May/June 2010

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Table of Contents

May/June 2010

features:

12 Hot Fun in the

18 Up in the air

26 Power Lunch

Take wing over the Golden

Enjoy a semi-civilized repast at

Local activities you can do

Isles with a cadre of

McKinnon air field.

with young ones.

enthusiastic fliers.

by Bob Dart

by Leslie Jeter

by Amy Carter

summertime

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Editor’s Note

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Flo on Food

17 Par for the Course 25 Nature Connection 60 Coastal Calendar 62 Out & About 70 Coastal Cuisine 72 Last Call

46 departments: HOME & GARDEN 36 Mixing trend and tradition HEALTH & BEAUTY 40 Looking Good 42 Running

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on the cover: A bird’s-eye view up the coast of St. Simons Island from the cockpit of a Cessna 172 Skyhawk.

Photo by Joe Loehle, EOJ Design & Photo.

Golden Isles THE MAGAZINE FOR BRUNSWICK, ST. SIMONS, JEKYLL & SEA ISLANDS

PEOPLE & PLACES 46 The Palms Retro SPORTS & RECREATION 48 Soccer Finds a Home in

the Golden Isles COASTAL PROFILE 50 That Winning Season

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Up in the Air

With Flyboys of the Golden Isles

SOCCER FINDS A HOME IN THE GOLDEN ISLES

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HOT FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME

POWER LUNCH AT MCKINNON AIRPORT

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Editor’s Note

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he world from 1,500 feet looks much different from the world at 5-feet-4-inches, and once I flew myself to 1,500 feet and back down to earth again, I grew about 6 feet taller. Yes, I flew a plane! With just a little help (or a lot) from Emilio Hernandez, who made me think I flew the plane. Either way, when I hit solid ground again, I was 10 feet tall and bulletproof. It’s a good thing, too. If Sgt. Lacey of the Glynn County Police Department had caught me driving around after that, he would have had to shoot me to stop me (in a minivan, no less). Any speed under 100 knots is simply unbearable now.

The reason you never see an unhappy pilot is because flying is a drug. I even had a hangover the next morning. Headache, malaise and a major bad attitude. The reality is, I’m too broke to afford flying lessons and what would I fly anyway? The minivan won’t go airborne. I’ve already tried.

I realize that Delta is ready when I am, but being flown in a MD-88 is nothing compared to flying a Cessna 172 Skyhawk. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up. Then swing by and pick me up. I’m a quick learner and I don’t talk back (in fact, I can hardly speak coherently at all; I answered a simple yes-or-no question three different ways for poor Emilio).

Best of all, I (otherwise known as Emilio) land better than Jamie Johnson. At least on my first attempt.

If you don’t already know Emilio and Jamie, flip on over to our cover feature for this issue of Golden Isles Magazine, “Up in the Air.” They’re the ones who created the new monster that is me. Me aside, general aviation is a big business around here, and I will tell you why a few pages from here. There are many other interesting articles in this issue that I know you’ll enjoy, but right now I’m headed back to the airport for another intoxicating whiff of aviation fuel. Maybe that’s why I’ve been plane crazy lately. Happy (vapor) trails!

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Flo on Food

The Recipes That bind

by Flo Anderson

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received a text from my sweet daughter-in-law, Laura, the other day, asking if I had written my article for May as yet. Of course I hadn’t. My gosh, I had 4 days, 17 hours and 23 minutes before it was due – plenty of time to find out what she had in mind.

Well, it turns out that Laura’s BFF, Stacy, had been going thru some old recipes and found a collection that she had written on these cute little recipe cards when she was 7 years old. What was really amazing was that her two favorites were for my Cheese Ball and my Lemon Bread. She had acquired these when she visited the Emmeline and Hessie Restaurant back in 1978 with her parents. (I was the chef at that restaurant from 1978 until 1985.)

Although we all live on the Island, I just met Stacy this past summer. We got to

know each other when we vacationed in the old recipe box and saw my recipes, New Hampshire. I was staying in a big written in her 7-year-old handwriting, she house with Laura and our son Charlie and had to share the story. their kids, and they invited Stacy and her And so my dear friends, that is the saga husband, Eddie, to join us for a week. They and this is Stacy’s favorite, my Lemon also have two children so it was a great Bread Recipe. I hope you all enjoy it as time, but as I was doing all of the cooking, much as my family and friends seem to.

Stacy asked if she could help. Of course, I If you want the Cheese Ball recipe you can soon discovered that she was a great cook email me at flosgalley@comcast.net and I and knew her way around a kitchen. I told will send it to you. her that I did a lot of catering back on the Island and she mentioned she would love Flo Anderson took her first restaurant job at the King and Prince Hotel to help me. She had not yet figured out in 1971. She’s been cooking ever since. Her restaurants, The 4th of May that I was “the” Flo Anderson of Emmeline Cafés, endure in the St. Simons Village and in downtown Brunswick. Flo is the mother of three and grandmother to seven, all of whom live on and Hessie fame. That realization came St. Simons Island. when she was helping me for the first time on a catering job, saw the cookbook and mentioned that she loved going to the restaurant as a child. When I told her I wrote the book, she was surinch loaf prised. When later she found es one 8-inch x 4-

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Hot Fun in the Summertime

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Polly and Parker Claxton, the children of Paul and Paula Claxton, enjoy a balmy day at East Beach.

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elcome to summertime in the Golden Isles, where school is out and the beach is in! Whether you’re a parent or a babysitter, a local or a guest, here are just a few tips to keeping your children entertained while making a lifetime of memories the whole family can appreciate.

Most summer days all you need are a pair of flip-flops, sunglasses and some sunscreen. But by adding a few more accessories in the mix, you can find yourself on a whole new level of entertainment. Next time you head out with the kids, grab a beach bag and fill it with the following: a pair of binoculars, a backpack for the children, a small shovel and pail set, a kid-proof camera, a

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small notebook and some coloring pencils. You’ll find that no matter how you spend your day, putting these things to use will lead to a delightful and happy experience for everyone.

Smaller children are especially curious about the little things so don’t underestimate how a simple bag or two can contribute to a developing mind. Empower your child with complete control of the bag and allow him or her to utilize it in any way they desire. Collecting items can be quite fun and educational so spend about an hour or two, depending on the collection, studying certain items and place them in the bag to carry as a reminder of the day’s adventure.

Toys Galore If you need supplies, visit one of the many toy stores on the island that offer limitless fun for children of any age, without breaking your budget. By picking up a colorful kite or remote controlled airplane of your child’s liking, not only will they feel accomplished by sending something flying high over the city, it is a wonderful excuse to educate your child on how it works. Grab your pair of children’s binoculars and show your child how to look at the countless birds that can be found around the beach or the many boats that travel close to shore. The curiosity that accompanies a pair of binoculars could lead to many questions and immeasurable entertainment.

• Just 4 Funn Toys, 205 Mallery Street in the St. Simons Village, 638-3866 • Frederica Station, 209 Mallery Street in the St. Simons Village, 638-9400

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Tripp Morris, son of Andy and Jenni Morris, walks his dog Brady on the beach.

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Before walking along the beach, equip your children with shovels and allow them the chance to dig in the sand for a while. Younger children may be perfectly content rearranging the beach little by little while the older children may be eager to show off an amazing sand creation. Be sure to take lots of pictures of the work of art; even after the tide has erased all evidence of a sandcastle, it can still be remembered. If the camera is waterproof and kid-tough, allow the child control of the camera. They will appreciate taking photos as desired. Also abundant around the island are nets and fishing poles. No matter if you’re on the beach, pier or river dock, the mystery of what can be found under the water is definitely fun for

The magical floating orbs can be quite an entertaining distraction.

• Capt. Scott Owens offers fly-fishing charters for all ages aboard a flats skiff. Learn more at www.flyfishgeorgia.com.

But you don’t necessarily have to spend all your time around the water to have an adventure. Bike paths can be found throughout the Golden Isles. Did you know there

Sand and Sea

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everyone. Another way to take advantage of the water is crabbing, an activity that could easily lead to a summertime hobby. There is even a boat tour that allows your child to participate in fishing and crabbing and coming back to shore to discuss what all has been found.

Spencer, Lily and Dillon Henry, grandchildren of

are even 23 miles of bicycle trails on Jekyll Island? Brunswick and Blythe Island also have beautiful nature trails. There are bike rental shops galore (and a Vespa shop, too, if you feel the need for a little more speed) so no matter where you decide to spend your day be sure to take advantage of all the wonderful things that can be found along the bike trails. Point out the different plants and animals that can be spotted and allow them to tell you about some things they recognize. Don’t just limit your traveling to bikes, though; our area offers many tours such as trolley tours and dolphin tours. Here’s a tip: if you’re going on a longer trip than the child is used to and you think he or she may get restless, bring a small bottle of bubbles along for their entertainment.

• Vespa in Redfern Village, St. Simons Island, 268-2582 Trolley and Dolphin Tours: • The St. Simons Trolley, based at the Pier in the St. Simons Village, 638-8954

Julie Bragg of Macon bicycling with granddaughter Taylor Evans on St. Simons

• Capt. Phillip’s Charters and Tours operates from the Jekyll Wharf Historic Marina on Jekyll Island, 635-3152

Fun, Naturally If you happen to find yourself in the Historic District of Jekyll Island, be sure to stop by the Sea Turtle Center. There is also a nature center with snakes and other small creatures that could expand your child’s curiosity about the area in which they live. Take them to the rope swing, a local secret you’ll find at the St. Andrews Picnic Area on the south end of Jekyll Island down a little path to the marsh. Or, allow them to explore Driftwood Beach on Jekyll’s north end – a beautiful scene to any eye. These are wonderful places to utilize that notebook you

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Will and Kate Parker, grandchildren of John and Jan Lane Harper, at the playground on St. Simons Island

Enjoy cooling off by spending a day at Summer Waves Water Park or, for a more laid-back environment, visit the new beachfront community pool on St. Simons Island. Again, this is an excellent place to allow your child control over the waterproof camera. You will be amazed at the underwater photos that will be collected and the children will absolutely adore the opportunity to make faces at each other. In the same vicinity is an 18-hole putt-putt course, all in the shade of the lighthouse.

