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Story of Childhood on St. Helena Island, SC

A remote Sea Island Lowcountry childhood is the source of rich storytelling skills and the material to draw from.
In this CityTrex podcast episode, the Friends of Hunting Island take us to meet Doctor Jonas Gadson, currently a Minister with the Beaufort Church of Christ.

He's a local who went to the mainland to have a career with Xerox and with Eastman Kodak, then returned home to found a church and serve his native community.

It's fitting that this podcast is published prior to Mother's Day 2014, because, as you'll hear, "Everything I am today I owe it to God and I owe it to my marvelous Mother."

Enjoy this episode where CityTrex takes us to hear an accomplished man recall his Gullah island childhood, a world that barely exists anymore.
He lived the African proverb, "It takes a village to raise a child."

The land is the Sea Island Lowcountry, and the island is St. Helena Island (the home of the Gullah culture), a barrier Island off the coast of South Carolina,

Doctor Gadson is a gentleman that has lived the advice of his marvelous Mother, who told him that "Manners will take you where money won't".

Another podcast of "Local Voices Telling Real Stories" brought to you by CityTrex.com and sponsored by the Friends of Hunting Island.

Want to hear one more of Dr. Gadson?
I do! So we produced this to help promote a church revival he was leading last summer:

What can we say... we love authentic voices!

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7,700 Loggerhead Hatchlings Await

Hunting Island, South Carolina still shows that nature can operate very well without us. We're the ones needing electricity, gasoline, telephones, or a calendar beyond the sun and seasons.

Accessible unpaved places are more precious than ever.
In the winter, this State Park is about horses on the beach and solo beach combing.
The Summertime brings sandcastles and campers that know the sensation of a sunrise saltwater bath.

Click on the player below to hear from two top turtle volunteers,
Turtle veteran, Denise, and Turtle Vet, Doctor Chris:

Play using the SoundCloud player (above) or for the FLASH impaired,
Click and hear from two top turtle volunteers:
Turtle veteran, Denise, and Turtle Vet, Doctor Chris.
About 10 minutes

It's a perfect setting for an ancient reptile to swim home from a life at sea, just as her ancestors have done for millions of years.
In springtime, loggerhead turtle mothers do what their kind has done for centuries - return to the place of their birth to lay eggs. It's going on with or without us, so it's a healthy reminder of our place in the scheme of things.
They don't need us, except to stay out of their way; to be a good neighbor and let them do their thing, which, as humans, we're not very good at. We like to pave things and have lights at night and poke around and say, "Hey, Y'all, look at this!". 

Coastal locals and our visitors love the Sea Island Lowcountry and feel a claim to the natural resources - shown by good stewardship of what we're blessed with.

The Friends of Hunting Island (FOHI) started a Sea Turtle Conservation Project in 1981.
Since then, it's been globally recognized for its successful service.
In 2013 volunteers located and protected 125 loggerhead nests; so about 7,700 turtle eggs successfully hatched and hustled out to sea.

If this interests you then join in! If you're local to beautiful Beaufort, SC, you can actually see a turtle boil - where hatchlings erupt from the sandy nests and scramble into the surf.
Turtle season starts each May, click here for volunteer info.

If you're not local - and our web stats indicate that thousands of the readers are "from away" - then join Friends of Hunting Island, or adopt a nest, or get on the newsletter. 

We have educational and entertaining media for your diversion, for homeschool curricula, etc. Let us know what you're into and we can tailor production.

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Hunting Island State Park is one of the worlds top beaches.
It's a barrier island along the coastal sea island Lowcountry of beautiful Beaufort, South Carolina.
Get your bearings: we're located north of Savannah and its popular Tybee Island, Georgia; north of South Carolina's of Daufuskie, Hilton Head, and Fripp.
Also, south of what we think of as Charleston, SC: Edisto Island, Kiawah Island, Folly Beach, Sullivans Island, and the Isle of Palms.

