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You know, there never seems to<br />
be enough time in the day to<br />
get everything you want done.<br />
I have never met anyone who<br />
said, “I have nothing to do.”<br />
Except I remember the time<br />
when I was a young kid and<br />
would tell my mom that I<br />
was bored and had nothing<br />
to do. Her response was,<br />
I’ll give you some chores<br />
to do. I would tell her, I’m<br />
not that bored, but she still<br />
made me do the chores.<br />
Even stay-at home parents don't stay at home and run out<br />
of time. Getting the kids up and feed them breakfast, and pack<br />
their lunch. Marshal, can you let the dog out? Once they are off<br />
to school the real work begins. You have to do laundry, clean up<br />
messes, let the dog in, wrap Christmas presents, and then decide<br />
what to do for dinner. Let the dog out again, pick up Michele and<br />
drop her off at dance lessons, then dash to pick up Brannen and<br />
Jaron and take them to soccer practice, Retrace steps and pick<br />
them up and go home. Let the dog in. Stop Jaron from pulling the<br />
dogs tail, turn off the TV and make them do their homework, give<br />
Mom a call and begin dinner. When Dad comes home he still has<br />
stuff to do like, let the dog out, read the newspaper, watch the<br />
game, fix a drink, and put the kids’ bikes away. Who’s turn is it to<br />
feed the dog? Now it’s family time at the dinner table. Ask the<br />
kids what they did that day. Never a dull moment at this house!<br />
Brannen, put your phone down and finish your homework, Jaron,<br />
it’s your turn to clear the table, and Michele, will you help me wash<br />
the dishes? Whew, and that’s not the half of it.<br />
Even Grandma and Grandpa don't have enough time in the day to<br />
do what they want to get done. Have you ever wondered why they<br />
call it retired? Does that mean you are tired and then get retired?<br />
Reynold, are you going to get those brakes fixed today? I need to<br />
get cat food and check the mail after my hair appointment. Oh,<br />
honey, do me a favor. Those bushes need trimming in the front of<br />
the house, I won’t be back to make your lunch as I have my bridge<br />
club and then after that I’ll take Willene home. Don’t forget, we<br />
get the grandkids this weekend so clean the house a bit and empty<br />
the kitty litter. You may have to cancel your pickle ball game. Sure<br />
sweetie, right after I go to the gym and check in on old George to<br />
see how he is doing and get a haircut. While you are at the store<br />
pick up the latest <strong>Breeze</strong>!<br />
Well, I guess I should stop whining. I’ve got more time than I think.<br />
I guess I will go Christmas shopping!<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
<strong>DECEMBER</strong> <strong>2019</strong>, VOLUME 17, NO. 12<br />
FEATURES<br />
08 An Unforgettable Character<br />
14 Globetrotter’s Christmas<br />
18 Dolfus’ Lament<br />
32 Christmas by the Sea<br />
34 Musical Anchors in Christmas Tradition<br />
38 Christmas Traditions<br />
40 A Holiday Gift Guide for Everyone<br />
Dolfus’ Lament<br />
42 New Year’s Resolutions<br />
44 <strong>The</strong> Kids are Alright<br />
45 Living in the Present Vernacular<br />
New Year’s Resolution<br />
DEPARTMENTS<br />
08 History<br />
14 Environment<br />
22 Your Corner<br />
24 Tide Chart<br />
26 Golf Course Guide<br />
28 Over the Bridges<br />
3o Restaurant Guide<br />
32 Food<br />
34 Music<br />
36 Fellowship<br />
38 Lifestyles<br />
44 Comedy<br />
45 Architecture<br />
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An<br />
Unforgettable<br />
Character<br />
By Andrew Peeples<br />
Everyone has an unforgettable character tucked away in his<br />
memory. Mine was an old Negro man named Dolphus<br />
Blake. He couldn’t read or write, but from him I learned<br />
more about some of the important things of life than from all of<br />
my college professors put together.<br />
Of course the things I learned from old Dolphus were not things<br />
one learns from textbooks. <strong>The</strong>y were the intangibles that make a<br />
man what he is, things like patience, moderation, loyalty—things<br />
one never inherits or buys, but obtains simply by practicing them.<br />
I said that Dolphus couldn’t read or write. I hasten to amend that.<br />
With a great deal of effort he could write his name, which he<br />
learned to do after he was a grown man. “Nobody,” he said, “didn’t<br />
had no ‘scuse not to know he own name when he see ‘em.” <strong>The</strong><br />
name he knew, however, was not Dolphus Blake, it was Edward<br />
Blake. Proudly he explained that his parents named him Edward.<br />
“Other people,” he said, “tack Dolphus on me when I a boy.”<br />
Dolphus had the true pride of an intelligent Gullah Negro.<br />
He looked with contempt upon bad-mannered people, young<br />
or old, white or colored. To him there were only two strata in<br />
human society. One was made up of people who were kind and<br />
considerate of their fellowmen. <strong>The</strong> other included everybody<br />
else, and Dolphus referred to then as “de common run of white<br />
and colored folks.”<br />
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Dolphus Blake was born on Bull Island and lived there and<br />
on the nearby islands of Barataria and Hilton Head before he<br />
moved to Bluffton. He married a Hilton Head girl whom he
called Blossom and they had two sons, both of whom<br />
were grown when I knew Dolphus.<br />
A fisherman by nature and by necessity, Dolphus owned<br />
a homemade bateau. It leaked copiously and constant<br />
bailing was required to keep it afloat, and it couldn’t have<br />
been heavier if it had been built out of lead. But some<br />
of the most distinguished citizens of Atlanta, Savannah,<br />
Charleston, Columbia and other Georgia and South<br />
Carolina cities often endured and enjoyed a full day of<br />
fishing or hunting with Dolphus Blake in his clumsy<br />
craft.<br />
Dolphus was a commercial fisherman. His bateau with<br />
himself at the oars was for hire to anybody who wanted<br />
to fish or shoot ducks and marsh hens. His flexible fee<br />
was always “any ting you wanna gimme.” If he was grossly<br />
underpaid, as he often was by “de common run of white<br />
folks,” Dolphus remembered his face and voice, and the<br />
next time he called on Dolphus to take him in the river,<br />
Dolphus was “sick.”<br />
When Dolphus took a liking to someone, as he did to me,<br />
there was no fee for his services. “Some folks,” he said,<br />
“is good fuh money an’ some is good for comp’ny. You<br />
come under de headin’ of comp’ny.” I was honored to be<br />
considered a kindred spirit to a proud man like Dolphus<br />
Blake.<br />
For many wonderful years old Dolphus and I were often<br />
together, fishing, shooting ducks and marsh hens, and,<br />
best of all, just sitting in his boat talking quietly. But is<br />
wasn’t altogether through the medium of talking that<br />
Dolphus was my teacher. In truth, he never knew or<br />
suspected that he was teaching me anything, except how<br />
to catch a fish or find a hiding marsh hen. I learned by<br />
observing and imitating the things in him I admired so<br />
much.<br />
No man on earth knew any better than Dolphus that<br />
“time and tide wait for no man.” Often his heavy bateau<br />
would be left high and dry and he would have to drag and<br />
push it through sand and mud and marsh grass before we<br />
could float it. When I complained that we were going to<br />
be too late to fish if we didn’t hurry and get the “d— old<br />
boat” in the water, Dolphus would stop dead in his tracks,<br />
straighten up to his full six feet, look me straight in the<br />
eye and say, “Cap, you young, an’ you gots to learn hurry<br />
ain’ get you nowhere cep de grave.”<br />
Once on a fishing trip Dolphus caught six bass before I<br />
hooked one. “I don’t understand it,” I grumbled. “We’re<br />
using the same bait and the same kind of rig.”<br />
“Yeah, Cap,” said Dolphus, us using de same bait, an’ de<br />
same rig, but us ain’t usin’ de same patience. You so hurry<br />
you jerk de hook out de fish mout’.”<br />
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(Above) Dolphus caught the shark by the tail and flung it overboard, and almost instantly the wind and rain ceased.<br />
I caught the next strike.<br />
It took me a long time to begin to learn what Dolphus<br />
knew about patience. I say begin, because I know that I<br />
shall have to keep on learning patience as long as I live.<br />
But through the years I have made a conscious practice,<br />
and I know that I have at least learned that “hurry ain’ go<br />
get you nowhere cep de grave.”<br />
In the days that I knew Dolphus, I had a zest for life that<br />
made me overdo a lot of things. I had to learn to work<br />
and play with moderation. In Dolphus Blake I found the<br />
very personification of that word. Dolphus was one of<br />
the healthiest men I’ve ever known. His endurance was<br />
incredible. But he never let his strength run away with<br />
him. He knew when to rest, and especially when to say,”<br />
No thank you, I got ‘nough.” By always staying on an even<br />
keel himself, my mentor taught me the folly of getting off<br />
balance.<br />
As for what I learned about loyalty from Dolphus I can<br />
best explain it by relating a little incident in his life.<br />
One day Dolphus and another colored man were hired<br />
to load a truck with cattle and haul them to Savannah.<br />
On the way, the truck was stopped and the two men were<br />
arrested and charged with stealing the cattle. <strong>The</strong>y denied<br />
the charge, but refused to tell who hired them to load and<br />
haul the anamals. <strong>The</strong>y were locked up in a county jail and<br />
told they would remain there until they decided to talk.<br />
A tape recorder was concealed in the cell with the two<br />
men. <strong>The</strong> next morning when it was played back to them,<br />
Dolphus and his companion were shocked to hear their<br />
voices repeating the “private” conversation the night<br />
before, with Dolphus naming the cattle thief, a white man<br />
well known in Bluffton.<br />
But in his unintentional betrayal, Dolphus had also<br />
recorded his loyalty.<br />
”Mr. M -- mighta steel dem cows,” his voice whispered<br />
from the speaker, “but a fine gentleman like him ain’ go lef ’<br />
us in no jail fuh rot, and I ain’t tellin’ nothin’ if I stay heah<br />
till Jedgment Day”.<br />
Yes, it was easy to learn about loyalty from a man who felt<br />
that way about his friends.<br />
Dolphus had a deep reverence for God and nature. He<br />
believed that God wanted him to enjoy himself here on<br />
Earth. But he also believed that the Almighty had put<br />
certain restrictions on man’s relations with other creatures.<br />
One time I was tempted to shoot a buzzard that kept<br />
circling low over our boat. Dolphus was horrified. “Cap,”<br />
he said, “don’t you never kill one dem bird. God put ‘em<br />
on dis eart’ to do a special job, an’ a man ain’ spose to had<br />
nothin’ to do wid ‘em.”<br />
“Well,” I said, “what’s he nosing into our business for?”<br />
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“Cap,” Dolphus said, “he ain’<br />
nosin’ nothin’ but dem swimp up<br />
dey under the bow. I forget to<br />
take ‘em out de boat yestiddy an’<br />
he done gone and an spile.”<br />
Another time, when we were<br />
fishing near the ocean where<br />
sharks were plentiful, I decided to<br />
have a little excitement. Dolphus<br />
watched me put a small fish<br />
on my hook. “Cap,” he begged,<br />
“please, suh, don’ bring no sha’k<br />
in dis boat. I knowed a man did<br />
once, an’ he drown in a squall<br />
‘fore he get back home.”<br />
...the things I learned from<br />
old Dolphus were not things one<br />
learns from textbooks...<br />
like patience, moderation,<br />
loyalty—things one never<br />
inherits or buys, but obtains<br />
simply by practicing them.<br />
he said, straightening up as best<br />
he could and looking me straight<br />
in the eye, “us had some good time<br />
together. Us meet again some day.<br />
We will too!<br />
Editor’s note: This story has<br />
been reprinted by permission By<br />
permission from Andrew Peeples’<br />
daughter, Mildred Peeples Pemberton.<br />
