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Edisto Island’s Hutchinson House

Such a joy to see today the preservation of one of the earliest African-American owned tracts of land near Point of Pines. Thank you to the Edisto Open Land Trust for making this happen. Open to the public! Makes my

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Myths about Slavery

Excellent writing today, click here: wapo.st/3bj6C6z “No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619. Only 8 percent of high school seniors can identify slavery as a central cause of the Civil

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Toni Morrison

“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge,” she said. “It is the language that drinks blood, laps vulnerabilities, tucks its fascist boots under crinolines of respectability

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ForeMothers. Searching for Ancestors

“Oh Child Look within Find your ForeMothers Find them Find them” ― Malebo Sephodi Strong women ancestors. That is what I began with. The crux of my curiosity came to me while walking a labyrinth, outside, on a winter day in

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Watch Night.

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Day 8. Seabrook (Edisto Island)

$99. no shipping no tax. 7″x 5″ oil on panel

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Day 7. Blue Allee, a painting

$99. free shipping no tax This is a theme that keeps speaking to me. It is about the history, the mystery and the stories that whisper from the wild woods and from the ancient tree allees of live oaks in

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Blue House, 2017

Day One. Twelve paintings in twelve days until the light returns on the Winter Solstice on Dec 21st! 7″ x 5″ oil on panel. $99 no shipping no tax. I post on my Charlotte Hutson Wrenn artist Facebook page also,

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Hutchinson House

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/charleston-county-s-henry-hutchinson-house-built-by-a-black/article_d1450c56-55e8-11e7-bd10-93c558cd02bc.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share<img

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Hutchinson House Edisto Island

©2016 Charlotte Hutson Wrenn This is a painting from a photograph by Walter Sanders, originally published in Life Magazine in an article on segregation in Alabama and Edisto Island. The painting is 7″x 5″ and for now is not for

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Welcome to my blog about the Lowcountry of South Carolina, a place proud with beauty, history and art. Sometimes we feel a call, to be, to go, to do. I was called to be an artist, and as an old midwife from Alabama said, “If the good Lord wants you to do something, you won’t have no good luck until you do it.”

So here I am writing about what I know, about the 'under glimmer' as the poet Basho, says, the way I have learned to see, to notice. I am inspired by, and talking about the history and art and culture of this place that has called me to herself. By the ancestors.

My background includes a degree in fine arts from a small private college in Florida, and before that, four years of all girls' boarding school in Asheville. I worked as a professional photographer, helped my children grow up, and now and I love seasoned things, good food, better conversation, beauty, my beloved and beautiful Italian Greyhound, Beau. Moved by the sacred places and stories of this beautiful historic land called the Lowcountry, I am here in spirit and I hope to infect you with my love of this place.

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