Elegant Island Living August 2016 by Elegant Island Living Media Group

From Crayons to Campus

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don’t know who decides when public schools start classes, but each year the kids seem to be going back to school earlier than the year before. Whatever happened to summer vacation? That was the time to hang out with your buddies, ride your bike all day, swim, go to camp etc. Of course there was always the dreaded family vacation to endure also. My sister is two years older than I am and, while I love her dearly now that I’m 54, I did not at the age of 6! If Cinderella had been a boy, it would have been me; although instead of three wicked stepsisters, I had one very mean real sister! Most of the time The Butler Siblings; David and Kelly during the summer with the “original” I avoided her wrath Duke, the summer of 1968. by being out playing with my friends. But for one week each summer I was doomed. That was when we took the twenty-hour, two-day car ride from St. Simons Island to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to visit my grandparents. Fortunately, my sister, who graduated valedictorian in high school and cum laude at Vanderbilt, liked to read so she would always have a book or two to keep her busy. WHO reads books in the summer?! I would always sit behind my dad because, as any kid will

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tell you, when your dad is driving it’s nearly impossible for him to reach directly behind to “yank your chain” when you misbehave. Then there was “the line.” You know “the line.” It’s that universal imaginary marker of territory in the back seat that divides siblings, and incurs a punch in the arm if crossed. Of course that

meant that by the time we reached Tulsa, my right arm was black and blue. Ah, the memories … I still break out in a sweat if I see a Ford Country Squire Station Wagon. I think they call that Post Family Vacation Syndrome!

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ugust seems too early to turn our thoughts from beach to backpacks, but here we are at the beginning of another school year. In these pages, we take you from an incredibly unique homeschool classroom with a marina view that lets the imagination sail to thoughts on the final year of high school and transition into college life. We also feature two local organizations that are hard at work to meet the needs of students in our community. And backpacks? Yes, we’ve got a little something about them too. We wish all of our students, parents, teachers, and school staff a school year of smooth seas and full sails. (continues)

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ne of the most interesting classrooms we’ve ever seen comes to us courtesy of designer Mary Knight of Seaside Homes. Mary was asked to convert two office spaces with no distinguishing features into a home school. Her client wanted a space that would not only encourage learning, but also provide complete freedom for her children’s creativity. Adding to the charm are heart pine ceil-

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ing beams and antique columns. Many items from the antique wire baskets to the ceiling fans originated in a cotton factory in Lanett, Alabama. All furnishings were provided by Seaside Home for durability and comfort. And with a collaborated effort between Island Sea Designs and Seaside Homes, these vintage fixtures and unique architectural elements are a true example of reclaiming, recycling and repurposing. Seaside Home is located at 125 Gary L. Moore Court. (continues)

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a tinted mirror with bookcases. School supplies are stored in 60 year-old tin bins. Under the mirror is a vegetable sink, originally from Budapest. OPPOSITE PAGE: Connecting the two spaces with an antique barn door set the tone for this rustic industrial but warm and inviting look. The open ceilings are covered with the wire baskets originally used to catch cotton at the factory.

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The center wall has antique columns and an 1880 fireplace surround from the Lanett factory. The center table was made from an instrument used to compact cotton and adorned with a copper top. (continues)

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facing the marina were handcrafted by Edie’s Wildsmith Woodworking. The desktops are hammered copper and each desk has a tin canopy ABOVE: Mary and

Ernie Knight opened Floor Décor 30 years ago, specializing in all types of flooring. Their craftsmanship now extends to a fabrication shop creating counter tops including granite and marble. Mary and Ernie’s two children have joined the business. Ryan manages the fabrication shop and Brittney is their regional buyer. Mary also opened Seaside Homes eight years ago. (continues)

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WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME

“Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got …”

he opening line to the theme song from Cheers may seem like an odd starting point to talk about the Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Georgia, but helping kids to make their way in the world today is precisely their mission. You’ll also hear it said by the kids, their families, teachers and staff (continues)

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members that the Boys & Girls Club is truly a place “where everybody knows your name.” This year is especially important for the Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Georgia because it is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The organization has been providing a clean and safe place for children and youth to gather when they aren’t in school for half a century and is still going strong. They’ll be throwing a party in September and will also be completely renovating the building on Johnston Street to mark their five decades of helping the youth in our community. Incorporated in 1966 by the State of Georgia as the Boys Club of Glynn, Inc., the Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Georgia began through the work of Rev. Roy B. Setzer in 1930. Rev. Setzer was the pastor of St. James Lutheran Church in Brunswick, the welfare director of the City, and volunteer Probation Officer of the Juvenile Court. Rev. Setzer saw urgent need and decided to form a club. “The purpose of the club was to lay a solid foundation for citizenship in the lives of underprivileged boys. There was a two-fold approach to this: (1) To instill into the boys the moral values of the Ten Commandments: (2) To demonstrate to them that the church and the community (through its civic clubs and leading citizens) had a genuine concern for them.” Meetings where the boys played games and discussed the Ten Commandments were 24

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held in the parish hall of the church on Friday nights and other special recreational activities were held during the week. When the group’s membership increased to 45 boys, the group split into two. The Kiwanis Club stepped up

were approximately 90 boys participating in the program. Before Rev. Setzer left the area in 1938, he drew up tentative plans for a clubhouse to expand the program and give it a permanent home. The idea was backed by Alfred Jones of Sea Island Company, among others.

2016 Youth of the Year Tireanna Medlock with Boys and Girls Club of Southeast Georgia Chief Professional Officer Brian Dolan.

and provided the boys with a camping trip on St. Simons Island each summer, tickets to ballgames, and meals. At that time, there

S.G. Norton took on the mantle of leadership after Rev. Setzer’s departure and was one of the individuals instrumental in organizing the group officially as the Brunswick Boys Club with a location in a two-story building on “H” street in 1938. The program featured boxing, football, basketball, woodshop, and movies. A new facility on “H” Street was built by the Brunswick Kiwanis Club in 1957, and they continued to support the project under the leadership of Bill Womack. Upon the death of Mr. Womack and subsequent issues, the club closed in August of 1965.

A man that many of us today know as a great friend to this community through his work with the St. Simons Island Land Trust and beyond, Ben T. Slade, III, stepped forward with E.M. Patterson and Paul Warwick, and advised a reorganization of the Board of Directors and helped the Boys Club of Glynn to obtain its incorporated status from the State of Georgia on October 28, 1966. I.M. Aiken, Sr. was elected president of the Board of Directors and Charles Gillican was hired as Executive Director. On May 1, 1967, the doors opened at a temporary site in (continues)

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Brunswick to welcome boys between the ages of 6 and 15 years old to a daily program.

Middle location opened as part of the Club’s strategic plan to keep youth involved all the way from elementary school through high school. The program that was once known for swim, gym, and football, has turned into a key community tool for ensuring academic success, high school graduation, workforce development, and general life skills. They offer after school and summer programs and recreational

and says her favorite thing about it is getting to interact with others. “The Boys & Girls Club helped me with career readiness, sports, and getting homework help. I learned so much from the classes I took with them too. Working in the Refuel program helped me to learn work skills. How not to be late. How to say no to your friends when they want you to bend the rules.”

The program that was once known for swim, gym, and football, has turned into a key community tool for ensuring academic success, high school graduation, workforce development, and general life skills.

Tireanna credits staff member Kyajuana Gilberts, who specializes in college/career placement readiment, with helping her to apply for college and find the funding she needed to attend. She says, “When she asked me what I was doing about college, I said ‘I don’t know.’ I didn’t. I knew college was there. I knew college cost money. But I didn’t know anything else about how to get there. She helped me so much.” Tireanna received a Correll Scholarship and will be starting classes at Savannah State at the time this issue hits the stands, with an intent to practice pediatric medicine.