I laughed and went ahead and caught my shark, a six-foot<br />
shovel-nose, and Dolphus swore that something terrible<br />
was going to happen.<br />
And so it did. While we were crossing Calibogue Sound<br />
on our way home, a squall swooped down from nowhere<br />
with all the fury of a full-blown hurricane, tossing our<br />
boat around on mountainous waves like a matchbox in<br />
a laundry tub. Dolphus caught the shark by the tail and<br />
flung it overboard, and almost instantly the wind and rain<br />
ceased.<br />
See dey, Cap!” cried Dolphus. “Soon’s I give ‘em back to de<br />
water dem waves quiet right down! Don’t never bring no<br />
sha’k in no boat no mo’ long as us live!<br />
Never again did I fish for a shark with Dolphus in the<br />
boat. I caught a few when he wasn’t along. But I must<br />
confess, not without a bit of trepidation in my heart and<br />
a watchful eye skyward for the first sign of a squall cloud.<br />
Two years before Dolphus Blake died, something<br />
happened in his family life that gave him a deep, longlasting<br />
hurt. It was his secret pain, and until the very last<br />
he bore it alone.<br />
At sight of me his eyes would still brighten as they had<br />
always done, but then he would lapse into an attitude of<br />
indifference toward all the things that once gave us so<br />
much pleasure together.<br />
<strong>The</strong> last time I saw him, about two weeks before he died,<br />
we sat together on his upturned bateau and talked for<br />
a long time. He had been seriously ill in a hospital and<br />
seemed to know that his days were numbered. He said<br />
he would never be able to go fishing again. “But Cap,”<br />
Edward “Dolphus” Blake<br />
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GLOBETROTTER’S CHRISTMAS:<br />
CELEBRATING DIVERSE TRADITIONS<br />
AROUND THE WORLD<br />
By Michele Roldán-Shaw<br />
Philippines<br />
As the only Asian country with a predominantly<br />
Christian population (80% Catholic due to Spanish and<br />
Portuguese influence), Christmas is a big deal in the<br />
Philippines. <strong>The</strong>y start celebrating September 1st and<br />
keep it up until January 6th, Feast Day of the Three<br />
Kings—the longest Christmas season in the world!<br />
Shopping malls blare the yuletide melodies of crooner<br />
Jose Mari Chan (basically the Filipino Bing Crosby) and<br />
people deck the halls with abandon. <strong>The</strong>ir signature<br />
ornament is the parol, a star lantern made from<br />
bamboo poles and colored paper lit from within, which<br />
signifies the star that guided the Wise Men. For a week<br />
they attend Simbang Gabi, Holy Mass at dawn, and true<br />
to their Latin Catholic roots they hold Noche Buena, a<br />
midnight feast on Christmas Eve. Most impressive of<br />
all, they have their very own Santa R-Kayma Klaus!<br />
This Filipino citizen of Irish descent has been going on<br />
Christmas cheer missions to poor communities since<br />
the 1970s; he has a long white beard with rosy cheeks<br />
and little spectacles, and even owns his own reindeer<br />
farm stocked with tropical species like blackbuck<br />
antelope and chital deer.<br />
Armenina<br />
In this Eastern European nation, New Year’s comes first<br />
and Christmas second. That’s because Christ’s birth was<br />
originally celebrated in early January, until the fourth<br />
century when the Roman Catholic Church moved it to<br />
December 25th in order to usurp older Pagan winter<br />
solstice festivals. But the Armenian Apostolic Church<br />
adopted Christianity before that—in 301 AD, making it<br />
one of the oldest Christian communities in the world—<br />
so to this day they hold Christmas on January 6th.<br />
Some Armenians observe a week-long fast in advance,<br />
breaking it Christmas Eve with a light vegetarian meal<br />
that may include nevik (chard and chickpeas), tanabur<br />
(yogurt and bulgur soup) and rojik (whole walnuts<br />
threaded on a string and coated in grape jelly). But the<br />
next day they go all out with their richest fare: cured<br />
meats, cheeses, stuffed cabbage leaves and a special<br />
cake into which they bake a coin or button—whoever<br />
finds it in their slice has good luck all year long. <strong>The</strong><br />
holidays don’t end for Armenians until January 13th,<br />
another throwback to the old New Year of the Julian<br />
calendar created by Caesar.<br />
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of folks got identical gifts and wore identical Christmas<br />
pajamas. But now they can order things off the internet!<br />
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October so things actually arrive in time.<br />
Trinidad and Tobago<br />
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Tropicalia is the flavor of Christmas here. It’s hot<br />
hot hot and folks go to the beach. As a former<br />
Portuguese colony, Brazil follows many familiar<br />
customs including nativity scenes and plays. But<br />
they add their own twist: there’s always a lady who<br />
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Bom Velhinho (Good Old Man), and if you leave out a<br />
sock he will exchange it for a gift. It helps that most<br />
Brazilians get a “13th month salary”—double pay in<br />
December! This annual economic stimulus package<br />
has been in place so long it never even occurs to<br />
Brazilians that other countries don’t have it. Still,<br />
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Like good Catholics they attend Missa de Gallo (Mass<br />
of the Rooster) at midnight on Christmas Eve, but<br />
the next day they mainly just chill and eat leftovers.<br />
Falkland Islands (UK)<br />
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Atlantic have to adapt their Christmas traditions<br />
in accordance with geographic constraints. For<br />
example, Santa arrives in a big yellow Sea King<br />
helicopter, delivering gifts to families of isolated<br />
sheep farmers in “the camp” (local name for the<br />
furthest most rural islands). Being in the Southern<br />
hemisphere, Christmas takes place in summer—a<br />
great day to barbeque lamb! Christmas Eve caroling<br />
is done outside the Christ Church Cathedral under<br />
the Whale Bone Arch, a lovely structure made from<br />
It’s time to get CRAZY! <strong>The</strong> Trini who goes from house<br />
to house tearing it up with their song and dance routine<br />
is sure to be rewarded with plenty of libations. But they<br />
ain’t singin’ no Silent Night—it’s all about the parang!<br />
This bangin’ dance floor blend of Caribbean soca, South<br />
American folk tunes and cheesy Christmas songs is truly<br />
original; the name parang is derived from the Spanish<br />
word parranda, which means a partying spree. But first<br />
everyone has to clean their entire house, repaint it, hang<br />
new curtains, buy furniture and install new appliances—<br />
that’s how seriously they take their Christmas decorating.<br />
<strong>The</strong> holiday meal is likely to include turkey, ham, sorrel,<br />
ponche-de-creme (egg nog), pastelles (tamales), ginger<br />
beer and homebrew wine, plus Trinidadian fruitcakes<br />
made with raisins soaked in cherry wine and rum for<br />
several months in advance. Party on!<br />
Democratic Republic of Congo<br />
In a country where three quarters of the population lives<br />
in abject poverty, Christmas is very uncommercialized.<br />
Most people won’t get any gifts. But that doesn’t mean<br />
they don’t hold the spirit of Christmas dear to their<br />
hearts. <strong>The</strong>y decorate palms and mango trees, go doorto-door<br />
caroling, and reunite with family. Children run<br />
through the street in their new Christmas outfits—those<br />
whose families are fortunate enough to buy them one.<br />
And they make Christmas feasts in whatever manner<br />
they are able, perhaps with a goat or chicken they’ve<br />
been raising all year for the occasion (the only meat<br />
they’re likely to have until next Christmas), or maybe just<br />
with rice, okra stew and “fufu,” a thick sweet yam paste.<br />
Despite the various native religions, most Congolese are<br />
Christian, and Jesus’s birthday is a highly spiritual event.<br />
Churches with multiple choirs put on elaborate plays<br />
that last all night long Christmas Eve, covering the entire<br />
Biblical spectrum from Creation and the Garden of Eden<br />
clear through the traditional nativity. When the play is<br />
finally over, they go straight to morning service with yet<br />
more singing! Now that’s dedication.<br />
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Dolfus’ Lament<br />
by<br />
John Samuel Graves, III<br />
Edward “Dolphus” Blake was a very well known<br />
and well liked Gullah Blufftonian back in the 1930s<br />
and 1940s. He lived at Alljoy with his wife, Blossom,<br />
and their son, Ed. Except for his name, Dolphus<br />
could neither read nor write, but he was famous<br />
for dispensing loads of colorful and practical<br />
folk wisdom. Please read the previous article<br />
in this month’s <strong>Breeze</strong> by Andrew Peeples, An<br />
Unforgettable Character, for a detailed depiction<br />
of Dolphus’ personality and his impact on his<br />
fellow travelers in Bluffton. Be sure to read about<br />
his views on the two kinds of people in this world!<br />
Visitors often came to Bluffton looking for a good<br />
time out on the river and for oyster roasts and fish<br />
frying parties. Dolphus, by reputation, was the “go<br />
to” man for such activities. He knew all the good<br />
fishing spots, and at parties he would even play<br />
the concertina. (Maybe only one song—over and<br />
over again!) Many local residents could recount<br />
stories about Dolphus and their adventures with<br />
him. Andrew Peeples was not the only member of<br />
his family to be profoundly affected by Dolphus. So<br />
were his brothers, Phillip and Luke.<br />
This article is about Dolfus’ Lament, one of Luke<br />
Peeples’ (who knew Dolphus) most original songs.<br />
<strong>The</strong> song uses authentic Gullah dialect and the<br />
rhythms of the song come directly from the rowing<br />
of a flat bottomed batteau on the rivers around<br />
Bluffton by a long experienced and able boatman.<br />
<strong>The</strong> subject was of course, Dolphus Blake. (Luke<br />
spelled the name Dolfus, possibly because that is<br />
how Dolphus himself spelled it.)<br />
Our story begins on December 7, 1941—with the<br />
bombing of Pearl Harbor. <strong>The</strong> U. S. Government<br />
(called “Uncle” by Dolphus) very quickly prohibited<br />
all nighttime activity on the rivers, especially fishing
with a light. That immediately affected Dolphus who<br />
made his living on the river. He was very distressed<br />
about the news.<br />
In those days Bluffton was a very small town and<br />
residents often congregated at the Post Office to<br />
visit, exchange news and gossip. One day shortly<br />
after the “Uncle’s” edict, Luke Peeples and others<br />
were waiting at the Post Office for it to open<br />
when Dolphus showed up and started to complain<br />
bitterly about what “Uncle” had done—about how<br />
difficult it was going to be to feed and clothe his<br />
family, about how his blood pressure had begun to<br />
rise, and about how Blossom and Ed were “tot’n a<br />
frown.” Luke, paying close attention, as he always<br />
had, recalled and arranged the words later while<br />
reflecting about “Dolfus’ fix.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> melody is original to Luke, the rhythms are<br />
catchy and complicated. <strong>The</strong> harmonies are<br />
sometimes dissonant or unexpected. <strong>The</strong> piece is<br />
in F# minor, alternates between 6/8 and 4/8 time,<br />
and uses all three forms of the minor scale: the<br />
natural minor, the melodic minor, and the harmonic<br />
minor. Luke also used a whole tone scale in sections<br />
and at the end. (A whole tone scale is scale with<br />
all the notes being a whole tone apart. <strong>The</strong>re is no<br />
beginning or end as with the usual scales and keys.<br />
One can begin anywhere on the piano and proceed<br />
with whole tone intervals as far as one wishes.)<br />
Edward “Dolphus” Blake<br />
Dolphus is the 4th from the left standing in the back row. <strong>The</strong> first man standing is Woodrow<br />
(Woodie) Graves. <strong>The</strong> second standing from the left is John S. Graves. Jr. In the middle row 6th from<br />
