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Inspiration From the Founder I don’t think our kids know what an apron is. The principal use of Grandma’s apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few. It was also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons used less material. But along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven. It was wonderful for drying children’s tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears. From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven. When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids. And when the weather was cold Grandma wrapped it around her arms. Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove. Chips and fire wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron. From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls. In the autumn, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees. When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds. When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner. It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that ‘old-time apron’ that served so many purposes. Today they would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.
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August 2014, volume 12, no.8
Breeze Contents
Features 7 Life in a Confederate Prison 10 Supermoon 12 Smile It’s August 19 Dressing Charlie Brown 22 Listening to the May 24 Bluffton’s Santana 28 Margaritas for Two 32 Gone Shrimpin’ 35 Driftin’ on the New River
Departments 7
History
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August Tide
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Music Town
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Fellowship
Over the Bridges Bulletin Board Golf Report
Restaurant Guide Gadgets
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Bluffton News Letter: 1932 That after a hard rain a signifiganct water fall can be seen on Mrs. Martins property? That Pat Gleasson’s Ford is a 1927 model and in good condition? That there is a natural soring in J.D. Peeples cove near Zion Baptist Church That Minnie, Issac Garvey’s horse, active during the days of the steamers Louise, Attaquin and Isabelle, is still in service. That we can help relieve the local depression by trading at home? Patronize your local merchants.
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Saturday, September 6 2014: BBQ & Bluegrass will be held at the Heyward House Historic Center from 6-9 pm. The Lowcountry Boil Band will be providing the entertainment, while local vendors will be providing the food. Tickets are $5 per person at the door.
from report, brought back from Andersonville by rebel guards from our prison who had been there with prisoners, their condition was in no wise improved there. They were turned into a shelterless yard, exposed to sun and rain. Their food was beef and corn-bread, better in itself than they had been accustomed to, but with their reduced systems, change of water and climate, it produced a diarrhea which carried them off at the rate of fifty to seventy-five out of ten thousand per day. Probably the largest half of the prisoners confined on Bell Isle last winter are now dead.
Charleston, seems disposed to do all in his power for the accommodation of prisoners, and would doubtless forward faithfully and promptly anything that might come into his department for them. Negro Prisoners. The officers of Negro regiments, after being captured, are treated the same as other officers with few individual exceptions. The privates fare worse, especially during the excitement of battle. All, white and black, are plundered of everything, but the Negroes, wounded or well are brutally murdered before being taken. Those who succeeded in getting to the rear of their lines at the great Petersburg slaughter, after being marched through the city with all the officers captured, and scoffed at, pelted with bricks, and spit upon, were sent back to the crater of the exploded fort to rebuild the rebel works under our fire.
At the present time there are at Andersonville about thirty thousand union prisoners, confined in a yard less than five hundred yards square. I doubt if they suffer much for want of sufficient quantity of food, but their clothing and shelter is as near to nothing as civilized man can endure. Their mortality is about one hundred per day. They can From what I have seen but suffer severely. I and heard I know that learn that the officers there is no cruelty who were confined at or indignity within 1st South Carolina 33rd USCT Macon have all been the capacity for the taken to Charleston rebels which they do and Savannah. At Charleston they are said to not perpetrate upon our colored soldiers when be under fire, but they are as safe from injury by they dare meet them and can overcome them; our shells as are the people of Boston. Every but I have reason to doubt if they have a single prison in the Confederacy would rejoice to be instance committed a colored soldier to slavery. “put under fire at Charleston,� believing he I know of several cases where the master has would then have some prospect of exchange. been present and claimed the Negro, and the All persons writing or sending packages to Negro has acknowledged himself to be his prisoners south of Richmond, should send by slave, and declared his willingness to go with way of Charleston, as the mail arrangements him, but he was not for several months given south of Richmond have been so broken up up. I know well what they threaten, and have since May that a letter through Richmond seen those who say they have seen the threats seldom reaches its destiny, and packages do put into execution, but on closely questioning not go over the roads even for private citizens it did not appear that the Negroes had been of the South. All letters go through their post soldiers. That they slaughter them on the field lines should contain their stamp, ten cents and even after battle, is certain, and were I a or the money. General Jones, commanding Negro I would not be taken by them. The Bluffton Breeze
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SUPERMOON! By Jane Skager
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Astrologers used to call them perigean new moons or perigean full moons, that is, new or full moons closely coinciding with perigee which is the moon’s closest point to Earth in its orbit. But, with the rapidly evolving skylore of the modern world, astrologers and the general population alike now enjoy calling them supermoons. An astrologer, Richard Nolle, coined the name supermoon over 30 years ago. It was popularized and came to be the accepted term for most people only in the past few years. Are supermoons hype? In my opinion?… gosh, no, just modern folklore. But they can cause real physical effects, such as larger than usual tides. The year 2014 has a total of five supermoons. They are the two new moons of January, and the full moons of July, August and September. Before we get to the mystical, the superstitious and the stories of unnatural effects, let’s deal with some facts: Supermoon Size Varies
Changing Tides A supermoon might be able to change the tides slightly, but it certainly won’t cause natural disasters, experts have said. The full phase of the moon causes higher tides, but adding a supermoon on top of it doesn’t create any significant difference. Scientists count themselves lucky if they’re able to see any difference in tide level at all. Usually, the supermoon causes the tide to change by less than an inch, if at all. OK, now let’s deal with the dark side ... Earth Destroyer? Not at All Despite the claims of some people around the world, the supermoon will not destroy the Earth. The supermoon happens when the moon is at perigee (the point in its orbit that brings it closest to Earth) and in its fullest phase. The supermoon a normal occurrence since the moon is on an elliptical orbit, and will not make Earth’s orbit go out of whack, NASA even says so.
The perigee between the Earth and the moon can vary by as much as the diameter of the Earth during any given month. Although that might seem like a large number, on average, the moon is about 30 Earth diameters away from the planet. The sun’s gravity is actually responsible for pulling the Earth and moon into a closer alignment, causing the orbital variation.
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All of the above has been based on a through research of the subject. However, I must confess that I spoke to a friend last week who happens to be a psychologist and therapist. She absolutely swears that people who come in during supermoon week act strangely, and talk about discovering new characteristics in their personalities that have sprung up from nowhere. And she says that has nothing to do with the revelry that tends to be instigated by the supermoon! (Or maybe she is just imagining things??)
Does the moon look larger in the winter? It should. The Earth is closest to the sun in December each year, meaning that the star’s gravity pulls the moon closer toward the planet. Because of this effect the largest supermoons happen in the winter. Supermoons Will Only Get Smaller Get your supermoon fix while you can; the moon is moving on to greener pastures. Supermoons will get smaller in the distant future because the moon is slowly propelling itself out of Earth’s orbit, moving 3.8 centimeters farther from Earth each year. Scientists suspect that at formation, the moon started out about 14,000 miles (22,530 kilometers) from the planet, but now, it’s about 238,900 miles (384,402 kilometers) away.
Have no fear: The supermoon will not turn you into a lunatic. Studies have shown that a full moon of any kind does not affect human behaviors. Full moons and supermoons do not cause more mental hospital admissions, psychiatric disturbances, homicide or other crime.
Our next supermoon can be seen August 10, which will be the largest supermoon of 2014. Please share your supermoon pics with us at blufftonbreeze@gmail.com!
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Smile! It’s August!
By Kelly Dillon
By Kelly Dillon
August. It’s an enigma of a month. It lacks any notable event or notable weather, like May with Memorial Day and July with its unbearable heat and Independence Day. It remains inadequate to June, lacking a sense of summer fever, as the kids have lost their spark with the looming doom of school and with the adults wholly burned out. August remains curiously blank. Or so it seems. While not as well known as other summer holidays, August hosts many little-known celebrations and themes to give you something to do. Some holidays remain bizarre while others deserve some more recognition; most make one wonder who in the world is getting the stranger holidays officially appointed, like Wiggle Your Toes Day on August 6th or the classic “Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day” on August 8th. And, yes! Those are real. Were they created by the bored or by the officials? It doesn’t matter – they help give the notoriously bland August the bit of fun and kick it needs to compete with the more well-liked summer months. Let’s begin with August itself. Though the month has a holiday for each day – really! - it’s also been given themes that you can keep in mind throughout the month. Admit You’re Happy Month. If you’re the type of person to mutter and complain about your life, try to halt the self-destructive comments this month. If you’re less than the celebratory sort,
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admit your happiness at least once so you can say you did. If you want to get into the spirit of things, try to cut out complaints altogether, if only for a few weeks. Easy, right? Family Fun Month. You parents reading might have already exhausted entertaining your kids throughout June and July in every available venue, but give it another try. The same goes for couples on their own. There’s bound to be something you can do; maybe the upcoming holidays in August can help entertain the whole family. Shouldn’t the whole year be ‘Family Fun’ oriented, anyway? The fun doesn’t stop there. Each week of August has their own appointed theme. National Simplify Your Life Week: The first week in August is something that appeals to the stressed and the complicated. This week is the week you finally take a deep breath and sort out your priorities. You might even cut things out of your schedule, if that doesn’t end up stressing you out more. National Smile Week: The second week sounds promising. Those of us in the Lowcountry aren’t strangers to smiles, whether they’re to strangers or to friends, so it’s going to be easy for most of us. The challenge is smiling for an entire week. Smile at anyone... and at everything. You might end up unnerving a couple of people with such excessive grinning, and at the end of the week you might have a couple of smile lines in your face, but at least you got in the spirit of August.
