The country turns 250 this Saturday. Sullivan's Island, whose palmetto-log fort helped make the first birthday possible, is marking it with a golf cart parade at nine in the morning and a fireworks show that ends before most Charleston restaurants stop seating dinner. That restraint is the point.
If you live here, you already know the rhythm. What is worth knowing this year is where the town has tightened the choreography, which streets are closed for reasons that have nothing to do with the holiday, and which of your usual walk-to spots are going to be impossible to walk into without a reservation you should have already made.
