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62 Inside this issue: 56 - On the Road: Visit Atlanta Like a Local

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There’s no better way to have a fun weekend trip than to explore Georgia’s capital. Brunswick native Brandee Thomas chronicles her perfect weekend routine in her now hometown of Atlanta.

62 - Crossing Borders Four nonprofits take their skills and passions by land, air, and sea from the shores of the Golden Isles to faraway places in Asia, Africa, and Central America.

81 - TrailBlazers Rich fabrics of cultures cross over in these profiles of one-time visitors, born in other lands, who have made their homes right here along the coast of Georgia.

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Descendants of African slaves reflect upon their ancestry and the connections forged across two continents.

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Georgia has only 100 miles of coastline, but the lives and cultures of those living here are connected on a global scale.

With this issue, we want to highlight the people and businesses that operate with this worldview.

The globe acts as a nod to Jules Verne, who enticed those to explore in Around the World in 80 Days. In this July/August issue, we’ll do that in just 120 pages.

HOSPICE OF THE GOLDEN ISLES RECEIVES NATIONAL AWARD THIRD YEAR IN A ROW Hospice of the Golden Isles is among only 38 out of nearly 1,700 providers nationwide to achieve the 2015 Hospice Honors Elite designation. Hospice Honors is a prestigious program that recognizes hospices providing the highest level of satisfaction as measured from the caregiver’s point of view.

“Our Hospice team is incredibly humbled and grateful to receive this prestigious national award recognizing exceptional quality care for the third year in a row.

This award was bestowed upon Hospice of the Golden Isles by the families we serve who expressed their deep appreciation for the expert, compassionate care we provide. I am enormously proud to work with our dedicated staff, volunteers, and Board of Directors to achieve these outstanding results.”

- Karen Brubaker, Chief Executive Officer, Hospice of the Golden Isles

We would like to thank photographer Chris Moncus, who provided the heirloom globe for the cover; Valerie Crumpton, who brought a collection of items from her world travels to supplement the centerpiece; and Heather Jowers, who gave us free reign over her store, Plantation Park Interiors on St. Simons, to get the perfect shot.

credits Publisher: Jennifer Leavy Editor: Bethany Leggett Art Director: Stacey Nichols Marketing Director: Becky Derrick Circulation Director: Rene’ Griffis Editorial Intern: Megan Smith Contributing Photographers Jason Fields, Tamara Gibson, Chris Moncus Contributing Writers Phil Davis, Bud Hearn, Dr. Carlton Hicks, Larry Hobbs, Stacie Kerschner, Amanda Kirkland, Cyle Lewis, Shannon Lewis, Dana Moody, Pete Poole, Brandee Thomas, Lydia Thompson

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Editor’s Note Traveling is my favorite hobby.

During the summer, my bags stay packed, ready to head off to the next weekend adventure. If traveling could be part of my full-time job, I would take this gig on the road without hesitation and edit the magazine from the glaciers of Iceland or the winding paths of the Grand Canyon.

During my undergraduate years at Furman University, I took a semester abroad that included a three-month stay in the United Kingdom. An Anglophile at heart, I didn’t think anything could surpass my life in London. But I soon learned that once you cross the Atlantic, it’s hard not to keep exploring new – and ancient – places.

So far, I’ve crossed 16 countries off my bucket list. Every time I make it to one, I add two more new destinations to the list. And when my passport expires in a few years, I’ll be sad to trade out the old one with stamps of where I’ve been. But nothing is more enticing than a blank passport begging me to take it on more adventures.

Already, this summer is packed with weekend getaways. In May, I went to Charleston, where I celebrated a friend’s birthday while staying on the Isle of Palms. The dinners were long, the weather was warm, and the trip reminded me of what I enjoy most about vacation – the people you meet

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and the memories you make are what lasts long after the sunburn fades.

With that in mind, this edition of Golden Isles Magazine looks at all our lives en route. Global connections bridge our area with cultures and people from across the world.

Nonprofits headquartered here lead the way in conservation in Africa, aid relief in Asia, and entrepreneurial opportunities in Central America. Those born in other countries also share their stories in a profile series about their own journey to the Golden Isles.

Within our state, a quick weekend to Atlanta can offer its own adventures and explorations. And in our final feature, we hear from descendants of the Gullah-Geechee community about the lives of their West African ancestors.

Their stories passed down by generations speak of resilience, ambition, and independence.

I wish my fellow travelers a safe journey wherever they are headed. May you come back with stories to share with the rest of us.

God Speed,

Bethany Leggett Editor

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his autumn, the natural landscape and structural beauty of Christ Church, Frederica, will blossom into a wonderland of flowers, music, and celebration during the Fall Music and Flower Festival.

Hundreds of floral arrangements will transform the sanctuary into a garden indoors. Arrangements may be paired with clergy vestments or incorporate a Biblical theme from a nearby window to tie together the beauty of nature in ecclesiastical tones. Archival displays will highlight the rich history of Christ Church, Frederica.

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The Fall Music and Flower Festival committee members include Kathleen Turner, from left, the Rev. Tom Purdy, the late Barbara Mueller, David Lowe, and Sharon Flores. Provided Photo.

Committee member Susan Shipman decorates a floral arrangement at St. Ignatius Episcopal. Provided Photo.

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Extending onto the grounds outside, musicians will be placed strategically throughout the cemetery, playing soft melodies from a repertoire of both the sacred and secular. A satellite location at St. Ignatius will also offer a blend of floral and musical expressions thatin the religious setting.

The gallery specializes in original American representational art includes landscapes, still life and figurative paintings by nationally known The gallery specializes in original artists. Anderson Gallery offers painting workshops conducted by The Fall Flower and Music Festival on October 24 and 25 will creAmerican representational that ate an atmosphere that heightens the emotions, says organizers. professional artists at The Artists’art Annex.

Most of the festival is free and open to the public, with some paid includes landscapes, still life and18x24 figurative Peggie Blizard “Peace Rose & Petunias” Image ticketed events featuring talented Atlanta floral designer Laura Ia3309Oil Frederica on PanelRoad paintings by nationally known artists.

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“The smells, the sounds, the sights. It will take all of your senses into one experience. It will be breathtaking,” Lowe says.

Through Lowe’s connections in Atlanta, where he served on the altar guild at All Saints Episcopal Church for years, a group of floral designers – Suzanne Boas, Jeryl Johnson, and Cindy MacDonald – will be also lending their expertise to the weekend.

The festival has been in the works for almost a year, a vision of

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committee members that include the Rev. Tom Purdy, Kathleen Turner, David Lowe, Sharon Flores, Susan Shipman, Cindy Rackley and Gail Johnson. The late Barbara Mueller also served on the board, and her last painting she completed was for the promotional material for the festival.

Flores says the festival, which will coincide with the church’s homecoming celebration, will be a chance to give the Golden Isles a community event that highlights beauty and art all in one.

“We invite the community to see Christ Church in a new way and also take some ideas back to their own garden clubs or altar guilds. We are an active church, and this is one way to celebrate that. We have excellent talent within our parish and with those traveling into town for the weekend. It promises to be a wonderful experience,” she says.

Along with donations, proceeds from the weekend’s events that require a ticket will be given to the Saint Cecilia Concert Series, a music series created by Turner at Christ Church.

“Art and music are powerful forces, and it may be that someone will find their way to God through the beauty of a space or a piece of music. It has certainly happened before; we hear often from visitors to Christ Church that they find the church and the grounds to be sacred spaces in a tangible way,” says the Rev. Tom Purdy, rector of Christ Church, Frederica.

This floral arrangement made for the first concert for the Saint Cecelia Concert Series last year inspired the church to create a festival combining florals and music. Provided Photo.

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Summer Classic Movies return to the Ritz “We love bringing the Summer Classic Movie Series back to our community every year. It is so much fun for visitors and locals alike.

It’s great to see so many people come out to see movies the way they were meant to be seen – on the big screen,” says Heather Heath, executive director of Golden Isles Arts and Humanities. “There is really a true sense of community at each screening as everyone comes together in a shared experience. We enjoy being able to screen these great classic films.”

Movies will be shown every Thursday during July. Admission to each show in the Summer Classic Movies series is $5 for all ages. The box office opens at 5 p.m. Cartoons, previews, and short subjects begin at 6:30 p.m. Films start at 7 p.m. For more information, go to goldenislesarts.org or call 912-262-6934.

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Upcoming Attractions

G o l d e n I s l e s A rt s a n d H u m a n i t i e s Sh o w c a s e s S u m m e r C l a s s i c M o v i e s at B r u n s w i c k ’ s hi s t o r i c t h e at e r i n J u ly, o p e n i n g w i t h t h e pat r i o t i c f l i c k Ya n k e e D o o d l e Da n dy o n J u ly 2 .

Yankee Doodle Dandy, July 2 Ghostbusters, July 9 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, July 16 Close Encounters of the Third Kind, July 23 The Sound of Music, July 30 *Come early for popcorn, door prizes, and food and drink specials.

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Many are anxiously awaiting July 14, when Harper Lee’s second novel will make its debut about 60 years after it was written. Originally composed in the 1950s and rediscovered in late 2014, the novel features characters from Lee’s American classic, Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The story is set 20 years later, when Scout returns to Maycomb to visit her father, Atticus, and a host of personal and political issues arise in the small Alabama town.

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History Captured

A Lucky Life Interrupted by Tom Brokaw (240 pages, $27, Random House)

Dead Wake by Erik Larson (448 pages, $28, Crown Publishing Group)

The acclaimed journalist begins his memoir with a summer memory that foreshadows the book’s overarching narrative – being diagnosed with an incurable but treatable cancer. Rich with details, Brokaw describes the fateful meeting when he learns of his multiple myeloma diagnosis, but that’s just in the first 20 pages. His narrative weaves in stories he has covered and private family moments while depicting an honest representation of living with cancer through a lens of hope and fortitude.

Breezy And Beautiful

Larson returns with his recognizable, dichotomous approach to narrative nonfiction with his latest book, Dead Wake. The juxtaposition of invention and destruction, celebration and tragedy, peace and war are revealed through the story that follows the fateful voyage of the RMS Lusitania and the German U-boat that sank the ship. The gripping tale freezes a tragic moment in time that eventually led to America’s involvement in World War I.

Short And Sweet

The Sound of Glass by Karen White (432 pages, , $26.95, New American Library Publishing)

Very Good Lives by J.K. Rowling (80 pages, $9.99, Little, Brown and Company)

World famous author of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling has a powerful voice. When she spoke during Harvard University’s commencement ceremony in 2008, her words of wisdom resonated with many. In Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination, her speech addressing large life questions with personal anecdotes is transcribed. Profits from Very Good Lives benefit Lumos, Rowling’s nonprofit founded to end the institutionalization of children worldwide; and financial aid at Harvard University.

Southern author Karen White’s latest fiction reveals love, loss, and secrets.

Set in Beaufort, South Carolina, the novel’s protagonist, Merritt Heyward, deals with the death of her husband, an unexpected inheritance, a young stepmother, and more while she navigates life in the Low Country. As with many of White’s novels, the setting is as important as her characters, and she brings the quaint South Carolina town — and the people it contains — alive on each page.

Worth The Read All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (544 pages, $27, Scribner Publishing)

Morality in war is seen through the eyes of children in this this Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Anthony Doerr.

A German boy trained in a Hitler Youth camp and a blind French girl smuggling a hidden treasure from the Nazis find themselves crossing paths in the unlikeliest of ways – across the airways through radio. Doerr’s novel weaves elements of fantasy, history, propaganda, occupation, and self-examination in a compelling narrative with alternating viewpoints to show that, even in war, humanity is not lost.

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Golden Isles Celebrates

Independence Day Brunswick Downtown Brunswick is hosting its annual Old Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration. The party kicks off at 7 p.m. with classic summertime games such as horseshoes, sack races, tug-of-war, hula hoop contests, and more. The games will be free and so will the watermelon. Then settle down in your chair or on your blanket to watch the firework display at 9 p.m. in Mary Ross Waterfront Park.