Friendship Week: It’s strange that Friendship Day, which is the 3rd of August, doesn’t fall in this third week of the month. It’s something you can argue with those celebrated friends about, at least. Seeming that it’s a week – or day – focused on friends, though, try to up your game. Go to a better lunch or supply better gossip. Better yet, do everything with your friend with renewed purpose. You could laugh harder at friends’ jokes or loudly compliment them in great excess... just ignore the odd looks your friends might give you, or strangers might. Be Kind to Humankind Week: The fourth week in August might seem for the altruistic, but it’s really just for the decent. Try not to snap at anyone, friend or foe, throughout the week in an effort to reflect the kindness the week wants you to exhibit. Let slide the little things: mistakes a waiter made, the wrong change a cashier gave, or a driver nearly mowing you over. But if you’re feeling even more helpful, there’s always giving back by looking for a charity to help in your area. And finally – the days! Here are some of the best and the strangest. August 3rd: International Forgiveness Day. As it shares the same date as Friendship Day, take the time to lift lingering annoyances with friends or, if you have any enemies, lingering grudges... even if it’s just for a day. It’s fitting with the theme of Friendship Day, though you may find it difficult to forgive the tourists who keep cutting you off at the traffic circle. August 9th: Book Lover’s Day. Get ready for a trip to the library or the bookstore; Book Lover’s Day is a day for the readers. What you might do is up to you. Have a favorite book? Share it with your friends for the seventeenth time, who, for whatever reason, haven’t read it despite your best efforts. It never hurts to try again.
If you’ve since given up – I know I have – have a relaxing reading day to yourself. And to those who are those friends who refuse to read that recommended book, give it a try in the spirit of Book Lover’s Day – just don’t tell your friend if you don’t like it. August 26th: National Dog Day. On the 26th, treat your dog to a day of their own on National Dog Day. If it’s not too crowded – which is wishful thinking – take them to the beach or down to the river, or splurge them with treats and toys aplenty from the pet store. If you lack a dog, give some of those pups at the pound a visit; they deserve to see a friendly face and be given the attention they need. If you don’t like dogs, it’s best to stay in your house on the 26th. August 26th: On a more sobering note, August 26th is also Women’s Equality Day. It commemo rates August 26th, 1920 when the 19th Amendment was added to the Constitution, granting women the ability to vote. The 26th is the day to be thankful for those who battled for equality and allowed half of the population of America to give their voice in a time when their voice wasn’t welcomed; it’s also the day to look reflectively on our society and note lingering gender inequalities. What can you do to help? August 30th: Toasted Marshmallow Day. No, it’s not S’mores Day, which is August 10th, so skip the graham crackers and slabs of chocolate. The 30th is the day you can fulfill some of that “Family Fun” of August, and finally gives you the excuse to turn on the fire and make some burnt marshmallows to match your burnt skin from the hot summer. Lacking a fireplace, you could try toasting a marshmallow above a lighter to get in the spirit of things, something my brother has since perfected. The Bluffton Breeze
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Breeze F e l l o w s h i p AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL Cambell Chapel A.M.E. 25 Boundary Street, 757-3652 Sunday School 8:45am Worship:10am ASSEMBLY OF GOD New River Worship Center Hwy 170 & Argent Blvd. (next to ESPY) 379-1815 Sunday: 10:30am Wednesday 7pm BAPTIST First Baptist Church of Bluffton Boundary at Church Street, 757-3472 Sunday School: 9am Worship: 10:30am & 6pm First Zion Baptist Wharf Street 757-3128 Sunday School: 9am Sunday worship: 10am May River Baptist Church SC-170, North of US 46, 757-2518 Sunday School: 9:45am Sunday Worship: 10am & 7pm St. John’s Baptist Church 103 Pritchard Street, 757-4350 Sunday Worship: 11am St. Matthew’s Baptist Church SC Highway 170, 757-3255 Sunday Worship: 11am Indian Hill Baptist Church Hwy 278 next to Eagle’s Point, 757-2603 Sunday School: 9:45am Sunday Worship: 11am JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Kingdom Hall, SC 46, 815-4455 Sunday Public Talk: 9:30am & 3:30pm Spanish Public Talk: 12:30pm
Bible Missionary Baptist Church Goethe Road Community Cntr, 815-5523 Sunday Worship: 11am Bible Study: 6pm CATHOLIC
METHODIST Bluffton United Methodist Church 101 Calhoun Street, 757-3351 Sunday School 9:45am Sunday Worship: 8:45am & 11am
St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church Church of the Palms United Methodist 333 Fording Island Road, 815-3100 1425 Okatie Highway, 379-1888 Sat. 4pm, 6pm Sun. 7:15am, 9am, 11am, 5pm, Sunday Worship: 10:30am Espagnol 1pm Mon-Fri 6:45am Chapel, 8:30am Church St. Luke’s United Methodist Church SC Highway 170 near Sun CIty, 705-3022 Sunday Worship: 8:30am and 10am ANGLICAN The Church of the Cross 110 Calhoun St, 757-2661 Sat. Worship: 5:28pm, Sun. 8am & 10am 495 Buckwalter Parkway, 757-2662 Sunday Worship: 9am & 10:30am
St. Andrew By-The-Sea UMC Bluffton Campus One University Blvd. (USCB’s HHI Gateway Campus, Hargray Building) 843-785-4711 Sunday worship: 10:30 a.m.
EPISCOPAL The Episcopal Church of Okatie At St. Luke’s Baptist Church Hwy 170 and Snake Road, Worship: 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday, 8:30am GREEK ORTHODOX Holy Resurrection Church at St. Andrews Catholic Church 220 Pickney Colony Road, 837-4659 Orthros: 9:30am, Liturgy 10am JEWISH
PRESBYTERIAN Lowcountry Presbyterian Church US 278 and Simmonsville Road, 815-6570 Sunday School: Adult 9:40am, Child 10:30 Sunday Worship: 8:30am & 10:30am Grace Coastal Church (PCA) 1425 Okatie 15 Williams Drive (off SC170), 379-5521 Sunday School: 11am Sunday Worship: 9:30am NON-DENOMINATIONAL
Live Oak Christian Church Temple Osah Shalom Bluffton High School Auditorium 757-5670 at Lowcountry Presbyterian Kidstreet: 9:15am, Worship 10:15am 278 Simmonsville Road, 705-2532 Shabbat Worship 3rd Friday of month, 8pm Lowcountry Community Church Bluffton Campus: 801 Buckwalter Parkway LUTHERAN 836-1101 Lord of Life Lutheran Church Sunday Worship: 8:30am, 10am, 11:30am 351 Buckwalter Parkway, 757-4774 Sunday School: 10am Sunday Worship: 8am, 9am, 11am
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Dressing Charlie Brown By Rita Conrad Behind the scenes with a wardrobe mistress at May River Theatre “I want the stage to look like a panel in a Peanuts cartoon. Minimal set. Bright colors. Just a few props.” That was director Christine Grefe describing her vision for the upcoming /current production of “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown” at Bluffton’s May River Theatre. As for costumes? “They should look like the cartoon strip, too – striped shirts and shorts for the guys, dresses for the girls and matching socks for everybody.” And oh, by the way, the show opens on August 8, but we need the costumes a month early for a photo shoot. Red, yellow, pink, purple and blue socks? And everything In six weeks instead of eleven? Welcome to the world of a volunteer costumer at Bluffton’s non-profit community theater. Grab the tape measure and go. That’s the first step. Measurements start with the head and move down: neck, chest, waist, hips. Then it’s across the shoulders, down the arm (straight and bent), nape of the neck to waist. waist to knee, waist to floor, around the wrist and, sometimes, around the thigh if a play
calls for breeches. Actors come in all shapes and sizes, so getting accurate measurements is important. Apparel sizes help, but they vary widely. Also, costumes may be rented or borrowed from another theater, drawn from the theater’s own collection of clothes or bought at local thrift shops, so size information is often illegible or missing entirely. Since most costumers collect garments for trial rather than having an actor traipse from shop to shop, measurements are a good way to ensure that a ready-made garment will at least come close to fitting. Then there are those costumes made from scratch, which brings us back to “Charlie Brown.” Getting the right look Unlike many other shows, costumes for “YAGMCB” are set: Charlie’s shirt is sunshine yellow with a big black zigzag. Lucy Van Pelt wears a royal blue dress with a petal collar and a big bow at the back. Sally’s dress is pink with black polka dots. (Of course they were black; Charles Schultz used a black marker.) Googling any Peanuts character brings up lots of images of those iconic outfits – and they will all have to be sewn. Another search brings up a couple of Butterick patterns The Bluffton Breeze
