Ellen Schmedinghoff

My story of Grace Street started in the soupy summer stretch between kindergarten and first grade, saddled between two worlds — the only home I’d known in Providence, and a new house in Cranston. My familiar world was a three-story tenement that rose high above the dead end of Hamlin Street. We made every inch of it ours, naming every corner, each room with its own distinct role.

The Folly Beach Pier, with its 7,500-square-foot, diamond-shaped platform, is less than half-an-hour’s drive from downtown Charleston. Photo by StacieStauffSmith Photos/Shutterstock Talk to anyone who knows and loves Charleston, and you’re likely to hear about how magical this place is—the dappled light streaming through the live oaks, the pods of dolphins leaping from the river, the succession of pink and white flowers through the seasons.

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