Charleston City Paper: Digs - August 2021

August 2021

R E AL E T ESTA INGS LI ST E INSID

HOW TO MAKE YOUR

FAMILY REUNION MEMORABLE

At Home with

G ERVAIS HAGERTY Ashley Rose Stanol

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a Charleston City Paper publication

Volume 2, Number 1

August 11, 2021

Digs, our monthly home-focused publication, connects the people who make the Lowcountry special with content they’ve been missing. Digs gets up close and personal with stories on local personalities, home design and remodeling, plants and gardening, home repair and real estate. To learn more about advertising opportunities offered through Digs, contact our advertising team at (843) 577-5304 or send an email to: sales@charlestoncitypaper.com. Dig it!

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Sam Spence

Ashley Rose Stanol

Toni Reale

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Better planning makes for better family reunions.

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Making your family reunion memorable Staff Reports

Finding a date that works for everyone may be the biggest hurdle. Once that essential detail is set, start planning your family get-together with these tips from travel experts: Decide on a celebration style. Family reunions come in all shapes and sizes.

You might plan a gathering for a single day with a big meal and plenty of time for chatting with relatives, or it may be a multi-day affair filled with activities that get all ages involved.

Pick the place. The location of your reunion depends on many factors. In some cases, families plan for a location that’s easily accessible for the majority, like a midway point or a city where a large branch of the family tree is rooted.

Other families build reunions around the head of the family and plan the location around where the eldest members of the family reside. Still, other reunions are destination getaways with multiple households in one vacation location.

Choose where you’ll stay. Figuring out what kind of lodging best suits your reunion depends on a variety of considerations, but the larger the group, the more challenging it can be. A vacation rental home may be an option when you’re bringing multiple families together under one roof or plan to stay for several days.

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Family reunions are sure to take on special meaning as families reunite after months apart. Organizing such a momentous event may feel like a lot of work, but thinking of it in smaller pieces can make it easier to manage.

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the rest of the resort or hotel guests.

Plan activities. Depending on your family’s style, planning how everyone will pass the time may be a scheduled itinerary or a loose list of potential things to do. Either way, leave time for casual conversation and simply enjoying a few moments together, as well as lots of entertainment to keep kids occupied while the adults catch up.

Create a menu. From potluck to catering, there are numerous options when it comes to feeding a reunion crowd.

You might have everyone bring their own food, ask each family to take turns serving meals or plan easy bar-style meals, such as

tacos or nachos. It’s a good idea to coordinate your menu plans so you don’t waste food or have duplicate ingredients in the refrigerator. Remember to plan for extra snacks and desserts, too.

Incorporate your heritage. What sets a family reunion apart from other types of gatherings is the focus on family. Make your reunion special by incorporating special aspects of your heritage, whether it’s a monogrammed centerpiece for the dining table or photos of multiple generations that you scatter around or put in a slideshow.

Find more inspiration and ideas for organizing your family reunion this summer at vrbo.com/reunion.

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AT HOME IN THE LOWCOUNTRY

Hagerty takes a swipe at Charleston’s patriarchy

By Andy Brack

Gervais Hagerty believes there are two kinds of novelists — the plotters, who plot out story lines before they really get going on writing, and the “pants-ers.”

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“I’m apparently a pants-er, writing by the seat of my pants,” said the 40-year-old, whose first novel is just days away from publication. “I’m just making this up as I go along — that’s what I do.”

But she’s done it well enough to get the attention of prominent publisher HarperCollins. In Polite Company, which comes out Aug. 17, is the story of a young Charleston debutante who grows while working at a local television station. She tilts at the blueblood society in which she was raised, struggling between what is expected of her and trying to find the courage to do what is best for her. Along the way, readers meet an aging grandmother whose backstory pushes along the narrative and blends the past into the present. Interspersed is a little sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. (Readers will also find the main character enjoys reading the Charleston City Paper!)

Hagerty, who grew up in Charleston society as a student at Charleston Day School and Porter Gaud followed by a stint at a school in New Hampshire, admits she’s a little anxious about her book’s reception, which is getting a lot of early press attention.

“I’m definitely nervous — it’s the other side of excited,” she said during an interview in the Hampton Park home. “I don’t know how people will take it.”