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for long-waisted, flouncy dresses with puffed sleeves – for four-year olds. Still another search brings up a pattern for a Misses-size blouse with puffy sleeves and the perfect collar. Good enough. Just make the blouse extra long and add a big ruffle for a skirt. Now for the fabric. Walmart has a great blue mini-print and it’s cheap. Since there’s no real pattern, it’s a guess as to how much to buy, but say three yards. Days later it becomes clear the actor playing Lucy will need bloomers under her short skirt; fortunately Walmart still has some of the same blue fabric. Next: a trip to Savannah in pursuit of Sally’s polka-dot fabric and something green for Frieda. No luck. Even a search on the Internet produces only pink fabric with white dots. No black dots. The idea of painting the dots black was considered and rejected. Sally will be in pink and white. However, paint was the answer to Linus’s shirt. When a search turned up no red and black striped shirts within the show’s limited budget, an XXL red tee shirt from a thrift shop became the canvas for black stripes in exactly the right width and spacing. Ask any area costume designer and they’ll tell you that Bluffton’s thrift shops are an invaluable resource for costumes and props, from shirts for the orphans in MRT’s production of “Annie” a year ago to the tablecloth that became Don Quixote’s pants in “Man of La Mancha” or the floral comforter cover that was turned into Victorian curtains for “Johnnie Mercer and Me.” One shop even allows returns for credit, which is a boon when trying to find just the right shoes for a pirate. Workclothes For actors, their costumes are their work uniforms. No matter how elegant a costume may be, it has to function well, too. It needs to be easy to get on and off, especially if a character has multiple changes as in MRT’s staging of “The Producers” in which a cast of 22 wore a total of 123 costumes Zippers can jam so most closures are a combination of Velcro® and giant hooks or snaps. Occasionally there won’t be enough time for an actor to make a complete change of clothing, so one costume may be layered over another;
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a top layer can simply be added or removed for the next scene. Rolling a waistband or pants cuffs up or down may be necessary to pull off the change; that must be considered in the costume design. Functionality is also critical if a character will be dancing, fighting, jumping or climbing. A looser fit or stretchy fabric can forestall a “wardrobe malfunction” in the middle of an action scene. Art and Engineering With luck, principals and their understudies will be close in size. if not, a single costume can sometimes be engineered for easy alteration in case an understudy has to step in to replace an ailing actor. Safety pins can save the day if the understudy is smaller; being able to pull out a single line of stitching can do the trick if the understudy is larger. Some costumes just have to be engineered from the get-go. Snoopy’s white coat and black spot are simple to make. Woodstock’s belly, wings, crown and tail require more fiddling. It’s easy to make a sleeve that looks like a wing when the actor’s arms are raised. But the wings should keep their shape when the arms are down. And the crown feathers and tail need to stay up rather than drooping. So floral wire, fishing line, foam rubber, stiff fabric interfacing and a heavy-duty glue gun are essential tools in a costumer’s sewing kit. “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” will run from August 8 through August 24 at Ulmer Auditorium in Bluffton’s town hall. Charlie will have his zigzag shirt. Lucy will be in blue. Sally will be wearing polka dots. Oh, and the matching socks? They were made using 100% cotton crews and Rit® liquid dye.
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Listening to the May By Amber Hester Kuehn
Dolphins listening for fish pillow talk ... In spring and summer, fish feel the urge to reproduce. Apparently, they make it known with unique mating calls from the males of each species…particularly at night. Did you know that there are 6 locations in the May River that record sound for months on end? Don’t worry…only underwater sounds. They belong to Dr. Montie’s Lab at USCB (University of South Carolina Beaufort) Marine Science Department. Their purpose is to record intimate fish conversations and document conditions such as temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen. Back in the lab, students distinguish which species of fish are flirting by distinct sounds produced by their swim bladder and a specialized sonic muscle. This information will determine who, when, where and possibly how many are reproducing. It may seem like we are intruding, but we are not crushing the mood like another eavesdropper frequenting the May
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River. Atlantic bottlenose dolphins may be drawn to the mating calls of these fish, namely silver perch, oyster toadfish, and spotted sea trout. If you haven’t figured out what happens next…dolphins eat fish. Dr. Eric Montie and his students place the data recorders in areas that they frequently see dolphins on their dolphin surveys. The idea is that the dolphins are there for the same purpose…to find the fish. Although dolphins have very good eyesight, they do not see at night or perfectly through the pristine, yet turbid waters of the estuary. Echolocation is a very well documented ability that dolphins incorporate to find food in low visibility conditions. However, they may just use their ears to hear the fish at this sexy hour when the sun goes down. YES…they have ears fused to their skull under the flesh. Sound waves travel through the water and are sensed as vibrations through the lower jaw, traveling
to the skull and then to the ear bone. The data recorders have been able to pick up dolphin whistles along with the fish ballads. Although echolocation may be performed with high frequency sounds that are above our hearing range, we can detect some of the lower frequency signals. It will be interesting to see if the dolphins are incorporating their special echo talent more when they can’t hear the fish courting. Fish stop sounding in the fall. Dr. Eric Montie graduated from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with a doctorate in Biological Oceanography. He is very interested in what cues fish to reproduce. Whether it is temperature, seasonality, or an internal clock, it is still unknown exactly what “turns them on”. If reproductive seasonality should change, would the dolphins hang out elsewhere? Dolphin foraging may be directly related to the acoustic ecology that Montie’s lab is studying. The baseline data collected right here in the May River may be used to answer questions resulting from significant changes in climate, salinity, and productivity of the estuary. This is all very technical, but stated simply, all things in the estuary are intertwined. There are relationships that we have yet to discover in the May River!
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Male spotted sea trout, silver perch, oyster toadfish, red drum, and black drum produce sound by vibrating a specialized sonic muscle adjacent to their swim bladder (an organ that holds air to regulate their level in the water column). The “drumming” starts at sunset and results in an aggregation of males and females. Sperm and eggs are released into the water, where external fertilization occurs. Because the males are gathered in a chorus, it is loud enough to hear if you put your ear on the hull of your boat! The Bluffton Breeze
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Bluffton’s Santana By Jevon Daly When Harry Santana plays guitar at Bluffton’s local restaurants and bars, he is in heaven. He gets to play songs he likes, and loves the local people that come hang out and actually listen to him sing. Whether it’s playing Captain Woodys, the Dispensary or V55, Harry is up there entertaining people with a wide variety of songs. Just a good old boy from Ridgeland who got his start playing 5 years ago at a friend’s bar. Now he’s playing music almost every night of his life and lovin’ it. Harry was raised in a musical household. His mother was southern and his father was from New Jersey. When Mom’s music was on, you got Merle Haggard. You got Lynyrd Skynard and classic country. When Dad was jammin, Harry heard the Beatles, the Stones.....Seger. Harry has a real appreciation for all the music his parents listened to, and also the 90’s music like Oasis and Sister Hazel his brother liked. As i was in the 80’s exposed to hip hop, Harry also got a huge dose of it going to Thomas Heyward and hanging out with friends. We spoke about the influence of Sublime {his favorite band of
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all time} as well as timeless rap and boy band hooks that are etched into his brain. Easy E’s message, though tainted by the media, lives on even today in guys like Harry; taken with a grain of salt. Backstreet Boys songs are in his live sets onstage as well, and he likes the songs because they are fun and memorable. Harry just likes good songs and hopes future generations hear Vanilla Ice as well as the Eagles. Playing up to 9 shows a week, Harry has learned over the last 4 or 5 years to pace himself. “When I first set out as a solo performer, there were just songs in a setlist with no real warmup or order.” “The more shows i started doing , the more i realized i couldn’t go all out song after song.” Songs like Hotel California and Summer of 69 {both huge request numbers} are only played when people want to hear them, allowing Harry’s voice to sound fresh week after week. “I’m there for ‘them’, the people sitting right in front of me, and I want them to have as much fun as I’m having.”