Jekyll Island Attractions: • Summer Waves Water Park, South Riverview Drive, 635-2074 • The Georgia Sea Turtle Center in the Historic Millionaires’ Village, 635-4076

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brought along. If you stop to take a break or are eating lunch, ask your children to draw pictures of the things they spotted on their trip and write descriptions about it. You can keep a notebook during the entire summer or make a scrapbook later on.

and personalized gifts you can share with everyone. Photographs can be turned into puzzles or Christmas cards and collages or added to a scrapbook to refer back to after the summer has ended.

There are countless ways to have fun while taking advantage of the beautiful Golden Isles, but the most important part is don’t forget to enjoy the simple side of life; it is easy to forget how effortless entertaining a young mind can be but understanding all of the ways that make our area so charming can be rewarding for not only the child but for you, as well.

• Tidelands Nature Center, 100 S. Riverview Drive, 635-5032 By no means an exhaustive list of all the fun things to do in the Golden Isles, this should get you started making some fun memories your family will cherish. Using the photos you’ve packed, the sketches you’ve made and the writings you’ve recorded during your time in the Golden Isles, relive your experiences by turning them into fun crafts

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(Remember to keep your eye out for calendars of upcoming events featuring art shows, the Sea Turtle Crawl, and social activities like story time in the public libraries or free kids’ showings at the movie theater.)

Leslie Jeter is a full time nanny, aspiring writer and film photographer. She has had the pleasure of spending five years soaking up the coast and experiencing the Golden Isles for all it is worth.

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Hitting Successful Fairway Bunker Shots by thomas D. Brinson, PGA

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nyone who has played golf for longer than two months knows that good days and bad days are both par for the course. Some days, everything goes your way. If your ball hits a tree, it bounces back onto the fairway. If you have a 20-foot putt for par, you sink it with ease.

Then there are the days when everything that could possibly go wrong, does. For most players, a bad day starts with one poor shot and then spirals downward. If that poor shot is a fairway bunker shot, then hopefully these tips will help you better execute this shot.

standing in a fairway bunker with your toes turned in slightly towards the ball. This will promote a shorter, easier backswing and a smoother shot while keeping your lower body stable.

When setting up for a fairway bunker shot, remember to take an extra club (for example: a 6 iron from a 7 iron distance) and grip down a few inches on the club. First and foremost, this will allow you to swing easier at the ball, preventing you from trying to muscle the shot. It will also promote a thinner shot. Hitting the ball thin out of the bunker is a much better option than hitting behind the ball.

Every day at the beach in the Golden Isles should be fun, even if the beach is small and located next to a fairway. If you have any questions about fairway bunker shots or any other shot you find on the course, feel free to email me at t_brinson@hotmail. com or contact any PGA Professional in the Golden Isles.

Thomas D. Brinson, PGA, is a Certified PGA Golf Instructor. He lives on St. Simons Island with his wife Alexandra and their retriever, Bogey.

The second key to hitting a successful bunker shot is stability. Swinging too hard will not only drive your upper body downward but it may also cause the sand below your feet to shift, making you slip and hit a poor shot. In order to increase your stability, try

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The first thing to remember when hitting a fairway bunker shot is that you are in a bunker. A bunker by definition is a hazard, which means hitting out of it will not be easy. Nine times out of 10, you will hit well behind the ball, causing the ball to come up short of your target. This happens because players try to hit the ball too hard. When

you try to muscle the ball out of the bunker, your lower body moves forward, driving your upper body down. This changes the measurement from your upper body to the sand; thus, you’re hitting behind the ball.

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By Amy H. Carter | Photography by Joe Loehle

rounded by his health after flying 25 years in the U.S. Air Force, Russell T. “Rusty” Bolt retired to St. Simons Island and started a second career as a real estate agent. The son of a World War II flier with lots of stories about his B-24 Liberator, Rusty was bitten by the flying bug early in life, and he’s been immune to the force of gravity ever since.

Shortly after arriving in town in 1999, Rusty saw notice of an open seat on the Glynn County Airport Commission. He applied but didn’t win the post. So he applied again the next time an opening came up. He continued to apply until, about five years after he got here, Rusty won his seat on the board that oversees the operations of Glynn County’s airports. “(Airports Director) Steve Brian said I’d probably applied more con-

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sistently than anyone else,” says Rusty, who is serving his second four-year term on the board he has chaired for two years, as well.

Such is the power of flight. Even when he’s on the ground, a pilot’s thoughts are up in the air.

Between them, the Brunswick-Golden Isles Airport and the McKinnon-St. Simons Airport count an estimated 75,000 take-offs and landings every year. McKinnon accounts for 50,000 of those.

Finding the pilots responsible for each of those operations is more work than we like to do around here, but we’ve managed to corner a fair cross-section of general aviation pilots in the Golden Isles to find out what’s so great about being up there. What we’ve found is that however they come to it, pilots are as enamored of flying as teenagers are of driving. And herein flies the proof.

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Flying the friendly skies Ernest Hemingway might have written Emilio Hernandez as a mercenary bush pilot working the bar at the Key West International Airport, an unflappable adventurer all the women swoon for and all the men envy for his skill with a set of ailerons in a sticky situation. In truth, Emilio is a certified flight instructor and internal affairs agent for the U.S. Homeland Security Department, but why let facts get in the way of a good story?

After 1,700 hours in the air, Emilio has attained the stature of a legend, which is evident even when he stands next to Jamie Johnson. Jamie is all shoulders and long legs, a good-ol’ Southern boy nursing a serious addiction to the rod, the gun and, now, the clouds.

On any given day that you find these two souls occupying the same space they’ll be in the cockpit of Jamie’s Cessna 172 Skyhawk, either airborne or taxiing in that direction. These men are united not only by a desire to fly but by the need to do it right now. Emilio begins a flight lesson by pointing out the components necessary to get and stay airborne, then hands over the controls – all while taxiing into the queue to take off behind a Learjet and a Piaggio. Every so often, he might lay a finger on the yoke of the plane, but only to demonstrate how light a touch is required to maneuver with 160 horses pulling you through the air.

“I have to let you get into enough trouble to have a learning experience but be a safety net,” he says of his hands-off teaching style.

Emilio Hernandez, left, and Jamie Johnson with Jamie’s Cessna 172 Skyhawk

Emilio brings it home: “... and I’m thinking about what I’m having for dinner.”

Jamie started taking lessons from Emilio last fall. After a four-week hunting hiatus, followed by a come-to-Jesus with friend and pilot Ernie Knight (who wanted Jamie to learn and do it soon), Jamie got serious about his lessons by reserving two hours a day in a rental aircraft at McKinnon field. When conflicts kept him from the plane as often as he wanted it, he bought his own, a 1979 Skyhawk rebuilt by Steve Pello and Jack Oswald. Jamie and Emilio have formed a partnership to continue to use the plane for teaching purposes, allowing wannabe pilots the chance for a first lesson with Emilio before committing to a full schedule.

While this is not part of the pair’s sales pitch, Jamie likens Emilio to a drill sergeant in the cockpit; it might help to know that sarge’s instincts are trusted by novice and expert alike.

“When Emilio certifies you, you know you’re ready to fly,” Jamie says.

At 1,500 feet the conversation between these two men is so smooth it sounds scripted. On the ground their roots are obvious in their voices. Jamie’s leisurely drawl rolls around the ear like a lazy river current, while Emilio’s Cuban accent would make a weather report sound sexy. Up in the air with the noise of the engine muffled through a heavy headset, their voices become interchangeable.

Their bond is more than one of men sharing a common pastime; it is the mutual respect a student has for a teacher who’s helped him master a death-defying skill, and that the teacher has for a student who pays attention and doesn’t fly him into the ground.

“You very seldom will be shoulder-to-shoulder with somebody, moving at 120 knots,” Emilio says. “It’s a very rare environment where if you make a mistake, somebody might get hurt.”

Still, Emilio makes flying look and sound so simple, and Jamie seems to have mastered that art himself, until he feels the need to share: “When we’re landing, I’m trying not to crash the plane ...”

Jamie says that when he logged his 35th hour, Emilio “deemed me worthy to fly by myself,” so Jamie flew to his hometown of Alma for lunch with his mother and grandmother.

“When you’re in here with Emilio he tends to stress you out,” Jamie says while flying, throwing a sly grin Emilio’s way, “but when you’re in here by yourself it’s a gift from God.” The owner of Johnson Partners, which specializes in industrial and high-end commercial construction, Jamie will use his flight skills for business and pleasure, chasing jobs and hobbies wherever they lead.

“In this economy, if you own a business, you have to expand past Glynn County to survive,” Jamie says. With projects going now in the Carolinas, “I can go from here to there and back in a short amount of time.”

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it is a small world after all The aviation community in the Golden Isles is a small one where everybody knows your name (and your tail number).

Ernie Knight can recite an impressive list of friends who share his love of flying, which he learned to do just three years ago. The owner of Floor Decor on St. Simons Island, he flies to check on jobs and other business ventures outside the area and to enjoy other leisurely pursuits.

“I have a sport fishing boat that I leave in different places; right now it’s in the Bahamas. I take it to North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, the Bahamas, and it’s typically about one-third the time to fly as it is to drive,” he says. “Going places like that frequently, it saves a lot of time.”

Ernie Knight

Woody Sapp

Another one of those slow-talkin’ Southern boys with fast tastes, Ernie traded up from his training plane to a 2004 Beechcraft Bonanza, an elegant six-seater he bought from Woody Sapp, the president of Woodrow Sapp Well Drilling and Water Management in Brunswick. After looking at other models Woody, in turn, recommitted to the Bonanza, buying a 2007 model, the 60th anniversary edition.

Woody learned to fly in 2002, and has logged more than 1,000 hours since.

“My primary destination is Atlanta,” where his daughter lives and where his son graduated college, from Georgia Tech. “I try to fly three or four times a month,” he says.

Flying isn’t necessarily a passion that runs in families, nor one shared by wives.

“My wife likes to get from Point A to Point B,” Woody says. “She likes the idea of the plane but she’s not in love with flying.”

Ernie persuaded his friend Jamie Johnson to take flight lessons back in October while flying them to Venice, Fla., for some fishing.

