In case you haven’t been by in the last week or so, Avalon Bay’s choice of brick for their project at the corner of Flatbush and Myrtle is now visible. It’s hard to see from this photo, but one reader ...

After three days in the whirlwind that is central Myrtle Beach, Litchfield was an unexpected idyll: No SkyWheel, no high-rise hotels, no loud-car cruising on Ocean Boulevard. Nothing but sand and sea.

In 1990, sand sculptors at Myrtle Beach created a 10.5-mile-long sand castle along the Grand Strand, four miles longer than the previous record held by Long Beach, Wash.