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Love Connection Robin & Davis Love III Show Their Love For The Golden Isles

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Table of Contents

September/October 2010

features:

18 THAT Happy

32 fairways &

Proving herself in a

Isle

24 The Love

predominantly male

Memories of the Sea

Davis Love brings the

Renovations improve

world.

Island of old.

PGA Tour home.

the beauty and

by Bob Dart

by Patti Connor

by Amy Carter

playability of local

14 Lady Caddie

Connection

greens

courses

by Thomas Brinson

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in ever y issue:

departments:

on the cover:

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Editor’s Note

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Coastal News & Notes

SHORT FICTION 30 Barefoot Calendar

Davis and Robin Love at their St. Simons Island home.

Photo by Joe Loehle, EOJ Design & Photo.

11 The Dish With Flo 17 Par for the Course 23 Nature Connection 70 Coastal Calendar 72 Out & About 78 Coastal Cuisine 80 Last Impression

HEALTH & FITNESS 34 Getting Fit

Golden Isles The Magazine for Brunswick, sT. siMons, Jekyll & sea islands

arts & culture 40 Sapelo Artists PEOPLE & PLACES 44 Private Islands

Love Connection

SPORTS & LEISURE 48 Gridiron Greatness

Robin & Davis Love III Show Their Love For The Golden Isles

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FaIRwayS & GReenS ReCenTLy RenovaTeD

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Editor’s Note

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riting to meet a daily deadline is harder some days than others. On my worst days, when I found myself at a loss for words to open a news story, my stalwart editor, Hank Rowland, would offer this: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

A great catch-all intro, for sure, but never more appropriate than now. On the one hand, we’re facing unprecedented uncertainty in our economy. For the first time in a long time, the simple fact of being the Golden Isles is no protection; where the unique attractions of a coastal lifestyle seemed to immunize us from past downturns, those very charms are the ones threatened by the most severe financial reversal since the Great Depression. Witness the plight of the Sea Island Co. The bankruptcy and proposed sale of this storied resort will have a profound impact on us all.

But there’s that all important other hand to consider, the one holding recovery in the shape of a golf ball. The inaugural playing of the McGladrey Classic kicks off in October, a new fall event on the PGA Tour. That means golf pros who are household names, and all that comes with them. The eyes of the world will once again be focused on the best and most beautiful parts of the Golden Isles, and the impact could be enormous.

People who’ve never seen or enjoyed the beauty of the Golden Isles will see the best we have to offer from Sea Island’s historic Seaside course. An idea born before the downturn in discussions between Sea Island’s former chief executive, Bill Jones III, and PGA Tour pro Davis Love III, the McGladrey Classic is billed as a fundraiser for the very worthy cause of helping charities that help children; however, we will all benefit.

There’s an old saying about hope floating, but come October, it will fly over the fairways and greens shaped from the old cotton fields of Retreat Plantation, an empire dismantled in tumultuous times not unlike our own and remade by a will to play through whatever obstacles arise. In this, unofficially our “Greens Issue,” we celebrate the rich past that is prologue to a promising new future, and the people who will make it so.

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Coastal News & Notes New Foundation Director Named The Jekyll Island Foundation together with the Jekyll Island Authority on Aug. 4 hired Mac DeVaughn as the foundation’s new executive director. DeVaughn will assume leadership of the fundraising arm of the Jekyll Island Authority replacing outgoing director Cindy McDonald who recently retired. DeVaughn’s executive experience includes both for profit and non-profit companies in the fields of insurance, sports promotions and cause-related fundraising.

DeVaughn, a Georgia native from Washington, attended the University of Georgia and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Georgia State University. He and his wife Cathleen have two college-age children.

“The citizens of Georgia are blessed with Jekyll Island, one of nature’s true gems,” DeVaughn says. “My goal with the Foundation is to help ensure that financial resources are available to aid the Jekyll Island Authority in preserving and enhancing the island’s uniqueness for the enjoyment and education of present and future generations.”

New Training Programs and Volunteer Opportunities Improve Health, Preserve Benefits

Library receives $20,000 donation from Friends of the Brunswick-Glynn Library

To help with this project, CMS has partnered with former educator and local designer/ builder, Shelley Hice.

Shelley has built several outdoor classrooms in the past and is a friend and parent of the school. For more information, please contact the Lord of Life Christian Montessori School at (912) 638-1692, or email info@ montessori.me.

Bulldawg Trivia: Do you know?

Lori Lasson, left, manager of the Brunswick-Glynn County Library, receives a check from Bonnie Thompson, president of the Friends of the Brunswick-Glynn Library, as Terry Bunch, chair of the library’s Board of Trustees, looks on. The Friends group runs a bookstore in the library, hosts fundraisers such as book sales and other special programs, including its annual Tables of Content, a dinner featuring a guest author, to raise money for the library. For more information about the Friends, visit the library’s Web site at www.trrl.org/brunswick/ friends.htm.

Library League donates $2,000 to St. Simons Island Public Library

The Area Agency on Aging for the Coastal Georgia region is launching a new initiative aimed at improving the lives of those with ongoing health concerns. Living Well Coastal is an evidence-based peer support, peerled course that encourages lifestyle changes and choices that are tried, true and tested by the class participants themselves. Classes deal with a range of topics, including appropriate nutrition, getting enough exercise and coping with medication issues.

A wide range of programs and services are offered by the Area Agency on Aging to empower and improve the lives of older adults. For more information about the Area Agency on Aging and its mission to serve and empower older adults in our area, call 800-580-6860.

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• How many times Herschel Walker made the cover of Sports Illustrated?

• Who is prohibited from walking underneath the Arch facing Broad Street?

• The name of the body of water located underneath Sanford Stadium?

• Who “The Five Commitments” were and what they signified?

We do know the answers to those questions and 96 more because we read the new book “100 Things Bulldogs Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die” by Jon Nelson (Triumph Books, 2010). With a foreward by Loran Smith, this book is the definitive source on all things Bulldawg, from Erk Russell and “GATA” to The Dog Walk.

Author Jon Nelson is a journalist based in Atlanta who has written on everything from Olympiads to political conventions. Order the book at www.triumphbooks. com.

General Manager Named at Nalley Lodi Palmer, center, president of the St. Simons Library League, presents a $2,000 check to Libby Hogan, left, of the Glynn County Libraries Board of Trustees, and Linda Bolton Kean, director of Three Rivers Regional Library System, at Bonefish Grill. The funds supported the summer reading program at St. Simons Island Public Library.

New “Outdoor Classroom” at Christian Montessori School

Dionne Campbell and Loreatha Jenkins of the Area Agency on Aging trainers, at St. Mark’s Towers in Brunswick.

for us to expand the boundaries of a traditional classroom and bring in elements that will continue our children’s hands-on education in the areas of the environment” says Tom Brubaker, CMS Development Director.

The Lord of Life Christian Montessori School is planning to build an outdoor classroom space on the school’s campus. The plans are completed and while there will be professionals to handle the site and electrical work, the school and community will also be on hand to help finish the classroom and add landscaping.

“We have some underutilized space located on the Western edge of our campus which is the perfect spot

Britt Gilmore was recently named general manager of Nalley Automotive in Brunswick. A native of Alabama, he comes to Brunswick from the Asbury chain of dealerships, most recently in St. Augustine, Fla. Britt’s background is music, both singing and music management.

“My philosophy in this business is simple: Listen to your customer and then do everything possible to make sure they are completely satisfied,” Britt says.

Britt and wife, Kristie, moved to Brunswick with their son, Luke. Daughter Malia is attending Flagler College in St. Augustine in the fall.

Playground Rises at Frederica Park A new playground has been added to the recreational offerings at Frederica Park on the north end of St. Simons Island. Funded through a gift from the Stuart and Eulene Murray Foundation, the playground was designed by Nate Brock of Wiregrass Studio.

“It is a really, really cool playground,” says Land Trust Director Russ Marane. Along with the usual swings and slides are boats, climbing and stepping walls, and an elevated maze.

versity in Atlanta, before completing a post-baccalaureate certificate in biotechnology from Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson School of Health Professions, and his doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM), both in Philadelphia, Penn. He also finished his internship and residency in head and neck surgery at PCOM.

Floral Artist Opens at The Gallery on Newcastle

“We are excited to have Drs. Hansen and Bee join our team,” says Practice Manager Adam Brown. “Prior to recruiting them we’ve only had one ear, nose and throat physician in Brunswick and none in Camden, so having them in our area will greatly improve access to this specialty service for residents in our area.”

Southeast Georgia Physician Associates-Ear, Nose & Throat is a strategic affiliate of Southeast Georgia Health System and offers treatment and services for all types of ear, nose and throat disorders. For more information, call 912-4665640 in Brunswick and 912-576-6434 in St. Marys.

Health System Receives Target Award The playground is the latest addition to the 20 acre park, where an open playing field is bordered by a botanical trail that leads to labyrinth and a faerie village populated by wee houses for children’s amusement. The park also offers fenced dog runs.

Frederica Park was developed on land donated by the Sea Island Co. and funded through private donations to the Land Trust. It is located on Lawrence Road.

Health System Welcomes New Ear, Nose and Throat Specialists

Southeast Georgia Health System recently received a Silver Target Award for the overall marketing campaign of the Breast Care Center the Health System opened on its Brunswick Campus in October 2009. The award was presented during the annual conference of the Georgia Society for Healthcare Marketing & Public Relations (GSHMPR) held at Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro in May. “We are very pleased that our Marketing and Public Relations Department team members have been recognized for their efforts to promote the Health System and our Breast Care Center,” says Jacqueline Weder, vice president at Southeast Georgia Health System who is responsible for the Marketing & Public Relations department. “Receiving a Target Award is a significant affirmation of the quality and creativity of our team.”

The Marketing and Public Relations Department is responsible for external and internal communications, advertising, public relations, media relations, web site, Healthy Partners magazine and so much more, for Southeast Georgia Health System, as well as its numerous strategic affiliates.

The Annual Target Awards recognize outstanding marketing and public relations programs within Georgia’s health care organizations. These prestigious awards give society members a vehicle to showcase their marketing and public relations accomplishments while recognizing the industry’s top performances.

Southeast Georgia Health System is pleased to welcome two new ear, nose and throat physicians to the area. Joseph Bee, D.O., and Karla Hansen, M.D., are seeing patients at Southeast Georgia Physician AssociatesEar, Nose & Throat. The new practice, a strategic affiliate of the Health System, will have locations- in Brunswick at 2500 Starling St., Suite 601 and in St. Marys at 2040 Dan Proctor Drive, Suite 250.

Hansen earned her undergraduate degree from LaSalle University in Philadelphia, Penn., and finished her internship in general surgery and her residency in otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat), head and neck surgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Bee earned his undergraduate degree from Emory Uni

Anna English Messer, owner of English Gardens based in Brunswick, has opened a floral shop at The Gallery on Newcastle. Anna designs floral displays and container gardens for home, business and special occasions. At the gallery, she will offer premade and custom orchid compositions and European interior gardens, as well as fresh cut flowers.

“I’ll have lots of orchids on hand, a lot of interior plants and, depending on the season, different plants for sale, foam gardens, art and containers,” Anna says.

Likening her business to a “garden bar,” she says customers can come in, choose a container, a plant and accessories for it and let the shop put it all together.

