Mount Pleasant Magazine Jan/Feb 2015

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experiences. Each has her own reasons
for loving this community by the sea.
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Kim Powell, who moved to Mount
Pleasant last June, lives in Marsh
Harbor at Toler’s Cove. A third-
generation Ohioan from Dayton,
friends and family members were
perplexed when she and her husband,
Keith, uprooted their three sons and
headed for the Lowcountry.
Diane Valentino, who grew up on
the Isle of Palms but attended school
and shopped in Mount Pleasant,
remembers the days when the town’s
“supermarket” was a grocery store on
Pitt Street – the only “downtown”
around – and the sole department store
was Kenny’s. If that tiny general store,
which stocked everything from Keds
to bedsheets to clothing, didn’t carry
it, people liked to say back in the day,
“You didn’t need it.”
Powell arrived in Mount Pleasant
when the town had exploded from
the 4,000 or so residents in Valentino’s
youth to some 70,000 today. For her,
huge food stores are in abundance and
everything from formalwear to fire pits
is available at a wide range of major
Kim and Keith Powell moved to Mount Pleasant from Ohio, putting down roots in
Marsh Harbor at Toler’s Cove.
Photo by courtesy of Kim Powell.
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