Jekyll Island If you prefer to watch your fireworks from the sand, head over to Jekyll Island, where the fireworks will be launched from the Great Dunes Park at 9 p.m.

St. Simons Island The annual Sunshine Festival will be held at the Pier Village with family fun beginning at 10 a.m. Don’t miss the 5K and the 1 Mile Fun Run at 7:30 a.m. and the 5K at 8 a.m. The firework display begins at 9 p.m. and the best view is oceanfront in Neptune Park.

St. Marys Join in on the St. Marys 5K and 10K race this Independence Day, then stick around for the parade at 10 a.m. The festival ends with a fireworks display at 9 p.m.

Darien Cannons Across the Marsh will take place at Fort King George from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Events will include artillery drills, musket firings, and colonial fort activities.

Free watermelon and lemonade is included with the price of admission, which ranges from $4.50 to $7.50.

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“Saying a line in their own voice or singing with a group – all well within their ability – the audience responds with immediate feedback. That’s high praise indeed,” she adds.

A former sixth-grade teacher, Harris approaches the dramatic arts as an outlet for individuality.

“Kids need loving discipline, and they know that whatever I tell them is to enhance what they are doing. If the kids come up with a dance, I say, keep it in and make it your own. If you stumble, make it part of the dance. This inspires creativity, the ability to make something that works,” she says.

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Georgia Blu Waters, 12, was nervous for her first audition a few years ago, but returning for her third season, she feels excited and confident for the upcoming production of “The Little Mermaid.”

“I’m not nervous at all, and when the show is over, I’m disappointed because I miss it,” she says.

Georgia’s mother, Jodi Waters, appreciates the social aspects of the summer workshops that includes children from all different schools, which she describes as “a mini-bootcamp in selfconfidence.”

Boomer Wheeler, 13, agrees.

“It’s the atmosphere and the energetic people that bring me back. We grow to be more like a family as the summer goes on. Whatever is going on, Miss Joan turns it into fun. When it’s time to be serious, she will get the job done,” Boomer says.

“She gets attached to each individual and makes everyone feel important. No matter how small the part, she makes everyone have more confidence in their part and how important it is,” he adds.

Each child is given a role, and although parental involvement is not required, Harris appreciates parents who are “dedicated, hardworking, creative, and make costumes out of nothing.” For her own dedication, Harris has been given 70 scrapbooks from past performances, and she says she cherishes those memories.

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Building relationships, lifting children’s sense of worth, and helping kids build a platform of self-esteem and humor in which they can encounter life is something Harris can hang her hat on. “I just love doing theater. It’s all about kids having fun and enjoying summer,” Harris says.

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The photography exhibit will be on display until July 30 at Glynn Visual Arts Building, 106 Island Drive, St. Simons Island. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Mondays to Saturdays. Admission is free.

Judges will choose the top five images from five categories: nature, people, landscape, creative digital, and open.

On July 2, a complimentary reception will be from 5 to 7 p.m., with an awards presentation at 6:15 p.m., at the gallery on Island Drive. Refreshments will be served, and guests will be able to vote for the “People’s Choice” category.

As a companion exhibition, the guild also presents the

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“Best of the Best” of The Big Photo Show that will showcase winning photographs from previous years. The show will be on display at the Glynn Visual Arts Gallery, 529 Beachview Drive, St. Simons Island.

The Coastal Photographer’s Guild works cooperatively with the Glynn Visual Arts to promote photography and the arts.

The photographer’s guild hosts programs with education, discussion, and special events. Photographers of all levels are represented and welcome in the Coastal Photographer’s Guild.

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The St. Simons Storytellers’ Workshop has been the logical outgrowth of the St. Simons Writers’ Workshop, a highly successful workshop founded by Dr. Christina Johns in 2011 with the help of the St. Simons Literary Guild and the St. Simons Public Library.

In July, the St. Simons Storytellers’ Workshop will be offering storytellers and writers a chance to collaborate at the Brunswick Actors’ Theatre in downtown Brunswick. The workshop, “Fun with Storytelling and Performance Art,” is a six-class program designed for students, writers, actors, public speakers, and anyone who loves performance art.

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The program will culminate with an onstage public performance by the participants. The workshop, which costs $180, will run from 2 to 4 p.m. on July 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23 at the Brunswick Actors’ Theatre, 1413 Newcastle St., Brunswick. A public performance is planned on August 1.

The new St. Simons Storytellers’ Workshop is the brainchild of Dr. Christina Johns, a local writer, actor, and storyteller. Dr. Johns has published four books and had numerous plays produced in Scotland and in the Edinburg Festival Fringe. She previously ran her own theatre company, Vortex.

The Storytellers’ Workshop has used stories written by local authors in numerous performances. In June, the company performed “Love, Zora,” a play by Dr. Johns about the Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston. The company will also be performing the play “War Like the Thunderbolt,” written by Dr. Johns, about the Battle of Atlanta. This play was previously performed as part of the annual Battle of Atlanta Festival in Atlanta in 2014.

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This September, Southern Living will present the 10th annual Shrimp and Grits: The Wild Georgia Shrimp Festival in the national historic landmark district of Jekyll Island.

The festival is a weekend packed with shrimp-related fun for the entire family and will run from 5 to 9 p.m.

September 18; from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. September 19; and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. September 20.

The Shrimp & Grits competitions kick off September 19 with the amateur cooking competition and continues on September 20 with the professional cooking competition. Anyone can enter the competition, but they must adhere to the guidelines and rules of the competition. Cooking contests begin at 11 a.m. and end at 1 p.m., and judging starts at 1:30 p.m. both days.

The festival includes cooking demonstrations, live entertainment on the lawn, local restaurant vendors, more than 100 arts and crafts vendors, and children’s activities.

Posters that were selected from previous years’ contests will also be on display.

The Craft Brew Fest is presented by Southern Eagle Distributing and located in the historic Morgan Center. Guests can sample up to 10 beers from a variety of breweries for $10. The beer tasting will run from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. September 18; 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. September 19; and 12:30 to 4 p.m. September 20.

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any of my patients say they rely heavily on their digital devices and wonder if they are putting themselves at risk by overuse. It turns out that too much screen time — staring at a screen for work or play — may result in vision impairment.

Studies have shown that the high-energy, short-wavelength blue and violet light used in today’s smartphones, tablets, LED monitors, and flat screen TVs may affect and age the eyes. Although research on this topic is in the early stages, there are signs that overexposure to blue light — and a heavy amount of screen time — could contribute to serious conditions, such as age-related macular degeneration that can lead to blindness.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Kitasato University in Japan, and the Paris Vision Institute studied the effect of blue light in lab and animal studies. They reported exposure to blue light releases chemicals, which can cause oxidative stress.

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This can lead to dysfunction in the retinal pigment epithelium, which is partly responsible for clear vision in the center of the eye.

With too much stress, RPE cells can be damaged and die. Loss of RPE cells causes photoreceptors to misfire and eventually die. If this happens repeatedly, it can contribute to the development of age-related macular degeneration. AMD is a leading cause of severe vision loss and blindness in adults over the age of 60.

How big is this issue for Americans? According to American Optometric Association’s 2014 American Eye-Q survey, 55 percent of adults use computers, smartphones, tablets, or other handheld devices for five or more hours a day. A separate AOA survey showed that 83 percent of children between ages 10 and 17 use an electronic device for more than three hours a day.

Digital use will continue to increase, making it more important than ever for consumers to make smart eye care choices and to see an eye doctor for yearly comprehensive eye exams.

Although technology use has yet to be linked to permanently damaged vision, regular and lengthy use of technology may lead to a temporary condition called digital eye strain. Symptoms can include burning or tired eyes, headaches, fatigue, loss of focus, blurred vision, or head and neck pain. To alleviate this, follow the 20-20-20 rule — take a 20 second break every 20 minutes and view something 20 feet away.

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he pokes her silver-gray head up just above the freshly mowed grass. She is on a mission for just the right place to lay her eggs.

Every year, starting in the first days in May, female diamondback terrapins begin their journey out of the marsh looking for high ground to nest. Diamondback terrapins are the only turtles that live exclusively in the marsh. They live in our marshes from Cape Cod to Florida and along the Gulf Coast.

A terrapin is a small, edible turtle with lozenge-shaped markings on the shell and found in coastal marshes of the eastern U.S. These terrapins faced extinction in the early 1900s, when they were considered a delicacy. In fact, it was on the menu at the Jekyll Island Club. The club dug a special pond southeast of the historic district to raise terrapins for soup.

Over the years, the idea of turtle soup fell out of favor, but humans remain a threat that terrapins face. Each year, hundreds of terrapins are hit by cars. Female turtles instinctively try to find a high spot in the marsh and lay their eggs. And, of course, our roads are the highest points in the marsh.

So, yes, we are part of the problem, but we are also part of the solution. The Georgia Sea Turtle Center and Jekyll Island Authority joined with the University of Georgia to monitor the Downing Musgrove Causeway onto Jekyll Island and to study these terrapins’ movements.

David Zailo, a student, is putting transmitters on terrapins and studying how these creatures are using the marsh. “With a deeper understanding of the seasonal movements of these animals, we are better able to manage the species and further protect them from unnecessary harm,” he says.

Michelle Kaylor, diamondback terrapin coordinator with the sea turtle center, told me about the nesting boxes the center created along the causeway where terrapins often cross. “Nest boxes are elevated soil that have a predator proof cage on top that allows the diamondback terrapins, but nothing bigger than them, to go in. In areas with nest boxes, there are fewer terrapin mortalities on the road,” Kaylor says.

The Georgia Sea Turtle Center, along with the Georgia Department of Transportation, put up signs along Jekyll’s causeway that flash around high tide when more turtles are crossing the road.

During that three-hour period, the turtle center’s diamondback terrapin squad is patrolling and helping terrapins get to their destination safely. They also pick up injured terrapins and take them to the sea turtle center to be saved. If the females cannot be saved, they incubate the eggs. Once the hatchlings are old enough, they release them. This year, they also will be gradually introducing hatchlings into the marsh with the use of terra-pens, which will give these young terrapins a fighting chance to survive. G

A turtle is released into the wild in May on Jekyll Island.

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And The Worst Mom In The World Goes To... b y Am a n d a K i r k l a n d

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he votes are in, and the tallying is complete. According to a recent poll, taken by the five children that live in my home, I am officially the worst mother ever. Actually, it’s not as bad. There is a tie – my husband and I are equally the worst parents, ever.

In my opinion, my kids have it pretty good. I happily help them fix meals for themselves.

I fold all of their clothes, and they only have to put them away. I drive them to and from practices and appointments. Simply put, their needs are met very well.

There is, however, one issue that we continue to disagree on. They seem to be under the impression that they are missing out on one critical rite of passage. Every one of them — well, not so much the six-year-old…yet — feels that life isn’t complete without a cell phone. Yes, you read that correctly. These tiny people are under the impression that they need a cell phone.

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It makes sense, if you think about it. I do see lots of tiny people at

elementary schools walking around with cell phones. Apparently, it’s become so commonplace that one teacher last year refused to believe my then seventh-grader didn’t own one. She asked the entire class to give her their cell phones, and when he said he didn’t have one (much to his mortification), she gruffly told him he would get written up if it went off during the test.

I even sent that same poor child of mine to Europe with no cell phone. He had an electronic device that could send messages as long as he had access to WiFi. That was good enough for me.

What on earth did we all do before cell phones? I’m pretty sure I remember traveling without one — although, never to Europe. (Thanks a lot, Mom.) But I survived. And, you know it was actually an interesting experience because we had to talk to fellow travelers. Like face to face.

Weird, I know.

