Charleston South Carolina 2014 Annual Meeting
We toured the Edmonston-Alston House, once owned by Theodosia's in -laws, which overlooks the famous
Battery area of Charleston.
We drove past the stunning Two Meeting Street Inn, with its Tiffany windows.
A curved piazza, upper floor, of Two Meeting St. Inn.
Our colorful tour guide driver of a horse-drawn carriage explains venues in the lower historic district.
This is why S.C. is known as the Palmetto state.
The unique architecture of the lower historic district of Charleston.
Rose Moore Tomlin explains her 2013 novel about Theodosia Burr Alston: Duel of the Heart, to Commodore
Harry Anderson and Judge Brian Hardison.
Rose's husband, Don (left), and Harry discuss their mutual love of yachting
The Judge, right, has to check messages connected to his law practice back home in Georgia.
Dr. Tom Kakuk examines the title page of a rare book, in Latin, inscribed at the top: "Theod Burr." This is how
Theodosia Burr signed her name as a youngster. Because she did not let the ink dry, before closing the book,
her signature transferred, in the reverse, to the top of the page on the left, Harry explained to us.
These are the eleven books, owned by Theodosia, which she did not take on her fateful Patriot ship trip, which
the Edmonston-Alston House displayed, just for us.
Tom Kakuk and the staff of E-A House, including its Museum Director, Virginia Mizell, in middle, who unlocked
the rare books for us.
Four of the First Families of colonial Charleston.
Our docent points to the image of a woman on the First Families genealogy chart
View of the Battery bay from porch of E-A House. Cynthia Foucault, on right (daughter of Anna Burr Root),
talks with Helena Lawrence.
We toured the Nathaniel Russell House.
The famous baskets, woven out of the special grass there, created and woven by the seated vendor woman.
Eleanor Hertzler, Stuart's younger sister, of Calif., at same baskets display.
With special permission of the private owners, we toured the occupied house at 94 Church Street, once owned
by Gov. Joseph Alston, and his wife, Theodosia, who lived there briefly.
A typical horse-drawn carriage tour.
The current owners of 94 Church Street proudly have displayed their family mementos.
Ms. Sarah nee Phillips Marshall, on left, with Cynthia Foucault, gave us a guided tour of 94 Church
Street, where she lives with her mother, Ms. LaVonne Phillips.
A Burr family deed, displayed inside 94 Church St.
Harry Anderson, who owns an Aaron Burr desk, inspects another desk, allegedly owned by Aaron, as well,
inside 94 Church St.
A close-up of the intricate detailed interior of the "Aaron Burr desk."
The rich, unique wood workings of the interior stairway inside 94 Church St.
Sherrie Shoemaker, of Chattanooga; Helena; and the Commodore, once again enjoyed the upstairs lounge of
our room block Inn.
Benjamin Allston Moore, Esq., a member of the Carolina Yacht Club, came by and said hello to us, as we held
our Annual Meeting luncheon at the Club. He reunited with fellow UVa Law alumnus, Stuart.
{ Ben uses two "l"s in his family Allston name}.
At our Yacht Club luncheon, from left: Alan Clark, M.D.; Gayle Nickerson; Jeanne Burr Burks, 92-years young,
of Tenn.; and her daughter, Charmaine Galloway, of Travels Rest, S.C.; and the Howies, at rear table.
Commodore Harry and our Katherine Woltz, art scholar, @ annual luncheon.
At the end of a successful meeting, a year in the planning, Helena, Stuart and Anna Burr Root finally can relax
at a rooftop restaurant overlooking the Charleston harbor.
The Women of Charleston: Helena, Cynthia and Anna, in front of the old United States Customs House, three
blocks from our King Charles Inn.
Photos by Stuart; captions by Stuart and Peter
{That's all there is! And, THANK YOU.}