“You can tell it’s a friendly town because they’ve got all these rocking chairs out on the street and nobody’s stolen them.”
- Unidentified woman commenting on the abundance of bright red rocking chairs (the town symbol) lining the downtown shops
It’s after five o’clock on a weekday afternoon and The Blarney Stone in downtown Walterboro is beginning to fill up with hot, thirsty people in search of cool respite from the hammer stroke of another blistering August day. Gary Davis takes time out from our conversation to greet his regulars and welcome the newcomers, mostly day-tripping antique hunters and “halfbacks” taking a break from interstate traffic.
Plums Restaurant, located at 904 Bay St. in Beaufort, hosted a Stone Brewing Company beer dinner to benefit The Independence Fund, 501(c) 3 with a mission to provide support to our country’s wounded war veterans, on Tuesday August 10. Complete with beer pairings by Stone Brewing Company, presented by Advintage, and a four-course meal by Plums’ Chef Will McLenagan, the dinner raised approximately $1,000 for the organization.
The funds raised will be directly applied toward the expenses for the severely injured veterans and caregivers registered to attend the Lt. Dan Weekend taking place this October in conjunction with The Beaufort Shrimp Festival.
For more information or Plums menus, visit www.plumsrestaurant.com. For information on The Independence Fund and The Beaufort Shrimp Festival, visit
The Lands End Woodland, Inc. of St. Helena Island, SC will celebrate the 6th Annual Lands End Woodland River Festival on Labor Day weekend, September 3-4, 2010. The festival is a community celebration of the Gullah ancestry and traditions of the people of St. Helena Island through music, storytelling, performances, crafts, and food. The Lands End Woodland today represents one of the best examples of land conservation by a group of African American families in the South.
The River Festival has become a multicultural celebration and a favorite event for families and visitors from surrounding communities looking to enjoy cultural festivities over the long holiday weekend.
Beaufort Three-Century Project (B3C) will host two special events in one evening—the wrap up community forum as part of Ancestors to Future Generations: Look Back, Look Forward Beaufort and an opening reception for the photography exhibition—Hands Across Beaufort. The events will be held from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. on Friday, September 10, 2010 in MacLean Hall (Building 12) at the Technical College of the Lowcountry, 921 Ribaut Road, Beaufort. Both are free and open to the public.
From 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. the lobby of TCL’s Building 12 will be transformed into an art gallery featuring the B3C project—Hands Across Beaufort.
We're blessed with a swimming pool and use it daily. We frequently have friends on the weekend to swim; it's always a potluck picnic. Everyone brings great food, but one family never, ever brings their own towels. I've told them they should do so, that I have plenty of laundry of my own. They pay no mind. We hate to stop inviting them, as one of their boys is best friends with our son. The child is too little to know to bring his own towel. I hope you have a solution.
The Backyard Tourist gets more than he bargained for in Walterboro, “The Front Porch of the Lowcountry.”
Searching for the Good Stuff
It’s been said that a Tourist doesn’t know where he’s been and a Traveler doesn’t know where he’s going. I’ve always been more traveler than tourist, an advocate of throwing the bare essentials in the car and wandering out into the undiscovered country. This is sort of the central idea behind The Backyard Tourist – to get out and discover the good stuff around our Lowcountry hub of Beaufort, to find things and places that appeal to visitors and locals alike, perhaps a bit more Tourist than Traveler. So when I mentioned to a friend that I had yet to visit Walterboro since making my way back to the Lowcountry, she insisted. “I’ll make some calls.”
Culture
“You can tell it’s a friendly town because they’ve got all these rocking chairs out on the street and nobody’s stolen them.”
Plums Restaurant, located at 904 Bay St. in Beaufort, hosted a Stone Brewing Company beer dinner to benefit The Independence Fund, 501(c) 3 with a mission to provide support to our country’s wounded war veterans, on Tuesday August 10. Complete with beer pairings by Stone Brewing Company, presented by Advintage, and a four-course meal by Plums’ Chef Will McLenagan, the dinner raised approximately $1,000 for the organization.
The Lands End Woodland, Inc. of St. Helena Island, SC will celebrate the 6th Annual Lands End Woodland River Festival on Labor Day weekend, September 3-4, 2010. The festival is a community celebration of the Gullah ancestry and traditions of the people of St. Helena Island through music, storytelling, performances, crafts, and food. The Lands End Woodland today represents one of the best examples of land conservation by a group of African American families in the South.
Beaufort Three-Century Project (B3C) will host two special events in one evening—the wrap up community forum as part of Ancestors to Future Generations: Look Back, Look Forward Beaufort and an opening reception for the photography exhibition—Hands Across Beaufort. The events will be held from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. on Friday, September 10, 2010 in MacLean Hall (Building 12) at the Technical College of the Lowcountry, 921 Ribaut Road, Beaufort. Both are free and open to the public.
Dear LAP,
The Backyard Tourist gets more than he bargained for in Walterboro, “The Front Porch of the Lowcountry.”