A reoccurring theme in our talk was the fact that Harry is playing for others. If he did whatever he wanted though, things wouldn’t change much. He was given a great foundation at an early age my his mom and dad at home. There was no band program at school {something becoming THE NORM these days,sadly} and Harry just played for fun .......and still does. Though now the gigs pay the bills and occasionally he’ll call his Dad and take him the Range to shoot. Harry had trouble when i asked him who his favorite people were to go see perform. “There is such an incredible amount of talent around here. People have no idea. You can go out around Bluffton and hear great music almost any night of the week.” When we talked about music that is gonna last Harry became point blank. “Who the hell is Skrillex?? There is music in every genre and only some of it lasts.” When i asked him what the music will play at his 20th high school reunion he continued. “Guys like ‘Big Tymers’ ‘50 Cent’ will play right alongside songs by the beatles and Sam Sham and the Pharoahs.” “I graduated in 2007 and we like Lil Wayne as much as Pink Floyd.” “You can argue with me but that is where i come from.” Mylie Cyrus is waiting on her invite to your 2027 reunion ,Har.
Lighting up the rooftop at Captain Woody’s: Harry invites Bartender Johnny Gunner to share another of his great talents!
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Breeze O V E R T H E B R I D G E S *Wheelchair accessible event. Upcycled Art Auction Saturday, August, 23, 2014: Upcycled Art Auction, The Shed, Port Royal, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Save the Date- Lowcountry Habitat for Humanity is holding an Upcycled Art Auction to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its ReStore. Mark your calendars now for this “do not miss” event. All proceeds from the auction will benefit LowCountry Habitat for Humanity. Tickets are $25 per person, which includes admission, heavy hors d’oeuvres, desserts and drinks. Ticket sales are limited. Tickets are available at the ReStore at 612 Parris Island Gateway, Beaufort, or through our website. For more information, please call the ReStore at 525.0055 or visit our website at www.lowcountryhabitat.org. The Met: Live In Hd Summer Encores The University of South Carolina Beaufort Center for the Arts will present four The Met: Live in HD Summer Encores on the Historic Beaufort campus at 1 PM beginning July 7 through August 13. The Met Encores will include: Otello on July 7 , the Enchanted Island on July 14, Rigoletto on July 23, La Rondine on July 30, Romeo Et Juliette on August 6 and La Fanciulla Del West on August 13 . Admissions: Adults/Seniors: $12, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Members: $10, USCB Students/ Youth under 18: $5 General Admission seating is available at the door on the day of the broadcast, or in advance by calling the Center for the Arts box office (843) 521-4145. Penn Center Hosts Labor Day Event Please join us for the Labor Day Program on September 1, 2014, which begins at 11:00AM at the Frissell Community House. There will be special vocal performances by La Verne Harrison & Scott Allen Gibbs. There will be a special guest speaker: Dr. J. Herman Blake. Labor Day Festivities begin at 12:30pm and end at 4:00pm. A fundraiser Fish-Fry, BBQ Ribs & BBQ Chicken, DJ Music and Island Cruzers Car Showcase,
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Gullah Geechie Island Bike Ride, and Art Fair and Flea Market. Contact Information: Penn Center 843.838.2432; Island Cruzers 843.263.0654 Palmetto Running Company- Group Runs In Bluffton And Beaufort The Palmetto Running Company Running Club currently meets on Saturday mornings at the Palmetto Running Company at 8:00 am for group long runs in Beaufort and Bluffton. All of our runs are open to everyone along with our coaching and training plans.Our goal is to keep you running and to help get you to your goal!!! See you on the road soon!!! Recycle Your Shoes at Outside Hilton Head to benefit Soles4Souls. August 16-30 Customers are encouraged to bring in donations of new or used unwanted shoes, and in return, receive special discounts on in-stock footwear in the store. Donated shoes are distributed through the non-profit organization Soles4Souls. The Plaza at Shelter Cove, 50 Shelter Cove Lane. (800) 6866996 or outsidehiltonhead.com. The eighth annual Island Run for Ret, August 30 8 a.m., hosted by the RET Pediatric Cancer Foundation, will take place on the roads and trails of the Sea Pines Forest Preserve, a 605acre, pristine maritime forest environment. The 5K run/walk, open to all levels and ages, will feature age brackets and overall prizes. Please visit retfoundation.com for additional information. Fridays: Learn about Plankton at Coastal Discovery Museum, 2 p.m. The tour will start with an indoor presentation about plankton and the role it plays in the salt marsh. After the presentation, participants will be guided by a docent to a floating dock where they will use a plankton collecting net to collect a plankton sample from the waters of Jarvis Creek. They will then proceed to analyze and identify the many organisms found in one drop of water by using microscopes. This tour is great for families with children over the age of 8, as well as adults interested in learning about plankton and the role in plays in the coastal ecosystem. Adults $10,
Children $5 (ages 8-12). Reservations Required. 70 Honey Horn Dr. (843) 689-6767 ext. 223 or coastaldiscovery.org. The Armstrong Department of Art, Music & Theatre August 1-7 holds fall semester auditions for the Masquers theatre troupe and for various music ensembles including wind ensemble, jazz ensemble, orchestra, and choirs.(912) 344-2556 during normal business hours to schedule an audition. armstrong.edu. ONGOING: Oatland Island Wildlife Center, a unit of the Savannah-Chatham County School System, serving as a field study site for students throughout the region. It features the 2 mile “Native Animal Nature Trail” that winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetlands and salt marsh habitats and links many native animal exhibits such as wolves, alligator and cougar. Oatland is located 5 miles east of Savannah off Islands Expressway. Open daily to the public for self guided tours from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., except Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve day, Christmas and New Years. (912) 395-1500, or oatlandisland.org. Summer Art Show at Hospice Savannah July 1-September 30: Summer Art Show at Hospice Savannah! The Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, 1352 Eisenhower Dr., presents the Savannah Art Association’s Summer Show. Join the artists at their reception on Thursday, July 24, 2014 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Free Bird Walk Fort Pulaski National Monument will be partnering with the Ogeechee Audubon Society, the Savannah chapter of the National Audubon Society, for a series of bird walks inside the park. Every 3rd Saturday, at 8:00 AM, members of this organization will lead bird walks in the park. Interested birders can meet a member of the Ogeechee Audubon Society near the park’s Entrance Station at 8:00 AM, at 9:00 AM, the bird walk will move through the park. These special programs will be offered each month at no charge. No reservations are necessary.
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MARGARITAS FOR TWO
By Kelly Dillon
It’s the amount of groceries she brings back that finally makes reality sink in. Usually, it takes the entire family, all five, to bring in the load of food. It’s an event. The boys are barked at to get out of their rooms and drag themselves downstairs when the SUV pulls up to the house; so is the girl. Lugging in the piles of paper bags stacked and shoved in the back of the car and up the stairs into the house has them all, parents and children, huffing at the end. Sorting the accumulated bags takes longer than bringing them in does. Usually the boys manage to slink away without helping. Sorting tomatoes, cereal, cookies and coffee might take twenty to thirty minutes. More, if she’s feeling particularly meticulous with how the labels of soup and box are arranged. The food disappears in a week or two. The event starts again when she goes herself or gets her husband to do it for her – or perhaps one of the older kids, promising their choice of snack as compensation. It’s the first week in August when she finds that something is amiss. When the SUV pulls up and the back is popped open, the usual mound of paper bags has dwindled. She brushes it off until they begin sorting the foodstuffs and finds that her youngest boy’s favorite snacks are, incredibly, lacking. He goes to his first year of college next week. Odd, she thinks, that it’s not the list of things he needs for his dorm room or the ordered textbooks that arrived last week, or her anxious
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hounding of his organization and her worrying of his well-being when leaving home that makes her realize he’s leaving soon; it’s the groceries. The groceries! She snorts and continues sorting food. She takes a deep breath, drained from the packing process, when her youngest leaves that next week. When she goes grocery shopping again, the groceries are smaller in number than before. It’s nothing that isn’t unexpected; the remaining son comments on the quicker trips from the car and back with a bit of a smile, happy that his work is that much shorter. And then that son leaves, a week and a half later. It’s substantially quieter in the house, now. She’s glad for it, as she can sleep off her exhaustion without being woken up by blasted video games or the boys fighting. She shops for less, and the groceries are a sparse picking in comparison to the mounds from before. It was the same situation last year, when her two oldest left, leaving one kid behind. Groceries for three rather than five are easier. Finally, her girl – not ready for her second year of college, she thinks, but gone all the same! leaves four days after her last boy. When she shops the day after her children are gone, she realizes something else. Again, it’s the groceries – and again she laughs at herself for the absurdity – that has her catching on to the “oddity.” Looking into the grocery cart,
she notes the various lunch meats, the single carton of milk, the lack of chips and soda. Isn’t she missing something? She double-checks her small list, crumpled like failed origami in her pocket.
What do they do now?
She has everything, and she frowns, bewildered.
Complaining about having no time and then suddenly having all the time in the world leaves her more confused than relieved. She leans back in her seat and eyes the television without really watching. Her husband remains in contemplative silence.