Anna is available for house and business calls, and will keep regular hours at the Gallery on Newcastle from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Call her at 275.7419 or 770.468.4164, or contact her by email at aemesser@englishgardensdesigns.com.

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I have always watched my grandchildren participate in the sport of the season and when Scott traded in the catcher’s mask for the Ping driver, I became a golf groupie.

These golf kids have to play during school and they play all over the state. So, since my schedule is somewhat flexible, I decided I would go to these tournaments and watch. Well, long story short, I became Coach John Allison’s assistant. This is not to be confused with Dan Moore, who was the assistant coach. Being the assistant, I took it upon myself to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the boys, which they grabbed at the “turn” along with a Vitamin Water or Gatorade.

One thing led to another, and before three golf seasons had passed, I was making a variety of sandwiches, cookies, brownies, breakfast treats, snack bags (my own blend of dried fruit, nuts, cereal, pretzels and M&Ms, which we used to call “Tiger Bags” until Tiger went in the wrong direction and the boys renamed them “Gramma Bags”) and all sorts of bottled beverages. The back of my van looked like a convenience store. Of course, I am in the catering business so this was really nothing new and I loved cooking for the boys.

There were only five or six of them plus the two coaches, so it was no big deal. I had a blast!

One morning (we had to leave at 7 a.m. a lot of times), I fixed the boys some cheese danish – my version of cheese danish. It was something I had dreamed up for a big post-wedding brunch I had catered. It was very simple to make and it was actually a spin-off of my favorite Butter Pecan Squares. For a tailgate party before a Red Terror football game the Butter Pecan

Squares would be perfect, but for the earlier Bulldog games, the danish might hit the spot. Amy, forgive me, but here’s a “twofer”! As always, if you have questions, comments or suggestions you might track me down at any of the local grocery stores or golf courses, but it would be easier to just email me at flosgalley@comcast.net.

Flo Anderson took her first restaurant job at the King and Prince Hotel in 1971. She’s been cooking ever since. Her restaurant, the 4th of May Café, endures in the St. Simons Village. Flo is the mother of three and grandmother to seven, all of whom live on St. Simons Island.

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Queen of the Greens A La dy Ca ddie Recalls Her Sea Island Days by bob dart | photography by Joe Loehle

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t’s 5 o’clock in the morning. A scruffy fellow is sleeping it off in a beach chair for sale outside the CVS near the St. Simons Island traffic circle when Judith-Eff O’Grady drives up in her Cadillac.

Wearing the white jumpsuit required for her job, she rushes in on an errand before heading to the golf course and its early tee times.

“Ma’am, are you a caddie?” asks the hung-over guy as the fiftyish woman with diamond earrings heads out of the drug store.

“Yes,” replies Judith-Eff, steeling herself for a sexist comment as she opens the driver’s side door.

“You must be a really good one to get yourself a car like that,” marvels the observer.

Well, if truth be told, Judith-Eff drove her Caddy to the caddieshack before she had earned a penny in tips for toting golf bags or estimating distances to the pins on Seaside, Plantation, Retreat or any of the other Sea Island Golf Courses where she worked for about a year.

But that doesn’t mean she wasn’t a really good caddie.

“I know a lot about golf,” says the veteran player. And if male golfers with molasses drawls seemed uncomfortable or even hostile at having a fast-talking woman with a Yankee accent as their caddie, “I would take it as a challenge,” says Judith-Eff. “I would make sure they loved me at the end.”

“When she told me she was going to be a caddie it threw me for a loop,” recalls Jamie O’Grady, Judith-Eff’s husband of 15 years. “Then I thought about it for a half of a second and said ‘If anyone could do it, it would be her!’ ” The O’Gradys moved to St. Simons from Boca Raton, Fla., in 2008 for Jamie’s job managing local Yellow Book offices. Judith-Eff had been a big-time corporate events planner in South Florida but soon learned that the economy was different in the Golden Isles.

“My job, I can’t do here,” she says. The giant conventions that came to Miami and Fort Lauderdale don’t come to Brunswick, Ga. “When I heard we were moving to Brunswick, I thought ‘What do they do, make bowling balls?’” she says. No, the residents quickly pointed out. It’s stew. Brunswick stew. That’s the town’s namesake product.

The golf-loving couple was quickly enchanted with St. Simons and the nearby region with its lush, plentiful courses. Judith-Eff describes her golf game as “above average” or “as my husband once said, ‘not bad for a girl’.”

Shortly after settling on the Island, Judith-Eff saw a newspaper ad for “caddies wanted.” She cut it out for Jamie – a tall, affable gent she calls “the Big Man” – as a joke. He had been a caddie as a boy and had fond memories of carrying clubs. She gave him the ad and teased that “Here’s something you can always fall back on” if the new job didn’t work out.

Six months later she saw another newspaper ad for “caddies wanted.” This time, it spoke to her.

“I didn’t really want to be a caddie,” she says. “I wanted to see if I could be a caddie.”

So she began her quest for a white jumpsuit (with a fly in front that she would have to alter for female considerations).

“I found out it’s easier to became a Secret Service agent on presidential detail than a caddie,” she says. “I got a manual the size of the Manhattan phone book to study. In my class, it was me and three guys. I could have been the grandmother of at least one of them.”

She already knew the rules of the game, of course. And her vigorous life in South Florida had prepared her for the physical rigors of walking and carrying bags of clubs in the heat. Her husband and friends continued on page 54

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Par for the Course

Key to Short game: Toss it first by thomas D. Brinson, PGA

It is important to practice all types of short game shots from putting to chipping to bunker shots. It is also important to practice each shot from various lies. Chipping from the fringe below the hole will certainly be different than from thick rough behind a green. By practicing all situations in advance of your round, the odds of you executing the shots when you have to will increase dramatically.

Once you have mastered most of the shots needed around the green, there is still one dilemma that you will face out on the links: Which shot do I need to hit now? Choosing the appropriate shot from the various ones you have practiced is always a challenge.

Here are a few tips to assist you in selecting the right shot.

When you get to your ball, evaluate your lie and immediately rule out one shot option. For example, if your ball is resting on a closely mown area, it is unlikely that you will hit a flop shot since you cannot slide the club under the ball as easily. By ruling out one option, you will immediately feel more confident in how to play your next shot.

The second course of action is to walk toward the pin from your ball and evaluate other factors that will affect your deci-

sion. Will you have to hit over a bunker or sprinkler head? Do you have much green to work with, allowing you to roll the ball to the hole? The list of questions goes on.

By mentally tossing the ball first, you will have increased confidence that you have chosen the right shot. This increased confidence will lead to increased execution. Like Yogi Berra said, “It’s ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.”

Lastly, visualize tossing the ball from your lie toward the hole. It is likely that the trajectory you imagine the ball traveling after you toss it is the best reflection of the shot you should hit. If you feel that it is best to toss a ball high and land it close to the hole, then a flop shot is likely your best option.

If you feel that rolling it most of the way and allowing the break of the green to take the ball to the hole is the best path, then a bump-and-run shot is the probably the best shot for you to play.

If you have questions about short game practice or any other part of your game, you can contact me via the email address on this page, or contact any of the PGA Professionals in the Golden Isles.

Thomas D. Brinson, PGA, is a Certified PGA Golf Instructor. He lives on St. Simons Island with his wife Alexandra and their retriever, Bogey. He can be reached at t_brinson@hotmail.com.

“By mentally tossing the ball first, you will have increased confidence that you have chosen the right shot.”

photos by alexandra brinson

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t is no secret among both golfers and instructors that the fastest way to improve your score on the course is to improve your short game. Since more than 70 percent of one’s strokes during a round of golf are within 80 yards of the green, I am not alone when I spend the majority of my time writing, teaching and practicing the short game.

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That Happy Isle Reme mbering Wha t Ma d e Se a I s l a n d S p e c i a l

by Patti Connor

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ow many generations have come to love The Cloister? The question is, at best, rhetorical, for there is no way to assign a number to the families and the relatives, friends and acquaintances of the families for whom the Addison Miznerdesigned hotel on Sea Island became a seasonal home away from home – a beloved and reassuringly unchanged vacation destination to which they would bring their children, grandchildren and eventually, even great-grandchildren.

The Cloister Hotel welcomed its first guests in the late 1920s. Originally a beachside playground for the crème de la crème of Southern society, through the years the venerable Georgia resort attracted families, primarily from throughout the Southeast, who with the advent of summer would pack their suitcases and head south for their annual stay at The Cloister, the River House, or one of the Sea Island Company’s nearby rental cottages lining Sea Island Drive. As time went by, there would be resorts that were more splashy, more opulent, grander. But opulence and grandeur was not what The Cloister was about. Its appeal lay in its very simplicity – its charm elegant yet understated – and those who loved it, I think, understood that.

How well I can remember my own family – my mom, sister and grandmother in the front seat of my grandmother’s old Rambler and, later, her big blue Ford station wagon, while my two first cousins, Dollie and Alexa Giddings, and I sat, shoulder to shoulder, in the back – making that long, unairconditioned journey from Atlanta along the two-lane roads of Georgia towns like Waycross, Darien and Eastman, where we stopped at the Carriage House to refuel on sweating glasses of ice-cold Coca-Cola and plates piled high with plump fried shrimp. After lunch, the three of us older girls would stock up on all the latest Archie, Betty and Veronica comic books to keep us entertained – not to mention, quiet – for the duration of the drive.

As we neared Brunswick and the pungent odor of the pulp mills grew stronger in the air – an aroma that, for me, will be forever associated with some of the happiest times of my life – we knew that we were Almost There. I recall, as if it were yesterday, the heady thrill of crossing the F.J. Torras Causeway, the three of us in back nearly out of our seats with excitement. I remember waiting, with bated breath, for the first sight of the unadorned little white building where the skeet shooting took place, for that signaled we were now only moments away. And then – at last! – driving onto the grounds of The Cloister, its surrounding live oaks so stupendously beautiful with their garlands of Spanish moss.

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Coming to a stop beneath the expansive porte cochere of the hotel, with its red tile roof and stained-glass arches sparkling in the soft late afternoon sun, to have our car doors opened by jocular “bellmen” – most, college boys – on whom by the end of our stay we would have developed tortuous, unrequited crushes.

If we were lucky, we’d arrive in time to check in, unpack, get ourselves decked out in brand-new Lilly Pulitzers and, with hair coaxed into what we hoped bore some vague resemblance to a grown-up ‘do, totter to the Cloister Clubrooms on our unfamiliar high heels for a night of Bingo led by general manager Richard Everett with his famously trenchant asides. There, we sipped our Grasshoppers, our White Russians or Golden Cadillacs, and thought ourselves almost impossibly sophisticated.

Who could forget the sheer joy of beginning yet another magical day, endless sunshine stretching before us like a promise, with fresh fruit and blueberry pancakes on the oceanfront terrace of the Beach Club? Or “Big George” Drayton, forever ageless, with his gorgeous, ear-to-ear grin? Or the Snack Bar, and its signature Gold Brick sundaes for which we’d stand in line, forever if we had to, barefoot, sandy and sunburned? Or, for that matter, alfresco nights, when pastelgarbed diners gathered around the Beach Club pool as divers with their tanned, impossibly perfect bodies ascended the ladder of the high dive to execute their soundless plunges into the water below.