the right is Florence Rubert Graves<br />
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When Luke composed the music for his song he imagined Dolphus rowing his heavy batteau towards the shore<br />
to put it up. (In Bluffton a batteau was often called a “bad-o.”) It took a strong man to row one of these boats—<br />
sitting or standing—and it took an even stronger man to beach one! Dolphus was up to the task. <strong>The</strong> rhythm of<br />
the rowing occurs throughout the song. <strong>The</strong> words to the song are below.<br />
Laud, I’s get’n’ hungry. Mos’ naked too; Can’t zakly figguh wut Uncle duh-do:<br />
No mo’ giggin’ wid a light, no mo’ fishin’ in duh night;<br />
Lawd, high blood duh pleg me, high feevuh, too. Dizzy spell’ wuss by wut Uncle duh<br />
doo. Blossom an’ Ed, dem tot’n a frown, callin’ me lazy fuh set’n down.<br />
“Laud, de oystuh bed duh bulge,” dem say, “why you doanh put on yo’ boot?<br />
Duh shipya’d ain’ so fa’ away: If a pig eat, ain’ ‘e mus’ root?”<br />
Laud, I ain’ no day han’, I nevuh wuzz, sun make muh head swim an’ all my nuv<br />
buzz.<br />
Blossom an’ Ed, dem stressin’ me now,<br />
let’n’ udduh folks tell dem how fun go all aroun’ me, ovuh muh head.<br />
W’en I ani’ wukkin, dey radduh me, radduh me,—radduh me dead!<br />
Dolphus would stutter, especially when he got<br />
emotional or when he dared talk of his own mortality.<br />
That, too, is in the song. When he studders “radduh<br />
me dead!” at the end of the song, Luke used a<br />
whole tone scale to represent Dolphus shoving his<br />
boat ashore.<br />
Postscript: When members of the armed services arrived<br />
in Bluffton to enforce the “do nothing on the water after<br />
dark” prohibition, Dolphus got to know them quite well.<br />
Eventually, he decided to risk slipping out past them on<br />
the waters at night as he had done for years. <strong>The</strong> soldiers<br />
recognized that it was Dolphus and just fired warning<br />
shots over his head.<br />
Artistic expression, whether it be graphic or a musical<br />
composition, often attempts to capture and preserve<br />
real life events, along with much of the emotion expressed<br />
in the moment—and the meaning of that moment.<br />
Luke Peeples always tried to do just that. In this<br />
way he hoped to preserve some of Bluffton’s unique<br />
gifts to the world. He was a true “Bluffton original” and<br />
I hope that his works will be treasured for a long, long<br />
time.<br />
Anyone interested in more information on Luke Peeples<br />
and Dolphus Blake may visit my websites: graveshouse.<br />
org and astarfell.com. Please read the book, A Gullah<br />
Psalm, <strong>The</strong> Musical Life & Work of Luke Peeples, by<br />
Estella Saussy Nussbaum & Jeanne Saussy Wright. Information<br />
on how to obtain that book and Luke Peeples’<br />
published musical works is on my websites. Luke’s music is<br />
copyrighted by LP Collections, LLC.<br />
Luke Peeples<br />
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Golf Courses- Hilton Head Island<br />
Designer, Course<br />
Yds*<br />
Rating*<br />
Atlantic Dunes<br />
Sea Pines<br />
Davis Love III 7,000<br />
74.3<br />
Bear Creek<br />
237 Whooping Crane Way<br />
Country Club of Hilton Head<br />
70 Skull Creek Drive<br />
Dolphin Head<br />
56 High Bluff Road, Hilton Head Plantation<br />
Rees Jones 6,804 75.2<br />
Rees Jones 6,919 75.2<br />
Gary Player 6606 72.7<br />
George Fazio<br />
2 Carnoustie Court , Palmetto Dunes<br />
George Fazio<br />
6,873<br />
73.9<br />
Golden Bear<br />
100 Indigo Run Drive<br />
Jack Nicklaus<br />
7,014<br />
74.9<br />
Harbour Town Golf Links<br />
Sea Pines<br />
Heron Point<br />
100 N. Sea Pines Drive<br />
Oyster Reef Golf Club<br />
1555 High Bluff Road<br />
Pete Dye 7,099 75.6<br />
Pete Dye 7,103 74.9<br />
Rees Jones 7,005 74.7<br />
Robbers Row<br />
Port Royal Golf & Racquet Club<br />
George W. Cobb &<br />
Willard C. Byrd<br />
6,657 73.3<br />
Robert Trent Jones<br />
7 Trent Jones Lane, Palmetto Dunes<br />
Trent Jones &<br />
Roger Rulewich<br />
7,005<br />
74.7<br />
Shipyard Golf Club<br />
45 Shipyard Drive<br />
George W. Cobb 6,878 73.2<br />
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Golf Guide<br />
Golf Courses- Bluffton & Okatie<br />
Belfair Golf Club<br />
200 Belfair Oaks Blvd, (843) 757 0715<br />
Berkeley Hall Club<br />
366 Good Hope Rd, (843) 815 8494<br />
Colleton River Plantation Club<br />
60 Colleton River Drive, (843) 837 3131<br />
Crescent Pointe Golf Club<br />
1 Crescent Pointe Dr, (843) 292 7778<br />
Eagle’s Pointe Golf Club<br />
1 Eagle Pointe Dr, (843) 757 5900<br />
Hampton Hall Golf Club<br />
89 Old Carolina Road, (843) 837 3131<br />
Designer, Course<br />
Tom Fazio: East<br />
West<br />
Tom Fazio: North<br />
South<br />
Jack Nicklaus<br />
Pete Dye<br />
Yds*<br />
6,936<br />
7,129<br />
Rating*<br />
74.4<br />
75.3<br />
Davis Love III 6,738 73.1<br />
Pete Dye<br />
7,204<br />
7,254<br />
6,936<br />
7,129<br />
Arnold Palmer 6,733 n/a<br />
6,731<br />
75.1<br />
77.2<br />
76.1<br />
74.7<br />
76.9<br />
Hilton Head National Golf Club<br />
60 Hilton Head National Dr, (843) 842 5900<br />
Gary Player<br />
Bobby Weed<br />
7,503<br />
72.7<br />
Moss Creek Golf Club<br />
1523 Fording Island Road, (843) 837 2231<br />
George Fazio: South<br />
Tom Fazio: North<br />
6,885<br />
6,555<br />
73.4<br />
72.5<br />
Island West Golf Club<br />
40 Island West Drive, (843) 689 6660<br />
Clyde B. Johnston<br />
Fuzzy Zoeller<br />
6,803 73.2<br />
Oldfield Golf Club<br />
9 Oldfield Way Okatie, (843) 645-4600<br />
Pine Crest Golf Course<br />
1 Pinecrest Way, (843) 757 8960<br />
Rose Hill Golf Club<br />
4 Clubhouse Drive, (843) 757 9030<br />
Greg Norman 7,142 75.4<br />
Rocky Rocquemore 7,489 n/a<br />
Gene Hamm 6,961 74.1<br />
Sun City Golf Club<br />
672 Cypress Hills Dr, (843) 705 4057<br />
Mark McCumber: Hidden Cyprus<br />
Mark McCumber: Okatie Creek<br />
6,946<br />
6,724<br />
73.2<br />
71.9<br />
*Ratings for the longest tees<br />
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OVER THE BRIDGES<br />
BLUFFTON<br />
Dec 6: Town of Bluffton Christmas Tree Lighting<br />
Ceremony 5:30pm; <strong>The</strong> Tree-Lighting ceremony<br />
will take place at DuBois Park located at 67<br />
Lawrence Street in Bluffton’s Historic District.<br />
Dec 7: Town of Bluffton Christmas Parade 10am;<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bluffton Christmas Parade will begin Saturday<br />
at the corner of Bridge and Pritchard Streets.<br />
Parade participants will make their way along the<br />
parade route and end in Bluffton Park at the corner<br />
of Pin Oak Street and 8th Avenue.<br />
Dec 7: Christmas Cookies, Hot Cocoa & Stories<br />
with Santa 12pm; This event will directly follow<br />
the Bluffton Christmas Parade. Santa will be ready<br />
for people to join him at the Chamber around<br />
12pm. <strong>The</strong> “door fee” for children is the donation<br />
of a new toy, which will be donated to charity.<br />
Christmas cookies & hot cocoa will be provided for<br />
all guests. Bring family and friends. Santa will have<br />
special stories for the little ones!<br />
Dec 7: Holiday Tree Lighting Festival 5pm - 7pm;<br />
Help us kick off the holiday season with our annual<br />
Holiday Tree Lighting Festival! Join us in the Tanger<br />
2 courtyard on Saturday for an evening of dancing,<br />
holiday singalongs, prizes, cookies & cocoa, crafts,<br />
all leading up to the lighting of our tree! We’ve even<br />
heard that snow may be in the forecast...<br />
Dec 7-21: Seventh Annual Holiday Boutique<br />
10am - 5pm; Artists of the Society of Bluffton<br />
Artists (SoBA) are creating original, one-of-akind<br />
handmade gifts for the 7th annual Holiday<br />
Boutique. 8 Church Street.<br />
Dec 14: 2nd Annual Bluffton Coffee & Chocolate<br />
Fest 12pm - 4pm; Sample and savor the<br />
Lowcountry’s best chocolates and coffees at<br />
Bluffton’s 2nd Annual Coffee and Chocolate Fest.<br />
It’s every coffee-and chocolate-lover’s dream come<br />
true, and it’s happening right here in Bluffton! Old<br />
Town Bluffton, Calhoun St, Bluffton.<br />
Dec 24: Christmas Eve Under the Stars 6:30<br />
pm - 7:30 pm; A family-oriented worship service<br />
presented by St. Andrew by the Sea United<br />
Methodist Church in cooperation with First Zion<br />
Missionary Baptist Church. <strong>The</strong> service includes a<br />
brief message, carols and the lighting of candles<br />
under a Christmas night sky. Seats are limited,<br />
please bring a lawn chair. Located at Bluffton<br />
Factory Oyster Park 63 Wharf St., Bluffton<br />
HILTON HEAD ISLAND<br />
Dec 2-30: Farmers’ Market 9am - 1pm; Shopping<br />
at the Hilton Head Farmers Market is about more<br />
than getting great food.Every Tuesday at the<br />
Coastal Discovery Museum.<br />
Dec 6-9: Historic Holidays on Hilton Head Island<br />
A weekend of Sea Island traditions, featuring<br />
authentic food, historic church experiences,<br />
holiday market, trolley and bike tours, ancestry<br />
research and a community tree lighting.<br />
Dec 6: Winter Wonderland Festival 4pm - 8pm;<br />
Free admission! <strong>The</strong> festival provides a safe<br />
environment for families to start their Holiday<br />
celebrations! Everyone is welcome! <strong>The</strong>re will be<br />
carnival games, children’s parade, golden candy<br />
cane hunt, and much more. Located at Shelter<br />
Cove Community Park 39 Shelter Cove Lane,<br />
Hilton Head Island.<br />
Dec 13: Hilton Head Choral Society’s Sounds<br />
of Christmas Concert 7pm - 8:30pm; Come<br />
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celebrate the Christmas season at the Hilton<br />
Head Choral Society’s annual holiday concert.<br />
<strong>The</strong> concert will feature the 85-voice chorus with<br />
orchestra and promises to capture the joy, magic<br />
and effervescence of the holiday. Tickets are $25 -<br />
$40 for adults and $10 - $15 for children and may<br />
be purchased online or at the door, if available.<br />
Located at at First Presbyterian Church, 540<br />
William Hilton Parkway.<br />
BEAUFORT<br />
Dec 3-5: Festival of Trees Various Times; <strong>The</strong><br />
festival will be celebrated at Tabby Place in<br />
downtown Beaufort with tree viewing Tuesday,<br />
Dec 3rd, Wednesday, Dec 4th, and Thursday Dec<br />
5th. <strong>The</strong> Gala will take place Thursday, Dec 5th. For<br />
information go to www.fochospice.org.<br />
Dec 7: Snow Day 10am – 1pm; Bring the kids to<br />
enjoy playing in the snow, building a snowman, or<br />
having snowball fights… in real snow! Located at<br />
Live Oaks park in Port Royal<br />
Dec 8: Beaufort Christmas Parade <strong>The</strong> biggest<br />
parade in Beaufort brings in several thousand<br />
spectators and streches throughout downtown.<br />
Dec 7: Annual Night on the Town Celebration<br />
6pm - 9pm; This opening of the holiday shopping<br />
season takes place on the closed off streets of<br />
downtown Beaufort with a Christmas street party.<br />
Shops will stay open late. <strong>The</strong> evening features the<br />
City of Beaufort’s Tree Lighting Ceremony.<br />
Dec 14: Port Royal Christmas Golf Cart Parade<br />
6pm - 9pm; <strong>The</strong> parade is a chance to showcase<br />
your carts decked out with festive decorations<br />
and compete for “Best in Show”. Stay tuned to our<br />
Facebook page!<br />
SAVANNAH<br />
Dec 1-7: Holiday Paint Party and Photos with<br />
Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus. 11am - 3pm; Bring<br />
your little ones for a holiday paint party and<br />
photos with Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus from the<br />
Pooler Lions Club at Painting With A Twist studios<br />
in Pooler and in Savannah.<br />
Dec 6: Tybee Island Christmas Parade & Tree<br />
Lighting 6:30pm - 9:30pm; Tybee Nighttime<br />
Christmas Parade and Tree Lighting! Festive floats<br />
and spirited parade participants will fill the streets<br />
of Tybee Island. Parade starts at Butler Ave and 8th<br />
St. Ends at Tybrisa St and Strand Ave.<br />
Dec 7-28: <strong>The</strong> Forsyth Farmers’ Market 9am -<br />
1pm; Each Saturday the Forsyth Farmers’ Market<br />
opens, rain or shine, at the South End of Forsyth<br />
Park in Historic Downtown Savannah.<br />
Dec 7: Savannah Bridge Run 8am - 10am;<br />