Jamie remembers Ernie saying, “Jamie, it’d be nice to have two pilots on board in case something were ever to happen to me.”

And after delivering an ultimatum to the half-hearted student (who was, in his defense, distracted by hunting season) – you either continued on page 52

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An officer & a Gentleman Jim Barta explodes out of the kitchen like a banty rooster that’s just flown the frying pan.

Shoulders squared and volume up high he offers a firm but friendly handshake and a welcoming gesture to take a seat.

He’s the most gracious of hosts, but there is a no-nonsense air about him, one that discourages dawdling in any way, shape or form. It is not simply that it’s one hour before lunch and he is the owner of this restaurant where we meet, the perennially popular Barbara Jean’s in the St. Simons Village.

Jim is a former Army infantry officer turned Marine Corps aviator and, though retired, he maintains his military bearing.

He took to the life like a duck to water, you might say, or more obviously like a bird to the air.

He shucked the infantry after his first tour in Vietnam, deciding, he says: “There’s got to be something better than this, a different way to die.” He chose the Marine Corps, where he

learned to fly above it all rather than slog through.

“When I joined my first squadron I was surprised that the Marine Corps aviation community was a little less rigid than the grunt world. I had a much harder edge than my squadron mates, so one day one of them said in frustration, ‘Christ, Barta, take your pack off!’ suggesting I abandon my infantry background,” he says.

“Pack” became his call sign, the name by which other aviators hailed him in the air. It could still apply, by his own admission.

“I never lost too much of that edge – ever,” he says somewhat ominously, even for email.

His boldness is not the “come on, I dare you” posturing of a short-statured man. In fact, the more he talks of his life in and out of the military, the taller he seems.

Jim has pushed the edge of the

envelope and lived to tell the tale. Once, his wife Barbara was hosting the wife of one of Jim’s fellow pilots at home. A car drew up to the house which both women recognized as “the Black Maria” (pronounced Mariah) come to notify one of the women that her husband had been killed in action. Barbara argued with the other man’s wife over which of their husbands had died. “It’s Jim, I know it’s Jim,” Jim quotes his wife insisting.

Turns out Barbara was wrong.

Jim instead had the sad duty of escorting his friend’s remains home. He struggles to hold his composure as he remembers walking away from the gravesite with his friend’s 5-year-old son imploring him: “Jimmy, Jimmy, please don’t leave my Dad!” All things (and two tours in Vietnam) considered, one can’t blame Jim for walking away from aviation for 18 years. In fact he had no thoughts of flying as a civilian until a grandson got interested.

Top, Jim Barta with his Cessna today.

Above, Capt. Barta boarding his jet.

“Even with that 18-year gap it’s a little like riding a bicycle,” Jim says. “The first time was not so great.”

Now he’s back in the air, flying a Cessna 182 among his restaurants here and in Beaufort and Mt. Pleasant, S.C., and Amelia Island and Ponte Vedra, Fla. There are little ironies everywhere in that, starting with the fact that Beaufort with its famed Marine Corps base is one place Jim never flew as a Marine fighter pilot. Trained in the F-4 Phantom, a fighter jet with supersonic capabilities, Jim notes that the Phantom’s landing speed was equal to the fastest he can fly in his Cessna.

“How the mighty have fallen,” he laughs.

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into the wild blue yonder

Mike Pickett

Some people fly to get from here to there.

Sometimes, Jerry Latvala flies to get nowhere.

“There’s something in my blood that enjoys being up in the air,” Jerry says. “There’s a sense of freedom, a sense of relaxation.

It’s my way of getting away. Sometimes it’s just up in the air for an hour or two – for pleasure.”

The son of a pilot who flew for Pan American Airways, Jerry received his pilot’s license in 1980. He took a 17-year hiatus after his son, Bruce, was born, and took up the pastime again about three years ago.

“I missed it,” he says. “That was always in the back of my mind, the dream to pick it back up.”

Bob Schrieber started building his first airplane in 1974, and finished in 1979. In 1984, he got his pilot’s license.

Why? “Why not?” he asks. He knew that one day he would fly; the plane was just insurance, a guarantee against objections from his wife (who paid for his first lesson as a gift).

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Jerry Latvala

Bob Schrieber

Flying is not a one-size-fits-all hobby.

And Mike Pickett, president of Aviation South on St. Simons Island, should know.

An airplane broker who sells to mid-sized companies and individuals with high net worths, Mike sells single-engine Beechcraft Bonanzas, twin-engine King Airs, Citation Jets – and one 1944 Beech Staggerwing recently transferred from a St. Simons Island owner to a California buyer.

“Having an airplane and being able to fly it is just a huge savings,” Mike says.

The owner of a 1978 Beechcraft Bonanza his wife calls “The Retro Plane” for its orange-andbrown color scheme, Mike is strictly a business flier. The Beechcraft has taken him to Atlanta, New York and even Prince Edward Island in Canada – “I’ve been all over in that aircraft.”

It’s the most popular model among private pilots, who represent a range of interests and abilities. His customer will be looking to spend in the range of $250,000 to $2.5 million, but the luxury market – such as Gulfstream aircraft – commands prices upwards of $50 million.

Bob Schrieber estimates that he will have between $20,000 and $25,000 (excluding his time) invested in the Rutan LongEZ he’s building now in his garage. He’s got two years’ worth of work invested in it and two years to go to completion.

The plane is considered experimental by the FAA because it is home-built. That does not mean it’s less safe than a plane manufactured by a large company.

“Because it’s an experimental airplane I can do whatever I want as long as I’m willing to put my behind in it,” Bob says.

The FAA will still inspect the plane to attest to its airworthiness – or not. For one who’s patient, it’s simply another way to fly.

“People get a mindset about experimental or home-built aircraft, but in my mind I would rather fly in something I built because nobody else has been in it before.

With a rental plane, logs tell you who flew it last but they don’t say whether they had a hard landing and you don’t know if they ran it low on oil.” continued on page 53

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would like to introduce you to the Wilson’s Plovers, a unique family that lives on the beach. Wilson’s Plovers are special birds, numbering only 6,000 in the world. That’s why it is important for us to know Wilson’s Plovers, and to be good neighbors. They summer on sandy beaches between North Carolina and northern Florida. From January through March the adults set up housekeeping to await the birth of their chicks.

Their coloring is their protection while they raise the family.

Dad is a warm dusty brown on the back with a snappy black breast band that runs from shoulder to shoulder. While setting up nesting Dad has just a hint of cinnamon around the eyes and the cap. Mom is plainer. Her breast band is brown. Both Mom and Dad are about seven and a half inches from the tip of the bill to the tail. They have found the best way to hide is to remain very still when a predator approaches.

They nest right behind the first low dunes. This little swell of sand protects them from high tides. The nest is just a depression in the sand called a scrape. The sparse vegetation helps shade them while they sit on the eggs. Dad sits on the nest during the day and Mom takes the night shift. For around 25 days they sit quietly on the eggs. Once the chicks hatch, the real work begins. The chicks are precocial which means their eyes are open at birth. They have fluffy down, and boy can they run.

They look like puff balls on stilts. The first few weeks the chicks stay pretty close to the dunes. They use plants like sea rocket and morning glories as umbrellas to protect them from the hot sun and cold rain. When the chicks are about three weeks old, the family begins to move out to the water’s edge. This is when life becomes especially dangerous for the Wilson’s Plover.

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Power Lunch the friday forum takes off for good times at mckinnon airport

By Bob Dart | photography by Jim H yde

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hef Mike’s fried chicken livers have been consumed and cohost Bud Hearn’s jokes have been endured and another Friday Forum is wrapping up in the hangar at the McKinnon St. Simons Island Airport.

ble at the end of Gary L. Moore Court about 11:30 a.m. every Friday for an hour or two of victuals and laughter.

Martin Turbidy, a luncheon regular from Sea Island, offers up a parting philosophy for this congenial congregation of kindred spirits and appetites.

From the start, down-home Southern food

“We’re now into about five and one-half years of this,” Bud marvels.

has been a major attraction for this gathering. The meals have always been cooked by Mike and Vanessa Dart from Brunswick.

“Our motto is ‘We aim at nothing and seldom miss’,” Martin observes.

The buffet and the blessing are about the only serious items on the menu of the Friday Forum organized by Bud, who moved to Sea Island after a real estate career in Atlanta, and Renn Gruber, who owns the hangar that serves as headquarters of Gruber Aviation as well as the dining facility for the 60 to 150 or so members and guests who gather each week.

There is “no agenda other than to socialize, meet, greet and eat. Our purpose is to make the Island a smaller, friendlier and more intimate place,” explains Bud. “Many politicians have visited us, including Congress-

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man Jack Kingston several times . . . (But) we are non-political and non-religious, those two things being divisive.”

Natives and newcomers of Glynn County, some prominent and prosperous, others less so, hard-working or retired, a cadre of pilots that use the airport, they all assem-

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“They call me ‘chef’ but I do it all,” says Mike – a part-time preacher who often delivers the blessing and sometimes sings a hymn with Vanessa, his wife of 33 years, beating time on a tambourine. The couple accomplishes good works through their Sheep Fold Ministry. Friday Forum diners often bring bags of clothes that the Darts distribute to the needy.

Mike is “such a good man! He finds out where there is a need and then he goes about filling it. Vanessa (isn’t she a delight?) does the same. She is his helpmate in every phase of their existence,” says Cappy Rearick, an author who lives on St. Simons Island. Cappy has written lyrically about the Forum’s fried chicken, collard greens,

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Civil Air Patrol

Volunteer Pilots Are the Eyes in the Sky

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hey see what God sees, which must be a huge comfort to the stranded boater who thinks God only knows where he or she waits.

Five days a week just before sunset the Civil Air Patrol takes to the air to search the vast marshes, creeks, rivers and sounds of the Golden Isles – and a lot of empty space in between – for anything amiss.

