CH2: Celebrate Hilton Head - July 2009

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P78 MONEY MATTERS What you need to know about…Investing.

P84 HE SAYS, SHE SAYS. This month’s topic: Summer Lovin’

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EDITOR’S NOTE. It would seem that I am the messy one.

PIGGLY WIGGLY’S RECIPE OF THE MONTH Black Bean and Corn Salad

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ISLAND MAP Are you lost? Refer to this page.

PROUST INTERVIEW Ashton Kelley, recent grad of USCB and new marketing director for The Lowrey Group answers a few questions. Yes. Those questions.

P56 CELEBRATE JULY Fireworks and family fun abound in the Lowcountry this month.

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P77 CH2 AFTER DARK Who’s playing where and when, along with trivia nights and other reasons to stay up past 10 p.m.!

DISCOUNT CARD AND DISCOUNTS! Why in the world would you NOT show your CH2 card to get these fabulous discounts? If your issue doesn’t have one, e-mail us your mailing address and we’ll send you one! Card requests to m.washo@ celebratehiltonhead.com.

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ONE TOMATO, TWO TOMATO, THREE TOMATO, FOUR CH2 spends a few days with the Sanders family, five generations of tomato farmers on St. Helena Island.

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C2’S HILTON HEAD ISLAND VACATION STATION Where to Stay, What to Do, Things you shouldn’t miss!

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HOOKED ON PLEIN AIR Area artists capture the moment on canvas.

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FACEBOOK: STALKING YOUR WAY TO A MORE INFORMED FUTURE Are you a Facebook Icon… or a Facebook Investigator?

P66 E.A.C. A wave of new technology has hit in the HVAC business. The owners of E.A.C. explain how you can control your airconditioning unit…from Tennessee?

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BLUFFTON’S BEACH Welcome to the Sandbar.

J. BANKS DESIGN GROUP With J. Banks’ new home office and retail store, Joni Vanderslice, president of the company, illustrates not only how to sustain a thriving business, but also how to sustain and nurture employees, the environment and our local and global communities.

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SHINEDOWN Their sound has been touted, by various sources, as exemplifying hard rock, post-grunge, alternative metal and even pop genres. But the talented group known as Shinedown identifies itself as simply an American rock band. And rock they did for the hundreds who turned out for their May 2009 show at Hilton Head’s popular Shoreline Ballroom and left feeling satiated, but eager for more.

MARSHSIDE MAMA’S A combination restaurant and bar on Daufuskie Island, Marshside Mama’s isn’t a step back in time; it’s a step away from time.

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QUIET STORM SURF SHOP The owner of the Quiet Storm Surf Shop in Coligny Plaza is young, vibrant and extremely business-minded in that sandals-to-work-wearing sort of way.

Krauss may look like he’s on cruise control, but he knows everything that is happening in his store at all times.

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P22 FRESH PRODUCE As colorful as the name portrays, this store in Coligny Plaza beams with bright colored clothing for the whole family

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CHRISTINE’S CAFÉ AND CATERING We catch up with Christine Bohn as she opens up her new mid-island café. pg. 62

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FROM THE EDITOR

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Publisher / Editor-in-Chief: MAGGIE WASHO Art Director: KELLY STROUD Art & Production: JASON BURT Director of Sales: REBECCA VERBOSKY Advertising Sales: MORGAN O’BANION HELENE STEPHENS STAN WADE Contributing Writers: ANN DEMART PAUL DEVERE KATE HANZALIK LINDSEY HAWKINS LINDA S. HOPKINS CRAIG HYSELL KEITH KELSON COURTNEY NAUGHTON BLANCHE SULLIVAN LEW WESSEL JEAN WHARTON

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BY ANNE JOHN BRACKETT PHOTOGRAPHY Art Direction: TOM STAEBLER

P.O.Box 22949 Hilton Head Island, SC 29925 843.689.2658

I AM THE MESSY ONE.

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fter spending the last few months living with the whole place to myself, I have come to this troubling conclusion: I am the messy one.

When there was a steady stream of roommates with their significant others, family, kids, dogs, cats and one leopard-spotted gecko in and out of the home, it was difficult to say who exactly was making the house dirty.

Was it the niece and nephew who tracked in all the sand? Or the big yellow lab? Was it the roommate who left a mountain of dirty dishes in the sink? Or the roommate’s irritating girlfriend? Who left this pile of laundry on the couch…AGAIN?!

As it turns out, it was probably me who tracked in all the sand, left the dirty dishes in the sink and “forgot” to fold the laundry on the couch. I have no one to blame anymore.

Which is fine, really. I don’t have to be good at everything, right? We all have strengths and weaknesses, and my faults lie in the cleanliness department. Which isn’t to say I am going to give up on the idea of a clean house and neatly folded laundry altogether.

Tomorrow I’m going to hire a maid.

M. Washo Editor-in-Chief

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Picture it. The early morning June mist rises off the ground on St. Helena Island. The sun is there, somewhere. Before the family, and a host of workers, is a year’s worth of planning and substantial investment.

The family has done its best to feed the plants, to protect the plants, to make it to this moment, the harvest.

So much could have gone wrong. So much could still go wrong.

For instance, the children and grandchildren remember the story. It was when Ross MacDonald Sanders was growing tomatoes and cucumbers. Cucumbers were more profitable at the time. Grandson, Ross Taylor, related the story his grandfather told. It was September, 1959. “Granddaddy had the prettiest crop of cucumbers he’d ever seen. They were so dark green, they were almost black. He walked the crop on Saturday, and on Sunday, Hurricane Gracie picked it. After that he said he was tired of cukes.”

Or another time. “The plants were three-quarters grown and we had a dadgum frost 21st of April that killed them. Next year, we had one on the 20th of April. Two years in a row. Nobody wanted to see us come into town,” Ross Sanders said. He could laugh at it now.

(opposite) Ross MacDonald Sanders in the tomato fields, circa 1970. Frogmore Manor, formerly a Civil War hospital, was purchased by the Sanders family in the mid 1800s. This St. Helena Island estate’s more recent claim to fame was as the home of Forrest Gump, in the 1994 Oscar-winning movie.

Ross MacDonald Sanders is the patriarch of the multi-generational Seaside Farm. In the early 1900s, his grandfather, Gustav “Gus” Sanders, began what turned into the first commercial tomato farm on the East Coast.

“My granddaddy was quite a land speculator. That’s how he got all this property on the island. He owned Dataw Island at one time.

But if he could buy it for $10,000 and sell it for $12,000, he’d do it in a skinny minute. Of course, he kept this,” Sanders said, referring the thousand acres that make up Seaside Farm. About 400 acres are in tomatoes. “We don’t have any ripening room capacity to have any more than that. That’s the limiting factor,” Sanders explained. “We can raise more tomatoes, but we’d have tremendous expense to put up more ripening room.”

Depending on the season, Seaside Farm will produce between 15 and 20 million pounds of tomatoes. Through brokers Seaside Farm hires, the round tomatoes will end up mostly on grocery store shelves and in salads in restaurants. They have also ended up in some rather exclusive places. Here’s a great trivia question: What do the QE2 and Seaside Farm on St. Helena Island have in common?

Answer: The following used to be printed on the great ship’s menu: “Made with Seaside Farm Brand tomatoes.”

“We had a great business with the Queens (QE2) going back and forth to Europe. They’d pick up a truckload of our tomatoes and

(top) Planting at Seaside Farms begins in early March and lasts for around six weeks. Plastic is placed over the ground in the weeks before planting begins. The setting machine (tractor) is fitted with small cylindrical tubes in which the infant tomato plant is placed. As the tractor moves down the field, a mechanism below where the men are sitting cuts through the plastic, deposits the plant in the ground and waters it.

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Edward Taylor walks behind the tractor to make sure the plants are set correctly. A uniform set is crucial to a good crop. The Seaside Farms sign hangs in front of the tomato packing plant, which is the hub of the family operation every June and July. Here at the packing plant, tomatoes are sorted, washed, boxed and sent via tractor trailer trucks to the Annex, where they are refrigerated awaiting delivery to various food distributers. Lea Taylor (bottom left) explains the new computer software to the checkers. Their role is to make sure the tomatoes coming off of the line are put in the correct shipment according to size, quality and color.

bring them up to New york. They’d pay you a premium for good tomatoes. We always took great pride in Seaside Farm tomatoes—top of the market. It paid off when things got tough. We try to produce a higher quality tomato than anyone else because we’re a smaller farm than anyone else,” said Sanders.

St. Helena, located east and a little north of Beaufort along u.S. Highway 21, is, for most, a place people pass through, maybe on their way to Hunting Island State Park or Fripp Island. yet it is truly hallowed ground. The island is the home of Penn Center, created in 1862 as one of the first schools for freed slaves. Today, it is a National Historic District landmark and the center for the preservation of the Gullah culture, a unique blend of language, an African heritage, food, and way of life experienced by African Americans on the Sea Islands of South Carolina.

The Sanders family has a tangential tie to the school. Back in the 1860s, the school’s founders, laura Towne and Ellen Murray, lived in what is now called Frogmore Manor. Ross Sanders, along with his brother and sister, were raised there. The house now belongs to Ross’ daughter and son-in-law, Caroline and Bill Hatcher.

St. Helena was also hallowed ground for Gus Sanders and his decedents. Gus planted hundreds of acres there and on other parcels in Beaufort County. On his St. Helena farm, it was tomatoes and cucumbers in the spring, broccoli and lettuce in the winter. Gus and wife Bessie had eight kids. One of them, Ed, at the ripe old age of 17, moved to his father’s St. Helena Island farm.

“Reason we’re still in tomatoes is that Daddy had the packing house. We packed our own cucumbers and tomatoes in the spring,” Sanders explained. “We eventually, had to get out of the cucumber business because somebody in South Carolina got together a bunch of farmers and decided they could set the price on cucumbers. They set the price unrealistically high. Well, they got away with it for two years. It’s a matter of supply and demand. you cannot set the price. Well, in a couple years time, these boys down in Georgia figured out they could sell lower and pushed us out of the cucumber business,” Sanders said.

His father also put in a winter crop of broccoli. But that unofficially ended one December day when Ross’ young wife, Martha, found herself alone on Christmas. “Can you visualize me out here with no one around... and two tiny little babies at Christmas?

I had no Christmas tree. This cousin of Ross’ and a friend of his (Marvin Dukes, now a prominent Beaufort attorney), said ‘We’ll get you a Christmas tree.’ They went out in the back fields and brought a scraggly looking thing. Ross got me a tree,” Martha said, still laughing with her husband over the memory.

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Tomatoes are harvested while still green to prevent them from bruising during the packing process. Gray (Gator) climbs up on the truck to inspect the quality of tomatoes.

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Ross and Gator discuss the impending storm on the first day of harvest, which started late this year due to a rainy spring.

Mac anxiously waits to see how the packing house runs as the first tomatoes come in for the season. Cousins, Edward Taylor (above) and Graham Sanders (below) check on the crop as it is being harvested to make sure field operations go smoothly. This can include everything from pulling trucks (weighed down with tomatoes) out of the mud to making sure each field crew is operating on schedule to maximize the harvest.

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The “out here” Martha was referring to was a somewhat isolated 38 acres on Station Creek, where the Sanders family live. Today, past a grove of pecan trees, a drive leads to a row of homes that look out across a long stretch of water, with a view of St. Phillips Island, owned by Ted Turner.

“We had to grow our own neighbors,” Martha said. The “neighbors” include sons Mac (Ross MacDonald Sanders II) Gray (“Gator”) and daughter lea (Margaret leonora Sanders Taylor).

In 1991, the “neighbors” took over Seaside Farm. Mac is president, Gator is vice president, and lea does all the accounting. Ross Taylor, lea’s son, said of the titles, “They literally drew straws. It just worked out that way.”

Mac, Gray, lea and young sister Caroline, all went to Clemson.

The grandchildren have followed suit. “We now have three grandsons and two granddaughters there (at Seaside Farm),” Martha said.

Other than Seaside Farm “round” tomatoes, the family also grows grape tomatoes, and, for cousin Christy and husband Brad O’Neal, who have Coosaw Farms up the coast, there’s a big watermelon patch. “We just grow them,” said Edward Taylor, one of the five grandchildren who help manage the farm. like the rest of the family, Edward can tell you everything about tomato farming, about the harvest, about tying off the vines on three separate and specific times in the growing season as the tomato plants grow.

About soil temperature and nutrients. How timing and weather are everything. And the fact that he didn’t like eating tomatoes when he was little (a fact older brother Ross still teases him about), but has a true appreciation for them now.

Edward drives a truck with a license plate that tells you he is part of Seaside Farm and member of the extended Sanders family.

It has the word TOMATO on it and a number. There is TOMATO and TOMATO 1, on vehicles belonging to Ross and Martha Sanders. Sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, all sport the word that means so much to the Sanders.

Ross Sanders said the reason tomatoes do so well on St. Helena is the land and weather on the Sea Islands. “They warm up a little ahead of the inland areas,” he explained. “This sand is very suitable for raising tomatoes. As long as we got water, we’re in good shape.”  july 2009

Since the harvest lasts for only four to six weeks, it’s all hands on deck when 500 migrant workers arrive to help with the picking. When the harvest ends at Seaside Farms, these field crews will move up the coast assisting other farms. www.celebratehiltonhead.com 21

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Fresh Produce Funky island boutique offers more than tourist trinkets.

