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In the heart of Charleston, South Carolina’s downtown, stands an impressive Beaux-Arts structure often mistaken for an opera house or a city hall.
Andrew Song is a U.S. Navy submarine officer and manuscript collector with previous works published in The Wall Street Journal, Connecticut History Review, and New England Historical Society. He graduated with a B.A. from Yale University and is a member of the Elizabethan Club, the Army and Navy Club, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain in 2024.