Ben Slade spearheaded a capital funds drive in April 1968, and A.J. Reu, building chairman, had a piece of property located on Johnson Street in Brunswick cleared to become the site of the new building that would house the club. That property was donated by the Brice and Davis families of Vidalia. The club continued to operate during this time from various locations on St. Simons Campus Island and in Brunswick, s to yon Cra F rom and even increased membership. In June 1970, the new building on Johnston Street opened. This is only one of two freestanding facilities operated by the Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Georgia and is now known as the Terrill Thomas Unit. The other is the 20,000 sq. ft. Elizabeth F. Correll Teen Center that was opened in August 2009 and is located on a six-acre campus on Coral Park Drive in Brunswick. Other club locations are within the Brunswick Housing Authority, the middle schools, and the First Baptist Church on St. Simons Island. Approximately 4,700 youth are served annually through the 9 facilities. The Boys Club of Glynn became the Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Georgia in 1999, one of the last Boys Clubs in the nation to make the change to co-ed status. From serving 90 youth per day in the early days of the organization to now approximately 1,100 per day, the Club remains steadfast in its mission to provide a clean, safe place for youth to gather. Chief Professional Officer Brian Dolan says that the Club has grown at a tremendous rate, especially over the past 20 years, and they don’t anticipate that growth to slow. Need is greater than ever. It was just this year that the Glynn 26

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activities for youth on the weekends at the Teen Center. The Club, through its partnership with the USDA, also provides youth with breakfast, lunch, and snack during the summer, serving approximately 2,200 meals per day. During the school year, they offer a snack and hot dinner. Dolan credits having a very strong Board of Directors and great past presidents like Ben Slade and Bill Stembler as being the driving force behind the growth and success of the Club, giving them the access to reach so many youth in the community. It’s also a testament to the Club that the majority of the staff members came up through the program and now work for them, doing their best to make a difference in kids’ lives they way the Club did in theirs. A wonderful success story is 2016 Youth of the Year Tireanna Medlock. She’s been attending the Club since she was six years old

Tireanna says “I want to set an example for other youth. I want them to see that they can do more than make minimum wage, that they can make something of themselves.” She also says she’s going to miss the Teen Center and being able to stop in and talk to everyone, and hopes that they’ll let her come back in some capacity. That speaks volumes. If you have passed through the doors as a member of the Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Georgia during the 50 years of its existence, they invite you to get in touch by emailing bgcglynnalumni@gmail.com as they are attempting to reach any and all alumni. The 50 Year Anniversary Celebration will be held September 13 at the Elizabeth F. Correll Teen Center and our very own Elaine Griffin will be the guest speaker. For more information about the Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Georgia and their programs, including the Elizabeth F. Correll Teen Center, visit apositiveplace.net.

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Cunningham began using nylon instead of canvas for the packs. It was stronger, lighter, and more durable, and quickly became the standard in outdoor equipment.

hen we think back to school, we think backpacks. As important as #2 pencils and plentiful notebooks, the backpack is a student essential from elementary school through college. It’s hard for most of us to imagine making it from home to locker and across campus without one. However, it wasn’t all that long ago that this perfect textbook tote came on the scene. Here’s a quick look at the history and evolution of the backpack: From 1900s through the 1930s, kids carried their books with a book strap. What was this ingenious invention? A leather belt. Wrap the belt around the books, tighten, and carry like a bag or sling the bundle over your shoulders. Handy. At some point, use of the book strap fell out of fashion and kids simply carried their books unprotected in their arms. The book strap didn’t evolve into the backpack, however, it came from the world of outdoor adventures. As the story goes, an outdoor enthusiast named Gerry Cunningham created the two 28

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major innovations that lead to the development of the modern school backpack: the use of zipper and nylon in rucksacks. Wanting something more convenient to use while rock climbing and dissatisfied with the day packs of the time, the owner of Gerry Outdoors in Boulder, CO, made his own pack with two zippered compartments for easy reach. The zippered canvas rucksack sold well and was improved by Cunningham over the years. In 1967, a huge development was made when

It was around this time that companies like Patagonia, North Face, Kelty and others also began popping up with increased demand for better outdoor equipment and clothing. Skip Yowell and Murray Pletz started an outdoor gear company in Seattle, but discovered they needed someone who could sew. It just so happened that Jan Lewis, the woman Murray was dating had a home sewing machine. They made her a partner and, according to Yowell, Murray told Jan if she married him that he’d name the company after her. Thus, JanSport – perhaps one of the best known names in backpacks – was born. In 1969, they developed the Ski and Hike daypack. One of the ski and outdoor equipment vendors to which they sold was connected to the University of Washington bookstore. The Seattle weather played a part in increasing the popularity of the Ski and Hike daypack because students bought it to keep their books dry. Noting the new use and the weight of the books, JanSport started making the bottom of

Jan Lewis, the woman Murray was dating had a home sewing machine. They made her a partner and, according to Yowell, Murray told Jan if she married him that he’d name the company after her. Thus, JanSport – perhaps one of the best known names in backpacks – was born. the bags sturdier by sewing on a layer of bus seat vinyl. The Ski and Hike pack sold like hotcakes and other college stores began selling it as well. In 1974, Caribou Mountaineering arose from a similar merger of outdoor enthusiast and seamstress in Chico, CA. Gary Kirk was attending Chico State and couldn’t find a pack that would fit all of his textbooks. Marcia Briggs, an expert seamstress, recalls that he took a pile of those books, wrapped some nylon around them and stapled it together. He brought that to her and asked her to make a backpack for my books. It took a few days, but the Caribou Cricket was born. They took it to the bookstore at Chico State and agreed to sell on consignment terms in case the packs didn’t sell. The first batch sold out and Caribou quickly lined up other university bookstores across the country. Ned Kitchel, a senior project manager at L.L. Bean was looking for a daypack to hold textbooks since receiving a suggestion letter from a Harvard Law student. Fortuitously, he met Briggs at a trade show. At Kitchel’s request she modified the Cricket to add more room up top and brought it to L.L. Bean headquarters in Freeport, Maine. In 1982, the new Book Pack was featured in the L.L. Bean catalog. It quickly became the company’s topselling product. JanSport followed with the release of the Spring Break, a new model designed specifically for textbooks in 1984. That too was wildly popular. Between the two companies, both the East and West Coasts were covered and other competitors arose too. Backpacks had become a necessity and by the late 1980s, nearly everyone student walking to school used one. Since that time, the styles haven’t changed much, but designs have made the packs better suited for schoolwork and the needs of students: more compartments, mesh pockets, water bottle pouches, spaces for electronics and cords. Wheeled packs were developed in response to health risk concerns of carrying heavy packs. Right now, millions of students are still using the classic JanSport and L.L. Bean packs and other models like them all over the world. There’s a good chance there’s even one in a closet in your house right now. (continues)

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EXPANDING THE BLESSINGS A recent Blessings in a Backpack packing party hosted by Tallie Pipkin and her motherin-law, Judy Saalfield.

ou may remember reading about Blessings in a Backpack in past issues of Elegant Island Living. This national not-for-profit organization provides weekend food to more than 78,000 elementary school children on free and reduced lunch programs in 800 schools throughout the U.S. For many children, while their nutritional needs are met during the school day, food is not available at home on the weekends. The local branch was serving approximately 500 students at Altama Elementary school and has been the beneficiary of proceeds raised from the annual Wiffle Ball 30

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Challenge held by the sponsoring Davis Love Foundation and PGA Tour Wives Association in connection with the RSM Classic (formerly McGladrey Classic). Last year, a dynamic force arrived in the Golden Isles in the form of a blonde from Oklahoma named Mary Catherine Moon-Sexton. Unaware of the Altama program, and already familiar with the national Blessings in a Backpack organization, she learned of the incredible need locally and, together with Jennifer Meyers and some other friends, set about providing the weekend food program to as many children as they could reach. She began a GoFundMe campaign and

“As a single parent who has two jobs, I understand what it means to appreciate every gift that I have been blessed with, and your program is definitely a gift to me and my children.”

