"The past is never dead" Joel Drucker explores the history of Charleston and the Volvo Car Open: http://tennischannel.com/reporters/joel-drucker/joel-drucker-message-from-charleston-now-then-then-now

“The past is never dead,” said the bard of the South, William Faulkner. “It’s not even past.” Of course, in most cases, Faulkner’s vision was aimed at his region’s complicated connection to America – to slavery, the Civil War and the aftershocks that hav