My husband and I are resigned to our new titles. I’m okay with teaching them a lesson about the difference between need and want. It’s a big world out there, and maybe one day, with a little perspective, my kids might see how good they really had it. G

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arie Stubbs comes into her office at Decorum Designer Cabinetry and Flooring with a smile on her face. As vice president of the company, she works alongside her husband, John Stubbs, president and CEO of Decorum, and her daughter, Myrick Stubbs, executive assistant and designer, with a staff of 15 that are more like family than employees.

the kitchen and bath design and remodeling business focused on wholesale items.

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When the market changed in 2008, the Stubbs took a new approach and opened to the public.

Decorum Designer Cabinetry and Flooring staff members Gene Harris, left, Rebecka Gallups, Marie Stubbs, John Stubbs, Myrick Stubbs, and Stephen Rowland stand inside a kitchen model at the Brunswick store.

“The whole staff is one large family. And we want to have that approach with our clients. We want them to feel at home when they walk into the store because they are coming to have us help them with their own home,� she says.

Decorum underwent a name change last year, but many of the faces and design services remain the same since the company opened its door at the Brunswick store almost 15 years ago. In the beginning,

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Now, Decorum serves individual clients in addition to working with architects, interior designers, and contractors. The store has multiple showrooms to display a range of tastes throughout the vast warehouse at 1919 Glynn Ave., in Brunswick. From hardware to remodeling, Decorum has hundreds of options for every price range, says John Stubbs.

In particular, Decorum is the only locally owned store to carry the full line of KraftMaid Advantage Cabinetry. KraftMaid comes

made-to-order with a proprietary finishing process and a lifetime warranty.

The DuraKraft Plus paint system offers unparalleled resistance to scratches and stains while offering a smooth surface.

Decorum’s designers can also customize any model with industry leading design software.

Stephen Rowland has worked for the Stubbs previously and recently returned as kitchen and bath designer and project manager at Decorum.

“I enjoy incorporating a client’s taste with functionality. You can achieve just the right combination with what they envision and what is possible,” Rowland says about the free design consultation the company offers.

Rowland says one of the many benefits of Decorum is working with a client from concept to the installation since Decorum sends their own installers to job sites.

“You work with the same person from start to finish. Working for a local store, you realize how important it is to have the same person be there to walk a client through a sale and be there after for the installation. And you get to know your client on a personal level and take care of their vision,” he says.

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Gene Harris, general manager, has been with the company for 12 years. Harris says the industry may have changed in the past decade, but Decorum has remained true to offering quality products and design at attractive prices.

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“We have people return to us again and again. We may do a small kitchen or a very large kitchen from scratch or a remodel for them, and they come back to update or enhance another room. It is always a testament to us to have them come back or recommend us year after year,” he says.

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The Dish

Chicken and Ham with Sage Sauce

Barbara Jean’s Restaurant and Bar serves up creative platters of home cooking

by Bethany Leggett

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hen it comes to good food, Jim and Barbara Jean Barta know the best recipes require a dash of creativity. Whether the duo are making something to enjoy with their family at home or for the diners at their restaurant on St. Simons, the culinary couple put a lot of love and thought into each menu item.

The owners of Barbara Jean’s Restaurant and Bar don’t mind taking their work home, where each brings his or her talents to the table. Jim grows herbs in the garden, bringing the harvested plants for Barbara Jean to sauté, grill, fry, or bake.

“Cooking at home together is a pleasure we take seriously,” Jim Barta says. “My wife could take a log and turn it into something delicious, and cooking is a way for us to share something we enjoy together.”

The duo plan their home menu every weekend, keeping detailed records of recipes gathered from magazines and cookbooks. Those that get the seal of approval are put on a list to make an appearance again either at home or in the restaurant.

“I cook the recipes, and Jim is the critic,” Barbara Jean says.

Most of cooking is about finding what works together. For example, it was some herbs from Jim’s garden, along with his love for country ham, that led to Barbara Jean’s Chicken and Country Ham with Sage Sauce recipe.

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good together. It just works,” Barbara Jean says of the dish that’s been on the menu at the island restaurant for years.

Author of two cookbooks, Barbara Jean approaches cooking as a way to try new things. Her recipes – which total more than 230 between the two books – range from her favorite Italian dishes to traditional Southern meals. Every recipe comes with a story, and she is more than happy to tell them on the pages of her cookbooks or when she drops by tables at the restaurant. And if you don’t catch Barbara Jean at the restaurant, odds are you will catch a glimpse of Jim or their son, Tyler Barta, who manages the St. Simons establishment.

When the couple first opened Barbara Jean’s Restaurant and Bar on St. Simons Island in 1998, they were astounded that crab cakes weren’t on the menu at other island establishments. Now one of the most ordered items on their menu, the crab cakes are just one example of how the Bartas have left their stamp on the restaurant scene on St. Simons with a menu that blends home cooking with coastal flair.

If you can’t make it to their flagship location on St. Simons, they also have restaurants in Florida at Ponte Vedra, which they opened in 2001, and on Amelia Island, which opened in 2004.

Barbara Jean’s Restaurant and Bar on St. Simons is open from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. To find out more information about the Amelia Island and Ponte Vedra locations, go online to www.barbarajeans.com. G

Chicken and Country Ham with Sage Sauce Ingredients 4 large boneless chicken breasts 6 ounces country ham 10 fresh sage leaves 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup flour 2 cups unsalted chicken broth 4 tablespoons finely chopped

mushrooms 1 cup sliced brown or white mushrooms 2 cloves garlic, finely minced 4 sprigs parsley 4 sprigs thyme 1 dry bay leaf or 1/2 fresh bay leaf 1/2 cup heavy cream 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper 3 tablespoons olive oil 3 tablespoons butter Directions Heat a 2-quart saucepan over low heat and melt the butter. Whisk in the flour and, as the mixture bubbles, stir in the broth. Add the chopped mushrooms, garlic, parsley, thyme, and bay leaf.

Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture is thickened and has come to a boil. Cover and set aside.

Julienne the country ham and sage leaves. Heat 3 tablespoons butter and oil in a skillet large enough to hold the chicken without crowding. Add the chicken and sauté over medium heat, turning once, until the chicken juices run clear (approximately 10 minutes).

Remove the chicken. Add the sliced mushrooms to the skillet and cook for 5 minutes. Strain the sauce into the skillet.

Add the sage leaves and country ham.

Add the heavy cream and cayenne. Stir and bring back to a simmer. Plate the chicken and serve with the sauce on top. *The dish is served on a plate of cheese grits at Barbara Jean’s Restaurant.

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Digressions Of A Dilettante

Dog Days of Dixie

howl long into summer

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t. Simons Island is about to endure the insufferable assault of Dog Days, when movement slows to molasses and naps trump golf. The sleepy hound crawls from its hibernation in the heavens, shakes off the cosmic dust of its lethargy, and announces its scorching presence.

Come August, even the ocean bubbles like a hot cauldron of boiled peanuts. Sun worshipers will writhe in agony as their bare feet bake on the flaming beach sands. Winter-white skin will sizzle, darkened by an unrelenting sun and fried crispy like Waffle House hash browns.

Never encountered Dog Days? For clarity, Google ‘heat wave.’ It’s when the sun pours out its searing bowl of wrath upon the earth.

It torches every living creature. People pray and pledge their first born for reprieve. Relief comes only with a huge ransom.

The local druggist has again cornered the sun screen market. He rations his stash, selling one at a time. Prices escalate by the minute.

Rumor has it that his profits from last year’s Dog Days financed a vacation home in Highlands.

The heat bakes Georgia’s red clay into bricks. Corn stalks wither.

They bow in silent submission to the onslaught. Asphalt roads melt into hot tar. Tempers flare faster than July Fourth fireworks.

Watermelons are in short supply. Last year, the local farmer’s market sold all but one. It was posted on e-Bay and drew a huge bidding crowd. Some said a condo speculator from Macon paid $2,000 for it. Before leaving the parking lot, he doubled his money by flipping it to a fellow from Michigan, which might explain the island’s tolerance toward Yankees.

Executives of Georgia’s utility monopoly luxuriate in air-conditioned comfort in Atlanta high rise offices as they lunch scrumptiously from revenue generated by massive utility bills.

People in the piney woods pack their pickups. They flee the fiery path in a wild chaotic exit. The horror resembles a scene out of General Sherman’s playbook. Even the brown gnats evacuate, seeking refuge on the coast. Nature delights in unannounced plagues during Dog Days.

But coastal residents are luckier than most in Georgia. The beach offers a temporary retreat from the stifling air, assuming one’s fortunate enough to find a parking place. Towel and chair spots disappear fast.

Before dawn, ambitious teens stake out claims on the prime viewing locations. They barter with the late arrivals for these spots for cash or contraband in the form of cold-can elixirs. Capitalism is not an expletive to these entrepreneurs.

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I’ve fallen for the slick newspaper inserts touting linen shirts.

“Stay cool, wear linen,” they read. So I buy five. Only to find out they soak up humidity like a sponge and look like they’re trying to crawl off my back.

Only kudzu, the Southern Cannibal, survives Dog Days unscathed. The insidious vine is Georgia’s solution to obliterating unsightly billboards along I-95. It can grow 18 inches in an instant. Our neighbor in Atlanta preferred red clay for a yard. Even rocks wouldn’t occupy it. But kudzu thrived. It crept into our yard. In three days, the unruly hoard consumed a lawn mower and threatened the mail man.

Anything’s possible during Dog Days in Dixie. Whatever experiences you endure or enjoy, remember this: You only live once. Buy the ticket, take the ride. G

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A couple of examples come to mind. A former tennis student of mine, Rhett Pickett, was playing the son of tennis great Stan Smith in a USTA tournament in Savannah, and the 10-year-olds were about to start the third, and deciding, set.

Rhett had a very good, one-handed topspin backhand that was rare for his age. Before the third set, when coaching is allowed, Stan instructed his son to play shots predominately to Rhett’s one handed-backhand. To Stan’s surprise, the fierce backhand held up under pressure, and Rhett won the match. This might not have been the best outcome for long-term improvement, however.

There is a tendency to ‘rest on your laurels’ after a big win.

The key is to focus on the things that you have control over. When you try to control things that are not possible, it creates competitive stress. We actually cannot control winning or losing. In tournaments, you don’t control who you play, or how well they might play. And luck is involved in all sports.

However, you can control how you practice, your attitude, and your effort. Your goal should be to play up to your true potential. When this happens, it’s easy to enjoy your opportunities to compete!

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On the other hand, there is Bradley Allen, grandson of NFL coaching great George Allen. Bradley was competing in a national tournament on Jekyll Island. After his first match, Bradley and his coach came in to report he had lost his first match by the score of 4-6, 4-6. They were both very happy with the result, saying the last time he played this opponent, he had lost 2-6, 2-6. They could see much improvement in Bradley’s play. When Bradley came in to report his score in his consolation match, he was so happy that I was sure he must have won. Instead, he had lost 3-6, 7-6, 5-7 to a highly ranked player. His coach said he had played his best tennis ever and was doing everything that they were trying to do in practice. They said on their way out, ‘We have bigger fish to fry.’ They were right because four years later, when he was 18 years old, Bradley Allen managed to be co-ranked number one in the nation, along with Andy Roddick.

When developing in a sport, results in competition can often be overemphasized with less than desirable results. It is best to avoid these highs from wins and lows from defeats, and instead ‘keep an even keel’ mentally and emotionally.

Learn from your losses and then forget them.

After a loss, take a few minutes and reflect on what you could do better next time. Don’t look at it as failure but as important feedback. Then take confidence from working on the right things when practicing and training hard.

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An Estate Planning Checklist

What to check (and double-check) before you leave this world

P r e s e n t e d b y P h i l D av i s

Create a will if you do not yet have one

A valid will may save your heirs from some expensive headaches linked to probate and ambiguity. A solid will drafted with the guidance of an estate planning attorney will likely cost you a bit more than a “will-in-a-box,” but it may prove to be worth the expense.