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hatever happened to the old Java Joe’s coffee shop in Coligny Plaza? Ask George and Kim Mischik, owners of the newly expanded Fresh Produce boutique, and they will tell you just how busy they have been with the takeover. CH2 had a chance to see what the buzz is all about early in June on a busy Sunday afternoon.

“We took over Java Joe’s on December 1, started renovations right away and completed it on February 1,” said Kim Mischik, comfortably seated on a plush paisley ottoman near six enticing shelves of Vera Bradley bags in every shape, size and color. “We just jumped at the opportunity to expand. We added a few new products. We expanded our

Vera Bradley line. We used to only have four cabinets; now we have an additional two, and we spread everything out a little bit more, which makes shopping easier for everybody.�

Cozy pink plaid chairs, hand-painted pastel walls and a periwinkle stairwell are also among the many pleasantries of this truly eclectic shop. Comfort and style seem to be the vibe all-around.

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Whether you are a tourist looking to enjoy your day or a local looking for beach essentials, this shop is just right.

Choose from relaxed-fit clothes or more formal gear. Scour racks of shorts, long and short dresses, and tops from Fresh Produce brand, a Colorado-based clothing company, whose pale cotton relaxed-fit styles are akin to Anthropologie and Free People. And, you’ll be tempted by the array of designs from the Vera Bradley Patchwork Collection of visors, beach bags and plastic totes.

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Sizes for everything range from six months to three-X, but they skip over the 7-14 age group. As Kim, a mother herself, says, “At that age, it’s kind of hard; those kids want to shop at Abercrombie.”

Opened in 2004, the Mischik’s shop is a considered a “handpicked store” of the Fresh Produce brand, so it is similar to a franchise, but is distinguished by the fact that it is locally owned and operated. “We make it fun. And I have a great staff; they are real hospitable with everybody and that makes it a great shop,” said Kim. It’s certainly not your average tourist shop; in fact, the only Hilton Head iron-ons sold are cute little pastel onesies. Customers will get a kick out of the gotta-have-it electric pink and green party napkins with playful inscriptions such as: “I can handle any crisis; I have children” or “So many men, so few can afford me.” Coveted Tyler candles with their highly recognizable panther lids line one big wall. lots of kid stuff too— funky Sassafras brand backpacks for kids, Doodah-brand toys, SPF 50 baby hats. Also worth mentioning are the

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MSC-brand polka dot coozies, bath toys, flip-flop notepads, and handmade black and white polka-dotted little Miss O’s Hair Barrettes.

There is an impressive array of bathing suits, as well. “We have Fresh Produce and then we have the Sunset Swimwear which is a nice cut. Our bestselling top is the tankini and the swim bottom skirt that has a bottom built into it. That’s great

because it kind of fits all ages, I like it too. I have kids so it makes it easy on the beach,” said Kim. As for specials, she added, “We always have a sale rack going; everything is 50 percent off.” locally handcrafted She’s Crafty jewelry pieces are also among the many items for sale, including belts with handmade buckles, funky necklaces and rings. The store also carries ecofriendly jewelry called Smart Glass, including sterling silver rings, necklaces and bracelets made from recycled glass, including a cobalt blue [piece] made from a vodka bottle, brown amber made from beer bottles, one from a sake bottle, and one from a Coca Cola bottle.

Whether you are a tourist looking to enjoy your day or a local looking for beach essentials, this shop is just right.

“Once you walk in here it just puts everybody in a good mood,” said Kim. “It’s colorful; it’s a fun environment to be in; it’s definitely stuff you are not going to find back home…you are not going to go back to Ohio and see a store similar to this.”  Fresh Produce is located at Coligny Plaza, 1 North Forest Beach Road. Store hours are Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sundays 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. For more information, call (843) 842-3410.

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Article by Paul deVere

CAN YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE FROGS?

WHERE IS THE BEACH? HOW DO I TURN ON THE TELEVISION?

IS HILTON HEAD AN ISLAND?

WELCOME TO HILTON HEAD

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n all the years I’ve been in this business, I’ve never had a guest ask me to make sure our company calls on them at 8 o’clock in the morning or knocks on the door to say, ‘Housekeeping,’” said Bob Hawkins, one of the owners of The Vacation Company, a short-term rental management firm he started 22 years ago. “You ever try to grill a steak in a hotel room?” he asked, laughing. Hawkins doesn’t have anything against hotels.

Far from it. In his travels he uses them frequently and enjoys the comfort and convenience. “Length of stay is significant,” Hawkins said. “If you’re only going to be staying a couple nights, pick a hotel.”

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WHAT IS A TRAFFIC CIRCLE AND HOW DO I NAVIGATE MY WAY AROUND IT?

IS THAT A REAL ALLIGATOR? WHERE DO I BUY A BEACH CHAIR? SO WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU CATCH WHEN YOU GO SHARK FISHING?

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There are dozens of short-term rental or property management companies on Hilton Head. It is the branch of the real estate industry that helped define what the island is today—a popular and highly regarded resort and residential coastal community. These companies are the ultimate middleman in the very best sense of that word. They make vacations happen for customers and income happen for property owners. It’s a demanding and always interesting business.

Tom Ridgway, who owns Hilton Head Rental and Golf, remembers some of his company’s “interesting” guests. “Some of the crazy things include the guest that requested that we do something to reduce the frog noises at night by the pond.

Or the guest who called to tell us that he had booked a room with a view of the ocean and all he could see were the tops of houses. We politely advised him to turn in the other direction on his balcony and he was elated to see the ocean. Then there was the guest who arrived late at night, upset that he couldn’t see the ocean from his oceanfront villa. We explained that the ocean was truly there and he would definitely see it in the morning.”

These companies are expected to be everything to everyone (guests and property owners alike) from property maintenance—making sure everything at the home or villa is tiptop shape—to tee times for the guests. “We know this may be their only vacation for the year. It’s nice that we’re able to make it a memorable event for them. If they’re having a Lowcountry boil, we’ll go out and get them a big pot. Whatever they need,” said Linda Maloney, owner of Beach Properties.

The ability to rent beachfront properties isn’t anything new.

Beachfront cottages and homes, let out to rent, started dotting the shores of South Carolina’s Grand Strand as early as 1901.

But for decades, it remained a cottage industry (pun intended), unplanned and without any real direction.

“Some of the crazy things include the guest that requested that we do something to reduce the frog noises at night by the pond.”

That all changed in the mid-1950s when Charles Fraser’s vision of a community of like-minded individuals, a place called Sea Pines, took hold. People who shared Fraser’s extraordinary vision wanted to retire to this community but weren’t ready. So they rented by the week, and the industry was born.

According to Jim West, owner of Sunset Rentals, the short term rental management business has morphed again in a direction he didn’t expect. “We thought it (short-term rentals) was price point driven,” he said, and readily admits he was wrong. “Our business has changed dramatically in the last few JULY 2009

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years. You have to offer (guests) nicer bathroom amenities, like thicker towels and softer linens.” He said it’s the Baby Boomers. “They have more time to travel and they want the creature comforts. It’s just the way our society has changed in the past few years.” As an example, he said that his very high-end properties come with optional chef and daily maid service.

According to West, five years ago, view was everything. Now, a villa with no real view, but with designer furniture, marble topped kitchen counters, and extra amenities, is his top unit.

Hawkins has made sure all the properties his company represents have wireless, high speed Internet access. All company owners agreed that the Internet is playing a substantial role in choosing short-term rental properties. Virtual tours of properties are a big ingredient to the vacationer’s decision. “We have people who will spend hours on the Internet going to different sites and different places,” Hawkins said.

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“There was the guest who arrived late at night, upset that he couldn’t see the ocean from his oceanfront villa.

We explained that the ocean was truly there and he would definitely see it in the morning.”

The Internet is so strong, West no longer prints brochures. “Everybody books on the Internet,” he said. He also cautioned about Internet bookings. While

h e t h i n k s i t ’s g r e a t , vacationers can get a little over enthusiastic and forgetful. “They’ll call and tell us they can’t find the property, and come to find out they don’t have paperwork.

They don’t have anything whatsoever with them except their family and personal belongings. It’s pretty amazing.”

Linda Roberts, villa rental manager for Vacation Time said that, in the past five years, the Internet has definitely impacted her company’s business, but in a different way: rentals by owners who decide not to use an agent.

“We’re seeing a lot of repercussions from independents renting—they who have no face-to-face contact with the guest. They

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don’t know if it’s four 18-year-olds or four adults. We’ll have guests coming to the desk that aren’t our guests. Because our name is on the building, because we handle regime management, or because we rent a number of units in that building, the other guests will say, ‘Go down to the Vacation Time office.’ And they’ll come and say, ‘We went to check in, but there’s somebody in our room.’ Double booking can be a problem,” Roberts cautioned.

On the benefits of renting private homes and villas, Ridgeway said, “Compare having a complete kitchen, dining area, living room area, washer and dryer and private bedrooms with multiple bathrooms versus the standard hotel room. Add multiple TVs, DVDs, private balconies, pools, spas, free tennis, free Internet and you can see why renting is the preferred form of vacationing.

Hawkins had a similar take. “Even in the smallest twobedroom villa, there are a couple TVs, one in the living room, one in the bedroom. If you share a hotel room with somebody, you’ve got two people who want to watch different TV shows; what do you do? Maybe it’s just a couple of couples. The guys want to go in one room and have a beer. The women don’t want to watch the guys sitting and having a beer and acting dumb,” he said.

While the fundamental benefits of short term rentals for vacationers haven’t changed since those early days, the concept of “vacation ownership” or timesharing, has played an important roll in the way people vacation. Carolyn Oliver of Spinnaker

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Hawkins had an unusual “family” take. The additional space available in private homes and villas is the key, Hawkins said, “especially when the kids get into their teens. They’ll say, ‘Mom, I don’t want to go. I want to stay with my friends.’

So mom says, ‘I’ll tell you what, why don’t you bring Mary with you.’ So you get a family of a certain size and, to make everybody happy, they can bring a friend. It’s just a matter of more bedrooms.”

According to Jim West, owner of Sunset Rentals, five years ago, view was everything. Now, a villa with no real view, but with designer furniture, marble topped kitchen counters, and extra amenities, is his top unit.

Ridgway has noticed another change recently. More property owners are allowing pets. “Just check with your rental company,” he suggested.

All managers concurred that, other than the obvious benefits, like bedrooms, multiple bathrooms, choice of location (ocean, golf course), one of the most important elements is privacy. “In a private home or villa, you ought be able to sit back and relax and smell the roses,” Hawkins said.

“In a hotel environment, you’d have to buy the roses.”

Everyone also agreed that private homes and villas offer a bonding environment, where families can just get together in an environment that strengthen bonds that distance sometimes weakens. “Contrast meeting in the hotel lobby to spend quality time together versus the intimacy and privacy of starting the day in your PJs in the kitchen or family room, with your closest friends and family,” Ridgway said.

Roberts, of Vacation Time, said, “It’s a great business.

I’ve met so many interesting people. I’ve got people I’ve been checking in for 27 years. Families have grown up here. You watch the kids grow up, get married, and they bring their kids.”

Hawkins seconded that notion. “Guests come in and say, ‘We had a great time.’ It’s a wonderful business. I’m helping owners with their investment, and I’m helping people have a vacation they can truly enjoy. You just can’t beat that.”  JULY 2009

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CH2’s Top

10 List!

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avid Letterman said he didn’t feel qualified. David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace (The Book of Lists authors) complained about the pay. And Russell Kick (how much would you pay for a last name like that?), author of The Disinformation Book of Lists (A must summer read. Includes a list titled: “Airline Personnel Who Say UFOs Are Real”), said, “Sure, I’ll do it. Isn’t Hilton Head part of the Lesser Antilles?”

So the task fell to moi. Having a scientific bent, I did a scientific survey. (Participants included my dentist, my doctor, my children [2], my wife [1], my new dog, my new fish [6], and several very winsome young ladies [ages 3-74] on our beach, and myself.) The following Top 10 List is, therefore, without question, totally reliable. Unless you want to do something else.

article by Paul deVere

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10. DOLPHIN CRUISE. “MAUDE, THEY LOOK SO REAL!”

This isn’t any “Flipper” excursion.

Excluding whales cavorting in the ocean, there may be nothing more beautiful than our bottlenose dolphins doing their dance.

Our dolphins are the ultimate “surprise” in the Lowcountry. There is no telling what they will decide to do.

This is not “Sea World.” This is their world. Whether you’re in a power boat, sailboat or a kayak, this is the real thing.

And there is nothing better than the “real thing” when it comes to dolphins.

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You might run into a “pod” of up to 15 dolphins, or you might see a solitary show-off leaping effortless out of the water. Our guys and gals make Flipper look like a sissy.

9. LAWTON STABLES. “GIDDYUP!”

Ask for Harley. He’s Lawton Stables’ very own Clydesdale. This handsome and rather large horse will pull you around as proud as if he were drawing the Mother Ship (Budweiser wagon).

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Even if you’re a greenhorn, the horses at Lawton Stables are used to dudes trying to mount from the wrong side and totally patient as you take a trail ride through Sea Pines’ 600-acre forest preserve.