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Art, bikes, activism

Hagerty, daughter of poet Barbara G.S. Hagerty and retired surgeon and modern artist Richard Hagerty, shares her Huger Street home with her husband, two daughters and dog. It’s a comfortable twostory, 2,700-square-foot brick built house in 1915 from a Sears, Roebuck & Co. kit. It’s got wide hallways and sturdy wood floors with a rich, brown patina. The kitchen, as with many homes, offers

Hagerty built the cabinets in her comfortable writing room.

a gathering place around a huge island. On the walls are bright bursts of yellows, reds and greens from surrealist paintings by her father.

Toward the back of the house is a utilitarian room where husband Anthony Del Porto, CEO of a local financial human resources technology company, brews beer. Behind that is a more elegant office where Hagerty works. She’s proud of cabinets she built during the pandemic to modernize the space.

In the front yard is a bike with a cart attached.

Hagerty is an avid cyclist who doesn’t own a car — she really didn’t need one during the six years she coached Citadel students on being effective public speakers.

She’s forever filling up the cart with stuff or kids and scooting around town. She’s so passionate about biking that she’s on the city’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee.

The lowdown on Gervais Hagerty Birthplace: My parents met when their families were both living on Legare Street. They first kissed behind the Catholic Church on Broad Street. I was born in Atlanta, but they moved back to Charleston when I was 2.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Vanderbilt; Master’s degree in business administration from The Citadel.

Current profession: Novelist.

Past professions of interest: Communications professor at The Citadel; news producer and reporter; bartender; educator at Sea World.

Family: Husband, Anthony. Two kids, ages 4 and 6.

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Previous coverage: Gervais Hagerty lifts the veil on Charleston society in debut novel (June 30, 2021). Check it out at charlestoncitypaper.com.

Pets: Ludo, rescue mutt, 7.

Something that you have too much of at home: My husband would say potted plants.

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Hagerty’s warm, welcoming home is filled with interesting objets d’art.

Something people would be surprised to learn about you: I can hear like a bat. Before each yoga class, I shove toilet paper in my ears. It’s a trick I learned as a kid when Hurricane Hugo thundered overhead.

Favorite family tradition: Our annual Holiday Holler. The party starts off as a somewhat civilized sing-along and then devolves into a kid-friendly shit-show.

Books on bedside table: Nine Perfect Strangers, Embassy Wife, The Islanders, What a Plant Knows (+ stacks of Astronomy magazine).

Favorite writer and why: Sue Monk Kidd. Through her stories, she is changing the way women see their place in the physical and spiritual world.

Your hero now: Mary Alice Monroe. She has been an incredible mentor to me.

Charitable work, causes: As an environmentalist and bicyclist, I am very interested in changing the way people in Charleston move. That’s why I’m on Charleston’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee. I’m also on the board of Charleston Council for International Visitors. And finally, with my novel, I’m trying to do my part to knock down the patriarchy.

Pet peeve: Idling cars.

Three people (alive or dead) you’d like to dine with: Lil Nas X, Liane Moriarty and Stephen Hawking.

Favorite cocktail or beverage: My husband’s homebrews. And the Bells of Jalisco from The Belmont, 511 King St. (though it should be served in a pitcher).

Favorite food: I realize this might sound lame, but I love a giant salad.

Five things you MUST always have in your refrigerator: Nothing comes to mind — I’m not very food-motivated. This is great, because nobody expects me to cook.

Hobbies: Getting my own oysters. Poking around the garden.

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Hagerty started In Polite Company in 2016 when her grandmother was in hospice care. Agnes Louise Mengedoht Street, 88, died that July. Writing the novel was cathartic. It also pays homage to her grandmother, who inspired the grandmother in the novel, a ballet dancer named Laudie.

Hagerty worked on the book during summers and holidays while working at The Citadel. Along the way, her mother, the poet, read pages and made suggestions, helping Hagerty to grow as a writer.

By 2019, she learned another writer leaned on local bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe for help and encouragement. Hagerty thought, “I know Mary Alice.”

So she reached out.

“When she read my book, she invited me over for coffee and gave me an hour and a half of her time and gave me the strengths and weaknesses of the book,” Hagerty recalled.

“I needed to get to the heart of a character,” she said. “I wanted to create a character that had a spirit that was crushed because of the social circumstances” of the time.

The meeting was a huge help. Monroe became Hagerty’s literary hero. The criticism helped her to focus the work and more fully develop Laudie into an inspirational character that’s vital to the book.

Today, as Hagerty waits on pins and needles to see what Charleston readers think of the book — it’s already gotten good reviews from a summer-long media blitz — she’s hard at work on a second novel. It’s set on Wadmalaw Island and focuses on three characters.