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Select a reliable executor

This person should have copies of your will, forms of power of attorney, any kind of health care proxy or living will, and any trusts you create. In fact, any of your loved ones referenced in these documents should also receive copies of them.

Complement your will with related documents Talk to the professionals Depending on your estate planning needs, this could include some kind of trust (or multiple trusts), durable financial and medical powers of attorney, a living will, and other items.

Review your beneficiary designations

Who are the beneficiaries of your retirement plans and insurance policies? If you aren’t sure, it is probably a good idea to go back and check the documentation to verify (or change) who you have designated as beneficiary.

Do-it-yourself estate planning is not recommended, especially if your estate is complex enough to trigger financial, legal, and emotional issues among your heirs upon your passing.

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Create asset and debt lists

You should provide your heirs with an asset and debt “map” they can follow when you pass away, so they are aware of the little details of your wealth.

Think about consolidating your “stray” retirement and bank accounts

This could make one of your lists a little shorter. Consolidation means fewer account statements, less paperwork for your heirs, and fewer administrative fees to bear.

Let your heirs know the causes and charities that mean the most to you

Write down the associations you belong to and the organizations you support.

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’ve lived in Metro Atlanta for the last seven years, so when I have family or friends visit from my hometown of Brunswick for a weekend getaway, I like to give them the least touristy itinerary I can.

Attractions like the Fox Theatre and The Varsity are fun but pretty standard todo’s for any visitor to Atlanta. For me, it’s always better to see a place like the locals do, so come along as I introduce you to my Atlanta weekend experience.

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After arriving in town and getting settled in, I like to start weekend adventures off with a delicious dinner. Two of my favorite spots that dish out good food with a twist are The Real Chow Baby on Ponce De Leon Avenue and Do on W. Marietta Street in Atlanta.

Do (pronounced ‘doe’) is a musically-inspired restaurant featuring pizza, pasta, and decadent desserts. Setting it apart from most other eating establishments, Do uses technology through the iPad-driven service. A server walks you through the process, but you order your drinks and food via the iPad at your table, so you set the pace of your service.

After a full meal, Friday evenings are a great opportunity to soak up some culture at the High Museum of Art on Peachtree Street.

On the last day of the work week, the museum is open until 9 p.m., and you can enjoy the full array of exhibits and art installations for half-price admission after 4 p.m. Also, on the third Friday of each month, the High remains open late for Friday Night Music Remix, when a visit includes the added bonus of live performances by artists like Caleb Warren and the Perfect Gentleman on July 17.

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Chow Baby is a do-it-yourself stir-fry restaurant. After taking your seat, you go to the bar and select your meat, veggies, rice, or noodles and add your own seasoning before passing your bowls to the chef.

When it’s done cooking, your waitress brings your creation to your table. The best part — you can go back through the line and try a number of different creations.

The High is located at the Woodruff Arts Center, which is also home to the Alliance Theatre and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. If you plan your visit right, you could catch a grand opera and riveting play in the same weekend! And if you prefer to limit your driving in the city, the museum is conveniently located across the street from the Arts Center station on MARTA, Atlanta’s public transportation system.

Saturday

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big responsibility. I like to plan different types of activities so my friends and family really feel like they had a fun getaway.

First things first – brunch. No one wants to wake up early on their vacation, so brunch is the perfect first meal and a favorite among Atlanta residents. Not much can beat a delicious brunch on a patio in the city during the summer. There’s an air of possibility that can’t be duplicated. One of my favorite brunch spots is South City Kitchen on Crescent Avenue in Midtown Atlanta. Their buttermilk fried chicken and waffles with Vermont maple syrup is my go-to entrée, but I’m also crazy about their fried green tomatoes with goat cheese.

With a hearty meal like that under your belt, you’ll have enough fuel to tackle Stone Mountain Park, where the world’s largest freestanding piece of exposed granite sits ready to be conquered by enthusiastic hikers. You could walk the 1-mile trail to the top of the mountain, or you can also take in a view among the treetops via the SkyHike adventure course or the suspended rope bridges on the Geyser Towers attraction. If hiking isn’t high on your list of things, the 3,200-acre park includes dozens of attractions and golf courses, too.

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The newest attraction in the city is located on Luckie Street near Centennial Olympic Park. Riders can enjoy a unique view of the city from one of the 42 climate-controlled glass gondolas on the 200-foot Ferris wheel.

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For most of the year, that happiness for me includes a trip to the Grant Park Farmers Market, which is located on the outskirts of Grant Park at the intersection of Cherokee and Milledge avenues.

Although the last day of weekend trips can be a bit bittersweet, a visit to the open-air market provides a definite high note before the drive back to the Golden Isles. It is open from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays from April through December. Vendors accept cash and credit cards, too.

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Protected by a lush canopy of foliage overhead, the farmers market offers countless reasons to take a lazy stroll, perusing the cornucopia of goods available for purchase. There are the typical market fresh fruits and vegetables next to surprise finds such as fresh-baked pastries and breads, artisanal chocolates, soy candles, handcrafted almond butter, kimchi, fresh pasta, and more.

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A recent haul from the local farmers market. Photo by Brandee Thomas

You can find organic goodies for your pup and even potted succulents for a living souvenir of your weekend in the city. If you get too hot, there are frozen delights from one of Atlantan’s favorite popsicle makers, King of Pops, and countless other ice-cold treats that are shaved, poured, scooped, and blended to order. If your mornings require a caffeine boost, coffee options abound.

After you’re done shopping, you can stay right at the market and watch one of the local chef’s prepare your food right before your eyes. There’s something for every palate: crepes, burgers, fruit-based treats, and even wood-fired pizza. Or for a change of scenery, head down the street to Ria’s Bluebird for a bite before getting on the road and making your way back to the coast. G

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Travel around town – Atlanta is a sprawling city, so don’t be confined to just one area. Downtown, Midtown, and even the suburbs all have their selling points. Why not learn what they are firsthand?

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s a large cargo ship navigates through the St. Simons Sound, a horn blasts three times across the waters. Bystanders at the pier watch and take photos of the massive transport vehicle moving by.

Ships coming in or heading out to sea are a reminder of Brunswick’s role in the global trade industry. About 90 percent of world trade is shipped by sea, and goods – from cars and clothing to food and building materials – pass through the Port of Brunswick.

Multinational crews man the ships with a mix of men – and some women – from several countries such as China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, India, and Japan.

And while the ships load or unload their goods in the Golden Isles, those crew members with visas will get to explore the area during their short break from life at sea.

Valerie Crumpton, executive director of the International Seafarers’ Center in Brunswick, calls the crews of these massive transport ships “the unseen workforce.” Crumpton, along with her four fulltime staff members and a host of volunteers, aid and assist seafarers passing through the Port of Brunswick. Sometimes the crews are

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only in port for 24 hours, but others can stay a week or longer, depending upon the weather and shipping schedules.

Volunteers for the seafarers’ center, a Christian nonprofit, drive visitors into town for medical appointments or to local stores to buy equipment or clothing. According to the center, seafarers spent more than $300,000 in the local economy in 2014. In addition to purchasing supplies and scheduling health care appointments, crew members also have a chance to enjoy the Golden Isles by taking bike rides around Brunswick or visiting St. Simons and Jekyll islands during their short stays.

With the help of computers and international calling cards available at the International Seafarers’ Center in Brunswick, crewmen and women can call their families half a world away. Two stores operated by the center – one in Brunswick, the other on Colonel’s Island – also stock items from different countries to provide a taste of home for visiting crews. Additionally, a chapel at the center provides a religious sanctuary where chaplains are able to meet with crew members.

Formed in 1982, the International Seafarers’ Center acts as a home

I n t erna t i o na l Night Out International Night Out, a multicultural experience and fundraiser for the International Seafarers’ Center, will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 26 at the Morgan Center on Jekyll Island.

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away from home for the crews, and it’s mission blends Southern hospitality with principles of loving, caring, and sharing with others.

Crumpton came on board as executive director of the center in April 2012. Born in Singapore, Crumpton attended college in Canada before moving with her husband, the Rev. Al Crumpton, to Georgia. Her multinational experiences come in handy when working at the center, Crumpton says, because her staff and volunteers act as “ambassadors to foreigners coming into the Golden Isles.”

“The shipping industry is a very globalized industry, and Brunswick gets to play a part in all of that,” she says.

Life at sea can be a stressful, isolating experience for crews, Crumpton says, which is why part of the nonprofit’s mission is to provide a human connection and support when issues arise. Often at sea for

When a seafarer comes to the International Seafarers’ Center in Brunswick with an issue about poor living conditions, extended contracts, or unpaid wages, Crumpton contacts a regional inspector with the international trade union stationed in South Carolina to investigate their claim.

In addition to helping seafarers’ needs, the center also incorporates educational opportunities. Port-as-classroom is a program that teaches middle schoolers at Needwood and Risley middle schools about the center, the port, and life at sea. The center also raffles off port tours at various community events for adults to enjoy.

“People may know about our physical center but may not know what we do,” Crumpton says. “We work for a cause that can be challenging because it’s so unique and often unseen, but it’s so rewarding. Look at the value Brunswick has with the global community.”

In 2014, Colonel’s Island at the Port of

“The shipping industry is a very globalized industry, and Brunswick gets to play a part in all of that.”

-Valerie Crumpton six to nine months at a time, seafarers can suffer from bouts of depression, loneliness, and homesickness. Occasionally, the crew brings tales of piracy or harsh storms.

Emotional turmoil isn’t the only issue seafarers face. Sometimes, crews have been kept on board after their contracts expired or haven’t received payment for months, Crumpton says.

Brunswick moved 674,327 roll on/roll off units, a 8.3 percent increase from the previous fiscal year. The growth marks Colonel’s Island as the No. 1 port for auto imports and the entire port as the second busiest auto handler in the U.S.

“We work hard to be there for them when they need us and provide a sense of peace for them, even just for a short time,” Crumpton says.

As port activity rises, so does the number of seafarers passing through. The seafarers’ center recorded 16,000 crew members coming through Brunswick in 2014. The summer months are often the busiest for the port, but many of the center’s volunteers are snowbirds that return to their primary residences during the summer, leaving a gap Crumpton hopes others will be led to fill.

The International Seafarers’ Center works with the International Transport Workers’ Federation, a worldwide federation that assists about 4.5 million transport workers in 150 countries. One of the largest issues the federation faces is helping workers receive backpay and handle contract disputes. In 2013, the international trade union recovered more than $38 million in backpay for workers globally.

“When the center was formed, the community saw all these foreigners coming through Brunswick and were curious and started reaching out to them with food or Bibles. They came together and showed true Southern hospitality. We continue to do that with volunteers, but with the port expanding, we always need more help,” Crumpton says. G

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bola, leprosy, cholera. These debilitating diseases can be treated with medications common in the Western world, but those in developing countries struggle to receive the care they need. MAP International, headquartered in Brunswick, is one of several global agencies that tackles epidemics, natural disasters, and chronic medical conditions throughout the world.

“One group can’t do this alone. Ten groups can’t do this alone. We have to work together because these are global problems,” says Kipp Branch, senior medical supply officer at MAP International who has worked for the company for 22 years.

Since 1954, the international nonprofit aid agency has been shipping medical supplies worldwide, providing aid for disaster relief, coordinating with other medical organizations, and working to prevent outbreaks and diseases. In the past 61 years, $5 billion in medicines and supplies have been sent to help more than 2 billion people. Last year, the medical missions program sent more than 3,000 medical orders to more than 100 countries.

“We are very quiet about our work, but we are making a difference in our community and around the globe,” says Steve Stirling, president and CEO of MAP International.

Founded by Ray Knighton in Illinois, MAP moved to Brunswick in 1985. Most of the 40,000-square-foot facility at 4700 Glynco Parkway, Brunswick, is devoted to treatment for the various diseases af-

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fecting millions across the globe. Equipment and medicine is donated from medical facilities and companies. As a licensed facility in foreign trade, MAP supplements donations with purchased medicines from European and Asian manufacturers at low cost.