Just think. While one spouse is at the beach and the other re-landscaping a fairway, the kids (lucky them) can be at the stable’s Summer Camp, learning how to muck stalls and ride a real horse. Talk about show-and-tell day when they get back to school.

And here’s a freebee! Lawton’s Animal Farm (it has nothing to do with George Orwell) is home to smaller critters, like goats, donkeys, sheep, a pot-bellied pig, a llama, miniature pony, and rabbits. It’s free to guests. Petting encouraged.

8. SHOPPING. “IS THAT DEBIT OR CREDIT?”

Hilton Head Island (and Bluffton) may not be the official small business capital of the world; it just seems that way. Not long ago, a Chamber of Commerce survey found the three major reasons folks visited Hilton Head Island: the beach, golf and ... shopping.

There’s this story about Charles Fraser, the Godfather (meant with enormous respect) of Sea Pines and today’s modern resort communities worldwide. In 1969, when he was building Harbour Town Yacht Basin, he was trying to attract big names, like Sak’s 5th Avenue and Tiffany’s to open up a storefront in his little “Mediterranean Village.” There were no takers. Instead, some local entrepreneurs figured they could do a little business at this place nobody knew about. Harbour Town is, of course, a must visit. But so are Coligny Plaza, South Beach Marina, Shelter Cove Harbour, Shops at Sea Pines Center, and Calhoun Street in Bluffton.

We even have our own piece of suburbia: outlet malls just off U.S. 278.

7. ’GATORS AND OTHER FAUNA. “MAUDE, THEY LOOK SO REAL!”

Ladies and gentlemen and tiny tots: You have entered a world unbeknownst to the vast majority of Americans. This be the Lowcountry. If you want to blind yourself with our sugar sand beaches and pristine (“Blade number 4,923,458, please move a little to the left. There that’s better.”) fairways, fine. We’ll take your money.

But if you have even the slightest interest in what Hilton Head Island was and is, you owe it to yourself to visit the Coastal Discovery Museum. Take Dr. Emory Campbell’s Gullah Tour. Or, if it’s raining, the museum’s “Getting to Know a Gator” program is perfect.

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HARBOUR TOWN LIGHT HOUSE. “MAUDE, IS THAT REALLY GREG RUSSELL?”

Mr. Fraser (mentioned above), wanted to create a memorable symbol for Sea Pines back in ’69. Boy, did h e g e t o n e. Wh i l e the lighthouse at H a r b o u r Tow n n eve r saved any seafarers, it is seen by millions of visitors every year and many more television viewers during the PGA Tour’s Verizon Heritage golf tournament.

During the day, you can shop ’til you drop and climb the lighthouse for an extraordinary view of Calibogue Sound and beyond. (While you climb, you’ll also get a little history lesson about Sea Pines and Hilton Head.) Come evening, under the Liberty Oak and stars, family favorite, Greg Russell performs. Be prepared to be part of the show!

5. GONE FISHIN’

When you get out of sight of land, and your charter boat captain says, “Beyond there be dragons,” you know you’ve got the right guy (or gal). Of course, there are no dragons “beyond

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there” (I have it on good authority they are a little further east and south), so you can laugh along with everyone else as soon as you get the kids to stop crying.

When it comes to fishing, your choices are many. True blue anglers head for the Gulf Stream. However, that’s 70 miles out there—one way. There are a number of charters that will take you to offshore reefs that are closer in. And there

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are inshore charters that explore our tidal creeks and lagoons.

What’s waiting out there for you?

Tarpon, drum, flounder, striped bass, spotted sea trout, no-see-ums.

4. BIKES. “MAUDE, I LOVE YOUR LEATHER JACKET.”

No. Not those kinds of bikes. Bicycles!

There are almost 50 miles of bike paths

outside gated communities, and more than 50 behind the gates. Rent a bicycle built for two or one which allows you to pull the babies along behind you in a cool trailer.

You want to see the island? Leave your car in the parking lot and give sea gulls a target.

Hop on your bike and peddle on down to the swimming pool or beach. When on the beach, try to avoid those prone objects attempting to get second-degree sunburns.

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3. DAUFUSKIE DAY TRIP

Daufuskie? It’s an island just southwest side of Calibogue Sound. When you were topside of the Harbour Town Lighthouse (see #6), that’s the island you were looking at. Or, if you were wise enough, you did the parasail thing, and zoomed over the beaches of Daufuskie, wondering why, on a Sunday morning, there were only two people on the beach!

You have to go by ferry, about a 45 minute ride. And when you get off on the public dock, you’ll think you’ve walked into another world. It’s the island author Pat Conroy wrote about in The Water Is Wide (read the book). Though Daufuskie has changed (development), you can still get a sense of what Hilton Head was like (pre-development), especially in the historic district.

And somehow, put Marshside Mama’s on your schedule

2. SAND/BEACH

This is a tossup. We have two types of sand on Hilton Head Island. One type is washed by the Atlantic and surrounding waters.

The other type lines hundreds of bunkers on golf courses.

Beach sand is definitely where you want to be. We have 12 miles of it, new beach parks, easier access and skinny guys who still get sand kicked in their face.

Beach combing is allowed. Dogs aren’t, between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. in the summer. If you decide to spread out and have a little siesta, protect yourself from the sun and those irritating people on bicycles! (See #4.)

1. SAND/GOLF

There’s an oft’ told tale that when the young Sea Pines founder, Charles Fraser, was elaborating on his plans, the listener, an older gentleman, scoffed. “Charles,” the gentleman said, “what makes you think people will want to live on a South Carolina island in the middle of nowhere?” Purportedly, Charles replied, “Air conditioning.”

Of course, what he really meant to say was “golf.” Charles didn’t play golf. But friends did. So the first of the island’s golf courses was created. Now the world associates the game and the island as being inseparable. As one young wag asked, “If you didn’t have golf courses, where would the alligators live?”

Which is to say, if your ball goes into a water hazard, don’t go in after it.  JULY 2009

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Sandbar Sandbar Article Article by by Courtney Courtney Naughton Naughton

Where Where summer summer begins begins and and ends ends

Photos Photos courtesy courtesy of Natasha of Natasha Viswanathan Viswanathan & Courtney & Courtney Naughton Naughton

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pring in the lowcountry seems to last for about 15 minutes, but summer is endless. And in Bluffton, summer begins and ends at the Sandbar.

To put it in perspective for you, less than a week after our first trip to the Sandbar with friends, my husband and I bought a boat. Two years later I am sans husband, but the boat is still mine.

I had heard about it, of course, before I ever set my feet in the hot sand. until then, I questioned the allure. But I now know that until you experience the Sandbar firsthand, you can’t truly appreciate it.

If you are lucky enough to own a boat, this is a must-do activity. If you don’t have a boat, find a friend who does. If you don’t have a friend who has a boat, consider making a new friend. (If all else fails, send me an e-mail and I will put you on the waiting list.)

Depending on when you go and who you are with, the Sandbar has many faces:

Open Bar

These are those perfect summer days when low tide hits mid-afternoon and the Sandbar appears, creating an island beach party that would make Gidget and Moondoggie proud. you can smell the charcoal, burgers and brats sizzling in the hot summer sun. you can hear the whirl of a blender, the pop of a beer, and diverse music selections jockeying for position. you will see old friends and meet new friends. If it happens to be a holiday weekend you will be tied to many friends as boats snuggle close, moored together along the shore as folks hop from vessel to vessel.

And, it makes for good people watching…or at the very least, interesting. A recent expedition included a gaggle of men in Speedos. One can only hope that they lost a group bet and this was their attempt to pay off their debt. If not, well, to each his own, right?

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Actually, I take that back. If you are in a Speedo, you are putting your “own” out there for the world to see, and is that really fair? I think not. But, I digress.

Bambino Bar

When low tide partners with the early morning sun, it is family time at the Sandbar. Floaties, swimmies, and swim diapers abound. With no real waves to compete with, the Sandbar offers the perfect alternative to the beach.

On the back side of the bar, the “pluff mud plunge” offers plenty of entertainment for tweens and teens who can experience a Bluffton mud bath without the spa price tag.

Bambino bar is also the ideal time for your four-legged friends to frolic. Early mornings mean fewer people and less chaos.

If your four-legged baby is a monster like mine, you will appreciate the light crowd as you try to wrangle your pup away from his new pooch pals.

High Bar

High tide at the Sandbar is for the hard-core enthusiast. In the deep heat of the summer when your backyard is a sauna, you can enjoy the best “pool” party in town as the May River swirls at your shoulders. A couple friends and your floating food, beverage and entertainment station (that’s your boat) are all you need. High tide is quiet time. Adult time. The boats are, for the most part, college student-, child-, and dog-free. If peace is what you seek, hit the Sandbar at high tide.

Full Bar

I almost hate to give away this secret, but it doesn’t matter if the tide is high or low, as long as the moon is full. you will sit—with your toes in the sand or simply hovering above the Sandbar—in stunned silence. And, as the moon rises and casts it glow across the river to the bow of your boat, your mind and body will relax, comforted by the rhythmic lull of the river at rest. you will note to yourself that this is the most spectacular sight you have witnessed in the lowcountry and, as soon as you return home, you will mark your calendar for the next full moon. It’s just that good. Gentlemen, this is a first date that dreams are made of. Believe me!

So, I’ll meet you at the bar. you’ll find me on “Just Mine.” Stop by and say hello.  July 2009

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JULY MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL JULY 1- 26 ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA TICKETS $44 The little show that could has entertained audiences in more than 250 U.S. cities and 14 countries. Poking fun at mood swings and memory loss, four ladies turn hit songs into clever comedic gems. The Times said of the show, “Flash! ‘Menopause the Musical’ sizzles!”

Contact Info: 843-842-ARTS. SHAG CLASSES JULY 1 AND JULY 29 (BEGINNER: 3-4 P.M.; INTERMEDIATE: 4:45-6 P.M.) ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA, BLACK BOX THEATER TUITION: $20 SINGLE/$30 COUPLE Originating in the late 1930s in the nightclubs in Myrtle Beach, the Carolina Shag is the official state dance of South Carolina.

Join certified dance educator Caroline Hoadley in this fun introduction to this derivation of the swing.

Contact info: 843-686-3945, ext. 233 SAVE THE HILTON HEAD BALLERINAS! WEDNESDAY, JULY 15TH ELECTRIC PIANO, PARK PLAZA FREE Malibu Rum tasting! Charity event to help out a GREAT local cause. Give-a-ways! Free shots! Come out and support Hilton Head Dance School.

Call 843.785.KEYS for more information.

TENNIS JUNIOR SUMMER CAMPS JULY – AUGUST VAN DER MEER TENNIS CENTER, 19 DEALLYON AVE. Work with knowledgeable and enthusiastic PTR certified coaches; develop proper stroke production and footwork through videotape analysis. Learn and refine effective tactics and strategies through rigorous drills and point play and then apply what you’ve learned in daily match play. Ages 10-18, all skill levels welcome!

For more information call 843.785.8388 or check out the website at www.vdmtennis.com.

GETTING TO KNOW A GATOR JULY (EVERY THURSDAY THROUGH AUGUST 13TH) 9:30, 11:30, 1:30 COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM AT HONEY HORN TICKETS: ADULT $12 CHILD $7 The Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn hosts Gatorland for this informative family program. A 4-foot gator is featured as you learn the folklore, habits and safety facts about alligators.

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events GETTING TO KNOW A GATOR CONT. You will be able to have your picture taken with an alligator after the program. Reservations are required by calling 843-689-6767 ext 223. http://www.coastaldiscovery.org

ISLAND PLAYGROUND SUMMER DROP-OFF CAMP JULY 1- AUGUST 15 (9AM-2PM) BRIDGE CENTER (ACROSS FROM MOSS CREEK) Cost $30 per child (price includes lunch, snack and all supplies!)

Children can be dropped off at the playground for a day of active play on inflatable bouncers and imagination stations. Kids will participate in staff-supervised free play in the playground, fitness games, arts and crafts, snack time, and a hot lunch provided by Upper Crust.

Potty-trained children ages 3-8 are welcome.

Children who register for at least 10 days of camp will receive a 10% discount.

For more information contact Island Playground at 837-8383 or visit www.island-playground.com.

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SKI CLUB JULY 21, 6:45PM ABOARD THE ISLAND QUEEN AT BROAD CREEK MARINA For Reservations call Laurie Etchells at 843.785.3366.

SUNSET CINEMA ALL MONTH LONG (EVERY THURSDAY AT 7PM!) $5 FOR 12 AND OVER FOR MOVIE Family-friendly movies projected under the stars on a big inflatable screen! Cotton candy, popcorn, soda, beer and wine available.

SUMMER JAMS! ALL MONTH LONG (EVERY TUESDAY FROM 7-10PM!) SHELTER COVE COMMUNITY PARK Bring the whole family to the park for a fun dance party with entertainment by Ross Brown. The highlight of the night is when the fireworks start at 9pm!

GRAND OPENING PARTY! SATURDAY, AUGUST 1ST, 11AM TO 1PM B I G M O N E Y PAW N , 1 2 3 - A MATHEWS DRIVE, HILTON HEAD ISLAND Stop by to meet Nick & Henry at Hilton Head Island’s newest and the areas BEST pawn shop! Join the party for FREE ribs, chicken and frosty beverages. $100 door prize!

