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Tourists â" mostly northerners, Isaac Leach jokes â" always want to know what it's like being black and working on a plantation in the 21st century. If he doesn't shock them by disclosing that his 85-year-old father still gardens alongside him or that his 18-year-old son is continuing that tradition, then this is a guaranteed jaw-dropper: He grew up in a cabin in the middle of Magnolia Plantation's slave street. And he wouldn't change that. | |||||
| Officers scoot along city streets You stop in your tracks. The electric whir spins you around. What you see is shocking: A uniformed police officer is floating toward you on a gleaming white contraption that looks like a commandeered vacuum cleaner. Spaces between buildings also tell storiesCharleston landscape architect Glen Gardner was working recently on remaking a garden beside a Tradd Street home when crews dug down eight inches and discovered oyster shell paths. Gardner feels confident those paths date from the 1930s, when an earlier garden was laid out. Family hopes for new leadsJimmy Pritchard always swore he never raised his hand in anger against a woman. But after he pleaded guilty this month to abusing a former girlfriend, his dead wife's family wonders what other secrets his past might hold. Ford changes tactics as his funds run outRobert Ford has been running for one election or another for more than 30 years, but he never showed up at a debate or candidate forum until last week. And he wasn't shy about explaining why. | ||||
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