ABOVE: Non-perishable food ready to be packed. RIGHT: Even local civic organizations like the Girl

Scouts, Girls on the Run, and vacation bible school classes have helped with packing bags.

started organizing packing parties. Friends volunteered and shared the need to raise awareness. With just those efforts, they were able to provide weekend food to 50 students at Goodyear Elementary last year, and in March were able to increase that number to 75 students. With the aid of the national organization, Blessings in a Backpack Glynn County, was born. Developments earlier this year have led to Mary Catherine and Blessings in a Backpack Glynn County now taking over the program

at Altama Elementary school and also now handing services that were once provided at Burroughs-Molette. Mary Catherine estimates that there are approximately 2,700 students on the free and reduced lunch program in Glynn County who are currently in need of weekend nutritional support. She states firmly, and with a smile, “We want to expand to reach ALL of the kids who need it.” Jennifer adds, “and realistically, although that seems huge, we CAN!” They stress that it only takes $100 to feed one child for the entire year. It’s as simple as that.

You can make a donation of $100 one time and that is one more child who doesn’t have to go hungry on weekends. That’s a pretty impressive impact with tangible results that are reported by teachers and counselors: improved behavior in school, better grades, increased span of attention, etc. Mary Catherine and Jennifer have many more helping hands than can be named and are avidly spreading the word about the expanded services that they are providing and (continues)

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the huge need that still exists. Friends, fellow congregation members, and school parents, are joining them to help raise donations, collect food, and arrange packing parties, in private homes, in conjunction with church groups, vacation bible school, organizations like the Girl Scouts and Girls on the Run. They’re trying to get as many bags packed as possible to be ready for the school year and it’s inspiring to see the community rallying behind them. If you want to throw a packing party as a girls’ night, or as part of a project for a community organization or business, your assistance is always welcome! While non-perishable food donations are helpful to them, Mary Catherine says, monetary donations go much further. With money donated, Blessings in a Backpack can purchase food from sources like Second Harvest at a significantly reduced cost that isn’t available to the average consumer. The amount of food they can get for their money is amazing, and allows them to fill more bags. And $100 to feed a child during the weekend for an entire year – isn’t that more rewarding than a few months of double shot hazelnut cappuccinos at Starbucks? The other pressing need right now for the organization, Mary Catherine shares, is a ground-

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floor climate controlled storage area where they can keep the food, receive deliveries, and pack on site. The space they are currently using, generously donated by Crabdaddy’s, is upstairs and they’re rapidly running out of room. If you

program and packing those same bags as volunteers – the joy of giving. Carina Taylor, a mother of children receiving food through Blessings in a Backpack of Glynn wrote this to the volunteers: “As a single parent who has two jobs, I understand what it means to appreciate every gift that I have been blessed with, and your program is definitely a gift to me and my children. As a mother of four, it’s hard to provide food, but since we were able to be a part of your program, it has been an enormous help. I really want to thank you for everything and I hope you’re able to bless more families.”

have a unused storage facility or empty warehouse space somewhere locally, you too might be able to contribute. Teachers and counselors at the schools tell the Blessings in a Backpack volunteers that the kids are so excited on Fridays when they get the food packed for them that they can’t wait to see what’s inside and show their friends too. It’s not an embarrassment, but a source of joy. Joy can be seen on the faces of kids who are collecting donations for the

Elegant Island Living has been spreading the word about Blessings in a Backpack for more than a few years now and has helped host events that benefit the program. We invite you to join us in supporting this organization through your own donations and volunteer efforts or by attending this year’s Wiffle Ball Challenge at the RSM Classic where we’ll be planning some special activities. Stay tuned! For more information about Blessings in a Backpack of Glynn County, visit www.feedingourfutureglynn.org

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BACK TO SCHOOL BACK HEALTH

eading back to school is an exciting and busy time of the year. We check off our supply lists, shop for new clothes and make sure the young ones are ready for the first day of school. As parents you will have a lot of responsibility to ensure it is a smooth process. The last thing you will likely be worried about is your child’s spinal health. Don’t worry, Advance Rehabilitation has your back … literally. The daily routine of students over the next 10 months may not be physically exhausting, but the repetition of hauling heavy backpacks and hours of sitting can take its toll on the spine. Not to mention the extra hours spent poring over smart phones and tablets, checking out Instagram and Snapchat while pretending to do homework! That’s right, parents, “text neck” is actually a real condition. We want to provide you with a few tips to prevent back and neck pain through proper fitting of backpacks and a few simple exercises to reverse the postural damage caused by hours of sitting. Let’s start with the backpack. Assuming your child doesn’t have a rolling backpack, take time to check the following to ensure proper fit and usage. First, the backpack should not extend above shoulders and it should rest in contour of lower back (not sag below belt line). Shoulder straps should rest comfortably on shoulders and underarms, allowing arms to move freely. Wider, padded straps will better disperse pressure over shoulders. Straps should be tightened so that the pack is snug on the back, and both straps should be worn at all times, because

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uneven forces on the spine can lead to muscle imbalance. Another important safety feature to consider is that the pack is made with reflective material or strips to increase visibility in low light. The total weight of the pack should not exceed 15% of child’s body weight. If it does, then a rolling backpack should be used.

at the edge of a couch or chair. Aim to accumulate 2 minutes in the stretched position on each side per day.

Next, let us look at a few simple corrective exercises to reverse the effects of hours of sitting at desks while reading, writing and texting … I mean listening to the teacher. The following few exercises can benefit everyone who is required to sit at a desk all day. It is never too late to begin a daily routine and consider it nothing more than “spinal hygiene.” It can become a normal part of your day just like brushing your teeth. Hours of sitting will cause your hips to become tight, specifically the hip flexors in the front. This tightness will put excess pressure on the lumbar spine while standing and walking. A simple and very effective stretch to open up the hips and ease the pressure on the spine is the “couch stretch”. This can easily be done

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The middle part of the back, or thoracic spine, will also lose mobility as a result of prolonged sitting. The thoracic spine needs to be mobile to ensure proper shoulder and neck positioning. In fact, when patients come into our clinic with neck and shoulder pain we almost always see a limitation in thoracic spine mobility. Maintaining proper motion here will prevent a host of issues. Two simple exercises (continues)

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to address this include “thoracic spine extension over towel roll” and the “open book”. Using a rolled-up towel, lie down with the towel between the shoulder blades and perpendicular to the spine. Keeping your belly tight, take your hands over head and use the towel as a “fulcrum”

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To perform the “open book”, lie on your side with both knees bent and arms straight out. Slowly take the top hand up, away and in the opposite direction. Exhale completely when opened up, then return to the starting position and repeat 20 times. Be sure to perform on both sides. It is always a good idea to first increase mobility THE W and then capture the new range of motion with a strengthening exercise. Lastly, we will provide an exercise that activates and resets the muscles that are responsible for maintaining good posture. The “W” is a simple movement that strengthens muscles often compromised by prolonged sitting. Grab a band

stable spine when respect our intended design. Unfortunately, many things we do on a daily basis hinder optimal functional movement. Encourage your child and even yourself to use these few tips to prevent postural issues that can lead to further dysfunction. Advance Rehabilitation loves to help. If you or your child is experiencing pain or are concerned about proper body mechanics and want to learn more, give us a call for a free Movement Screening. We can identify ways to help your movement become more efficient and pain-free. Have a great school year! (continues)

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THE DROP DEAD DORM ROOM by Elaine Griffin

If  you want to take your standard  dorm room from blah to bling, here are the essential must-haves to create a drop dead dorm room this fall:

A DESIGN SCHEME. Well-designed spaces start with a design scheme, and dorm rooms are no exception! But don’t blow your décor budget pre-shopping, especially freshman year. Buy the essentials in advance (bed linens,

shower stuff, small art & storage), then make an itemized wish list or Pinterest board of other elements that depend on your room’s size and layout (big art, area rugs, lighting, mirrors). Execute orders once you’ve hit campus and measured the space in real life. A BLINGED-OUT BED. Because your bed takes up the overwhelming majority of your dorm room’s visual real estate, your bed linens should be the star of the show, whether you plan on keeping them all four years or swapping them out every year. Invest in (continues) 38