Savannah Bridge Run is a 1-day event being held<br />
on December 7 at the Savannah Civic Center in<br />
Savannah. This is a racing event which starts on<br />
Hutchinson Island.<br />
Dec 14: Handel’s Messiah Concert 7:30pm -<br />
9:30pm; <strong>The</strong> church choir will sing Handel’s<br />
masterpiece, Messiah, with orchestra. Located at<br />
Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church.<br />
Dec 21: Trustees’ Garden Christmas Festival<br />
11am - 7:30pm; Trustees’ Garden presents the first<br />
winter holiday event crafted for our community<br />
with 100% chance of snow! <strong>The</strong> Christmas Festival<br />
at Trustees’ Garden will be a safe, fun event filled<br />
with activities for all ages!<br />
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BLUFFTON<br />
May River Grill**<br />
1263 May River Rd.<br />
(843) 757-5755<br />
Toomers’ Bluffton Seafood<br />
House<br />
27 Dr. Mellichamp Dr.<br />
(843) 757-0380<br />
<strong>The</strong> Village Pasta Shoppe<br />
10 B, Johnston Way<br />
(843) 540-2095<br />
Agave Side Bar<br />
13 State Of Mind St.<br />
(843) 757-9190<br />
Alvin Ord’s of Bluffton<br />
1230 A, May River Rd.<br />
(843) 757-1300<br />
Bluffton BBQ<br />
11 State Of Mind St.<br />
(843) 757-7427<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bluffton Room<br />
15 Promenade St.<br />
(843) 757-3525<br />
British Open Pub<br />
1 Sherington Dr. #G<br />
(843) 815-6736<br />
Buffalo’s at Palmetto Bluff<br />
1 Village Park Square<br />
(843) 706-6630<br />
Cahill’s Chicken Kitchen<br />
1055 May River Rd.<br />
(843) 757-2921<br />
Calhoun’s<br />
9 Promenade St.<br />
(843) 757-4334<br />
Captain Woody’s<br />
17 State Of Mind St.<br />
(843) 757-6222<br />
Corner Perk<br />
1297 May River Rd.<br />
(843) 816-5674<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cottage<br />
38 Calhoun St.<br />
(843) 757-0508<br />
Downtown Deli<br />
1223 May River Rd<br />
(843) 815-5005<br />
Farm<br />
1301 May River Rd.<br />
(843) 707-2041<br />
Fat Patties<br />
207 Bluffton Rd.<br />
(843) 815-6300<br />
Giuseppi’s Pizza & Pasta<br />
25 Bluffton Rd., Ste. 601<br />
(843) 815-9200<br />
Grind Coffee Roasters<br />
7 Simmonsville Rd. #600<br />
(843) 422-7945<br />
HogsHead Kitchen • Wine Bar<br />
1555 Fording Island Rd., Ste. D<br />
(843) 837-4647<br />
Jim ’N Nick’s Bar-B-Q<br />
872 Fording Island Rd.<br />
(843) 706-9741<br />
<strong>The</strong> Juice Hive<br />
14 Johnston Way<br />
(843) 757-2899<br />
Katie O’Donald’s<br />
1008 Fording Island Rd. #B<br />
(843) 815-5555<br />
Local Pie Bluffton<br />
15 State Of Mind St.<br />
(843) 837-7437<br />
Longhorn Steakhouse<br />
1262 Fording Island Rd.,<br />
(843) 705-7001<br />
Mellow Mushroom<br />
878 Fording Island Rd.<br />
(843) 706-0800<br />
Mulberry Street Trattoria<br />
1476 Fording Island Rd.<br />
(843) 837-2426<br />
Okatie Ale House<br />
25 William Pope Ct.<br />
(843) 706-2537<br />
Old Town Dispensary<br />
15 Captains Cove<br />
(843) 837-1893<br />
Peaceful Henry<br />
181 Bluffton Rd #A101<br />
(843) 757-0557<br />
<strong>The</strong> Pearl Kitchen and Bar<br />
55 Calhoun St.<br />
(843) 757-5511<br />
Pinchos<br />
30 Malphrus Rd #102<br />
(843) 757-4599<br />
Pour Richard’s<br />
4376 Bluffton Pkwy.<br />
(843) 757-1999<br />
Red Stripes<br />
Caribbean Cuisine<br />
8 Pin Oak St.<br />
(843) 757-8111<br />
Salty Dog Bluffton<br />
1414 Fording Island Rd.<br />
(843) 837-3344<br />
Sippin Cow<br />
36 Promenade St.<br />
(843) 757-5051<br />
Southern Barrel Brewing Co.<br />
375 Buckwalter Place Blvd.<br />
(843) 837-2337<br />
Squat ’N’ Gobble<br />
1231 May River Rd.<br />
(843) 757-4242<br />
Truffle’s Cafe<br />
91 Towne Dr.<br />
(843) 815-5551<br />
Twisted European Bakery<br />
1253 May River Rd., Unit A<br />
(843) 757-0033
DON’T<br />
MISS<br />
RICHARD’S<br />
Amazing, Nightly Creations<br />
(by an Award-winning Chef)<br />
Dinner 5:30 until 10pm<br />
Tuesday through Saturday<br />
R ESE R V ATIONS 843-757-1999 ENC O U R A GED<br />
HILTON HEAD<br />
Alexander’s<br />
79 Queens Folly Road<br />
(843) 785-4999<br />
Annie O’s Kitchen<br />
124 Arrow Rd<br />
(843) 341-2664<br />
Beach Break Grille<br />
24 Palmetto Bay Rd, #F<br />
(843) 785-2466<br />
Bullies BBQ<br />
3 Regency Pkwy<br />
(843) 686-7427<br />
Charbar Co.<br />
33 Office Park Road, Ste 213<br />
(843) 785-2427<br />
Charlie’s L’Etoile Verte<br />
8 New Orleans Road<br />
(843) 785-9277<br />
(843) 681-2772<br />
CQ’s Restaurant Harbour Town<br />
140 Lighthouse Rd, Unit A<br />
(843) 671-2779<br />
Dough Boys Pizza<br />
1 New Orleans Rd<br />
(843)-686-2697<br />
Ela’s On <strong>The</strong> Water<br />
1 Shelter Cove Lane<br />
(843) 785-3030<br />
Fat Baby’s Pizza and Subs<br />
1034 William Hilton Pkwy<br />
(843) 842-4200<br />
Fishcamp at Broad Creek<br />
11 Simmons Road<br />
(843) 842-2267<br />
Flora’s Italian Cafe<br />
841 William Hilton Pkwy, Ste 841<br />
(843) 842-8200<br />
Frankie Bones<br />
1301 Main Street<br />
(843) 682-4455<br />
<strong>The</strong> French Bakery<br />
28 Shelter Cove Lane<br />
(843) 342-5420<br />
Gringo’s Diner<br />
1 N Forest Beach Dr, Unit E-5<br />
(843) 785-5400<br />
Hudson’s Seafood House<br />
on the Docks<br />
1 Hudson Rd<br />
Java Burrito Company<br />
1000 William Hilton Pkwy, Ste J6<br />
(843) 842-5282<br />
<strong>The</strong> Jazz Corner<br />
1000 Williamn Hilton Pkwy, Ste C-1<br />
(843) 842-8620<br />
Lucky Rooster Kitchen + Bar<br />
841 William Hilton Pkwy<br />
(843) 681-3474<br />
Michael Anthony’s Cucina Italiana<br />
37 New Orleans Road<br />
(843) 785-6272<br />
Old Oyster Factory<br />
101 Marshland Road<br />
(843) 681-6040<br />
Ombra Cucina Rustica<br />
1000 William Hilton Pkwy,<br />
Suite G2<br />
(843) 842-5505<br />
One Hot Mama’s<br />
7A Greenwood Dr<br />
(843) 682-6262<br />
Palmetto Bay Sunrise<br />
Cafe<br />
86 Helmsman Way<br />
(843) 666-3232<br />
Pomodori<br />
1 New Orleans Rd<br />
(843) 686-3100<br />
Porter & Pig<br />
1000 William Hilton Pkwy<br />
(843) 715-3224<br />
Red Fish<br />
8 Archer Rd<br />
(843) 686-3388<br />
Relish Cafe<br />
33 Office Park Rd, Unit 216<br />
(843) 715-0995<br />
Ruby Lee’s<br />
19 Dunnagans Alley<br />
(843) 785-7825<br />
Sage Room<br />
81 Pope Ave., Ste 13<br />
(843) 785-5352<br />
Santa Fe Cafe<br />
807 William Hilton Pkwy<br />
(843) 785-3838<br />
Skull Creek Boathouse<br />
397 Squire Pope Road<br />
(843) 681-3663<br />
<strong>The</strong> Studio<br />
20 Executive Park Rd<br />
(843) 785-6000<br />
Sunset Grille<br />
43 Jenkins Island Rd<br />
(843) 689-6744<br />
Trattoria Divina<br />
33 Office Park Rd, Ste 224<br />
(843) 686-4442<br />
Vine<br />
1 N. Forest Beach Drive<br />
(843) 686-3900<br />
Watusi Cafe<br />
71 Pope Ave<br />
(843) 686-5200<br />
Wise Guys<br />
1513 Main St.<br />
(843) 785-8866<br />
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Christmas By the Sea<br />
All is Merry and Bright<br />
By: Patricia Branning, Food Author<br />
Christmas Orange Italian Cream Cake<br />
½ cup Plugra butter, softened<br />
½ cup shortening<br />
2 cups sugar<br />
5 large eggs, separated<br />
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract<br />
2 cups all-purpose flour<br />
1 teaspoon baking soda<br />
1 cup buttermilk<br />
1 cup flaked sweetened coconut<br />
Yields 3 layers<br />
Grease and flour 3 9-inch round cake pans.<br />
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Crisp apples, crunchy leaves and a cool nip in the air are sure<br />
signs of Christmas in the South. Signs are everywhere now<br />
as our landscape changes from verdant greens to vibrant<br />
yellows, reds and oranges. Marsh grass takes on a golden<br />
glow as winter begins to unveil its chilly grasp.<br />
Amid all the hustle and bustle of the holidays, there is a<br />
moment when Christmas happens. It may be the arrival<br />
home of a loved one from far away, the sound of carolers<br />
in the street or the twinkle of lights on a Christmas tree.<br />
Scents of fresh cut magnolia leaves and sweet cedar always<br />
bring a rush of memories of Christmas past. <strong>The</strong> smell of a<br />
wood fire burning is sometimes all it takes to remind me of<br />
the joy of the holiday season.<br />
It’s easy to love holiday time in the Lowcountry - a time<br />
when local oystermen wearing their white boots head out<br />
to the rugged mud flats along the river banks each day.<br />
Our farmers’ markets overflow with salt-misted Brussels<br />
sprouts still on the stalk, turnips, kale and spinach in perfect<br />
testimony to the bounty of our winter season.<br />
It’s a time to make the table as celebratory as possible,<br />
remembering that food is the soul of the gathering.<br />
“A party without a cake is just a meeting.” Julia Child<br />
Whenever I need a cake for a special occasion, I turn to<br />
my favorite recipe for Orange Italian Cream cake. It makes<br />
the perfect statement and is absolutely delicious. This<br />
particular version of the cake is tried and true and is a<br />
wonderful tradition. <strong>The</strong> tangy orange curd between each<br />
layer makes it extra special. Try decorating it with sprigs of<br />
rosemary or sugared fruit.<br />
Beat butter and shortening at medium speed with an<br />
electric mixer until light and fluffy. Gradually add sugar,<br />
beating well. Add egg yolks, 1 at a time, beating until well<br />
blended after each addition. Add the pure vanilla extract<br />
and beat until thoroughly combined.<br />
Take out a large bowl and whisk together the flour and<br />
soda. Gradually add this to the butter mixture alternately<br />
with the buttermilk, beginning and ending with the flour<br />
mixture. Beat on low, blending after each addition. Stir in<br />
the sweetened coconut.<br />
Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold into the batter<br />
and pour evenly into the 3 greased and floured pans. Tap<br />
each pan gently on the counter to remove any air bubbles.<br />
Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes until a cake tester<br />
inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pans on<br />
wire racks.<br />
Spread about ¾ cup chilled orange curd between layers<br />
and on top of the cake.<br />
Chill the cake in the refrigerator overnight. This will help<br />
keep the layers in place while spreading the frosting over<br />
the sides.<br />
Optional: sprinkle ½ cup toasted coconut over the top of<br />
the cake.<br />
Fresh Orange Curd<br />
1 cup sugar<br />
¼ cup cornstarch<br />
2 cups orange juice<br />
3 large eggs, lightly beaten<br />
¼ cup butter<br />
1 tablespoon grated orange rind<br />
Yields 3 cups
Combine sugar and cornstarch in a large saucepan. Whisk<br />
in the fresh orange juice.<br />
Next whisk in the lightly beaten eggs and bring the entire<br />
mixture to a gentle boil while whisking constantly, about<br />
5 minutes over medium heat. Continue to cook while<br />
whisking for another minute or two until the mixture<br />
reaches a pudding-like thickness.<br />
Remove from the heat, and add the butter and whisk until<br />
melted. Stir in the grated orange rind. Pour into a small<br />
dish, cover and chill overnight or for about 6 hours.<br />
Cream Cheese Frosting<br />
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese<br />
½ cup butter, softened<br />
1 tablespoon vanilla extract<br />
1 (16-ounce) package powdered sugar<br />
Yields about 4 cups<br />
Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla at medium speed<br />
with an electric mixer until creamy and smooth.<br />
Gradually add powdered sugar on low speed until<br />
combined.<br />
Spread on sides of the cake.<br />
Use a kitchen scale to divide the batter in order to have<br />
even layers. Weigh while batter is in the pans.<br />
When a recipe calls for separated eggs as this one does,<br />
separate them before bringing them to room temperature<br />
and they will separate easier.<br />
Smooth tops with an offset spatula.<br />
Check cakes early by setting timer for 5 minutes earlier<br />
than the recipe states and test for doneness. This avoids<br />
overbaking.<br />
After removing from the oven, wait about 5 minutes and<br />
invert the cake out of the pan and onto a wire rack to cool<br />
completely.<br />
This cake will keep in a cake saver refrigerated for up to 4<br />
days. Bring to room temperature for at least an hour before<br />
serving. Enjoy!<br />
Sugared Fruit for Decoration (Optional)<br />
egg white<br />
superfine sugar<br />
