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POSE, SNAP & POST!
Your winning smile could take you places. If a picture paints a thousand words, the new mural at Freshfields Village surely paints a million. Colorful, lively, and sure to inspire a breezy, seaside bike ride, the painting is the work of artist Tracy Lee Strum and was completed in August.…
Kudos For Kiawah
The Media Goes Mad Over Island’s Offerings What do Forbes, Conde Nast Traveler, and Travel + Leisure have in common? They’re all prestige publications. They all celebrate the luxury lifestyle. And they’ve all fallen hard for Kiawah. While the Island’s inimitable beauty and top-tier amenities have never been strangers to…
PGA Championship: See You in South Carolina
Hemispheres Magazine featured the Kiawah Island home sites that coincide with the PGA Championship in their August print issue. The piece, “See You in South Carolina,” mentions Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course as the location of the championship and highlights how those who are interested can build their “custom dream home”…
THE CIVIL WAR
In December 1860, 169 state representatives met in Charleston to sign the Ordinance of Secession. Morale was high as three thousand citizens cheered the delegates. Then on April 12 of 1861 Charleston was witness to the first shots of the Civil War at Fort Sumter. Locals lined the Battery facing…
THE GINKGO TREE
No tree survives these conditions better than the fabled Ginkgo biloba, with its fan-shaped leaves. Even the most botanically illiterate New Yorker can recognize the tree when its buttery yellow leaves litter the sidewalks in the waning days of autumn. The easy identification is possible because no other tree produces…
LIKE NOBODY’S WATCHING
We’d been at the beach a couple of days. You don’t realize how much you’re escaping until you’re gone. You think you’re going for the pluses: the beach and the golf and the pool with the flume waterslide, but the minuses, the things you leave behind, count almost as much.…
RITE OF SPRING
There is a moment, the split second when the first chords of music fill the air and the audience gets a glimpse at what is to come. That magical moment this past May—as the curtain rose on the Gaillard Center stage to reveal an astonishingly gorgeous wrought-iron gate behind which…
LOWCOUNTRY PLANTATIONS
Middleton Place Since 1741 4300 Ashley River Road, Charleston, SC Open Daily | 9am to 5pm 110 Acres Throughout Lowcountry history, the Middleton family has occupied a prominent place in politics and commerce. Henry Middleton (1717–1784), a wealthy planter with plantations throughout South Carolina, established Middleton Place as his family…
OF BIRDS AND BOGEYMEN
More than Stonehenge, Sasquatch, and the pyramids combined, the hours and fortunes spent cracking golf’s code are unmatched. May we never solve the riddle, because it is golf’s mysteries—the allure of its punishment, the pride of its small victories, the soul-affirming tink of plastic rattling a metal cup—where we find…