It’s a cart of groceries for two, not three, not four or five. The concept is alien. Twenty-two years of groceries for “more than two” is normalcy for her. Groceries for two? That isn’t. “Excuse me,” a man says from her side, and she idly moves her cart so he can pass by to get into the cereal section she’s lingering at. She backs up the cart after putting away the list and starts toward the register. All three of her kids have left. Is this the first time she’s realized the house is empty, save for her and her husband? Did the silence of the house not strike her as odd, and did her dogs’ baleful looks at her children’s empty rooms not catch her attention? She’s unsure how to process the sudden revelation of her lonesomeness, though she does snag an extra carton of cookies, knowing none of her kids will scarf them down in the process of a day before she can have any. She also picks up a package of margarita mix. When she returns home – the groceries are put away in five minutes, not thirty – she sits down with her husband in front of the TV and brings it up. He laughs. “I know,” he says. “I was thinking about it the other day. We have the entire house to ourselves.” “Until summer,” she adds. Her husband shrugs and looks away from the television. “That’s plenty of time,” he says, though his brows are sloped in a way that shows her he’s as unsure about the situation as she is.
Twenty-two years of collected habits, carefully kept schedules, nagging, coaching, and keeping everyone well fed and happy are hard to just drop.
As she stares blankly at the television, her mindset shifts. Slowly – slowly – the vast time she’s sacrificed for her children that has now opened up into time just for her begins to look less bewildering and more inviting. Opportunity shows itself. She mulls with the idea of taking her carefully crafted lists, full of scheduled athletic games and doctor’s appointments, and filling them with things she’s wanted to try. She has so much time – what can she not do, anymore? How many times has she flipped through the local magazine and newspaper and sighed as she skimmed over events she was too busy to go to? That’s certainly in the past. Maybe they can finally go to the live music bar next Friday, or take the dogs to the beach without worrying about returning early so the two sons can borrow the car. Maybe... “I bought margarita mix,” she announces when the flashing commercials end. Her husband turns and grins a bit boyishly. “Margarita mix? Were you feeling a little celebratory?” She shrugs. “I don’t know. Maybe a little.” “Well, I’ll make it. Stay there,” her husband says, flashing her another grin as he gets up from the couch with a bounce to his step. “It’ll be just for us.” He gives her a wink and turns off the television. She raises an eyebrow and smiles. The Bluffton Breeze
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SUMMER CONCERT SERIES WITH DEAS GUYZ SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE 2014-2015 SEASON CALL 843-842-2055
BLUFFTON SUNSET PARTY DOG DAYS OF SUMMER Monday, August 11, 2014 - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 5:00PM
Gates Open at 5:00 p.m. Concert begins at 6:30 p.m. $25 per car (load ‘em up!) at the Gate. Proceeds benefit Family Promise of Beaufort County.
Thursday, August 14, 2014 - Friday, August 15, 2014 5:00PM - 9:00PM Party with your pooch ! The kid and pet friendly Sunset Parties feature two local bands, craft beer garden, food court with up to eight local restaurants, vendors and other fun activities for the entire family. A portion of proceeds goes to benefit. Palmetto Animal League. A No Kill Animal Rescue and Adoption organization serving homeless animals in the Lowcountry.
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Sunday, August 3, 2014 - Saturday, August 30, 2014 This is an All Day Event The Society of Bluffton Artists presents “Watercolor Memories, Here and There,” a collection of paintings by award-winning artist Don Theodore, on display from August 4 - 30, at the SOBA Gallery. A reception to meet the artist will be held on Sunday, August 10 from 3 - 5 pm at the gallery on the corner of Church and Calhoun streets in Old Town Bluffton. Call 7576586 or visit sobagallery.com for more information.
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Gone Shrimpin’ By Randolph Stewart
Well, I have to tell you folks, this story may not interest the locals with their vast knowledge and experience with the art of casting for shrimp but if they do read this they are permitted to grin at this saga. You see, the problem was I asked the local good ole’ boys the wrong questions about shrimpin’ and would have been much better off if I would have just bought their beer….kept my mouth shut….and listened to the skinny. It all started some years back just after we moved up from Florida. I was walking down Alljoy dock and saw this guy walking off straining under two five gallon buckets slam full of river shrimp with his young barefoot son behind, hoisting a cast net, splashed in pluff mud, smiling ear to ear with his teeth gleaming even brighter against his summer tan. Holy moly, where did you get all of those! He looked up and checked me out, and could see straight away that I didn’t know what the heck I was doing. Brand new shorts, a t-shirt that wasn’t faded and didn’t have any holes in it… and the dead give away – the wrong shoes. I guess he understood being a Dad himself when he saw my two lily white-skinned, tow heads following behind me with a black fluffy standard poodle running about and sniffing the buckets. Ya’ got a boat? Sure, it’s right there, as I pointed to my 18 footer that was the pride of my fleet… the only boat in my flotilla. Seeing that I at least had a motor, he pointed with his head so as not to put the buckets down. Over dare, ten minutes ride, take the left fork and set your poles out. Set up my poles? How can poles catch shrimp I thought? He could see the look in my eyes and explained quickly
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that you stick these poles in the mud, throw some shrimp paddies out and go to town. Easy….not! Uhmm let me see. A load of fuel, a 6 pack, bag of ice and big cooler, the baiting license I needed, PVC poles, and oh – clay that you make into cow paddy size blobs and mix it with fish meal. Well, let me tell you! Ajax can’t wash that smell off. But if that’s what all the bubba’s do to catch all that shrimp then I guess I can do it too! Now, back to the story, a bucket of chicken, an 8’ nylon shrimp net, get my shorts dirty, new pair of shrimpn’ shoes and get them dirty too, a good chart and off we go. The sound of the motor in tune as it fires off, the wind in our face as we gained speed and the bow began to plain, crystal blue sky without a cloud in the sky, calm water, and the tide was just right…..perfect day. The boys were bubbling and smiling over the possibilities of what adventure might come this day, and the dog…braced with his feet wide on the bow, his ears flying straight back as we gained speed
and his gums furling in the wind. We found the spot! This had to be it! Let me tell you of my casting skills. Each cast was a tangled, knotted blob, most casts didn’t even clear the railing, the lead weights would clunk loudly on the deck and when I did get it overboard it just made a big kerplunk in the water and straight down it goes. Pull it up, and I was pleased when I just caught a glob of pluff mud and a few empty oyster shells. Don’t worry boys, just warming up. I remembered seeing the good ole’ boys cast with holding the weights in their mouth and thought what a dumb thing to do but finally succumbed and gave it a try. Now don’t forget to open your mouth at just the right time or you’ll make your dentist happy. After about 30 tries, sweating, and my arms now heavy I took an inventory of the catch. Hey guys 4 shrimp…I’m getting the hang of it. But, this must not be the spot. Let’s take a dip, pull the anchor and move. After about 10 other spots, the box of chicken gone, sunburn on the back of my neck giving title to “redneck”, the kids and the dog gave me a look with those eyes that said….can we go home…27 shrimp. As we headed back to the dock I felt like The Myth of Sisyphus, pushing the rock uphill was torture, futile with no reward, but now the ride home was the ecstasy, this was the reward for a days efforts. Let me count all the stuff up. Fuel $57, chicken $12.99, poles $34.65 at Acme, cooler 32.50, license $25, net $32.50, new boating shoes $39.95 at Payless, bag of ice $3.79, gallon of water, chips 2.25, two 5 gal., paint buckets (wishful thinking) $9.99, clay $17.50, 25 pound bag of fishmeal $32.50. That had to be about the most expensive shrimp cocktail I ever had.
I darn sure knocked em’ dead on this safari…52 shrimp. My boys and dog looked at me like… dude, can’t you get this? I turned west to go home and stopped by a roadside seafood stand that I saw and bought 25 lbs. of shrimp. I swore the boys to secrecy. The dog can’t talk. OK, two adventures, $760.61 worth of stuff including the shrimp I bought. As I walked in the door with two buckets of shrimp the little woman was elated, fried shrimp tonight dear! Well, if you think you can do better give it a go and call me for dinner. A summer never goes by without my boys telling me how much fun they had learning that Dad is not great at everything. I guess they too will learn one day themselves with their kids.
The moral of the story is you can’t put a price tag on memories with your children.
I’m not easily defeated. I must have been doing something wrong. I decided to buy some more beer for the ole boys in hopes they would impart a little wisdom on me. Oh, look for a deep hole where they gather, tide after full moon, hah! Throw that torn up net of yours away, get a 5 footer…got it! Let’s saddle up boys we are going to find the honey hole! I should have known. Another load of fuel, make some more of those god awful smelly fish paddies, another box of chicken, new net, bag of ice, fish finder…at least I still had the poles, license and buckets. We’re good to go!. And the dog was ready for anything. The Bluffton Breeze
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Drifting on the New River By Michele Roldán-Shaw
let it ride.