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Taste, Talent & Tradition Christine’s Café & Catering serves up a fresh-from-scratch experience

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hen Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis visited Hilton Head Island in 2008, Chef Christine Bohn, owner of Christine’s Café & Catering, was pleased to have the opportunity to provide catering for the prominent star. “I was excited to take care of Olympia Dukakis and her family and had prepared all these traditional Greek meals,” she recalled. “Then Olympia took me aside and asked me if we could ‘change some things.’ When I asked her what, she said ‘everything!’ She told me that she could have Greek food at home. She wanted to have some real Southern food. So I changed the menu and she was thrilled.”

Chef Christine has been a resident of Hilton Head for more While Chef Christine’s clients include a number than a decade and established her own catering business of fairly famous and discriminating individuals, her tutelage began quite humbly in the kitchen nearly 10 years ago. Word of her tasty delicacies and ex- culinary with her grandmother Fannie. “My mother went to ceptional service quickly spread, which helped her earn work, and I got to stay with my grandmother,” said the Hilton Head Island/Bluffton Chamber of Commerce’s Bohn. “She was a great Southern lady. She loved to sew, can, cook—and she was a great cook.” coveted Small Business of the Year award in 2005.

A l th o u g h C h e f C h r i sti n e wa s o n l y four years old when her “training” began, Grandma Fannie reportedly had no qualms about placing her granddaughter next to the kitchen burners and putting a machete-like instrument into her hands. “My grandmother would put me on this stool and pull it up to the stove so I could reach. She had this long, old style butcher knife and she taught me how to use it. By the time I was five, I was pretty good at chopping up vegetables with it. I could also make this fabulous delicacy called Sloppy Joes,” Bohn said with a grin.

She also fondly recalls pickling cucumbers and watermelon rinds in old galvanized tubs every fall. Regardless of the season, Fannie’s kitchen seemed to be a regular hotbed for culinary activity and she passed that passion on to her granddaughter.

“I’ve always dabbled in cooking,” said Bohn. “Fannie gave that gift to me.”

Christine’s “gift” continued to flourish as a result of cooking for college friends while earning her degree at Florida State, and her first restaurant job with Red lobster. She traded Tallahassee for California where she first landed employment with the Daisy Club, a restaurant featured in the 1975 film Shampoo, and then with l.A.’s popular Butterfly Bakery.

“The chef at the Butterfly was Armenian and she was amazing,” Bohn remembers. “She would make this incredible baklava and taught me how to make it. A lot of famous people would come in, and it was pretty exciting. There was a studio across the street, and when Jeff and Beau Bridges came in, I would race to the front to see them.”

When she had her fill of Rodeo Drive, Christine returned to Tallahassee and assumed a managerial position with a Steak & Ale restaurant. That position introduced her to the corporate side of the food and beverage industry, as well as to David, her husband of 25 years. The duo eventually moved to Atlanta and Christine joined the Peasant Company.

“They owned a number of restaurants, all featuring ‘from scratch’ cuisine and I was able to develop a lot of their menu items,” she said. “I enjoy creating new things, so it was a great opportunity,” Next on her culinary career path was Atlanta’s Silver Spoon restaurant group where she became the culinary director. The group grew from five restaurants to nearly 70 during her tenure and she traveled extensively.

“I enjoyed doing what I did,” she said. “But when they decided to move from being a ‘from scratch’ restaurant, I decided it was time for me to go.”

So how did this talented chef make her way to Hilton Head Island? “My husband is a musician and Hilton Head is one of the last great places with lots of live music,” she said. “Plus, I love the beach and… it’s the South!”

“It poured rain so everyone crowded inside and hung around the kitchen, watching Christine work her magic.”

She decided to establish her own catering business shortly after moving to the island 10 years ago, embracing “from scratch” cooking and relying on natural, high-quality ingredients. Word of her tasty delicacies and exceptional service quickly spread, which helped her earn the Hilton Head Island/Bluffton Chamber of Commerce’s coveted Small Business of the year award in 2005.

Island resident Kathleen Speer is no stranger to Chef Christine’s talents and offers volumes of praise. “Christine is an original. Her cheerful countenance and catering ideas brim over when we meet to discuss an event. She has catered a bridal shower, small intimate lunches and dinners, and parties with 100+ persons for us. We do have our favorite dishes (crab cakes, peppermint semifreddo, pork tenderloin in an orange reduction), but she offers new ideas each time.”

Speer is an avid entertainer and is amazed at Chef Christine’s ability to maintain a cheerful and collected demeanor regardless of circumstances. “last summer, we held a reunion with over 50 family members, and dinner was to be outside on the deck,” recalled Speer. “It poured rain so everyone crowded inside and hung around the kitchen, watching Christine work her magic. With so many family members in close quarters, the situation could have been tense, but she smiled, poured her “secret recipe” punch 60

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(clockwise from left to right) Fannie’s Chicken Salad, Mack and Christine (or Gigi), spend a little quality time in the kitchen. Christine’s Salad.

and passed around appetizers. Soon everyone was happy and gobbling up her dinner! She makes my entertaining life quite easy and enjoyable!” lindy Russell, co-founder of the non-profit Hilton Head Heroes, shares Speer’s enthusiasm and praise. “Christine has been a long-time supporter of Hilton Head Heroes. In addition to generously providing delicious food for our benefits and support for our many families, Christine’s personality helps make every event an enjoyable, stress-free experience. She has been an important part of the Russell family and Heroes since the beginning. I love her!” late last month, Chef Christine opened a new business, a casual luncheon café, located in the Atrium Building at 850 William Hilton Parkway. Christine’s Café & Catering is open weekdays from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., serving eclectic, freshfrom-scratch cuisine and featuring all her signature items, like Fannie’s Chicken Salad, Calibogue Shrimp Salad, Tomato Basil Soup, She Crab Soup (touted by fans as the best on the planet), Chipotle Fried Fish Wraps and, of course, the highly addictive Homemade Potato Chips.

“We use fresh sliced potatoes that we fry in Canola—no trans fat—and season with a unique blend of seasonings. People just love them and can’t believe we don’t charge for them,” said Bohn. “We’re ‘fools.’ We give them away!”

But Chef Christine is certainly no fool. She is a talented businesswoman who is serving up an eclectic, inviting, freshfrom-scratch experience… and passing down those skills and traditions to her four-year-old grandson, Mack. Just like Grandma Fannie.

For more information, call (843) 785-4646 or visit christinescatering.com. (Christine’s Café is also on Facebook at facebook.dj/christinescafe/) July 2009

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CH2 caught up with Shinedown before their performance at the Shoreline Ballroom. (from left to right) Zach Myers (guitar), Eric Bass (bass, piano, vocals), Brent Smith (vocals), and Barry Kerch (drums).

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heir sound has been touted, by various sources, as exemplifying hard rock, postgrunge, alternative metal and even pop genres. But the talented group known as Shinedown identifies itself as simply an American rock band. And rock they did for the hundreds who turned out for their May 2009 show at Hilton Head’s popular Shoreline Ballroom and left feeling satiated, but eager for more.

Originally established in Jacksonville, Fla., in 2001, by front man and vocalist Brent Smith, drummer Barry Kerch, bassist Brad Stewart and guitarist Jasin Todd, Shinedown’s current foursome includes Smith, Kerch, bassist Eric Bass (yes, that’s his real name!) and guitarist Zach Myers.

Shinedown’s first album, Leave a Whisper, released in 2003 under the Atlantic Records label, went platinum. The second, Us and Them, released in 2005 under the same label, went gold.

The concert at Shoreline marked Shinedown’s second on the island, following a performance at Monkey Business two-and-a-half years ago, and represented just one of the countless stops on the group’s tour promoting their third album, Sound of Madness, which was released in 2008 and has been referred to as their most powerful, most brilliant endeavor to date.

The new album includes intense, memorable singles, such as “45” and “Devour,” as well as the hugely appealing “Second Chance,” featuring passionate vocals which satisfy Shinedown’s traditional and devoted fan base, while its chartcrossing sound is attracting new listeners less inclined to tune in to harder material.

Yet, in spite of releasing numerous chart-topping singles, prestigious appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2008 and increasing fame, Shinedown is a far from your stereotypical, party-

ing rock band. CH2’s Blanche T. Sullivan was thrilled to hang with the band in the “green room” before the show and cut through their “Sound of Madness.”

CH2: What was the most important thing you wanted to achieve with your new album?

Brent Smith: We wanted this album to be the biggest sounding, most in-depth, in-your-face album we could possibly produce, to convey all the emotions of everything we’ve been through.

CH2: What inspired you? How was this album different than the others?

Smith: Quite frankly, I was bored with what was out there, what we were hearing. I thought the last great album was American Idiot, by Green Day. I had fallen out of love with music and wanted to do something epic. Have no regrets.

Zach Myers: lyrically I think he [Brent] went somewhere he’s never been before.

With this record he went straight to the finish line. It’s his most honest record.

CH2: you mentioned that everyday life

offers topics for your songs and that “Devour” was inspired by your experience in Iraq. Tell me about that.

Barry Kerch: We all, in the band, have different views about different issues. But we have always been hugely supportive of our troops. you have to be. A lot of those folks come out to our shows and one was a member of the uSO. Smith: We actually shied away from press.

We didn’t do it for exposure. We want to support the troops and thank them for America, for being free.

Eric Bass: Everything is hugely political these days. We don’t want to be viewed as a political band. We have been approached several times to stand for a particular cause.

Kerch: We don’t want to push our views.

We’d rather let our fans make their own decisions.

CH2: A lot of people would seem fairly

surprised to learn that, unlike many stereotypical rock bands, you don’t tear up hotel rooms, engage in out-of-control partying, etc. How do you respond to that?

Smith: I had a battle with addictions— cocaine, etc.—but, once my son [lyric] was born [in 2007], that was the day I quit all my addictions and became clean.

My son saved me from my vanity, from my selfishness. It suddenly wasn’t all about me.

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would give someone?

Smith: My granny is probably the hardest working woman I know. She raised three kids during the ’50s, which was unheard of. She is pretty remarkable. She taught me a lot and to be aware of your surroundings. I say be aware of ‘shape shifters’ and know where the snake is.

Myers: If you believe in something, never give up. If you start something—life, music, whatever—see it all the way through… to the bitter end.

Kerch: My dad always said that nothing good happens after midnight. I still break the rule, and he’s right!

Bass: Be humble. Treat everybody with respect. It’s not really advice, but something that was instilled in me. I grew up in the South.

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CH2: Where would you like to see yourself in, say, five years Bass: Doing the same thing I’m doing now. I hope I’m a more successful musician and producer. That’s where I’d like to be.

Myers: With the band.

Kerch: Pretty much the same, maybe playing in some big arenas.

Smith: Hopefully having enough time to go home [from touring] to take my son to his first day of school.

CH2: I understand that some of your favorite charities include:

HEAl! (Healing Every Autistic life), Cure Autism Now and VH1’s Save the Music. What inspired you to adopt these worthwhile causes?

Barry Kerch: My wife is a behavior analyst. I spent a lot of time with some of her kids and it really impacted me. And VH1’s Save the Music…it’s important to put music in the schools.

CH2: Speaking of music, I was researching your backgrounds on your Web site and learned that you all have pretty diverse interests. Brent’s musical influences included Otis Redding, Billie Holiday and Soundgarden. Interesting mix. I’m curious to know what you think of Soundgarden’s new, very different, album.

Smith: you mean Chris Cornell’s new album? I haven’t listened to it yet, but I like all music. Otis Redding is number one, and he got me into all the other stuff. All the soul music was a big influence on me. I need to revisit. I’m not biased. Music is great because it’s not biased; it’s a very worldly artistry. If it’s good, it’s good.

Shinedown’s savvy producer, Rob Cavallo, obviously knows what’s good. linked to such artists as Green Day, Kid Rock and the Goo Goo Dolls, Cavallo is no stranger to multi-platinum stardom.

Shinedown’s shows are energetic, entertaining, intense, moving, mesmerizing and refreshingly—unexpectedly to newcomers—filled with positive messages. Smith is confident that Cavallo is quite capable of helping Shinedown reach a whole new stratosphere of success. Check them out, experience their “Sound of Madness,” and you will undoubtedly, emphatically agree.  For more information regarding Shinedown, such as behind-thescenes footage, informative blogs, merchandise and a schedule of upcoming concerts, visit shinedown.com.

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The Men of E.A.C. (from left to right) Pat Epperson Sr., Martin Jones and Patrick Epperson Jr.

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s Patrick Epperson, Jr. was explaining Internet-based HVAC (heat, ventilation air conditioning) monitoring and control systems, Pat Epperson, Sr. listened attentively to his son. “I’m learning something here, too,” he said, smiling.

“There is definitely a new generation of equipment, of communicating. It’s the next wave,” Patrick explained. “You can have Wi-Fi access to your air conditioning unit.”

The value of that technology can be important for homeowners in the Lowcountry who are often away. “The humidity being what it is around here, if a system went down, especially in the

summer months, and the owner didn’t know about it, there would be a house full of mold and mildew,” Patrick said.

Pat Epperson, Sr. came to Hilton Head from Savannah in 1981 to begin his heating and air conditioning company. He sold it in 1998, but stayed on as general manager for several years.

