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Lowcountry Oyster Festival |  Boone Hall Plantation
Jan 2010 (annual)
Two tractor trailers deliver 65,000 pounds of oysters to the Boone Hall Plantation for Charleston's Lowcountry Oyster Festival. The fun includes live music, oyster shucking (opening) and eating competitions. Kids can take part in the "Best Dressed Oyster" contest. |
Lowcountry Cajun Festival |  James Island County Park
Apr 2010 (annual)
Charleston's James Island County Park celebrates South Louisiana culture at the Lowcountry Cajun Festival, with zydeco and Cajun bands, crawfish races, authentic Creole food, spicy Cajun dishes and crawfish-eating contests. |
Sanex WTA Tour: Family Circle Cup |  Daniel Island Tennis Center
Apr 2010 (annual)
Many leading female tennis players gather at the Daniel Island Tennis Center to compete for one of the biggest prizes on the WTA tour, the Family Circle Cup, with more than a million dollars in prize money. |
Candlelight Tours of Historic Charleston |  Charleston
Sep - Oct 2010; Thu, Fri, Sat, and Sun only (annual)
First arranged in 1977, The Preservation Society of Charleston (America's oldest) stages these autumn house tours as its principal fund-raising activity. The tours give visitors an opportunity to stroll the streets of this old port city in a self-guided walk. |
Middleton Place |  Middleton Place
Daily
After centuries of fire, war and the characteristically merciless Lowcountry weather, Middleton Place has survived to be the oldest landscape gardens in America, typifying the grandeur of the southern plantation in bucolic Charleston. |
Boone Hall Plantation |  Boone Hall Plantation
Daily
Mount Pleasant's Boone Hall Plantation - one of America's oldest working plantations - has been open to the public since 1959, four years after the McRae family purchased the property, and offers a window into life in the 19th century. |
Drayton Hall |  Drayton Hall
Daily
Having proved stubbornly resistant to seven generations, two great wars and numerous natural disasters, South Carolina's Drayton Hall remains the oldest preserved plantation house open to the public in America. |
French Quarter Art Walk | Charleston
4 Dec 2009 (various dates)
Charleston's beautiful French Quarter is home to various galleries and art institutions. Every year, on the first Friday in March, April, May, June, October and December, a number of these establishments open their doors to the public for free. |
Holiday Parade of Boats | Charleston
6 Dec 2009 (annual)
Charleston Harbor rings in the holiday season by hosting the much-loved and dazzling Holiday Parade of Boats. The event sees vessels bedecked with an assortment of lights travel down Mount Pleasant to Charleston, with a firework display as main highlight. |
Charleston Farmers Market | Charleston
11 Apr - 20 Dec 2009; Sat only (annual)
Start your weekend in fine fashion and stroll to Charleston's Marion Square for the Farmers Market every Saturday from April to December. Fresh local produce, plants, herbs and cut flowers are available, as are delicious breakfast, brunch or lunch packages. |
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