Everyone cherishes Huck Finn dreams. Big-talk dreams, free-floating dreams, lazy hazy dreams of no cares and little action. Dream-rafts adrift on the stream of space and time.
Fast-forward several years to when my friend Ben Turner of Native Guide Kayak Tours in Bluffton offered to take me for a paddle on the New River. It was a departure from his usual program of bird-watching and dolphin-spotting on the May; and in fact the New River itself is a departure from the tidal creeks and marshes that characterize this area. Instead of being completely salty, a mere extension of the sea, the New is actually a true river in the sense that it pulls freshwater (in this case rain runoff) down its inexorable course to the ocean. The headwaters is a swamp that drains a whole big area behind Sun City; halfway down the river turns brackish from tidal input, and finally the mouth empties behind Daufuskie Island— all this Ben explained to me that day. I don’t remember much else about our paddle, other than big mats of dead spartina grass that choked the stream and eventually blocked progress; and also I remember that when we got back to the landing we continued a little ways downriver, under the 170 bridge to where there are some houseboats. But for the most part it was a recon mission to inform trips I’d take alone in the future.
But nobody can live that life for long, at least not on land. That’s why there are rivers. And people always talk about the May River, but what about the New? Right there off Highway 170 toward Savannah is the New River boat landing, where I put in when I need some serious Huckleberry Finn therapy. First time I ever went there, I didn’t know it was the New River; I didn’t know it was a river at all. It seemed like just a little spot of muddy water with reeds around it. My friend Anthony and I had met up to hang out and “put in the time,” as Huck himself would say, and there were a number of other people there doing the same thing, fishing and drinking beer and whatnot. Suddenly along comes this family paddling up out of nowhere in a cheap inflatable raft…. I had to know more. “How far back does it go?” I asked their captain, a rugged looking mother of boys. “Long ways,” she said with a vague wave of her hand. “What’s back there?” I pressed; but the woman only shrugged to indicate more of the same. She offered to let Anthony and I borrow the raft so we could see for ourselves, and I was all for it, but for some reason he had reservations about exploring gator-infested waters in a flimsy plastic blow-up boat—so I
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to ditch the whole entire world. I learned the best thing to do is time the tide—that is to say I start about an hour or two before it’s high and paddle with the incoming, then once I get far enough upriver that I’m going against the freshwater current, I only have a short spell of hard stroking before I can turn around and float the whole way back: first with draining freshwater, then with the outgoing tide. The voyage begins as a cruise upstream past former rice fields, with a lot of cattails and grasses, and here or there a pine tree. Every so often, long straight irrigation canals branch off the main channel into wetland fields, but once when I ventured down one I found it very boring. The other bank is mostly private lots—at first a house or two and a dock, then just a rusted metal folding chair for redneck contemplation, and finally only tangled second-growth trees of nothingness. Whenever I need a bathroom break I can land at a little berm covered in pine straw, maybe shaded over by a cypress tree. There are a lot of wild swamp irises growing along the banks, and I love to see their purple blooms in April. Once I suggested to Anthony that we go to the Savannah Wildlife Refuge in search of swamp irises—he being the same prudent friend who refused to raft with gators— and his vehement response was, “Shelly, the last thing we need is a swamp virus!” When the spring freshet is running, the current flows extra swift upriver, and in narrow areas with snags and other obstacles there is quite a lot of negotiation to be done, tricky paddling that lends an element of daredevilry and muscle to each maneuver. One time I got clear back up in the swamp, and was gliding along through a narrow passage where vegetation brushed close—there beside me at eye level, entwined amongst tender spring shoots, was a beautiful baby water snake, slender and gleaming with its bands in the dappled light. I gazed into its golden round pupil and was hypnotized by its loveliness; I wanted to reach out and touch it; unable to resist its charms I extended a hand, but the instant I made contact PLOP! the snake dropped into the water and was gone. I felt so bad. There it was minding its own snaky business, with no evil intentions and probably still trying to warm up from the wintertime, and now thanks to me it had been dashed in chilly waters…how would I like it? I vowed then and there not to be so careless with wildlife.
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The most recent expedition was scarcely a few weeks ago. My mind was taxed and sore, my body jonesing for free air, the day open and the tide right…oh yeah, New River time! In a jiffy I was on the back road to Pritchardville, through the traffic circle, and offloading my kayak at the launch. Summer’s heat was thick but overcast skies prevented utter scorching. And best of all, what I like most about the New River held true: on this weekday morning there was nobody in sight. Wild blueberries and blackberries were out, and wherever I spotted them hanging off the bank I pulled the boat up to pluck and eat
my fill. It was a peaceful time, but periodically a garfish had to muck that up by flopping its huge body out of the water and making a tremendous CRASH! right next to my boat—I swear some of them were big as toddlers! It called to mind the time Barefoot Barry told me he was lying buck-nekked in the bottom of his boat when a fish jumped up and landed right smack on his privates. By and bye I saw a baby alligator sunning itself on a log, but when I tried to ease up for a closer look it swam away. Before long I came to the first big raft of dead spartina, which I managed to power through by using my paddle like a pole, shoving it straight down into the mat and leveraging the boat forward. When I glanced behind me I saw a watery trail
in the parted flotsam, and knew coming back would be easier. There were a half-dozen or so of these blockages, one of which had a big huge alligator embedded in it—upon sight of me the beast submerged and made for shore. Eventually the trees closed in all green and shadowy, and I was forced to consider the possibility of snakes dropping on my head… but no such incident occurred. Sometimes I make this trip when there has been a ton of rain to wash out all the dead marsh grass, and high water levels allow me to go further back into the swamp than usual. I get
clear to where there’s no longer any discernable channel, but only a shallow black lake. It’s another world back there—doesn’t even feel like Bluffton. It’s not a particularly breathtaking place; no giant trees, no old-growth grandeur. Yet there is always something ethereal about a swamp: silent, somber, solitary, with its mirrordark waters spreading into the forest, and I like to let my boat suspend there for a good long spell. On this day, however, I never made it that far, because when I came to a fallen tree stretching across the water, I chose not to haul out and climb over it in the balancing act I’d managed last time. Since the water was lower I briefly considered an attempt to duck under the tree,
but opted out when I saw several giant hairy tarantulas the size of my hand—avid swamp dwellers found in high concentrations—chilling on the log exactly where my head would have to graze under. Yeah, not enticing. So I just drifted around in a reverie for awhile, waiting for the tide turn, before eventually heading back. Paddling slowly the way I’d come, one eye peeled for blueberries and the other for gators and slinging snakes, I retraced my trails through the spartina mats. And when the water opened out again my favorite part of the trip began: the Huck Finn drift where I let the river have its way. Laid back with my head on the seat rest and legs stretched over the bow, hands resting on the paddle across my lap, I closed my eyes and surrendered. It was noon, the dead part of the day, not a soul around, and the shrilling buzz of cicadas wrapped me up like a blanket. I was slipping off to sleep as the boat spun in lazy circles with the current. Now to this bank, now to that bank, twirling aimlessly and hardly making progress…the river’s whims were irrelevant because everything moved so slow. Later I woke up and wasn’t sure which way I’d come and which way I was going; but then I remembered to keep the rice fields on my right, and eventually the outgoing tide gathered strength and swept me along back to the landing. I was hot, tanned and mudded up; my body felt a pleasant kind of tired; my brain had relaxed as tension melted and washed away to the alldestroying sea. And if I couldn’t do this everyday like Huckleberry Finn, at least I could go home and write about it—that way others might get in on the secret of New River time too. The Bluffton Breeze
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Breeze G o l f R e p o r t
The Mark of a Man: Ben Hogan By Joel Zuckerman “The mark of a man is not what he achieves, but what he overcomes.” It’s an expression familiar to many, and nobody in golf history embodies that sentiment more than Ben Hogan. Hogan’s life story was one of grit and determination. His father Chester, a blacksmith, committed suicide when Ben was just nine years old. There were rumors that he killed himself in front of his young son, a traumatic event which impacted Hogan the rest of his life. Financial difficulties forced Hogan to start working at age 9, first selling newspapers, then caddying, which is where he first encountered fellow caddie and eventual professional rival Byron Nelson. Hogan dropped out of high school his senior year, at age 17, to turn professional. He went through numerous difficulties, for years battling an insidious hook, going broke several times trying to make a living as a golfer. It took him a full decade before he won his first event, in 1940. The floodgates opened, he won three tournaments in a row in North Carolina, and slowly became a force in professional golf. The 1940s was a decade for the ages for the Texan.
