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Table of Contents
November/December 2012
features:
59 indUstrial arts
84 a leader by any other
The beauty of everyday tasks
name
by Amy H. Carter
Three men who’ve set the bar
86 Lessons in Living and
high for future leaders.
serving from 11 local leaders you should know
by Amy H. Carter
Making a difference at every age by Amy H. Carter
86 59 columns & departments 6 Editor’s Note 11 CoastalQueue 40 Nature Connection 42 The Dish
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WORTH KNOWING 98 Reg Muprhy BY HAND 102 Island Sea Designs
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on the cover: Woody Woodside, Jim Bishop, and Bill Jones III pose for photographer Chris Viola in the Avenue of the Oaks.
Golden Isles The Magazine for Brunswick, sT. siMons, Jekyll & sea islands
44 Par for the Course 46 Green Acres
104 Coastal Seen
48 Living Well
110 Coastal Cuisine
50 Vignettes of Absurdity 52 By Design 54 Money Talks
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Editor’s Note Whew! I’m really glad this one’s done. My willingness to admit when I’m intimidated (read: scared) is a character flaw that I easily own, and the November/December issue of Golden Isles Magazine always intimidates me. It is the issue historically devoted to exceptional people in our community. In the past, that has taken the form of our “20 Under 40” listing of notable young people. This year, we deviated from the formula.
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In part, that’s because I am always beset by jokers this time of year who want to know when I’m going to recognize the “30 Over 60” who make a difference, or even the “20 Over 80” – that last being more a dare than a serious inquiry, but one I’ve no doubt I could meet (enter my second-biggest character flaw: totally unjustified hubris). I have to agree with the spirit of those jokes, however, that there are many people working to make a difference in the community, and they don’t all fall into one particular age category. With age comes wisdom. To me, that phrase does not refer to someone we might consider to be old, but rather every age. I am learning an awful lot from my six-year-old, who comes home every day from 1st grade saying: “Mama. Guess what I learned? It’s so cool!” So naturally, one of the many talented teachers who’ve taught him all this cool stuff is on our inaugural list of “Who You Should Know,” Sarah Dodd. Anyone who can teach a six-year-old to understand the word “hypothesis” so well that he can remind his mother of its meaning is cool, in my book. Sarah’s just one of the many we are fortunate to feature in this issue devoted to people you should know. They’re doing great things in the Golden Isles, and we thank them for their many contributions.
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Know a Scrooge? Give Him a Growler Full of Christmas Cheer When Brian Green – owner of True Vine Wine & Gourmet in downtown Brunswick – talks about “growlers,” he’s not referring to grouchy customers. “For lack of a better word, a growler is a large beer bottle,” Brian says. “It is a large bottle filled from a tap of a wooden cask or keg.” Brian now offers them locally in his store and at this point has sold about 100 of his 54 oz. specialty bottles. “I sell someone a growler, it’s filled from one of my four active taps and they can bring it back later clean and dry and we refill it for them,” says Brian. In Georgia, only beer and wine retailers can pour growlers and he is currently the only business offering them locally. So what do beer aficionados find so special about the growler? “We’re able to bring more eclectic and unique beers to customers that aren’t available in 12 oz. bottles,” he says, including those brewed by Moonriver Brewing Company in Savannah. “And since the beer is not exposed to ultra-violet light, it has a fresher, better flavor.” Brian says he rotates different beers to give his customers the opportunity to experience different beers and is looking at expanding by offering other sizes of the large bottles. True Vine Wine & Gourmet is located at 1523 Newcastle St. For more information about growlers, contact Brian at 280-0380 or visit www.truevinewineandgourmet.com. – Cynthia Robinson
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State Botanical Garden Offers a Rare Peek at Little St. Simons: Barrier Island Ecology Class will Study the Island Up Close Area residents who want to learn more about the unique flora and fauna that make up the coastal Georgia landscape now have an opportunity to do so. The State Botanical Garden of Georgia is offering classes on coastal plants, barrier island ecology and native plant conservation in the Golden Isles and surrounding areas as part of its Certificate in Coastal Native Plants Program. According to Anne Shenk, botanical garden education director, the Certificate in Coastal Native Plants Program is now in its second year, and has attracted students from throughout the coastal region. Participants gain basic knowledge about plants and their habitats as well as the tools to identify and protect Georgia’s native trees, shrubs and wildflowers. In addition to taking classes, students earn their certificates through a combination of volunteer hours and field trips. Ten students recently graduated with their certificates in October. “The Certificate Program attracts a wide variety of students, including native plant gardeners, landscape designers, wildlife managers and folks who love the outdoors and plants,” Anne says. “Our graduates see the natural world in a new way and are prepared to be better naturalists, gardeners and conservationists.” The next class offered locally will be “Barrier Island Ecology” on Little St. Simons Island. The class will take place on Saturday, Dec. 8, from
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8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. and attendees are asked to bring their lunch. Preregistration is required. The cost is $45 for members of Friends of the State Botanical Garden, Friends of the Bamboo Farm and Coastal Gardens and Coastal Wildscapes. The cost is $50 for non-members. Classes to be offered in the coming winter and spring quarters include plant propagation classes at Jekyll Island, summer and winter tree identification at the Savannah-Ogeechee Canal Preserve, and ecology of a Pitcherplant bog in nearby Evans County. Basic core courses in botany and natural history are also scheduled for the winter. Classes are offered year-round except for July and August and emphasize hands-on learning, with a lab or field component included in each class. Instructors include experts in botany, plant ecology and conservation, including university professors, conservation professionals and field researchers. Professional participants may earn eight continuing education units by completing the certificate. For more information or to register, call Cora Keber at the State Botanical Garden, (706)542-6156 or register online at www.uga.edu/ botgarden/eduregister.html. – Cynthia Robinson
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28th Annual Tour of Homes
“A Sea Island Christmas”
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Presented by Cassina Garden Club & Special Interest Stop The Cloister Hotel
Tour Five Homes on Sea Island*, 10 am - 5 pm Bake Sale, 9 am - 2 pm
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*Must take bus from Cassina’s Slave Cabins on Gascoigne Bluff Proceeds from Tour maintain the Hamilton Plantation slave cabins.
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Stop #7 The Cloister Hotel On Sea Island
Celebrate Christmas Sea Island-Style with the Cassina Garden Club It’s time to mark your calendars for the Cassina Garden Club’s Annual Tour of Homes. This year’s event, “A Sea Island Christmas,” is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 8, and will mark the club’s 85th anniversary.
Bake Sale on the Coast” from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Tour goers can purchase holiday wrapped baked goods and keep them at the “product check” area while they attend the tour. The “product check” area will close at 6 p.m.
The tour will include five estates on Sea Island, The Cloister Hotel and the Tabby Slave Cabins on Gascoigne Bluff. All proceeds from the tour go to the maintenance of the circa 1840 Tabby Slave Cabins that are on the National Register of Historic Places.
All attendees must take a tour bus from the Cassina Cabins to and from Sea Island. There will be no parking at the tour homes or The Cloister Hotel. Parking will be free all day at the cabins. Tickets must be shown for access to buses, tour homes and The Cloister Hotel. Tour goers returning to Sea Island for dinner must have reservations in one of the Sea Island restaurants and must show their ticket for access to Sea Island.
All five homes have been designed or redesigned by the talented island architect John P. Shackelford Jr. Each home will feature an “Arranging Christmas” live greenery display by Cassina Garden Club members with instruction cards available to tour goers who want to duplicate the arrangements in their own homes. The Cloister Hotel is the special interest stop and will highlight holiday floral arrangements, distinctive holiday decorations and the legendary Sea Island Gingerbread House. The Tabby Slave Cabins on Gascoigne Bluff, which are owned and maintained by Cassina Garden Club, will be the scene of the “Best
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Sea Island buses leave from the cabins to Sea Island beginning at 9:45 a.m. and the tours continue until 5 p.m. The last bus will leave The Cloister at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $45 in advance and can be purchased online at www. cassinagardenclub.org or after Nov. 15 at various locations on St. Simons and in Brunswick. Tickets will be $50 on the day of the tour. – Cynthia Robinson
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Eat, Drink and Support Your Local Land Trust Bushels of roasted oysters, Barbara Jean’s famous crab cakes and other culinary and beverage offerings from area restaurants will be served while attendees enjoy live music under the live oaks at Gascoigne Park at the 13th Annual St. Simons Land Trust Oyster Roast. This popular local event will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17. Tickets are $50 for Land Trust members and $75 for non-members. Proceeds benefit the organization’s land preservation projects. The Land Trust is a nonprofit organization that actively works to protect St. Simons’ land resources. The organization recently acquired 608 acres of the last remaining maritime forest on the island, located at Cannon’s Point, bringing the organization’s holdings to 776 acres of permanently protected land on the Island. Plans for the recently acquired acreage include hiking and biking trails, primitive camping, non-motorized boat launches, an education pavilion and more. To purchase tickets or to find out about becoming a member of the Land Trust, call 638-9109 or visit www.sslt.org. – Cynthia Robinson
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Contest for Young Playwright’s Award Announced
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The Eugenia Price/Joyce Blackburn Foundation in association with Golden Isles Arts & Humanities has announced a contest for the 15th Annual Young Playwright’s Award. This award is to encourage and recognize the literary talents of public and private middle grade students in Glynn County. Any student wishing to participate must attend a playwriting workshop sponsored by Golden Isles Arts & Humanities or review and follow a study guide, available upon request, which covers the basics of playwriting. Area schools may request to host a free playwriting workshop at their school either during the day or after school.
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The plays are “blind judged” by writers and theater professionals. The winners receive $500 and $300 and a production of their play for first and second place respectively, and $200 for the third place winner along with a staged reading of their play. Manuscripts will be judged on originality, creativity and content. The deadline for submissions of scripts is 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, to Golden Isles Arts & Humanities’ offices located in the Historic Ritz Theatre, 1530 Newcastle Street, Brunswick. To schedule a workshop at your school, or for more information, call 262-6934 or email artsed@goldenislesarts.org. – Cynthia Robinson
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Although the Coupers were widely known for their hospitality, a bit of historic license is being taken for this modern fund-raising weekend. Jefferson never actually visited Cannon’s Point. However, his first Vice President, Aaron Burr, did. Burr, whose political career effectively ended in July 1804 when he killed political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel, fled south and spent time at Pierce Butler’s neighboring Hampton Plantation. Burr weathered a hurricane while visiting with the Coupers at nearby Cannon’s Point in September of that year.
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On Sunday afternoon, March 24, Jefferson will bring history to life as he hosts local children at the Jones Center.
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The Members Guild of the Coastal Georgia Historical Society will present its first Celebration of History Weekend March 22-24, 2013. The A.W. Jones Heritage Center will be transformed into Cannon’s Point, the antebellum plantation home of Rebecca and John Couper. The Coupers will host a dinner March 22 and a champagne reception March 23 for their special guest from Virginia, President Thomas Jefferson, protrayed by Jefferson’s fifth great-grandson, Rob Coles. Recognized by National Geographic for his “haunting resemblance” to his famous forebear, Coles will interact with guests as the third president of the United States. The menu for the dinner will consist of favorite dishes from the kitchens of both Cannon’s Point and Monticello.