fresh berries and grapes<br />
Lightly beat egg whites. Gently brush fruit with egg white<br />
and roll fruit, cover in the egg white, into the sugar until<br />
entirely coated.<br />
Place fruit on a drying rack for at least 2 hours.<br />
Cake Baking Tips:<br />
Have ingredients at room temperature. That means the<br />
butter, eggs, milk - everything.<br />
Creaming room temperature butter and sugar aerates it,<br />
giving your cake that light texture. Adding cold milk or<br />
eggs will solidify the creamed butter and the result will<br />
not be good. Cream butter and sugar thoroughly. Mix for<br />
several minutes until light and creamy.<br />
Never substitute a liquid fat when a solid fat is called for.<br />
Scrape the bowl. As you mix cake batter, bits of flour or<br />
butter can hide on the bottom or sides of the bowl. Stop<br />
the mixer from time to time and scrape the bowl with a<br />
silicone spatula.<br />
No matter what shape pan you use, grease, and flour pans<br />
and line with parchment. Grease first, then fit the bottom<br />
with a piece of parchment paper. Place the paper in the<br />
pan and grease the parchment. Add flour to the pan and<br />
tip until the bottom and sides are floured. Shake out any<br />
excess. This does not apply to Bundt pans. Shortening<br />
works best for greasing pans.<br />
Patricia Branning: Southern Author<br />
“My corner of the South will always be known as the<br />
land of shrimp, collards and grits - a land of gracious<br />
plenty, where everyone is darlin’, strangers say “hello”<br />
and someone’s heart is always bein’ blessed.”<br />
Southern author Pat Branning has created 7 coffee table<br />
cookbooks about our Southern lifestyle, each filled with<br />
delicious recipes, stories and fine art from the creeks and<br />
gardens of the Lowcountry. Pat is the former Women’s<br />
Editor for WSB radio, Atlanta, where she broadcast daily<br />
programs on food and entertainment. She has lived and<br />
worked in Beaufort, Hilton Head and Bluffton for the<br />
majority of her life. Books are designed and published<br />
by her son, Andrew Branning, a noted publisher and<br />
photographer responsible for the food and landscape<br />
images in the books. His work may be viewed at Branning<br />
Fine Art, 3 Market Street in Habersham, Beaufort.<br />
www.patbranning.com<br />
www.andrewbranning.com<br />
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Musical Anchors in Christmas Traditions<br />
By Frank G. Schuetz Jr.<br />
Handel’s “Messiah” and Tchaikovsky’s “<strong>The</strong><br />
Nutcracker” are anchors to Christmas tradition<br />
and anchors to classical music. <strong>The</strong>y accompany<br />
the Christmas holidays to provide a nuanced<br />
soundtrack not found in more popular styles of<br />
music. And they keep us in touch, year after year,<br />
with the classical form of music in these modern<br />
times, when increasing attention is focused on<br />
modern forms of music. <strong>The</strong> two works seem polar<br />
opposite in classical form but serve remarkably<br />
similar functions.<br />
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“Messiah” is an oratorio. This choral work tells a<br />
religious story in multiple movements of music in<br />
the way an opera tells a story, but without acting<br />
or scenery. <strong>The</strong> story is revealed through the lyrics.<br />
In the specific case of the “Messiah,” the story lies<br />
at the basis of Christian belief – beginning with the<br />
need for a Savior of humanity due to the sins of<br />
Adam and Eve, the arrival and life of the Savior, and<br />
the return of the Savior at the end of days. All of the<br />
words used in the oratorio are quotations from the<br />
Bible. <strong>The</strong> “Messiah” was first performed as a piece<br />
related to the Easter holiday and then later became<br />
associated with the Christmas holiday. <strong>The</strong> most<br />
recognized portion is the “Hallelujah Chorus.”<br />
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky<br />
George Frederic Handel<br />
Oratorios and operas were the most popular form<br />
of entertainment during the Romantic Period of<br />
classical music, with “Messiah” having been written<br />
during this period in 1741, in English, and first<br />
performed in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Nutcracker” is a ballet. <strong>The</strong> musical aspect of<br />
this orchestral piece is intended only to support<br />
the dance movements. <strong>The</strong> most often heard<br />
version is an extract of musical parts known as “<strong>The</strong><br />
Nutcracker Suite.” <strong>The</strong> ballet reveals a fanciful
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Christmas event, in the mind of a child, with toys<br />
coming to life and journeying through imaginary<br />
lands. <strong>The</strong> story is told through the ballet dance<br />
movements and scenery without the use of any<br />
words. It has always been pertinent to the Christmas<br />
holiday because of the story content. Tchaikovsky<br />
was hired to create the music behind a story that<br />
had already been written and the dance moves<br />
already choreographed. Although Tchaikovsky<br />
was unhappy with the result of his own effort, “<strong>The</strong><br />
Nutcracker” is known to many as one of the most<br />
beautiful musical works in history.<br />
Ballet is a form of entertainment with performance<br />
dance at its core, very much unlike the oratorio.<br />
<strong>The</strong> story for the “<strong>The</strong> Nutcracker” originated as<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by E.T.A.<br />
Huffman, and the choreography was developed in<br />
1892 with the music having been composed late<br />
in that year. Composers of ballet music of the time<br />
were regarded more as craftsmen than artists.<br />
Although these two popular works are worlds<br />
apart in form, they nonetheless both keep us in<br />
touch with classical music. In some cases “<strong>The</strong><br />
Nutcracker” at Christmastime may have served as<br />
the very introduction to classical music for some<br />
young people. Every year portions of the musical<br />
pieces are repeated over the airwaves via radio<br />
and television in holiday advertising, ringing in<br />
the upcoming holiday season. People go annually<br />
to see or participate in performances of Handel’s<br />
“Messiah” in churches all over the world. And<br />
with ballet performance companies receiving<br />
significant portions of their annual revenues from<br />
performances of Tchaikovsky’s “<strong>The</strong> Nutcracker”<br />
due to its popularity, theater goers continue to<br />
enjoy live performances of the ballet. Perhaps the<br />
most unique characteristic shared by these two<br />
works is the enjoyment of live performances, with<br />
television broadcast of their entire performance<br />
content not commonly found.<br />
HHSO<br />
CONCERT LISTING<br />
OPENING NIGHT<br />
Sun, Oct 20, <strong>2019</strong> • 5pm | Mon, Oct 21, <strong>2019</strong> • 8pm<br />
RACHMANINOFF & FRANCK<br />
Sun, Nov 17, <strong>2019</strong> • 5pm | Mon, Nov 18, <strong>2019</strong> • 8pm<br />
A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS<br />
Sun, Dec 1, <strong>2019</strong> • 5pm | Mon, Dec 2, <strong>2019</strong> • 8pm<br />
DVOŘÁK & BARTÓK<br />
and BEETHOVEN’S 4TH<br />
Sun, Jan 12, 2020 • 5pm | Mon, Jan 13, 2020 • 8pm<br />
MOZART & SAINT-SAËNS<br />
and MONTGOMERY’S STARBURST<br />
Sun, Jan 26, 2020 • 5pm | Mon, Jan 27, 2020 • 8pm<br />
SUPERHEROES!<br />
Sun, Feb 9, 2020 • 5pm | Mon, Feb 10, 2020 • 8pm<br />
GRIEG & Vaughan WILLIAMS and<br />
ELGAR’S ENIGMA VARIATIONS<br />
Sun, Feb 23, 2020 • 5pm | Mon, Feb 24, 2020 • 8pm<br />
WAGNER & RIMSKY-KORSAKOV<br />
and BRAHMS‘ DOUBLE CONCERTO<br />
Sun, Mar 22, 2020 • 5pm | Mon, Mar 23, 2020 • 8pm<br />
GRAND FINALE: ELIJAH<br />
Sun, Apr 26, 2020 • 5pm | Mon, Apr 27, 2020 • 8pm<br />
Subscriptions/tickets are available at hhso.org or<br />
by calling 843-842-2055. All concerts held at First<br />
Presbyterian Church on William Hilton Pkwy.<br />
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FELLOWSHIP<br />
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL<br />
Cambell Chapel A.M.E.<br />
25 Boundary Street, Bluffton<br />
843-757-3652<br />
Sunday School 8:45am<br />
Worship:10am<br />
Queen Chapel AME Church<br />
114 Beach City Rd, Hilton Head<br />
843-681-3315<br />
ASSEMBLY OF GOD<br />
Bluffton Assembly of God<br />
Hwy 170 & Argent Blvd. (next to ESPY)<br />
843-379-1815<br />
Sunday: 10:30am Wednesday 7pm<br />
BAPTIST<br />
Cornerstone Church Bluffton<br />
843.757.3472 cornerstonebluffton.org<br />
Sunday School: 9am<br />
Worship: 10:30am & 6pm<br />
First Zion Baptist<br />
Wharf Street 757-3128<br />
Sunday School: 9am<br />
Sunday worship: 10am<br />
May River Baptist Church<br />
SC-170, North of US 46, 757-2518<br />
Sunday School: 9:45am<br />
Sunday Worship: 10am & 7pm<br />
St. John’s Baptist Church<br />
103 Pritchard Street, 757-4350<br />
Sunday Worship: 11am<br />
St. Matthew’s Baptist Church<br />
SC Highway 170, 757-3255<br />
Sunday Worship: 11am<br />
Bible Missionary Baptist Church<br />
Goethe Road Community Cntr, 815-5523<br />
Sunday Worship: 11am<br />
Bible Study: 6pm<br />
CATHOLIC<br />
St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church<br />
333 Fording Island Road, 815-3100<br />
Sunday Masses: 4pm & 6pm, Espanol 1pm<br />
Monday to Friday 5:45 and 8:30am<br />
EPISCOPAL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Church of the Cross<br />
110 Calhoun St, 757-2661<br />
495 Buckwalter Parkway, 757-2662<br />
Sunday Worship: 8am & 10am<br />
<strong>The</strong> Episcopal Church of Okatie<br />
At St. Luke’s Baptist Church<br />
Hwy 170 and Snake Road,<br />
Worship: 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday, 8:30am<br />
GREEK ORTHODOX<br />
Holy Resurrection Church<br />
at St. Andrews Catholic Church<br />
220 Pickney Colony Road, 837-4659<br />
Orthros: 9:30am, Liturgy 10am<br />
JEWISH<br />
Temple Osah Shalom<br />
at Lowcountry Presbyterian<br />
278 Simmonsvill Road, 705-2532<br />
Shabbat Worship 3rd Friday of month, 8pm<br />
LUTHERAN<br />
Lord of Life Lutheran Church<br />
351 Buckwalter Parkway, 757-4774<br />
Sunday School: 10am<br />
Sunday Worship: 8am, 9am, 11am<br />
METHODIST<br />
Bluffton United Methodist Church<br />
101 Calhoun Street, 757-3351<br />
Sunday School 9:45am<br />
Sunday Worship: 8:30am & 10am<br />
Church of the Palms United Methodist<br />
1425 Okatie Highway, 379-1888<br />
Sunday Worship: 10:30am<br />
St. Luke’s United Methodist Church<br />
SC Highway 170 near Sun CIty, 705-3022<br />
Sunday Worship: 8:30am and 11am<br />
PRESBYTERIAN<br />
Lowcountry Presbyterian Church<br />
US 278 and Simmonsville Road, 815-8570<br />
Sunday School: Adult 9:40am, Children: 10:30<br />
Sunday Worship: 8:30am & 10:30am<br />
Grace Coastal Church (PCA)<br />
1425 Okatie 15 Williams Drive (off SC170),<br />
379-5521<br />
Sunday School: 11am<br />
Sunday Worship: 9:30am<br />
NON-DENOMINATIONAL<br />
Live Oak Christian Church<br />
Bluffton High School Auditorium 757-5670<br />
Kidstreet: 9:15am, Worship 10:15am<br />
LowCountry Community Church<br />
Bluffton Campus: 801 Buckwalter Parkway,<br />
836-1101<br />
Sunday Worship: 8:30am, 10am, 11:30am<br />
JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES<br />
Kingdom Hall, SC 46, 815-4455<br />
Sunday Public Talk: 9:30am & 3:30pm<br />
Spanish Public Talk: 12:30pm<br />
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BAPTIST<br />
Bible Baptist Church<br />
2800 Main Street, HHI<br />
843-681-8713<br />
Sunday School: 9:30<br />
Sunday Worship: 10:45<br />
First Baptist Church<br />
100 South Forest Beach Dr, HHI<br />
843-785-4478<br />
Sunday School : 9:15<br />
Sunday Worship: 10:30<br />
Center Oak Grove Baptist<br />
161 Mathews Drive, HHI<br />
843-681-5784<br />
Sunday School: 9:00<br />
Sunday Worship 10:00<br />
North Island Baptist Church<br />
3800 Main Street, HHI<br />
843-689-3800<br />
SundaySchool: 9:30am<br />
Sunday Worship 10:30pm<br />
St. James Baptist Church<br />
209 Beach City Road, HHI<br />
843-681-6446<br />
CATHOLIC<br />
Holy Family Catholic Church<br />
24 Pope Ave, HHI<br />
843-785-2895<br />
Call for times<br />
St Francis by the Sea<br />
45 Beach City Road, HH<br />
843-681-6350<br />
Call for times<br />
EPISCOPAL<br />