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washable (what collegians dry clean anything?), easy-to-care-for quality linens, 300 thread count and up, and no-iron cotton sheets (it’ll say so on the package). It’s up to you whether you want your roommate to have matching bedding or styles that just complement, instead, but I promise that Décor-to-YourDoor.com’s customizable Lilly bedding (seen here) will insure preppy, sun-filled dreams nightly for every Southern Princess. STRATEGIC STORAGE. Max out your outof-sight storage. Use under bed space and get risers to create more space! Try stacked hangers in closets, plus cute boxes and bins wherever you can squeeze them in. Also use in plain sight storage: wall hooks laid out in rows or grid patterns, cubbies and shelves galore. Go big with multi-taskers and combo anything. Remember, when you can’t go horizontal, go vertical. Think of walls as floor-to-ceiling opportunities to add both style and storage. LOADS OF PERSONALIZED PERSONALITY. As Southerners, we know that anything looks better with a monogram, including mes40

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sage boards (a charming old-school must for your door, even if everything goes down via text these days), pinboards, bath towels (to discourage your roomie from swiping yours), and lampshades. You’ll find a gazillion options online at Etsy.com. If it moves, you can monogram it, and shops on the island will do that. Great options for filling prime-visibility, abovethe-bed or other major Wall Moments: custom removable wallpaper or decal cutouts, supersized murals or wrapped canvas prints of the fam (art with love!), and shamelessly brilliant giant monograms and oversized college logos. (Check out Fathead.com for the guys.) LUSCIOUS LIGHTING. The only bigger visual buzzkill than most school-issued bed frames (and THOSE you can dress up with fabric!) is most rooms’ overhead lighting, which can be nothing short of treacherous. So plan on loads of lamplight, instead. You’ll want task options for your desk to study by, a table lamp or two, depending on the size of your space, and a mini wall-mounted or clip-on number for late night reading in bed. Festive string lights are optional.

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emember when your kids were little you’d always put a note (maybe with a Hershey’s kiss or two) in their backpack or lunchbox to wish them good luck and send a little extra love on their first day? Care packages for college kids have just the same effect and are especially appreciated when they come out of the blue, but think outside of the box of homemade chocolate chip cookies and brownies. (Although sending those every now and again is

awesome too!) Here are some fun and still practical ideas for some care packages every college kid would love. THE STUFF THEY LEFT BEHIND. Yep. It happens. When they leave, they forget stuff. Box it up and tuck in a few family photos or maybe a shot or two of the dog. Add a sweet treat, just because. Throw in a couple favorite t-shirts that are still in a drawer or maybe pick up a few vintage concert or comic tees at a thrift store. (continues)

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Remind them that they’re still a kid. Send a box with water guns, water balloons, silly string, and goofy hats or sunglasses. And if you tuck in a gift card card for the local coffee shop, you’ll gain extra points. THE SICK BAY. Kids forget that when they’re away from home there’s no handy medicine cabinet already stocked for them. Send them a box of the essentials. And you might even want to do this as more than one package, send one full of first aid supplies like band-aids, Neosporin, gauze, antiseptic, antihistamine, aspirin, and the like (you may even want to provide full size and a small carry-along kit); then send another with cold remedies, cough drops, extra Vitamin C, tissues and maybe a few cartons (since they’re better and lighter than cans) of chicken soup, and some herbal tea. CLEAN IT UP. Along the same lines, kids are used to having cleaning supplies at their fingertips. Dorm rooms get dusty and start smelling stale. Send a box with some air freshener, dust cloths, paper towels, multisurface cleaner, electronics cleaner, and some laundry detergent pods too. Throw in some soy candles in a scent you use to give them a whiff of home. JUST A NOTE. Never underestimate the power of a few simple words of love and encouragement. Grab a box a whimsical notes or pick up a funny card once a month and just 44

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drop it in the mail for no reason at all. It doesn’t have to include a lengthy letter and shouldn’t be used to guilt them into calling or writing back. Try to include a gift card whenever you can, even if it’s just for a couple movie tick-

NIGHT AT THE MOVIES. Movie boxes are easy and can include some DVDs of classics you love, new movies, a Netflix card (or a note with the password to your Netflix account), or maybe even some old home movies burned to disc. Add a bag of cheese popcorn, some boxes of candy, and a bottle of soda. If they have a favorite movie, you can theme out the box with random toys and merchandise – think Star Wars, Harry Potter, Avengers, or even Minions!

ets, $10 for some new iTunes, or a pizza. Every little bit helps.

BE CREATIVE. Decorate your packages with drawings or tuck notes in with funny sayings or telling why you included the items you did, or “instructions” on how to use. Wrap items by putting them in cute and whimsical socks, pillowcases, bed linens or t-shirts. That’s a two-fer! Goofy puns are always terrific too. Making ’em groan is just another way to make ’em smile.

WATER FIGHT! Remind them that they’re still a kid. Send a box with water guns, water balloons, silly string, and goofy hats or sunglasses. Pack up a box of whatever you can think of that you know they’ll get a laugh out of and wrap it in comic book pages. Then put it in a bigger box and wrap that one. And so on. Make ’em smile.

SURPRISE! Not so much a “care package,” and a little harder to put into effect when you have a busy, on-the-move college student, is a surprise delivery order from their favorite pizza place or Chinese restaurant. Call in and pay for an order to be delivered to your student’s door, and send a text saying “dinner’s on me tonight!” (continues)

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ne year. One year to learn how to do my own laundry. One year left to go to Waffle House after football games. One year to (attempt to) learn how to save money. One year left to spend every weekend with my best friends watching movies, stuffing our faces with the most unhealthy food on the planet, and helping each other figure out life. One year to learn my left from my right (yes, I still have to make a L with my hands). One year to make memories. One year to grow up. As my senior year starts, the little speck of big fear that has been living in the back of my mind begins to (continues)

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One year left to spend every weekend with my best friends watching movies, stuffing our faces with the most unhealthy food on the planet, and helping each other to figure out life. grow. The speck that is growing so large encompasses the feeling of fear and now it begins to allow stress and anxiety to also manifest in my brain. So much to do and so little time. One year. 512 Ocean Boulevard St. Simons Island, GA 31522 912.634.9977 www.mulletbayrestaurant.com Live Music on the Deck

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year until we decide who we choose to hang out with and where. One year until we get to decide when (if ever) we clean our dorms. The Friday night lights will now become college game days. Class sizes will go from thirty kids we know to three hundred people we’ve never met. We know there will be old friends but soon, we hope, there will be countless new ones. We will have the comfort of old memories while we create new ones. We will have a new freedom without all the responsibilities of adulthood. One year. One year will fly by. Before I know it, the football games, homecoming, senior prom, and my high school graduation will have passed. But for now, every moment will be appreciated. I’ll try to slow down, because all of who I am will soon become who I was, and I know who I will become will really be what’s most important. This year I am going to soak it all in. I’ll spend time with my friends, savor Mama’s cooking, watch Animal Planet with my dog, smile when my little brother becomes taller than me, laugh at Daddy’s