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He won more than 50 times on the PGA Tour, including three major championships. This despite losing more than two full years of competitive golf when he served his country as an Army lieutenant in World War Two. However the most traumatic event of his adult life occurred on a fog-shrouded morning on February 2nd, 1949, outside of a wide spot in the road called Van Horn, Texas. It was on that fateful day that a Greyhound bus came out of the gloaming, straight towards Hogan’s car. He couldn’t avoid a head-on collision owing to the fact he was on a bridge
with guardrails hemming him in. There were no seatbelts in those days, and diving across the front seat to protect his wife Valerie saved his life. The impact of the collision forced the engine block right into the passenger compartment, the steering wheel ended up touching the backrest where he had been sitting moments earlier. Had he not dove to protect her, he would’ve been killed at the scene. Despite escaping death, he didn’t exactly come out unscathed. The accident left the 36 year old with a double-fracture of the pelvis, a fractured collarbone, a left ankle fracture, a chipped rib, and near-fatal blood clots, he would suffer lifelong circulation problems and other physical limitations. His doctors said he might never walk again, let alone play golf competitively. He spent 59 days hospitalized. Hogan returned to action in 1950. He managed but a single victory, but the trophy was monumental: The U.S. Open. All told, in the post-accident years, Hogan won six of his nine major championships. He couldn’t walk
without tiring, he spent hours daily soaking his permanently damaged legs in the bathtub, but still he prevailed repeatedly on golf’s grandest stages. The following year he won both the Masters and U.S. Open. In 1953, he won both iconic tournaments once again, and also added his only British Open championship. The Scots affectionately referred to him as the “Wee Ice Mon” as he systematically and methodically took apart famed Carnoustie, lowering his score in each of the four rounds of competition. Hogan remains the only man to win those three major championships in the same calendar year. There was no chance for Hogan to win what is now known as the Grand Slam, all four of the game’s major championships in a single year, as the PGA championship coincided with the British Open. But even if the tournaments were separated by an appropriate amount of time, Hogan never again competed in the PGA Championship, At that time it was match play, and encompassed far too much walking, too many 36 hole days, for his weakened legs to support. As evidenced by his amazing competitive record, the difficulty of his youthful traumas, and most tellingly, coming back from an accident that could have finished his golf career, there are very few athletes, never mind golfers, who have ever shown the resiliency, tenacity, and dogged self belief like Ben Hogan, who let nothing stand in his way of becoming one of the games most accomplished and illustrious players.
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Come for the wine. Stay for the food!
Over 100 great wines to sample! Ta p a s m e a l s t h a t m a k e t h e e v e n i n g . Tu e s d a y - S a t u r d a y : 2 p m - 1 2 a m Live Music Thursday night! 843-706-9463 6 Promenade Street
Pet Friendly Patio with a Fido Special
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22 Fresh craft beers on tap A huge choice of wines By the glass or by the bottle Gourmet pizza and great dishes Bring your friends and relax Sink back in our couches Or sit on our famous porch.
Get the great taste of Old Bluffton! 55 Calhoun Street, Bluffton 843 757 9463. 7 Days a week from 11:30am. Music most nights.
Discover the Happiest Hour in Bluffton
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House Made Duck Pate $5 SautÊed PEI mussels $6 Flash fried local shrimp cocktail $6 Truffle fries $4 Mini crab cakes $6 Porcini rubbed Lamb lollipops $7 All wines by the glass half off Well drinks $4 You’re invited to come to enjoy it all! 163 Bluffton Road, Unit F | 843.815.6900 | www.veritasbluffton.com
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Breeze RRestaurant Breeze e s t a u r a n t GGuide uide AMIGO’S, MEXICAN BELFAIR TOWN VILLAGE 815-8226 MON-SAT 11-9
CORNER PERK, BREAKFAST, LUNCH, COFFEE, TEA BRUIN & BURNT CHURCH 816-5674 M-F 7AM-4PM SAT 8AM-3PM, SUN 9AM-2PM
BLUFFTON BBQ**, BARBEQUE PORK & RIBS PROMENADE 757-RIBS WED THU FRI SAT 11-Whenever
DOWNTOWN DELI, BURGERS& SANDWICHES DR MELLINCAMP 815-5005 MON-SAT 8-3
BLUFFTON FAMILY SEAFOOD HOUSE** 27 DR. MELLICHAMP DR. 757-0380 LUNCH/DINNER MON-SAT 11-9
FUJIYAMA, SUSHI/ASIAN CUISINE BI-LO CENTER 706-9907 MON-TH 11AM-10PM, F/S 11AM-10:30PM, SUN 12-10PM
BRITISH OPEN PUB, PUB, SEAFOOD, STEAKS SUN CITY & SHERIDAN PARK 705-4005 MON-SUN 8-9 SUN BRUNCH 8-1
GUISEPPI’S, ITALIAN KITTIES CROSSING 842-8333 MON-SAT 11AM-10PM SUN 11 AM-9PM
BUFFALO’S, CONTEMPORARY PALMETTO BLUFF VILLAGE 706-6630 LUNCH MON-SAT 11-4
HOGSHEAD KITCHEN 1555 Fording Island Rd 837-4647 MON-SAT11:30AM – 11:00PM SUNDAY CLOSED
CAHILL’S CHICKEN KITCHEN**, SOUTHERN HIGHWAY 46, 757-2921 LUNCH MON-SAT 11-3 SUPPER THU-FRI-SAT 5-9 SAT BREAKFAST 7-12 SUN BRUNCH 9-3
INN AT PALMETTO BLUFF, CONTINENTAL PALMETTO BLUFF VILLAGE 706-6500 DAILY 7AM -10PM
CAPTAIN WOODY’S**, SEAFOOD, SANDWICH, SALADS PROMENADE 757-6222 MON-SUN 11 - 10
JACK’S BAR & GRILL, AMERICAN & SEAFOOD 1255 MAY RIVER RD MON-SUN (843) 757-2522
CLAUDE & ULI’S BISTRO**, FRENCH MOSS CREEK VILLAGE 837-3336 MON-SAT LUNCH & DINNER
JOE LOVES LOBSTER, SEAFOOD & SANDWICHES 2915 N. OKATIE HWY. RIDGELAND, SC Mon-Sat: 11:30 am-2:30 pm Thu-Sat: 5:00 pm-08:00 pm
CORKS WINE CO.,CONTEMPORY, TAPAS THE PROMENADE, 815 5169 MON 5-10 TUES -SAT 5 -MIDNIGHT
**For more information see ad in the magazine
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KATIE O’DONALD’S, IRISH AMERICAN KITTIES CROSSING 815-5555 MON-SUN 11AM-2PM LATITUDE WINE BAR, WINE & TAPAS 6 Promenade St. 706-9463 TUES-SAT 2pm-12am
MAY RIVER GRILL**, SEAFOOD/CONTEMPORARY MAY RIVER RD., OLD TOWN 757-5755 MON-SAT 5-9 DINNER TUE-FRI 11:30-2 LUNCH MOON MI PIZZA 15 State of Mind Street 757-7007 Mon-Sat 11AM-10PM MI TIERRA, MEXICAN DR. MELLINCHAMP 757-7200 MON-THU 11-9 FRI-SAT 11-10 MULBERRY STREET TRATTORIA, ITALIAN HWY 278 837-2426 TUE-SAT 11-3 & 5-10 SUN 10:30-9 NEO 1533 Fording Island Road 837-5111 MON-SAT11:30AM – 11:00PM SUNDAY CLOSED
SAKE HOUSE, BEST BUY PLAZA ASIAN FUSION/SUSHI 706-9222 11:30AM-10PM, SUN FROM 12PM SIGLER’S ROTISSERIE & SEAFOOD CONTEMPORARY 12 Sheraton Park Circle 815-5030 MON-SAT 4:30-9:30 SIPPIN COW CAFÉ, DELI SANDWICHES/SWEETS MAY RIVER ROAD 757-5051 TUES – SAT 7AM – 3PM, SUN 9AM – 2PM THE COTTAGE, BREAKFAST & LUNCH CALHOUN STREET 757.0508 BR. 8-11AM, LUNCH 11:30 - 3PM, SUN 8-2PM THE VILLAGE PASTA SHOPPE, ITALIAN DELI 10 B JOHNSTON WAY (across from Post Office), 540-2095 TUES-FRI 10AM-6PM, SAT 10AM-4PM
OKATIE ALE HOUSE, AMERICAN SUN CITY 706-2537 LUNCH & DINNER 7 DAYS A WEEK
TRUFFLE’S, CONTEMPORARY BELFAIR VILLAGE 815-5551 DAILY 11AM-10PM LUNCH & DINNER
OLD TOWN DISPENSARY, CALHOUN STREET 837-1893 MON-SAT 11AM-2AM SUNDAY BRUNCH
VERITAS RESTAURANT, CONTEMPORARY 163 BLUFFTON RD UNIT F. 815-6900 Behind Bluffton Pharmacy MON-SAT 5-10PM
PEACEFUL HENRY’S CIGAR & WINE BAR 161 BLUFFTON ROAD 757-0557
VINEYARD 55, 757-9463 CALHOUN STREET CONTEMPORARY MON-TUES 4-CLOSE WED-SAT 11-CLOSE
POUR RICHARD’S**, CONTEMPORARY BLUFFTON PARKWAY 757-1999 MON-SAT 5:30 - 10 R&D WINE BOUTIQUE, WINE & FOOD BEST BUY PLAZA 837-3747 THURS TO SAT, 11:30AM TO 9PM
WILD WING CAFÉ, PLATTERS, SANDWICHES HWY. 278 837-WILD DAILY 11-1:30 AM
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GADGETS
The Fescue Flip Flops The Portable Tabletop Mosquito Repeller This is the portable mosquito repeller that provides relief from the airborne pests in any outdoor setting. Slightly larger than a soda can, the cordless device automatically emits the safe, subtle floral scent of geranium, peppermint, and lemongrass, plant-derived essential oils that naturally repel mosquitoes, gnats, and midges. The unit eliminates the need to apply chemical-based sprays and its integrated fan distributes the repellent to provide protection from mosquitoes across a 15’ x 15’ area.
