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Folly legend still rules the roost
By Lauren Dean “I know who runs this city, it’s Marlene,” said the late Rick Huff in “Come On Down,” his 2003 CD release. A lot of things have changed in the seven years since 2003, but one thing has remained constant. Marlene Estridge has run this little city by the sea for 48 years. Estridge... »
Folly Beach comes of age: A short and recent legal history of the development of Folly Beach
By Ben Peeples When I moved to Folly Beach the week after Labor Day in 1976, it was the most affordable place to live in the Charleston area. In 1974, there were no neon lights on Folly. Parking meters were removed and the stop light would switch to a blinking caution after Labor Day.... »
Re-enactment of historic Folly Beach Civil War battle
By Anton DuMars Joseph McGill, a program officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is a man with a mission. McGill says there is an “untold story” African-American Union soldiers that “deserves to be told”. After befriending several Confederate civil war reenactors as a park ranger at Fort Sumter National Monument, and... »
A Weekend at Blacky’s Campground
by Ann Bailey King As one of the “early settlers” of Little Oak Island, I have had the pleasure of watching it evolve over the past seventeen years into a lovely, family community shared with an abundance of nature’s beauty and wildlife. However, my first visit to this island paradise was in the early... »
Folly does Easter
By Lauren Dean Easter Sunrise Service The Easter sunrise service at Folly Beach has been a tradition since the mid 1940s. Every year since then members from all of Folly’s churches meet together at 6:30 a.m. The service was originally held on the old Pavilion, and when the Pavilion burned to the ground in 1957 the... »
Folly’s forgotten sons of the Union
By Robert Bohrn I love Folly Beach. Being born and raised on James Island, Folly Beach is a part of my soul that I have always cherished and loved. As an infant in the 1950s, I cut my teeth on the surf and sands of her beach. As a child I learned to swim, body... »
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