“We’re up here looking for trouble, looking for problems,” says Andy Jones, chief operations officer for the Brunswick Senior Squadron of the CAP, which was established during World War II. “We always check out anything that doesn’t look right – boats on the sandbars, forest fires, boats not where a boat would normally be,” says Capt. Bill Cozine, the unit’s commander. Not long after those words are spoken, a small aircraft passes fast and low beneath the CAP plane, seeming to skim the marshes between Darien and Sapelo Island. It is only after several moments of watchful flying that Bill and Andy determine that the flier is making a pass over the landing strip on Hird Island. And so the patrol continues.

The typical patrol flight lasts an hour, covering much of Glynn County as well as southern McIntosh and northern Camden counties. The pilots check in with the U.S. Coast Guard upon take off and landing, and often take assignments from the Coast Guard when something needs a look-see.

“They have given us things in the past – run over to the Turtle River Bridge and see if there’s a boat there,” Bill says.

The plane they fly is equipped to hear distress radio beacons sent by emergency transponders carried on boats and airplanes.

The Brunswick CAP is an all-volunteer corps of pilots who continue a tradition begun in 1942 when civilian fliers based at the

McKinnon-St. Simons Island Airport flew regular sorties in search of German U-boats off the Georgia coast. Andy, the unit’s historian, says the St. Simons Island base was the sixth formed in the nation. Today, the CAP operates as an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, which supplies the red-white-and-blue Cessna 172 Skyhawk the unit operates.

Flying 120 mph at an altitude of 1,000 feet with at least three sets of eyes on board. These pilots don’t miss much. A brush fire burning on Sapelo Island, beachcombers walking a sandbar and fishermen at anchor in out-of-the-way creeks are all in an hour’s flight.

It has been six years since Bill joined the CAP, and he’s as gung-ho about the mission today as he was then.

“The reason was because I love flying and then it kind of got to be the good that we could potentially do,” he explains. “That’s the part that keeps me doing it.”

While not all members are pilots, all can be trained to fly sorties in support roles. Typically, a patrol crew will include a scanner, an observer and the pilot.

“We have 26 members. The youngest is 32 and the oldest is late 70s or early 80s,” Bill says.

Members train constantly for their mission, even when flying the sundown patrol. And while it’s flying with a very serious purpose, it’s also still flying and all that that implies.

“When I come to the airport everything that has bothered me the whole day goes away,” Bill says. “Your mind clears out and all your thoughts are about flying.”

photo by andy jones and bill wallace

For more information or to join the Civil Air Patrol, visit the organization’s Web site at www.gocivilairpatrol.com.

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Photograph Courtesy of the paul rinaldo redfern aviation society

UP in the air: with flyboys of the golden isles

Paul Redfern

The Mystery of the “Port of Brunswick ”

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im Gould was a young boy among the crowd that gathered on the beach at Sea Island one hot August afternoon in 1927 to watch a daredevil named Paul Redfern fly into oblivion. On his second attempt, Redfern was successful.

“The first time he took off he didn’t make it so they dragged the airplane back up to the north end of Sea Island Beach and the second time he got up in the air,” Jim remembers.

Photographs Courtesy of the Coastal Georgia Historical Society

Redfern is a familiar name around this community for good reason. Redfern left Sea Island on that fateful day 83 years ago bound for Rio de Janeiro 4,600 miles away. Had he made it, he would have secured for himself and the City of Brunswick a place in the history books, for he would have flown 1,000 miles farther than Charles Lindbergh went three months earlier when he won fame for being the first man ever to fly nonstop from New York to Paris.

Instead, Redfern’s story ended in a mystery that endures to this day.

“The interest is growing, not waning,” says Ron Shelton, a historian in Columbia, S.C., who has been chronicling the Redfern story since 1983. “If it were all dead ends all the time, we would probably let go.”

Jim Gould, whose own family history features prominently in the story of Brunswick and the Golden Isles, is likely one of the few if not the only living eyewitness to that historic day on the beach at Glynn Isle, as Sea Island was then known.

“I guess we really don’t know whose idea it was to go from Brunswick to Rio,” says Thomas Savage, who’s worked to solve the mystery with Ron Shelton for the last 10 years.

“There was quite a crowd all up and down the sand dune,” he says.

Redfern, a native of Rochester, N.Y., who relocated to Columbia with his family as a young boy, was living in Savannah in 1927 at the height of Prohibition. He had been hired by the federal government out of Ohio to fly South Georgia in search of illegal liquor stills.

Sea Island Co. founder Howard Coffin is thought to have played a pivotal role in organizing Redfern’s ill-fated attempt at fame.

According to Thomas, Coffin recruited a group of Brunswick investors to fund a Brunswick-to-Rio jaunt. Redfern took the job, and

“I shook his hand,” Jim says of Redfern. Just 5 years old at the time, Jim says he remembers “a tall young man” who’d captured the community’s fascination.

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Photograph Courtesy of the paul rinaldo redfern aviation society

the group bought him a brand new 33-foot Stinson Detroiter SM-1 for $12,500. The green-and-yellow plane was named Port of Brunswick in honor of his investors.

It had all the latest equipment except a radio, according to the archives of the Coastal Georgia Historical Society.

Airborne at 12:46 p.m. on Aug. 25, 1927, Redfern was expected to land in Rio before his fuel ran out at about 4:30 p.m. Aug. 27. The actress Clara Bow was said to be waiting there to plant a welcoming kiss on his cheek. He never arrived. Nothing more was known of his whereabouts until Sept. 8 when a Norwegian steamship, the Christian Krohg, docked in New Orleans carrying a note the doomed aviator had dropped at 3 p.m. on Aug. 26 near the island of Trinidad. In it, Redfern asked the captain of the vessel to point his ship toward the nearest land and to wave a flag or handkerchief once for each 100 miles that separated them from that land. The captain turned his ship’s bow toward Venezuela and blew two times on the whistle.

Redfern had 165 miles to go.

Ron and Thomas say legend holds that Redfern made it as far as the jungles of Dutch Guiana, now Suriname, in northern South America.

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Based on accounts of sightings of the lost flier, Thomas theorizes that Redfern survived the crash landing but was taken captive by a native Indian tribe indigenous to the area there.

“He would have been considered a god who had fallen from the sky and they wouldn’t have let him go,” Thomas says.

It’s an intriguing theory, but the true fate of Paul Redfern may never be known.

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ack Cantrell has set the standard for generosity quite high among fliers in the Golden Isles.

With some 500 missions under his belt on behalf of Angel Flight, Jack has given the wings to answer many a prayer by children and adults in need of transportation to receive medical treatment unavailable to them in their own communities.

Angel Flight is a non-profit organization founded at Peachtree-Dekalb Airport near Atlanta to provide free routine medical treatment and compassion flights by volunteer pilots. There is no fee to the patients, and no compensation for the pilots. The organization opened a branch office at the McKinnon-St. Simons Airport after Jack, a resident for five years, relocated from Atlanta but continued to fly missions, often for residents of this area.

day to see what was out there. I’m putting my name on a couple of missions coming up,” says Jerry Latvala, who owns a fourpassenger Mooney he flies for pleasure.

Woody Sapp was recruited for a mission by a fellow pilot and now volunteers when time allows.

“It’s just the right thing to do,” he says.

Although the expense to a pilot can run to $80 an hour or more, most do it as a labor of love, says Amy.

“We fly people who just need to get somewhere they can’t get to otherwise,” Amy says. “We had a gentleman here from Sea Island who needed to get to Columbus, Ga. He had friends to get him there, but he couldn’t get home. He was having knee replacement surgery.”

In addition to coordinating disaster aid, the organization also assists with compassion flights.

“In North Carolina at hospice, there was a lady who wanted to come to Brunswick to be with her family before she died. That was a compassion flight. She wasn’t going for treatment anywhere,” Amy says.”After that lady passed away, her family told me how much it meant that I got her home. Her last wishes were to get home and we got her home. I was part of the process. This is a very rewarding job.”

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“We’ve done probably 14 Angel Flights from just Brunswick and St. Simons,” says Amy Cramer, Jack’s daughter and the branch manager of the St. Simons Branch of Angel Flight.

Seventeen local pilots have joined Jack in volunteering for Angel Flight since the branch opened last year.

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helping somebody … they say it’s very rewarding,” Amy says.

Amy Cramer is “desperately seeking” pilots to volunteer for missions with the organization, which serves the Southeast – Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi and the Carolinas.

Fully 60 percent of the patients flown on Angel Flight missions are children. Eligibility is based solely on need. Income is not part of the equation, Amy says. Patients need only be able to get into and out of the airplane.

To volunteer log onto the Angel Flight Web site at www. angelflightsoars.org, or call Amy at (912) 223-0596. Patients in need of transportation may also contact the organization this way.

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ver wonder what to do with your grandmother’s china cabinet, or that set of vintage hat boxes you bought at the flea market?

Whether your home is more than a century old or a new model, mixing old with new isn’t last year. Blending antiques of various styles with more contemporary pieces is a great way to showcase your personality.

The process is simple and with a bit of creativity you can transform your home into a functioning work of art.

“I think people like to have a touchstone to the past,” says Melissa Bagby Ramsey, owner of The Market on Newcastle in Brunswick.

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Melissa says that there are small pieces you can add to a room to make it look less sterile and less perfect, something that will create attention and draw the eye. Even a handmade piece of wood in an interesting shape can be a showpiece. “I think you can blend things best when you love what they look like … something inside will pull you and you’ll say, gosh, that’s really neat.”

she says, because these treasures bring out your personality and make a statement.

“In terms of blending, my philosophy is always add your own history,” says Dana Maye, owner of Ballast Pointe Trading Co. in Kingsland. Keepsakes gathered during your travels or passed down through generations are a wonderful inclusion to space,

“Most people don’t want to stay in one style,” says Byron Flanders, co-owner of Oglethorpe Antiques on St. Simons Island.

“They don’t want the museum look—they want a livable look,” he says, adding that “fine quality always works no matter what style it is.”

Mixing styles instead of matching pieces of furniture creates a livable environment.

For example, instead of crowding all Queen Anne style or solid oak furniture pieces into one room, place them throughout the house.

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Antique furniture can also be updated with a splash of color and contemporary fabrics.

“It’s very dull to have it all just look like one old antique,” says Louise Bledsoe, owner of Antiques Etc. in Brunswick.

“You’ve got to have the fresh look of crisp fabrics and cute colors.”