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n the outside, That’s Italian Cucina y Pizzeria Napoletano may have a utilitarian shopping center storefront look, but when you step inside the doors, you’ll be transported to another world. A warm ambiance of wood and stone Owner Gennaro with brick archways and wine bottle Esposito chandeliers welcomes you to sit back and enjoy a intimate refined Italian also been a winemaker, so Gennaro is not only dining experience, brick-oven pizza with the comfortable with what he’s putting on plates family, or time with friends at their unparalleled and pouring in your glasses, he’s absolutely paswine bar. This unassuming restaurant tucked sionate about it. And while the restaurant may away in Retreat Plaza offers a flavorful new culibe new to us here, our neighbors up the road nary adventure from the Old World. have been enjoying Gennaro’s delicious dishes for years, as he opened the first That’s Italian in Owner Gennaro Esposito is a welcoming and Hinesville in 2011, and a second location in knowledgeable host. His family came from the Richmond Hill in 2013. Not a national chain Campania region of Italy, and it is cuisine from or franchise, That’s Italian is one of a small Naples and the region that he brings to St. family of restaurants that Gennaro owns and Simons Island. He’s been in and out of restaurant kitchens since he was 13 years old and has

oversees himself. You’ll find him in at least one of the restaurants every day – and sometimes all three! He credits having good managers in place (including his son, in Hinesville) with his ability to operate in three locations. One of the features inside is the beautiful big brick oven stocked with wood that gives their delicious pizza and other dishes their unique and authentic Old World flavor. Fresh mozzarella, summer tomatoes and basil top a Neapolitan-style round, thin crust pizza baked with dough made fresh daily for a marvelous Margherita. But this is anything but a typical “pizza joint.” Regional cuisine takes the spotlight here, with some additions and modifications for local tastes and customer preference. So now, yes, you CAN get a pepperoni pizza, as well as the amazing lasagna that is made just as it was in Gennaro’s own family. From salumi and bruschetta, to salads, soups, (continues)

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pasta, seafood, and more, there’s something for every palate and every size appetite. Gennaro sticks to what’s tried and true for ingredients. He uses the best pastas, olive oil brands

he knows that originate in Italy. For meats, fresh fish, cheeses, produce, Gennaro knows exactly the quality and standard he wants, and he uses trusted sources to ensure that he gets them. Near the brick oven, a shiny slicer for salami and other cured meats (collectively called salumi) sits as a testament to Gennaro’s love for doing things “old style.” It’s a manual slicer, not electric, because, he says, “some of the old ways of doing things are the best.” On the other hand, the wine bar embraces modernity. That’s Italian offers fine Italian wines fresh by the glass from a tap, as well as bottles upon bottles of exquisite choices. While most of the wines offered are from the Southern region of Italy, the selection should more than satisfy most wine lovers. If you’re in the mood for a cocktail, specialty drinks include bellinis

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and an Italian mule, as well as seasonal treats such as a basil strawberry martini, a watermelon rum lemonade, and a delightful summer spritzer. Of course, you can always grab a cold glass of Peroni, if it’s beer you’d prefer. A discussion of the menu and Italian cooking establishes that Gennaro is indeed passionate about his desire to create great, authentic Campania-style dishes and a dining experience that customers will love. Neapolitan cuisine has ancient historical roots and is flavored by sea, and ingredients enriched by the dark soil and the sun. He explains the varieties of pasta shapes and types of sauces offered and the differences between them, and the difficulty in Georgia of finding some of the items that were always readily available in New Jersey, where he lived and worked in the restaurant business before moving here. His eyes light up when he talks about the flavors and the preparation of the dishes. Gennaro says that his best compliments have been from diners who have been to Italy before or who have just returned from a trip and said that the food they’ve had at That’s Italian took them back to that experience. While he is happy to accommodate customer demand and offer some standard dishes they “expect” from an Italian restaurant, Gennaro hopes that diners will embrace Neapolitan cuisine and be

open to trying dishes that go beyond standard fare like ravioli and shrimp fra diavlo, despite the fact that they may find the menu hard to read. You’ll find that the restaurant staff is very friendly and will do their best to explain the dishes if you have questions. Since opening last year, Gennaro has made some changes to the menu and hours based on island clientele. Unfortunately, they’ll no longer be open for lunch; however, their Happy Hour menu and drink specials are out of this world! Spacious and comfortable without a loud atmosphere, it’s a perfect place to bring a group for a casual meeting or gather friends after work for a drink or three. If you’re thinking dinner date, currently That’s Italian is offering a special on Sundays and Mondays: when you order two dinner entrees, you’ll receive 50% off a bottle of your choice of select fine Italian wines. That’s a nice way to start or end a week! Stop in That’s Italian Cucina y Pizzeria Napoletana and take a culinary tour of Italy’s Campania region. Experience wine and food flavored by Naples and Old World traditions. Treat yourself to a salumi platter with an assortment of cured meats, cheeses, and vegetables. Try dishes you can’t pronounce. Your taste buds will thank you! That’s Italian Cucina y Pizzeria Napoletana is located at 118 Retreat Village and is open Monday-Saturday 4:30-10:00 p.m., Sunday 4:00-10:00 p.m. Call 912.771.8166 to make reservations.

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Know Your (And Your Sauces Too!)

asta comes in so many shapes and sizes, it’s good to have a guide to some of the more commonly used noodles and tips for their use and sauce pairings.

Conchiglie (shells). Available in a variety of

sizes, shells are often used for macaroni and cheese or in soups and pasta salads. Large shells can be stuffed with cheese or meat or vegetables and baked.

Angel Hair. Long, thin, round noodles

Farfalle /Bow Tie

that resemble very fine spaghetti. Cooks very quickly. Perfect for pairing with light sauces or cooked with oil and butter and tossed with herbs and garlic or vegetables. Also good with traditional Italian sauces.

(butterflies). This fun bow tie shaped pasta is a great sauce holder and always brightens up soup or pasta salad recipes.

Bucatini. Tube-shaped pasta that’s like

Fettuccine. A thick ribbon-like pasta that is

thick spaghetti but hollow in the middle. A perfect choice for just about any sauce, and also great in casseroles.

Calamarata. This circular pasta takes its

name from rings of calamari, which resemble its shape. Excellent with fish or seafood-rich sauce, and fitting for use in a seafood or calamari stew.

Cavatappi (corkscrew). The tight spiral shape of this pasta locks in flavor, so it’s the perfect shape to pair with either simple or sophisticated sauces. You can also partner it with vegetables or lean protein, or use in pasta salad, for a dish that’s sure to impress.

Linguine (little tongues). Long flat noodle,

more narrow than fettuccine. Holds sauce well, so complements a variety of sauces, and is also a good choice for use in stir-fry and salads.

Orecchiette (little ears). Curved pasta rounds, generally served with thick, chunky sauces or used in pasta salads. (continues)

usually paired with rich sauces (most commonly, alfredo), and thick, meat-based sauces.

Fusili (twisted spaghetti). A long spiral shaped

pasta that is suitable for topping with any sauce or for use casseroles. For use in soups or to turn into a great looking salad, break them in half.

Gemelli (twins).

This distinctive “wrapped” pasta shape adds a touch of style to dishes and pairs nicely with cream, seafood, and vegetable sauces, as well as traditional meat sauce.

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Orzo (barley). Often confused with rice, this small grain-shaped pasta is excellent in soups and is perfect as a side dish. Can be topped with any sauce or baked as a casserole too.

Paccheri. Large tube shaped pasta. Can be

served stuffed, topped with sauce and meat, or baked in casserole.

Pappardelle. Flat pasta cut into a broad

ribbon shape, wider than tagliatelle, but more narrow than lasagna. Pair with rich, heavy sauces. Very popular choice in winter months.

Penne (quills or feathers). Penne is a tube-shaped pasta that comes in varieties of its own, including a smaller penne mostaccioli, and the ridged penne rigate. This noodle complements virtually every sauce, and is exceptional when paired with a chunky sauce. Also excellent with cream or oil based sauces. The ridges in the rigate version are perfect for locking in flavor. A great choice for baked dishes. Rigatoni (large grooved). Large ribbed,

round, tube-like pasta. The ridges and holes make rigatoni perfect for any sauce from cream or cheese to chunky meat sauces.

Rotini (spirals or twists). The twisted shape of this pasta holds bits of vegetables, meat, and

cheese, so it works well with thick and chunky sauces. It’s also ideal for salads and baked casseroles.

Spaghetti (a length of cord). America’s favor-

ite shape of pasta. Long, round noodles. The perfect choice for nearly any sauce. Also bakes well in casseroles, and is an excellent ingredient in stir-fry dishes.

Tagliatelle. Long ribbon-like noodles,

similar to fettucini. Best served with a classic meat sauce, but pairs well with a wide array of sauces.

Vermicelli (little worms). Long

round noodles, slightly thinner than spaghetti. Suitable for any sauce, and a great stir-fry or salad ingredient.