Boxes line the shelves of the receiving facility with names of medicines most Americans would recognize such as Sudafed, Motrin, and Advil. While these may be readily available in America, however, remote areas of third world countries don’t have access to medication like antihistamines, ibuprofen, or decongestants.

“We are talking about medications for diseases that are entirely preventable. Antibiotics can prevent a lot,” Stirling says.

For instance, MAP works with American Leprosy Missions to provide needed antibiotics to treat a disease that has scared men, women, and children dating back to Biblical times. There are more than 200,000 cases of leprosy reported worldwide each year.

The disease attacks the skin and nerves, which can cause deformities, and those affected are often ostracized from society. A course of antibiotics, which costs $348, can cure leprosy if caught in the early stages.

In addition to treatments, MAP also looks at prevention. In a small corner on the side of the warehouse sits a cold storage unit where limited supplies of vaccines for diseases like rabies, tetanus, and hepatitis are kept. Once special transportation is arranged, the vaccines have a 72-hour window to be administered.

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Regular medications that don’t require temperature control have an average of eight months or so to be sent into the field.

“There’s a quick turnaround to get the medicine into the field. We don’t want to keep it longer than we need to,” Branch says.

As a nonprofit, MAP relies on financial donations so those who receive the supplies don’t pay a penny for it, Sterling says. The nonprofit has a 99 percent efficiency rating, and for every dollar, $60 worth of medicines can be sent in a medical kit.

A large part of MAP’s financial model incorporates volunteers who assist the 45 staff members. Twice a month, more than 100 volunteers will gather to pack materials on a conveyer belt system into medical mission boxes. No medical training is required to volunteer, Branch says, and more help is always needed to pack shipments.

Recently, MAP has been assisting aid relief in Nepal after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit on April 25.

More than 8,000 died and 20,000 were injured in the region. Branch arrived at his office three hours after the news broke that Saturday to start coordinating relief effort.

“Right after a disaster happens, everyone wants to help out, but the greatest need comes in the weeks, months, and years after. After other NGOs leave, MAP stays behind, and communities know we are there for the long term,” Stirling says.

With poor infrastructure, aftershocks, and a second earthquake that hit the region, thousands in Nepal have been left homeless, living in tent villages where they rely on aid from agencies such as MAP. Monsoon season started in June, and concerns grow over a potential cholera outbreak in the aid camps.

Cholera, a waterborne bacteria, causes extreme dehydration from violent vomiting and diarrhea. Acting proactively, MAP has sent six pallets of oral rehydration tablets that can treat almost 29,000 people with plans to send more.

“The oral rehydration tablets are a cheap but simple and highly effective treatment for cholera,” Branch says.

Technology helps quicken response time. With a few key strokes at his office in Brunswick, Branch can receive up-to-date feedback from field officers in one of the eight country locations MAP has country offices in – Kenya, Bolivia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Indonesia, Ecuador, and Uganda.

“Residents here can have a global impact without leaving Glynn County.” - Steve Stirling “When disasters strike, we have a very short window to coordinate the immediate relief effort, but we have a dedicated staff that knows what to do and shows up without anyone asking them to,” he says.

As with many shipments, MAP used a trusted partner to bring the medicines to those in need. A volunteer delivered 30 MAP medical mission packs, worth $330,000 and potential to treat more than 6,000 people, to a group of missionaries about to leave in Macon.

Less than 72 hours after the earthquake, the MAP medical kits had arrived in the Asian country and were being distributed.

Immediate relief is critical, but long-term recovery is also a vital part of MAP’s mission, Stirling says.

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ions stalk the African plains. Gorillas claim the jungle. Elephants roam through nature preserves. While these magnificent animals may be at the top of the food chain, even fearsome predators sometimes need a protector. Dr. Hayley Adams is one of those guardians. Whether it’s to stop the spread of an illness or impede poachers, Adams is part of a global network to help animals and humans live side by side.

The veterinarian, who runs Silent Heroes Foundation, has forged a link between the Golden Isles and Sub-Saharan Africa. The nonprofit helps conservation and rehabilitation of endangered or threatened wildlife, antipoaching initiatives, domestic animal care, veterinarian education for students, and holistic approaches to community development.

No matter the size of animal, Dr. Adams see each species as one part of a wide ecosystem.

“Whatever animal is in the greatest need, that’s where we are. It could be lions and rhinos or dogs and goats.

It’s about finding a solution that benefits both the animal population and the human population because so much passes back and forth between the two populations,” she says.

Silent Heroes, formed in 2010, has been operating in St. Simons for more than a year now following Adams move from the Washington D.C. area. She enjoys having the location in Retreat Plaza, which also offers a store where goods made from free trade groups in Africa can be purchased.

Also at the St. Simons office are rooms of veterinarian supplies, educational textbooks, and provisions Silent Heroes ships to partner schools and groups in Africa.

“We are small but steadily growing,” she says of the organization that works with 20 projects in 13 countries with most of the focus in East and Southern Africa.

The foundation revolves around the One Health philosophy that uses a holistic focus to improve the well-being and welfare of a community. One Health partners look at the relationships between humans, wildlife, domesticated animals, and their environments. And as a researcher who specializes in epidemiology and virology, Adams understands the intricate relationship between animals and humans.

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“Even if my work is primarily focused on animals, that bleeds into human connections. People and animals live so interdependently that you want to find ways to benefit both so each will benefit from the other,” Adams says. “To affect any change with wildlife, you have to take care of the people and their needs as well.”

The Silent Heroes Foundation is located at 1 Retreat Plaza, St. Simons Island, where the foundation runs a store that includes items made by women working in fair trade industries throughout Africa. The store is typically open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Nurses, public health specialists, doctors, and veterinarians collaborate together in One Health programs. Just announced in March, the Institute for Field Training and Research: Tanzania is a cometo-life vision of the One Health approach. Silent Heroes partnered with Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife and the University of Florida Maples Center for Forensic Medicine. The center will offer a place for several fields to work together to create a safer, healthier environment in East Africa. Students, researchers, training experts, and community leaders will be able to use the institute for a variety of tasks, including ranger training for anti-poaching initiatives, a biological laboratory for research, and lecture hall and meeting rooms where groups can address human-wildlife conflicts.

One such mitigation that looks promising involves elephants. The animals roam outside nature preserves at night, sometimes destroying large areas of farmland and devastating crops meant to feed vil-

Medicine. Rwego, a native of Uganda, serves as assistant director of veterinary operations for Silent Heroes Foundation. He previously worked for five years on the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project in Uganda and also in the emerging pandemic threats program for USAID RESPOND. “You understand the impact better when you give someone local the opportunity to show you how their communities work together.

You can’t come in with your own ideas of what will work. You have to learn what will be effective in that community,” Adams says.

When she isn’t in Africa, Adams is spreading the word about Silent Heroes through educational programs and manning the store inside the foundation’s office on St. Simons. Items for sale include necklaces made from paper and telephone wires, handmade bags and scarves, clay bowls for decoration or the kitchen, and more that are

“To affect any change with wildlife, you have to take care of the people and their needs as well.” -Dr. Adams lagers for months to a year. As a result, farmers retaliate against the elephants. An innovative conservation method incorporating elephants’ innate fear of bees will have farmers string beehives on a wire around the fields. If an elephant runs into the line, the bees will be awoken, start buzzing, and elephants will avoid the area.

“It’s something simple that doesn’t require a lot of technology but could be so effective. I’m excited to see how the beehive fences work,” Adams says.

Sharing information and experiences are critical to thrive, which is why Silent Heroes also facilitates externships for veterinarian students at various universities to work on projects in Africa. Adams, who received her doctorate at the University of Tennessee’s College of Veterinary Medicine, has seen firsthand how collaborations can lead to long-term success. As a veterinarian student, Adams was paired with Innocent Rwego, now a wildlife epidemiologist and professor at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary

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all made by women in Africa. Adams hopes to add an online component in the future to create an even greater marketplace for the fair trade groups.

“I want to promote a way for the women to sell their work globally and offer another alternative to poaching for people living in these areas,” she says.

In addition to the store, the St. Simons location also includes several rooms where donated veterinary supplies are stored. Many of the donations are given as in-kind medical supplies from hospitals and pharmaceutical agencies. The supplies, along with textbooks and medical journals, are shipped to numerous projects across the Atlantic Ocean.

Adams hopes to expand operations and add some additional volunteers to the foundation to help with social media, local events, and organize the supplies before they are shipped abroad. G

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tudents sip coffee in an outdoor cafe as women purchase groceries at a nearby market. Artists work on projects adjacent to a garden center. An auditorium fills as a teacher prepares to lead a workshop.

Story Goods can be found at Wake Up Coffee Co. stores in Brunswick and St. Simons Island as well as Pane in the Glass gift shop.

Churches and groups who sponsor the ministry also will sell items throughout the year during special events.

That’s what Beaver Brooks sees when he looks at an empty building in the Haitian town of Gonaives. Along with his wife, Kathy, and financial backers, he soon hopes to make Marketplace Gonaives a reality.

The name, 2nd Story Goods, comes from the idea that hardships may be part of someone’s life, but God can fashion a second story from the broken pieces.

“Marketplace Gonaives is envisioned as an epicenter of restoration and renaissance that ripples first throughout the city and ultimately throughout the country,” he says.

Still in the conception and fundraising stages, the marketplace is just one example of the South Georgia couple’s commitment to Haiti. The Brooks formed Much Ministries to provide aid relief to Haiti after visiting the poverty-stricken country on a mission trip in 2004.

Now living full time in Haiti, the couple has expanded their ministry to include an accessories line, 2nd Story Goods, as one avenue of long-term economic development.

Products, which include journals, scarves, bags, and jewelry, are made by Haitian men and women. The goods are then marketed to buyers in the U.S. to generate a sustainable income. Locally, 2nd

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“The name parallels with a lot of materials we use as well. Scraps of cloth and broken ceramics are found, cleaned, and shaped into beautiful pieces of handcrafted jewelry or braided rugs,” Kathy says.

Beaver and Kathy return to Georgia two to three times yearly to check on things and speak to groups, but the American side of operations is mostly handled by their son, Brandon Brooks, who lives in Waynesville.

“There is really an amazing network of people in our area that have connections to Haiti in one way or another. That being said, there is so much to know and discover. Often we have to ‘unlearn’ things we thought were true before we can start to understand some of the more important or complex parts of Haitian culture,” Brandon says.

From the moment she stepped foot in Haiti, Kathy says she was

2nd Story Goods, an arm of Much Ministries, sells goods and accessories as a sustainable economic model in Haiti.

Items include journals, baskets, bags, jewelry and home goods made by men and women in Haiti and can be purchased online at 2ndstorygoods.com or at Wake Up Coffee Co. in Brunswick and St. Simons Island, or at Pane in the Glass on St. Simons Island.

For more information about 2nd Story Goods, Much Ministries, or the newest venture Marketplace Gonaives, email contactus@2ndstorygoods.com.

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struck by the beauty and strength of the people she encountered.

“I remember thinking that the rest of the world needs to see these people. Their faith and their strength and the way they make life work, in what looked to us like unbelievable difficulty,” Kathy says.

During Kathy’s first trip, a woman walked up to her, carrying a child. With a friend translating from Haitian Creole to English, the woman asked Kathy to take her child because she did not have enough money to feed her three children. The mother was desperate, feeling the only solution was to give her child to a stranger, and that moment left a lasting impact on Kathy.

“That woman no more wanted to give her child away than any of us would…I call that my moment of perfect moral clarity, the moment I knew I would spend the rest of my life doing something where less women on the planet feel that level of desperation. 2nd Story was born in that moment,” she says.

By creating jobs that allowed families to stay together, 2nd Story Goods becomes a long-term solution to poverty in Haiti. Artisans are separated into guilds, or groups, based upon what type of products they create. Each guild has its own operating structure.