As we grew older, we would grow to love the Teen Dances, and the endless walks on the beach under a black velvet sky strewn with millions of stars like so many unleashed fireflies.

Lucie Bridges grew up spending her summers at Sea Island, too, with her parents or her cousin, Worden Willis, whose father, Charles, for many years owned a jewelry store at The Cloister. Bridges recalls riding the Jeep Train in the blistering midday sun to the end of the beach to look for shells. “We used to go crabbing off the pier in the front of The Cloister, right next to the place where you’d go to rent bikes.” She caught fish there, too – croaker and toad fish. “I remember that they were ugly, and smelled bad.”

She also remembers setting out on long beach walks with her parents during which she would lag behind so as to sneak sips of their Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. “When I thought they were about to catch me, I’d run out and pretend I was drinking water from the ocean ...

To me, it tasted about the (same),” she says with a laugh.

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The original Cloister Hotel in the 1940s.

The original Cloister Hotel, built in 1928.

Tobe Tyson, Percy Waters and George Drayton at the Beach Club, circa 1978

Bingo in the Plantation Center

Marsh and Mary Gossett King in 1988 at the Sea Island Beach Club with their children, Dalton, Brice and Blake.

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Cellulite Reduction

The Nature Connection

a band of birders

by Lydia Thompson

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or the last 30-plus years the Jekyll Island Bird Banding Station has set up each fall on the south end of Jekyll. For three weeks every year from the last week in September to the middle of October, a trained group of volunteers captures, identifies, records and releases, unharmed, thousands of birds. The station was establish in 1977 by a group of birders who wanted to know more about the birds of the area. It is licensed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and reports its findings to the Bird Banding Lab in Laurel, Maryland.

I joined the handy little group in the mid-1980s. There is a lot we have learned about birds who use our coast as a migration stop over.

The birds we band are small birds. The four most common species are in the warbler family: the Common Yellowthroat, American Redstart, Black-throated Blue Warbler and the Western Palm Warbler.

These four species of warblers are winging their way to our coast from their breeding grounds right now. Warblers are small birds measuring four to six inches from their beaks to their tails. Put a quarter and a nickel in your hand and you’ll feel a weight that is about the weight of these tiny birds, just 10 grams. Most people miss these tiny birds, for they fly fast and generally high in the trees. But to birders warblers are the jewels of the bird world. They flit in the trees over our heads catching insects or gobbling down berries. The males are colorful. The females and young are more subdued in their beauty.

last bit of fat they’ve stored for the journey. Banding stations like Jekyll Island’s record such details as the amount of fat each bird carries.

Each bird is fitted with an aluminum band at capture, and each band has a unique sets of numbers. The date of capture is recorded along with the amount of fat the bird gains. Some birds have multiple meetings with the volunteers. Then there are other birds like the one that was banded at Jekyll and the next day recaptured at Merritt Island, Florida. The bird traveled more than 200 miles in one day.

If you would like to learn more about birds and their migrations and see the banding station at work, make plans to attend the Georgia Coast Birding and Nature Festival Oct. 7-10 on Jekyll Island.

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.

Of the four, the Western Palm warbler is the most common on our coast. These birds nest in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, then fly southeast for days until they reach our coast. Here they take a break to feed and rest before traveling on to Florida and the Caribbean, where they spend the winter. In late September you can find them in large flocks in fields on our barrier islands.

artwork by lydia thompson

Standing in the banding area, I have learned to recognize the chip notes of a flock of Western Palm warbler flying in. Most small birds fly by night when there are fewer predators. They arrive around 8:30 in the morning, flying toward the wax myrtles and the mist net set behind the dune line. Most of these birds are flying on the sep tember/ Oc t o b e r 2 0 1 0 23

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Love Connection

The

How the last gentleman golfer is helping the Golden Isles through hard times

By Amy H. Cart er | Photogra phy by Joe Loehle

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rooster trumpets a late-morning roust from the stable on Davis Love III’s north island spread, eliciting a sly grin from the master of the realm.

“You hear him?” Davis asks with a note of paternal pride in his voice.

“Him” is Jackson, a Rhode Island Red rooster that has taken up residence with a hen named Robin in the seven-stall stable lately vacated by the horses Lexie Love rode to multiple championships in the elite Paso Fino show community. The aristocrats of the horse world – much as golfers once were among professional athletes – the Paso Finos are an apt entry point for a discussion of the study in contrasts that is the Love lifestyle, based here on St. Simons Island.

Chickens are the latest in a long line of earthy passions for Davis and his wife, Robin, and their children, Lexie (short for Alexia) and

Dru (short for “Quadruple,” because he is Davis Love IV). Whether hunting turkey and deer at their Copeland Hall estate in Camden County, stalking triple-tail in the waters off Jekyll Island, riding motorcycles cross-country or enjoying a rugged late-summer sabbatical in Sun Valley, Idaho, between golf tournaments, the Love family floats between couture and country with graceful ease.

In sum, Davis is one of the few gentlemen left in a sport once exclusive to them. The son of a revered teaching pro whose contemporaries – legendary golfers like Bobby Jones and Sam Snead – shaped his old-fashioned approach to the game, Davis joined the PGA Tour in 1985. Ever since, he’s distinguished himself as the consummate professional on tour and off. He takes every opportunity to sing his wife’s praises and praise his children’s accomplishments, and to lend a hand to those in need in ways we know and others we will probably never know.

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The McGladrey Classic Staff in the historic Corn Barn, headquarters for the event.

Mark Love, seated, John McKenzie, standing left, and Scott Reid, standing right.

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Much of his giving is focused here in the Golden Isles. Penta and Davis Love Jr. moved their sons, Davis III and Mark, to St. Simons Island in 1978 when Davis Love Jr. left the Atlanta Country Club to teach at Sea Island. Davis III and Mark benefitted in their golf education from the privileges afforded by their father’s position, but they learned never to take advantage or expect special treatment, Penta Love says.

photo submitted by Penta Love

She and her late husband raised Davis III and his brother, Mark, to first be good men.

“We always told them we were more proud of who they were than what they were doing,” she says.

What they’re doing these days says a lot about who they are.

The Love brothers are bringing a PGA Tour event to Brunswick and the Golden Isles in October. The McGladrey Classic will kick off a week of professional golf for a good cause on Oct. 4, the day after Davis returns from serving as co-captain of America’s Ryder Cup team in Great Britain. The tournament will unfold on the Sea Island Co.’s historic Seaside Golf Course on the south end of St. Simons Island. Tournament play begins Oct. 6 and concludes Oct. 10.

In addition to bringing an estimated $25 million to $50 million worth of attention to Coastal Georgia, proceeds of the tournament will benefit Brunswick’s Safe Harbor Children’s Shelter – long a favorite of Davis and Robin’s – as well as the Special Olympics and the Boys and Girls Club of Southeast Georgia.

“It is a great honor to be selected as a benefactor of the PGA Tour,” says Brian Dolan, executive director of the Boys and Girls Club in the Golden Isles. “We at the Boys and Girls Club take pride in having our logo next to one of the most prestigious logos in the world.”

The Love family at The Cloister: Penta Love, Mark Love, Davis Love III, and Davis Love Jr.

Nearly 1,000 volunteers will be needed to make the McGladrey Classic a

In his 1997 homage to his father’s lessons in golf and life, “Every Shot I Take,” Davis wrote: “I wish every golfer could have the kind of golfing education I had. I wish every child could have the kind of father I had.”

success for the charities it

For those who, for whatever reason, do not, the Loves are doing all they can to ensure that help and support is there.

will benefit. To sign up, visit

“It’s just all about the children,” Robin says of the McGladrey, and it always has been for the Loves.

www.mcgladreyclassic.com.

They helped raise funds to benefit Safe Harbor through a series of four challenge matches in the 1990s, and have continued giving a portion of their tournament winnings to Safe Harbor ever since, Robin says.

“We wanted to do another event to raise money, but we didn’t think it would be quite this big,” Davis says of the McGladrey Classic, which was announced in January.

Volunteers must be 18 or older as of Oct. 4, 2010.

There is a fee of $80.

Scott Reid, tournament director for the McGladrey Classic, says the planning for PGA events typically spans a year’s time or longer. The tournament will make its home in the old Corn Barn at Retreat, which is being renovated to accommodate tournament staff and the media.

Title sponsor RSM McGladrey, an accounting and business consulting firm based in Charlotte, N.C., has signed on to present the tournament

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photo by stan badz / pga tour images

In conjunction with the playing of the McGladrey Classic the Orange County Chopper that Robin Love commissioned in honor of Davis Love III’s 40th birthday in 2004 will be raffled.

Tickets are $100 and only 1,000 will be sold. Proceeds will benefit the charities of the Davis Love Foundation. Tickets can be purchased by calling 634-3266.

for each of the next three years, with the Davis Love Foundation acting as host of the tournament.

say, ‘That place is awesome. I’m never missing that tournament.

That’s like a vacation.’”

Both Davis and Mark see the tournament as a great way to showcase the area through the beauty and history of the old Retreat Plantation property.

The tournament promises to be an entertaining event for all, not just the die-hard fans, Mark says. In addition to the game itself, the organizers are planning to construct a miniature version of the St. Simons Island Village on the front lawn of the Corn Barn where vendors offering food and drink will set up, and bands will play.

“I think the players will just go nuts” for the Seaside course, which beats Hilton Head’s Sea Pines Harbour Town for scenic play, Davis says. He says the course and the area will sell themselves, making the event a must-play for tour pros in years to come.

“For us, 25 years ago, we would go somewhere for the first time and

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“I hope to get people who, for $20 a day (the price of a ticket) will come out and just walk around,” Mark says. “This is a nice place to walk and enjoy nature. You don’t have to be an avid golfer to go out and enjoy the scenery.”

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Barefoot Calendar

By Mark Hamil Illust ration by Stacey Will is There was an era when calendars did not organize each moment of my existence, those carefree summers of youth when the months were etched instead on the soles of our bare feet. They were fish-belly pale when first emancipated from nine months of school shoe hibernation. Those early weeks of June we lightly tiptoed, carefully picking footpaths over limb piles and around the dreaded gravel drive. By August we ran flat footed over rocks and steaming asphalt on blackened treads, conscious only of hazards facing the perpetually stubbed toe. Our lean bodies, topped by buzz haircuts and covered only by camping shorts, were adorned with countless scrapes and cuts that served as beacons for hungry black gnats. The production line appearance shared by our peers could not predict who would achieve great things or the premature misfortunes of Tom, Johnny and Sam. In Leesville, Georgia, in the summer of 1963, we shared our innocence with a nation hiding its own character flaws beneath a façade of peace and prosperity.

While there was no government defined poverty level, our family had limited means and few possessions. We were taught to appreciate each meal with parental pronouncements that “children are starving in China” providing ample guilt for us to clean our plates. Sunday morning tales of naked savages who could only be saved by Lottie Moon funded missionaries completed our myopic view of world poverty. We were raised on a diet that affirmed a need for future FDA warning labels. Each morning before the screen door’s slap sounded reveille, we slurped down bowls of cereal proudly named Sugar Smacks and Sugar Pops. We amazingly survived mid-day bologna or peanut butter sandwiched between slices of Sunbeam and Wonder bread so soft it served double duty as dough ball fish bait. A rare trip to the store offered tantalizing health challenges like NuGrape Soda, Moon Pies and Tom’s salted peanuts poured in tall bottles of RC or Double Cola. Sundown brought Mom’s echoing pronouncement of “Supper-

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Time” with the diaphragm projection of a seasoned actor which drew us to cuisine featuring oyster crackers floating on bowls of hot potato soup, pan-fried salmon patties made from a can, and ten-for-a-dollar frozen Turkey Pot Pies.