But the entrepreneurial spirit was passed from father to son. Patrick, along with Martin Jones, whom Pat Epperson refers to as “our adopted son,” began E.A.C. Heating and Air. Five years ago, father joined son at E.A.C. Patrick grew up in the business. He started helping his dad at the age of 13.

He was a helper in the field as a teenager.

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With technological innovations like programmable thermostats, zone controls and the capability of online monitoring, there is a conscious effort to put a homeowner more in charge of energy use and energy efficiency.

wing,” Patrick said. After graduating from Furman University, he was operations manager at the old company.

E.A.C. started with just two employees, Patrick and Martin. Both had worked at the old company but decided to make a go of it on their own. “We kind of looked at each other that first day and said, ‘We’d better get busy,’” Martin said.

They are now keeping close to 20 employees busy.

Martin elaborated more on new technology, explaining how homeowners can use their cell phones or PDAs to control their HVAC unit. “You can access it from your cell phone. Say you are arriving in town in a few hours. You can tell it what you want it to do,” Martin said. The unit can also call the homeowner’s cell if something is malfunctioning. “It’s sort of saying, ‘Come home,’” Martin laughed.

E.A.C. focuses on custom homes for both new installations and replacement systems, service contracts, and small, commercial jobs. Martin is charged with the new units. Patrick handles sales for existing systems that need to be replaced. Both new and replacement systems come with significant benefits to homeowners.

“Today’s systems are much more energy efficient,” Patrick said. He explained there is also a big improvement in indoor air quality. Plus, systems throughout a home communicate via computer rather than with wires, making installation simpler and operation more exact. Then, there’s the tax advantage.

“For qualifying airto-air heat pumps, the owner can get 9 things you need to know up to a $1,500 tax credit,” Patrick said.

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Preventative Health Care?

Patrick Epperson Jr. displays the newest technology in air handlers. The latest versions can “zap” the flu virus out of the air in your home.

unit requested, either by a builder or homeowner. Service contracts are also available for other brands.

Patrick said that the lifespan of an HVAC unit depends on quality. “A good system and quality installation, the industry says the average is about 12 years. But we’ve seen them longer than that,” he said. “We saw a customer last week, who was having problems with a unit installed [by another company] eight years ago. But his older unit we put it in 21 years ago was still running,” Martin said.

With all the emphasis on energy efficiency in both new home construction and renovations, combined with the high standards of new equipment being introduced, the Eppersons and Jones are definitely part of the “green revolution.”

With such technological innovations like programmable thermostats, zone controls and the capability of online monitoring, there is a conscious effort to put a homeowner more in charge of energy use and energy efficiency.

In the almost three decades Pat Epperson, Sr. has been serving lowcountry customers, from Beaufort to Hilton Head Island and all places in between (the same area E.A.C. covers), he said changes in the industry have been dramatic and exciting. After Patrick Epperson, Jr. finished his explanation of how homeowners can just jump up on the Web, wherever they are, and both monitor and control their HVAC systems, Pat Epperson, Sr. look at his son, and said, “yup, the next generation is here.”  July 2009

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ustainability, a hot topic these days, is applied most frequently to ecology, society or economy. If you’d like a living example of how the principles of sustainability work successfully in all three areas, look no further than Hilton Head Island’s renowned interior design firm, J. Banks Design Group.

With J. Banks’ new home office and retail store, Joni Vanderslice, president of the company, illustrates not only how to sustain a thriving business, but also how to sustain and nurture employees, the environment and our local and global communities. Her vision for their new office building resulted in a multi-use, LEEDcertified building, a healthy environment for employees, and an international retail market that offers new opportunities for J. Banks, its clients and craftsmen around the world.

Anna Ruby, vice president of creative at J. Banks Design Group, was a gracious, entertaining host as she explained the company’s latest goals and conducted a tour of the retail space and design studio.

“Project trips to other countries inspired Joni’s vision for the new retail showroom,” said Ruby. “She wanted to create a retail venue that would offer the items that she fell in love with during her travels, but couldn’t get locally.” The new store does just that—offering items in all price ranges that Hilton Head residents and visitors won’t see anywhere else, including items from Europe, the Caribbean, and Mexico. In addition, Joni wanted to reach area brides by offering the largest assortment of unique tabletop, crystal, bedding and various home décor pieces. “The other great thing that J Banks retail offers is the ability for anyone to visit our store and create their own wish registry for upcoming ‘gift getting’ occasions,” said Ruby. “Loved ones will be able to purchase directly from the registry with the knowledge that the person will love it. And, we want to make every visitor feel comfortable and welcome.”

Comfortable and welcome? It felt like shopper’s heaven, with appealing items from around the world and friendly, knowledgeable service. You’ll notice the Italian influence in the store’s décor, and no doubt you’ll covet the Italian Bagni Volpi highest-quality, custom embroidered bed linens, the hand-painted artistry of Vietri dishes and wonderful artwork inspired by old maps. You’ll find ironwork candleholders and carvings from Guadalajara, unique gifts from Maison d’Objet in Paris, and antiques, furniture and accessories from around the world. No matter where you glance, from large pieces of furniture, inspired lighting and luxurious cashmere throws to a small deck of tapas recipe cards and place card holders in the shape of little fish, you’ll find something you’ll want to give to a favorite person or take home for yourself.

The space also serves as a showcase for the J.

Banks Collection of custom furniture. “Manufactured by Stanford Furniture in North Carolina, the collection features wonderful transitional pieces and upholstery designed by Joni that can be mixed into any design style, whether it is a traditional or contemporary setting. Clients may choose any finish, fabric, and nail head option that Stanford offers, or we can send in the customer’s own material (COM) to tailor the furniture to their styles and personalities,” Ruby explained. “We feature custom artwork from various local artisans in our retail store and our interior design work. We also offer our own line of decorative pillows and custom wallpaper. The signature design, which is displayed on the walls, can be scaled down and created in any Pantone color.”

To help offer quality, custom products and design to a wide range of budgets, the retail store offers an interactive furniture kiosk where clients can design and visualize furniture. They can choose the style, length, width, number of cushions, and upholstery while ensuring that the pieces will fit within their floor plans. A retail designer is available to help with the decisions.

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There are many floor samples to test for comfort and scale. This is a terrific option for people who aren’t ready to embrace J. Banks’ couture line. “Of course, Ruby added, “our couture line and personalized design service can save money in the long run; we help you avoid mistakes by taking care of everything from design and orders to tracking, delivery and installation.”

Ruby has to have one of the best jobs ever. She not only travels with Vanderslice to foreign destinations for buying and design projects, but she gets to work in a beautiful, ecologically sensitive building. The company’s new home is in the first and only united States Green Building Council’s lEED-certified building on Hilton Head Island, and only the twelfth in South Carolina.

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it was important to Joni to create a building that is healthy for occupants, good for the environment and the community,” Ruby said. In addition to the stringent building and environmental codes, some of their additional measures include: recycling all paper, glass, plastics, metals and cardboard; using trees cut down on the build site for paneling and trim; making non-wooden floors of recycled content and wooden floors from recycled heart pine barn siding; landscaping entirely with local, native, and drought tolerant plants; and installing bike racks and showers to encourage employees to cycle to work.

The 18,000-square-foot multi-functional space at 35 Main Street includes J. Banks’ offices, the retail store, design studio and warehouse facility as well as KPM Flooring, providing one-stop design services for clients. The warm, inviting Sienna Room, a lovely, Tuscan-inspired conference space, is used by J. Banks to extend their design expertise to others. “We want to share our knowledge and provide education on interior design,” Ruby explained. “We use the Sienna Room to host various events including bridal showcases, various trunk shows for our retail offerings and interior design workshops and seminars.” In this spirit of sharing, J. Banks also makes the Sienna Room available to the public for professional seminars, special events and private dining. Conveniently, Mainly Sandstone’s gourmet take-out and catering services are next door in the same building complex, providing on-site catering for all Sienna Room private occasions.

These smart business practices extend to the company’s staff.

“It all goes back to continuing knowledge. Now we’re learning about international business,” said Ruby, who began working as Vanderslice’s assistant 10 years ago and grew in knowledge and responsibility every inch of the way to her current role as vice president. “Employees thrive in this environment. We have a sense of pride about the company and our work, not only by what we offer the public, but also how we work together. That’s important to Joni. She wants to nurture her employees and the community.”

Ruby said, “By constantly reinventing ourselves, yet staying true to classic style, we’ve continued to grow despite the current economic downturn. We never let ourselves become stagnant. We challenge ourselves to be ‘in the know’ and to find new, exciting vendors, whether they’re in Paris, Mexico, the Caribbean, New york, Atlanta or las Vegas. By going to all these markets, we can get our hands on the newest things before anyone else has seen them, and we’re able to tap into many lifestyle products that normally wouldn’t be associated with a designer gift store.”

Now, Vanderslice is traveling to Africa, where her physician husband, Rick, has been i nvo l ve d i n m i s s i o n wo r k . S h e ’s h e l p i n g local women artisans turn their design work into businesses, which helps the women develop their economy and brings fresh merchandise and ideas to J. Banks’ clients.

“The big idea is that J Banks is a lifestyle, and that lifestyle is about enhancing design, business, people and our community,” Ruby said. Now that’s sustainability in the best sense of the word. 

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Investments Investments Let me first be clear about what I mean by investments.

“Investing,” as opposed to “saving” means putting your hard-earned money at risk, and this is not something you should consider doing until you have put away enough savings, as in cash and cash equivalents, to cover your basic living expenses for six to 12 months. Until you have this “emergency fund” in place, don’t even think about swimming into more dangerous waters.

The investment plan

Once you are ready to invest, as the saying goes: “You need a plan.” Your plan should clearly spell out your goals and what investments you are going to make in order to achieve them; i.e. what EXACTLY you are hoping to do with the money you are hoping to grow through your investments. Is the money ultimately going to be used for your retirement 40 years in the future? For education funding for your kids? For a down payment on a home?

The most important element in these financial goals is TIME. Given enough time, say 20-40 years, returns for different types of investments such as stocks, bonds and real estate, tend to be predictable and intuitive; e.g. over the long run, stocks will have a higher return than bonds. However, 78

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the shorter the period of time, the less reliable will be the returns. For example, a portfolio of a mix of 80 percent stocks and 20 percent bonds earned an average of 11.1 percent per year from 1966 to 2005. During that same period, however, this same portfolio earned as high as 34.2 percent one year while losing 17.6 percent in another—a potential swing of over 50 percent. The craziness of the financial markets of the past 18 months highlights the importance of time even more dramatically. For those with short time horizons for their investment, such as those in or near retirement, the drop in the DOW of 53 percent from October of 2007 to March of 2009 was devastating to their financial plans. For those with a long time horizon, that same drop created a fabulous buying opportunity.

Thus, for long-term goals, riskier investment asset classes such as emerging market equity mutual funds can make a lot of sense. When it comes to short-term investments, particularly where the stakes are high, such as in education funding, you have no business dealing with riskier investments unless you’re prepared for a conversation that starts with: “ Oh, sorry Johnny, but about that Ivy League education…”

Another important factor in your plan is your own personality and tolerance for risk. As suggested above, an investment plan that has 40 years to run can legitimately be very aggressive; but if your personality can’t stomach downturns of 30 percent or more from time to time, you’re apt to abandon your plan. Better to recognize your tolerance for financial pain JULY 2009

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Once you have a general plan in place, it’s time to select actual investments. In doing so, it is critical to remember two things: 1) It’s your money—take it very seriously! Don’t lend it, invest it or otherwise put it at risk unless you know what you’re doing and it’s the right thing for YOU. 2) There is no such thing as a free lunch. Investing involves all kinds of risks (see below) and, in order to get a higher return, you have to accept a higher risk.

BE VERY SKEPTICAL of any “guaranteed returns” that are higher than what the U.S. Treasury or an FDIC-Insured bank offers.

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to make or become better, more bearable,

will not be the return or more satisfactory; improve. you expected. These investment risks can b e c ate g o r i ze d a s either unsystematic risk or systematic risk.

Unsystematic risk is basically the risk involved with investing in a specific business (e.g. Microsoft or General Motors) or even a specific country (e.g. a mutual fund specializing in Brazilian companies).

Diversification ameliorates unsystematic risk quite effectively, and I cannot stress strongly enough that this must be one of the keys in your investing career. Your mother told you not to put all your eggs in one basket, and it is great advice for you as an investor. Personally, I wouldn’t put more than 10 percent of my investment dollars in any one company or specific investment and even five percent makes me nervous. A Bernie Madoff, a WorldCom, an Enron, etc. can happen to anyone; you

just shouldn’t lose more than a small piece of your pile if and when it happens to you.

Systematic risk includes a number of factors that can negatively or positively affect many investments at the same time: interest rate risk (which also includes reinvestment risk), inflation or purchasing power risk, exchange rate risk with foreign investments and general market risk.

“Event” risk is also a significant factor, particularly since 9/11. Diversification is once again the major defense against these forces as a portfolio of noncorrelated assets (i.e. asset classes that do not move in the same direction at the same time) can smooth out the total returns of your investment portfolio. Unfortunately, as has been rudely revealed this past year and a half, asset classes tend to be very correlated in a severe down market.

Real estate, bonds and stocks all got hammered since October, 2007, and they

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Investments $ “Liquidity” refers to the ability to rapidly and efficiently turn an investment into cash.

all got hammered everywhere on the planet.