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Thomas Jefferson “Haunting Resemblance” - (National Geographic) Mr. Jefferson is portrayed by Rob Coles, the fifth great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson. Both have freckles, the same profile and the same Virginia dialect. Both were born and raised in the same county of Albemarle. And the resemblance does not stop there.
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The Lord of Life Lutheran Church Holiday Market Planning Committee is busy preparing for the fourth annual fair, which will be held from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1. Thirty vendors will sell quality hand-made wares and specialty food items, and the church will host a bake sale and used book sale, as well as offering coffee, snacks and lunch. Door prizes will be given every hour and six grand prizes, each valued at more than $50, will be awarded following the craft fair. According to committee chairperson Renee Evenson Balka, “We are hosting the Holiday Market Craft Fair for the purpose of fostering fellowship within our community and to support talented local artists, specialty food vendors, and craftspeople. One thing that makes our fair unique is that we limit the number of each type of item sold to ensure a wide variety to shoppers. We look forward to a fun day for all.” Proceeds will benefit Lord of Life Youth Camp Scholarship Fund and other church, social ministry and outreach programs in our community. Pastor Paul Elbert adds, “We are excited to invite the community to join us for Lord of Life’s Holiday Market Craft Fair. This event benefits our church youth and ministries dedicated to helping those in need in our area. We welcome you to join us at Lord of Life Lutheran Church for this event, just as Our Lord welcomes everyone into His presence.” The Lord of Life Holiday Market Craft Fair will be held at 2801 Frederica Road on St. Simons Island. For additional information call 6384673. – Jane Bozza
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Eradicating hunger among Glynn County students Thanks to the Blessings in a Backpack program, the more than 400 students at Altama Elementary School who qualify for the Federal Free and Reduced Price Meals aren’t going hungry on the weekends. These students are now able to take home easy-to-prepare, readyto-eat food items each weekend during the school year since local couples Deborah and Andrew Harris, Lois and Tom Marchetto, Lori and Phil Maxwell, and Artie and Lee Richards recently founded the first Glynn County chapter of this national program. More than 62 percent of children in U.S. public schools are fed through the federal program during the school week. At Altama Elementary, that percentage is greater than 90 percent. For many children, these meals are their only source of nutrition during the week.
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Many are at risk of having no food to eat on the weekends, which can lead to health problems and make it more difficult to concentrate and succeed in school. “Hungry children are not ready to learn. That is why we are so excited to have the Blessings in a Backpack program beginning this school year,” says Michelle Drew, principal of Altama Elementary School. Better test scores, improved reading skills, positive behavior, improved health and increased attendance have all been attributed to the success of Blessings in a Backpack. Blessings in a Backpack was founded in 2004 and provides a blueprint for local volunteers to adopt schools, raise funds and partner
In addition to the strong need, the ability to use 100 percent of funds raised locally and the assistance of the national non-profit are the reasons the four Golden Isles couples decided to adopt Altama Elementary School. “The Publix store at the Village at Glynn Place helps us find the best specials and sale prices for our menu items each week, and they deliver the food to the school,” Deborah Harris says. “Volunteers recruited from College Place United Methodist Church and by our cofounders are committed to packing the food each week.”
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CoastalQueue Have A Heart for Manna House Fund-raising Dance Grows Along with the Charity’s Need For the past 30 years, Manna House has been feeding the poor and needy members of the Golden Isles Community. “At the time Mayor (Reginald E.) Holtzendorf was newly-elected and formed a city-wide committee to determine what the goals of the city should be,” says Don Herrman, chairman of the Manna House board. “The number one goal was a soup kitchen. (The Rev.) Jim Crandall came up with the idea and contacted various churches.” Thus Manna House was born. Under the direction of a board composed of six local pastors and six businessmen, Manna House began serving hot lunches five days a week out of a small house next door to the Salvation Army in downtown Brunswick. In 2002, the charity was asked to move. However, thanks to an earlier donation, they were able to purchase a larger building at the corner of Martin Luther King and G Street where they continue to operate. Because of the increasing needs the charity saw, Don says Manna House now serves lunch six days a week, Sunday through Friday, year-round. He says 30 teams of 10 to 12 volunteers each serve about 170 meals each day they are open. “Our volunteers are mostly from local churches and also area clubs, including the Kiwanis and Rotary,” Don says. “We couldn’t do it without them.” The charity not only depends on these dedicated volunteers, but Manna House is also dependent on donations to continue the group’s ministry. After years of operating smoothly, the slowing economy hit the charity hard. Not only did more people need their services, but donations have dropped.
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“After the recession hit, we’ve been operating in the red and depending on our reserves,” he says. “But those reserves could run out next year.” Don and other Manna House volunteers and board members, including Jane Bozza and Laura Kip, hope that the community continues to support Manna House and come out for their annual dinner dance fund raiser — “Have A Heart for Manna House.” After six years of holding the event at Lord of Life Lutheran Church, Jane says this year’s event will take place Saturday, Feb. 9, at Sea Palms Golf & Tennis Resort on St. Simons Island. “The funds raised through this year’s ‘Have a Heart for Manna House’ dinner dance and silent auction will enable the Manna House Ministry to continue to grow, as needs have increased for feeding the poor and disenfranchised of our community,” Jane says. “This annual event is the largest fund-raising effort on behalf of Manna House.” The evening will begin at 6 p.m. with cocktails and music by the Jacquelyn Monroe Trio, which will continue playing through dinner at 7 p.m. As in previous years, a silent auction will also be held at 6 p.m. Attendees will take to the dance floor at 8 p.m. with Mason Waters and the Grove Allstars providing the music. Tickets are limited and must be purchased ahead of time. Cost for tickets are $45 each, and includes dinner and dancing. There will be a cash bar. Call the Lord of Life office at 638-4673 for information or to arrange the purchase of tickets. – Cynthia Robinson
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13th Annual Brunswick Rockin’ Stewbilee November 10 In Historic Downtown Brunswick
Brunswick Stew cooks from throughout coastal Georgia will vie for the honor of having their concoction named “Best Brunswick Stew,” during the 13th annual Brunswick Rockin’ Stewbilee, Saturday Nov. 10 at Mary Ross Waterfront Park in historic downtown Brunswick. Teams representing local businesses, industry, government organizations, non-profits and individuals compete in judged and “People’s Choice” categories, with prizes awarded to top finishers in each. Presentation Awards also are given to the teams who are judged to have the most creative displays. In addition to trophies and bragging rights, a $1,000 cash prize will be awarded to an overall winner, selected from a combined score of Judged, People’s Choice, and Presentation categories. The team entry fee is $30. Team rules and registration forms can be found online at brunswickstewbilee.com. Registration deadline is Wednesday, Nov. 7. The popular competition is the centerpiece of a full day of activities that will include a classic and antique car show, a pooch parade, and a 5K run. Live music will be performed throughout the day by Backbeat Boulevard and The Wharfratz. Local and regional vendors will offer a variety of arts and crafts, and there will be a special children’s play area. The day’s events kick off at 8:30 am with the 5K run. The race starts and finishes at Mary Ross Waterfront Park, and awards are presented in male, female and team categories. There is a $20 registration fee for Early Registration before Oct. 26, and a $25 entry fee
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thereafter. A $500 award will be presented to the PTA of the school with highest number of participants. For race information, please visit goldenislestrackclub.com. Pet owners are invited to join in the fun during the Pet Supplies Plus Pooch Parade. Registration fee is $10 for the first pet, and $5 for each additional pet. Awards will be presented for overall best costume, best large dog costume, best small dog costume, best dog and owner costume, and people’s choice. Pooch parade registration begins at 9:30 am at the corner of Bay and Gloucester Street. Judging and the parade begin at 10:15 am, and awards will be given immediately following the parade at Mary Ross Waterfront Park. Pet owners may register at the event or online, at brunswickstewbilee.com. Pro-
ceeds from the parade will benefit the Humane Society of South Coastal Georgia and Glynn County Animal Services. Classic and antique car owners are invited to show off their vehicles during the Classic Car Show, presented by Brunswick Kiwanis and produced by Freddie Merritt. Early registration fee is $15 per vehicle, $20 the day of the event. Setup will be at 10:30 a.m., with the show from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. Space is limited, and vehicle owners are encouraged to pre-register by going to brunswickstewbilee.com. Advance tickets are $6 per person for adults and $3 per child under age 6, and may be purchased at The Brunswick News, The Brunswick-Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce, Southeastern Bank in Brunswick, Island Automotive, Southeast Georgia Health System Gift Shop, Pat’s Hallmark and the Ritz Theater. Tickets purchased the day of the event are $9 per person for adults and $4 per child under age 6. The Brunswick Rockin’ Stewbilee is sponsored by The Brunswick News, Mike Murphy Kia, Seaboard Construction, Magic 105.9 and Wave 104.1, Brunswick Kiwanis Club, BeSeen Outdoor, Georgia Power, Brunswick Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce, Southeast Georgia Health System, Blink Marketing and Design, GP Cellulose, and Stambaugh Aviation. For information, please visit the Brunswick Rockin’ Stewbilee online at brunswickstewbilee.com – Patrick Saylor
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Make Christmas Merry for All By Giving Local Arts and Crafts from Glynn Art Get a jump on your holiday purchases while supporting local artists at the annual Glynn Art Association’s Annual Mistletoe Market. This year’s market is open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, and Sunday, Nov. 18, at Glynn Arts Association, 529 Beachview Drive, St. Simons. Everything from locally made jewelry to paintings to pottery, fiber arts and more will be available for purchase. “It will be a fair atmosphere with the artists having their own booths to display their work,” says Marcia Marinello, director of the association. For those who want to get an even earlier jump on their shopping, Marcia says they will have a preview party 6 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16. Admission is $25 per person.
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Glynn Art is expanding its gift shop, now named the Glynn Art Designs Gifts for You and Your Home, just in time for the holidays. For more information about the not-for-profit organization’s events and classes, call 6388770. – Cynthia Robinson
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Magnolia Manor Lighting the Nights Before Christmas
The staff and residents of Magnolia Manor of St. Simons senior living center invite the public to join them for their 6th Annual Light the Night event from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4.
After the event, the lights will be on display for the community each evening throughout the season until New Year’s. – Cynthia Robinson
Highlights of the evening include the lighting of thousands of sparkling lights throughout the facility’s campus, as well as handcrafted holiday displays, a visit from Santa, live holiday music, including carolers, and refreshments.
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Left Bank Art Gallery Grows its Collection of Huie Paintings The permanent collection of paintings at Left Bank Art Gallery has grown. In celebration of what would have been renowned St. Simons Island artist Mildred Nix Huie’s 105th birthday, the Mildred Huie Museum presented five of her works to the Left Bank’s permanent collection. According to Dayna Caldwell, curator of the Mildred Huie Museum and associate at the Left Bank Gallery, the works include large paintings of The Cloister Fountain and the Lovely Lane Chapel from the 1990s, as well as a print of a Cloister scene and a pen, ink and glitter drawing from the artist’s “whimsical period” in the 1970s. Left Bank Gallery is located at 3600 Frederica Road, Suite 13. For more information, call 638-3017. – Cynthia Robinson
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SHARE the spirit of the season and BRING joy to visiting seafarers by donating 15 of the items below, gift-wrapped in a cloth ditty bag or shoe box. Clothing (size medium) Socks Handkerchiefs Gloves Knit caps Baseball caps T-shirts Scarves Underwear Undershirts Long Johns Jackets size M-L Sweaters size M-L
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*Items available for purchase at the International Seafarers’ Center.