On West Cherry Drive, only color and a street number distinguished the scarred and peeling clapboard houses wearily sagged over concrete block foundations, crowned by moss streaked slate roofs, squatting in yards with rare patches of lawn among clover and wild onions. Dusty alleyways behind these houses were the neighborhood’s circulatory system where kids roamed on foot or Schwinn each morning to see who could come out and play.

One house was never visited for fun. The front room at Dr. Stargle’s was his office where parents paraded sons to repair broken fingers, receive tetanus shots and be stitched like sock puppets for “Dad-worthy” injuries, since you weren’t really hurt unless he could see enough blood for a Red Cross donation. One visit to Dr. Stargle’s followed my commitment of a cardinal sin, secretly using our parents’ bed as a trampoline. The razor sharp edges of the hot metal conical reading lamps delivered

an eighteen-stitch punishment to my scalp with an Inquisitor’s zeal.

Our massive live oak tree was Leesville’s Mecca for future architects and carpenters who scaled its trunk like worker ants, hoisting boards overhead with choreographed precision while claw hammers dangled from their belt loops. Sometimes we had pockets full of ten penny nails poured in brown paper bags from the silver scooped scale at Duke’s hardware store. More often we used those reclaimed from piles of discarded lumber and beaten straight against brick or concrete. From the one-man Crow’s Nest in its uppermost fork to the plywood floored “downstairs” suspended by chains, this ever expanding tree house was a monument to our unbridled energy and creativity. Three connected garden hoses with a brass twist nozzle provided indoor plumbing. We miraculously avoided electrocution when ten extension cords were linked together to bring power to a single bare bulb in a white, pull-string porcelain fixture. Retractable ladders kept girls, parents and imaginary pirates from boarding. My nose breaking, face-first fall down those wooden steps yielded yet another trip to Dr. Stargle’s house. The tree house was a place of adventure, our hideout and sanctuary. Unsuspecting passersby were easy targets for hurled water balloons and the more painful howls of laughter that followed. Two decades later, Tim’s construction company was hired to fell this landmark and they ruined three chainsaws on all the nails buried in the old oak tree.

In Leesville, we were uniformly unaware of Hinduism, Buddha or Islamic Jihad. We’d heard rumors about the strange religious practices of our few Catholic friends, rituals like services in Latin and eating only fish on Friday, but the election of President Kennedy had made all that acceptable in the Bible belt. Our parents modeled an attitude of tolerance and acceptance of diversity, except when speaking of those Methodist sprinklers and the Second Baptist Church sepa-

ratists. For us, religion was like an inner-tube ride down a warm, languid stream of ancestral Bible stories, trance inducing sermons and covered dish suppers followed by games of Red Rover and Kick-the-Can. Church preparations began with a Saturday night bath that erased dirt bead necklaces and included Mom’s dreaded ear cleaning. Equipped with a finger-filled wash cloth she attacked layers of grime with a fervor that would have stripped wax from old tile floors and left our lobes a swollen, pig-snout pink. Church attire, our Sunday-go-to meeting clothes, included the requisite short sleeved white shirt, clip on tie and shoes polished to black shining mirrors.

Sunday dinners were pressure cooked meals of tender pot roast with onions, carrots and potatoes served with triangles of steaming yellow corn bread from a cast iron skillet. As noontime approached in the sanctuary, Mom compulsively checked her watch in fear that the family feast might be ruined by an extended sermon or pulpit calls with fifteen verses of “Just As I Am, Lord.”

Twenty five cents bought a full day’s admission to the Leesville public swimming pool.

Our first stop was a narrow, dark and dank changing room with rows of numbered wire baskets that held dry T-shirts and towels.

We emerged to a churning, chlorine scented sea and a chorus of “Marco Polo” punctuated by shrill whistle notes from chastising lifeguards. We competed in demanding measures of stamina to see who could hold their breath, make the highest cannonball splash, touch the drain in the deep end or dare high dive backwards flip. We trudged home redeyed, bone weary and shrivel toed.

Our few days of imprisonment from inclement weather were spent playing Rummy, War and checkers, circling Seek-and-Find objects in worn Highlights magazines, or thumbing through bright orange volumes of Childcraft. Boys who afforded store-bought toys stretched out wire Slinkies, practiced “walk the dog” with yo-yos, and copied pictures from the funny papers with Silly Putty.

There were no recorded movies, twenty four hour children’s channels, or video games to threaten couch potato syndrome. The much anticipated Saturday morning television schedule included one precious hour of Bugs Bunny and Friends cartoons. We watched Rin-Tin-Tin, Lassie, Black Beauty and My Friend Flicka beside Bob, our future veterinarian.

There were no censors proclaiming the dangers of aggressive acts because TV heroes

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Fairways & Greens golf course renovations add to the beauty of the isles

by Thomas Brinson

Sea Island’s Seaside 13 on St. Simons Island

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olf courses are living and breathing beings, both literally and poetically. They are made up of various types of grass, sand bunkers, marsh lands, ponds, lakes, streams and, in the case of some, the ocean. A golfer in the Golden Isles can play a favorite course every day and never see the same thing twice. Each day, the grasses are mown, the tees shifted, the holes moved on the greens, and the weather changes. This ever changing playing surface is why golfers come back to play the same course over and over again.

Time can take its toll on these courses. The constant maintenance and traffic on any course will, slowly, over time, change the way the golf course looks and plays. The average golf course should be renovated and the playing surfaces replaced every 15 to 25 years. This window of time has recently crept up on many of the courses in the Golden Isles including Brunswick Country Club, Ocean Forest Golf Club and, most recently, the King and Prince Golf Course (formerly known as The Hampton Club). All of these courses completed renovations of late.

Possibly the most scenic course in the Golden Isles, the King and Prince Golf Course was designed by Joe Lee and first opened in 1989. Since that time, the greens had shrunk in size and their contours had leveled out.

In October of 2009, the King and Prince Golf Course hired Medalist Golf to rebuild and reshape the greens and even add a few new tee boxes to the course. “The golf course turned out better than any of us could have imagined. The contrast between the new grasses creates a look and a playability that you have to see to believe,” says Matt Evans, PGA Head Golf Professional at The King and Prince Golf Course.

When the King and Prince Golf Course reopened in October of 2009, both members and guests agreed that the renovation was worth every penny. The new bunkers are highlighted by a band of zoysia grass, and the new miniverde putting greens roll as true and as smooth as could be. Four holes on the back nine of this course are located on a series of hammocks in the marsh just west of the mainland. The tee box on the 12th hole was expanded for players to get a better look at the green of this short but devilish par three. Many people say that given today’s EPA regulations, these holes would not be allowed to be built today. The improvements to these holes are some of the most dramatic on the course. The enhanced green contours of the 12th and the par five 14th holes command the respect of the best putters in the area.

Not every golf course has the luxury of being able to afford to complete the necessary renovations on a timely basis. In the case of

The King and Prince

The King and Prince’s #14 Brunswick Country Club, this was not a bad thing. In 1938, possibly the most famous and acclaimed golf course architect in the world, Donald Ross, designed the 18 hole layout that still sits in the same location off U.S. Highway 17. Much like the King and Prince Golf Course, Brunswick Country Club’s greens had lost their shape due to scarce maintenance practices during World War II as well as years of wear and tear. The club made strides in 2006 to take the course to the next level when a board of visionaries decided to take a leap of faith and shut down the golf course to restore it to the original design that Donald Ross had drawn out nearly 80 years before. “The neat thing about our project was that since the course had not been touched since 1938, we were able to dig down and find the original black sand layer that Mr. Ross had brought in to build the greens. Through excavation of each green site, we were able to see the original foot print of the greens,” says Dan Hogan, PGA General Manager of Brunswick Country Club. Al Coty, a past president of the Brunswick Country Club and one of the driving forces behind restoring this classic layout says: “This renovation is something the whole community can be proud of.

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Patience and consistency are key to living the good life

by Leslie jeter | photography by chris moncus

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ummer is nearing an end and though we can’t switch out our wardrobes to accommodate fall weather just yet, a lot of pressure to acquire a slimmerthan-usual “beach body” has subsided – for this year, anyway.

Many people dread certain seasons because they are unhappy or dissatisfied with their weight, level of physical fitness, or both, and have been for a long time. But to achieve permanent results, only two things are really needed to get you started: patience and consistency.

Maintain those and you can conquer any weight loss challenge.

Function follows fitness. This means that by sticking to a regular exercise routine, your ability to function overall will increase.

You will become stronger, more mobile and more balanced. Sure, it’s great to know you look good on the outside, but nothing compares to feeling like you are always at your best, inside and out.

So when you close summer’s chapter for the year, mark it as the last one in this book.

Prepare some fresh pages in a new book for the fall and upcoming seasons and have nothing to dwell on but your own potential, never the past. Set achievable, personal goals and only attempt to reach them one at a time. Venture into the world of nutrition and experiment with new dishes. You can allow changes to happen subtly yet perma-

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nently and find ways to incorporate them into a routine that most appropriately fits your existing schedule – bike around an island, utilize some of the many recreational areas that have been provided; swim in the ocean, fly a kite, or join an activity group with people who are more than willing to share this wonderful experience with you.

This is the Golden Isles, where opportunities for personal fitness and weight loss can be vastly different and more fun than you ever imagined.

It is the intensity of the routine that is relative to the fitness level of the individual.

Read what five residents of the Golden Isles have to say about discovering health and fitness for themselves:

Q: How do you encourage a healthy wellbeing?

A: Eat like a caveman and do exercises that translate to real life.

Keith Hand

CrossFit Brunswick Affiliate Owner/ Personal Trainer

Q: What is CrossFit and how long have you been doing it?

A: CrossFit is a program that uses constantly varied, functional movements performed at high intensity. I have been doing CrossFit for over a year now.

Q: How is CrossFit good for everybody?

A: As the CrossFit philosophy explains, the fitness needs of the Olympic athlete and my grandma vary in degree, not kind. No matter the fitness level of the individual, the movements that we use are helpful for everyone.

Q: What is one of your biggest guilty pleasures?

A: Donuts. It’s hard for me to pass up a hot donut.

Q: Outside of CrossFit, what is your favorite outdoor activity?

A: I am always up for a round of golf or some bass fishing.

Q: What does the Golden Isles have to offer those who are looking to get fit?

A: There are many places people in our community can turn to for fitness, especially outdoors, but those places do not include the comfy couch or the bicep curl machine at the gym. My advice would be to take up a sport outside. It is easy to go kayaking in our rivers or hike a trail. These are the activities that fitness allows us to enjoy, and they also lead to a greater level of fitness themselves.

Q: Today, what is your overall health goal?

A: My long-term fitness goal is to be able to do the activities I am capable of now with my grandchildren in 40 years. continued on next page

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Q: What outdoor activities do you enjoy?