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Brantley Harvey tells about Strom

Here is the voice of Brantley telling stories about Strom.
One South Carolina statesman shares his recollections regarding another.
Priceless.

Click it and thank Books Sandwiched In for making this happen:


About 9 minutes
or click here to hear it in QuickTime on your smart phone, iPad, etc.

This is one of several podcasts
sponsored by CityTrex LLC for
Books Sandwiched In
USCB Performing Arts Center
801 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC 29902
12:00 - 1:00 pm (doors open at 11:30 am)
February 28, 2011
The event is free and open to everyone.
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Harriet Keyserling books it going Against the Tide

The President of the United States introduced this reviewer to this author.
How cool is that? Pretty darn so.
"Against the Tide: One Woman's Political Struggle" by Harriet Keyserling.
Reviewer: Linda Tarr-Whelan.
Click it and dig it, a radio preview of the Books Sandwiched In for Jan 31st:

about 10 minutes

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Our reviewer this week is Linda Tarr-Whelan, author of "Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World." 

Click and download an eBook version, or go to the source (LindaTarrWhelan.com) to learn more.

Books Sandwiched In
USCB Performing Arts Center
801 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC
12:00 - 1:00 pm (doors open at 11:30 am)
Monday January 31, 2011
The event is free and open to everyone.
Bring your lunch or purchase it at the Outtakes Cafe table in the Performing Arts Center. 

And dude, save your Hooters sweatshirt for another day. The President of the United States introduced these two women. Can anyone in the room top that? 

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Oral history: Remembering the Way It Was at Beaufort, Sheldon and the Sea Islands

Fran Heyward Marscher is a delight, so it's a double-treat hearing her review her book, Remembering the Way it was at Beaufort, Sheldon and the Sea Islands. She is speaking on Valentines Day and she's the perfect fit.

Click and feel a Lowcountry tidal rhythm:


About 7 minutes

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This is one of several new media promotions
sponsored by CityTrex LLC for
Books Sandwiched In
USCB Performing Arts Center
801 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC 29902
12:00 - 1:00 pm (doors open at 11:30 am)
February 14, 2011
The event is free and open to everyone.

Here's a link to her book on Amazon.com.
Highly recommended!

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Scott Graber: gullah life on St Helena Island

Highly admired Beaufort Attorney Scott Graber reviews "Black Yeomanry: Life on St. Helena Island" by Thomas Jackson Woofter.

Click to hear Scott Graber share a story:

About 7 minutes
or
click here to hear it in QuickTime on your smart phone, iPad, etc.

Books Sandwiched In
USCB Performing Arts Center
801 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC
12:00 - 1:00 pm (doors open at 11:30 am)
Monday January 24, 2011
The event is free and open to everyone.
Bring your lunch or purchase it at the Outtakes Cafe table in the Performing Arts Center.

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Mayor Billy does Books

The 2011 Books Sandwiched In series begins with "Doctor K: A Personal Memoir," reviewed by the son of Doctor K, the Honorable Billy Keyserling, Mayor of Beaufort, SC.
A personal memoir of a Lowcountry family Doctor.
These tales of the Sea Islands (especially of the 1950's, 1960's) are a world away from our 21st century gated communities.
Office visits: $2, house calls: $3.
Birthing was often a stay-at-home event and involved boiling water. The good Doctor K reported at least one cat eyeing the afterbirth in a collection basin.
The Beaufort County ambulance service was a used hearse driven by NASCAR wannabes.
Doctor K kept watch out of his office window for his children while they sailed. 

Click to hear Billy K. share his Father's story:

About 7 minutes
or click here to hear it in QuickTime on your smart phone, iPad, etc.

Books Sandwiched In
USCB Performing Arts Center
801 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC
12:00 - 1:00 pm (doors open at 11:30 am)
Monday January 17, 2011 (was postponed from Jan 10th due to weather)
The event is free and open to everyone.
Bring your lunch or purchase it at the Outtakes Cafe table in the Performing Arts Center.