Gifts may be dropped off at 307 Newcastle Street Brunswick, GA 31520.
Critical Issues Forum Spotlights Workforce Development HunterMaclean, a law firm with offices in Brunswick and Savannah, held a Critical Issues Forum Oct. 3 at the Southeast Georgia Conference Center at the College of Coastal Georgia. The forum focused on local workforce development issues and featured the following speakers: Tricia Pridemore, director of the Governor’s Office of Workforce Development; Gary Colberg, president and CEO of Southeast Georgia Health System; and Randal Morris, regional public affairs manager at Georgia-Pacific. This event attracted more than 100 Brunswick area business leaders. HunterMaclean decided to expand its Critical Issues Forum to Brunswick after hosting nearly 20 forums in Savannah over the past 10 years.
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Mother-and-son writing team June Hall McCash and Brenden Martin have released The Jekyll Island Club Hotel, a book that explores the founding of the hotel 125 years ago as a hunting retreat for America’s wealthy elite. The book releases in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the opening of the hotel itself, following extensive renovation and restoration by investor Vance Hughes and architect Larry Evans. The book is on sale in the hotel gift shop located on the courtyard level of the clubhouse. The Jekyll Island Club Hotel was built in 1886. Restored in 1986, it is now a National Historic Landmark and a member of Historic Hotels of America. The hotel is Jekyll Island’s only four-star resort, presenting 157 rooms and suites in five historical settings. For more information on the hotel, visit jekyllislandclub.com or call 800-535-9547.
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Just the Facts
Cannon’s Point
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n October, the St. Simons Land Trust in concert with benefactors Hank and Wendy Paulson and Pete and Ada Correll completed the purchase of the 608-acre Cannon’s Point Plantation tract on St. Simons Island for conservation and preservation.
Photos of Cannon’s Point courtesy of the St. Simons Land Trust
Although evidence of 4,000 years of human occupation of the Cannon’s Point site makes it a valuable record of life in the Golden Isles through the ages, it was John Couper’s purchase of the tract in 1793 that ushered in a second age of enlightenment on St. Simons Island. By all accounts to be found in the historical record, the Cannon’s Point home of John and Rebecca Maxwell Couper was the most hospitable on the island. It was a place for entertaining and for learning, which makes it particularly fitting that the Land Trust plans to adapt the land for future public use toward those ends. In addition to his staple crops of cotton, sugar cane, rice and corn, John Couper cultivated olives and oranges and experimented with the production of wine, silk, dates, peaches, nectarines, apricots, figs and plums at Cannon’s Point. He reported his successes and failures in equal and honest measure to fellow planters at monthly dinner meetings of the St. Simons Sporting and Agriculture Society (a precurser to the Cassina Garden Club, perhaps?). We offer a few facts about John Couper below, but urge you to read more about this extraordinary father of the island we all know and love today. Sources: The John Couper Family at Cannon’s Point by T. Reed Ferguson (1994, Mercer University Press); The Coastal Georgia Historical Society
16 3 years The age at which John Couper set sail from Scotland on a three-month voyage to America aboard the brig Christy.
The length of John Couper’s indentured servitude as payment for his crossing.
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The amount John Couper and business partner James Hamilton paid in 1793 for 350 acres on the north end of St. Simons Island known as Cannon’s Point.
$25 million The purchase price in 2012 for the 608 acres that comprise Cannon’s Point today.
362 sq ft The size of the 1730s cabin John and Rebecca Couper and their first-born son, James Hamilton Couper, occupied upon taking up residence at Cannon’s Point in 1794.
The population of St. Simons Island when the Coupers arrived here. Fully half that number were slaves.
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The size of the detached kitchen that served the plantation house the Coupers built at Cannon’s Point in 1804.
Fee the U.S. Government paid to John Couper in 1804 in exchange for 4 acres on the south end of St. Simons Island for construction of a lighthouse. painting courtesy of coastal georgia historical society
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The average number of dinner guests John and Rebecca Couper entertained at Cannon’s Point on any given evening.
6 quarts Quantity of oysters called for in the recipe for Rebecca Maxwell Couper’s oyster soup, a staple of the Cannon’s Point dining table.
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The Nature Connection
bird on a wire by Lydia Thompson
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he Belted Kingfisher is a bird that sparks a good deal of interest. Dawn Zenkert, director of Tidelands Nature Center tells me it is one of her favorite birds. Diana Churchill, author of Birder’s Eye View: Savannah & The Low Country, often refers to it as the bird that started her watching birds. She says her father would tell the family, “The first one to spot a kingfisher gets a nickel.” As a child, that statement made her sit and watch the wires for birds. What is it about this bird that catches people’s attention? There are 90 species of kingfishers found all over the world. They are small to medium-sized flashy birds. Our Belted Kingfisher is actually one of the plainer of the kingfishers. Most kingfishers eat fish, so they are found near water. The one exception is the Shovel-billed Kingfisher of New Guinea, which digs for grubs in the forest. A kingfisher in the middle of the dense rainforest must be something to see. And yes, there are people who are inspired to go to New Guinea to see them. But you don’t have to go far to find the Belted Kingfisher. It is the most common kingfisher across the U.S. and Canada. It measures about 14 inches long from head to tail. It has a large head with a crest, and the bill is long and pointed. Its back and head are bluegray in color. The males have a blue-gray breast band and white belly. The female adds a rufous (rust-colored) band below the bluegray breast band. They often sit on wires. When there are no wires nearby to perch on, they simply hover over the water and dive to catch a meal.
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Even though the kingfisher is not hard to find, it is shy. Try and sneak up on one, and it will fly off. When I was out at Point Reyes Bird Observatory, one of my coworkers was Sophia Webb, a talented field researcher and bird artist. One day, our boss asked her to illustrate a flying bird for the newsletter. She started with a stuffed Belt Kingfisher. No matter how she drew the bird it was stiff-looking. She wanted to draw a live kingfisher. The team set out in the van on a mission to find a kingfisher on a wire. When we found one, we stopped and let Sophia sneak out. The bird would fly off, but Sophia was determined to capture the image of a live Belted Kingfisher. She found a bush to sit under, and she waited. Patience paid off. She did an excellent illustration of a kingfisher in flight. Now from that beginning, Sophia has traveled the world illustrating birds. I highly recommend her children’s books, such as: My Season with Penguins, An Antarctic Journal, or Far from Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage. Through them, she aims to inspire more young people to go into scientific research. The kingfisher has certainly sparked many people’s interest in researching birds. The next time you are out for a drive, look for a kingfisher on a wire. They are out there just waiting to inspire you. .
Whether Lydia Thompson is talking about birds, banding, or drawing birds, her major focus is to intertwine her bird studies and her art. Now she is pursuing her studies of birds & the art of the intaglio print. Preservation and conservation of bird habitats are her major concern. She is blogging at www.coastalgeorgiabirding-lydia.blogspot.com.
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The Dish
A Night at iguanas is a vacation for the tastebuds by jennifer broadus
Owner Jepter Butler, Chef Chemo Perez and Manager John Durant
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hances are you’ve heard great things about Iguanas Seafood Restaurant. Since this coastal region of Georgia is the “shrimp capital” of the nation, local shrimp lovers have voted Iguanas Seafood Restaurant for having the best fried shrimp in the Golden Isles. And always, only the finest fresh large Georgia shrimp are served, and none other. Located on Mallery Street in the Pier Village of St. Simons, residents and visitors alike choose Iguanas for its fun, beachy ambiance, breezy outdoor patio dining, and of course, great seafood entrees for lunch or dinner. Owners Jepter Butler and Rob Tribuzio opened Iguanas as a full service restaurant five years ago. Since then, with the culinary expertise of Head Chef Chemo Perez, Iguanas has been serving up a delicious menu of fresh seafood, succulent steaks, hearty hot and cold appetizers, sandwiches, soups and salad offerings. Truly, there is something wonderful for every palate at Iguanas. Signature entrees include the Barnie B – a Cajun style blackened grouper – shrimp–n-grits, Caribbean glazed chicken, coconut snapper, and heaping seafood platters featuring choices of shrimp, flounder, or grouper prepared to order – fried, blackened or broiled – with fried oysters, clams or crab cake. Select any two or three to create your own specialty combo. Yum.
Mahi-Mahi is a delicious white fish also known as Dolphin or Dorado. Its seasonality is April through October although it’s most plentiful in May.
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A hands-down favorite at Iguanas is the Caribbean glazed Mahi-Mahi, a succulent seafood dish featured in this article. This tangy recipe features lightly seasoned grilled Mahi-Mahi presented over homemade mashed potatoes, then topped with Iguanas’ special Caribbean glaze sauce. Steamed broccoli is served as a side. Amazing! One taste and you’ll be hooked. Or make it yourself. Here’s how:
Caribbean Glazed Mahi-Mahi Serving for 4 The Glaze ½ lb. of bacon (grease only) 6 T minced jalapeño 4 oz. minced onion 2 t minced garlic 8 cps chicken stock
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2 cps ketchup 6 t soy sauce ½ cup apple cider vinegar 2 cps light brown sugar 1 t Worcestershire 2 T yellow mustard Juice from 1 lemon Slurry of: 4 T cornstarch & 8 T water
Sauté bacon in pan until almost crispy. Remove bacon and discard or save. Sauté onion and jalapeño in bacon grease. Add garlic being careful not to burn it. Quickly add 7 1/2 cups chicken stock (saving 1/2 cup), and the pineapple juice. Bring to a simmer. Add soy sauce, ketchup, cider vinegar, Worcestershire, yellow mustard, brown sugar and lemon juice. Simmer and let reduce for 15 minutes. Bring sauce to a quick boil. Reduce heat. Stir in slurry. Continue stirring till sauce thickens. Add remaining chicken stock to thin sauce to desired consistency if necessary. When sauce is at desired thickness, remove from heat and set aside while grilling the Mahi-Mahi.
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Cooking the Mahi-Mahi (Four 8 oz. filets) To prepare, spray the grill with non-stick spray. Grill filets at medium heat for 4 minutes. Flip filets. Brush on some of the glaze. Cook for an additional 2-3 minutes depending on thickness. Do NOT over-cook or fish will become dry. Serve Place grilled Mahi-Mahi filet over heap of hot mashed potatoes. Gently pour Caribbean glaze over fish so it drizzles over mashed potatoes also. Serve with steamed broccoli or vegetable of choice. Enjoy! The Caribbean glaze is also delicious over grilled chicken or other varieties of fresh fish. Bon Appetit! Novem ber/Dece mbe r 2 0 1 2
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Par for the Course
Know your game and play the percentages by Jeremy carter, golden isles junior tour
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verywhere you turn you’ll meet golfers obsessed with equipment, swing plane, shaping the golf ball, and of course, more distance. I am not saying that these skills and assets are not important, but course management will always be an area that could use improvement.
player’s eye. A success rate of 33 percent or higher should be expected here. A shot that is realistic to a low handicap player may not be realistic to a middle handicap player, and is most likely not realistic to a high handicap or beginner. For the sake of this article, we will refer to these particular situations as YELLOW LIGHTS.