A: I love taking my dogs to the beach more than anything. It is not only good for me but for them to exercise, as well.

Mandy Crowley

Member of Anytime Fitness, St. Simons Island, Teacher Q: How long have you been a member of Anytime Fitness?

A: Since it opened in March.

Q: What was your goal when you joined?

A: My goal for joining was and is to continue to keep the weight I lost last year off and to stay active. When you work out you feel better.

Q: How often do you work out and what’s your favorite time of day to do it?

A: I go to the gym three times a week if possible. I go in the morning mostly and it just sets my energy for the day.

Q: What are some major changes you’ve noticed since working out?

A: Mentally, I feel happier, especially with the way I look. I feel the time I spend at the gym is a great escape from everything. I’ve lost about 25-30 pounds, but for me the best thing is that I have toned my whole body and I feel fitter. I feel healthier. I sleep better and don’t actually need as much sleep as I used to.

Q: Biggest guilty pleasure?

A: Chick-fil-A

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Q: How do you feel living in our area makes maintaining a healthy lifestyle easier and more fun?

A: This area is wonderful for all kinds of outdoor activities, especially for walking on the beach and bike riding.

Q: What advice can you offer pertaining to healthy living?

A: Don’t make working out a chore; that’s the biggest advice I can give. Find something you enjoy, like tennis, walking your dog, running, biking, etc.

Stephen Ambrose Biker, IT Manager

Q: How long have you been biking and what got you into it?

A: I have biked nearly my entire life, but about four years ago I reached a point where I realized that exercise could be a great way to relieve stress, gain focus and promote physical and mental well-being. Since then biking has been a part of my everyday life.

Q: What’s your favorite time of day to bike?

A: Immediately after work. The first thing I do when I get home is jump on my bike and hit the trails. This time allows me to focus on the problems of the day or to block them out completely and just enjoy being outside.

Q: Has your mental health changed since you started biking?

A: I believe I have become a more focused and energetic person and I attribute a lot of that to exercise and biking. For me, biking is a release from all the problems of the day.

When I am done, I feel more relaxed, healthy and happy. I have never returned from a bike ride feeling worse than I did when I left.

Q: How would you encourage people to get healthy?

A: It all started for me when I dusted off my old bike and just started riding again. It brought back great memories of a time when biking was the only way to get around, and made me question why I ever stopped. Biking has become such a key part of my life that I feel like something is missing when I do not have the opportunity to ride. I would encourage everyone to incorporate some type of exercise routine into their daily life to promote a physical and mental well-being.

Q: What other activities do you enjoy?

A: Recently I started playing basketball again but I love all outdoor activities; whether it is camping, golfing, kayaking, fishing or snow skiing – if I am able to spend the day outside, then it is a good day for me. St. Simons is a great place to live if you are an outdoor enthusiast.

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Q: How long have you been married?

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Q: As a couple, how do you keep one another accountable/encouraged?

A: We plan meals together, shop together, work out together and celebrate milestones with each other.

Q: What kind of goals/challenges do you set for yourselves?

A: We like to stick to a month-to-month schedule. Set a small but tough goal (like drinking only water for the whole month) that doesn’t overwhelm us, but at the same time is achievable. It creates 12 little milestones throughout the year that we can celebrate.

Q: What is your biggest guilty pleasure?

A: Russ: Burgers.

A: Lydia: Eating the stuff I bake.

Q: What’s been the biggest change since you began CrossFit together?

A: We both feel great. Energy levels are higher and we are changing our body shapes; instead of fluffy, we’re getting slimmer and firmer.

Q: How would you encourage people to get healthy and why?

A: Pick something that you enjoy doing that gets you moving. And definitely be proactive about what you eat.

Q: Why and how would you promote fitness to couples/families?

A: Working out together has been a great way for us to connect – with each other and with new friends. We love CrossFit because it’s not just us trying to hold each other accountable and cheer each other on – it’s a group dynamic. Sure we have each other, but it’s fun and motivational working out with a group of friends. There’s an element of stress relief, which is great for couples.

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Sapelo artists

By Am y Carter

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etween the sound of waves lapping at our feet and sea gulls laughing over our heads comes the persistent beep of a cell phone chirping the theme song of the society of technofiles at our backs. Anyone else might ignore the call of the wild to answer a summons from civilization; Lanny Brewster is not just anyone. He reaches into his pocket to silence the phone, never taking his eyes off the panorama of oyster beds, river and sky stretching before him.

You haven’t really seen the beauty of a barrier island until you’ve seen it through the eyes of an artist. Take that pond behind the Reynolds Mansion on Sapelo Island that has Lanny spellbound. Brooke Vallaster, education coordinator for the Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, says the body of water likely dates to the early 20th Century, when Sapelo was owned by Sea Island Co. founder Howard Coffin.

“I call it Alligator Pond,” Brooke says.

“I thought it had a romantic name,” Lanny muses. “The water’s clear. It’s like a little hidden grotto. I had to explore some new greens to get the color.”

While others keen to glimpse the ghosts inhabiting the white-columned mansion that housed the Reynolds tobacco fortune, Lanny hunts for the real life that goes on all around, reclaiming a millionaire’s milieu with a velocity stoked by heat, humidity and heavily salted air.

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above, Christy Trowbridge, the 2009 Sapelo Island Artist in Residence, paints on the island.

above, right and far left Lanny Brewster, the current Sapelo Island Artist in Residence, searches the island looking for the perfect setting to paint. He will visit the island in all four seasons of the year to capture its whole beauty.

Lanny is on a year-long mission to capture the natural beauty of Sapelo on canvas as the 2010 artist in residence for the research reserve’s ongoing “Through Nature’s Lens” artists’ series.

“This program is designed to give people another perspective of the reserve,” Brooke says. The reserve is concerned with scientific study and stewardship of the coastal environment from its base on the western side of Sapelo. The Duplin River, flooded twice daily by the tides from the nearby Atlantic Ocean, forms the core of the reserve.

The salt-water river serves as a sort of “pump” for the natural system of hydrology that filters through the heart of the Reserve and consequently is one of the most useful areas for conducting estuarine research anywhere on the south Atlantic coast. The Duplin’s waters and tidal salt marshes are pristine and unaffected by manmade pollutants, thus they serve as the ideal “nursery ground” for a wide variety of plant, animal and marine species. Research scientists since the 1950s have studied the Duplin estuary and its supporting natural habitat for shrimp, crabs, oysters, clams, and other marine species, all of which depend on the nutrients which are flushed by the tides from the Duplin’s marshes for their sustenance. Reserve Director Buddy Sullivan calls it one of the most dynamic ecosystems in the world in its own way.

While the reserve’s work has taught us much of what we know about the importance of the coastal ecosystem, it is ultimately the beauty of the marshes, maritime forests, beaches and creeks that captivates. It is Lanny’s job, as artist in residence, to capture that beauty on canvas and bring it back to the mainland for all to see. Under the program, Lanny will visit the island at least once each season to gain a full artistic perspective of the natural surroundings. At the end of his residency, his work will be exhibited in select venues to raise awareness of the reserve’s research and education activities and to increase understanding of and support for the natural, cultural and historical resources of Sapelo Island.

Sapelo is one of the most storied islands in the Georgia chain. The human effect on the island has been traced back 4,500 years through Native Americans, Spanish missionaries, cotton planters and freedmen to Howard Coffin, who consolidated multiple holdings that he sold in 1934 to North Carolina tobacco heir Richard J. Reynolds Jr. Reynolds’ widow in turn sold her late husband’s holdings to the state, which led to the creation of the research reserve, which is operated as a partnership between the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Nowhere is the relationship between man and environment more complex and, therefore, best studied than on Sapelo. The island is accessible only by boat, and land-use is limited. Most everything that man has done on Sapelo – from shell middens dating to Native American occupation of the island to the Hog Hammock community inhabited by Geechee descendants of freedmen – remains to be investigated and documented.

What few fully appreciate, however, is the nature of the island itself, something that man can never fully conquer, despite his best – and sometimes worst – efforts. Sapelo was once home to some 400 enslaved Africans, whose descendants largely remained after the Civil War only to be moved from their separate communities by Reynolds, who wanted the island’s African-Americans confined to the 434-acre Hog Hammock community on the island’s south end.

While such is not the provenance of the scientists on Sapelo or the artists they’ve enlisted to tell the story of Sapelo’s beauty, the spirit of oppression is still palpable, at times, amid the historic tabby ruins that populate the bluffs overlooking the tidal creeks and marshes that separate Sapelo from the rest of the world.

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Artist Christy Trowbridge, who served a residency with the research reserve in 2009, felt the vestiges of that history while painting Chocolate Plantation.

“I felt this heartache and this beauty all at the same time,” she says.

She recalls putting layer after layer of paint on canvas, and being frustrated at her inability to capture the combination of bright sunlight and shadows populating the field.

“I can’t hang that painting up because it creeps me out,” she says.

“The sky came out this weird slate green color.”

An avid reader of history, Lanny came across an account of similar woe on the island when a hurricane swept ashore in 1828. “It was so powerful people clawed the ground to save themselves, to keep from being blown away,” he says. Some survived.

Lanny Brewster’s work is in many private collections, and his painting “Marshes of Glynn, Brunswick View” was purchased by the City of Brunswick in 2009 as a gift for Lin Zehua, vice-mayor of Ganzhou, Brunswick’s sister city in Jiangxi Province, China. Locally, he is represented by Art Downtown/Gallery 209 (www.artdowntowngallery209.com) in Historic Downtown Brunswick.

Christy Trowbridge

posts photographs of all of her paintings on her art blog at www.paintingispretty.wordpress.com. Her paintings are also on display at the Glynn Art Association in the Village on St. Simons Island and at True Vine Wine & Gourmet in Downtown Brunswick, where she often sets up shop during First Friday events.

Such was the nature of life on a barrier island, far different from our own experience today, or so we think. View the paintings resulting from Christy and Lannie’s tenures on Sapelo Island and you’ll see life as it could and perhaps one day will be again on any of these Golden Isles that we call home.

That anything remains of the real and rustic Sapelo Island tells you something of the nature of R.J. “Dick” Reynolds Jr. Kid Carolina: A Tobacco Fortune and the Mysterious Death of a Southern Icon by Heidi Schnakenberg (Center Street, 2010) tells you more. Once a household name on Georgia’s coast, Reynolds was an enigmatic figure whose generosity with the family tobacco fortune was overshadowed by his scandalous private life.

Reynolds purchased Sapelo Island from Sea Island Co. founder Howard Coffin in 1934. For 30 years, until his death at age 58, Reynolds found refuge on Sapelo, the place that shielded his eccentricities and fueled his dreams. Sold to the state after his death in 1964, Reynolds’ holdings on Sapelo now host research and exploration of the coastal environment, activities that Reynolds initiated on the island in the 1950s.

A study in contrasts, much like Reynolds himself, Sapelo is both genteel and unrefined. The Reynolds Mansion on the island is the apex of Southern luxury and hospitality with its indoor swimming pool, bowling alley and “circus room.”

The maritime forests, beaches, marshes and creeks surrounding the mansion on all sides are the perfect antidote to all that order, the very wildness that feeds the Southern soul’s rebellious, untamed streak.