Kathy helps decide what items to make, and now some Haitian artists are designing their own pieces as well. 2nd Story Goods provides the workspace, tools, and materials for artists, who are paid by the piece. All profits made by 2nd Story Goods are reinvested into the Haitian community through small business loans, educational supplies and classes, and relief aid.

The company has recently found a reliable method to ship goods from Haiti to the U.S. but they continue to use family and missionaries to take supplies as well.

“Haiti is a nation with somewhat unique challenges, but we meet amazing people all the time working to fix the broken systems, and little by little, it’s getting better to run a business there,” Brandon says.

Success is hard to define for Brandon because he looks beyond the spreadsheets to evaluate the impact within the Haitian communities.

“I realize now that poverty of spirit or mindset is the real poverty. The absence of ‘things’ is not poverty, but feelings of helplessness and powerlessness, that is the poverty that must be changed.” - Kathy Brooks One of their Haitian counterparts is Benson Thermidor, who owns and operates The Brothers Workshop. As a business partner, he helps 2nd Story Goods with all the leather products, but his workshop is autonomous.

“In one sense, we have been keeping people working pretty steadily for three years that otherwise may not have had jobs,” he says.

“But there is also much more we want to do. There are so many more opportunities for changing the world.”

“They sell mostly to us, but also have other customers. We have loaned him money occasionally, but other than product designs, he operates his business the way he wants, which is amazing because he is really into changing the community,” Brandon says.

That’s where the vision for Marketplace Gonaives was born. The area would be another way to establish a stable financial system.

About $400,000, which is almost 50 percent of funds needed to finance the project, have been raised toward the business center. The marketplace would feature a 2nd Story Goods storefront, meeting rooms for educational ventures, a grocery store, and a cafe where students can sip and study.

Running a business abroad can be challenging. Electricity, internet availability, currency exchanges, language and cultural differences are all part of the adjustment process, Kathy explains.

“The most important thing I needed to learn was to ‘shut up and listen,’ and to slow down and observe a lot,” she says. “For example, the market might look like chaos to those of us accustomed to the aisles of Target, but there is a system and it works, everyday.”

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“The main thing about Marketplace Gonaives is that it shows the nation and other nations what Haiti has to offer – her strengths. It changes the perspective of the city, and it doesn’t rely on poverty for success but on the beauty, resourcefulness, creativity, and hard work,” Kathy says. G

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he Georgia coastline has always attracted travelers from near and far to its shores. Many who have arrived have also brought their own cultural heritage. Those trailblazers featured here are from countries outside of the United States, who now live and work in the Golden Isles. Each person tells a story about how they came to call Georgia home. Turn the page to experience their culture and what they love about living in the Golden Isles.

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The couples offer a varied cultural background that extends to their menus. Hernan is Argentinean; Victoria was born in Puerto Rico to a Portuguese mother and German father; and Alberto and Lina are Colombian.

Argentina has a mixture of Italian, Spanish, and German communities while Colombia has a large Lebanese influence. On the walls of the bakery, pictures from Alberto and Lina’s home country tell stories of life in Colombia.

Every one of these cultures are blended together into recipes served at the Del Sur establishments.

The food, made fresh daily, is part Mediterranean and part South American cuisine. From the sweet dulce de leche sauce to the short rib risotto, the menu entices taste buds of many nationalities.

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Hernan and Alberto met in culinary school at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Miami, and opened their first restaurant, Del Sur Artisan Eats – a gourmet market, restaurant, and bakery all in one – in Miami in 2011.

Stopping in the Golden Isles after a visit to Savannah, the two families decided to open a second restaurant and moved their families to St. Simons because of the casual atmosphere – and the added benefit of less traffic. The St. Simons restaurant opened in August and the bakery in April.

“Having lived in Miami, a coastal environment is important to us. We are very used to the water and sand and spend a lot of time at the beach,” Victoria says.

The Stutzers – married for 14 years – and Alberto and Lina – married for six years – put family into every element of their business. In fact, odds are patrons will catch a glimpse of the Stutzer’s two children or Alberto and Lina’s daughter in one of

the establishments. And with another baby on the way for Alberto and Lina, the family is expanding just like the businesses.

The loyalty of their employees, some of whom moved with them from Florida to Georgia, is proof that the atmosphere is more of a family than a business, says Lina.

Owners Hernan Stutzer, Victoria Stutzer, Alberto Llano, and Lina Bareno gather inside the newly opened Del Sur Bakery on St. Simons.

the families took a trip to a blueberry farm. The next day, blueberries were making their way into menu items. Additionally they have partnered with Golden Isles Olive Oil, Wake Up Coffee Co., and Savannah Bee Company to sell products inside the bakery.

“It is very important to us that we work with others in the community and use local, seasonal ingredients,” Hernan says.

“We are a family-run business. That includes those who came with us from Miami and the ones we met here on St. Simons. It’s important to us to be a place where kids and parents can share a meal together because in our culture, food and family go hand in hand,” she says.

With the bustling activity involved in running two new eateries, the men have a ritual to help reduce stress. The two guys will sneak off to the beach for an hour to play paddle ball.

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Christine P r o f f i t t C

hristine Proffitt is a woman of many talents and cultures. At various moments in her life, the owner of Wild and Personal Boutique has been a florist, a waitress, and a music industry employee.

“In America, you have this feeling that you can do or be anything you want to be,” Proffitt says.

Born and raised in Calcutta, India, Proffitt is Anglo-Indian, a cross-culture of the English and Indian customs that arose when the British Empire occupied India as a territory in the 19th and 20th centuries. Proffitt attended a boarding school at the base of the Himalayas with other Anglo-Indian children, speaking English, dressing in Western attire, and learning to swing dance.

“You are born and raised in one country but with the customs from another country.

You become this mix of cultures,” she says.

The blending of cultures extended past her childhood. Her accent is an amalgamation of her travels, the voice of a global citizen

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rather than someone from one particular country. She still has family in England, Australia, and Canada, visiting them or her daughter in Atlanta when she can take time off from her store. She has lived in Sydney, London, Maui, and Atlanta before moving to St. Simons Island 16 years ago and opening Wild and Personal Boutique.

Her store reflects her multicultural background. What started as a shop with wildlife figurines and trinkets has transformed into a boutique offering a wide range of styles and fabrics, what Proffitt describes as “ethnic fashion from all over.”

“I think of my store as a ministry in fashion because it comes from my desire to help women dress confidently. My style is eclectic and fun, and I want to see women dress themselves in something fun and bold,” she says.

When she isn’t in the Redfern store, she is kicking up her heels. Just as dancing transcended the cultural boundaries in India, Proffitt takes classes at Primo Ballroom on

St. Simons Island and likes to dance in shag clubs around the Golden Isles.

“In the Golden Isles, people are super friendly.

And on the island, we have a little touch of everything. It might not be as big as in the cities, but we have a lot of options to enjoy,” she says.

Christine Proffitt is the owner of Wild & Personal Boutique, located in Redfern Village on St. Simons Island

Proffitt isn’t sure what the future holds next – possibly a move to another part of the country. She is exploring the idea of going into spiritual healing, something she has always felt strongly about.

“I’ve always believed that all we need to do to light up the world

is to evolve in our hearts. We were all put on this world to find God in ourselves and others,” she says.

No matter where she is headed to next, Proffitt is sure to leave her exotic mark on whatever she pursues. She will also take a bit of her Golden Isles lifestyle with her, such as her love of nature and the relaxed atmosphere of the coast.

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oving halfway across the world is not something John and Olympia Poulakis anticipated, but the couple found themselves leaving their native Greece for the shores of the Golden Isles in 2002, when John received a work visa to begin a job with S and B Industrial Minerals.

With two children under the age of five, the trans-Atlantic move was a big step for the family who knew no one when they arrived in Glynn County. In fact, daughter Konstantina, or Nina, only knew two words in English – ‘bathroom’ and ‘Oreos.’

“To watch my child, who knew only two words in English when we first moved here, and see her give a speech at her fifth-grade graduation ceremony years later, it was so touching. I’m a very proud father,” John says.

John comes from the island of Milos, in the Aegean Sea, and Olympia’s family is from the western part of Greece, across from Italy. While the crystal clear waters of the Mediterranean can’t be beat, similarities of life by the sea helped the Poulakis Family adapt quickly to life on St. Simons.

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“For us, it was a lovely option to establish our family on St. Simons Island,” John says.

Still in the same house they first rented when they moved 13 years ago, the Poulakis Family now call both St. Simons and Greece “home.”

Nina, 16, and her younger brother Georgios, or George, 15, blend their Greek heritage with the Southern lifestyle in many ways.

During the school year, the kids attend Frederica Academy, an institution the parents credit with helping make their transition into the St. Simons community easier. Nina plays tennis, and George plays soccer. In the summers, Olympia, Nina, and George will spend a few months back in Greece with John joining them in between work trips.

“Greeks like to establish roots. It’s important to feel part of the community whether that is here on St. Simons or back in Greece,” John says.

Like many in the South, faith is an important part of their lives. The Poulakis quartet are part of a small community of 50 or so Greek Orthodox members who gather weekly at the St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church on Newcastle Street.

“In Greece, we don’t have denominations. We have the Greek Orthodox Church, and everyone is Greek Orthodox. So it is a little different,” John says.

Mediterranean food is closely connected to family gatherings like Southern food is within the homes here. The family calls their Greek relatives on Sundays when they sit down for a traditional family dinner so they can stay connected from afar.

John and Olympia Poulakis with their children, Nina and George, at their home on St. Simons Island.

And since moving to the U.S., cooking has become one of Olympia’s favorite activities. She likes to use as many authentic Greek ingredients as possible in her dishes, from spanakopita (spinach pie) to dolmades (stuffed grape leaves).

“In Greece, my sisters and the family cooked. It wasn’t something I did because the others were always doing it. But then, when you leave home, you have to start doing things yourself. But I don’t use recipes, I cook from my memories,” she says.

When the Poulakis Family received their American citizenship three years ago, friends threw a surprise party to mark the special occasion, a touching moment for the family.

“We have the best of both worlds. Coming from the land where democracy was founded and now to live in the land where it is practiced and you have the freedom to say or believe what you want, it’s priceless really,” Olympia says. G

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oshi Hirata has been introducing diners along Georgia’s coast to Japanese food through his restaurants, Seasons of Japan, since he moved from the Asian country to the U.S. almost 17 years ago.

“In the beginning, people didn’t know much about Japanese food or how to eat it. But now, people tell me how I should eat it or modify it. So we are not just Japanese food, but Japanese American food,” he says.

Seasons of Japan first opened in Savannah in 1999.

Since Toshi opened a franchise group several years ago, there are now 13 locations across the U.S. Toshi owns and operates seven of those restaurants. When people from Glynn County came to Savannah to shop, they would stop and eat at Seasons of Japan.

They started asking Toshi to open a new location in Brunswick, which he did in 2010.

Toshi and his wife, Hami, are from Kobe, Japan, and have been married for almost 32 years. Their three children all have a role in the business, he says, and he hopes they continue the legacy of dreaming big.

“Their legacy is just challenge and create new things,” he says.

Interaction with his customers is an important part of his business model, and he makes an effort to have each store reflect the area where they are located. On

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the walls of the Brunswick location hang photos taken by Toshi – another of his hobbies includes photography – such as the Ritz Theatre in downtown.

“My wife and I, we try hard to make each location unique. It’s important to us that each restaurant feels like home to the people who live there,” he says.

Like his other locations, the Brunswick restaurant in the Glynn Isles Shopping Center serves Japanese food in a quick manner that doesn’t sacrifice flavor or taste, he says.

“In this area, people are friendly, but people are more picky. Lots of people ask to modify dishes, and we do as much as possible for them,” he says.

The Brunswick location is close enough to Toshi’s flagship store in Savannah that he is able to drive down anytime he wants to check in and see what people enjoy or want to add to the menu.

