Woman killed on her wedding day by drunk driver
Ain't no hills, it's a flat barrier island
As someone who has visited Charleston a few times, there are quite a few of these barrier islands off the coast from the city itself, one of which is where a yearly PGA golf tournament is played or it used to be. Chuck, Mt. Pleasant, where you live, that technically isn't part of the city of Charleston, but in one of the adjacent counties nearby? Its part of the larger Charleston metropolitan area, but not exactly in the city itself?
Over my lifetime, which is around 40+ years, Charleston has grown by leaps and bounds, not just from a population standpoint, but from a business, cultural and geographical sense. When I last visited the city in the early 90's, it was still perceived by some as a summertime-only, sleepy kind of backwater resort town that one could honestly see had tons of unlimited potential, since then, over the past three decades, population has increased 80-90,000 more people, the downtown area has really gone through a major revival, in many respects, it's a completely different city than the one I first visited as a pre-teen. A large portion of that success and growth has to be attributed to its long-serving former mayor, Joseph Riley. He's the father of modern Charleston.