Remembering Old Charleston: A Peek Behind Parlor Doors
- ISBN-10
- 1596295597
- ISBN-13
- 9781596295599
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 143
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- History Press (SC)
- Author
- Margaret M. R. Eastman
Description
These 'First Families' of Old Charleston- and others- are Lowcountry legends in their own right. Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman takes readers behind parlor doors on a journey from the patrician historical area south of Broad Street to the luxurious Sea Island plantations in an unusual collection of treasured family traditions that span the colony's founding to the mid-twentieth century.
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