The lesson here, frankly, is that to mitigate systematic risk, it is critical to NOT be “all in.” As an investor, you must maintain a fair amount of liquidity in order to weather the storm AND to take advantage of buying opportunities when the financial system crushes virtually every investment.

Investment choices

The spectrum of investment choices is truly infinite, ranging in risk from the Powerball lottery ticket to the 90-day US Treasury bill. Classic investment choices include equities (stocks), fixed income (U.S. government, municipal, corporate (all types) and foreign bonds), real estate, commodities, futures, private equity, and more. Time and space preclude a detailed discussion of each of these, but you do need to be aware of a few basic characteristics of these choices.

Equities. A share of stock represents a proportional ownership in a company. You buy stocks with the hopes of making a “capital gain” from the increase in share price and/ or to collect “dividends” if paid out by the company. There’s money to be made in stocks over the long run, but trying to outsmart or “time the market” in the short run is a fool’s game. If you are going to “day trade” just realize that you are essentially gambling, and limit your stakes accordingly.

Bonds. As indicated above, there are all sorts of bonds.

You buy bonds primarily to collect their promised interest payments, but there can be a capital gain incentive (and risk) as well. Individual bonds are difficult to evaluate and tend to be fairly illiquid; i.e. difficult to trade. In addition, because individual bonds, usually sold in units of $1,000, it can be difficult to adequately diversify unless you have lots to invest. Bond mutual funds are available in all shapes and sizes and are a good option for most investors (see below).

Mutual Funds. For those just starting out in their investing career, a good choice is to invest in a diversified mutual fund. A mutual fund is simply a basket of individual stocks and/or bonds managed by a professional manager. Taking this a step further, there are now many “target-date funds” where a manager selects and manages your investment in a group of mutual funds with the goal of maximizing your investments in the year you plan to retire (e.g. Fidelity Freedom Fund 2040 and countless others).

Real Estate. A real estate investment can be very alluring, but here is one area where you need to be very careful. Often, investments such as developed lots, rental homes, rehabs, etc. are very easy to get into and unbelievably difficult and expensive to get out of. Don’t jump in to this pool unless you have plenty of staying power (i.e. liquidity).

Other. Investments really do include an infinite number of choices, including commodities, futures, options, private equity deals, limited partnerships, variable annuity contract, hedge funds, etc. etc. Stick to the basic two tenets I mentioned above: Take your money very seriously and remember that there is no return without commensurate risk (i.e. no free lunch), and you should be able to choose wisely.  JULY 2009

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’m one of the more romantic dudes you’ll come across. My iPod is filled with love songs by artists like Rick James and Van Halen. What sane man would deny being romantic? Ladies, if you ever meet a man who says that he’s not romantic, run the other way and don’t look back. But after receiving this month’s topic, I had to ask myself, “Is a summer romance better than a romance in the winter, spring or fall?

Should I tell the good readers of CH2 that it’s okay to have a summer love affair?” Sorry, but I just can’t do it.

Last year, the county estimates that 65 percent of all heartbroken locals here on Hilton Head Island were involved in summer romances. I’ll bet most of the readers weren’t aware that the county keeps track of all the heartbroken locals. They simply tabulate how many times Michael Bolton’s “How Am I supposed To Live Without You” is played in local watering holes. Based on my own observations, I say the percentages are closer to at 75 percent. Summer romances are just way too fleeting for me.

It wouldn’t be so bad if it was just the love-’em-and-leave-’em types. No, even the seemingly innocent nice guy or girl will eventually pull the plug on a summer romance. They always do, leaving heartbreak in their wake.

They may be on the island working or they may be visiting tourists, but the minute summer starts to become fall, they’ll want to have a talk with the poor unsuspecting local.

I should point out that the lucky ones get the talk. The unlucky ones are greeted with a wave from a speeding vehicle as their summer love heads back to the Midwest and the big city. Those big-city types will claim to have been swept away because of the sun, sand and moonlit beach walks. They’ll point to the fact that they were on vacation and any romance that happens while you’re on vacation is just not to be taken seriously. Hey, everybody knows the rules, don’t they?

Well, unfortunately everyone isn’t aware that summer romances are destined to be short-lived flings with built-in expiration dates. Flings may be common in the big city, but this is the Lowcountry. The good folks who live in small towns like Hilton Head don’t go around having flings. It’s time to face facts that these big-city types from Akron and Canton Ohio are slicker than a cell phone covered in suntan oil. That’s why, if you’re smart, you’ll ignore that cute little number in that yellow sun dress smiling at you and giving you the “come hither” look. Sure, you can go over there and introduce yourself, but you’ll wind up another heart-broken statistic. You’ll be singing Michael Bolton’s greatest hits in a local pub while she’s back in Ohio watching another Cleveland team choke in the playoffs.

By the way, thanks a lot, LeBron. I should have known better. Never bet on any sports team from Ohio that has three guys with last names you can’t pronounce. How can you have the best record in the league, sweep your first two opponents and lose to a team coached by a guy named Stan?

I could understand if the Cavs lost to the Lakers, but Orlando? Sheesh..

Which brings me back to this month’s topic. Summer romances will disappoint you in the end. Trust me when I say that your heart will be broken. But you won’t listen to me. Go on and have your summer fling.

You’ll be miserable when it ends, and it always ends badly, you know.

You’ll be left scratching your head, dazed and confused. Just like I’m asking how the Cavs could implode at the worst possible time. I mean, they weren’t able to defend the pick and roll. The guards missed wide open jump shots. They refused to play basic defense. They let a guy with the nickname “Skip To My Lou” carve them up like a Thanksgiving turkey.

It’s madness I say. But I digress.

Why take the risk with a summer fling? In the fall, the air is nice and crisp and you can sit in front of a roaring fire with your sweetie sipping hot cider. You and your sweetheart can rub noses like the Eskimos do. Nothing is cuter than nose rubbing in the fall and winter months, you know. Try rubbing noses in the summer months. It’s not nearly as cute.

Besides, the county’s romance division reports that 95 percent of the married couples here on the island say that they had fall or winter romances. I wouldn’t make something like that up. 

Summer romances are destined to be short-lived flings with builtin expiration dates. Flings may be common in the big city, but this is the Lowcountry.

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ummer romance has been immortalized countless times on stage, screen and in song, so much so that the very notion boarders on cliché. “Summer loving, had me a blast...summer loving, happened so fast.” The infamous ballad from the musical Grease begins, and with it goes the relationship logic of generations of single gals who begin a fruitless search for their Danny Zuko.

When the temperatures reach 100 degrees, it seems that the rational thoughts that keep men and women in sensible relationships during the other three seasons boil over into frivolity. People don’t break up in the fall; it’s too close to the holiday season of parties, events and special occasions that call for (or rather demand) one to have a date. Not to mention the giving and receiving of gifts, which makes it a frowned upon time for a break up. Can’t end it after the holidays because up next is Valentines, and most people don’t want to do the lonely heart thing on V-day. Which leaves springtime for a break-up and the summer for the next fling.

In order to have a proper summer romance, one must surrender the qualities they normally seek out in a partner. In place of intelligence, honesty and sense of humor, a shallower list of attributes takes hold. If you’re under the age of 18, a summer romance may mostly be based around physical attraction...does he or she look good in a bathing suit? Who am I kidding, this is true for summer flingers of all ages. An athletic, tan, shirtless guy driving a jeep which may or may not include a surf board is a hard summer fantasy to rid oneself of at any age.

Summer love will mostly likely fall into one of three categories: Vacation Fling: You’re in a hotspot for a week or two (perhaps international); you meet a hottie and proceed to spend the rest of your vacation time “getting to know one another.” When the vacation is over, so is the romance. With technological advances making long distance love more legitimate, this relationship can extend its shelf life into the fall, but in most cases, it ends at the airport, train station or rental car drop-off.

Summer Off: Dominated by high school and college-age lovers, a “Summer Off” romance means that two people find themselves in the same place for about three months—just enough time to cultivate a bond and make lasting memories. “Summer Off” implies that a person has another life from which they are taking a break during the hot months to work, play or travel. Note to male single readers in the Hilton Head area, this writer is a teacher and has the “Summer Off.” Hot and Bothered: The dog days of summer can lead to some frisky behavior by both sexes. The days are long and hot; people are wearing less clothing and showering more frequently. It seems that people seek out fun and exciting things to fill their summer days and nights. For those seeking a hot romance, no strings attached, the summer months are the perfect time to snatch up a love (in any form that you may be seeking).

In no way am I advocating breaking up with your partner in search of one of the above relationships. Any frequent reader of He Says/She Says knows that I am most often found on the practical side of relationship arguments. I recognize, however, that people seek out affection and that the summer is a great time to find something the other seasons don’t offer.

People don’t write songs about winter love or autumn romance. Research shows that vitamin D actually boosts libido and sweat carries pheromones essential to attraction. So, all those hot bodies playing volleyball at the Tiki Hut have the right idea.  86

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En plein air: a French expression which means “in the open air,” used to describe the act of painting outdoors.

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In her essay, “Understanding Plein Air,” Ohio artist, Rebecca Grantham (rebeccagrantham.com) explains: “The difference between working en plein air or from a photograph is akin to the difference between seeing your favorite band live in concert or listening to a CD.”

Local artist, Barbara Benedict whole-heartedly agrees.

“Painting outside is unlike anything you can imagine. “When you paint a picture of a sunset from a photograph, it’s never going to compare to the real thing. The immediacy of actually painting outside when you’re looking at it is much more glowing and accurate. It just captures the moment so much better.”

Benedict, founder of the Low Country Plein Air Society, who describes painting as “an evolution of skill and senses,” prefers the spontaneity of onsite painting. “My earliest work was all done from photographs in the studio, but the experience of plein air painting was the catalyst

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A self-taught artist who divides her time between Cleveland, Ohio and Hilton Head Island, Benedict was delighted to find such an active art community here.

Her wish to be a part of that, along with her appreciation of the natural beauty surrounding the lowcountry, fueled her desire to form the low Country Plein Air Society. By organizing group “paintouts,” she helps promote the practice among area artists who interact and learn from one another, while encouraging others—including beginners—to discover the joy of outdoor painting.

A lot of people really want to try plein air painting but find it a little disconcerting to think of casual observers looking over their shoulder, Benedict explained. “I think people who are beginning find it particularly unsettling,” she said. “But everybody starts somewhere.”

Beyond the peanut gallery, plein air painters are faced with the challenges o f co n sta n tl y c h a n g ing light a nd unpredictable weather conditions, not to mention bugs and other annoying creatures of nature. But according to those who participate, the experience is worth any inconvenience. “Some may think it is too difficult and never try it.

I hope to get you started,” said Benedict.

“Once you try it, you will be hooked.”

The view finder

Most anywhere you look in the lowcountry can become a perfect venue for plein air painting, but gaining access is one of the inherent challenges in our area. “I’ve located a lot of killer places,” said Benedict, adding that she’s not too shy about asking permission to paint in private plantations. “People have been very generous about opening up their properties,” she said.

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1. “Marsh Musings” a plein air piece

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2. “Sun’s Up on the

May River”

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painting in Bluffton

3. 3. to create a level of excitement among members—to move them past this, ‘I don’t want to drive more than 20 minutes,’ or ‘It’s too hot or too cold.’”

Her goal is to attract area artists to the local painting group, but more importantly, to promote the Lowcountry as a destination for artists. To that end, the Low Country Plein Air Society hosted its first competition in Bluffton this past May with 14 competitors. The next competition, slated for fall of 2010, is expected to draw much broader participation as Benedict will promote it nationwide via her Web site. (She has purchased the domain name, pleinaircompetition. com, and plans to have that site up sometime this summer.) “I would like to see this become more of a destination for artists all over the country who would like to compete in a plein air competition. The key to success, she says, is advance promotion and cash prizes, which she hopes to procure through sponsorships and donations.

Future plans also include possible workshops and tie-ins with other local events such as garden tours and charity events.

“I started this for selfish reasons, but it has grown beyond what I thought. My motivation is far different now. I really think this is something that can help increase the awareness of Hilton Head as an artistic community. This is a destination for artists, and we have a lot of fine artists on the island. This will be just one more avenue to help increase that awareness.”

Join the group

Membership in the Low Country Plein Air Society is open to all artists who paint. (Photographers are not allowed.) The annual fee is $30, which covers costs associated with printing, communications, maintaining the Web site, promoting upcoming competitions, etc.

In addition to participation in the paint-outs, members receive a discount for entry in the local competition and, in the future, will be invited to display their work in an annual exhibition. For more information, visit lowcountrypleinairsociety.com. Learn more about Barbara Benedict at barbarabenedictart.com  JULY 2009

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ver crave the attention of celebrity, collecting fans from all over the world who are curious about your every move and can’t wait to see the next posted picture of you hammered and falling over yourself with an infectious grin on your face that screams, “It’s complicated”?

Ever wish you could find out what that loser ex-boyfriend who shattered your heart and stole all the pieces five years ago looks like now and what piece of peroxide trash he is “in a relationship” with?

Becoming an FBI, i.e. Facebook Investigator or Facebook Icon, whichever fits your personality, is quite simple and wickedly entertaining. Just be ready for your appointed paparazzi to plaster what and who you did last night all over the home page of millions.

