Daufuskie Island, SC
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Issue No. 80 | Winter/Spring
Briefly Daufuskie Daufuskie Island Elementary School Oyster Roast
Daufuskie Elementary School will be hosting an Oyster Roast and BBQ at Jolly Shores on April 27, 2014 from 2:30pm to 6:30pm. This event is generously sponsored by Dolphin Management. There will be roasted oysters, Marshside Mama’s famous pulled pork, hotdogs and hamburger with all the fixins! Admission is free but donations are accepted to this wonderful fundraiser that benefits the school. We hope everyone will come out to support the school and have a good time.
From Birds of Daufuskie
Of the tens of thousands of birds counted statewide in this year’s Christmas Bird Count, there were only three Red-breasted Nuthatches....all of which were on Daufuskie Island!
Winter Has Arrived ... At Last!
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by Daufuskie Dundee
ith that said, I look out the window and see a cold, slow rain falling and feel very smug and snug sitting next to our glowing wood stove. I sip a hot cup of tea.. This ain’t bad folks! :)) I have missed our more traditional winters for the past few years. It can and does get really cold here at times. I have to chuckle when folks ask if it ever gets cold. They think this is like Florida and I have to admit some, supposedly winter days, are like.. well, tropical. We had an 80 F. day last week but over the years there have been some bitter cold days with temps in the teens. My grandfather, Pappy Burn would talk about ice storms that would hit and the limbs of the pines would be popping like gunfire as they gave way to the weight of ice and freezing cold. I’ve never heard that happen. But I did see his toilet bowl at the Bloody Point Lighthouse busted. Lots of well pumps and car blocks busted. The winter of 1949-50 my father and I and a couple of men who worked with him came to the old Fripp house, (Jolly Shores was in
the back yard) one Friday afternoon. It was not that cold - long sleeve shirt weather. We went to bed but sometime past midnight we all woke up freezing. The wind was howling and the rain was rattling on the tin roof. Fortunately we had laid in a load of wood for the fireplace and we quickly built up a roaring fire. Then somebody asked my father if we’d put antifreeze in the jeep or the old Ford tractor. Nope. We quickly got our warmest coats on and went out. The cold was absolutely brutal. It stopped us in our tracks and made our eyes water. The whole side of the house was ice. We up’d the hood on the jeep and the radiator cap was sitting up on a oneinch column of solid ice. It never ran again. The tractor was next. It was frozen too. The radiator was split and the ice cracked the block but only on the outside and later it was repaired with sealant, the radiator soldered up and it was still running years later. Mother, my sister and baby brother were in See WINTER on page 3