All Saints Episcopal<br />
3001 Meeting Street, HHI<br />
843-681-8333<br />
Sunday Services: 8:00 & 10:15<br />
INDEPENDANT<br />
Central Church<br />
975 William Hilton Parkway, HHI<br />
843-686-5995<br />
Sunday Services: 9:30 & 11:00<br />
Wednesday Evenings 6:30<br />
Grace Community Church<br />
450 Spanish Wells Rd , HHI<br />
843-681-6698<br />
Church of Christ<br />
23 Bow Circle HHI<br />
843-686-2323<br />
Sunday School: 9:30<br />
Sunday Worship: 10:30<br />
Church of Christian Science<br />
4 Park Lane, HHI<br />
843-785-9556<br />
Sunday School: 10:30<br />
Sunday Worship: 10:30<br />
Sea Island Chapel<br />
173 Marshland Road, HHI<br />
843-784-3399<br />
Sunday Worship: 9:15 & 10:30<br />
Reserection Christian Community<br />
296 Spanish Wells Road, HHI<br />
843-689-3625<br />
Worship Services: 9:15 & 10:00<br />
JEWISH<br />
Congregation Beth Yam<br />
4501 Meeting Street, HHI<br />
843-681-5531<br />
LUTHERAN<br />
Christ Lutheran<br />
829 Wm Hilton Pkwy, HHI<br />
843-785-5560<br />
Worship Services: 10:00<br />
METHODIST<br />
Queen Chapel AME Church<br />
114 Beach City Rd. HHI<br />
843-681-3315<br />
Church School: 10:00<br />
Sunday Worship: 11:00<br />
St Andrew By <strong>The</strong> Sea<br />
20 Pope Avenue, HHI<br />
843-837-4712<br />
Sunday Worship: 9:00 & 11:15<br />
Bluffton Campus<br />
39 Persimmon St., Suite 203<br />
843-785-4711<br />
Sunday Worship: 10:30<br />
PRESBYTERIAN<br />
Hilton Head Presbyterian<br />
235 Wm Hilton Pkwy, HHI<br />
843-689-6362<br />
Sunday Services: 9:00 & 10:45<br />
First Presbyterian<br />
540 William Hilton Parkway<br />
843-681-3696<br />
Sunday Worship: 8:30 & 11:00<br />
Crossroads Worship: 9:45<br />
Providence Church<br />
171 Cordillo Pkwy, HHI<br />
843-842-5673<br />
Sunday Worship: 8:30 & 11:00<br />
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Christmas Traditions<br />
By Tom Poland<br />
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Since Christmas is closer than ever and I have<br />
a tight deadline and shopping to do I’ll keep<br />
this short. Trees and lights get a lot of love but<br />
we have other Christmas institutions that make<br />
the season pretty and bright. Following are five<br />
traditions and how they came to be:<br />
WREATHS ON DOORS: As you can see from the photo,<br />
I place a wreath on my front door each Christmas. <strong>The</strong><br />
origins of this tradition go back to the folk practices<br />
of the pre-Christian Germanic peoples who gathered<br />
wreaths of evergreen and lighted fires during cold dark<br />
Decembers as signs of hope for spring and renewed<br />
light. Christians kept these popular traditions alive,<br />
and by the 16th century Catholics and Protestants<br />
throughout Germany used these symbols to celebrate<br />
their Advent hope in Christ, the everlasting Light.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Advent wreath as it’s known spread from Germany<br />
to other parts of the Christian world. Traditionally, the<br />
wreath consists of four candles in a circle of evergreens<br />
with a fifth candle in the middle. Wreaths prepare for<br />
the Advent season or the “coming of Christ.” In 1839,<br />
Johann Hinrich Wichern used a wreath made from a<br />
cartwheel to educate children about the meaning and<br />
purpose of Christmas. For every Sunday of Advent,<br />
starting with the fourth Sunday before Christmas,<br />
he would put a white candle in the wreath and for<br />
every day in between he would use a red candle.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Advent wreath is constructed of evergreens to<br />
represent everlasting life brought through Jesus and<br />
the circular shape of the wreath represents God, with<br />
no beginning and no end. <strong>The</strong> Advent wreath is now<br />
popular as décor during the Christmas festivities.<br />
LUMINARIES: For many Christmases my community,<br />
Harbison, would line the streets and courts with<br />
luminaries. <strong>The</strong>y are a simple white paper bag with<br />
a bit of sand holding a small tea candle within lit at<br />
dark. Line hundreds of them up all aglow and it is<br />
magnificent. Traditional Christmas Eve luminaries<br />
are said to have come from Spaniard merchants.<br />
Impressed with the Chinese’s paper lanterns they<br />
decided to make their own version when they returned<br />
to Spain, particularly during the Christmas season.<br />
<strong>The</strong> hope is that the lights will guide the spirit of the<br />
Christ child to one’s home. Today luminaries are more<br />
secular, akin to Christmas lights.<br />
MISTLETOE: Stand beneath a sprig of mistletoe and<br />
you better be ready for a kiss! (It helps to be kissable.)<br />
Mistletoe has an interesting history. <strong>The</strong> Norse,<br />
the Celtic Druids, and North American Indians held<br />
mistletoe sacred. Druid priests would cut mistletoe<br />
from an oak tree with a golden sickle. <strong>The</strong> branches
had to be caught before they touched the ground.<br />
<strong>The</strong> priests then cut the branches into sprigs and gave<br />
them to people who hung them over doorways as<br />
protection against thunder, lightning, and other evil<br />
forces. It was believed that a sprig placed in a baby’s<br />
cradle would protect the child from goblins. Giving<br />
a sprig to the first cow calving after New Year would<br />
protect the entire herd.<br />
Today mistletoe symbolizes peace and joy. That idea<br />
originated in the ancient times of the Druids. When<br />
enemies met under mistletoe, they had to lay down<br />
their arms and observe a truce until the next day. From<br />
this comes the custom of hanging a ball of mistletoe<br />
from the ceiling and exchanging kisses beneath it as<br />
a sign of friendship and goodwill. In the 18th Century,<br />
the exchanging of kisses between a man and a woman<br />
symbolized a promise to marry. At Christmas a young<br />
lady standing under a ball of mistletoe could not refuse<br />
a kiss. If she remained unkissed, she could not expect<br />
to marry the following year.<br />
EGGNOG: Eggnog is related to various milk and<br />
wine punches concocted long ago in the Old World.<br />
Colonists used rum in place of wine and back then rum<br />
was commonly called “grog,” so “eggnog” probably<br />
takes its name from the descriptive term for this drink,<br />
“egg-and-grog.” That evolved into egg’n’grog and<br />
soon to eggnog. Other experts maintain the “nog” of<br />
eggnog comes from the word “noggin.” A noggin was<br />
a small, wooden mug used to serve drinks at tables in<br />
taverns.<br />
Eggnog became a popular wintertime drink<br />
throughout Colonial America. George Washington<br />
was quite a fan of eggnog and devised his own recipe<br />
that included rye whiskey, rum, and sherry. It was said<br />
to be a stiff drink that only the most courageous were<br />
willing to try.<br />
POINSETTIAS: My dad loved poinsettias and he<br />
and my mom often gave us poinsettias as Christmas<br />
approached. Red, and shaped like a star, a poinsettia<br />
adds a beautiful presence to Christmas. In Central<br />
America it’s called the “Flame Leaf” or “Flower of the<br />
Holy Night.” <strong>The</strong> fact that the plant was brought here<br />
over a hundred years ago by Dr. Joel Poinsett, our<br />
first ambassador to Mexico, is well known. Thus it’s<br />
name. And if you have poinsettias in your home this<br />
Christmas, chances are very good they came from<br />
California where most are grown now.<br />
Down Mexico way a legend attends the poinsettia.<br />
Maria and her little brother Pablo were very poor but<br />
they always looked forward to the Christmas festival.<br />
Each year the village church set up a large manger<br />
scene. <strong>The</strong> two children loved Christmas but had no<br />
money to buy presents. <strong>The</strong>y especially wished that<br />
they could give something to the church for the<br />
Baby Jesus. <strong>The</strong> truth was they had nothing to give.<br />
Nothing.<br />
One Christmas Eve, Maria and Pablo walked to<br />
church to attend the service. On the way they picked<br />
some weeds from along the roadside as their gift to<br />
the baby Jesus in the manger scene. Mean-spirited<br />
children teased them when they arrived with their<br />
gift of weeds. As Maria and Pablo placed their plants<br />
around the manger the green top leaves turned into<br />
bright red petals, and soon beautiful star-like flowers<br />
surrounded the manger. Though they were poor,<br />
Maria and Pablo’s gift was the most beautiful of all.<br />
We all have traditions we cherish.<br />
Other Christmas institutions or traditions exist:<br />
caroling, riding around looking at people’s amazing<br />
light displays, attending Christmas plays and festivals,<br />
hanging candy canes, sending Christmas cards, and<br />
the simple act of lighting candles at home at night.<br />
Here’s wishing you a Merry Christmas. I look forward<br />
to writing “Across <strong>The</strong> Savannah” for you in 2020, my<br />
gift to you.<br />
Tom Poland is an author from “Georgialina”.<br />
He writes about the South, its people, culture,<br />
land, natural wealth, and beautiful detrius<br />
— ruins and abandoned places. He has been<br />
awarded the Order of the Palmetto — <strong>The</strong> highest<br />
civilian honor in the State of South Carolina.<br />
Visit Tom’s website at www.tompoland.net<br />
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Its the holiday’s! With much cheer, we give gifts of<br />
thought to remind those we care about and treasure.<br />
This year make it easier on someone you care about. Call<br />
a proffesional if needed. <strong>The</strong>se are some great ideas to<br />
make it easier on everyone.<br />
Starting in the backyard, captue<br />
the night with a backyard wireless<br />
camera. Catch that bird, squirrel,<br />
or branch landing on a fence with<br />
better than 10 MP (mega-pixels).<br />
Consider night vision, wide angle<br />
lense, attachments for mounting<br />
the cameras, and waterproofing.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se cameras are widely available<br />
and are often a bargain with a set.<br />
In some instances, we all lose something from time to<br />
time. <strong>The</strong> remote is right in front of you. <strong>The</strong> time has<br />
come to find your keys and the dog leash that has been<br />
missing for the past hour. Start thinking about all the<br />
little things that would benefit by never getting lost. Let<br />
me introduce the bluetooth finder, for the person who<br />
loses a wallet, keys, or coat. If you can find the ballpark,<br />
literally within 60 feet, a bluetooth tracker will help you<br />
find whats lost. <strong>The</strong> cat will never be hidden again and<br />
luggage will be found much quicker at the airport.<br />
If you do plan on taking a trip with luggage, this versatile<br />
pull behind should be on your shopping list. <strong>The</strong> G-RO<br />
smart carry-on is a 22-inch overhead bin ready with<br />
USB charging and built in tracking.<br />
With wheels that boast the ability to<br />
go through snow, no airport should<br />
be off the list of possiblilites. Make<br />
a trip last over 4 days with the great<br />
storage capacity that easily fits all the<br />
essentials. Some folks do comment a<br />
the missing cubic inches a rectangular<br />
suitcase has, but do you really need a<br />
third pair of shoes?<br />
Building on the holiday spirit, for us locals in need of<br />
help finding out place. Most of us use gps to get around<br />
and even here in town. I highly recomend a house map<br />
of your town. One of our local jewlers, Golis Famildy<br />
Jewelers has great maps that could help with map skills<br />
and no app is needed while waiting on takeout.<br />
We have such great folks locally that can help out with<br />
small and big projects. This time of year the sun sets<br />
quickly at night as the projects to be done require light.<br />
Look into a rechargable flashlight as a great stocking<br />
stuffer or less than $20 gift. This is the gift that can be<br />
used year round in a moment of need. PeakPlus has a<br />
flashlight from your favorite prime delivery service.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se kind of lights are great for anyone, as they can<br />
be easily charged for the time of need that always<br />
arises.