A visit to Sapelo will show you what motivated Reynolds in his finest moments and what inspired his demons at his lowest. Kid Carolina will fill in the blanks with the full measure of a man who succeeded brilliantly with strangers and failed miserably with his own family.

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by Patt i Connor

R e s t a u ra t e u r l e a v e s t h e fas t lan e i n h i s wa k e

Shannon and Andy Hill enjoying life on the water.

Mayhall Island. Right, Eagle Island from the air.

ver the course of the past several years, longtime Wendy’s franchiser Andy Hill has been biding his time, slowly divesting himself of his collection of fast-food restaurants. Once the last of the eateries has changed hands, Andy can focus his attentions on what has long been his passion – spending time in, and around, the water.

“What’s so amazing, is (the) constant change of scenery,” he says. As the islands are accessible only by boat, “Every day on the river is a new adventure. You’re out there, watching dolphins, bald eagles, otters, alligators, wood storks … . The landscape is constantly changing. You’ll see a rising full moon and a sunset, and the tides going from high to low and back again … . Being out there on the water, and having the opportunity to see that – there’s just nothing like it,” he says.

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Luckily, that won’t be difficult. Andy, a licensed boat captain for 20 years, and his wife, Shannon, who live on St. Simons, own an archipelago of eight private barrier islands on the Darien River. Known as The Private Islands of Georgia, the eight are accessible by boat from Darien, a mere stone’s throw from their home as well as from Andy’s office at the Golden Isles Marina. For Andy, 49, an avid photographer and former member of the University of Georgia water skiing team who learned to swim almost before he was able to walk, being master of his own aquatic domain is an incomparable feeling – and nothing short of a dream come true.

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The most “developed” of the eight, Eagle Island, has become a favorite vacation spot for honeymooners, nature lovers and sportsmen seeking a destination off the beaten track, where they can take a break and unwind from the strenuous pace of everyday life with their friends and loved ones. For outdoor aficionados, kayaks are available for exploring the Darien River and nearby waterways.

Guests can enjoy oyster roasts (Hill does the cooking), or, if they prefer, provide Hill with a grocery list of items that he’ll deliver from the mainland.

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Eagle Island Lodge

Listed as one of the 50 best adventure hideaways in the U.S. by Outside Magazine in 2008, the 10-acre island features a 3,300-squarefoot eco-lodge built by Hill in 1999 and completed a year later. Like his office, Charley’s On the Hill (named for his father, whom Hill calls “my best friend”), which is rented out for parties, receptions and other private functions, the 10-room cypress lodge reflects its owner’s love of antiquities. The front door with its glass and side windows was salvaged from a 1940s house on Sea Island, while the columns supporting the mantle above the fireplace came from a turn-of-thecentury house in downtown Brunswick. Nor has Hill scrimped on modern amenities. The facility features up-to-the-minute luxuries such as a modern kitchen; bathrooms with double-headed showers; and, on its wrap-around screened porch, an oversized hot tub.

Hill first learned of the islands’ existence in 1992. While strolling in the Village of Saint Simons, he noticed a “For Sale” sign by Commonwealth Realty with a photograph of Mayhall Island, Eagle’s closest neighbor. Wasting no time, he drove home and located Mayhall on the map, then called his friend Michael Gowen, owner of Southeast Adventure Outfitters, to motor out for a look-see. Hill was astonished by what he found. Back in the 1960s, Mayhall’s then owner, Irv Davis, had begun building a three-story, cinder block dwelling with a European-style courtyard and pool. Never completed, it was almost as if the building, with its sturdy cast concrete floors and its roof tailor-made for a romantic rooftop patio, was waiting for Hill to come along and perform his own brand of transformational magic.

Says Andy: “Here was this place that was Irv’s great vision, looking exactly like a home you’d see in a Tuscan village … . Right away I knew that (Mayhall) had the potential to become a perfect getaway.”

Work is currently underway so that, like Eagle, Mayhall eventually will be able to host overnight visitors.

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Whenever possible, Andy and Shannon, retail manager for The Cloister, jump in their boat and head off to Mayhall or Eagle for their own quick getaway. Married five years, the couple were introduced by golfing instructor Mike Cook, who teaches the game to Andy’s daughter, Amelia. “Mike had been telling me for a long time about this wonderful girl I needed to meet … . Three months later, at The Lodge at Sea Island, we finally met. The minute I laid eyes on her, I knew she was special,” he says now. “She has not only a great business mind but she knows how to have fun. And I couldn’t ask for a greater mom and role model for Amelia. We are thankful every day to Mike and his wife, Lori.”

When Andy initially purchased the islands, six had names; the remaining two were nameless. Not for long. Immediately dubbed “Mick Island” and “Jagger Island,” the two now stand as permanent tribute to Andy’s favorite band, the Rolling Stones. “Mick Jagger is one of the best entertainers ever, and the Stones have provided me with so many happy times,” he says. “I want people who come (here) to have just as much fun.

“We’ve had guests from all over the world who visit (Eagle Island) for its seclusion and quality service. One day, maybe we will actually host one of the Stones. You never know.”

For more information, go to www.privateislandsofgeorgia.com or call Andy Hill at (912) 222-0801.

Patti Connor is a longtime freelance writer. Originally from Atlanta, she now lives in Jacksonville with her husband, Bob Welch, and their brood of rescue animals.

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Gridiron Greatness

F o o t ball se aso n r eplays f o nd m e m or i es, st oke s fr esh dr ea m s by Kevin Price

With fall just around the corner, the changing of the seasons means different things to different people.

For some, the transition from summer to fall conjures up thoughts of cooler weather. For others, it inspires thoughts of the leaves changing colors and afternoon hayrides at October festivals in the cool, crisp air of autumn.

But for many, the arrival of fall means one thing and one thing only.

It’s football season.

In the Deep South, the game stirs the emotions like nothing else this time of year, thus it’s often been referred to as another religion to those who follow it with such passion and fervor that they think time stops for each and every football season.

You see, in small Georgia towns like Folkston, Cairo and Lincolnton, nothing seems to matter as much in the community on a Friday as the high school football game that night between the hometown boys and those from perhaps a neighboring county.

It’s the same in college towns across the South such as Athens, Tuscaloosa and Tallahassee, where the scoreboard result at the local university is the most important thing on Saturdays in the fall.

Here in Coastal Georgia, football might not carry the weight with the masses like it does in those aforementioned places, but make

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no mistake, it’s still a big deal, especially to those who will plan an entire weekend around a football game, or two or three for the next several months.

Right here in the Golden Isles, we have one of the nicest football stadiums in the state, if not the country.

We have two high school football programs with pasts of different lengths, but they’re proud histories, nonetheless.

And then, we can’t forget about old Risley High School, which experienced its fair share of gridiron greatness during its existence.

And, of course, when it comes to the college game, no team is more loved in these parts than the Georgia Bulldogs, though the mainland and the islands are filled with more Yellow Jackets, Gators, Tigers and Seminoles than one might actually imagine.

As for the two existing high schools, Glynn Academy is the secondoldest high school in the state, so its football heritage obviously goes back many decades. continued on page 51

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Obviously, so many great players led to Glynn having some powerful teams including the 1936 squad that won the South Georgia Football Association championship, the 1949 outfit which played for the state championship and the 1958 team that lost in the South Georgia championship contest.

But standing above all is that 1964 group which completed a magical run to the school’s first and only state title with a never-say-die attitude and a penchant for pulling out close games, a combination that ultimately took these gridiron heroes to the pinnacle of the sport.

That team featured some of the biggest names in Glynn football lore, including Tash Van Dora, Johnny Tullos, Nick Mavromat, Galin Mumford and Chickie George.

And leading the GA charges that season was head coach Harold Henderson.

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But after a rough beginning, the Pirates began to make their presence felt on the gridiron and have produced some of the best players and teams to hail from Glynn County in the last four decades.

Some of Brunswick’s top players through time include Kenny Dawson, James Williams, Ray Lloyd (the first all-state player for the Pirates), Tony and Jeff Mangram, Billy McCoy, Michael Early, Harold Small and Darius Slay.

Brunswick has also had several regionchampionship winning teams and stateplayoff squads, but no Pirate team to date has been better than that 1999 bunch, which made it to the state championship game that year unbeaten and nationallyranked, only to see its dream of a perfect season and the school’s first state crown come to an end against Lowndes on a rainy December night in Valdosta. continued on page 58

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told her tricks of the trade – carry a lighter for cigars, for instance, and a soft clean cloth for wiping off glasses. She was soon officially certified.

would hit a five-iron, for instance, she explains.

Caddies are paid about $20 per round and $25 per bag carried, she says. They’re tipped about $15 per player.

“I was employed by a company that Sea Island contracts with to run the caddy program,” she says.

Some golfers were extremely nice and friendly – “inviting me to Sea Island cocktail parties,” she says. “But I was shocked to find some wouldn’t ask you if wanted water in 100-degree heat when they went into the halfway house to get some for themselves.”

There have been precious few female caddies on the Sea Island courses and certainly no others in her circumstances. “I drove up in a Cadillac but I dressed down and tried to blend in,” she says.

Judith-Eff says she never “double-bagged” or carried two bags for two golfers. Other caddies needed the resulting double tips more than she did.

“It’s got to be tough being a girl caddie,” says Jordan Edwards, a former Sea Island caddie.

“You’re in the locker room with all guys.”

“It was an education for me and I’m sure for them,” says Judith-Eff. The caddieshack was “a disgusting pit hole” where she shared clean-up chores with her colleagues, she says. “I pride myself on never having eaten anything out of the vending machine in the caddieshack.”

A current caddie says that company policy forbids talking to the press about the program or colleagues. Judith-Eff says she was in a different position from most of the other caddies since she did not depend on the job for her livelihood. Some of them were buddies, she recalls. Some were obnoxious. Some were protective. Some snored on caddieshack couches while waiting for clients.

A caddie perquisite is getting to play the golf courses for free. She laughs at the surprise of another caddie who exclaimed “You got skills” when he played a round with her.

A career in the hospitality industry taught the rookie caddie to read her clients and meet their needs. The naturally, well, loquacious and, umm, colorful Judith-Eff would be silent and somber if she sensed that was how a golfer preferred his caddies. She is not silent, however, about golfers who would reject hiring a caddie.

The $300 or so they were paying to play a round of golf included a caddie fee, she says. Some golfers were so cheap that they wanted to avoid paying the extra $15 or so tip, she says.

“I’ve never understood people who didn’t want to take a caddie,” she says. “Who wants to rake the sand trap? Who wants to replace their divots? Let the caddie do it. The caddie also knows the course better than you do. The caddie is a source of local information” – everything from area history to tips about restaurants.

Even golfers who ride carts should hire “fore caddies” who go in front to pace off distances and find lost balls and other such chores, she says. She would tell the distance to the green or sand trap and estimate the wind strength and direction but never recommend a club for the golfer to use. How could she know how far any given golfer

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Her biggest tip came as a complete surprise.

She was fore caddie for a Mexican man and his three children, aged about 10, 12 and 14.

From their brand new golf shoes to their rented clubs, it was clear they didn’t know much about golf. But the kids did love driving the carts around and playing in the sand traps. “I spoke to them in Spanish” and they all enjoyed themselves, Judith-Eff says.

