Author: Laura Von Harten

When people are talking about what makes the Lowcountry special, “sense of place” is a phrase that...

Here in the Lowcountry, tourism is our hero. That’s because the Three Rs – real estate, retirement...

I don’t get hate mail. That is to say, I don’t get hate mail about what I write in Lowcountry...

Cher, Prince, Madonna, Oprah, Elvis, Angelina – for some people, a last name is just superfluous....

First of all, the ACE Basin Hospitality Association does not exist. It’s an entity in a little...

On December 12, 2009, the good people of Yemassee held their first-ever tour of homes – the Yemassee Town and Country Holiday Home Tour. I purchased tickets the minute I heard about it.

A solid lump of frozen shrimp. When I was growing up, that’s what I gave my teachers for Christmas every year.

Is it something in human nature?  People all over the world seem to have a penchant for organizing annual festivals that revolve around a community’s collective admiration of some locally-grown food.

As others before me have pointed out, shift happens.

Slow Food is kind of like the opposite of fast food. With an emphasis on “kind of.”