If you hate government, go to your local library — it just might change your mind. All government should be so good.
I’m a regular in the friendly South Carolina Room at the Charleston County library on Calhoun Street. No matter what crazy idea I want to chase, people like Dorothy Glover are there to help. Dot, who is 87 and drives in from Goose Creek five days a week, seems to be having almost as much fun as I am.
Not long ago, I was researching a column about how decades ago Charleston gave away Union Pier and much of its waterfront to the state. In a book about Mayor John P. Grace, I stumbled across Rumpty Rattles. Rumpty Who?
A couple days later, along with Dot, I am back digging through books, city directories and old newspapers from the 1920s….
