‘Name by Name’: A 92-year-old Charleston trailblazer walks his grandson through living history

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — Inside the halls of the Avery Research Center, history isn’t sitting quietly on display.

For 92-year-old Walter G. Brown Jr., it’s alive—spoken, remembered, and carried with him name by name.

“Carutha Williams… Isabel Coulson… Alphonso Horsey…” he recalls, listing former teachers and staff from memory more than six decades later…

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