Add the crush of holiday shipping, and we are reminded of how much America depends upon the USPS. A postal clerk at the Thayer Street station told me how irritated customers have been with Covid distancing restrictions. There s nothing to complain about: Your Christmas packages to Aunt Min in Kansas or the grandkids in Virginia are delivered quickly and safely for what seems a modest charge. Postal workers have been frontline heroes during the pandemic, helping the keep the country connected.
The physical post office is the embodiment of the miracle. More than just a convenient place to buy stamps, mail packages, and peruse wanted posters, the post office is similar to a public library–a temple of democracy. Like a pub in an English village, the post office is a meeting place where news is exchanged, while the architecture of post offices used to serve as manifestations of national pride.
Judge J. Waties Waring and Elizabeth Waring at an NAACP banquet. File
Judge J. Waties Waring and Elizabeth Waring at a train station. File ); }
Editorâs note: This is the 33rd installment in a serialized history of Charleston to commemorate the cityâs 350th anniversary.
The Joseph Manigault House on Meeting Street was slated for demotion in 1920, ostensibly in the name of progress.
Some developer wanted the land, not for the house but to serve all the new automobiles cruising Charleston streets. But Susan Pringle Frost considered the idea heresy, and she would not allow it.
Frost hailed from some of the oldest families in the Lowcountry, and made a name for herself leading the local suffrage movement. Before the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, she was on to her next cause.