What is course management? Course management is more than club selection, wind direction, and the other common decisions that we all make during a round of golf. The first thing you must understand is that each player’s course strategy and decision making is unique to them and directly influenced by their strengths and weaknesses as a player.
A good example of when to attempt a high risk shot would be in a match play format where your match is all square on the final hole. Your opponent is first to play, and hits a great shot, thus prompting you to roll the dice and attempt to hit a difficult shot.
A player must be able to distinguish between a given shot or scenario that’s success rate will fall into one of the following categories: High risk, realistic and probable. Shots that are difficult are generally associated with a risk vs. reward decision. This is when the player must decide if the reward is worth the risk. Always play the percentages in this situation. If you’re feeling a moderate to substantial amount of doubt, the reward is not great enough to take the chance. We will refer to these shots as RED LIGHTS. Realistic shots are those that the player has the ability to execute when the situation arises. The key to this scenario is deciding whether yardage, wind direction, or hole location is appealing to a
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A probable shot is one you are able to successfully execute more times than not. These shots are the GREEN LIGHTS where expectations rise and the player is in attack mode. Just like the realistic shot circumstance, the desired results will vary among different skill levels of players. Once you are able to develop the discipline required in golf, your course management will improve. Along with better decisions come better golf scores.
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Green Acres
tom turkey, redux by amanda kirkland
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t’s that time of year, again – turkey time! As we prepare for this year’s Thanksgiving, I got to thinking about last year’s. I realized that I never finished telling you how it went. I talked about our big plan to have a farm fresh turkey, but you never got the whole story. You know what they say about hindsight and 20/20? Well, let’s just say I’m seeing things very clearly this year. Why did I think it was a good idea to gather the whole family around to witness the killing of the turkey? We really went all out. Everyone brought out the pop-up chairs and lawn furniture to sit around the wood chopping block. Nanny had a front row seat right along with my mother and all five of my kids. I realized the instant that Josh struck the bird that we had made a terrible mistake. Children were crying and Nanny was hooting, hollering and applauding all at the same time. Meanwhile, my mom turns to me and asks if she can just take the kids home. I nodded because there were no words. For the record, the pilgrims never said one word about traumatized kids. Why didn’t I buy a large aluminum tub to butcher the turkey in? After Josh had done the deed, we were ready to pluck the feathers. In order to loosen the feathers the bird has to be dipped into boiling hot water for a couple of minutes. Josh gave him a quick dunk and then we needed something clean to put the bird in. As he stood there with the large turkey hanging above the ground, struggling with the awkward weight of the bird, I came to the realization that I had nowhere to put the thing. Then the look on Josh’s
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face became a little frightening and I knew I had to come up with something fast. The tub in the laundry room. There we go. Problem solved. Was it really important to kill and eat our own turkey that we had raised? Josh and I leaned over that tub and worked on cleaning up that turkey for what seemed like hours. It was hot and we were sweaty but I had a purpose. We were going to eat a turkey we had raised. I have to say that there was a moment when even my faith wavered and I looked to Josh for reassurance that we were really doing something inspirational and empowering. I said, “What would you say if I said I didn’t want to do this anymore?” After being married for 14 years, he said the most perfect thing a man could say to his wife: “I would get up, throw this thing in the trash and go home to get a shower. I’m only doing this because you wanted to, so badly.” We finished with that turkey, took it to the living room and weighed it on a bathroom scale. Tom weighed in at 33 lbs. I don’t know if I’ve ever had a prouder moment. The next day, Tom made the best Thanksgiving turkey any of us have ever eaten. Do I ever need to raise and butcher my own Thanksgiving turkey again? The answer can be found strutting around outside in the yard. Amanda Kirkland is a Georgia girl who fell in love with a redneck and had five beautiful redneck children. She spends her days taking care of those five kids, about 25 cows, 100 chickens and a garden that has fed her family for at least three decades.
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Living Well
Hearing: A Biological Need by Dr. eric Linert, Advanced Hearing and Balance
“Researchers have looked at what affects hearing loss, but few have looked at how hearing loss affects cognitive brain function,” says Dr. Frank Lin, MD, Ph.D., assistant professor of Otology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Lin and his colleagues used statistics from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging (BLSA) to determine whether there is a link between hearing loss and dementia. The BLSA was initiated by the National Institute on Aging in 1958. The study has tracked various health factors in men and women over the last five decades.
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learned something about hearing and communication from the September 2012 issue of National Geographic. Blue whales have the loudest voices of any living thing. Male blue whales sing the loudest songs, and use this ability to find a proper mate. While listening to submarine activity in the Pacific Ocean during the cold war, American scientists discovered that blue whales 1,000 miles apart were able to communicate with one another. Today, that distance has decreased ten-fold to only 100 miles due to the din of underwater noise pollution – commercial shipping, recreational boating and marine construction – created by humans. The result is that survival of the blue whale, a solitary species that depends on sound to navigate, detect food and find a suitable mate, is imperiled. Like blue whales, humans also have a biological need to hear. Besides the obvious benefits of hearing, a recent study of hearing loss and dementia has potentially linked the two. Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory, thinking, language, judgment and behavior.
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Lin’s study, published in the February 2011 Archives of Neurology, concentrated on 639 people whose hearing and cognitive abilities were tested between 1990 and 1994. Lin photos by Joe Loehle reports that about 25 percent of the participants had hearing loss and none had dementia at that time. The volunteers were then reevaluated every one to two years for hearing loss and dementia. Lin and his team discovered that by 2008, 58 participants had developed dementia. The research also showed that participants with hearing loss at the beginning of the study were two to five times as likely to develop dementia. The research team was also careful to take into account other factors that are associated with increased risk of dementia such as diabetes, high blood pressure, age, sex and race. The link between hearing loss and dementia was still strong. “A lot of people ignore [progressive] hearing loss because it’s such a slow and insidious process as we age. Even if people feel as if they are not affected, we’re showing that it may well be a more serious problem,” Lin says. We have yet to evaluate whether hearing loss is a marker for early stage dementia or is actually a modifiable risk factor that may slow or stop the onset of dementia. However, mitigating the effects of hearing loss may improve the quality and quantity of life as we age.
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Vignettes of Absurdity
a hard nut to crack by Bud Hearn
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hear him before I see him. His ponderous footsteps shamble up 23 stairs into my office. He pauses at the top, grips the door jamb, and totters. His breath wheezes. It’s Larry. His friends call him Pappy.
I rub the whiskers on my chin. “Hmmmm.” It’s all I can summon at the moment.
I’m saying is maybe you were living a vicarious life through the rooster.”
He shoves his cell in my face. “Look at the text I got from her today.”
“Man, that’s sick. You’re a strange dude sometimes.”
He comes by every Friday with vegetables from his garden. Whatever’s in season. On that day it was blueberries. And always eggs from free-range yard chickens.
The message reads: “Larry, you dirt bag, your favorite rooster pooped on the steps. I stepped in it … again. I told you to do something about this rooster. But don’t worry. I took care of the problem for you. You’ll have roasted rooster for supper tonight.”
“Takes one to know one, buddy.”
He’s retired from the Postal Service where he delivered bad news by certified mail. Now, it’s good news … certified organic! He lives on a small farm outside of West Green, GA. It’s a town so small you miss it if you ride through. You can barely see it if you walk. Even the zip code’s retired. He plays poker with his pals every Thursday night. I never ask how he does … facial expressions don’t lie. He plops down in the plush leather chair. He pulls a pistol from his hip pocket. It’s dull-black. Menacing. He twirls it carelessly. Says nothing. He has my full attention. “Another bad night?” I ask.
“Maybe both.” “How much did you lose this time?” Pistols in the hands of gamblers are unsettling. “It ain’t the losing that bothers me. Chump change. I’m used to it. It’s just I don’t much like them laughing and slapping their legs when I leave. It hurts a man down deep, y’know.”
“None of them card sharks. It’s my wife,” he spurts. I sit up, take note. This is serious.
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“Who, your wife?”
He growls, “She’s never satisfied. Without that rooster my egg crop’s gonna dry up. That boy was a stud, kept me in business now for five years. I loved that rooster. We bonded. He rode with me in the pickup. He was like my son.” He spins the cylinder of the revolver and looks into the pistol chamber. Six silver-tipped .38 hollow points stare back. They’re the shade of his goatee.
“You been listening? Of course. She’s fixin’ to be my victim.”
“Man, it was just a rooster. Get another one. Train it. Enjoy your dinner tonight.” My tinny voice sounds like a TV evangelist.
“How’bout we consult Lazarus for his opinion.” We did. He told Pappy exactly what to do.
“You don’t get it. That rooster could talk. His name was Red. He told me secrets of his hen house exploits. He was a ladies’ man, if you know what I mean.” A faint smile cracks the corners of his goatee. “I learned things. I’ll never find another rooster like Red.” He lays the pistol on the table. His fingers caress the curved pearl handle. “Sounds like he was more than a rooster, Pappy. Maybe he was your repressed alterego.” I had read Freud’s notes on repression. “Huh?”
“Which one you gonna pop?” My grin asks. Pappy’s wound tight. He needs relief.
“OK. What’s the problem?” “She’s mad as a wet hen.”
“Hey, Pappy, does this warrant murder? You’re getting all worked up about nothin, man.”
“About the same as usual,” he says. “What’s with the cannon? Murder or suicide?”
“I need advice, now that Red’s gone.”
“You know, things can reveal hidden meanings in our lives. You see that skeleton sitting at my conference table? His name’s Lazarus. I consult him on all decisions. All
“Why’s she mad? All women get mad at husbands. What did you do?” “Forgot her birthday, our anniversary, and I snore. Just to name a few. You got any advice before I fill her heart with lead?”
I opened the cabinet and pulled out the Jack Daniels. We both took a slug. Several. The gun went back in his pocket and the smile returned. I thanked him for the blueberries and offered my condolences on his loss of Red. He left. Relationships are complicated. Men are like hickory nuts … hard to crack. Forgiveness and saying “I’m sorry” don’t come easy. Lazarus and I avert another catastrophe, hopeful for a continuation of free-range eggs. Thank God for alter-egos!
Bud Hearn was born in Valdosta and grew up in Colquitt. A graduate of the University of Georgia, he moved to Sea Island in 2004. He cohosts the weekly Friday Forum community lunches at the McKinnon-St. Simons Airport, invests in real estate, writes Inane Vignettes (two books), and also engages in travel, photography and piano playing.
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By Design
Making it look a lot like christmas by vivian edwards, accents marketplace
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he mood this time of year is chaotic and stressed, when in reality it should be about happy times with family and friends and joyful giving to help others.