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Start by reupholstering or changing the slipcovers to the seat cushions on your antique dining or sitting room chairs.

Louise also recommends shopping at discount stores for throw pillows and rugs to accessorize your antique furniture.

Color is a great way to add pop to that dark antique furniture, says Dana, because the bright color, such as turquoise in your pillows and draperies, instantly gives a modern feel to the room that has retro or antique pieces.

By purchasing antiques, you add value to your dollar. Antiques are the ultimate way to recycle because they last for years, when well maintained, and can be transformed to meet any need. An old door becomes a table, a desk becomes a bookcase, a wine barrel stave becomes a chandelier.

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Instead, buy things you can afford and like. The real worth of your purchase is tied to how it makes you feel.

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he desire to turn back the clock, to right the wrongs of destiny, heredity or just desserts is more tempting now than ever before. A wave of the surgeon’s scalpel and all is as it was, or as we always hoped it would be.

If only it were that easy to fix the economy. Luxuries are fewer and farther between nowadays, but some investments simply cannot be postponed – namely, the investment in oneself.

It could be argued that looking good is our most valuable commodity, what with record unemployment and fierce competition for the few jobs available. One would hope that the best candidate always wins, but sometimes the appearance of youth and vitality is more reassuring. Skill, after all, can be taught.

That belief, in part, is fueling a continuing demand for cosmetic surgery, says Dr. Diane Bowen at the Golden Isles Center for Plastic Surgery.

“People feel like they need to maintain their appearance in a job market that is increasingly uncertain,” she says.

Numbers were down about two percent nationwide in 2009, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, on top of a 12 percent decrease in demand for surgical cosmetic procedures and 15 percent for nonsurgical in 2008. Dr. Bowen and Dr. Paula Legere of Summit Plastic Surgery both say their practices have felt the pinch reflected in those numbers.

“People come in (for consultation) but they don’t have the money for the cosmetic elective surgeries,” Dr. Legere says. In an odd flip-flop for her, reconstructive surgeries, which are covered by insurance, have picked up, so she’s seeing lots of patients for wound care, skin cancer treatment, broken noses and the like.

For Dr. Bowen, “The economy has impacted all aspects, reconstructive and cosmetic. In my practice, 2007 was the last normal year.”

Still, her patients are going with what they can afford rather than foregoing surgical or nonsurgical procedures designed to enhance their appearance. Cosmetic surgery isn’t just about vanity any more. Whether it’s a full facelift or Botox, women in particular will scrimp on other areas to have enough money for aesthetics.

Dr. Legere at Summit Plastic Surgery says things have begun to pick up on the cosmetic side for her this year, while Dr. Bill Mitchell of Renue Plastic Surgery says they never really dropped off for him.

“We have been very fortunate in that even with the downturn in the economy, we’ve actually stayed consistently busy,” he says.

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With satellite offices in Waycross and St. Marys, and also on St. Simons Island, Renue is drawing patients from all over the Southeast who come to Dr. Mitchell and his partner, Dr. Steve Barr, for everything from chemical peels to major reconstructive and cosmetic procedures.

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usan Bates was once an avid runner, participating in numerous 5K and 10K events and the Gate River Run in Jacksonville, a 15K event that encompasses three bridges. She enjoyed running and the ability to see herself go farther as she trained.

“I liked the sense of accomplishment, that it was all on me to achieve my goal,” she says.

Though a knee injury has sidelined Susan, she still loves to be at the finish line. For the past several years she has indulged that passion by organizing the annual Bridge Run for the Southeast Georgia Health System. One of the largest such events in the Golden Isles, the bridge run is touted as the most difficult 5K run in Georgia. This year’s run on Feb. 20 attracted more than 1,500 walkers and runners from all over the country, and benefitted the hospital’s cancer programs. Susan is the director of health promotion and wellness/ community outreach for the hospital.

With the whole country becoming more physically active, the popularity of walking and running for exercise continues to rise.

And with events such as the Bridge Run, participants can improve their health while supporting their community’s special programs or causes. The Parent-Teacher Associations of Oglethorpe Point Elementary School and St. Simons Elementary School raise funds through their annual Super Dolphin Day Race.

The Golden Isles Track Club used their annual “I Love the Beach 5K Run/Walk” in February to promote organ donation awareness.

When Lea King joined the Golden Isles Track Club in 1997 with her sister, neither of them really had the desire to run. They just wanted to meet people. Lea says they found the track club to be very friendly and welcoming. The non-profit organization was, after all, created to “promote fun in fitness” and welcomes walkers, runners and cyclists of all abilities and ages. Within a few months, Lea and her sister were

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participating in weekly group walks, and eventually stepped it up to running. Lea has now run in five marathons and 12 halfmarathons.

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ing awareness about that subject is very important to her. She never takes life and the ability to run for granted. “Whether fast or slow, just finishing (a race) is a big deal in my book,” says Lea. “There is such a positive energy in the air and all fitness levels are cheered on at the finish line. It is a very positive and uplifting experience.”

Bob Swinehart of St. Simons Island is still considered a newcomer to running races. He has participated in all three races that have taken place in the Golden Isles area so far this year, and was a member of The Brunswick News team that won the 5K race at this year’s Super Dolphin Day event, Feb. 27.

“I’ve always tried to find ways to remain active. Running has usually been at the bottom of my choices when it comes to exercise…probably because it’s the hardest thing for me to do,” Bob admits. However, with a milestone birthday quickly approaching, he decided to make a more

conscious effort to get back in shape. His goal is to run three to four times a week for a total of 15-20 miles. He plans to improve his 5K time before attempting any longer races. Even though he believes that race competition is probably the stiffest within his age group, Bob says comparing his times to times of individuals in other age groups fuels his desire to improve. “I enjoy the need to compete,” he says.

Bob is not alone. In the Masters Division, some names that repeatedly are seen at the top of the lists of local and regional 5K and 10K races are Drs. Steve Barr and Robert Millican, and Bea Zimmer. It seems that this “middle-age” crowd is finding the local race scene a perfect way to get out and get fit. The Golden Isles Triathlon Club also formed recently and the description on its Web site (www.goldenislestri.com) of its members might surprise you: from “stay-at-home parents and PTA members, to local professionals, to retirees.”

Active participants in the Golden Isles Track Club range in age from 8 to 82. Clearly, competitive running is not reserved for high school track teams.

Todd Thompson and his 5 year-old son, Todd Jr., turned heads when they ran in the Super Dolphin Day Mile Fun Run, because they ran in matching firefighter gear.

Todd is a Glynn County firefighter, and his team won top honors for their team spirit at the 2010 Bridge Run. Fellow runners and spectators smiled and cheered as they witnessed this firefighter father encouraging his son in his small suit of replica gear as they made their way to the finish line, helmets bobbing as they ran.

Despite the fact that he’s competed in numerous local races, a triathalon and the grueling Jacksonville Mud Run, Todd admits that he actually hates running. “At 5’11” and 205 lbs., this body is just not built to run,” he says. He doesn’t run to train; he only does it to compete. About two years ago, he made a decision to become more

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Todd says a 30-minute run in 25-30 lbs. of gear is as physically taxing as actually fighting a fire for about the same period of time. While it’s a great way for him to maximize his conditioning, he also says, “It’s nice to give the public an opportunity to see the Fire Department in a different light instead of an emergency setting. When we run in our gear, we get a lot of cheering and public support.” He also uses his participation in heavy gear to motivate others, “If I see people in the race walking or resting, I tell them ‘If I can do it in this, you can do it.’”

Todd says, “I like the challenge, because I know if I can accomplish that, there’s nothing I can’t do.”

Feeling motived now? The Golden Isles Track Club always welcomes new members. Club members meet for a group walk/run at 6:45 p.m. every Thursday in the parking lot in front of Brogen’s in the St. Simons Village. Everyone is encouraged to participate, and you can find membership applications on their Web site: www.goldenislestrackclub.com.

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Running is a great way to become more physically fit. Participating in races like the Super Dolphin Day Run, the Bridge Run, and the “I Love the Beach” Run can not only satisfy your need for personal accomplishment and friendly competition, they also benefit some great causes.

And rather than being reserved for elite runners, these races have truly become community events. New York City Marathon co-founder Fred Lebow perhaps says it best: “In running, it doesn’t matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, ‘I have finished.’ There is a lot of satisfaction in that.”

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t’s Margaritaville with a little dab of Brylcreem mixed in to keep the flyaway fronds in check, a Tropicana club where Lucy and Ethel get you laughing again after B.B. King and Lucille leave you singing the blues. It’s a place where you can bunk with the young Elvis or primp with the beautiful Marilyn, hang tough with Brando and McQueen, or knock back a few with The Rat Pack before hitting the trail with the Duke.

It’s The Palms Retro, an oasis of coolness dreamed up by Glynn County native Hank Staley. This restored 10-room highway hideaway plays frequent host to hometown friends on a mission for some sun-baked Florida fun. A little more than an hour’s

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drive south of Brunswick in Atlantic Beach, The Palms Retro is a great little weekend getaway destination in itself. That it’s within easy walking distance to shopping, dining and the beach is just gravy.

low latitudes. Hank Staley is a bit like Buffett’s pirate born 200 years too late; he’s a child of the 1970s with an affinity for the days of bobby sox and be-bop.

“I loved that once you entered the iron gates you felt as though you were on a tropical island,” says Cissy Thompson of Brunswick, who spent a girls’ weekend at The Palms Retro in December and plans to return for similar occasions in the spring, summer and fall.

At first meet, Hank is not the dude you would imagine to be responsible for so flamboyant a (pink-and-green) Florida property. Hank burns at a lower wattage that flares bright when conversation turns to his English bulldogs, Einstein and Jazzy, and his favorite TV show, “The Beverly Hillbillies.”

Stepping into the courtyard mere feet from Florida’s oceanfront highway A1A, one expects to find Jimmy Buffett cocked back in the cool shade of a market umbrella, strumming some familiar ode to life in the

In fact his sister Sharon Staley (Glynn Academy Class of 1965), who wears a poodle skirt at every opportunity to market the hotel, seems more likely to have thought up the happiest place this side of Walt Disney

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World. And yet it is Hank who describes The Palms Retro as one of those dreams “that wakes you up in the middle of the night.”