Ziti (bridegrooms).

What’s in the Sauce? Just as there are loads of pasta shapes and sizes, there are dozens of types of pasta sauces and variations of them. Here are some of the more common offerings and their ingredients:

Aglio e olio. Simple oil and garlic. As easy

as it gets! Sprinkle with parsley or some grated cheese, or add red pepper flakes for heat.

Alfredo. Rich and creamy, this sauce is made

from butter and cream with freshly grated Parmesan cheese, and freshly ground black pepper. Often served with fettucini.

Bolognese /Ragu. A thick, rich meat sauce,

usually made with ground beef or pork, pancetta, tomatoes, onions, garlic, carrots, and celery.

Carbonara. A creamy sauce typically made with eggs, cream, Parmesan cheese and bits of bacon.

Medium-sized tubular pasta. Perfect for meat dishes and chunky sauces. Works well in baked dishes and stirfry, as well as salads.

Fra Diavlo. A spicy sauce

Some others you should know that are usually filled with meat, cheeses, or vegetables: Manicotti, Ravioli, Tortellini, and, of course, Lasagne noodles are the staple pasta for the traditional meat and cheese layered dish.

Marinara. A classic tomato

dubbed “Brother Devil” that is usually tomato based and seasoned with chili peppers and served on pasta or seafood.

sauce typically seasoned with garlic, oregano, and onions. Popular for use in pasta and meat dishes, and on pizza.

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Marsala. A

common winebased sauce that uses Marsala, a sweet Spanish wine, combined with rich ingredients like heavy cream and parmesan cheese. Often mushrooms are added and the sauce is served over a protein like chicken or veal, as well as pasta.

Pesto. A blended mixture of fresh basil, pine

nuts, garlic, Parmesan cheese and olive oil that is green in color.

Pomodoro. Basic tomato sauce. The name

translates to “golden apple,” because the first tomatoes that arrived in Italy were yellow.

Puttanesca. A very fragrant sauce that

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Vodka. A simple and flavorful sauce made

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The festival is expanding into a pleasure-packed culinary experience, with the marquee event, Tastings Under the Oaks, taking place on Saturday, October 8th in historic Gascoigne Bluff Park. There will be hundreds of beverage and culinary tastings. Additional festival events, from intimate dinners to oneof-a-kind tastings, live and silent auctions, happen all over St. Simons Island and throughout the Golden Isles. James Beard Foundation award-winning, celebrity chef Robert Stehling of Hominy Grill in Charleston, and more than 20 of the region’s most popular, award-winning chefs and culinary personalities are scheduled to appear along with local restaurant favorites. 58

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n October 5-9th, the beloved culinary and spirits celebration known as the St. Simons Island Food & Spirits Festival returns for its fifth year to give locals and visitors a taste of the best food and drink our shores have to offer. This year there is even more to see, taste and do. From craft spirits created around the world to the coastal bounty of seafood, barbecue and artisan flavors, this is the place to treat yourself to a five day epicurean adventure.

On Thursday, October 6th, the BBQ Pro-Am, presented by Sea Island Resort, Bulleit Bourbon and Georgia Crown, will once again feature local resident, PGA Tour veteran, and US Ryder Cup Team Captain Davis Love III and a host of the South’s best Pitmasters and PGA Tour professional golfers. New this year, will be the “Sip & Stir Pier Tastings Tent” as part of Friday night’s Pier Crawl & Village Stroll, presented by Rich’s, which will feature music and hundreds of wines, spirits and beers. Gourmet tasting bites and signature cocktails will be featured at participating restaurants and shops throughout the Pier Village. Contributing to Hospice of the Golden Isles has become an even more rewarding experience this year. Enjoy the Festival while directly benefiting Hospice by

becoming a “Friends of Hospice VIP Member.” This special VIP package provides members with tickets to the best events and provides exclusive member privileges, not available to the general public. Enjoy early access to many events along with meet and greet opportunities hosted by participating celebrities and talent. This will surely be the hottest ticket of the Festival as quantities are very limited. Inextricably linked to glorious St. Simons Island, the festival will welcome some of the world’s most accomplished winemakers, celebrity chefs, and culinary experts in one breathtaking setting this fall. Mark your calendars, invite your friends and family, and watch for the September issue of EIL to find out all the details on all the events happening. For a complete list of events, tickets and details visit ssifoodandspirits.com.

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here’s nothing “shrimpy” about Jekyll Island’s Shrimp and Grits Festival, well… other than the crustacean’s spot as a main attraction. Every year it just gets bigger and better. The spirited three-day event is a coastal favorite that combines the classic Southern dish with family-friendly entertainment, more than 100 arts and crafts vendors, live music, a kids’ zone, food, a craft brew fest, wildlife demonstrations,

and more. From Friday, September 16 through Sunday, September 18, the oak-lined National Historic Landmark District will be filled with delightful Southern delicacies, lively entertainment, and non-stop fun for all ages. For the foodies, there are captivating guest chef demonstrations and never-ending variations on the classic shrimp and grits dish, including the amateur and professional cooking competitions. If you’re a beer aficionado, there’s the always-popular Craft Brew Fest, presented by Southern Eagle Distributing with so many opportunities for tasting! There will also be cooking and lifestyle presentations by Southern Living experts throughout the weekend in the Southern Living Pavilion. Music lovers, you’re in for a real treat! Not only will there be live music by popular regional artists on three stages, this year there will be a con-

cert on Friday evening in the beautiful oceanfront convention center. The featured performer at the Friday concert is Grammy-nominated Nashville recording artist David Nail. The weekend is perfect for family fun. There’s a special kids’ zone that includes bounce houses crafts and more. There will also be wildlife demonstrations in the Jekyll Island Experience Pavilion. If it’s art you love, more than 100 art and craft vendors will have handcrafted goods like painting, photography, pottery, jewelry, and clothing – something for every interest. This year, there is an expanded festival area as well as a VIP Pavilion and new lounge areas. The VIP experience promises to be extra special too. Benefits include daily entrance to the island, on-site Festival parking a short distance from the VIP tent, which is elevated and cooled with fans, prime view of the Main Stage, VIP access to Indian Mound Cottage, a phone-charging station, daily catered meals and snacks from Straton Hall Events, and unlimited beverages (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, provided by Southern Eagle Distributing and Coca-Cola). So live it up in high style like Indian Mound’s former owner, Mr. Rockefeller did. General admission to the festival is free. Tickets for the VIP Experience, lounges, Craft Brew Fest, presented by Southern Eagle Distributing, and David Nail concert will be available online. For more information, including the latest three-day schedule for the 2016 Jekyll Island Shrimp & Grits Festival, visit jekyllisland.com/shrimpgrits.

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JOSEPH PULITZER:

History, Heritage & the Georgia Connection

his year, the Coastal Georgia Historical Society’s annual Chautauqua Lecture Series is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize. In the 5-lecture series, the Society will explore connections between the state of Georgia and the coveted prize. Established in 1917 to recognize excellence in American journalism, letters and drama, education, and public service, the Pulitzer Prize has since had its original categories modified and new ones incorporated. By 2009, Pulitzers were awarded in 21 categories, including biography, drama, fiction, history, nonfiction, poetry, and numerous kinds of journalistic writing.