Brighten the mood with those you care about with a<br />
great gift. An aromatherapy essential oil diffuser not<br />
only brightens the mood, but helps the climate with<br />
a great aroma. <strong>The</strong>se devices are quiet and less work<br />
than the potted plant some would think of to give as<br />
gifts. An oil diffuser placed in an enclosed bedroom can<br />
provide the extra moisture a person needs for improved<br />
breathing or sinus relief. Dry offices can also benefit<br />
from a humidification boost. <strong>The</strong>se are easily available<br />
at many drugs stores and other shops you buy small<br />
appliances. Oils come in many varieties, with each<br />
lasting over a week with heavy usage. Happy Holiday’s<br />
Folk’s!<br />
Don’t forget our four legged friends, the animal shelters<br />
will greatly appreciate the blankets that you want to<br />
donate.<br />
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Why they fail and<br />
how you can succeed<br />
By Kimberly Blaker<br />
<strong>The</strong> New Year is a great time to take inventory,<br />
set goals, and take charge of your life. Making<br />
resolutions is much easier than keeping them!<br />
Rather than focus on the idea of a new beginning,<br />
which can lead to disappointment at the first<br />
slip, keep in mind that self-improvement is an<br />
ongoing endeavor. Setbacks are not failure; they<br />
bring wisdom and insight for future success.<br />
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“<strong>The</strong> new year stands before us, like a chapter in a<br />
book, waiting to be written. We can help write that<br />
story by setting goals.” -Melody Beattie<br />
Before making a split decision on this next year’s<br />
resolutions, make a list of goals and changes you’d<br />
like to make. <strong>The</strong>n review your list, and cross off<br />
any you don’t feel genuinely important.<br />
Maybe you want to resolve to spend more time<br />
with your family, quit smoking, or lose weight.<br />
You’re more likely to succeed if you feel a strong<br />
personal commitment rather than ‘I should.’<br />
One reason people don’t keep resolutions they<br />
make is the resolutions are often made to silence<br />
the pestering of a loved one. If you decide to<br />
quit smoking to get your husband off your back,<br />
you’re less likely to succeed. If you choose to quit<br />
smoking to feel healthier and be able to enjoy<br />
physical activity without being winded, you’re<br />
more likely to experience success.<br />
Choose one or perhaps two of the resolutions<br />
on your list that you feel most committed. <strong>The</strong>n<br />
choose one or two you feel confident you can<br />
do with ease. <strong>The</strong>se last couple can be used as<br />
positive reinforcement for the more challenging<br />
first choices.<br />
Next, make a clear plan for adhering to your<br />
resolutions. Put each resolution in writing, and<br />
write down the steps to achieve them. Let’s say<br />
your resolution requires a routine or schedule<br />
such as an exercise routine, a new diet, or steps
toward completing your education. Create a goal<br />
chart, a detailed plan, and a checklist to track<br />
your progress.<br />
Also, post notes in strategic places such as the<br />
refrigerator, bathroom mirror, or steering wheel<br />
as reminders of your resolutions with tips on how<br />
to overcome temptation.<br />
Make sure your family understands the<br />
importance of your resolutions. Family support<br />
and their positive reinforcement can be most<br />
helpful. If your resolution is something your<br />
family has been nagging you about, ask for their<br />
encouragement. But explain that pressure and<br />
pestering, particularly during setbacks, could<br />
undermine your resolve. Determine how each<br />
family member can help you to achieve your<br />
goal perhaps by taking on additional household<br />
chores or through affirmations of your continued<br />
success.<br />
Adjust your environment to enable success.<br />
If eating healthier is your goal, don’t fill the<br />
cupboards with junk food for other family<br />
members. Find healthy snacks they’re willing to<br />
substitute. If you’re trying to quit smoking, avoid<br />
people, places, and things that remind or tempt<br />
you, at least until you have it well under control.<br />
Don’t go it alone. If you have a friend with a<br />
similar resolution, make a pact. Work together<br />
to create a plan, and then make a point to check<br />
in with each other regularly for encouragement,<br />
praise, and support. If you resolve to get more<br />
exercise, do it together. Having a commitment<br />
and someone to accompany you will go a long<br />
way in helping you succeed.<br />
Finally, reward yourself, not just once you’ve<br />
achieved your goal, but periodically for your<br />
success so far. Small, periodic rewards can be<br />
motivation enough to keep you strong when<br />
you’re ready to throw in the towel.<br />
Remember, whatever New Year resolutions you<br />
choose, success awaits you if you resolve never to<br />
give up trying.<br />
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HUMOR<br />
It’s Christmas morning. Pots simmer quietly on the stove and my dad bustles about<br />
the kitchen, making sure the bacon-covered ham is basting away in the oven. My<br />
mom straightens up the knickknacks on the living room coffee table and sneaks<br />
one last present under the tree decked with delicate ornaments and bright lights.<br />
NFL pre-game shows and holiday parades politely roll highlight footage in the<br />
background. It’s a still, picturesque, holiday greeting card kind of morning.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n the house starts to shake.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Kids Are<br />
Alright<br />
by Chase S. Wlkinson<br />
I storm through our one-story home, nearly 300 pounds of bearded wildman; flying<br />
recklessly around corners, slipping and sliding on the wood floor in my tube-socked<br />
feet. My family’s Rockwell-esque painting is suddenly bombarded by a blizzard of<br />
yellow Nerf darts, and my sister, Brandi, is hot on my tail chasing me through the<br />
house. I scream, she screams. This is war.<br />
<strong>The</strong> couch buckles hard as I flip over the back of it and land on the cushions with<br />
a tremendously graceful thud. I’m as smooth as Bruce Willis—if he wasn’t allowed<br />
stunt doubles. I look at Mom rolling her eyes at her children and her knickknacks,<br />
now covered in toy shrapnel. My sister lurks closer and I try to get my mom to tell me<br />
if the coast is clear so I can pop back up and return fire, but she doesn’t share our<br />
enthusiasm for the game.<br />
It would probably be more fun for her if my sister and I weren’t full-grown adults<br />
tearing apart her house like a pack of 5-year-olds hopped up on Jolly Ranchers and<br />
Pixie Sticks.<br />
Run into my sister and me on any other day of the week, and you will marvel at how<br />
responsible and well-adjusted we are. We have full-time jobs and homes and work<br />
hard to pay our bills. We’re model citizens with excellent<br />
credit scores. But put us in the same room and you’ll<br />
watch two upstanding adults devolve into<br />
giggling schoolchildren.<br />
all Peter Pans, just carefree kids who never want to<br />
grow up. It’s the one time of year where I am finally<br />
able to put all the stress and turmoil of forging my own<br />
place in the world aside, and focus solely on avoiding<br />
wet willies.<br />
I only set my Nerf gun down when I’m helping Dad<br />
move hot pans of casserole or other delectables<br />
around the kitchen. My sister sneaks in behind us,<br />
nabbing bits of bacon and licking spatulas clean of<br />
excess mashed potato.<br />
Growing up, we were rarely afforded these pleasant<br />
moments of family bonding. My parents’ go-getter<br />
entrepreneurial spirit meant a lot of nights my sister<br />
and I were left by ourselves. <strong>The</strong>re was little room for<br />
horseplay when my sister was in babysitter mode. But<br />
now, bickering over the TV remote, there is freedom to<br />
be the kids we always wanted to be.<br />
Soon our kitchen table will be covered in entirely too<br />
much food. After that, we will move all that food to our<br />
stomachs and nap like a good kindergarten class.<br />
We can’t stop getting older, but that doesn’t mean we<br />
have to grow up.<br />
As the holiday season moves into town and the<br />
Christmas lights start to twinkle, take a moment to<br />
adore those little heathens who run too fast and make<br />
too much noise. Relish the sounds<br />
of sugar-fueled chaos. Soon<br />
they’ll all get bigger and<br />
the house will be empty.<br />
But, if you’re lucky, in<br />
10 years they’ll still<br />
come rioting through<br />
once a year like they<br />
never left. Just hide<br />
the good china.<br />
I’m 24 and she is nearing 34. When she brings her<br />
husband, Dustin, home for Thanksgiving, we arm<br />
him, as well. <strong>The</strong>re are no civilians when Chase<br />
and Brandi go to Nerf War.<br />
Brandi pops around the corner with a yell<br />
and the fight erupts again. My mom<br />
scrambles out of the crossfire as squishy<br />
yellow projectiles bounce off family<br />
pictures and TVs, narrowly missing<br />
puncturing eyeballs. We shoot<br />
until we’re out of ammo, call<br />
a brief truce to reload and<br />
scramble off to separate<br />
corners of the house.<br />
This is what the holidays<br />
mean to me. Quick,<br />
splendid moments where<br />
time rolls back. We’re<br />
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ARCHITECTURE<br />
his article is not meant to be a history or architecture lesson,<br />
but more a reference point for contemporary examples<br />
of the great variety of architectural interpretations we<br />
see being built around us today. George Owens, Chief<br />
Building Official for the Town of Bluffton, was asked how<br />
many building permits are active at this time and he replied,<br />
“Around a 1,000.” For many of these buildings, the design<br />
is influenced by Blufftonʼs Unified Development Ordinance,<br />
private community architectural guidelines and the fact that<br />
we love Lowcountry Vernacular.<br />
Vernacular roots originated in the past, but one thing is<br />
certain—they are here to stay. <strong>The</strong>re are no hard and fast<br />
rules to vernacular styling, as we see a wide variety of design<br />
elements being built today. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Breeze</strong>ʼs feature last month on<br />
Transitional Homes by Steve Tilton discussed this very same<br />
thought. We follow the same form and function of our historic<br />
past using the beauty of our natural resources and adapting<br />
to the climate, yet creating our own 21 st century vernacular<br />
aesthetic. We find the style to be comfortable, relaxed, nonassuming<br />
and blends in with the surroundings, yet flexible<br />
enough to satisfy individual lifestyles.<br />
Frank Lloyd Wright described vernacular architecture as<br />
“Folk building growing in response to actual needs, fitted into<br />
environment by people who knew no better than to fit them<br />
with native feelings.” But, this quote is only partially right.<br />
Vernacular architecture is different in different places. In<br />
each region, it evolved over time and tends to reflect the<br />
environment, the local technology and skills, the available<br />
materials and historical context from where it is derived. For<br />
