Ruth Miller's Charleston Chat

"Presbyterians brought golf to North America," explained Ruth Miller when she took over our Charleston Beyond the Grave course as a guest speaker on Monday, February 3, 2020. Miller kept the class interesting by telling us a lot of surprising facts about Charleston's rich history that seems like it could be uncommon knowledge. For example, "every rock in Charleston comes from somewhere else. Cobblestones are from England, Slate is from Wales..." (Miller). Her interest in graveyards and the window to history they provide began when Ruth Miller was a tour guide, which she has been for forty years, and she was giving a bus load of morticians a tour when they taught her about graveyards which made her realize she wanted to learn more about graveyards, churches and the history that can be learned through them.

Miller taught our class about how the "Carolina colony stretched from Virginia all the way to St. Augustine, Florida" and how Charleston was the first permanent settlement south of Virginia. Also,