Having a slow Thursday? Here's a fish tale to get your adrenaline flowing

If you haven’t heard, a great white shark with a Southern belle’s name—Mary Lee—has been cruising our Southern waters this fall. Mary Lee passed Charleston Harbor on her way south in early November, stirring up headlines, then turned near Jacksonville and swam back to the Lowcountry for Thanksgiving. Some experts speculate that she is feasting on fish migrating out to sea from our coastal inlets.
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No one knows when the first Rigby gun was fired, or who shot it. The company says that it opened for business in 1735. The oldest remaining records show that, by 1781, John Rigby & Co. was an established maker of fine arms from shotguns to pistols to blunderbusses and rifles. And in the years that followed, Rigby rifles would become the trademark weapons of well-to-do British explorers and discerning sportsmen the world over: not only were they used to shoot skeet in England, but they led hunters, colonists, and soldiers through the jungles of India and Africa and the plains of the western United States (Custer had one)

Two things we love about Charleston: the food and the fishing. Which is why we were proud to sponsor this past weekend’s Local Catch Cookout, organized by the Charleston Wine + Food Festival (February 28–March 3).