A beautifully wrought book, introduced by these storyteller's history of Charleston, full of revealed mythology, glimmers of knowingness, secrets.... challenging us today to consider the possibility of rendering our own day-to-day existence with a kind of artistry and confidence that can survive for 300 years. An unsurpassed collection of photographs that restoration expert Richard Marks attests is a great illustration of the depth and amount of authentic building stock that makes up Charleston and shows these houses in a new light. N. Jane Iseley Photographer for 36 photography books, including Lowcountry Plantations Today, Iseley is also an accomplished farmer. Her Burlington, NC, farm has been in the family since 1790, and in 2013 she was the first woman to receive the North Carolina Soil and Water Conservation Farm Family of the Year award. Harlan Greene An archivist and prize-winning author, Greene is Head of Special Collections of Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston. His many nonfiction books on art, architecture and history focus on Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry, including Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783 1865. Among the Charleston native s novels are Why We Never Danced the Charleston and What the Dead Remember, winner of a Lambda Literary Award. William P. Baldwin A bestselling biography, Mrs. Whaley and her Charleston Garden; a Lillian Smith Award winning novel, The Hard to Catch Mercy; and Gold Benjamin Franklin Award winning poetry collections, The Unpainted South and These Our Offerings, are among Baldwin s many contributions to Southern literature. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Southern Living, Veranda, Southern Accents, Charleston and Garden & Gun.