p51 May 2015

 

In 1980, my sister Nancy married Ed three weeks before Carol and I.  Every 5 years, starting with the 25th  anniversary, we go on a vacation together.  For the 25th we all went to St Augustine for several days.  For the 30th we went to Asheville and Winston-Salem, NC.  Now for the 35th, we met last week in Charleston,  the oldest city in South Carolina (1670),  where we took a horse drawn carriage tour of the large historic district.  Plantation owners would have a house in the city as well as their plantation house, so Charleston has a historic district of many large old homes.  We then toured the unique  Russell House Museum, built in 1808.  The house has a free flying staircase, some round rooms with curved doors, and elaborate plasterwork.  We then toured the Heyward-Washington House built in 1772.  Heyward was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.  George Washington slept in the house on a trip to Charleston in 1791. 

That evening we attended a murder mystery show.