Uptown/Downtown in Old Charleston: Sketches and Stories

A series of semi-autobiographical sketches and stories detailing life in Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1930s and '40s.

Growing up in Charleston in the 1930s and 1940s, accomplished storyteller Louis Rubin witnessed the subtle gradations of caste and class among neighborhoods, from south of Broad Street where established families and traditional mores held sway, to the various enclaves of Uptown, in which middle-class and blue-collar families went about their own diverse lives and ro...