“American people made our food. If people like something, we go do it. We don’t want to tell people what is Japanese food and what is not Japanese food,” he says.

Part of the Americanization of Japanese cuisine includes using more sauce than traditional dishes, but there is some fusion between Southern cuisine and Japanese food. Toshi is working on several

opportunities to coordinate with others to combine the two tastes, including a recent collaboration with Chef Jeff Henderson, who stopped by the Savannah location for his show, “Flip My Food.”

Toshi Hirata stands inside the Seasons of Japan restaurant located in Brunswick.

For Toshi, he enjoys mixing the two cultures into each dish.

“Southern food, in my opinion, is the American traditional food.

When I talk about American food, it is about Southern cuisine. So we want to take elements of that and put them into our menu,” Toshi says.

When he isn’t at any of his Seasons of Japan restaurants, Toshi is often teeing off at the Brunswick Country Club. Golf has been a passion of his for decades. He became a golf professional when he was just 29 years old. He later worked as a commentator for the Golf Channel in Orlando.

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alking into Island Couture on St. Simons Island is like taking a step into a global fashion marketplace. Owners Einav and Michael Maleh use their expansive cultural tastes to hand select every item from a limited number of designers. Shoes from Spain, hats from Panama, kaftans from India, jewelry from Turkey. An entire wall of the store is devoted to Jams World, the popular Hawaiian brand. In fact, almost every continent is represented in items somewhere on the shelves and racks.

their customers, even if there isn’t much overlap between Southern clothing styles and the trends cropping up on runways in New York and Europe.

“The U.S. is a few years behind European fashion, and the South is further behind as far as trends are concerned. But you still find people who are looking for what will be the next big thing, no matter where you are. Fashion is a lifestyle, and everyone has a different one,” Michael says.

His wife agrees.

“Fashion has no face, it has no country. There is no origin to fashion. It’s what we make of it, and that is what makes fashion so special,” Michael says.

The couple, who own several retail businesses that span Florida, Georgia, and Wisconsin, bring a global perspective from their own connections abroad. Einav was born in the town of Be’er Sheva in Israel; her parents are Moroccan. Michael’s heritage also has roots in the Middle East. His Israeli mother and Egyptian father emigrated to the United States before he was born. He grew up in New York before later moving to Florida.

Both Michael and Einav enjoy the connection between their own fashion tastes and those of

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“You learn to make it your own,” Einav says. “I want people to come into the store and find something they haven’t seen before. You want to touch things, feel the fabrics. So much about fashion is how you feel in something, not just what it looks like hanging up. That’s universal,” she says.

While they like to visit the store four or five times during the off season, the Malehs, who live in Florida, rent a home on St. Simons each summer to spend every day in the store.

Their openness to share their passion for fashion with others means who they often greet every person that walks through their doors. And the

store itself is decorated with imaginative displays created – and often hand-painted – by Einav.

Sometimes, their two daughters and their son will join in on the entrepreneurial spirit and sell lemonade in front of the store.

Einav and Michael Maleh are often found at their store, Island Couture, located at Pier Village, on St. Simons Island.

“The children were born behind the counter, just like me,” Michael says, referring to his own upbringing in the retail business.

“It’s in their blood.”

When they aren’t in the store, the Malehs enjoy being outdoors, going to the beach, or having fun at Neptune Park. The kids partici-

pate in summer gymnastics and camps here.

Involved with their temple in Florida, the Malehs also like to meet with others within the Jewish community in the Golden Isles. They will be taking their children to Israel in November for their eldest daughter’s Bat Mitzvah. It will be the first trip to Israel for the younger children, and the parents hope to continue traveling abroad with them.

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Singapore

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alerie Crumpton may not be traveling across the high seas every day, but her mission to change the lives of men and women is a strong current that pulls people to the shores of Brunswick.

A native of Singapore, Valerie, executive director of the International Seafarers’ Center since April 2012, is in charge of a small staff that runs the nonprofit Christian ministry serving those aboard ships docked at the Port of Brunswick. Whether it’s donor development, volunteer management, or event planning, she has her hands full with several tasks to tend to the needs of seamen and women from all over the world.

“It’s such a unique nonprofit because you are working with people who are unseen mostly, coming in and out of our community. It can be a challenge to help people identify emotionally with the seafarers, but it is so rewarding,” Valerie says.

Her work with the center is part of Valerie’s lifelong mission to help those in need. She has worked with international nonprofits and organizations for more than 20 years. Some of

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that time has been spent with Habitat for Humanity International, the YMCA, and other nonprofits.

Growing up in the small island city-state off the southern tip of Malaysia, she is aware how many people live and work in the ocean trade industry that dates back to the city-state’s foundation. Singapore was founded as a British trading colony in the early 19th century.

The climate is tropical year round, and the British influence continues with English as one of the official languages.

Educational institutions in Singapore are based upon the British system, and Valerie spent her childhood in primary and secondary schools before leaving Singapore to attend King’s University College in Edmonton, Canada, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. Living in Canada was a new experience for Valerie.

“Not having lived through a blizzard before, I had no concept of what it would be like,” she says recalling one memory when someone rescued her while she stood at a bus stop in sub-zero temperatures.

Valerie and her husband, the Rev. Al Crumpton, share a love story that spans the continents.

They met at a conference in Bangkok for Habitat for Humanity International, while she was working for the Asia Pacific chapter and he was based in the Americus, Georgia, headquarters.

Valerie Crumpton is the executive director of the International Seafarers’ Center. Here she is surrounded by tokens from her travels abroad during a photo shoot at Plantation Park Interiors.

They got engaged in India and were married in Singapore. They attended seminary together at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Married in December 2006, the couple lives in St. Marys, where Al is the rector at King of Peace Episcopal Church in Kingsland. He also serves as president of the King of

Peace Episcopal Day School.

On the drive from Camden County to Brunswick every day, Valerie says it is easy to enjoy the beauty of the landscape, something she hopes to share with the seafarers who pass through the port.

“We like to take the seafarers to St. Simons or Jekyll Island. Sometimes they ride bikes around Brunswick. The beauty here, we often take for granted, but many of these men and women haven’t seen trees or moss or marshes like what we have here,” she says.

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he Gullah-Geechee people and their descendants have retained a distinct culture that spans two continents – from the shores of Western Africa to the Golden Isles.

Enslaved and transported to Georgia and South Carolina to work on plantations in the 18th and 19th centuries, the

Africans passed their cultural traditions to the next generation. Their influences reverberated across cultural boundaries through music, food, spirituality, and language.

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embo came to America in 1783, as a slave. His descendant, Jim Bacote visited Africa in 1986, as an entrepreneur.

In between them, there were slaves, a couple of scholars, a few preachers, some businessmen, a lawman, and at least one outlaw filling out a lush family tree whose branches reach from Gambia to Glynn County.

“Dembo was my grandfather’s great-grandfather,” says Jim Bacote, who now operates the Geechee Kunda Museum and Cultural Center in Riceboro with his wife, Pat. Jim, who was born in Brunswick in the 1940s, can trace his roots with the help of family documents and the Library of Congress archives to his ancestor, African Dembo – so called by Jim’s family to distinguish the patriarch from his son, Dembo Bacote.

African Dembo was abducted somewhere in present day Gambia on the continent’s western coast. He was an educated man, who could read and write. When he was enslaved, African Dembo was taken to South Carolina and sold to the owners of Hartwell Plantation.

His son, Dembo Bacote, was born on the plantation in 1810, taking the surname of a plantation master. In 1827, Dembo Bacote was sold to the nearby plantation of Caleb Coker. But African Dembo made sure his son could read and write before he left.

Dembo Bacote and his wife, Harriet, had a son, Frank Bacote, who was born in 1840. With the abolition of slavery at the end of the Civil War in 1865 and Reconstruction starting up, Dembo Bacote made the most of his newfound freedom and became deputy sheriff in Darlington County.

Jim gets a mischievous sparkle in his eye when speaking of Mitchell Bacote, Frank’s son and African Dembo’s great-grandson. Mitchell, born in 1871 in Darlington County, took the name James Richardson when he fled from Carolina to Georgia.

Family lore is vague about the details of the original altercation that ensued between Mitchell and a white man – whether it was a dustup or a fight to the death.

“Either way, he had to get out of town,” Jim says.

On his way to a new life in Liberty County, Georgia, Jim spent a secluded night in a graveyard. There, he found his new identity etched out for him on a tombstone.

“He figured no one wanted to be in a graveyard late at night, so he hid out there. That’s where he found the name James Richardson.

And he took that for his new name,” Jim says.

Jim Bacote stands next to an ancestor’s home, which he has moved to his Riceboro property as part of the Geechee Kunda Museum and Cultural Center.

“He got to spend 17 years with his Daddy before he was sold,” Jim says. “He was a literate man. There is a long line of literacy in the family.”

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Much later, he passed that name onto a son, James Richardson, Jim’s father who then passed it on to Jim. In fact, Jim’s full name is James Richardson Bacote, combining the names of generations of his ancestors.

Others in the Bacote family tree include the Rev. Samuel W. Bacote, a great uncle to Jim, who became the first African-American to earn a degree from the University of Kansas City in 1898. Samuel’s son was Clarence Bacote, the voting rights activist of the 1940s in Atlanta. Another of Jim’s great uncles, Albert Bacote, was not only a Baptist preacher in Charleston but also founder of the Darlington Stock Company.

“When folks realize they weren’t just a bunch of dumb workers, but people who have a culture and tradition of their own, that brings about empowerment and intellectual and spiritual liberation,” Jim says.

His wife, Pat Bacote, also descends from a proud African lineage. She is a direct descendant of Bilali Muhammad, a well-educated Muslim from Guinea who was taken captive in 1770. Bilali worked in the Caribbean before he was taken to the Sapelo Island plantation of Thomas Spalding in 1802. Spalding later made Bilali the plantation’s overseer. Pat is linked to Muhammad through a grandmother, Bessie Lemon.

Pat and Jim grew up neighbors in Brunswick and later were married. Jim was operating a printing company in Detroit when he joined then Congressman George Crockett on a trade mission to Togo in 1986. It was the first of many business trips to Africa for him and Pat. From 2000 to 2004, the Bacotes ran a textile company in Sierra Leone.

The visits to Africa played a big role in the Bacotes’ calling to establish the cultural center in sparsely populated rural Liberty County. And the couple continues to maintain business ties in Africa, trading in antiquities for the Geechee Kunda Center that they run in Riceboro.

“We were originally going to build this as a family museum,” Jim says. “But then we decided our family history is like every other African-Americans’ story. We do it because it’s our culture, and it’s our responsibility to preserve it. We didn’t choose this, we were chosen for this.”

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It was legal to buy and sell human beings within the American South up to the 1850s, but the import of African slaves and the horrific Middle Passage across the Atlantic had long since been banned.

Although unlawful, some still attempted to abduct and transport Africans into the United States. On Nov. 28, 1858, approximately 400 Africans aboard the slave ship The Wanderer were smuggled onto Jekyll Island.

The ship, which landed more than 50 years after the slave trade was banned in America, is believed to be one of the last slave ships to make the Atlantic crossing.

Karen Ward stands next to a plaque commemorating the Africans who arrived aboard The Wanderer on Jekyll Island.

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The ship’s operators were later found not guilty by a federal court in Savannah.

Amy Roberts stands next to her ancestor Ammie Spaulding’s grave in a private family cemetery.

Seventy-eight people perished during the voyage of The Wanderer. One of the 400 who survived was a man named Tom Floyd. Tom, then 18, took the surname Floyd, that of the boat captain who bought him. Tom’s circumstances were better than most during his short time in bondage before emancipation in 1865.

“He told the captain that he was a son of a prince,” says Karen Brown Ward, a descendant of Tom Floyd. “He never worked in the field or in the house. He was a playmate for the captain’s son.”

Family history says Tom was captured along the Congo River and is believed to have been descended from a royal tribal lineage, Karen says.

