Stratton Lawrence

Travel and Feature Writer | Managing Editor

Folly Beach, SC

Living the good life and writing it down

Stratton Lawrence

Travel and Feature Writer | Managing Editor

Folly Beach, SC

Living the good life and writing it down

Music Farm Fresh: The storied concert venue reopens under new management
Revisit the Farm’s beginnings as a renegade club, the countless bands who struck a chord there, and many rocking good memories. On a warm Friday afternoon last October, Kevin Wadley stood on the dance floor of the Music Farm, searching for a hole in the floor. a circular crack in the sticky, black surface—he pushed his toes into the depression, causing white dust to spit into the air.
Charleston Magazine
Music News Features
The world’s largest whimbrel roost
Lowcountry boaters and birders have long known that Deveaux Bank is special. The shifting 200-acre sandbar juts into the Atlantic from Botany Bay, just off the southernmost point of Seabrook Island. Half of South Carolina’s brown pelican population nests here, along with huge numbers of threatened terns, plovers, and egrets.
Charleston Magazine
News Features Adventure and Travel
Inside Charleston’s Outsized Theater Scene
Thrillist and Chase Sapphire® are working together to create “Tastes Worth Traveling For,” a content series pointing savvy urban explorers to the best places to eat, drink, and have a good time. And after you've taken in a show (or three) in Charleston, check out Sapphire On Location for inspiration on where to explore next.
Thrillist
News Features Adventure and Travel
Cover Story: Charleston Summer Guide
Where to play, swim, eat and cool off this summer, from downtown to the beaches to the 'burbs
Charleston Magazine
Lifestyle News Features Adventure and Travel
Installing Gutters: How the Right Drainage System Saved a Seaside Cottage
When it rains on our home, the roof works like a raincoat and the gutters act as an umbrella. The roof and exterior walls keep water out, but installing gutters will make them even more efficient, by actively funneling water away from the house. Gutters are a simple yet powerful tool that a professional can quickly design and install to accommodate your home.
The Home Depot
News Features Lifestyle
The Charleston Challenge
A city’s health and vibrancy begin with its citizens. To kick off our 40th anniversary, we challenge you to rededicate yourself to our wonderful hometown. These 40 distinctly Charleston suggestions are only a beginning. Use them as a launching pad to enrich your life, and your city, this year! Why is John C.
Charleston Magazine
Adventure and Travel News Features Lifestyle
The Charleston Bucket List
Check out (and check off) our 65 Holy City must-dos
Charleston Magazine
Adventure and Travel Lifestyle News Features Food
The Dirt on Dirt
Dirt gives us life. But for all its contributions to human survival, it doesn't get much respect. The old rhyme may say "dirt don't hurt," but we certainly know how to put the hurt on dirt.
Charleston City Paper
News Features
Troubled Waters
Few animals sightings evoke as much joy and excitement as the bottlenose dolphin. Tursiops truncatus, found in tropical and temperate waters around the world, is ubiquitous in Lowcountry waters, and any Charlestonian who spends time on the deep blue sea has likely had many close-up encounters with the well-loved marine mammal.
Charleston City Water
News Features
Tree Hugger
Don't try to tell Samantha Siegel that anything's a done deal. If she's against it, she'll fight tooth and nail until the last stone is laid. In July 2008, the then-26-year-old picked up the newspaper to read that a housing development had been all-but-finalized on the land surrounding the Angel Oak tree on Johns Island.
Charleston City Paper
News Features
Mississippi Mud: Post-Katrina on the Gulf
Down in Pass Christian, Miss., the mud is thick. Dig into the ground and you'll see every color in the earth from blues to yellows. Mostly though, it's red clay. Walk around after a good rain and your feet will sport the umber stains to prove it.
Charleston City Paper
Adventure and Travel News Features
A Sinking Ship: Patriots Point struggles to emerge from stormy seas
Allentown, Pa. Gainesville, Fla. Cincinnati, Ohio. Check the zip codes at the USS Yorktown's visitor logbook, and you'll find more out-of-state numbers than 294-anythings. Jim and Pat Sanders spent a recent Wednesday touring the ship, a focal point of their stop in Charleston during a motorcycle tour from their home in Temple, Texas.
Charleston City Paper
News Features
Cutting the Catch: Catch Share Debate Ignites Fishing Community
In a sense, the ocean is the last wilderness on Earth, especially when you consider that most burgers, chicken wings, and ham sandwiches come from an animal raised within the claustrophobic confines of a factory farm. They weren't nobly brought down by an arrow in the forest. But that grouper fillet?
Charleston City Paper
News Features
The Dirty Truth: Clean Coal Still Pollutes
King Coal has been vindicated. After more than a century's reign of spewing out carbon, chopping down mountain-tops, and blackening lungs, the former despot has finally cleaned up his act. Or so he'd have you believe. Cough, cough.
Charleston City Paper
News Features
Alien Invasion: South Carolina's Other Immigration Problem
Most casual walkers on a stroll down a Lowcountry trail don't realize that in the calming shade of the vegetation around them, there's an ongoing war for survival between species native to Charleston and immigrants from abroad. These invaders arrive via bird droppings, through lawn ornamentals that naturalize, and in the ballast water of oceangoing tankers.
Charleston City Paper
News Features
River Run: Lazy Days and Watered-Down Truths on the Edisto River
Launching our canoes just south of Orangeburg on a bright Monday morning in May, David Betenbaugh and I had a lot of expectations, but little real idea of what lay ahead over the next 120 miles of our lives.
Charleston City Paper
Adventure and Travel News Features

About

Stratton Lawrence

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Content Marketing

Reporter | Editor | Content Marketing Pro

Current roles:

Managing Editor at Perficient Digital - hire and manage a team of editors and writers generating SEO-optimized web copy for corporate clients (Home Depot, Backcountry.com, eBay)

Active freelance writer for AFAR, Fodor's, Thrillist, Travel + Leisure

I'm the author of the books Images of America: Folly Beach and Fodor's InFocus Charleston, and co-author of Fodor's The Carolinas and Georgia and Fodor's The National Parks of the U.S.

Get in touch at strattonlawrence@gmail.com or 843.452.7429