At the end of the first nine, the father said they were quitting to go skeet shooting. “Maybe they were going to all buy new shotguns,” the former caddie laughs. Anyway, the father took out a large roll of currency and started peeling off bills and stayed at it for so long that Judith-Eff was astonished.

“I know and he knows and my husband knows how much it was, but nobody else does,” she says.

During the year she spent as a caddie, Judith-Eff would play a barroom “What’s My Line” game with folks she met. If they could guess her occupation, she would buy a round. If not, they paid. “They would say, ‘Interior decorator?’ and I would reply ‘Not even close’,” says the former caddie, who won a lot of free drinks.

She never intended to be a career caddie, though, and prefers to play herself and let others tote the clubs. She smiles when she remembers the “sisterhood” that she saw as a caddie.

She would be wearing her white uniform while shopping in Harris Teeter, for instance, when a woman would stare curiously and ask “Are you a caddie?”

“Yes,” she would reply.

“You go girl!!” the woman would exclaim, pausing while pushing a grocery cart to wave a fist in the air.

Bob Dart retired as a national correspondent in the Washington Bureau of Cox Newspapers. He has moved home to Glynn County where he grew up. His book, a collection of his stories about the South is entitled Downhome: Dispatches from Dixie.

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only killed bad guys, the gunshot wounds were bloodless, and every Lone Ranger and Roy Rogers victory carried a moral message.

Younger boys mirrored their conquests with plastic Bowie knives, shiny strap-on pistol belts, feather headdresses and rubber-tipped spears. Cowboys and Indians was good clean fun before history lessons exposed treaty violations, cultural decimation and The Trail of Tears. Older boys preferred playing Army, leading military missions with unclear objectives requiring stealth, climbing trees, crawling in ditches and rushing opponents with loud bangs followed by debates over who had been killed in action. Thankfully, we were unaware that within a decade’s time a Vietcong AK 47 rifle would claim Tom’s life, no longer able to just count to ten and jump up to fight again.

The Fourth of July amazed and excited Leesville’s citizens. The Bijou theatre offered kids Jack the Giant Killer movies for only fifteen cents. We could afford a ticket, but could only longingly stare at King Sized boxes of White Caps, Milk Duds and Whoppers through thick glassed counters smudged with sticky fingers. After the movie, we decorated our bicycles for the afternoon parade from downtown to the picnic park. Colorful streamers of crepe paper flowed from rubber handlebar grips accompanied by the discordant whop-whop bleat of clothes-pinned playing cards against the spokes of wheels.

Older boys hoarded contraband Black Cat firecrackers to use when the potential for crowd disruption was greatest.

In 1963, summertime lacked the adult supervised play that dominates children’s lives in the twenty first century. A few badge boasting Boy Scouts took trips to Camp Benjamin Hawkins while we attended Vacation Bible School. Organized sports were missing, yet every boy played baseball in daily pick-up games in whichever yard served as the field for the day. Pregame discussions included choosing teams, designating bases, and determining whether to use “imaginary runners.” The give and take of negotiated rules taught us effective ways to influence others, share decisions and make compromises with social skills that would make any organizational consultant proud. This process also allowed natural leaders to protect those who were young or physically weak from abusive bullying by the bigger boys. We did not know until he took his own life that Johnny needed protection from the bully who abused him at home. It’s no wonder that he was the first to arrive in our back alley each morning and last to go home each night.

Neither parents nor federal agencies governed our summer activities. They were instead a series of free-flowing events that changed when the group’s curiosity, attention or perceived entertainment value waned. Competition was ever present in makeshift footraces to the next landmark or wrestling that concluded by pinning the other boy’s arms with your knees until the defeated party cried “Uncle.” Any boy who sought parental protection from assault or injury was a “cry baby,” a label that could only be cancelled through great feats of bravery or an act of group-inspired stupidity. Danger was an aphrodisiac that led us to climb thin tree saplings till they bent from our weight, jump from spine-jarring heights and balance our footsteps across every board, wall or handrail in the yards and alleys of Leesville. Layers of red paper caps provided explosive effects when continued on page 63

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Obviously that team was led by several alltime BHS standouts, chief among them Earnest Palmer, Reshard Lee, James Fuller, Darel Slay and Joe McClendon.

They were coached by longtime Pirate head coach John Willis, who is best-known as a master motivator who had a way of firing up his troops for gridiron battles like no other.

But, when it comes to getting fired up, the Bulldogs pump up fans around here like no other team.

Outside of metro Atlanta and Athenstown, there is probably not another fan base in the state that is more rabid about the Dawgs than the one right here on the Georgia coast.

They idolize legendary former coach Vince Dooley, most of them adore current head coach Mark Richt and all of them worship the great Herschel Walker, who in their minds will always be the baddest dude to carry a football between the famed hedges in Sanford Stadium.

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Now as a new season dawns, football fans down here are hoping their favorite teams can build upon their past successes.

The Terrors would like nothing more than to win a state playoff game for the first time in years and recreate the magic of 1964, if not this year then maybe soon.

The Pirates are hoping to finish that same job that the 1999 team started sometime soon, perhaps even this season.

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Our pyrotechnic interests turned backyard campfires into laboratories. We discovered that green pecans thrown on hot coals would explode, porous sticks could be smoked like real cigarettes and flaming marshmallows would scald your skin. One night we used syringes from Dr. Stergle’s trash can to create viscous weapons after sticking their needles in a bar of soap. While such investigations led my brother to a career in scientific research, Sam’s unbridled experimentation led to a lifetime of drug dependency.

No conservationist thought impaired our daily assault on the environment. Brown and green grasshoppers fled between black seeded Bahia grass stalks to escape our inquisitive grasp. Countless stamens of honeysuckle blooms were pinched and pulled to release a single drop of nectar on our tongues. Sadistic briars pricked our flesh like needles but could not protect their precious ripe blackberries. Firm muscadine grapes picked from rope-thick vines entombing vacant lots served as ammo for our slingshots.

Mason jars of fireflies gave their lives to be our nightlights as we unwittingly contributed to the endangered species list.

Three new plaid shirts and Sears Toughskins jeans with matching iron-on patches foretold summer’s end. Soon we would return to a schoolroom filled boys named John, Bill and Bobby and girls named Mary, Sue and Jane.

The assassination of President Kennedy that November of 1963 was deemed an end of an era for our nation. The subsequent decade of civil strife coincided with the lost innocence of those boys whose months were chronicled on barefoot calendars. Sometimes I wish the youth of today could enjoy the joy and boundless freedom we had in that sane and safer world of Leesville, held together by common values and connecting experiences. But it was also a world too often insensitive to cultural difference, with limited environmental conscious, dangerously insulated from threats to our well being. As I contemplate these differences from a sun drenched dune, a barefoot boy gleefully entices throngs of seagulls with chunks of white bread only to recklessly chase them away. It occurs to me that perhaps the summer of 1963 was an age, not an era.

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Even though Ocean Forest Golf Club was open barely 12 years, it went under a major renovation in 2007. The renovation was done earlier than most would have due to soil issues underneath the putting surfaces. “Our renovation started out as a greens project, but we quickly saw a great opportunity to improve this already fantastic layout,” says Andrew Shuck, PGA Head Professional at Ocean Forest Golf Club. The fairways and tee boxes were replaced with new strains of zoysia grass to improve the course’s playability and allow for the grass to stay green longer into the winter, eliminating the need to over-seed. The two biggest changes to the course were the greens and the bunkers. The greens were put back to their original size, reinstating many of the tournament pin placements that had disappeared over the previous 12 years.

The bunkers throughout the course were converted from Irish style pot bunkers to the more indigenous flat bottomed and grass-faced bunkers. “The course is much friendlier and enjoyable for our membership after our renovation. However, with the new pin locations and a little length added to a few holes, Ocean Forest can still host a tournament that will test even the greatest of golfers,” Shuck says.

It is not always easy for golfers to walk away from their favorite links for a few months when a renovation is necessary, but it is always worth it in the end. In the coming weeks, some of the greatest golfers from around the world will be teeing it up at the McGladrey Classic on the Seaside course at Sea Island Resort. Even the Seaside course has been renovated several times since it first opened in 1929. In 1999, Tom Fazio and Medalist Golf completely revamped the layout to allow the course to host a major golf tournament given the modern requirements and driving lengths that tour players hit the ball today. Without these renovations, we would not be lucky enough to have these great players play an event in the Golden Isles that will not only entertain and amaze us for four days in October but that will also benefit the local economy, local charities and the community as a whole in too many ways to count.

Thomas D. Brinson, PGA, is a Certified PGA Golf Instructor. He lives on St. Simons Island with his wife Alexandra and their retriever, Bogey. He can be reached at t_brinson@hotmail.com.

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Growing up, Atlanta residents Marsh and Mary Gossett King also summered at Sea Island – though as children, their visits failed to overlap.

In 1978, well after the two had graduated high school and college, they returned to Sea Island – this time, together. They stayed with Mary Gossett’s parents on 28th Street. “I knew I wanted to marry Mary Gossett,” says King, “but (that) sealed the deal.” The couple, now married, own a summer home there. “There’s still very much of a family feeling, with the staff calling all the guests by name ... . It makes us feel like we’ve come home,” King says. Pointing out that her parents honeymooned at The Cloister, his wife says she hopes that their own newly-married son, Blake, and his bride Annie will raise their own children there.

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Mike Montgomery’s visits to Sea Island first began when he was a teenager. “I visited for several years ... any time I was invited, I’d go,” says Montgomery, who recalls spending many nights passed out on the floor of “someone (with) understanding parents.” The summer after high school graduation he was lucky enough to fall into a job as a lifeguard at the Beach Club. “What could be better,” he says, “than lifeguarding at the premier resort in Georgia?” Like many young people, Montgomery was perennially out of money; to make up the slack, he bartended nights at the then-popular St. Simons bar, Poor Stephen’s.

“I was so broke that I would eat whatever was going to be thrown out that night ... . I remember (their) chicken salad was incredible.” Also working in his favor was the fact that there was never a shortage of young girls around with massive crushes on the lifeguards. “All we had to do,” Montgomery says, “was walk by their table and say, ‘Boy, that hamburger looks good,’ and they’d say, ‘Would you like some?’”

At that time, Percy Walters was the head lifeguard. To Montgomery, the older man was like a father. That’s not to say that Percy wasn’t a stickler. “Every morning, he’d check (us) out, to make sure that we were, if not in tip-top condition, at least, still alive,” Montgomery recalls with a rueful chuckle. He credits “Big George” with herding them into the sauna to revive them from the revelry of the night before.

Not that that was any guarantee that they’d behave. On a slow day when there weren’t a lot of parents around to oversee things, Mike and his fellow lifeguards delighted in rounding up the younger guests and engaging them in a game of “Jump or Dive.” When the hapless youngsters were in mid-air the lifeguards would yell either “Jump” or “Dive.” The objective was, of course, to cause them to do a belly-flop.

Emory Schwall has his own memories. A longtime Atlanta attorney, Schwall went to The Cloister for the first time in 1950. “Back then, even if you were in shorts, you had to wear a jacket to the dining room,” he recalls. In 1977 Schwall and his wife, Peggy, built a house on 36th Street – at the time of its construction, the farthest street from the hotel. There, they spent summers with their three sons, Craig, Emory and Harrison. “I loved The Cloister, and Sea Island, the first time I set foot there,” he says, “and I love it today.”

