With the state of South Carolina reopening, and the small stores in the Historic District of Charleston opening back up last week, we decided it would be a good day to go back and walk the district. We parked along the battery and walked up Meeting Street. The old homes are magnificent. Some of them date back to the 1670s. We then cut across to King Street to find the stores and small restaurants. We were surprised to find most of the shops and restaurants were boarded up! Some were open but all the windows and doors were boarded up with plywood. Turns out that the protest march on Saturday night in Charleston, over the death of George Flynn while in police custody in Minneapolis, had turned violent and the windows in many of these small stores had been busted out and there was some looting. With more marches planned, all the shops and restaurants were boarding up their fronts. We did stop and have lunch at one of the sea food restaurants before continuing down King Street. We then cut across to the river front park, past the still empty Charleston Public Market, and walked along the park on the way back to the Behemoth. As we came up to the old Customs House, we started seeing people gathering with protest signs, so we picked up the pace back to the Behemoth and we headed back home. We feel for these small shop owners, first hit with the COVID lockdown and now with riots. Only to add we cannot make plans moving forward and are in limbo until we get notice from the powers that be. Still stuck in Charleston.
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| White Point Gardens along Battery Street |
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| One of the old homes along Meeting Street |
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| Empty Charleston Public Market |
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| Fort Sumter across the harbor from the Battery |
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