Decor is, of course, key to a festive holiday celebration. If you’re one who struggles in the slowest of times to express your style profile, the holidays might be the perfect time to hire a decorator to help. Whether in my store or in my clients’ homes, decorating brings me joy as I build relationships. Knowing a client is what helps me recognize an item that should be prominent in the home. Learning your likes, desires and dislikes builds the trust between us. Christmas has always been my favorite time of year. I love the traditions of the season – decorating the trees, hearing the carolers sing and reading “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.” In my large Southern family, this tradition followed a dinner of oyster stew and grilled cheese sandwiches. It’s fun to blend tradition with modern style to make create a holiday atmosphere in the home. Even Christmas trees can be tailored to fit the decor of the house. I’ve decorated trees with a coastal theme (oyster shell garlands are a perfect accent for this); a Mardi Gras theme; and animal themes. One of my first questions to a holiday client is, ”What is your favorite color?” For me Christmas is an extension of who you are. If your everyday style is glamorous, we’ll glam it up for Christmas. If you’re typically understated, we can go that way, too. There are many ways to do holiday decor, from simple wreaths to all the bells and whistles. I cannot say it enough: The holidays should be a joyous time. If decorating isn’t your thing, leave it to the professionals. We can help calm the storm and make your holidays merry and bright. Whatever you decide for the holidays, I suggest you cherish your memoirs and traditions and use your imagination when decking the halls. May the magic of Christmas live on in our hearts!
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you can’t hide in fixed income by tye pipkin, canopy asset management
Investing timidly may shield you against risk, but not against inflation.
Many retirees can’t refrain from growth investing. They need their portfolios to yield at least 3 percent and preferably much more. If their portfolios bring home an inadequate yield, they risk losing purchasing power as consumer prices increase at a faster rate than their incomes. Do you really want to live on yesterday’s money? Could you live today on the income you earned in 2004 or 1996? You wouldn’t dare try, right? Well, this is essentially the dilemma many retirees find themselves in. They realize that: a) Their CDs and money market accounts are yielding almost nothing; b) They are withdrawing more than they are earning; c) Their retirement fund is shrinking; d) They must live on less. At 4 percent inflation for 20 years today’s dollar will be worth 44 cents in 2032. Today’s $1,000 king or queen bed will cost about $2,200 in 2032. Today’s $23,000 sedan will run more than $50,000. Beyond prices for durable goods, think of the cost of health care. Think of the income taxes you pay. When you add those factors into the mix, growth investing looks absolutely essential. There is certainly a role for fixed income investments in a diversified portfolio – you just don’t want to tilt your portfolio wholly away from risk. photo by chris viola
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hen is being risk-averse too risky for the sake of your retirement? After you conclude your career or sell your company, you have a right to be financially cautious. At the same time, you can risk being a little too cautious – some retirees invest so timidly that their portfolios barely yield any return. For years, financial institutions pitched CDs, money market funds and interest checking accounts as risk-devoid places to put your dollars. That sounded good when interest rates were tangible. As the benchmark interest rate is now negligible, these conservative options offer minimal potential to grow your money. With the federal funds rate at 0 percent to 0.25 percent, a short-term CD might earn 0.5 percent interest today. On average, those who put money in long-term CDs at the end of 2007 (the start of the Great Recession) saw the income off those CDs dwindle by two-thirds at the end of 2011. Retirees shouldn’t give up on growth investing. In the 1990s and 2000s, the common philosophy was to invest for growth in your 30s and 40s and then focus on wealth preservation as you neared retirement. After the stock market malaise of the 2000s, attitudes changed – out of necessity. Many people in their 50s, 60s and 70s still need to accumulate wealth for retirement even as they need to withdraw retirement savings.
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Accepting some risk may lead to great reward. As many equities can potentially achieve greater returns than fixed income investments, they may prove less vulnerable to inflation. This is especially worth remembering given the history of the CPI and how jumps in the inflation rate come without much warning. All this should tell you one thing: You can’t hide in fixed income. Inflation has a powerful cumulative effect no matter how conservatively or aggressively you invest – so you might as well strive to keep pace with it or outpace it altogether. Tye Pipkin can be reached at 912.268.2601 or tpipkin@canopyasset. com Risks inherent to investments in stocks include the fluctuation of market prices and dividend and loss of principal, market price at see may be more or less than the initital cost or potential illiquidity of the investment in a falling market. Also, investors in growth stocks should be aware of their risks, which include market risk (more companies competing that offer the same product or service), which may impede earnings and/or growth potential. This material was prepared by MarketingLibrary.net, and does not necessarily represent the views of the the presenting party, nor their affiliates. MarketingLibrary.net is not affiliated with any broker or brokerage firm that may be providing this information to you. All information is believed to be from reliable sources; however we make no representation as to its completeness or accuracy. Please note – investing involves risk, and past performance is no guarantee of future results. The publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting or other professional services. If assistance is needed, the reader is advised to engage the services of a competent professional. This information should not be construed as investment, tax or legal advice and may not be relied on for the purpose of avoiding any federal tax penalty. This is not a solicitation or a recommendation to purchase or sell any investment or insurance product or service, and should not be relied upon as such. All indices are unmanaged and are not illustrative of any particular investment.
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A company’s got no soul. It isn’t a living, breathing, feeling being. It’s certainly not an object of beauty. Or is it? A company is only as good as its people. The people who own it and manage it. The people it employs. The people who are its clients and customers. There is beauty in people and therefore, too, in their industry, in the work that they do every day. There’s certainly nothing unattractive about the fruits of industry. No, a company does not have a soul. It has 50 or 100 or 1,000 of them – exact to the number of people it employs, the workers who devote the bulk of their lives to making it survive and thrive. Here, we take a look at a few of the largest and the most interesting industries in town, and the many varied ways they make our community an attractive place to work, play and live.
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Stambaugh Aviation Stambaugh Aviation may be the best-kept secret in the Golden Isles, but not outside of it. Donald Trump knows about it. So does John Travolta. So why don’t you? A sleeping giant tucked away on the northeast corner of Glynn County’s diamond-in-the-rough mainland airport, Stambaugh Aviation makes the Golden Isles synonymous with aviation greatness. Employing 102 whose duties range from basic labor to high-tech avionics, Stambaugh is piloted by brothers Mark (aka J.R.) and Scott. Loud (jet engine noise, they claim) and unfiltered, their larger-than-life personalities and shoot-from-the-lip style belie the fact that neither man possesses the desire nor the skill-set to actually fly.
Frequent flyers are accustomed to the brassy swagger of the folks who pilot airplanes great and small; the Stambaugh brothers and their able band of aircraft mechanics are the aviation gods that fearless pilots worship. After all, an aircraft is only as good as the guys who reassembled it after its last overhaul. “The thing I’m most proud of is the trust people place in us,” says Scott Stambaugh as he concludes a tour of Donald Trump’s Boeing 757, in town for a month of intense maintenance, technical upgrades and $20,000 worth of 24-karat gold-plating. “What it comes down to is these people putting their families’ lives in our hands. They’re trusting J.R. and I to keep their families safe. No matter what you read or hear about him, Donald Trump loves his family.”
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Southeast Georgia Health System Owning the only hospital in town should put the Southeast Georgia Health System in a pretty enviable position. After all, health care is one of those things we’re all bound to need at some point in our lives. There are other hospitals around, sure, but none as convenient as ours. You’d have to be pretty disillusioned with a business to drive 70 miles to avoid it, especially when you’re sick. That’s exactly what was happening at the Brunswick hospital when Gary Colberg came to town. Taking the reins as CEO of the health system when it was at its lowest point, Gary found revenues were down and hundreds of jobs eliminated in part because people had lost faith in the organization and took their business elsewhere. What a difference 11 years makes. “When I came in
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2001 people were walking around with their heads down because they were afraid they’d get them chopped off,” Gary says. Today, they’re a team. The Brunswick hospital and, indeed, all of the health system’s holdings have made a stunning recovery, with modern technology and new services unrivaled in our region. Underlying it all, however, is a commitment to providing the best care possible. To that end, the health system has constructed a Center for Education Development in Brunswick where team members from throughout the system can train with high-tech mannequins that breathe, bleed, give birth and die, giving nurses and EMTs and other first-responders the opportunity to truly “practice” medicine without doing harm.
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Stambaugh Aviation • Employs 102 people earning between $13 and $40 an hour. • Runs two staggered 10-hour shifts a day, seven days a week. • Founded in 1969 in Harrisburg, Penn.; Open second facility in Glynn County in 1986; Consolidated operations in Brunswick in 2003. • Services 20 to 30 airplanes per year, averaging 6,000 to 10,000 man hours per visit.
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Southeast Georgia Health System • Operates two hospitals, the 316-bed Brunswick hospital and the 40-bed Camden Campus in St. Marys • Employs 2,278 people system-wide • Has 28 strategic physician affiliates and 316 medical staff members • Delivered 2,017 babies between May 2011 and April 2012
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Brunswick Cellulose • Employs about 600 in Glynn County • Exports 75 percent of its Golden Isles Fluff Pulp to all reaches of the globe • Is one of three plants in the Southeast that produce a combined 2.2 million tons of cellulose fiber • Is preparing to celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2013
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Brunswick Cellulose Trees have played an important role in the economy of the Golden Isles throughout our history. Our lovely old live oaks were treasured not only for their beauty but for the strength they gave to war ships. Our Georgia pine, well, the pine has been the workhorse of the coastal economy for near about forever. It was definitely key to the development of the Brunswick Pulp and Paper Co. on the Brunswick River. In 1993 the mill redirected its mission to fluff pulp rather than all market pulp or paper. Randal Morris, public affairs manager of the Brunswick mill, says that allows it to target higher end growth markets with customers producing consumer products such as diapers, feminine hygiene products, adult incontinence products, coffee filters, air filters, medical filtration and
premium paper products. Fluff pulp even helps slow the speed at which your bowl of ice cream melts. The mill employs about 600 people locally in skilled manufacturing jobs, technical/engineering support and business/management support. The Brunswick mill is today the largest single-site producer of fluff pulp in the world, Randal says. With its sister mills in Alabama and Mississippi, it makes Georgia-Pacific the largest producer of fluff pulp in the world. Brunswick Cellulose exports more than 75 percent of its product globally. And nearly $500 million worth of reinvestment in new process equipment and technology make the mill competitive long-term with any similar facility in the world, Randal says.
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Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Sixteen-hundred acres of the former Glynco Naval Air Station in north Glynn County forms the headquarters for the training of agents charged with protecting the United States from all manner of threats. Through its headquarters at Glynco and satellite residential facilities in Charleston, S.C., and Artesia, N.M., FLETC trains officers and agents from all federal departments and all three branches of government. With some 2,900 employees in Glynn County alone, FLETC is the largest employer in town. During fiscal year 2011, 13,000 students graduated from FLETC Glynco. According to a 2010 study by the University of Georgia’s Fanning Institute, FLETC is worth $248 million a year to Glynn County (and more than $313.5 mil-
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lion to the 5-county region of Brantley, Camden, Glynn, McIntosh and Wayne counties). The training scenarios that play out at FLETC reflect the current state of the world. For example, cyber-terrorism is a major threat and therefore, a major focus at the center. Mass shootings in public places are also a topic in the news, and FLETC includes a 5-day “Active Shooter Threat Instructor” class (depicted here) that trains field agents and officers to teach local police departments how to deal with an active shooter before SWAT arrives on scene.