(Just FYI: All the girls in the Staley family – including Hank’s other sister, Linda, and his wife, Dell – have their own Palms Retro poodle skirts, as does property manager Susan Green, an urban planner who was once offered a job by the City of Brunswick.

Jazzy’s skirt is out of commission temporarily while a seamstress makes accommodations for her growing buxomness.)

“Having known Hank for 45 years, I must admit I was quite surprised to learn that he had bought and redone a hotel. The fact that the girls (his sisters) did it does not surprise me in the least,” says Ginger Hobson Watson, another Brunswick native who accompanied Cissy on that first girls’ trip to The Palms Retro.

The hotel sits about a mile from Hank’s house, on his path to work. For 10 years, he drove past daily, seeing potential in the ruins of a vintage motor lodge.

“I saw that it would be a neat little hotel to own. It was very tired at the time but you could see the potential,” Hank says.

Well, perhaps he was more predisposed than most to see the potential. Hank is a consultant to hoteliers, conducting feasibility studies in new markets. He’s been in the business for 30 years.

A 1973 graduate of Brunswick High School, Hank left town for college, graduating from the University of Georgia and settling in Atlanta, where he remained for 20 years before heading south to Jacksonville.

“I was a practicing CPA,” he offers by way of biography.

“I’m still a CPA,” he corrects, “just not a competent one.”

A statement you may take exception to once you see what he’s done with the last known address of skid row.

On one fateful drive to work early last year, Hank spied a man taking pictures of The Palms property. Figuring the photographer

was either a broker or appraiser, Hank started researching the value of the old hotel. He made an offer a couple of weeks later and closed the deal a few months after that. Renovations began in May 2009 and finished in September.

“It’s a concrete block building built in 1946. We stripped it back to the bare walls,” Hank says.

find a giant, luminous mural of Marilyn Monroe on one wall, along with a titillating portrait of Jayne Mansfield in the boudoir. Bridget Bardot and Audrey Hepburn are also represented.

“Incidentally, this room doesn’t appeal just to women,” Hank says. “A lot of men like it, too.”

Shocking, isn’t it?

While he updated the hotel with all the modern amenities, the decor advanced just a few short years, to the 1950s.

There’s truly something for everyone at The Palms Retro.

“During the financing process, I had a lot of time to think about (the theme of the hotel),” he says. “I knew because it’s an independent property it had to be something different or other branded niche hotels would kill me.”

“Because I am the biggest ‘I Love Lucy’ fan ever, the room with her and other shows from that TV era was my fave,” says Ginger Watson. “It so happened that’s where Dell put Cissy and me on my first (and definitely not last) stay at The Palms Retro.”

That’s where the Retro theme came into play, expressly in a 1950s style that celebrates old Florida and the American dream of the mid-20th Century.

The life-sized photo of Barney Fife that overlooks the twin beds in The Tube ensure that the TV will be all that gets turned on in this room.

“I’m a fan of the ’50s, even though that’s not my era. I’m a ’70s guy. But the icons of the ’50s – James Dean, Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley – they’re as big today as they ever were. You can’t say that about any other era. Kids in college today still dance to ’50s music. They’re not dancing to ’80s music or ’70s music.”

If you go: Take a virtual tour of The Palms Retro at www.palmsretro.com, and book your room online or call 904.241-7776.

The hotel offers rooms to patients of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville for $75 per night, year-round.

A couple of the hotel’s 10 rooms have general themes. There’s The Beach with surfboard décor and a mural featuring a vintage “woody” station wagon. Planes, Trains & Automobiles captures elements of those very things. The remaining rooms are dedicated to the personalities of the era. Who can pass up The Frolic Room theme of The Crooners unit or thrill at finding DVDs of old Elvis movies and concert footage in The Rock N’ Rollers room?

The favorite among guests (and Hank) is The Bad Boys, decorated with images of Steve McQueen, James Dean, Marlon Brando and Paul Newman. The Divas room has also attracted a broad fan base in just a few months. This is where you’ll

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élé, David Beckham, Mia Hamm – most Americans find it hard to name five soccer stars.

But head over to the Jekyll Island Soccer Complex on any Saturday morning during the spring or fall season and you’ll find it hard to believe that soccer’s popularity in the United States lags far behind other countries.

whose younger children sat on the sidelines watching their older siblings play. Christine Pierce’s four-year-old son, Sam, just experienced his first season with the association, she says.

“He’s been on the Jekyll fields since he could barely walk, watching his big brother, D.C., and was so excited to finally get to play on a team this year,” she says.

Class of 2011 member Morgan Brian currently plays for the U.S. Under 17 Women’s National Team and was recently selected by topdrawersoccer.com as the best player of her class in the nation.

So why is soccer such a popular choice for our youth? Parents say it’s a great way for kids to get their energy out and be part of a team. Ceara and Craig Stalnaker’s twins, Anna Harland and Banks, have been playing soccer almost four years, with Craig coaching teams for both.

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We may worship SEC football here in Southeast Georgia, but we are a youth soccer Mecca.

Approximately 500 youth play soccer seasonally for the Golden Isles Soccer Association. Boys and girls ages 3 to 13 hit the playing fields on Saturday mornings. And Jekyll Island isn’t the only place you’ll find kids kicking around the ball. Glynn County’s Parks and Recreation Department hosts a popular fall soccer league on St. Simons Island and Frederica Academy boasts some extraordinary players who compete at the international level.

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“We’re a soccer family. I love the teamwork it instills in our children. The coaches take so much time in improving the skills of these young athletes. The confidence they gain is so worth all the driving and Saturdays spent on the field,” Ceara says.

Sheila Glaeser’s husband, Arne, is a German immigrant and she calls his love of soccer an obsession. Sheila likes the game because it provides an opportunity for girls like their daughter, GiGi, to learn to play team sports at an early age – something she believes is an essential part of their development.

Christine Pierce concurs.

“GISA is an awesome club that encourages all the kids to do their best and celebrates that,” she says.

The Golden Isles also has its fair share of residents whose home countries celebrate European “football.” Lorena Harris began her life in Mexico and loves that her boys, Michael and Ryan, play her country’s “favorite sport.”

With their mother’s native country being the home of Pélé, how could Gabrielle and Isabelle Azambuja not play soccer?

“Gabby loves soccer so much that I even put her in a soccer camp in Brazil last summer,” says mom Danusia.

Lee Swafford, the new director of coaching for the association, couldn’t agree more.

He says soccer is a great way to develop key values like teamwork, sportsmanship, discipline and confidence in boys and girls alike. He wants the association’s coaches and players’ parents to work together in this process. Lee has developed age-specific practice manuals for coaches. He wants each practice to have a theme and focus on improving one particular skill, like dribbling or passing. Parents will be provided with guidelines so they can work on these same skills with their children at home.

“I want to provide a guide that will help parents who once played soccer, as well as parents who don’t know the game at all, to understand the rules of the game and what

skill sets are developed at each age,” he explains.

Lee himself will teach skill clinics, with every player receiving training from him at least once per season. The traveling team coaches will also provide training for the in-house teams, so both programs become more integrated, and to generate excitement for younger in-house players to try out for traveling teams when they are older.

Lee’s vision for the future includes installing lights at the soccer complex for night games; increasing tournaments and incentives for players, including scholarships and recruiting; and forming a working relationship with the county’s parks and recreation department that benefits both leagues. With strong youth programs like these, first-class facilities and parents who embrace the sport, soccer has definitely found a home in the Golden Isles.

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that winning season New book takes a look back at the Red Terrors’ Championship drive.

A winning season is a joy forever.

Take the 1964 state championship won by the Glynn Academy Red Terrors, the first and (so far) only in the school’s history.

It is remembered, aspired to and talked about to this day. Now we can all relive it together – whether we were there or not – in the pages of The Red Terrors, a memorable account of Glynn Academy’s quest for the 1964 state football championship, written by Glynn Academy graduate Jesse Tullos.

Jesse himself was not here to enjoy that winning season, having graduated in 1963 and traveled overseas to serve in Vietnam during 1964. His younger brother, Johnny, was a tailback and team captain on the 1964 team.

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“I always felt that I had been shortchanged in my life experiences because I missed Glynn’s championship drive,” Jesse says.

“I heard all about it when I returned from overseas and I felt I had missed out on something very special. Researching this book and chronicling the memories of those who played on the team more than makes up for my absence that year. This was a project that made me feel as though I had been a part of the team that season.”

A study not only in a local team’s drive to glory, The Red Terrors is a snapshot of a small town on the cusp of great change.

“Part of the book is a time capsule of sorts,” Jesse explains. “A lot of things were going on globally, nationally, regionally and locally that impacts us even today. The year 1964 can arguably be called the last year of innocence in what would become the most raucous decade of the last half of the 20th century.

“I interviewed a number of students that were in the Class of 1965 at Glynn Academy and attempted to portray their feelings about the things that were going on around them, and how that magical football season served as a security blanket of sorts against events over which they had no control, and little understanding.”

The book is also an interesting character study of a team no one expected to win, as well as a rollicking good read for fans of the sport.

Student enrollment at Glynn Academy in 1964 placed it among the Georgia High School Association’s largest classification, but the varsity squad that season was made up of only 24-26 players; the actual number depended on how many players were nursing injuries. It was anchored by a core group of 14 players whose talent was unquestionable and who saw action

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on both the offensive and defensive sides of the football.

There was little total domination over opponents, and often the team’s quest for glory came about through late fourth-quarter rallies.

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The lack of numbers among the varsity players made it impossible for the team’s head coach, Harold Henderson, to conduct full scrimmages on days when several players were injured or ill. Often, the team equipment manager would be given a helmet and a blocking dummy, and asked to stand in for an absent player. The Red Terrors is interspersed with vivid images of the players, some who shined in the spotlight and others who did not but who measured up when it counted, and depicts a true triumph of the underdog.

“It has always amazed me that so many very good athletes came together on one team at one time,” Jesse says. “As I began putting together the story of that season, I realized I needed to dig deeper in order to let the reader understand how the 1964 Red Terrors became a team that fought for football glory, and emerged victorious.”

