Flat Rock’s Kenmure: Glenroy and the King Family
Riding down the driveway of our family home, Rutledge Cottage, I am drawn to the neighboring estate, Glenroy — considered at one time to...
Missy Schenck
Oct 1, 2020


September in WNC
Flat Rock’s historic Tanglewood Flat Rock has a beautifully restored new Airbnb, Tanglewood. Located on Greenville Hwy., right in the...
Missy Schenck
Sep 2, 2020
Historic, handsome Tuxedo
Just down the road from Flat Rock, is Tuxedo, North Carolina, the heart of the Green River Township. Once a vibrant mill village, Tuxedo...
Missy Schenck
Aug 10, 2020


Flat Rock summer camps
Camp Ton-a-wandah. Image courtesy Jane Izard. Since the early 1900s, thousands of children have packed their trunks for an annual...
Missy Schenck
Jul 1, 2020


Lives and locales bound by preservation
Anne “Annie” Guerard Coletta was born and raised in Charleston and spent her summers in Flat Rock, North Carolina, where her family has...
Missy Schenck
Jun 4, 2020


Connemara’s charm, Charleston connections
In the mid 1830s, Charles Memminger of Charleston ventured to Flat Rock is search of a summer home. Unable to find something that he...
Jane Izard
Aug 12, 2015


Entertaining traditions excel at the Biltmore Estate
South Carolina’s historical summer mountain playground is also the sight of the nation’s largest private home. Rooted deeply in their...
Charles W. Waring III
Aug 11, 2015

