‘People
are trashy’

SPECIAL TO THE T&D A view
of Sunnyside Canal. Volunteers who pick up trash
along the Edisto River found less of it during
the drought of the 1990s. But, as the rains picked
up, the trash began flowing to the river again. |
By
GENE CRIDER, T&D City Editor
Just
off Joe Jeffords Highway, near the Edisto Village Shopping
Center, there are about 400 acres of cypress-tupelo
swamp hidden behind a chain-link fence.
As
Russell Wolfe walks through his family’s land,
it grows darker,
with tree limbs weaving a canopy overhead. To look
straight ahead is to see a primeval forest, a brooding
swamp that looks like it’s never seen the hand of man.
To look down is to see the refuse of Orangeburg (more)