Following the Civil War, Tom built a home on the south end of St. Simons and gained a reputation for treating illnesses with medicinal plants as a root doctor.

Tom Floyd’s family line in America would later produce one of the greatest running backs the NFL has ever seen.

Jim Brown, who grew up on St. Simons Island before establishing a stellar Hall of Fame career in the 1950s and 1960s with the Cleveland Browns, is Tom’s great-greatgrandson. Karen, Jim Brown’s daughter, is Tom’s greatgreat-great-granddaughter.

“Tom’s African name was Ndzinga. There was a Queen Ndzinga and he may be from the direct line of that royal family.

Maybe that’s why my father has that independent spirit,” Karen says.

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Historians say many Lowcountry plantation owners would only visit a few months out of the year because of the harsher climate along the marshes. Their slaves, however, adapted to Coastal Georgia, and this resilience is revered by descendants like Amy Lotson Roberts.

“We learned to survive, thank God,” Amy says.

Amy, executive director of the St. Simons African American Heritage Coalition, says she has learned a lot as she digs through her family history. She has been able to trace her heritage back to a couple named Cecil and Matilda, who raised her grandmother, Ammie Spaulding, at the turn of the 20th century.

“I’m not sure if he was her dad or if someone just gave her to him to raise,” Amy says, noting such informal adoptions were common at the time. “I am trying to find that out, and there is still so much to learn. But in this community it is like a big family anyway. Who’s not related on this island?”

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Ammie Spaulding died in 1925 and is buried in the private King Cemetery, a family plot located behind the gates of the Sea Island golf course.

Amy is awaiting the results of a DNA swab sent for testing recently and hopes it will shed more light on her family origins.

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“The more and more I dig, the more and more my eyes are opened,” Amy says. “I find a story, a little piece of history, everywhere I go.”

In addition to the St. Simons African American Heritage Coalition, Amy conducts guided tours of the island, focusing on its rich black history.

Her family records include postCivil War era accounts of families riding their horses and wagons from the south end of the island to First African Baptist Church on Frederica Road. The church still holds services every week.

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veryone has occasionally stumbled upon a new song by an unknown artist and realized they are on the cusp of stardom. Nick Bryant is one such artist. Combining John Mayer’s melodic sense with a Dylan-esque lyricism, Bryant’s music has elements of alt-country, singersongwriting, classic rock, and pop in tasteful equal measure. Although only 23 years old, Bryant is already a seasoned touring artist with a workhorse tour schedule.

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Growing up between Atlanta and southeast Florida, Bryant received his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from College of Coastal Georgia while living with his grandmother, Patricia Bryant, a retired French teacher who taught at Camden County High School.

Observant and thoughtful, Bryant has always been one to scribble down ideas as they came to him, which has served him well as a songwriter.

“I figured that degree would give me a great foundation to build on as a full-time touring musician and singer-songwriter,” he says.

And tour he has. Travel is a key theme running throughout his music.

“I’ve been to Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Monaco, Switzerland, the Bahamas, and a good many of the states. Travel has shaped me. It has opened my mind to new cultures, sounds, and foods. I encourage it,” Bryant says.

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Many of Bryant’s original songs flow directly out of his experiences traveling, and there are many locations in his songs on his first LP. “California” has a ’70s folk sound that was inspired by the view from his aunt’s front yard overlooking the Pacific.

‘Lost Vegas’ grew out of the plentiful options to entertain visitors in Nevada’s City of Lights.

Music is the closest thing we have to world peace. It is love in sound.

“I have always kept a journal, but that all changed when my uncle — an accomplished musician and producer — asked if I’d like to record. I was nine when I recorded my first song, but it wasn’t until I was 12 that my uncle showed me Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranoid.’ That was when I knew I had to play guitar,” Bryant reveals.

Committing himself to the craft, Bryant picked up the guitar at every opportunity afforded to him, but not for the reasons some might suspect.

“I’ve spent thousands of hours practicing, but for me, it’s not about the technical aspects of it all – it’s about getting what I feel out in a way people can connect to,” he says.

FULL STEAM AHEAD Putting in most of his hours honing his skills on the open road rather than the quiet of his room, he can perform as many as nine shows in a week. His work schedule is matched by his ambition.

“I’m making a solid living from my music, but I’d like to impact the world with it, being an advocate for peace and social justice — a voice for the people.

I’d like to start a couple of music-related nonprofits and impact generations to come,” he says.

“The power that music has is incredible. It can get people out of bed. It can influence people who have the power to change everything whether they know it or not. It has a way of saying you’re not alone,” he adds.

Bryant’s latest CD, Through the Blue, dropped June 1.

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Then there’s “St. Augustine.”

“I picked up a private party while playing in Fernandina — it was someone’s 21st birthday. Long story short, it was awful, but I got a favorite song out of it!” Bryant says.

For more information on Nick, his music, and his ambitious touring schedule, visit www.NickBryantMusic.net. You can also download his latest single, “Mistaken,” for free at nickbryant.bandcamp.com. G

Life changing moment: “Seeing (the late) B.B. King live when I was 14 was very heavy, to say the least. That was my favorite show by far.

Beyond words, really.”

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Erin Goodman Words by Cyle Lewis | Photo by Tamara Gibson

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rin Goodman, daughter of local medical practitioners Neil and Margaret Goodman, is an islandgrown fashion designer now residing in Brooklyn, New York. Always the innovator, it’s no surprise she’s taken her SCAD degree in fashion design and set sail for the uncharted waters of innovation. That wave crashing our shores is called Gunner’s Daughter, and it’s ushering in a new vision for structure and design in accessories.

Gunner’s Daughter products are available exclusively at www.gunners-daughter.com.

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Launched this May, Goodman’s Brooklyn-based company released its first limited edition handbag, the Wallabout, available in two leather and two canvas colors. Goodman combined her affinity for vintage and nautical styles to create a bag that encompasses unique aspects of both functionality and fashion.

Highly structured designs Gunner’s Daughter products all hinge on the collision of art and fashion, with a dash of history thrown in for good measure. The limited edition bags are each lined with a silk watercolor maritime illustration drawn by artist Lane Ngo. Paying homage to her coastal roots, Goodman chose a map of the Golden Isles as her first lining.

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The Wallabout is sleek and minimalistic, but it’s the hardware that takes center stage for unique variations and possibilities. The “hook and shackle” system brings to mind pirates and the open seas. Shanked with a screw pen on the opposite end, the gold-brushed system allows for interchanging straps. Goodman designed the Wallabout as a cross-body day bag, ensuring all-day comfort and style.

Working at Tommy Hilfiger influenced me to approach design with a specific lifestyle brand in mind.

“I always had knots in my shoulders from carrying totes and big bags. I remember walking around Europe with a huge purse when I was younger, thinking how it just made travel that much more exhausting,” she says.

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A budding artist “If the stories I’ve been told are true, I was quite a little handful!” Goodman says. “I remember having a hard time with math and reading.

Things didn’t make sense until I could see pictures and visualize it.”

Entering middle school, she began working on art, deconstructing vintage garments and turning them into new pieces. She also had parents that encouraged her dreams.

“I associate my first image of entrepreneurialism to my parent’s medical practices. From an early age, I knew it wasn’t easy, but I knew I could and would do that one day,” she says.

While completing her senior fashion show at Savannah College of Art and Design, Goodman was approached by a scout from Tommy Hilfiger, where she’d interned the previous summer. She was hired to work on a new project within Tommy, and many of the skills she would need to establish Gunner’s Daughter were acquired there.

“My boss was great, and he let me try everything.

I worked with senior designers developing men’s and women’s trims, zippers, buttons, toggles, as well as bags and other accessories,” she says.

“When I design Gunner’s Daughter bags, I try to imagine what it will be like 20, 30, or 60 years from now. I want my designs to be stylish, yet also a reminder of the past. That’s why I incorporate vintage designs, silk scarves, and jewelry into my bags, but with a modern twist,” Goodman adds.

Inspiration Turned reality During Hurricane Sandy, Goodman didn’t have an office to go to, so she sat in a coffee shop in Brooklyn and started sketching ideas.

“It suddenly hit me! I scribbled a few bags on the paper, and the rest is history,” she says.

Gunner’s Daughter bags are manufactured in the Brooklyn Navy Yards, a 300-acre industrial park on the waterfront in New York. Once the site of the nation’s most storied naval shipbuilding facilities, the park is now home to more than 330 industrial tenants who employ more than 6,400 people. The artisans within Goodman’s specific factory have been hand-crafting high quality bags and accessories for more than 30 years.

“I am often asked if I intend to keep Gunner’s Daughter products made in the U.S.A., and the answer is yes! I believe in the American economy and believe that having a quality item made right here at home is just another incentive to own it,” Goodman says.

She also hopes to collaborate with other brands and retailers in the future. G

The name, Gunner’s Daughter, is both cheeky and historically intriguing. A satirical term coined by the British Navy in the 1800s, “kissing the gunner’s daughter” was a form of punishment by which a crew member was forced to bend over a cannon to receive a whipping. The term “gunner” can also refer to a go-getter, something Goodman relates to. “I like the combination of the strong and determined with the soft aspects of the word ‘daughter’,” she says.

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Coastal Seen On April 24, the College of Coastal Georgia’s campus was filled with participants during the fourth annual

International

Festival, One World Many Faces. The festival was coordinated by Diane Knight with the Robert S. Abbott Race Unity Institute. The day celebrates different cultures through art, music, food, performances, and more. Photos by Dickerson Arts.

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Coastal Seen Frederica Academy hosted the

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on May 2. Friends, family, and supporters alike donned their best hats and seersucker attire to raise money for the school. The Kentucky Derby-themed event featured music and a live auction with the festivities lasting into the night.

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Frederica Academy Derby Day (continued)

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Coastal Seen It was a splendid spring evening when the artists represented in the new ArtTrends Gallery recently opened their doors to more than 200 guests on May 15. Inside, it was a full house and the overflow poured into the parking lot with art lovers galore.

ArtTrends is a new eclectic gallery featuring the work of nine local and regional artists located at 3304 Frederica Road on St. Simons Island. Photos by Jennifer Broadus.

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Frances McCrary, left, Bud Dorsey, Dennie McCrary, and Margie Dorsey

Kathleen and Lee Harrell

Bob and Billie Huggins

Jennifer Broadus and Elizabeth LeSueur

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Coastal Seen Golden Isles Association of Realtors held the Young Professionals Network Derby Day at The Stables at Frederica on May 2. Attendees gathered in their favorite Derby attire for the afternoon, which concluded with the group watching the race at the stables.

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Welcoming Dr. Richard Raymond, DMD, MScD Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics

Dr. Raymond is joining our practice July 1st. He is a graduate of Harvard Dental School and loves to golf.

Beginning in Mid-July, we will be open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

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The Courtyard at Crane 371 Riverview Dr. Jekyll Island 912-635-5200 The Courtyard at Crane, the Jekyll Island Club Hotel’s casual fine dining option, is located in the center courtyard and loggia of the historic Crane Cottage. The chef ’s unique menu is complemented by an outstanding wine list. Guests are offered the option of dining inside or outside. Come savor exquisite al fresco ambiance and world-class cuisine in a beautiful and historic atmosphere.

The Jekyll Island Club Grand Dining Room 371 Riverview Dr. Jekyll Island 912-635-5155 The Jekyll Island Club Grand Dining Room, the hotel’s full service restaurant, offers breakfast, lunch, dinner, and famous Sunday Brunch. The á la carte menu features continental cuisine specializing in seafood, gourmet specials, and authentic Southern fare. Victorian tea is offered daily from 4-5pm. The Club pianist complements evening dining and Sunday Brunch.

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COASTAL KITCHEN 102 Marina Dr. St. Simons Island 912-638-7790 The closest table to the water without getting wet! From house-made lobster ravioli, crab-stuffed flounder, wild Georgia shrimp and grits, and house-made ice cream to the best fried oysters you have ever put in your mouth.

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