Get your media to go (goes to the above MP3):
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It's a Top Town for Art, here's another reason why.

Beautiful Beaufort, SC premiers cultural tourism events regularly.
Sixty-three islands between Charleston, SC and Savannah, GA, the Queen of the Sea Islands is both a small southern town and a launchpad of national talent.

Did you see the March 2013 episodes of the American Idol TV show?
A finalist, Candice Glover, is a standout singer and one of our own, a St. Helena Island, South Carolina native.

Natalie Daise, Hank Herring, and Janet Spencer are three talented locals, and you can meet them in-person on
Friday March 15, 2013 from 6pm to 8pm
in downtown Beaufort at an art showing called
Lowcountry Scenes and Unseens. (No charge!)

Green Herring Arts & Framing
843-812-6496
Click for map: 1001 Bay Street, Beaufort, South Carolina 29902
corner of Charles and Bay Streets

Hear the artists tell it in their own voices: Click and hear Hank Herring and Janet Spencer carry on about Natalie Daise and their upcoming show.  

About 9 minutes

or for the FLASH impaired, click here to hear it in QuickTime on your smart phone, iPad, etc.

Hank Herring. Artist, US Marine, and visionary founder of art programs such as "Do You See What I See?" that support budding artists. See: MyGreenHerring.com

Natalie Daise is a speaker, writer, performing and visual artist, workshop facilitator and Lowcountry resident. Known worldwide as "Ms. Natalie" on Nick Jr.'s award-winning television program, Gullah Gullah Island, the 21st Century involves her stewardship to: Entertain. Educate. Empower. Inspire
NatalieDaise.com

Janet Spencer @ Janet Spencer Sings .com She sure does!
In the podcast, sample her "South Carolina Breezes", it made me feel like I was getting my back scratched... warm, cared for, calm... When a voice provokes such a physical reaction, just buy the CD - download and then come meet her in person.

Attribution for podcast background music, all borrowed from JanSpencerSings.com/music.html

GRANDMOTHER SONG - INSTRUMENTAL
(Jan Spencer) April, 2008 Words & Music by Jan Spencer/Produced & Arranged by Darryl Horne

SOUTH CAROLINA BREEZES
(Smooth Jazz Singer/Songwriter CD) December 8, 2012 Words & Music by Jan Spencer/Produced & Arranged by Daryl Horne

Bluffton Boilers 2012

Boiled Peanuts! 

 Outside of Dixie they're considered odd. It'd give a Bubba like me a complex, except once I got off the Lowcountry Islands I found out the South has been right all along. For instance:
- A nickel's worth of grits equates to a $7 high-brow Italian polenta side dish.
- A handful of boiled peanuts compares well with trendy Japanese edamame.

Bluffton Boilers, the inaugural Lowcountry boiled peanut competition, was the brain child of Babbie Guscio, Jared Jester and Hannah Parrish. With a love of boiled peanuts, they collaborated to create an event that would let the competitive juices flow and show off a southern staple.

Click and hear two top competitors, Adam Simoneaux and Pierce Giltner, share their strategic recipes. Will a splash of bath water or a dab of pluff mud earn them the top prize?

About 9 minutes

Fascinating tale, well told by Gary Kubic

"Unbroken" by Laura Hillebrand
presented by Gary Kubic

Click for a view of a life with high highs and low lows, told by a thoughtful observer:


About 11 minutes
or . . . click here to hear it in QuickTime on your smart phone, iPad, etc.

As the Beaufort County Administrator and the son of two teachers, Gary Kubic was instrumental in building a new public library on St. Helena Island, SC.

He has more than 36 years of experience in government administration and finance, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Akron School of Law in Akron, Ohio, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Ohio State University.

This is one of several podcasts sponsored by CityTrex LLC for
Books Sandwiched In
Monday February 20, 2012
Mondays 12:00 - 1:00 pm (doors open at 11:30 am)
The series is free and open to everyone.

USCB Performing Arts Center
801 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC 29902

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