City every May during which the president of Columbia University presents the awards. Several Georgia writers have won Pulitzer Prizes for their work in the various categories of letters, drama, and journalism. Other notable writers have won for their works about Georgia and its residents. But Georgia and the Golden Isles have an even stronger connection to Joseph Pulitzer. He was one of the original 53 members of the Jekyll Island Club, with other millionaires J.P. Morgan, William K. Vanderbilt, Marshall Field, and Henry Hyde. In 1903, he built a 26 room winter cottage

Jekyll Island, 1911. Cottage of Joseph Pulitzer. (Courtesy of Vanishing Georgia, Georgia Archives,

The prize is named for Joseph University System of Georgia) Pulitzer, the influential owner and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World who was known for journalism that exposed corruption in both the public and private sectors. He established the prizes in his will, stipulating that they be administered by the journalism school at Columbia University in New York City and awarded by an advisory board, known today as the Pulitzer Prize Board. A jury of three to seven board members is assigned to each category (dependon Jekyll Island. In 1911, Pulitzer died on his ing on how many entries fall within a categoyacht in Charleston, South Carolina, while en ry). Many of these jurors are former Pulitzer route to the cottage in which he had hoped to prize winners themselves. Each jury chooses spend the remainder of his life. three unranked finalists and presents their choices for final determination by the Pulitzer In 2008, Jekyll Island played host to a four-day Prize Board. A banquet is held in New York celebration held by Georgia Review for recent 62

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winners of the Pulitzer Prize in Georgia. Historian Edward J. Larson and journalist Hank Klibanoff were in attendance, and they will also be speakers at this summer’s Chautauqua Lecture Series. There have been quite a few noteworthy Pulitzer Prize winners from Georgia over the years. Savannah native Conrad Aiken won in 1930 for his poetry. Margaret Mitchell took home the prize for Gone With the Wind in 1937. In 1978, James Alan McPherson, became the first African American to win the prize for fiction with his win for Elbow Room, a collection of short stories. Alice Walker followed in his footsteps, winning a Pulitzer in 1983 for The Color Purple. William S. McFeely took home the prize in 1982 for his extremely popular Grant: A Biography, about the life of Union general Ulysses S. Grant. In 1988, Atlanta native Alfred Uhry won the prize for his play Driving Miss Daisy. The Pulitzer Prize awards marked several impressive achievements for Georgia newspapers and journalists. The first was in 1926, when the Columbus Enquirer-Sun received the first public service award ever given to (continues)

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a Southern newspaper. This was in recognition of the work of the paper’s editors on the resistance to the teaching of evolution in public schools and reporting on the activities of the Klu Klux Klan. In 1939, Thomas L. Stokes, Jr. became the first individual Georgian to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism. The Atlanta native wrote about corruption in Kentucky’s Works Progress Administration. If you remember the photo of Coretta Scott King holding her daughter, Bernice, at the funeral of her husband, slain civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr., that’s what earned Moneta J. Sleet the award for feature photography in 1969. Today, we still laugh, sigh, or groan over the editorial cartoons of Mike Luckovich. He’s won multiple prizes for his work in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. It’s clear that Georgia’s connection with the Prize is a strong one and is an excellent topic for the Georgia Historical Society to explore through the Chautauqua Lecture Series. In a series of five programs, scholars and authors will focus on winners in different categories and the impact of the Prize. The series will begin on Thursday, August 11, with a lecture by Robert M. Dowling, author of the acclaimed 2014 biography, Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts. He will present “Gene and Carlotta: The Origins of

Eugene O’Neill’s Sea Island Retreat.” The distinguished American playwright lived on Sea Island from 1932-1936, in a house he built called “Casa Genotta.” He first visited Sea Island while on vacation with his wife in 1931, shortly after Mourning Becomes Electra had opened on Broadway. The 43-year old already had three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama under his belt, and would later earn a fourth, as well as a Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the only American playwright to win that honor. It was during his time on Sea Island that O’Neill wrote his only comedy, Ah, Wilderness!, a glimpse of small-town family life at the turn of the 20th century. The play opened on Broadway in October 1933 and was followed by a film version in 1935. The O’Neills left Sea Island and relocated on the West Coast the following year. On Thursday, August 18, Hank Klibanoff, a former Atlanta Journal-Constitution writer, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner for History will discuss the importance of the past as it relates to the present and future. His presentation is “The Past is Never Dead: Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases and Why They Matter.” He’ll also address how the award has impacted his career. On Thursday, August 25, James McGrath Morris, author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, will tell the story of

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THE SECOND YEAR OF SEA ISLAND’S SOUTHERN GROWN FESTIVAL WAS EVEN BETTER THAN THE FIRST – AND THAT’S REALLY SAYING SOMETHING BECAUSE LAST YEAR WAS FANTASTIC! Friday night’s Meat & Three Dinner showcased the talents of some amazing Southern chefs and the setting on the Black Banks could not have been more gorgeous. Saturday’s French Quarter-style Market on Rainbow Island was delightful with delicious Cajun inspired fare and refreshing beverages to beat the heat. That evening, crowds flocked to the Southern Grown concert featuring Dumpstaphunk, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, and Tedeschi Trucks Band. The music was simple incredible and the entire weekend unforgettable. Congratulations to the Sea Island staff and everyone involved in making this festival one that makes us giddy with excitement to see what the next year will bring! 86

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EARLY RAIN MAY HAVE THINNED THE CROWD, BUT THOSE WHO ATTENDED JUNE’S A LITTLE LIGHT MUSIC were treated to a great show by Charleston’s Soul Fish and spectcular skies at twilight. 1. Lillie and Glenn Ferrell. 2. Tom and Mary Beth Bonner. 3. Bill and Julie Boucek. 4. Bill Henning, Sabrina Nichols. 5. Belinda Burroughs (with Lili), Ginny and Ansley Grisby. 6. Marcie Hunter, Mike and Julie Martin, Eliza Hunter. 7. Mary Kay Sellers, Julie Albright, Lisa Walden, Steve Sadler, Gwen Poimboeuf, Jane Richard, Janet and Freddie Zeh. 8. Whitney and Victor Long, Jennifer, Harlow and Stan Robinson. 9. Welsley and Meg Meyer Von Bremen. 10. Wendy Baker, Julie Hall, Bob Cunningham, Drew Hall, Sharon Robinson, Julie Sellers, Resa Dollar. 11. Angela Williams, Janice Green. 12. Sonja Coyle, Renee Bower. 88

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THE BRUNSWICK-GOLDEN ISLES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUSINESS AFTER HOURS was held at the beautiful setting of The Rooftop at Ocean Lodge in June. The torrential downpour just before the event didn’t deter the crowd from having a great time – enjoying delicious food and music by Joey Thigpen. 1. Al Crouch, Puddy Smith. 2. John Weber, Don Asdell. 3. Brooke Martin, David Lee. 4. Kate Reeves, Mike Krouse, Brittany Walker. 5. Brittany Rowland, Dr. Sage Campione. 6. Dale Provenzano, Amy and Andy Broderick. 7. Alden Alias, Robin Valdes. 8. Brenda Martin, Jennifer Krouse. 9. Summer Davis, Melissa Cruthirds. 10. Brandy Johns, Renesha Reynolds, James Allen. 90

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THE GOLDEN ISLES YMCA HELD ITS 18TH ANNUAL TRIBUTE TO WOMEN LEADERS at the Jekyll Island Convention Center. Event co-chairs were Faith Willis and Oatanisha Dawson. Brunswick Mayor Cornell Harvey and Marie Dodd served as honorary chairs. The guest speaker was Lu Fendig, whose excellence in tennis competition garnered her a spot in the Glynn County Sports Hall of Fame. 1. Dorothy Kubat, Betsy Albright, Dawn Hart, Stacy Bovinet, Carolyn Hall. 2. Georgia Power came out in full force. 3. Lorene Reid, Shirley Gibbs, Pauline Watkins, Margaret Gant. 4. Melissa Reese, Debbie Brown, Annette Scanlon. 5. Sharon Spradley, Sheila Glaeser. 6. Amy Lovin, Maggie Kowalchuck. 7. Blake Kroll, Tara Kroll, Tracey Keller. 8. Rosemary Myrick, Amy Pegram, Christine Pierce. 9. Pamela Devenney, Penny Flickinger, Katie Orrel, Jane Thau, Kelly Waldron, Ellen Murphy. 10. Nancy Lorenz, Stephanie Wolberton, Meredith Horne. 11. Claudia Myers, Margie Harris, Janice Green. 12. Michelle Preston, Suzanne Tilghman. 13. Jones Hooks, Kimberly Andrews, Terry Norton. 14. Pat Hodnett Cooper, Anne Dempsey, Katie Brown. 92