After his military obligation was completed, Jesse received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and embarked upon a 35-year career as a reporter and editor, including an eight-year stint as a sports editor in Alabama. He retired in 2006 after spending 18 years as editor of the Georgetown (S.C.) Times. Honored with numerous awards for writing throughout his career, he was cited by the South Carolina General Assembly in 2007 through a legislative resolution commending him for his contributions to journalism.

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want to fly or you don’t – he helped the flying bug to another target.

“I always tell people if you think you want to fly you don’t want to fly,” Ernie says. “You have to know you want to fly. It takes a lot of study, a lot of commitment, a lot of discipline.”

No more dangerous an activity than driving, an airplane is still a lot less forgiving than a car when the operator makes a mistake.

“If you have a problem or make mistakes it’s not like you can pull over and work it out,” he says.

A lot more thought has to go into traveling by plane, too.

“There’s a lot of pre-flight planning you have to go through; you have to plan every aspect of the flight before leaving. There’s as much flying done on the ground as there is in the air, actually.”

The economy has slowed Ernie down a bit this year; he logged 350 hours per year his first two years flying; this year will be more like 150.

Still, as we speak for this story, he’s watching the weather for an opening to fly to the Bahamas to pick up his daughter, Brittney, and some of her college friends from a spring break stay.

“It’s made the world a small place,” Ernie says of flying. The Bahamas, a favorite destination, are 2 1/2 hours away from St. Simons Island by plane.

“I can leave here on a Thursday afternoon and spend Friday and Saturday and be back home Saturday night for church on Sunday,” Ernie says.

What’s that old saying – a bad day flying beats a good day at work?

“I never have a bad day flying,” Woody says.

“It gets better and better.”

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Although Jerry Latvala flies a certified airplane, a Mooney that’s very similar to the Beechcraft Bonanza, he’s a member of the Paul Redfern Chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association on St. Simons Island.

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“It used to be years and years ago back in the ’50s and ’60s, when people built their own planes, you designed it and you built it, you built every piece. Now there are a lot of kitbuilt aircraft,” he says. “The EAA promotes aviation and promotes home-building activities. You can build your own aircraft for 10 cents on the dollar relative to what it costs to buy one – $5,000 to $500,000 to build one versus $50,000 to $50 million to buy one.”

A flight Jerry makes annually is to Oshkosh, Wis., headquarters of the EAA and site of the world’s largest fly-in. The last week of July every year, the EAA hosts a week-long air show and expo of home-built projects and products.

“Three-quarters of a million people visit there in Oshkosh,” Jerry says. “There’s actually probably 10,000 aircraft that fly-in, and people camp with the airplanes.”

This love of airplanes and being up in the air doesn’t infect us all, but the ones who do catch the bug will never again be contained by the surly bonds of earth.

Bob Schrieber, who moved to Brunswick after selling a company in Iowa, is an old-school flier who likes to dip low and look at pretty girls on the beach.

“I used to fly along Interstate 80 in Iowa …

100 feet off the ground going 70 mph waving at the people on the interstate. People would be hanging out of their car windows waving back. Trucks would be going faster than I would be. That’s fun flying.”

And it’s flying inspired by pilots he’ll never know, and who probably didn’t realize at the time the profound impact their little hobby would have on a young mind.

“From the time I was small I would see an airplane taking off and I would stop and watch it,” Bob says.

Who knows how many future pilots he’ll inspire when he finally takes wing in his LongEZ.

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reproductions and vintage furniture.” He adds that some great reproductions have been designed in the last 100 years.

Comfort is another key when creating a livable space.

“When you’re thinking about your room, say your family room, you’re going to want to do very comfortable furniture in there that is fun and usable and the materials wear well,” says Louise.

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Antique furniture is worn and well used. When decorating and adding pieces to your room, the room has to be comfortable, says Melissa. “Comfort is number one. It’s what makes a beautiful room, whether it has fine antiques or not.” Antiques that you are not afraid to use will add to that comfort.

How your room functions will guide you in your design ideas.

“There are no rules (in design) and I don’t think there ever should be,” says Dana. “It’s whatever is right for (you), for (your) personality.” She tells her clients to keep in mind that they are decorating their space, their retreat, which should represent who they are.

When you are ready to buy your first piece of antique furniture or redesign your living space, the experts all agree that you should first do your research. Visit antique shops, talk to dealers who have been in the industry, visit other furniture and design shops to mentally gather ideas for ways to decorate. Stroll through museums and discover styles you like and that suit your personality. Scour flea markets and garage sales. Read through books for design tips. Flip through magazines and pull out ideas of things you see in your vision of your space.

“Surround yourself with inspiration,” Dana suggests. You don’t have to invest a lot of money or hire a designer to figure out your style, she says, but you do have to do your research and think about how you want your space to function.

Start with something small for a focal point such as a French or English chest, suggests Byron. Antique carpets are also a great way to start building your room because rugs can set the mood for the space and you can pull colors from its design.

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“Buy the best you can afford,” he adds, “and look at the long-term (investment) you can live with for the next 20 or 30 years. Furniture shouldn’t be disposable.”

When starting out, you don’t have to buy a piece of furniture to have antiques in your space, either. Bottles, baskets, candlesticks, purses or books can be displayed in your home. Group old framed photos together on the wall, place vintage perfume bottles together on a silver tray—anything that draws your eye and can be used as a focal point.

Displaying such precious pieces that you like “brings warmth to a house,” says Melissa. “It makes it a home, actually.”

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Mike and Vanessa have worked for Renn for nearly a decade and perform an assortment of duties around the hangar.

Renn and Bud buy the food for the Friday Forum and diners leave donations for Mike and Vanessa for preparing it.

“I had done these kind of parties in Atlanta, where we moved from, for years, calling them the ‘Men’s Wild Game Dinners.’

They were wildly successful, and the last party we had drew over 2,000 diners,” says Bud. The Friday Forum continues the tradition.

“We have had visitors from California to Maine, and a group of regulars,” says Bud. “The luncheons are egalitarian, open to anyone and their guests. Our oldest is 93. On Thursdays I send out the menu to some 350 or so recipients, along with some usually humorous ‘absurdity’ that I write.”

A goodly proportion of women dig into Chef Mike’s fare as eagerly as men do each week although the attendance tilts towards males who have lived more than half a century.

“I call it the kick-off to the weekend,” says Julie Grimm, a regular who moved to St. Simons Island from Oklahoma. “Basically no one works after this.”

Ben Slade recalls that “the whole program of my first visit consisted of telling bald jokes.” The scalps of both Renn and Ben are less than hairy.

In celebration of Bud’s birthday, Ben told how the forum cohost was kidnapped as a child and held for ransom. The abductors sent in one of the boy’s fingers to show that they had him but young Bud’s parents sent back a letter “demanding more proof,” Ben says with a straight face.

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serving weekly luncheons for contractors and construction workers while he was building the hangar in 2003. The food was a lure for folks to show up for work on Fridays.

“Chef Mike and I did the first meal off the back of his pick-up truck,” he says.

In 2004, federal and state security agencies turned the hangar into their command center for the G-8 Conference on Sea Island hosted by then-President George W. Bush and attended by other world leaders.

The facility was turned over to the Secret Service for six months, Renn says.

Shortly after the federal agents left, Bud moved into an office at the hangar.

“Since we then had a kitchen and dining room, I suggested to Renn that we continue the luncheons and I would begin to include some of my Sea Island and St. Simons friends,” Bud says. “It grew exponentially from these humble beginnings.”

The diners serve themselves from a buffet and Renn hands out cups of iced tea. There are pitchers on the tables for refills. When the eating concludes, the entertainment commences.

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The four founders – Bud, Renn, Mike and Vanessa – believe they are serving a mission.

“We all see it from a different perspective,” says Bud in a rare serious moment.

“But there is a consensus among us. We love the community and it’s our way of ‘giving back’ something, making a place better that we passed this way.”

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After the Affair opening reception for exhibit of the work produced by 16 local Plein Air artists during the three day “Paint Out” that preceded April’s Plein Air Affair, 5-7 p.m. at the Glynn Art Gallery on Mallery Street in the St. Simons Pier Village. Details: www.glynnart.org

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The 12th annual YWCA Tribute to Women Leaders annual luncheon and awards ceremony will take place in the Hartley Auditorium at the Jekyll Island Convention Center. The featured guest speaker is New York interior designer and Brunswick native, Elaine Griffin. Details: www.ywcabrunswick.org

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Contemporary Christian singer Matthew West performs in a special family concert to benefit St. Simons Christian School. Concert will take place at St. Simons Community Church at 7 p.m. Tickets $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Details: www.sschristianschool.com

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“Under The Canopy,” an aerial dance performance by the Canopy Repertory Company of Athens will take place at the Ashantilly Center, a historical house in Darien, at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $30 which includes wine and light hors d’oeuvres. To reserve tickets please call 912-2891144 or e-mail ashantillycenter@gmail.com.

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Bring a picnic dinner, blanket and your lawn chairs to enjoy A Little Light Music. This Sunday evening concert series that takes place on the St. Simons Lighthouse lawn. Performer: Island Garage Band; Concerts begin at 7 p.m. Adult admission $10.

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The Hunt Family Fiddlers, Irish step dancers, fiddlers and singers perform Celtic, bluegrass, inspirational and other popular tunes. 8 p.m. concert at the Glynn Academy Auditorium. Sponsored by the Brunswick Community Concert Association. Details: www.brunswickcommunityconcert.org

The 2000 French documentary about living “off the grid,” The Gleaners and I, is presented at The Ritz Theater, 1530 Newcastle Street, Brunswick, by Golden Isles Arts and Humanities Association. Showtime 7p.m. Admission $5. Details: www.goldenislesarts.org

It’s First Friday in Historic Downtown Brunswick. Participating retailers, galleries and restaurants stay open late, host live music and serve light hors d’oeuvres, special programs and music at the Brunswick-Glynn County Library. Details: www.brunswickgeorgia.net

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Island Players’ Production of You Can’t Take it With You, the classic comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kauffman. Performances at the St. Simons Island Casino Theatre, Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 3 p.m. Details: www.theislandplayers.com

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Safe Harbor Children’s Shelter Auxiliary presents Coastal Georgia’s Got Talent to benefit the shelter. Modeled after the popular television show, America’s Got Talent, Coastal Georgia’s Got Talent will provide a performance venue for solo or group acts with talents of all types. The show will be at 7 p.m. in the Strickland Auditorium at Epworth By The Sea on St. Simons Island. In addition to formal judging, the audience will be invited to help choose the night’s winners.

