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By DAVID PARRELLA

 By April 1865 the city of Charleston, South Carolina was in ruins. While the Confederates still clung to Fort Sumpter, eight months of bombardment by Union guns had turned the city into a shadow of its former glory.Much of the white population of the...

By DAVID PARRELLA

 Ever since I moved to Buckland eight years ago, I have been trying to track down the historic and abandoned cemeteries that can tell us so much about life and death in the previous centuries of European occupation in these hills. One that has eluded...

By DAVID PARRELLA

 Following the election of 1860, the so-called fire-eaters of the planter class had a problem. Even though Lincoln was not talking about emancipation just yet, the planter class was worried about the value of their investment in the ownership of 4...

By DAVID PARRELLA

 There are few things that baby boomers like better than nostalgia. That is why a full house was on hand the other night at Tanglewood to listen to an extraordinarily peppy John Fogerty run through his catalog of hits backed by two of his sons.And...