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Federal Law Enforcement Training Center • Has 15 firearms ranges, including five state-of-the-art indoor ranges with 120 separate firing points. The outdoor range offers 240 separate firing points. • Serves almost 5,000 meals per day in its dining hall. • Employs 2,900 in Glynn County.
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City Market Once known as the Shrimp Capital of the World, Brunswick’s waterfront was lined with oyster canneries and shrimp and crab processing houses. To old-timers, the smell of thousands of pounds of blue crab, shrimp and fish that rode the westerly breeze into town was like the scent of Hercules or the Brunswick Pulp and Paper mill – the scent of money. Progress has all but erased the mark of weathered watermen on the Brunswick waterfront. In 2011, the Georgia DNR licensed 170 fishermen and 53 vessels in Glynn county. Still commercial fishing remains an important industry to the Golden Isles. The productive commercial fisheries off Georgia gave rise to two recognized names in the production of frozen foods that still operate in the Golden Isles to this day – Rich SeaPak and King and Prince Seafood. Worth $13 million in 2008, the last full year for which data is available, commercial fishermen working off
the Georgia coast counted 7.8 million pounds of catch including food and bait shrimp, hard blue crabs, clams, shad, finfish and oysters. Fishing is a family business, perfected in our waters for Portuguese immigrants who handed their boats, gear and talents down from generation to generation. City Market on Gloucester Street is once such familyowned institution. Frank Owens Jr. is four generations removed from the great-grandfather who started City Market. The associated packing house on the waterfront at Bay Street still unloads fresh Wild Georgia Shrimp right off the boats and processes them for sale to local restaurants and individuals from the shop on Gloucester Street.
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Pinova The gum that you chew, the mascara that lengthens your lashes, the sports drink that rehydrates you after a hot day on the beach – all have their roots in the Golden Isles. All those products and more owe their success to rosin extracted from Southern pine stumps by Pinova in Brunswick, the only plant of its kind in the world. The plant produces additives that are in turn used by manufacturers around the world who make such diverse products as chewing gum, cosmetics, medical adhesives, inks and coatings, and more. Pinova takes longleaf and slash pine stumps harvested from previously cut, managed forests located primarily in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and North and South
Carolina. After extracting the rosin and oils from the stumps, Pinova uses the remainder as fuel, minimizing the need for fossil fuels, according to the company’s Web site. Pinova employs 230 people at its 153-acre Brunswick plant. Those employees are heavily involved in charitable events in the community, including Relay for Life, Adopt-A-Highway and the Southeast Georgia Health System Bridge Run. They also serve on boards such as United Way, the Brunswick-Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce and the Development Authority, and serve as coaches in youth sports.
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Georgia’s Seafood Industry • Saw its shrimp fishery peak in 1995 when shrimpers landed 7.3 million pounds worth $27 million. • Provided 7,390 jobs in harvesting, processing and sales in 2009. • Generated revenue of $9.2 million in 2009. $8.6 million was from shellfish.
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Pinova • Is a sister company of the Renessenz plants located on Colonel’s Island and in Jacksonville. • Imports orange peels from Brazil for extraction of ingredient to make adhesives. • Celebrated its 100th anniversary in Brunswick in 2011.
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Haven Manufacturing • Employs 30 people • Was founded in 1956 in New Haven, Mich. • Estimates 60 percent of its customer base is automotive-related
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Haven Manufacturing When you think of all the potential industries in the world that make things requiring tubes and pipes, the potential reach of Haven Manufacturing is pretty staggering. And for 41 years, it’s been quietly going about its business here in Glynn County, designing and manufacturing the tools and machinery needed by a variety of other industries. “Our customers supply the automotive industry. We estimate that 60 percent of our customer base is automotive related. The rest is furniture, exercise equipment, bicycle scooters, motorcycles, construction ...
any industry that uses tubing,” says Dave Erickson, president of Haven Manufacturing, which is located in the Sterling Industrial Park off U.S. Highway 341 in western Glynn. The company moved to Glynn County in 1971, and employees engineers, machinists, electricians and machine builders, a broad category that includes welders, painters and assemblers, to name a few. The company has sales representatives in Asia, Europe, Russia, South America, India and Mexico.
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Hodnett Cooper Vacation Rentals, Inc Tourism is a $700 million business in the Golden Isles, and a lot of that is spent on vacation rentals – houses and condos and luxury beachfront resorts including the St. Simons Grand and the Beach Club at St. Simons. Hodnett Cooper Vacation Rentals, Inc handles more than 400 of those units for daily, weekly or monthly occupation. A primary gateway to the Golden Isles and keepers of the first impression visitors form of our area, Hodnett Cooper Vacation Rentals, Inc serves not only tourists vacationing short-term on the island,
but also federal employees on assignment at FLETC. Offering concierge service and an ongoing link to the area for its customers through “The Insider,” a blog spot on its Web site that allows the company to share news of the coast with its followers (and allows agent Guerry Norwood to share all his favorite seafood recipes), Hodnett Cooper sells the Golden Isles as a whole, be it short- or long-term. With two million tourists a year, that’s a lot of potential new business.
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Hodnett Cooper Vacation Rentals, Inc • Manages more than 400 vacation rental units • Offers access to six beachfront resorts on St. Simons Island • Is affiliated with Hodnett Cooper Real Estate, with more than 40 agents • Books approximately 8,000 reservations annually for 25,000 visitors
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The Brunswick News • Is owned by the fourth generation of the Leavy family that founded it. • Distributes about 17,000 newspapers per day, six days per week, except on July 4, Thanksgiving and Christmas. • Also publishes and distributes The Coastal Illustrated, Golden Isles Magazine, Coastal Cuisine, and a host of special sections throughout the year.
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The Brunswick News Publishing Company Perhaps no business, outside of the city and county governments, spends as many hours of every day focused solely on what is happening in and around the Golden Isles. The Brunswick News Publishing Co.’s 65 employees are focused on writing about, photographing, designing and promoting our community.
array of products (including Golden Isles Magazine) devoted to covering life in the Golden Isles – the good, the bad and the wonderful of it. As publisher of the community’s only daily newspaper, the company gives coverage, time and/or financial support to nearly every charitable and social event that happens here.
The Brunswick News has been in continuous publication for 110 years, and during that time has added an
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It started with a photo of a welder in silhouette, and ended with Joe Loehle and I standing on the taxiway of the Brunswick-Golden Isles Airport watching Donald Trump’s own personal Boeing 757 taxi and take off (sans The Donald, of course). “Industrial Arts” has taken art director Joe Loehle and I on a white-knuckle ride these past two months (or was it two weeks – I did procrastinate just a bit), but the result made the ride worth while. We thank all who accompanied us on this journey.
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A LEADER By Any Other Name by Amy H. Carter | Photography by Chris Viola
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That is what a leader does. Their names may or may not be well-known outside the confines of our community, region or state, but much is owed to such as them. All they ask is that others step up to keep the name of Brunswick and the Golden Isles fresh and familiar in the minds of all within reach (especially now that our reach is greater than ever). What will your contribution be?
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Who did those things, and more? These three men: Woody Woodside, president of the Brunswick-Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce; Jim Bishop, attorney and former member of the Board of Regents; and Bill Jones III, scion of the Sea Island legend and veteran of boards far and wide and too numerous to name in the space we have allotted. We’re not suggesting they did all these things alone. They’d be first in line to give us a good tongue-lashing for such hubris. But in many cases, they lit the fires, tended them and kept them burning as interest waxed and waned among the community at-large. And they’ve been involved to varying degrees in a great many of the great advancements that have come to the Golden Isles in the last couple of decades.
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Lessons in Living and Serving from 11 Local Leaders You Should Know by Amy H. Carter | Photography by Chris Viola
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It’s not what you know but who you know that matters – classic advice for the up-and-comer and a timely reminder to the seasoned professional that experience won’t always get your foot in the door. If you don’t know the answer, know who to ask. And never judge a person’s worth by their job title. Stated otherwise: If the secretary doesn’t like you, the CEO will never know your name. Meet 11 people you should know, movers-and-shakers of all ages and from all walks of life who are making the Golden Isles stronger and better by sharing what they know with who they know. That’d be us.
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The Young and Artistic Every Fall, the national PTA sponsors a Reflections contest that challenges students nationwide in Pre-K through Grade 12 to create them-based artwork in dance choreography, film production, literature, music composition, photography or visual arts. During the 2011-2012 school year, the theme was “Diversity.”
tells her to but only just, and busy, busy, busy, even standing still. “Can I get dirty yet, Mama?” she wails. “No,” her mama answers. With a petulant little stomp-and-pout routine, Addison’s off again, chasing the boundaries as fast as her little legs will take her.
Here are three Glynn County Reflections winners who also placed at the state level, and had the rare honor of their works being displayed in the High Museum in Atlanta throughout September and October.
Kindergarten student at C.B. Greer Elementary School
Addison defined Diversity in terms not unexpected from a 5-yearold: She gathered all her stuffed animals together and photographed them with a little digital point-and-shoot, although she’s quite proficient as well with mother Mitzi’s smartphone (more proficient than Mitzi herself is, in fact). Her photograph won first place among other Pre-K submissions in Glynn County, and 2nd at the state level.
Addison Kennedy is a blur of pink as she runs circles around the playground at Demere Park, stopping when her mama, Mitzi,
Mitzi is proud, as you might expect, and Addison, well, Addison is really busy. Getting dirty. Picture time is over.
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Libby DeVooght, 8
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Libby DeVooght hides an old soul behind a pretty smattering of freckles. She’s got the poise of one five times her age, and the ambition to match. She wants to start a school newspaper at Oglethorpe Elementary and she wants to be the publisher (the boss of all the bosses, you understand). She’s already given her friends their assignments. Their indifference left Libby less than impressed; she’s carefully pondering her next move.
Jessica Johnson has the soul of an artist and the heart of a businesswoman. Having graduated Brunswick High School last year, she’s begun her core college studies at the College of Coastal Georgia here at home, with an eye toward transferring when she’s done to the Savannah College of Art and Design to tackle her twin passions, animation and photography. She earns money photographing friends and family and their special events, like weddings and births. She also works part-time at a day-care, a job that gives her a special talent for relating to little ones like Addison, who willingly stops spinning long enough to talk a little shop with a fellow Reflections winner.
To illustrate her understanding of the word “Diversity,” Libby gathered various species of wildflowers and used them to spell the word, then photographed the result. Her photograph placed first in Glynn County, and 3rd at state. Last year’s was Libby’s first entry into Reflections, but she’s planning to be back with “A Magic Moment” for this year’s contest
Jessica’s mixed media entry in the visual arts category for Reflections was based on a concept her mother has always preached: No two spots on a dalmatian dog are the same, just as no two people are the same. She found a picture of a pair of dalmatian puppies in a magazine and used watercolor paints to outline each dog’s spots, thus proving her mother’s wisdom. Her entry took first place in Glynn County, and 3rd at state.