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These are the flip-flops that create the sensation of walking on soft, green turf. These flip-flops are lined with artificial turf that feels like freshly mowed bluegrass. The synthetic blades of grass bend between the toes and form a matted cushion. Just like St. Augustine, the grass on these flip-flops thrives even with high foot traffic yet requires much less sun and water. The sandals have molded rubber soles and soft rubber foot strap and toe post.
The Authentic Southern Sweet Tea Brewer This iced tea brewing machine makes up to two quarts of authentic Southern sweet tea that’s ready to drink in 10 minutes. An iconic Dixieland refreshment that originated in the late 19th century, sweet tea is favored for its ice-cold sweetness on sweltering summer days. The machine automatically steeps tea at the proper temperature (204° F) for optimal flavor extraction and adds your preferred amount of sugar while the tea is hot, ensuring the sugar granules dissolve and producing a consistent level of sweetness. As simple to use and as unobtrusive as a coffee maker, the automatic sweet tea brewer allows you to adjust the strength of the brewed tea at the turn of a dial and it accommodates any kind of loose leaf or bagged tea. Includes a 2 1/2-quart glass pitcher with an ice level marking and a reusable stainless steel tea filter. Can also make unsweetened tea.
The Golfer’s Grill Clubs These are the grilling utensils with authentic golf club grips that ensure a confident hold while flipping lamb chops or turning a swordfish steak. The rubber handles have subtle ridges and a soft, tacky feel, enabling a proper Vardon grip and helping prevent hand slippage when reaching perilously over the coals to flip a foursome of burgers. The stainless-steel tongs and fork have 18”-long shafts, helping cooks organize food while keeping hands away from heat, and the sand wedge-shaped slotted spatula allows marinades to drain away before placing food on the grill. The tools store in a woven nylon 14”-high golf bag, allowing your caddy to carry the clubs with ease.
The Salt And Pepper Robots These are the classic wind up robots that spice up the passing of salt and pepper at mealtime. Eliminating the inefficient and impolite practice of reaching across a fellow diner’s plate, a few turns of the robot spice shaker’s oversized key sets him marching methodically in the direction he has been aimed. Evoking memories of simpler times before toys were remote controlled, the robots make the familiar mechanical buzzing sound as they dutifully deliver the requested spice. Made of durable food-grade plastic that can be hand washed.
The Kitty Hawk Kite This is the kite that replicates the unique canard biplane design of the original Wright Flyer from 1903. Designed by world-renowned kite artist Joel Scholz, its fiberglass frame, struts, and cross-pieces support the twin wings, foreplanes, and fuselage—all made from ripstop polyester—faithfully depicting the famous airplane’s airframe. The 1/12-scale wings produce a 46” wingspan that generates lift in ideal winds of 8 - 18 mph. The included spool of 37-lb.-test polyester string allows flights up to 200’ high. Minimal assembly.
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Hampton Hall
Palmetto Dunes
20 Strandhill Avenue • $699,000
One of the most picturesque homes on one of the most unique lots in all of Hampton Hall! This truly custom 4 BR, 4.5 BA home offers double master suites with private balcony access and spa quality finish in the en suite bathrooms. Huge great room designed for entertaining that overlooks Hampton Hall's signature view across a lagoon and the golf course.Call Matt
16 Coquina Rd • $1,595,000
This 5 BR 5 BA home is a masterpiece built by H2 Builders. Granite in kitchen, baths and laundry room. Travertine and carpet floors. Subzero, Viking and Wolf Appliances in State of the Art Kitchen. Custom Wooden Plantation Shutters. Full outdoor kitchen with gas grill on screened porch. Elevator shaft and lots of storage in four car garage area. Third row ocean. Call Ben
Berkeley Hall
131 Good Hope Road • $849,000
This brand new custom built home sits on a lot that truly can only be found in a place like Berkeley Hall. Enjoy the beauty only nature can provide while sitting on your back porch overlooking the marshes of the Okatie River or choose to sit on your front porch and enjoy what has been described by PGA professionals as one of the nicest golf learning facilities in the country. Every detail of this home has been hand selected to compliment the setting and ambiance of a special home. Call Matt
Shipyard
Palmetto Dunes
45 Gloucester Road $539,000
What a House and a Lot!!! Extensive Renovations to this 4 BR, 3 BA 2,400 SF Home. New Kitchen. New Roof. New Granite and Appliances. Resurfaced Pool, New Back Deck. New Vanity in Master, and the list goes on and on. Home is Turnkey that can do $50,000 in rentals. Plenty of Room for a Garage. Resort Style Back Yard to relax and enjoy Golf and Lagoon Views. Call Ben
418 Captain's Walk • $799,000
Upscale 3 BR 3 BA Third Floor Villa. Brand new living room furniture. Direct Ocean Views from this villa are breathtaking. Captains Walk is one of the best maintained Complexes. Conveniently located to golf, tennis, hotels, restaurants, etc. Oceanfront Pool and Kiddies Pool, Cabana Area and Boardwalk to the Beach. Great Rentals. Call Ben
Rose Dhu Creek
Hampton Hall
14 Sweet Grass Lane • $699,000
The main house consists of 4 large BR, 3.5 BA, great room, chef's kitchen & private den/study. The guest house is connected to the main home by a beautiful breezeway and has everything your guest will need to feel right at home. The home was designed with large Lowcountry porches on both the front and back of the home to take full advantage of this estate lot which not only backs up to a large private preserve, but provides access to 6.5 miles of winding trails. Call Matt
81 Wicklow Drive • $669,000
Unbelievable opportunity to own a brand new home built by one of the area's premier builders on one of the nicest lots in one of the area's nicest communities! Call Matt
Hampton Hall
10 Hampstead Avenue $625,000
First floor has a large private master suite with 2 large guest bedrooms, powder room, over sized eat in kitchen and flex space that could serve as a study/den/formal dining built by Tom Peeples. Upstairs has a large bonus room, private bath and golfers porch overlooking the lagoon to green view. Call Matt
Belfair
Long Cove - 9 Strawberry Hill - 229,000 - Golf/Lagoon Views Hampton Hall - 20 Hampton Hall Blvd - $149,000 - Golf/Wooded View Indigo Run - 633 Colonial - $149,000 - Wooded View Hampton Hall - 6 Torrington Ln - $129,000 - Lake View Hampton Hall - 5 Braemar Ct - $79,000 - Lagoon/Golf Views Hampton Hall - 17 Chadbourne St - $69,000 - Wooded View
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191 Summerton Drive • $499,000
Gorgeous 4 BR 4.5 BA 3,556 SF Home. Almost brand new and hardly lived in. All the upgrades, granite, stainless steel, etc. Hardwood floors throughout and a screened in porch to enjoy the gorgeous views of the lake. Great location. Shows like a model. One of the best buys in Belfair. Call Ben
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Bluffton’s top restaurants take pride in using Cahill’s farm-fresh ingredients!
(We hope you do too!)
Signature dishes, signature cocktails, Cahill’s fresh. What will be yours? Of course I eat at Cahill’s everyday. But I do LOVE the “Farmer’s Market Martini” at Pour Richards!
LUNCH: Mon - Sat, 11am-3pm SUPPER: Thurs, Fri, Sat, 5-9pm BRUNCH: Sunday 9am-3pm SATURDAY: Breakfast 7am-12pm 105548 May River Road, Bluffton SC 1 mile west of the Old Town 843-757-2921 www.cahillsmarket.com www.blufftonbreeze.com