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Login for e-mail notifications on this topic. Following a dispute over POW/MIA flag, Chucktown Tavern readies a move
By Ken Hawkins on Saturday, 12 January 2013 - 3:30amNearly nine months after a dispute over the raising of the POW/MIA flags at a Market Street location, Chucktown Tavern appears ready to part ways with its landlord, The Beach Company, citing a hike in rent and the flag situation having put... More
POW-MIA, American flags once again flying in front of Market Street bar (Update)
By Ken Hawkins on Monday, 23 April 2012 - 11:26amUpdate April 23: The Post and Courier reports that about 75 veterans showed up at Chucktown Tavern on Sunday to witness and participate in a proper flag raising ceremony.First reporting: Due to Charleston zoning, the Beach Co. told ... More
Rep. Limehouse: Make a specialty plate to support Civil War-era flag
By Ken Hawkins on Thursday, 25 March 2010 - 1:58pmRep of Berkeley and Charleston counties, Chip Limehouse has just what South Carolina needs (along with co-sponsors Vick, Bingham, Hardwick and Herbkersman): Another license plate. This one happens to pay tribute to the recently rediscovered... More
Civil War flag 'Big Red' back at The Citadel
By Ken Hawkins on Saturday, 6 March 2010 - 1:35pmAfter going missing for 150 years, the battle flag "Big Red" is back in Charleston on a four-year loan from the State Historical Society of Iowa to The Citadel. More
Henry Rollins performing spoken word at the Music Farm (update it's today!)
By Timmons Pettigrew on Friday, 5 March 2010 - 7:26amUpdate March 5: The City Paper has picked up the story again. And now you only have 2 more days, so you should get tickets (they're still available for $20.) According to the Farm the doors open and 7 and he takes the stage at 8,... More
Citadel's Civil War flag rediscovered, in Iowa (update: she's coming home)
By Ken Hawkins on Friday, 6 November 2009 - 7:59amUpdate November 6: The Post and Courier reports the flag is coming home, but the journey won't be cheap. Read about it over here. First reporting: A red 7-by-10-foot flag has been uncovered by the State Historical Society of Iowa, and after... More
Before the secession, this was the first Confederate flag
By Ken Hawkins on Tuesday, 18 August 2009 - 9:10amBefore there was war, and before South Carolina had seceded, Captain Edward Mills had raised this flag. It would soon be the flag of the Palmetto Guard and then fly above the Confederate-occupied Fort Sumter. Today the flag lives on as the foreruner... More
Historian: Your flag is inaccurate and looks like kids did it
By Ken Hawkins on Wednesday, 4 March 2009 - 9:04amThe president of the Summerville Preservation Society is in hot water after folks took offense from his remark that the Dorchester County flag looks like it was designed by third graders and was inaccurate. Heyward Hutson says he didn't mean to... More
Greenville man gets little love for flying flag upside down
By Ken Hawkins on Wednesday, 26 November 2008 - 1:48pmBusinessman Jeff Russo, of Greenville, on why he started flying the flag upside down: You know what the government told us? Re-educate yourself. Go after new markets. They didn't give us a bailout. I'm trying to represent every small businessman in... More