Their Futures Are So Bright, We Should Have Offered Them Shades The setting sun shines a spotlight on five very talented and generous individuals, young professionals who give freely of their time and knowledge to make the Golden Isles a better, happier, healthier, safer and smarter place. If everyone followed the examples set here, there would be no needs unmet. Doing what they know, loving what they do, and applying it both at work and in their free time, these five are worth watching.
Jay Anderson, 39, chef Jay Anderson has a knack for making people feel welcome. A flight attendant before he joined partner Stacy Bass in business as Straton Hall Events, Jay is culinary creator for what is arguably the largest independent catering and event planning outfit in Coastal Georgia. A native of Swainsboro, Jay honed his culinary craft under the ex-
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pert tutelage of Stacy’s mother, Elaine Bass. “I’m always in the kitchen experimenting with new things,” he says. Using their powers of good taste always for good, Jay and Stacy host Saydee and Satchel’s Best Friends Bash every Christmas to benefit the Humane Society. Beginning with 75 guests, the event has grown to host more than 400 guests this past year. “I’ve always had a love for animals, especially dogs, and my motto is that your dog will always love you even when you feel that no one else does,” Jay says. His other “pet” cause is Hospice. “Hospice workers are angels on this earth.” In addition to monetary donations, Jay hosts fund-raisers to benefit Hospice. A friend of downtown, Jay with Stacy has renovated and restored Brunswick Manor and operates it as a bed-and-breakfast. He also prepares gourmet feasts every First Friday at Straton Hall’s New-
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castle Street venue, helping to make the nightlife shine a lot brighter downtown.
Nikki Pope, 38, nurse Nikki Pope thought she wanted to be a nurse when she grew up, but then she thought better of it. While in college, she switched from the study of nursing to nutrition, the field that brought this Mt. Vernon-native to the Golden Isles – the first time. While working as nutritionist and breastfeeding services coordinator for the Coastal Health District, she rediscovered her love of nursing, and returned to school to finish what she started. She and husband, Chris, came back to town in 2003, and Nikki went to work in the Maternity Center of the Brunswick hospital of Southeast Georgia Health System. You might say that’s where she was born to work. More than a nurse, she’s the best friend-who’s-been-there that every new mother needs. After becoming a mother herself, she started a weekly Moms Connection Group. “Sometimes mothers just need to hear that everything is okay,” she says. What makes Nikki special is that she’s there when it’s not okay, too. She helped to start the annual “A Child is Remembered” memorial service at the hospital after some friends lost their baby a few years ago. “Families want to
remember the beautiful babies that they lost. Giving them a chance to share their stories and meet other families that have lost children is very important. This service also gives our staff a time to remember and reflect. I find great comfort in prayer and doing follow-ups with families and talking with other nurses. We all help each other.”
Garret Meader, 38, attorney Sports still inform Garret Meader’s philosophy of life. “Sports seem to provide a good stage for teaching lessons that translate well into everyday life,” he says. “I think for any kid growing up, playing sports teaches the value of teamwork, sportsmanship, integrity, and hard work. All of these concepts are applicable to the ‘real world’ and if you can learn them early, they will stay with you.” Garret was introduced to sports at age 5, when he joined his first soccer team. He later wrestled in high school, but it’s the soccer that has come back to him in adulthood. Garret created the Soccer Tots program that allows 3- and 4-yearolds to join older siblings in play through the Golden Isles Soccer Association. Each season, about 50 children enroll to play. Husband to Kathy and father of three soccer-playing girls, Garret is a partner
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in the law firm of Brown, Readdick, Bumgartner, Carter, Strickland, and Watkins, and also is vice-president elect of the Glynn-Brunswick Bar Association. Still, he makes the time to be involved in the community and his church because it’s the way he was taught, another life lesson from the field of sports. “One of the best pieces of advice I ever received was from a father sharing his philosophy about how to raise kids. This father said that his goal was to raise children who would contribute something to society and leave the world in a better state than they found it. I thought that was pretty sage advice so I sort of adopted that principle and decided to get involved and try to start doing my part.”
Steve Waters, 39, athletic director Steve Waters learned to love sports while growing up on Jekyll Island, where his family owned the pharmacy for 37 years. “There was not a lot for kids to do except play sports,” he says. A product of Glynn County schools, Steve and his wife, Stacie, moved around for a few years before returning home after the birth of their first child, Katie. “That was the best move we have made and we will never leave the area,” he says. As the man responsible for middle and high school athletics in Glynn County’s public schools, Steve is working to ensure that coaches and student athletes have all they need to be successful, and also that the community knows about their achievements. “ We have a lot to be proud of in Glynn County and I want our student athletes, coaches, and programs to have all the publicity they can get.” Since returning, the Waters’ have grown their family to include son Bennett, 10, and daughter Mary Claire, 6. Bennett, who has a rare metabolic disorder that prevents him from playing sports, has en-
riched Steve’s journey and further added to lessons in hard work, time management, discipline, sportsmanship, and overcoming obstacles that a life in sports teaches. “Bennett has taught me so much about the real meaning of life and to appreciate every day we have. While this job is very time-demanding, I am trying to find a good balance between being home with my family and being at games. So far, it has worked out well. I love my job as Athletic Director for the Glynn County School System. I am doing something I have always dreamed about and not many people can say that.”
John Hunter, 39, historian John Hunter found his destiny on a family vacation to Fort Pulaski near Savannah in July of 1976. “I just started walking around leading the family on a tour of a fort I had never been to and spouting off all kinds of information about the Civil War and the construction of the fort. My Mom asked me how I knew all of that and I just said, ‘I was born knowing.’ In a sense, I really had no choice; history seems to have picked me.” And how fortunate we are that it did. John is the director of historic resources for the Jekyll Island Authority and a knowledgeable advocate for historic recognition and preservation throughout the Golden Isles. He’s also determined to tell the whole story of the Golden Isles. “Ultimately, history is storytelling, and we tend to tell the easy stories sometimes. The flashy, the famous, those who wrote a memoir and left a record,” he says. “I enjoy Fanny Kemble, and The Lighthouse Trilogy, and stories of the members of the Jekyll Island Club, but they aren’t the whole story, nor are they the reality for everyone. Bringing the stories of a broad spectrum of people to light - famous, infamous, poor, working class, male, female, black, white, immigrant, native sons - can weave a fascinating look at the past. Those stories are who we are today, and they give us an opportunity to connect with more people and get them interested in history in general.”
Agents of Change Sarah Dodd, 47, teacher Sarah Dodd can still remember the excitement of being outside as a child, discovering things like frog eggs and watching them go through their metamorphosis from egg to tadpole to frog. Not unexpectedly, her concern for the outdoors and all the creatures in it grew as she grew. “I decided I would study wildlife biology in college,” she says. “And, in what sometimes seems like a different lifetime, I spent the first part of my adult life working as a wildlife biologist, mostly with South Carolina (Department of Natural Resources).”
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After six years working as a stay-at-home mom to children Alannah, 12, and Cormac, 14, Sarah returned to work as a paraprofessional at St. Simons Elementary School. For the last four years, she’s been a full-fledged teacher of science. “More than anything, I hope my students walk away excited about the natural world,” Sarah says. In any given year, she teaches life and earth sciences to about 500 kids in kindergarten up to 5th grade. Their once-a-week visits to her science lab include walking trips to the beach and hands-on investigations and field experiences. A student garden added this year gives her students the chance to
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learn first-hand about soils and plants. They compost using banana peels and apples cores saved from lunch, mulch with leaves, plant wildflowers to attract beneficial organisms, collect rainwater and use organic practices. They even planted a fall garden in raised beds that is filled with cool weather vegetables (radishes, carrots, beets, turnips, collards, lettuce, spinach, mustard greens, chard) and herb and flower seeds.
Thea Ramirez, 28, advocate Thea Ramirez has a heart for children. The mother of three, who range in age from 4 years to one month, she has gained an interesting measure of notoriety on the national stage for her campaign to make adoption the first choice women consider when faced with unwanted pregnancies. Holder of a Master’s Degree in Social Work, she is the former director of an adoption agency devoted to the protection of children. “I believe the fate of any society rests squarely on the shoulders of its children and how we treat them,” Thea says. “As an advocate, I
wish to see that all children (both born and unborn) be treated with dignity and respect.” To that end, she started a Web site, adoptionshare.com, that unites all parties in the process on the social media platform. The Washington Times, Parents Magazine and Anderson Cooper have all talked about Thea’s project on the national stage. “Recently, I was asked ‘what keeps me up at night’ in an interview with Anderson Cooper,” she says. “My response was and continues to be this: adoption has been disproportionately left out of the conversation regarding women’s choices. We want to provide a woman with every opportunity to explore her options including adoption. In so doing, we wish to be an advocate for her life, her child’s life, and further the estimated 1.5 million couples who are unable to realize their dreams of parenting through having biological children and yet yearn to be parents. We want the adoption process to be easier, simpler, and much more efficient.”
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Wright Culpepper has a gift for seeing what others cannot – or will not. He arrived in the Golden Isles in 1988 to serve as pastor of the then new Wesley United Methodist Church at Frederica on St. Simons Island, a post he held for seven years. “When it came time to leave that church, the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church was discussing how the church might serve the community beyond the walls and I raised my hand and said that I would like to give it a try,” he says. That was the beginning of FaithWorks, a ministry that has found the need so great in Glynn County that it has added a new outreach program every year of its 17 in existence. From the most basic needs – food, shelter and money – to free lodging for cancer patients in town for treatment, FaithWorks rises up to care for the people who often go unseen. That’s not hard these days, you say, with so many out of work and struggling to make ends meet. Wright would agree. “Hopefully, the economy will improve so that fewer people are out of work, but we will always have the chronically ill, the mentally ill, the homeless, the imprisoned and the poor.” Wright is in his element in places most of us dare not go. He is there under the direction of God, and goes forth again and again by the grace of God, for that is the only path to change, he says. “Go to some place you feel uncomfortable and see what God shows you. Get out of the car and walk through an unfamiliar neighborhood. Take some food or clothes or blankets or something and just give it to someone who may look hungry or cold. Then, go back and do it all over again. Live out your faith and make a difference in someone’s life.”
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Reg Murphy By david gigni lliat | Photography by Joe Loehle
Reg Murphy is going back to school. After a long and storied career in business, management and publishing, Reg has returned to academia as the College of Coastal Georgia’s first executive-in-residence. “My expectation when I started was there hadn’t been one before, and someone needed to start to explore what might be possible,” says Reg, who College President Valerie Hepburn tapped to fill the position. Reg has been given wide berth to define the semester-long volunteer position. “We’re still trying to invent this, and I want other people in the community to follow along and have some idea where the program is going when I get through with it,” says Reg, a University of Georgia graduate who lives at Frederica with his wife, Diana.
time supporter of the Brunswick-based school, which began its conversion from a community college to a four-year college in 2008 and conferred its first baccalaureate degrees in 2011. He is currently the Chairman of the Athletic Futures Committee, where he has created the template for the school’s growing athletic program, including the introduction of intercollegiate sports and intramural programs. He’s savored revisiting his days as an undergrad, and attending classes, including one President Hepburn teaches herself on health care policy. “I kinda cheat,” he jokes. “I audit the courses, and I don’t do all the work, and I don’t take the test. It’s the best of all worlds. I love it. I just absolutely love it.” In a class this fall exploring leadership from an academic perspective, Reg found himself newly invigorated by the give-and-take of working with students.
