I may not be the brightest bulb in the box but I’m pretty sure that General Moultrie’s flag featuring the crescent moon and the palmetto isn’t supposed to fly that way!
There is a natural rivalry between our two states owing to the fact that we started out in the colonial times as a unified colony ruled by the Lords Proprietors but the two sections of the colony couldn’t be any more different if they tried.
If you ask people on either side of the line what the best year in their state’s history was, more often than not you’ll hear 1729…the year that the colony was split along the current border and made a royal colony when George II bought out all but one of the Lords Proprietors (with only Sir George Carteret refusing the crown’s payment and retaining a sixty-mile strip near the Virginia border known as the “Granville District”).
So I did rather have a choice…keep on trucking toward Calabash and let our neighbours to the south continue to fly the flag upside down. Or the one I chose which was to turn round and let the nice lady at the welcome centre know…and judging by her reaction and lack of surprise at the state of the flag…apparently this has happened before!
