The 2008 Americas Regional Meeting will be held in Charleston, South
Carolina. Charleston is well-known for its unique culture, which blends
West African, traditional southern American and French elements. PPS
attendees will find abundant shopping, cultural events, fine dining, and
sight-seeing opportunities. The city is a notable tourist destination,
with streets lined with grand live oaks draped with Spanish moss. Along the
waterfront in Rainbow Row are beautiful and pastel-colored
Eighteenth-Century homes. As an old colonial city, Charleston has a wide
variety of historical attractions, including the Old Exchange and Customs
House, Fort Moultrie, Fort Sumter, several plantations, and Charles Towne
Landing. Charleston's premier art museum is the Gibbes Museum of Art, one
of the country's oldest art organizations and home to over 10,000 works of
fine art. The Charleston Museum was the first museum in the Americas. Other
attractions include the South Carolina Aquarium, the Audubon Swamp Garden,
and Cypress Gardens.