Her goal is to write about 1,000 words each weekday — about four double-spaced pages. It may not sound tough, but penning 5,000 original words per week is demanding. Hagerty says if she doesn’t make the goal

by Friday because of family stuff, marketing stuff, community stuff or other stuff, she works weekends to keep things moving.

What’s great about writing, she says, is that she’s still learning. An editor at the publishing company is helpful because she makes helpful suggestions before Hagerty — remember that she’s a “pants-er” who is writing by the seat of her pants — goes too far in a direction that might not be optimal.

“Writing is so capricious,” she said. “Like many a character, sometimes I really think about it and sometimes I am trying to get my 1,000 words in.”

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Greening up a dorm room — or any room

By Toni Reale, special to Digs

Be sensitive to light levels to keep your plants healthy.

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Observe your space before you shop

Whether you are going to the grocery store or to a plant shop, a little pre-planning will go a long way to ensure you don’t over-buy or purchase things that just aren’t going to work in your space.

Before heading out, take note of the spaces where you’d like to introduce plant life. Do you envision a plant that grows upright, trails or branches? Do you want to place it on the floor, a shelf, a patio or a table? Does it have enough room to grow?

Many guides and online resources suggest plant placement based on the direction that your windows face. While it is useful to know whether you have buildings next to you or other structures interfering with the amount of light that comes through your windows, choosing a spot for your plants based on window orientation is often moot. Instead, we suggest observing the type and amount of light that comes through your windows throughout the day.

Do the spaces where you’d like to place plants get direct or indirect light? The difference between direct or indirect light is simple.

Bright light means the sun shines directly onto the leaves of your plant, whereas indirect light would bounce off the floor, wall or something else before reaching the leaves.

Determining if your indirect light is bright, medium or low can be a little more tricky. Bright indirect means your plant could get five or more hours of bright light a day, but that light appears diffused as if your plant is separated from the sun by a sheer curtain.

Low light describes a space where you wouldn’t easily be able to read the words in your textbook. Medium indirect light would be somewhere in between. It should be noted that low light does not mean no light. All plants photosynthesize and require some amount of light to survive and thrive.

Take note of the placement of air vents in regards to where you’d like to place your plants. All indoor plants thrive in warmer tem-

peratures and most thrive in more humid conditions, so avoid placing plants directly below any vents. Taking the time to study your environment before purchasing plants will help ensure that any plants you bring home have a place to go where they will thrive.

Great starter plants

Based on the observations of the places where you’d like to introduce plants, consider these types of beginner plants: Sansevieria, or snake plant, is an excellent choice for the new plant parent with low light conditions. These upright-growing, die-hard plants thrive with very little care. In fact, one of the only ways to really kill this plant is by overwatering, so be sure to plant it in a pot with drainage. Water only when the soil has nearly dried out.

There are over 70 different species of sansevieria to choose from, so your choice can come down to style and what would look best in your space.

Another perk about having a snake plant in your room is that they are exceptional air purifiers. They produce clean oxygen at night while most plants release carbon dioxide during this time. Best placement, if possible, would be near your bed so that you can maximize this air-purifying benefit.

Pothos. If you’re looking for a trailing plant whose tendrils can cascade down a bookshelf or hang from the ceiling, try a pothos. These hard-to-kill plants can last for generations with minimal care. They can survive in bright- to low-light conditions but thrive in medium- to bright-lighting. There are many species to choose from, but shop favorites include silver satin pothos and marble queen. Both have unique

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leaf coloring and make a statement. Stick your index finger into its soil and if the top 2 inches are dry, then your plant can use a watering. They are better at handling drying out between waterings than being overwatered. Try cutting a piece of the vine below a node (the part of the stem where there is a bump and a new stem grows out of it) and sticking it in water.

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Ponytail palm. A fun and unique plant for the brightest indirect spot in your space is the ponytail palm. It thrives in bright, dry conditions making it an easy-to-care-for plant. They have bulb-like trunks that store water and can typically go weeks without watering. The leaves grow out of the top of the trunk, and they have a short root system. Although they are slower-growing than the pothos or snake plant, they will bring a smile to your face all year long.

Communication is key

If your dorm or suite mates want to be involved in plant care, be sure everyone is aware of what each plant requires. Consider making a care chart of sorts so that no one over or under waters the plants. Make a plan on who or how the plants get cared for over school breaks.

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