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THE COASTAL GEORGIA ALPHA DELTA PI ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION RECENTLY HELD ITS FOUNDERS’ DAY LUNCHEON at the King and Prince Golf & Beach Resort. Highlights of the luncheon were the presentation of certificates to ladies who have been members of Alpha Delta Pi for 50 and 60 years and the installation of officers for 2016-17. Founded at Wesleyan College in Macon on May 15, 1851, Alpha Delta Pi Sorority is the oldest secret society in the world for college women. 1. Members and guests of the Coastal Georgia Alpha Delta Pi Alumnae Association. 2. Susan Gibbs, Janis Rodriguez, Joan Cravey. 3. Gwen Mayberry, Mimi Borick. 4. Beverly Nash, Rose Ann Williams. 5. Martha Armstrong, Stacy Bruton, Katie Houser. THE 2016 DEBUTANTE COTILLION OF ZETA IOTA OMEGA CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA, HIGHLIGHTING THE “SEVEN JEWELS OF STRENGTH,” was held on Jekyll Island with more than 200 guests in attendance. These beautiful and talented young ladies participated in a seven month mentoring

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THE MISSION OF THE EIL CREW WAS TO SPREAD SOME PATRIOTIC SPIRIT AT A LITTLE LIGHT MUSIC FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND. We invited people who stopped by our table to don a little festive holiday attire while we snapped their photos and had a whole lot of fun. The music by Still Cruzin’ was excellent too! Join us August 18 when Island Garage Band will be rockin’ at the lighthouse.

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FROM SEA ISLAND’S FOURTH OF JULY PARADE, WHERE MARK CUBAN MADE AN APPEARANCE, TO SEA PALMS’ ANNUAL PARADE, then to the Village for the Sunshine Festival Golf Cart Parade, EIL staff was busy out capturing Independence Day festivities. We still had time to attend the Old-Fashioned Fourth of July fun at Mary Ross Waterfront Park. Those who had the best vantage point for watching the fireworks that night could see displays from St. Simons, Sea Island, Brunswick, and Jekyll Island too. It’s a great holiday to be in the Golden Isles. 98

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THE FIRST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH IS ALWAYS A GOOD TIME IN HISTORIC DOWNTOWN BRUNSWICK. Live music in the squares, art displays, evening shopping, and the promise of delicious cocktails at J’s Boom Boom Room, the new hot spot next to The Southern Table and Bar, were part of this lovely summer evening. 1. Michael Brown. 2. Hank and Kim Siegelson. 3. Patti Ellis. 4. Edith Whited, Janis Johns, Bebe Browning. 5. Golden Isles Strummers. 6. Sarah Austin, Shelly Bydlinski. 7. Jean Smith, Tom Sweeney. 8. Jeanne Rea, Angie Rea Jensen. 9. Angela and Robert Hrdlicka. 10. Lisa Ward, Mack Bryson. 11. Jessica Thompson, Ashley Raybould, Lisa Rodriguez. 12. Lori and Nick Lee. 13. Bonnie and Ron Tobias. 14. Lynn Kraus with Jay Anderson and Stacy Bass. 100 E L E G A N T I S L A N D L I V I N G

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THE COASTAL PHOTOGRAPHERS’ GUILD RECENTLY OPENED ITS ANNUAL EXHIBITION “THE BIG PHOTO SHOW” AT GLYNN VISUAL ARTS. Stunning works captured the beauty of the Georgia coast and beyond in photos that encompassed nature, portraits, architecture, and more. 1. Jean Smith, Tom Sweeney. 2. Elma Andrews, Skip Slocum. 3. Cecelia Warren, Ginger Dorcas. 4. Nancee Manderson, Tonya Lam. 5. Joan Brown, Nancy Pickren, Linda Culver. 6. Barbara Browne, Linda Olsen, Ken Thomas. 7. Sandra and Emory Moody, Sid Moody, Debra Nearnbin, Alwyn Moody, Zachary Moody. 8. Jerry and JoAnn Mooney, Duke and Susie Smith. 9. Robert Kelterborn, Petra Graves, Jillisa Milner. 10. Birte Dunlap, Sara Taylor, Karen Bair. 11. Carol Wages, Barbara McBride. 12. Clyde Banks, Carolyn Strom. 13. Liz Bahrns, Susan Ryles. 14. Deborah Wright, Peggy Brodnax. 102 E L E G A N T I S L A N D L I V I N G

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From Beach Cottage to Beach Hotel More from the Island Memoirs of Francis Peabody McKay

etween the 1890s and 1934, the Peabody family of Waycross, Georgia, spent thirty-six summers in their frame cottage in the Waycross Colony next to the St. Simons Lighthouse. This tradition was broken only once: in the summer of 1911. Frances’s younger sister had been born in March of that year, and her recently widowed mother was still recovering from the delivery. Frances’s grandfather decided that the primitive housekeeping conditions of the Colony might be too much for both his daughter and his frail wife, so he rented a roomy cottage with maid service on the grounds of the elegant new St. Simons Hotel. The hotel was one and half miles down the beach from the Colony (in the vicinity of present day Massengale Park). Frances and her brothers were fascinated by the hotel’s trolley car, which ran on a track out to the end of the pier to meet ferries from Brunswick. When the Peabody family arrived in 1911, the hotel porter in a ‘fancy red suit’ put their bags on the trolley for the trip over sand dunes to the

imposing structure with wide verandas. A boardwalk connected the hotel to their rented cottage. Frances soon discovered that oppressive restrictions offset the amenities of the hotel. Feet had to be washed regularly so that sand would not be tracked onto the polished floors of the cottage. Frances was required to dress like a “little lady,” even when she went swimming! Her first “store bought” bathing suit was trimmed with silk braid and had bloomers beneath it. She also had to wear red stockings with garters and an expensive rubber bathing cap, which was too tight when she “tried to wad my thick braid up under it.” She lost both of her new stockings the first day, and the bathing cap gave her a headache. The final blow came when Frances was called in from play at 6 o’clock on the first day and found her Sunday outfit, complete with stockings and shoes, laid out on her bed. She suddenly realized that she would have to dress for dinner every night! “No slipping into a sleeveless shift and sticking bare feet under the table to eat fried mullet with our fingers.”

Eventually Frances was saved from this inconvenience when her brother Walton cut his foot on a shell. Unable to wear shoes, he was given permission to dine on the back porch of the hotel with the family servant Minnie and the hotel employees. There he could eat fried chicken with his fingers and have a second helping of ice cream and cake. After much pestering, Frances’s mother gave in and allowed Frances and her brother Elbert to join him. At the end of the summer, the Peabody children made their grandfather promise that they would never spend another summer away from “our beloved Waycross Colony.” Since its founding in 1965, the Coastal Georgia Historical Society’s archival collection has grown to over 15,000 historically important artifacts, documents and photographs. ABOVE: The new St. Simons Hotel, built in 1910, replaced the first St. Simons Hotel, which opened in 1888 and burned in 1898. INSET: Rocking on the cool veranda of the new St. Simons Hotel, circa 1910. The hotel was also destroyed by fire in 1916.

Our monthly images on this page are from the vast archives of the Coastal Georgia Historical Society. The Society’s mission includes the “administration, restoration and maintenance of historic facilities and resources … preserved as a living part of the historical and cultural foundations of our coastal community.” Society facilities include the St. Simons Lighthouse and Museum, the A.W. Jones Heritage Center, and the Maritime Center (formerly the U.S. Coast Guard Station). To learn more about the Society, its diverse programs, and the benefits of Society membership, please call (912) 638.4666, or visit www.saintsimonslighthouse.org. 138 E L E G A N T I S L A N D L I V I N G

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Beachcombing

Hot Enough For You?

Free Your Feline of Fleas

Hope Starts with U

Shrimp & Grits Festival Goes Big

Chefs Dish Up the Best

Joseph Pulitzer: History, Heritage & the Georgia Connection

From Crayons to Campus

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The Old World Brings New Flavors