Executive-in-residence positions are in place at several colleges and universities, and are often a way for a seasoned entrepreneur or executive like Reg to share leadership and mentorship experience with faculty, staff and students. Reg regularly meets with college faculty, occasionally lectures in the school’s business and public affairs degree programs (“wherever I think I might have something to add,” he says) and meets with students and provides one-on-one career advice.
“They make you feel young,” says Reg, who is also a former president of the United States Golf Association (USGA), the sport’s governing body. “They make you realize the world has changed, and that you need to keep studying as well.”
Reg’s career path is hardly traditional, taking him from the mountains of Gainesville to notable executive and management positions across the country. He got his start in the publishing business, eventually becoming one of the Atlanta Constitution’s youngest editors ever at age 34. Without experience as a publisher, he then took a position with the San Francisco Examiner, where he became an inadvertent national celebrity after surviving a kidnapping attempt there in February 1974. After that, he moved to Baltimore, where he became publisher and CEO of The Baltimore Sun. Reg was also the vice president of the National Geographic Society, and its president and CEO from 1995 to 1998. He also sits on the boards of directors for several companies and is a trustee at several foundations and institutions.
“[Students] all too frequently are looking toward getting a degree, but not really preparing themselves for what they want to do after college,” he says. “If they’re not deciding some of that [during college], they’re going to find it harder to go out into the world and find a job.”
“I thought I might bring something from my past experiences to the campus that otherwise might not be available to the students,” he adds. This is not Reg’s first involvement with the college. He’s been a long-
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Throughout his fall semester assignment, Reg will try to prepare students for life after classes, advising students on job search and interviewing skills, as well as planning an overall career path.
Reg had a few mentors early in his career in publishing, but after a while, he trusted his own judgment. “After that, I sort of did it on my own. I think I had mind enough to chart my own course,” he says. His advice is simple for those just starting out – or starting over – in the workplace. “Aim high, and work harder,” says Murphy, who worked his way through college as a reporter for The Macon Telegraph. “There is just no substitute for hard work, and there is no excuse for being content to not be the best.”
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Island Sea Designs brings out the beauty in wood
By Cyle Augusta Lewis | Photography by Joe Loehle
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here are those who think of themselves as resourceful – who act imaginatively and effectively, especially in difficult circumstances - able to make something out of nothing.
With only one glimpse of Fran Antczak’s beautiful tables, I knew I was face-to-face with such resourcefulness. Coupling materials deemed unusable by the commercial wood mills with a respect for the environment, Fran’s work leaves one marveling at the uniqueness, age, and rarity of the wood. The originality of each piece is quite breathtaking. Fran possesses a masterful eye for fine furniture, a knowledge of all things antique, and a love for good conversation – perhaps it is not surprising that he hails from a rich career of 35 years as a purveyor of antiques. Building his first piece in 1970 – a coffee table for his wife – he then stepped into the antique business full scale, eventually establishing a store front business in New York, providing furniture for the crème-de-la-crème like Richard Gere, Ralph Lauren, Martha Stewart and the Reagan’s personal decorator, Mario Buatta, among other high profile patrons. Fran relocated his antique shop to St. Simons Island in 1994, but during the economic plunge of 2005, he began to reevaluate his career direction with the conviction that it is healthy to change directions every 20 years or so for the sake of vibrancy. In 2007, with a fresh new vision, the business downturn re-directed him to create fine furniture rather than merely acquire and sell it. Together with his new business partner, Andrew “Hondo” Ritchie – whom he refers to as “the front man” – Island Sea Designs was birthed. Fran’s talent emerges in salvaging wood that is passed over by everyone else. “(It’s) sent to the landfill – sawmills don’t want it – nobody wants it! We go to a log wood yard where wood is sitting to be ground up into sludge for pallets or paper and we rescue the maple, tiger maple, and live oak.” Often the wood that is the hardest to use is the most beautiful. “(It) is hard on the equipment. You have to have patience, take it easy and work with the grains and the natural curvature.” He smiles as he recounts Hondo splitting open a maple or live oak log, rendered speechless by the sheer natural beauty. “As an artist, I am amazed and feel honored to made something out of it. Those natural curves and grains are our signature, but we don’t make them. We only play on what is already
there. Nature did this art – we just removed the parts that weren’t already openly beautiful.” Fran, Hondo, and Merwin Moses – their “saw guy” – are the only people you’ll find on-site in the old paint factory where they work. Though they have the necessary “efficiency tools,” they prefer to work the wood the old-fashioned way – with a chisel and a mallet. “It’s common that a woodworker will stroll into our workspace and confidently state, ‘You know there is a machine that does that?’” Fran laughs, as the others join in. Though modern machines may speed the process, it comes at the sacrifice of detail. The wood slabs they work with are cured, dried and aged to perfection, and then formed into useful and magnificent pieces of handmade furniture. Functionality and beauty are both equally emphasized, which is why Fran’s work is appreciated around the globe, from Hong Kong to Sea Island. “We are blessed to be our age and to still be viable – to have significant purpose in life,” Fran says. This unique, creative endeavor keeps Fran refreshed, relevant, and constantly reinventing himself – a truly American business using raw, natural products, combining a love for the handcrafted and old-time tools. For Fran, starting Island Sea Designs was a rebirth, and he is dedicated to living “real life.” It’s not just about the work – people often just stop in to look and ask questions. “I cherish the conversations,” he says, “It’s never a waste of time to talk to people. Life is meant to be enjoyed.” Connecting with people, enjoying nature, creating beauty, and living a life of purpose – a business model that appears to be working for Fran. “I know how to make people very happy”, Fran states proudly, “and the satisfied customer will bring you as much business as you need.” Fran Antczak’s work can be viewed online at www.islandseadesigns. com. He can be reached atisd@islandseadesigns.com or by phone (912)617-1709.
Living a patchwork life, Cyle Lewis is a blogger at www.CyleAugusta.com, where she tells stories of songwriting, making music with her husband, family life, thrifting, photography, crafting, loving kiddos and spreading hope.
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Coastal Seen The American Cancer Society Victory Board kicked off its Victory Gala weekend in late September with a luncheon honoring the board’s founding members at the Frederica Boathouse. Libby Summer, author of “The Whole Hog Cookbook” and culinary stylist for Paula Deen, delivered the keynote address.
Seated: Beth Varn, Anne Whelchel, Anne Sisley. Standing: Leslie Sutton, Elizabeth Pipe, Emily Davenport, Brooke Sumerford, Evelyn Murphy, Dawn Hart, Gayle Brown and Anne Futch.
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Coastal Seen The Southeast Georgia Health System invited the community to participate in Pink Out Friday Oct. 12 in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Health system employees and businesses throughout the community incorporated pink into their work attire in honor of the occasion.
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Enjoy incredible sunsets at one of the Golden Isles’ premier dining destinations located on the historic wharf on Jekyll. Experience the wonders of nature at The “Rah” Bar which features Wild Georgia Shrimp, Dungeness Crab, oysters and famous low country boil. Lunch daily, dinner Tue.-Sun.
We love food. We love cooking it. And serving it. It shows in our made-from-scratch recipes and in the fresh wholesome ingredients we use. We serve it hot and fresh every day. At Golden Corral, we believe every guest deserves the highest quality food at the greatest value. You’ll see proof of this on your next visit! Come see us today! It’s just delicious!
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Since 1994, Flo and her son, Tommy, have been serving the best Southern-style cuisine at The 4th of May Cafe in the Pier Village. Daily specials include freshly made entrees, overstuffed sandwiches, delicious seafood fare, scrumptious salads, bread baked daily, a huge variety of home cooked vegetables and the best desserts in Coastal Georgia.
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The Driftwood Bistro serving Low Country Cuisine offers specialties such as meat loaf, stuffed flounder, herb crusted pork tenderloin and fried, grilled or blackened Wild Georgia Shrimp. With a great selection of vegetables, specialty sandwiches and salads.
The Rooftop at Ocean Lodge
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Celebrating our 27th Anniversary in Brunswick, this family owned business is more than just a restaurant that serves awardwinning seafood and other delicious fare, it’s a Golden Isles institution. Locals call us “The Best Little Seafood House in the Golden Isles!”
The Rooftop at Ocean Lodge, St. Simons Island’s only oceanview rooftop restaurant. Whether you choose to dine on our spectacular outdoor oceanview terrace or in our enclosed premium lounge, there is no other St. Simons Island restaurant that compares to The Rooftop. www.therooftopssi.com.
BEACHCOMBER BBQ & GRILL 319 Arnold Road, St. Simons Island 912-634-5699
“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. Featured on The Food Network. St. Simons’ Original BBQ Restaurant.
Fins on the Beach 200 Beachview Drive, Jekyll Island 912-635-3522
Completely renovated. The menu at Fins has been built from scratch to provide delicious flavors, unbeatable freshness and variety to please everyone. Join us on the back deck, overlooking the beautiful Jekyll Island beach and ocean and try out this fun new place to dine!
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Matteo’s Italian Restaurant 100 Cary Street, Brunswick 912-267-0248
You will enjoy our casual atmosphere, excellently prepared selection of Italian favorites, pizza and friendly service. In addition to our wine selection we now offer a full line of adult beverages with most premium brands. Matteo’s Italian is the finest place for Italian dining in the Golden Isles.
COASTAL KITCHEN 102 Marina Drive, St. Simons Island 912-638-7790
The closest table to the water without getting wet! From house-made lobster ravioli, crab-stuffed flounder, wild Georgia shrimp and grits and house-made ice cream to the best fried oysters you have ever put in your mouth, Coastal Kitchen will keep you coming back for more.
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From origins as unique as the food offerings themselves, Tipsy serves you scrumptiousness Monday thru Saturday 11 am - 2 am. Local social specialist Susan Bates has combined the best of all things delicious and brought them to the heart of Downtown Brunswick!
We offer fresh sushi, genuine Japanese fare and Hibachi-style cuisine. Every dish is prepared using the freshest ingredients and the most flavorful seasonings. We also offer a children’s menu and desserts. www.seasonsofjapan.com
Fancy Q 211 Redfern Village, St. Simons Island 912-634-9570
A taste of Japan awaits you on St. Simons Island. Fancy Q’s menu includes authentic Japanese dishes ranging from hibachi, teriyaki, udon, tempura, Katsu and Sushi. Daily lunch specials, a separate children’s menu and take out are available.
OLE TIMES COUNTRY BUFFET 665 Scranton Road, Brunswick 912-264-1693
Ole Times Country Buffet is “Home Cookin’ the Way Mama Does It!” Voted #1 in Southern Cooking and Best Country Buffet in South Georgia and North Florida for the last eight years running.
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