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The Brunswick-Glynn County Library hosts a series of movies for adults that feature an ocean theme, ranging from New Zealand’s Whale Rider to Hitchcock’s Lifeboat, to the epic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World starring Russell Crowe. Showtimes each of these dates at 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. Details: 267-1212

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Bring a picnic dinner, blanket and your lawn chairs to enjoy A Little Light Music. This Sunday evening concert series that takes place on the St. Simons Lighthouse lawn. Performer: Harry O’Donoghue. Concerts begin at 7 p.m. Adult admission $10. Details: www.saintsimonslighthouse.org

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Golden Isles Arts and Humanities Association hosts a Summer Theater Camp for children ages 7-14.

Each session includes games, improv exercises and scripted materials, culminating in a production that is open to the public. Workshop takes place Mon.-Fri. from 9 a.m. to noon. Details: www.goldenislesart.org

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The Original Georgia Sea Islands Festival, featuring live entertainment by the Georgia Sea Island Singers, Gullah/Geechee exhibits, craft demonstrations, artifacts, food and vendors will take place in Postell Park, Pier Village on St. Simons Island from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and from noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Sponsored by the St. Simons African American Heritage Coalition. Details: 634-0330 Brunswick-Glynn County 16, 23, The Library hosts a series oceanthemed movies for children: The 30 Little Mermaid, Free Willy and Finding Nemo. Showtimes on each of these dates at 2 p.m. Free and open to the public. Details: 267-1212 Glynn Art Pottery Studio hosts a clay and collage workshop for children (7+) led by Debbie Craig, 10 a.m to 1 p.m. daily.

Class fee $125, includes all supplies.

Participants must bring sack lunch; beverages will be provided. Registration required. Details: www. glynnart.org

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Is there any better place to live and play than in the Golden Isles? And so many of you stepped up to prove it when we put out the call on Facebook for photos of your families enjoying the outdoors. We used a few of those photos to illustrate Leslie Jeter’s Guide to S ummer Fun in the Golden Isles (page 12), and now we’d like to share some of the rest. We appreciate our readers and hope you’ll continue to share your good times with us. And don’t forget to join us on Facebook, where we’ll give you more chances to be an active part of the magazine in the future. H appy summer!

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The Friends of Hofwyl Plantation hosted an Easter Egg hunt on the grounds of the historic plantation north of Brunswick Easter weekend. More than 60 children 10 years old and younger gathered to find 1,000 eggs, including special prize-winning golden eggs. The event also served as the official unveiling of Hildeguard, a 4-foot fiberglass bulldog statue painted by artist ED Hose, Hildeguard is Hofwyl’s entry into Humane Society of South Coastal Georgia’s “Coastal Dawgs Unleashed” fundraiser. Hofwyl is a state-owned historic site, a former rice plantation and dairy farm willed to the state in the 1970s. Photos by Troup Nightingale.

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Classic Southern cuisine served in a warm and friendly environment in historic downtown Brunswick. Our menu includes a wide variety of soups, salads, sandwiches, seafood, and of course our daily list of at least eight different veggies. Plus, look forward to our farmer’s market veggie of the day. Stop in on Sunday to enjoy our brunch buffet and don’t forget to inquire about our catering and banquet services.

LATITUDE 31 1 Pier Road Jekyll Island 912-635-3800

At Latitude 31 you can enjoy radiant sunsets and experience the Golden Isles’ premier dining destination. We offer the best service and finest food, in a casual atmosphere. Experience the wonders of nature at The “Rah” Bar which features Georgia Wild Shrimp, Dungeness Crab, Oysters, and our Famous Low Country Boil. Additionally we offer seasonal entertainment.

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The Darien River House Restaurant and Wine Bar is located just across the street from the Darien River and its famous shrimp boats including a waterfront municipal park and two city operated and owned public docks. Come and enjoy a fine meal and excellent wine in our beautifully restored circa 1867 Victorian lovingly located under the mossy maritime oaks of the Darien River Bluff. You have the option of arriving by foot, or by car, taking advantage of ample parking or even by boat with easy access to two public docks within 2,000 feet of our front door. After you arrive, you will be treated to true Southern hospitality, fine food and wine and the warm feeling that you’re eating in a friend’s beautifully restored Victorian home.

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Toucans Ale House 2450 Perry Lane Road Brunswick 912-554-1937

“The Fun Starts Here!” Toucans Ale house is your destination for great food, great fun and great times with friends and family. Come see your favorite college and professional sports teams on one of our 19 flat screen tv’s. Boasting 23 draft beers and 58 bottle beers, Toucans is your place for a great time!

Brogen’s South 200 Pier Alley St. Simons Island 638-1660

An island tradition for more than 25 years, Brogen’s dishes up the island’s best burgers in a classic family atmosphere and the liveliest night life in town, right in the heart of the Village. A 30-second walk from the Pier, we are the Island’s only doubledecker restaurant with an ocean view.

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If you’re looking for the best tasting seafood in Coastal Georgia, look no further than Jinright’s Seafood House. Celebrating our 25th Anniversary in Brunswick, this family owned business is more than just a restaurant that serves award winning seafood and other delicious fare, it’s a Golden Isles institution. Open seven days a week for lunch and dinner, Jinright’s is conveniently located and easy to find, just one mile north of the St. Simons causeway on Hwy. 17. (Look for the big shark’s head on the front of the building.) Stop by today and find out why the locals call us “The Best Little Seafood House in the Golden Isles!”

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Brunswick Moondoggy’s 36 Canal Road Plaza 265-5888

We put a lot of thought into creating an inviting neighborhood restaurant that offers a warm friendly environment and that’s fun to visit, too. Come enjoy our sports bar with four big HD TVs; Wi-Fi is always FREE. You can eat lunch for less than $10. But the real reason to come is our generously sized pizzas, pastas, subs and specialty dinners all made from the finest, freshest domestic and imported ingredients. Our pizza and bread dough is made from scratch daily. Call 2655888 for delivery or pick up, and visit us online at www.brunswickmoondoggy’s.com.

Beachcomber BBQ & Grill 319 Arnold Road St. Simons Island 634-5699

“No shoes, no shirt, no problem!” Great BBQ and burgers just a block from the beach on St. Simons Island. Dine in, family-size take out or catering. Worth the trip! You’ll LOVE the ribs! Open from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. daily. Featured on The Food Network. St. Simons’ Original BBQ Restaurant.

Courtyard at Crane Cottage 375 Riverview Drive Jekyll Island 635-2600

An Italianate Villa originally constructed in 1917. Enjoy a Mediterranean menu with a Northern California wine country flair in this historic setting. Dine alfresco in the loggia surrounding the fountain courtyard or indoors. Lunch is served from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. Sunday through Friday and 11 a.m. 2 p.m. on Saturday; dinner is served Sunday through Thursday from 5:30 until 9 p.m.

Reservations are suggested. Prices for lunch: $9.95-$14.95; dinner entrees: $25.95-$31.95.

The Grand Dining Room Jekyll Island Club Hotel 371 Riverview Drive Jekyll Island 635-2400

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are offered daily in this remarkably beautiful room, as well as a splendid Sunday Brunch. Ionic columns and intricate fireplaces grace the hotel’s full service restaurant.

Enjoy live piano music with dinner and Sunday Brunch. Our chef is well known for her delicious low-country cuisine and seafood dishes, and the pastries and desserts are exquisite and all homemade. Dinner entrees range from $26 to $35.

Ask about the Sunset Dinner from 6 to 6:45 p.m. for $28.95. Breakfast is $9.50-$14.95; lunch $10.95-$15.95; and brunch is $28.95 for adults, $14.50 for children age 11 and under. Special rates may apply for holiday brunches. Breakfast is served from 7 until 11 a.m.; Lunch from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m.; and Dinner from 6 until 10 p.m. Sunday Brunch is served from 10:45 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Brogen’s North 3600 Frederica Road St. Simons Island 638-2060

It’s always game day at Brogen’s North, nestled among the oaks at Frederica North.

Grab a cold one and feast on one of our famous pizzas or burgers, or munch on our legendary potato skins. We’ve got pasta, seafood and the always delicious Chicken Swiss Sandwich on the menu, as well as all your favorite brews. Serving lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday, we’re a great neighborhood establishment serving great food, great sports and great times!

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Last Call

Mint Julep Recipe courtesy of Shane Condit, head

A Toast to the South

By Zac hary Earl Tumlin

bartender at The Brunswick Country Club In a frosted Collins glass or chimney glass, muddle three sprigs of mint with 1/2 oz. of simple syrup. Add 2-3 oz. of bourbon, and fill the glass with crushed ice.

Garnish with a whole mint leaf.

William Faulkner once wrote that “to understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.”

Having gone to school in the Magnolia State, I suspect that he was right. But as a native son to Georgia with family in Alabama and an unexplainable love for a young lady in South Carolina, I also suspect that his revelation applies to the rest of the Deep South, too.

Yes, true happiness rests down here. And as Mr. Faulkner may have jointly opined, that particular happiness rests in things that must first be understood, experienced, and appreciated from a Southerner’s perspective. I propose this toast to the South for how she has shaped me, lifted me, and molded me into the man I’ve become today, the Southerner I am blessed to be.

So raise your Toddy, your Mimosa, or your Muscadine Wine, and honor the things that make her fine: Hunting, fishing, college football, and y’all.

Manners, respect, Grandma and Grandpa.

Seersucker, bow-ties, white bucs and drawls.

Grits, eggs, and country ham with salt.

Trains, trucks, pecans, and sweet tea.

Yes, all these things have meaning to me.

With shotguns and fried chicken, the list could go on, But here’s to the South, my dearly beloved home.

Zack Tumlin is an attorney practicing from Athens, a graduate of the University of Georgia, and a proud son of the South. He may be reached at zacktumlin@yahoo.com

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