The Museum Is Older Than the Country. The Fort Still Needs a Boat.

The Red Solo Traveler Podcast · Nov 10, 2026 · 20m · transcript

Charleston sells pastel streets. The collection started in 1773. Sumter is a ruin you reach by ferry.

Why downtown is the 1680 peninsula and not the 1670 landing, why America’s first museum is a 1980 building, why the City Market is not the slave mart, and why the first shot of the Civil War was not fired from Fort Sumter.

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