I am SO appreciating all the help I'm getting here. May I beg everyone's indulgence and ask for your top recommendations of MUST SEE Charleston places? My visit in April is in conjunction with the Huguenot Reunion 2000 which is an impromptu decision of several researchers on the Huguenot-L rootsweb list to get together. About 20 of us, including family members--3 teenaged boys and some others, as well as some "locals" will be in Charleston around Easter weekend, with some of us staying around a week. In years past--my most recent visit being about eight years ago--I have enjoyed various bus and walking tours of several local sites, plus some out a ways like Middleton Place. At the time I visited, I knew very little about my ancestry, and had no genealogical interests. But I loved everything I saw and could spend a month there easily. Now the interests are in places existing before 1800, plus genealogical research. As a group, we will be researching at the Huguenot Society, the SC Historical Society, and time permitting--the Charleston Library Society, the public library, and some others. We will be attending services on Easter at the French/Huguenot church. I hope also to attend services or at least visit St. Philips--any knowledge if they will have Good Friday services perhaps? I will be going to the Office of Mesne Conveyances--did I get the name right--if I can. I have family connections throughout Charleston--all from the 18th century and before, and am having trouble working in EVERYTHING I want to see and do, while keeping in mind teens and slower-going retirees. Any MUST SEE places? And if anyone wishes to join us, you don't need to have Huguenot connections. We'd love to have you. Right now, I am the main contact for the group, which means plans are pretty informal. Meaning, help, please? Yikes--I got the job by default... Looking forward to more suggestions... Elizabeth Patricia Kruger wrote: > > The Karpeles Manuscript Museum is a privately sponsored museum that houses > manuscripts . The collection rotates periodically. IT is open to the > public and free. It is not specific to Charleston manuscripts. >