The Metic
Thomas EllenEssays and Reviews from the Holy City
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Pipes and Sabres and Sons
(This originally appeared in the January 2026 edition of The Charleston Mercury)
The day before
Horn and drum. Snare roll beneath pipe drone to Alba an Àigh as the corps streams from the gates of Murray, Law, Watts, and Padgett-Thomas aro...
Dinner
Josephine Pinckney’s novel Three O’Clock Dinner is not given its proper due. Really, Ms. Pinckney as an artist is too much forgotten in Charleston. If public education were truly oriented towards making at the very least an informed citizen...
Breakfast
The South today has little of what can be called Imperial Ambition. Meaning, it does not seek to foist its habits and customs upon the various other regions. Yes, country music is ascendant, a genre which codes as Southern, with every type...
A Brief Taxonomy
A taxonomy is necessary, one of extremes. What may seem a digression will inform the rest of this physiologie—the study of our moeurs intimes here in Charleston by way of the table.
What follows is tragedy.
Imagine, if you will, a man nei...
Santee Gun Club
(This originally appeared in the February 2025 edition of the Charleston Mercury. I had the pleasure of meeting the granddaughter of the third Superintendent of the Santee Gun Club. She shared with me various receipts of liquor orders and l...
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