Memories of youthful hijinks, love and happiness aside, one thing is certain: There is – and will never be – another place like The Cloister.

Schwall sums it up best when he says, “It’s just a wonderful, overwhelmingly gracious resort. I hope that never changes.”

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Historic Downtown Brunswick is the place to be on the First Friday of each month!

Various restaurants and pocket parks host live music, “He Said Beer, She Said Wine” tastings at select shops, restaurants and shops stay open late. Art Downtown hosts an opening reception for featured artist Terrie Daniel and fundraiser for Citizens for Humane Animal Treatment with live music. Special programs and crafts at the Brunswick Library. Join the fun on Newcastle and Gloucester streets beginning at 5 p.m.

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The Brunswick Bazaar and Farmers Market takes place the first Saturday of every month. Shop the open air market for fresh produce, prepared foods and baked goods, plants, arts and crafts, antiques and collectibles, flea market finds and more. Mary Ross Waterfront Park 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Vendors and spenders welcome! Details: goldenislesarts.org Postell Park in St. Simons Island’s Pier Village will be the place to find paintings, sculpture, jewelry and more at the Annual Labor Day Weekend Arts & Crafts Show. Vendors will be on site from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days.

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The Coastal Georgia Historical Society wraps up “A Little Light Music” outdoor summer concert series at the St. Simons Lighthouse with perennial favorites, Sensational Sounds of Motown. The concert begins at 7 p.m. $10, under 12 free. Lighthouse lawn, 12th & Beachview, SSI. Coastal Georgia Historical Society. 638-4666. saintsimonslighthouse.org

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Help Coastal Coalition of Children with their mission to promote healthy, secure and self-sufficient families at “Taste of the Vine . . . Play it Again with Michael Hulett” at the St. Simons Island Casino. This fundraiser takes place between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., and will feature live music by “Sax Man” Michael Hulett, a silent auction of unique pieces of jewelry and art as well as weekend getaway packages.

Gourmet food will be provided by Chef Lee Cranz and his students at the Golden Isles Career Academy.

There will be a selection of fine wines provided by Hamby’s By Air and specialty beers from Southern Eagle Distributors. Tickets are $50 and may be purchased at the door. Details: (912) 262-1855 The true story of a writer helping a New York Fire Chief compose obituaries for firefighters that were lost in the 9/11 attacks is brought to the stage in The Guys. This intimate dessert theater production at Art Downtown/Gallery 209’s Mary Miller Theater features Kelly Dobbin and John Regan.

The audience is invited to write thank you notes to local first responder groups that will be presented in a special program on Sept. 25. Details: www.artdowntowngallery209.com.

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The Let ‘Em Eat Cake fundraiser for Second Harvest takes place at the St. Simons Island Casino. This year’s event will feature a cake walk, cake sundae, basket raffle, chef’s competition and cake auction with Brunswick Mayor Bryan Thompson as the auctioneer. Even Marie Antoinette would be jealous! Details: (912) 261-7979 Shrimp & Grits: The Wild Georgia Shrimp Festival returns to Jekyll Island. This annual festival features a full weekend of events celebrating the tasty crustacean and its Southern sidekick. There will be amateur and professional cooking competitions, cooking demonstrations, shrimp boat tours, live entertainment, a kid-friendly fun zone and much, much more.

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Don your finest masks, the American Cancer Society’s 2010 Victory Gala Venetian Masquerade Ball will turn The Cloister Ballroom on Sea Island into Carnival on this magical evening. The evening festivities will begin at 6:30 p.m. and include dinner, live auction, wine raffle and plenty of dancing. Masks for the event are available exclusively at Accents Marketplace at 1624 Frederica Rd., St. Simons Island.

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The Brunswick Downtown Development Authority hosts Rhythm on the River featuring A Touch of Grey. Bring a chair or blanket and a picnic supper to Mary Ross Waterfront Park. Concert starts at 6 p.m.

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The 10th Annual International Night Out benefit for the International Seafarer’s Center is a party not to be missed. Featuring fine cuisine and beer and wine from around the world, live entertainment and a fantastic silent auction, this night out at Crane Cottage on Jekyll Island is definitely a night to remember. Details: www.seafarercenter.org.

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CoastFest 2010 is Georgia’s largest educational event celebrating the state’s coastal natural environment. The free family-oriented festival includes fun crafts, touch tanks, conservation and wildlife preservation information, wildlife demonstrations, shows by magician Arthur Atsma and “Bubbleologist” Keith Michael Johnson and much more. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the GA DNR/ Coastal Resources Division near the north foot of the Sidney Lanier Bridge. Details: crd.dnr.state.ga.us

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The annual Victory Kids Gala that www.CoastalGaDNR.org celebrates children who raise $100 or more for the American Cancer Society will take place at St. William Catholic Church, 2300 Frederica Road, St. Simons Island. Details: 223-1463

CoastFest is sponsored by the GA DNR/Coastal Resources Division/Coastal Zone Management Program and made possible through a grant provided by NOAA. For information contact Nancy Butler, at 912.262.3140 or email nancy.butler@dnr.state.ga.us

Chicago City Limits presents “American Idles” at the Ritz Theater in Brunswick. The improv comedy troupe that performed for a packed house in February returns with their new touring show lampooning the national obsession with celebrity. Details: www.goldenislesarts.org

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Experience the power of pink at the American Cancer Society Breast Cancer Awareness Luncheon and Fashion Show at Sea Palms Resort on St. Simons Island. The event will be emceed by Bonita Tanner this year and will include a presentation by Becky Florian of the Southeast Georgia Health System. Tickets are $40 per person. Details: (912) 2657117

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St. Simons Island

Downtown Darien

912-638-5444

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. Offering daily specials which include freshly made entrees, overstuffed sandwiches, delicious seafood fare, scrumptious salads, bread baked daily, a huge variety of home cooked vegetables and the absolute best desserts in Coastal Georgia, nothing beats “The 4th”!

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

Enjoy radiant sunsets and experience the Golden Isles’ premier dining destination.

We offer the best service and finest food, in a casual atmosphere. Experience the wonders of nature at The “Rah” Bar which features Georgia Wild Shrimp, Dungeness Crab, oysters, and our famous low country boil.

912-437-2510

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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BRUNSWICK MOONDOGGY’S

2809 Glynn Ave

36 Canal Road Plaza

Brunswick

265-5888

912-264-0605

www.brunswickmoondoggy’s.com

Mack’s BBQ Place retains its historical reputation for “The Best Barbeque in Brunswick.” From our famous pork plates and battered fries to our great catering options, Mack’s BBQ has everything for the BBQ lover.

Come for our generously sized pizzas, pastas, subs and specialty dinners all made from the finest, freshest domestic and imported ingredients. Our pizza and bread dough is made from scratch daily.

TOUCANS ALE HOUSE 2450 Perry Lane Road Brunswick

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

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BEACHCOMBER BBQ & GRILL 319 Arnold Road St. Simons Island 634-5699

“No shoes, no shirt, no problem!” Great BBQ and burgers just a block from the beach on St. Simons Island. Dine in, family-size take out or catering. Featured on The Food Network. St. Simons’ Original BBQ Restaurant.

COURTYARD AT CRANE COTTAGE 375 Riverview Drive

BROGEN’S SOUTH St. Simons Island

COASTAL

Brunswick

Celebrating our 25th 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. Stop by today and find out why the locals call us “The Best Little Seafood House in the Golden Isles!”

200 Pier Alley

Coastal Cuisine

2815 Glynn Avenue

Enjoy true Southern hospitality, fine food and wine in a beautifully restored circa 1867 Victorian. Come on foot or by car, taking advantage of ample parking or even by boat with easy access to two public docks within 2,000 feet of our front door.

912-554-1937

OLE TIMES COUNTRY BUFFET

JINRIGHT’S SEAFOOD HOUSE

638-1660

An island tradition for more than 25 years, Brogen’s dishes up the island’s best burgers right in the heart of the Village. A 30-second walk from the Pier, we are the Island’s only double-decker restaurant with an ocean view.

Jekyll Island 635-2600

Enjoy a Mediterranean menu with a Northern California wine country flair in a historic Italianate Villa. Dine alfresco in the loggia surrounding the fountain courtyard or indoors. Reservations are suggested.

THE GRAND DINING ROOM Jekyll Island Club Hotel 371 Riverview Drive

seafood, and our award-winning Brunswick Stew. Daily Happy Hour from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m.

635-2400

SEASONS OF JAPAN

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are offered daily in this remarkably beautiful room, as well as a splendid Sunday Brunch. Enjoy live piano music with dinner and Sunday Brunch.

Our chef is well known for her delicious lowcountry cuisine and seafood dishes, and the pastries and desserts are exquisite and all homemade.

701 Glynn Isles

3600 Frederica Road St. Simons Island 638-2060

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

Grab a cold one and feast on one of our famous pizzas or burgers, or munch on our legendary potato skins. We’ve got pasta, seafood and the always delicious Chicken Swiss Sandwich on the menu, as well as all your favorite brews.

200 N. Beachview Dr. Jekyll Island

Jekyll Island

BROGEN’S NORTH

BLACKBEARD’S SEAFOOD RESTAURANT

Brunswick 912-264-5280

We offer genuine Japanese fare and Hibachistyle cuisine. Every dish is prepared using the freshest ingredients and the most flavorful seasonings. We offer a delightful children’s menu that every child is sure to enjoy.

(912) 635-3522

Our family friendly restaurant has seating available inside in our spacious dining room, or you can enjoy your meal on our outdoor deck while embracing the sights and sounds of the Atlantic Ocean. Whether it’s an appetizer and a cold beer that interests you or one of our signature seafood platters that include fresh fish and Wild Georgia Shrimp accompanied by a cocktail or a glass of wine, Blackbeard’s has what you crave!

PIZZA INN 3461 Cypress Mill Road Brunswick 912-265-2899

The favorite for pizza in the Golden Isles since 1973. We are known for our famous buffet which includes pizza, pasta, full salad bar and dessert for only $5.99.

NORTHSIDE CAFÉ 1188 Chapel Crossing Road (Across from FLETC) Brunswick

COASTAL KITCHEN

912-265-3935

102 Marina Drive

Whether it’s home-cooked breakfast or a tasty wholesome lunch you’re looking for, we have a table set for you at Northside Café. We serve fresh large three-egg omelets with grits, toast and a drink; perfect breakfast plates, and don’t forget the pancakes.

Featuring daily lunch specials like burgers, home-style hot dogs & Cuban sandwiches.

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, 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.

ALLEN’S BAR-B-Q 5420 Hwy 341 & I-95

DOUG HARRIS’ FIRESIDE CAFÉ

912-265-4008

1801 Frederica Road

A family owned BBQ place that will tantalize your taste buds. An age-old approach is needed when it comes to cooking good BBQ. At Allen’s BBQ you will be welcomed by a down-home group of people who love to see you walk through their door. So when you get the taste for good BBQ, Allen’s will be ready for you.

St. Simons Island 912-268-2330

Island dining in a casual fun-filled atmosphere filled with local history. We’re serving up breakfast, lunch and dinner with specialties like blueberry pancakes, shrimp & grits, crab stew, 8 oz. hand-pattied burgers, local

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912-554-0542 • www.ericstoutmd.com

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