Suburban Sophistication Rescheduled!
April 27, 2010
I have been guilty of gently(!) ribbing my adopted Charleston suburb of Goose Creek in the past. But I must say, there is one nice thing the city manages to do. Two or three Saturday nights each year, they throw a party by the retention pond/lake/reservoir thing behind the town hall. They might have a country or pop concert, or maybe a performance by the Charleston Symphony (junior varsity, I assume.)
It’s free, parking is plentiful, and there are fireworks – decent ones – afterwards. The problem is that the plentiful parking is on the municipal soccer fields. And if it rains, parking is not only problematic…it’s impossible. So, of course, it rains every time. If it doesn’t rain on Saturday, it rains non-stop Tuesday through Friday. Each time a concert is scheduled, you are guaranteed at least one postponement before the event actually takes place.
This time, after a month without rain, it rained on the day of the show. Let me pause and give a shout out to the city’s webmaster. Unlike most suburban municipal websites, which haven’t been updated since they switched over from dial-up, the Goose Creek website promptly announced the cancellation.
So, culture mavens, the Summerville Community Orchestra (apparently, that’s a thing now) will have to wait. The porta-bandshell stands empty, the porta-potties unfouled. And suburban sophistication is delayed until May 8th. Will it actually happen? Place your bets!
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