Perspective on the birth years 1910–1919

PERSPECTIVE ON THE BIRTH YEARS 1910–1919

   In the twentieth century’s second decade, the new concept of “weekend” became popular, the country’s first birth-control clinic opened, silent film star Charlie Chaplin’s annual salary hit $1 million and Robert H. Goddard, “the father of rocketry,” published “A Method for Reaching Extreme Altitudes.”

   In the Lowcountry, those milestones mattered little. As for weekends, coastal South Carolinians knew Saturdays were for marketing and dancing, and Sundays were for church. As for Charlie Chaplin, only a small percentage ever saw a movie. As for rocket science, they would have had no use for it, relying as they did for most power on their personal strength or that of their mules or oxen. Although the folk of the Lowcountry in those days may have had quite clear views of the galaxies on starry nights, it is not likely that many of them ever dreamed of going to the stars.

   Next, please meet thirteen more Lowcountry characters, born between 1910 and 1919.