the wealthy magnate, the gardener.

Archetypes for Aries:
The Soldier, the Pursuer, the Explorer, the Feminist, the Freedom-fighter, the Reckless one.

rainyday, very nice, thank you.

The Daughters of the Confederacy?

United Daughters of the Confederacy

The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is a women's heritage association dedicated to honoring the memory of those who served and died in service to the Confederate States of America (CSA). UDC began as the National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy, organized in 1894 by Caroline Meriwether Goodlett and Anna Davenport Raines. It traces its lineage to older heritage associations such as the Daughters of the Confederacy in Missouri and the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Confederate Soldiers Home in Tennessee. The National Association changed its name to the UDC in 1895. It was incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia in 1919. Its motto is “Love, Live, Pray, Think, Dare”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy

Membership

Membership in UDC is open to women at least 16 years old who are of lineal or collateral blood descent from men and women who served honorably in the Army, Navy, or Civil Service of the CSA or are current or former members of UDC.

Membership is through a local chapter, usually where the prospective member resides. Local chapters come under the auspices of the state or "Division".

There are currently 33 states with active chapters.
[edit] Objectives

The objectives of the organization are Historical, Educational, Benevolent, Memorial and Patriotic: [1]

1. To collect and preserve the material necessary for a truthful history of the American Civil War and to protect, preserve, and mark the places made historic by Confederate valor;
2. To assist descendants of worthy Confederates in securing a proper education;
3. To fulfill the sacred duty of benevolence toward the survivors of the War and those dependent upon them;
4. To honor the memory of those who served and those who fell in the service of the Confederate States of America;
5. To record the part played during the War by Southern women, including their patient endurance of hardship, their patriotic devotion during the struggle, and their untiring efforts during the post-War reconstruction of the South; and
6. To cherish the ties of friendship among the members of the Organization.


Charleston is a great place to visit and it's a beautiful city. Flames is right, there is something strange and overwhelming about the place.
When your there, you just feel it in the air and see it in everything around you.