Tis the Season

Who is colonel william moultrie?

A   I don't really know, but i think he's the guy who invented moultrie middle school in charleston SC. [from WikiAnswers]

Ah, the internet, where you get all kinds of weird, strange, and useless not to mention WRONG answers.

Wordless Wednesday

49 of 50 states

Got snow?  Your state did this weekend if you don't live in Hawaii.  Even coastal Charleston saw a couple inches when they woke up Saturday morning.  Luckily it was mostly gone by noon. 

Congrats to Charleston, SC

Boeing announced last Wednesday that they will be locating a second assembly line for the 787 Dreamliner in Charleston, SC. This is good news for Charleston and South Carolina in general. With GE and Michelin already in the upstate this could mean more suppliers locating to South Carolina.

Pictured: Boeing's 747 Dreamlifter landing at Charleston Airport

Sun Day

Sailing

These pictures were taken with my smaller camera, a Sony DSC-W5. The zoom feature is not as good as my DSC-H7 but the camera is much smaller and easier to carry around. I love October in the south. Still warm but the tourists have gone home so there are no crowds at the beach.

This is not much of a beach, but they have a small parking area and it's free.

Cuban Missle Crisis

Rudolf Anderson, Jr. (September 15, 1927 – October 27, 1962) was a pilot and officer in the United States Air Force, and the first recipient of the Air Force Cross. Anderson was killed when his U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis; he was the only casualty that occurred as a result of enemy fire during the confrontation.



Anderson was born in Greenville, South Carolina earned the rank of Eagle Scout, from Troop 19, and graduated from Clemson University in 1948. His body was interred in Greenville on November 6, 1962 at Woodlawn Memorial Park.

A memorial to Major Anderson can be seen at Cleveland Park in Greenville. The memorial includes an F-86 Sabre, the type of plane Anderson flew in the Korean War. The F-86 was used for the Memorial because there were no surplus U-2 planes available at the time when it was erected in the 1960s.

Back to School

That time of year again as students head back to the centers of higher learning. Read that more students have entered college this year than in past years. Maybe because they can't find jobs?