Facebook, a 10 billion dollar Harvard grad invention, is the new window to the soul, so make your eyes useful and be prepared to scan webpage after webpage of the personal lives of your past and future. It’s all quite fascinating, and if you say you hate to find out the latest gossip and drama of your peers, then you might as well turn the key to that bus you are driving straight over to H-E-Double Hockey Sticks for lying.

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To begin your Facebook saga, you must complete a simple Internet profile, filling out who you are, where you’re from, your likes and dislikes, your relationship status, your religious and political views, your employer, your position, your contact information—you know, just the basics.

O n ce yo u h ave t y p e d o u t yo u r information, you start “friend requesting” people you know whom you like to communicate with frequently. Facebook-ing is just like texting and e-mailing, but there are pictures and photo albums to look at.

This is where the fun begins, but keep in mind that if you want to see theirs, they get to see yours. Facebook has three basic communication options: a personal e-mail option whereby only you and the person you are writing can view your gossip; an instant messenger whereby you and another member you have befriended can chat online; and a public wall posting option.

This third option is the most interesting, because wall posting is where everyone can put two and two together, finish your thoughts and sentences and pretty much figure out who you’re talking to, when you did it, and what happened—not to mention

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where you are at any given time of the day and what kind of mood you are in.

At first your Facebook account will seem harmless, because you aren’t very popular in the beginning; but the chain reaction and power of the friend request will blast your life into superstardom quicker than you can type conflict of interest. Once you have requested a few friends, then their friends can see an icon with your face and name on it, and they have the opportunity to friend request you and so on and so on until you become Kevin Bacon in The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

After building your fan base, you can do one of two things: turn into an FBI, Facebook Icon, or turn into an FBI, Facebook Investigator. As a Facebook Icon, your daily routine will consist of taking as many cool pictures of yourself and your life as possible and uploading them all to your Facebook page in hopes that all of your friends and new acquaintances will see how fabulous your life is. You may also spend quite a bit of time labeling people in your photos, called tagging, so that all the friends of your friends can also see every picture you have posted, thus allowing the masses of your past and

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Turn the page to find out which FBI you are! future to know who you have been partying with, sleeping with, living with, working with, and of course what you look like, how you dress and who you know.

By the time you are at your next high school reunion or family reunion, somebody who is friends with somebody else who is an acquaintance of somebody else on Facebook who knew you in a past life will already know that you were engaged last month but are now single and looking for random play. They will also know that: you used to work for that big company but are now self-employed, are a fan of Obama, a member of the group Beer in the Shower, your celebrity twin is Gerard Depardieu, you owe money to the Mafia, and you are on your way to the gym and then to Pete’s for some pizza and Rock Band.

But this is where it becomes all worth it. you also have the opportunity to use your mouse clicking skills and precious time and click back and forth through the lives of those who foolishly decided to accept your friend request just so they could poke around in your life too! This means you are now allowed to be a Facebook Investigator and stalk your way to a more informed future.

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you can choose to expose yourself as much or as little as you want to, and the benefits, if you’re smart, bored and know how to use a mouse are an endless tree of grossly entertaining gossip rings. It’s amazing how much you can learn about a person by who writes on their wall, what is written and who they are shooting Jagerbombs with at the bar.

Some call Facebook a fad; some call it a sad waste of invaluable time; some call it a genius way of networking. I call it a fascinating addiction that has been around for centuries. The most global and entertaining pastime of our generation is gossip. Gossip alone has created an international, multi-billion dollar industry of literature, television and Internet drama that never gets old. Facebook is just another way to create and feed an infinite hunger for melodrama. Just remember, if you post it, it will get viewed by somebody who will tell somebody who is either a member of your family or someone you know from work. But take comfort in the fact that if they’ve got something on you, you can conjure up something on them. 

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Are you a Facebook Icon?

Facebook Investigator? Or just an addict?

Do you have a facebook account?

Yes

Most of the photos of me have been posted..

By me

My current “status” was posted

3 days ago

3 hours ago

By others

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I have __ FB friends

Why?

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3 minutes ago

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Have you ever tagged someone in a photo they weren’t in?

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Do you play Mafia wars?

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You are a Facebook icon.

Wear sunglasses.

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Are you a “fan” of a local restaurant/ old TV series/ college sorority or fraternity?

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experience Marshside Mama’s

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artender Tyler Gerow described it perfectly. “Our bar is like Canterbury Tales. There’s a little bit of everything.”

And, he might have added, a little bit of everyone, too.

You leave your social and economic status at the door.

Marshside Mama’s, on Daufuskie Island, represents everything that’s good and fun in true Lowcountry style. Make that Daufuskie style.

A combination restaurant and bar with some of the best live music on the Southeast coast, it’s not a step back in time; it’s a step away from time. According to owner, Beth Shipman, that’s the point.

“We have people come in, they say they’re in a hurry for some reason.

And I’m like, what could you possibly be in a hurry for? There isn’t any place to go.” Shipman laughed. It’s a wonderful laugh, a contagious laugh, right in the spirit of Marshside Mama’s.

Shipman definitely has a point. One of the charms of Daufuskie is its isolation or, as one resident says, its “insulation.” Unless you live on the island, the only way to get there is by boat. There is ferry service, a 45-minute ride from Hilton Head Island. If you have your own boat, there is always the public dock. But no matter how you get there, Marshside Mama’s is a destination. So once you’re there you’re, well, there, where you want to be.

Article By Paul deVere

• Photography by John Brackett

Some folks come for the music. “We had a band playing Grateful Dead covers. It’s fun,” said Shipman. “We go from that extreme to these killer blues bands.”

Everyone comes for the food. Shipman is famous for her gumbo and shrimp and grits. Also, if you see fresh fish on the menu, do not hesitate to order it. A local fisherman brought it to Shipman that morning. “This week and last week, people called and said, ‘Beth, you want the cobia?’ I said yeah! So I got really fresh cobia. We just picked up 200 pounds of beautiful mahi mahi. We also got flounder. Certain people I know like the flounder, so they make a reservation or I’ll call them and say we’ve got flounder tonight. Because they’re usually whole, I can’t put it on the menu ’cause I can only do one at a time,” Shipman explained.

A few things stand out in that statement. yes, really fresh fish. And how many chefs have called you recently to tell you your favorite dish will be available? And finally, Shipman really only has room for one flounder. The kitchen is small and Shipman is the only chef. “It’s only me. And my friend Dee. Dee does all the dishes, and I do all the cooking. All the prepping. I sometimes surprise myself that I am actually putting out that many dinners,” Shipman said. The restaurant, cooled only by ceiling and box fans, seats about 60. But there’s plenty of room outside under the trees, with a view of the New River.

Along with the cautionary “no whining, just dance,” Marshside Mama’s “menu” is a reflection of the spirit of the place. It’s a big white board with the fare of the evening

The view from marshside mama’s written out. A server goes from one table, takes the order, then moves on to the next. As the night progresses, items start disappearing from the board. If you didn’t make reservations (always make reservations), there will be plenty to drink, but food might be optional. “I like the white board,” said Shipman.

“If I’m behind, I tell the server you can’t take that menu out to any more tables. you can seat them all day long, but they can’t get a menu until I catch up. If you haven’t had your order taken, you can’t be anxious to get it because you don’t even know about it,” she added. “last week I loaded up my truck and put it on the barge. I thought [the food] would last for two weeks. lasted until Monday (four days).” yes, barge. Some people have said going to Marshside Mama’s is an adventure. The organizational skills and strategies Shipman has had to develop would put some military commanders to shame. “Some people have a Plan B. I have to have a Plan G,” she said, that laughter coming out again. When someone asked barman Gerow how he could justify charging three dollars for a bottle of beer, Gerow laid out the beer route July 2009

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for the customer that all things coming to Marshside Mama’s take. “See, I get in my truck to go to the dock to get in my boat to go to my truck on the other side. Then I have to drive almost to Beaufort to the distributor (they won’t deliver), load into the truck, load it on the boat, cross over to Daufuskie, load it into my truck, unloaded in my storeroom. Then I put it in the cooler and ice it down. Shoot, I should charge you nine dollars! This is an old friend of mine I’m about to give away,” related Gerow, in his own Marshside Mama’s laugh.

Though he grew up in Savannah, Gerow’s family had lived on Daufuskie for ages. His grandmother was born on the island.

His great grandmother also lived there. “When I was a kid, I hated Daufuskie. It was a bunch of work. We’d have to get our yard done in town (Savannah) so we could come over here and do Grama’s yard,” Gerow said. But after college and being out in the real world for a time, on a visit to his grandmother eight years ago, he heard Shipman needed help one evening behind the bar. Gerow volunteered and never left.

“People ask me if I don’t get tired of living over here. When I do, I just drive up and down 278 a couple of times. Get me back to my golf cart,” Gerow said.

Enjoying grEat food and grEat miusic Shipman is no stranger to Daufuskie either. Her family bought property there in 1960, and her father moved the family to Sea Pines in 1968. She went to Beaufort Academy, then Sea Pines Academy the year it opened. She went to the College of Charleston, taught Montessori, and worked in the restaurant business before, during and in between. “I was always in food and beverage. I think every kid I went to high school with was; our first job was working for Signe’s. We all adored her,” Shipman said. She moved to Daufuskie in 1990, started Marshside Mama’s in 1997, and opened in its present location in 1999.

She is not quite sure where her interest in cooking came from. “I guess it started at Freeport (a marina and restaurant just up the shore). We were doing these wonderful cookouts.

The Hallelujah Singers would come over. A hundred people would come over on Wednesday. lowcountry Boil, barbecue chicken. I said I could do that. Made everything by hand. I guess I started from that. I know I’ve gotten better. People I’ve known—chefs that I’ve known—would show me something, and I’d add that—make it my own,” Shipman explained.

Which is what Shipman has done with Marshside Mama’s.

While there’s no air conditioning, while it might take a while to get your food, and while bug spray might be needed if you eat outside, to experience Marshside Mama’s—to be there when the tables and chairs are moved out, after people get done eating, so there is more room to shag on the concrete dance floor—is to fall under Marshside Mama’s spell: “No whining, just dance.”  And that has Daufuskie written all over it.

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QUIET STORM SURF SHOP:

ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW THINGS article by craig hysell

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n life, it’s best to have an outline instead of a plan. The gods laugh at our plans. Plans do not adapt well to increases or decreases in opportunities.

Plans don’t roll with obstacles or rise with stepping stones affably either.

Plans are rigid; life is not. Outlines are broad, loose, adaptable, less restricting, more accommodating. All Aaron Krauss’ life he had a plan.

And all his life he never thought he’d end up here.

The owner of the Quiet Storm Surf Shop in Coligny Plaza is young, vibrant and extremely business-minded in that sandals-to-work-wearing sort of way.

Krauss may look like he’s on cruise control, but he knows everything that is happening in his store at all times. (At. All. Times.) He measures his words and thoughts carefully, not in the name of political correctness, but in the almost desperate need to get his exact point across as his brain constantly whirls with wants, ideas, needs, responsibilities, history and memories. Especially when it comes to both his personal journey so far and his two-year old Hilton Head Island surf shop. He’s a treat to talk to. The kind of guy you want on the team.

Krauss grew up outside of Baltimore, Maryland, spending his summers in Ocean City and dreaming of becoming an Ocean City lifeguard when he wasn’t busy skimboarding, surfing and looking at girls. In 2000, he went to

college at Towson on a swimming scholarship, planning to take his summers off to pursue his lifeguarding aspirations. Instead, even after putting his money down for his first summer rental in Ocean City, he went off to train with Olympic swimming hopefuls, including the legendary Michael Phelps. The sudden change in plans suited Krauss well; he qualified for the Olympic trials in 2004 and was the first swimmer from Towson to ever qualify for the NCAA Nationals.

But, yet again, plans changed. Krauss spent 2005 intent on making an international swimming team. When it didn’t pan out, he was back to where he wanted to begin in the first place: Ocean City. He tried out for Ocean City Beach Patrol and became a lifeguard. “It was one of the best summers I’ve ever had,” says Krauss. “I was a lunatic, apparently. I would work the beach from 9:30 until 5:30, come into the surf shop and work from 5 until 10

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at night, four days a week, simply because I enjoyed being in the store.” When the summer ended, Krauss turned his attention to the surf shop, or rather, it turned its attention toward him.

“My boss at the time was expanding his stores into Florida.

My whole plan was to work for him doing a lot of the handiwork he needed done for nine months and then come back and do beach patrol. I figured I’d do that for about three years and then really sit down and figure out what I wanted to do with my life,” he says.

Ha. The gods could be heard guffawing across the space-time continuum, flux capacitor and relativity theories or not. Krauss got to Florida in September; by December he knew he wasn’t going back to lifeguarding. He had gone from doing handiwork to managing to buying for the entire surf shop in four months.

By February he was buying the retail items for 10 stores. In 2007 he helped open the Hilton Head store. In late 2007 he bought it.

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“So much for plans,” Krauss laughs, “Everything changes. I look at my life now and here I am kinda going on one path then, boom, here comes another you know? I didn’t really plan any of this.” And that’s exactly what surfing (living) enjoyably is all about.

Complete control is an illusion, but it doesn’t mean we can’t look good trying to fake it.