example, the Pueblo Indiansʼ vernacular adobe was used in<br />
the sweltering dry southwest; the Algonquian Indian had the<br />
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woodland Wigwams vernacular;<br />
the stone and half-timbered frame<br />
vernacular is found in Europe. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
knew what their needs were and<br />
adapted sustainable materials to<br />
their climate.<br />
Beaufort County has been inhabited<br />
through centuries by indigenous<br />
Indians, Spanish explorers, French<br />
immigrants and Scottish and British<br />
colonists, each one leaving their<br />
mark in some way on their shelters<br />
and homes. <strong>The</strong> local vernacular<br />
can be seen in early designs of<br />
English, Dutch, French and Spanish<br />
influences in the West Indies. Past<br />
architectural and historical design<br />
has been adapted to our current<br />
lifestyle and become the standard<br />
for most of our new homes.<br />
Recently, I sat down with Bluffton<br />
architect Pearce Scott and we used<br />
his numerous wonderful illustrations<br />
and design interpretations to take a<br />
closer look at how this style is ever<br />
evolving.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first consideration, even for<br />
settlers, is the site. <strong>The</strong> angle of the<br />
sun in summer and winter, direction<br />
of the breezes, protection of the<br />
natural resources and wildlife,<br />
access to the site, relationships<br />
to neighbors, and protection<br />
from the elements (which include<br />
rising waters), with the best views<br />
possible.<br />
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It didnʼt take the early settlers long to figure out low-pitched<br />
roofs with broad overhangs provided protection from the<br />
summer sun and shed the rain away from the structure and<br />
the use of exposed rafters was simple, and less costly. Porches<br />
also provided shade, gathered the breezes and created an<br />
outdoor living environment. With an abundance of oyster<br />
shells in close proximity, they soon raised buildings off the<br />
ground by cooking lime from the shell and creating substantial<br />
tabby pier foundations. This also allowed the cooling breezes<br />
to pass under the home. <strong>The</strong> underpinning between the piers<br />
provided a place to pen pigs and chickens and kept them<br />
protected from predators at night. Today, this underpinning is<br />
used to keep the critters out.<br />
Tall ceilings, often vaulted, and the use of double hung<br />
windows and transoms allowed higher hot air inside<br />
the home to ventilate outside and fresh cool breezes to<br />
recirculate inside from the bottom sash. Prior to the invention<br />
of screens, shutters would be closed on the sun side, opened<br />
on the shaded side, and also used to provide security and<br />
protection. It is interesting to note that the invention of screen<br />
mesh (originally used in baking) and its use on porches or<br />
windows kept mosquitoes out, resulting in a large reduction<br />
of malaria, once the leading killer in the Lowcountry.<br />
Early Coastal Style architecture began with the one story<br />
cottage. This later evolved into the prevalent one-and-onehalf<br />
story raised cottage with double pitched gable, shed or
hip roof. <strong>The</strong> use of a variety of dormers, ranging<br />
from multiple gable to shed roof designs, added<br />
interior light, as well as living space within the<br />
roof lines. <strong>The</strong>se rooms were popular, as they<br />
were ventilated by cool evening breezes and,<br />
being off the ground, were not as susceptible to<br />
mosquitoes. All vernacular houses have porches<br />
or wrapping verandas. <strong>The</strong>y are either added to<br />
or are part of the main mass of the house.<br />
As the family grew, or as the house was passed<br />
down, bedrooms were continually added to the<br />
original structure. In the past, kitchens were in a<br />
separate building to prevent fire in the home. As<br />
technology increased, kitchens were added to the<br />
house. Today, we see additions to accommodate<br />
larger bathrooms, studies or mud rooms for<br />
laundry and household storage. Wall plate height<br />
and roof pitches often vary with vernacular style<br />
to prevent the exposed rafters and roof overhangs<br />
of the additions from clashing. This was also<br />
accomplished by adding narrow connectors or<br />
hallways called “hyphens” or adding “knuckles”<br />
to change the angle of the room to get another<br />
view. When this occurs today, we say that the<br />
floor plan is “exploded.”<br />
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Outbuildings, historically, were<br />
detached for feed storage, stables<br />
and smithing, workshops, servantsʼ<br />
quarters or plantation offices. <strong>The</strong>se<br />
buildings now serve to create a<br />
compound on the site and are used<br />
for garages, gardening sheds and<br />
guest quarters.<br />
True to the past, the homes of today<br />
continue to be built as wood frames<br />
with various types of horizontal<br />
siding, vertical board and batten<br />
and cedar shingles. Tabby is used<br />
for foundations and chimneys,<br />
and as the main structure of larger<br />
manor homes. Examples of this can<br />
be seen in remnants of the tabby<br />
mansion built by George Edwards<br />
in 1850 on Spring Island and the<br />
1910 R.T. Wilson Mansion home in Palmetto Bluff.<br />
In the early and middle 19 th century, Bluffton<br />
became a popular place for summer homes for<br />
those living in nearby cities, since the high bluffs<br />
and river breezes provided relief from the hot,<br />
low lying, malaria-ridden plantations. Thus began<br />
the appearance of the one-and-one-half story<br />
vernacular homes. Those that survived the Federal<br />
burning of Bluffton include the Heyward, Card,<br />
Pine, Seabrook and Fripp Houses, as well as<br />
Cedar Bluff.<br />
Examples of historic two-story vernacular homes<br />
are Seven Oaks and the Patzs Brothers House.<br />
In all, Bluffton has 47 vernacular structures that<br />
contribute to its National Historic District.<br />
<strong>The</strong> historic homes in Old Town are left as reminders<br />
of her past and became the prevalent style for<br />
homes built today in the Historic District and in the<br />
outlying developments along the marshlands and<br />
surrounding estuaries. <strong>The</strong>se new homes will be<br />
our example to the next generation of Lowcountry<br />
Vernacular homes.<br />
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22 INVERNESS DRIVE • $1,495,000<br />
Rare opportunity! 4BR, 5FB, 2HB home overlooking<br />
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floors, 6 seat movie theater, elevator, 2 laundry rooms,<br />
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dream kitchen, butler’s pantry, and wine cellar with<br />
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fireplace and multiple built-in grills. Unparalleled quality!<br />
30 LADY SLIPPER ISLAND DR • $1,195,000<br />
<strong>The</strong> ideal waterfront home! Sip your coffee from the<br />
porch as you watch the sun rise over the Colleton River<br />
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9 PONDHAWK ROAD • $1,090,000<br />
Spacious 4BR, 4.5BA home has it all including a chef’s<br />
kitchen w/ adjoining Great Room w/ fireplace. Office/<br />
Study above the garage. Master Suite off of the Library.<br />
Enjoy sunsets and the expansive view of Big Arrowhead<br />
Lake from the back porch with fireplace. Situated on<br />
corner homesite for added privacy. Dock just a short<br />
stroll away for fishing, kayaking, or relaxing. A must see!<br />
BERKELEY HALL<br />
OLDFIELD<br />
BELFAIR<br />
16 ARCADIA PLACE • $980,000<br />
Incredible home! Screened lanai with free from pool and<br />
spa with gorgeous views across the pool to the second<br />
green of the South Course. Open floor plan with great<br />
room, library, eat-in kitchen, and master suite with two<br />
large closets and designer shower. Chef’s kitchen plus<br />
summer kitchen for comfortable indoor/outdoor living.<br />
Elevator, foam insulation, attic storage, & cedar closet.<br />
4 DAVANT CIRCLE • $829,000<br />
4BR, 4.5BA home offering unparalleled privacy on .6<br />
acres wedged between a quiet cul-de-sac and a nature<br />
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rooms, wet bar, large 2nd and 3rd bedrooms and baths,<br />
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1 E. SUMMERTON DRIVE • $699,000<br />
Beautiful, 3,600 SF home w/ lanai, heated pool, spa,<br />
and summer kitchen. J. Banks Design experts created<br />
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HAMPTON LAKE<br />
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28 WATERVIEW COURT • $515,000<br />
3BR “right size home” with gorgeous lake view. Well<br />
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Custom Cherry cabinets, SS appliances, gas cooktop,<br />
and granite countertops. Extra large master suite with<br />
frameless walk-in shower. Surround sound inside and<br />
out, great outdoor lighting and insect misting system.<br />
Fire pit near water’s edge with flagstone sitting area.<br />
61 MANCHESTER COURT • $495,000<br />
Private end of cul-de-sac location with golf views. Open<br />
floor plan, 4BR, 3.5BA home w/ bonus room/guest<br />
suite. Chef’s kitchen, temperature controlled Wine<br />
Room, and Butler’s Pantry. Spacious screened porch,<br />
private courtyard garden, and outdoor Dacor grill. Many<br />
improvements including dramatic landscape lighting in<br />
the front and back. Must see to fully appreciate!<br />
14 WILLINGHAM COURT • $389,000<br />
Arguably the best cottage in all of Berkeley Hall! $32,000<br />
upgrades completed this fall! Original owners, never<br />
rented, full maintenance details available. Newer<br />
windows, hot water heaters, and 4 HVAC units. And best<br />
of all, spectacular views of both the 9th and 18th greens<br />
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OLD TOWN BLUFFTON PROPERTIES<br />
1114 MAY RIVER RD<br />
182 BLUFFTON RD<br />
$689,000<br />
$629,000<br />
• Windsong Farm • Less than 1 mi from Old Town<br />
• May River compound, private 4.3 (+/-) acre estate<br />
• Views of May River & marshes<br />
• Horses and stables are allowed<br />
11 TORREY LN 94 PRITCHARD FARMS RD<br />
PRICE REDUCED<br />
• Hwy 46 frontage in Old Town<br />
• Steps to the Promenade<br />
• Residential & Mixed-Use<br />
• Can be 1, 2, or 3 buildings with Carriage Houses<br />
57 & 58 BUCK POINT RD<br />
$226,900<br />
• 3 Bedroom / 2 Bath<br />
• One of the largest lots in Pine Ridge<br />
• Lagoon & Wood views<br />
• Coming soon to the market!<br />
$529,900<br />
• 3 BR / 2 Bath home with<br />
wooded view and a pool<br />
• Almost 2.5 acres<br />
• No POA or restrictions<br />
$700,000<br />
• Views of water & marsh over May River<br />
• 1 mile from Old Bluffton<br />
• Two full size lots, each 1 story<br />
• Old Savannah brick<br />
EXCELLENT BUSINESS/REAL ESTATE OPPORTUNITY!<br />
• Old Town Bluffton • ±1.4 Acres Messex full service one-stop • Asking price of $1.5 million<br />
• Includes garage, convenience store, and rental property directly in the path of Old Town Bluffton’s growth<br />
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Wayne M.<br />
McDonald<br />
Broker | Owner<br />
843-384-5764<br />
Simone Griffeth<br />
McDonald<br />
Licensed SC REALTOR®<br />
843-384-4466<br />
Suzanna Rose<br />
McDonald<br />
Realtor | Sales Executive<br />
843-816-2547