Quiet Storm is full of skimboards (from the basics to topof-the-line models you’ve never even heard of), skateboards, bodyboards and even a few surfboards. Clothing and gear from Quiksilver, Volcom, Hurley, RVCA, Dakine, and more. Sandals from Sanuk, Reef and Rainbow. Original Quiet Storm Hilton Head T-shirts, hoodies and sweatshirts. Rash guards, leashes and stickers. Sunglasses from Oakley, Maui Jim, VonZipper, Electric and Chili’s. An entire side of the huge store is devoted to women’s beach apparel from the likes of Roxy and many others.

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“I guess you could say I don’t try to jam one brand of clothing down your throat,” says Krauss. “And I’m hoping that, come the wintertime, locals will get down here and see that I have jeans, sweaters and lightweight jackets… that kinda thing as well.” The gods sit back and nod approvingly. Krauss is learning, progressing, at ease yet in (incomplete) control. Krauss is beginning to dismiss “plans” with a simple wave of his hand. He stands in the middle of his store, looking around. “We’re always looking for new things here.”

Nice outline. Who’s laughing now?  Call (843) 671-2551 for more information or just swing in with the breeze and enjoy the stroll. That’s usually the simplest and most overlooked way to spot the things we like.

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Ashton Kelley: Proust Interview

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hilosophers say that luck is when opportunity meets preparation.

In Ashton Kelley’s case, her good fortune was more like a head-on collision than a mere meeting. Earning a degree in hotel, tourism and restaurant management from USCB, Kelley, age 22, graduated cum laude, with honors, on May 1, 2009, immediately trading her cap and gown for a sassy new hat: As marketing manager for the Lowrey Group, one of Hilton Head Island’s most successful and highly respected businesses, Kelley is in charge of marketing, advertising and promotional planning for all five Lowrey Group restaurants. Duties include creating holidays, events, specials and discounts to continually draw new and repeat customers to the restaurants. In addition, she handles communications and public relations and keeps the Web sites updated.

What seems like a heavy load for a young woman just starting out in her career is a dream come true for Kelley, who clearly has the skill set and determination to meet the demands of the job. In addition to her educational background and youthful enthusiasm, her special qualifications include the creative energy to approach a challenging market with passion and the personality to infuse it with a breath of fresh air.

“I really believe in this company, and I’m excited to go out there and promote it,” said Kelley. “I think that when you believe in something, it is going to succeed.”

Born and reared on Hilton Head Island, Kelley is no stranger to the Lowcountry.

But for those of you who have yet to meet her, she shares a glimpse into her personal life—the thoughts, values and experiences that make her who she is today: a mature, responsible adult with the unfettered eagerness of a child on Christmas morning.

What or who is the greatest love of your life?

Debbie, Spain, Lindsey, Brent, Clark, and Simon.

When and where were you happiest?

Every Christmas morning! Any occasion that involved presents, really.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

I would think before I speak; I wouldn’t be so clumsy, and I would stop biting my nails! Oh wait, that’s three…

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Becoming the Lowrey Group Marketing Manager directly out of college.

Where would you like to live?

On a quaint, secluded island in the Bahamas.

What is your most treasured possession?

My family and my puppy, Simon.

What is your most marked characteristic?

My loyalty to family and friends and always trying to see the best in people.

Who is your favorite writer?

Ernest Hemmingway.

Which historical figure do you most identify with?

Mother Teresa (laughs).

What is it that you most dislike?

Mayonnaise!

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

My life, right now.

What is your current state of mind?

Optimistic and grateful.

What is your greatest fear?

Losing a family member or a friend, and of course, tornados.

On what occasion do you lie?

I can’t tell you all of my secrets!

What is your greatest regret?

Not traveling as much as I would have liked and not studying abroad.

What do you most dislike about your appearance?

My freckles.

Which talent would you most like to have?

Coordination. Is that a talent?

Which living person do you most despise?

Despise is a pretty harsh word.

How would you like to die?

In my sleep and peacefully… but not anytime soon!

What do you most value in your friends?

Comfort, laughter, having fun, and honesty.

What is your motto?

Everything happens for a reason!

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

I can be very moody, especially in the mornings!

What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Pre-judgment and dishonesty.

What is your greatest extravagance?

I love to shop.

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Kinghorn Insurance, p. 82 Hilton Head: 785-2101, Bluffton: 837-8000 Ridgeland: 717-2020 - Free Consultation

Brooke’s Bed & Biscuit, p. 20 25 Buck Island Road, 757-PETS (7387) Receive A Free Toenail Clipping

Mattress Firm, p. 9 1172 Fording Island Road, 837-FIRM (3476) Save up tp $150 (see ad for details)

Beach Properties of Hilton Head, p. 34 800.671.5155 - $200 off your 2009 weekly reservation

Pana Roofing, p. 6 1484 Fording Island Rd., 682-2440 Free 10 Yr. Warranty On Re-Roofing

Celebration Events Catering, p. 72 689-7526, Call For Details Creative Concrete Coatings Inc., p. 102 689-5498, Free Estimate & 10% Off with C2 card E.A.C., p. 27 681-3999 - $250 Off a new Trane system replacement

PC Support, p. 112 Mobile, 684-0220 - $15 Off first visit Reel Screens, p. 85 www.reelscreens.com, 422-1789 Free, No Obligation In-House Demo With Card

EnjoyHHI.com, p. 52 Fresh Market Shoppes, 341.9184 FREE Keepsake Souvenir with CH2 Card

Six Oaks Cemetery, p.95 384-3796, 175 Greenwood Dr. Sea Pines Plantation 25% off pre-need services now thru July 4th (see ad)

Epperson, p. 103 681-9210, 10% off any indoor air quality products

Smith Barney; Jennifer Stupica, p. 79 600 Main Street, 689-7215, Complimentary Consultation

Fast Teks, p. 112 Mobile, 682-4744, 10% Off

Star Electric Vehichles of Hilton Head, p. 47 3229 Argent Blvd., Hardeeville, SC 647-2450 New Star Golf Cars from $4,695 (see ad for details)

Great American Cleaners, p. 112 Bluffton Park Crescent, 837-4999 Port Royal Plaza, 681-6230 10% Off Dry Cleaning Hilton Head Places, p.35 www.HiltonHeadPlaces.com 50% off new property listing promo code: 50off Hilton Head Shell, p. 26 125 Matthews Dr., 681-2305 see ad for discount

Superior Heating & Air Inc., p. 26 39 Persimmon Rd. Unit 202, 682-COOL(2665) mention ad and receive a $1000 cash back on qualifying purchases The Great Frame Up, p53 Belfair Town Village, 815-4661 40% off framing, 25% off first Cruse scan Yellow Cab, p. 94 686.6666 Receive up to $5 off fare. See ad for details.

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EATS • SWEETS • SPIRITS

Antonio’s Fine Dining, p. 53 Village At Wexford, 842-5505 see ad for details

Marshside Mammas, p. 51 Daufuskie Island, 785-4755 10% Off food

Aunt Chilada’s Easy Street Cafe, p. 116 (Back Cover) 69 Pope Avenue, 785-7700 Receive 10% Off

Mainly Sandstone Gourmet Grab & Go, p95 35 North Main Street, 681-5721 32 Office Park, 686.3721 Free cookie with drink

The Big Bamboo Cafe, p. 100 Coligny Plaza - UPSTAIRS 843.686.3443 Free cup of chowder with lunch or dinner purchase.

Not valid with other offers.

May 5th Grill & Cantina, p. 112 21 Office Park Road, Sapelo Building, Suite 105 686-5MAY(5629) 10% Off Food

Bistro 17, p. 64 Harbourside 1, Shelter Cove Harbour, 785-5517 Complimentary Bottle Of Barton & Guestier Bistro Wine With Purchase Of Two Entrees (Dinner Only) Boathouse II Restaurant, p. 99 Squire Pope Rd, 681-3663 see ad for details Brick Oven, p. 64 Park Plaza, 686-2233 50% Off all entrees, kids eat free, see ad for details Callahan’s Sports Bar & Deluxe Grill, p. 57 New Orleans Rd. At The Sea Pines Circle, 686-7665 10% Off Food

Mellow Mushroom Pizza, p. 113 Park Plaza, 686-2474 10% Off

Coolidge Plastc Surgery Center, p. 61 300 New River Pkwy-Suite 36, Hardeeville, SC 10% off surgery or injection with ad

Palmetto Bay Sunrise Cafe, p.46 Palmetto Bay Marina, 686-3232 10% Off Monday-Friday

Core Pilates, p. 25 32 Office Park Road-Suite 306 681-4267, 10% OFF classes and packages

Plantation Cafe Heritage Plaza, 785-9020, Port Royal Plaza, 342-4472 10% Off Food Only Prana International, p. 76 130 Arrow Rd., 785-PRNA(7762), See ad Reilley’s Grill & Bar, p. 116 (Back Cover) Hilton Head Plaza, 842-4414, Port Royal Plaza, 681-4153 10% Off Rollers, p. 102 Coligny Plaza, 785-3614 Port Royal Plaza, 681-8454 Free Mini Bottle with Purchase

CQ’s Restaurant, p. 65 Harbour Town, 671-2779 see ad for details Daniel’s Espresso Bar, p. 69 North Forest Beach Drive #2 Unit 108 341-9379 Buy one sandwich and get the second one half price The Electric Piano, p. 77 Park Plaza, 785-5397 10% Off

HEALTH FITNESS  BEAUTY

Old Fort Pub, p. 108 & 109 Hilton Head Plantation, 681-2386 see ad for details

Carolina Cafe in the Westin Resort 2 Grasslawn Ave., Port Royal Plantation, 681-4000, 10% Off

Coligny Bakery Coligny Plaza, 686-4900 10% Off Food

Receive $5 Off Your First Prescription

Bluffton Pharmacy, p. 75 167B Bluffton Rd., 757-4999 See ad for savings

Planet Smoothie, p40 11 Palmetto Bay Rd., 842-9808 Buy five smoothies receive the sixth Free

Chocolate Canopy, Ltd., p. 46 Palmetto Bay Rd, 842-4567 10% Off Non-Sale Items (with minimum purchase)

Stephens Pharmacy

Ocean Grille Restaurant, p. 104 & 105 Shelter Cove Harbour, 785-3030 see ad for details

Captain Woody’s, p. 113 Palmetto Bay Marina, 785-2400, 10% Off Food

Casey’s Sports Bar & Grille, p. 83 37 New Orleans Rd, 785-2255 10% Off Total Bill. Regular Priced Food & Bev. Only

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The Salty Dog, p. 48 & 49 South Sea Pines Drive, 671-CAFE(2233) See Ad For Discount Details Skillets Café, p. 46 Coligny Plaza, 785-3131 10% Off Any Purchase $6.95 Or Higher

Dermatology of the Low Country, p. 61 Hilton Head Okatie: 689-5259 Beaufort: 525-9277, Walterboro: 549-6945 Now offering Saturday appointments (call for details) Dr. Shelly, p.83 Red Cedar St., 837-5553 Free new patient exam Esmeralda’s Massage Therapy & Pilates Center, p. 112 14 New Orleans Road, #6 785-9588 Special package rates Faces Day Spa, p. 57 The Village at Wexford, 785-3075, see ad for details Fusion Fitness, p. 76 Moss Creek Village 843.837.4653 2 Week Free Trial Membership with local ID Heavenly Spa by Westin, p. 85 2 Grasslawn Ave., Port Royal Plantation, 681-1019 $15 Off 50 minute spa treatment, see ad for details Hyperbaric Therapy Of The Lowcountry, p. 4 94 Main St., Suite E, 681-3300 Complimentary Consultation Island Family Dental, p. 89 Professional Building, Suite 202, 842-3555, Receive $100 Off Teeth Whitening

The Island Fudge Shoppe, p. 46 Coligny Plaza, 842-4280 or 1-800-497-1470 10% Off

The Smokehouse, p. 40 102 Pope Avenue, 842-4BBQ(4227) Free Chips And Dip With Purchase Of Two House Specialties

Island Medical Spa, p. 98 4 Dunnmore Court-Building C, Suite 300, 689-3322 Free cosmetic rejuvenation seminars June 23 & 25 $50 Off hair emoval (see ad for details)

Jocks Blufftons Sports Bar and Grill, p. 89 95 Baylor Dr. (Publik Shopping Center) Bluffton, 815-7474 please see ad for details

Street Meet, p. 51 Port Royal Plaza, 842-2570, 10% Off Food

Island Tattoo, p. 76 115 Arrow Road, 785-3344 $10 Off Tattoo

Jump & Phil’s Bar and Grill, p. 113 Hilton Head Plaza, 785-9070 10% Off Food Kingfisher, p. 51 Shelter Cove Marina, 785-4442, 10% Off Food The Market Street Café, p. 113 Coligny Plaza, 686-4976 10% Off Entire Check

Turtles Beach Bar & Grill in the Westin Resort 2 Grasslawn Ave., Port Royal Plantation, 681-4000 10% Off Two Eleven Park Wine Bar & Bistro, p. 82 211 Park Plaza, 686-5212 10% off with CH2 card. Not valid with other offers.

Wild Wing Cafe, p. 11 Hilton Head, 843.785.9464 or Bluffton, 837.9453 10% Off Lunch with C2 Card Woody’s Darn Good Bagels, p. 113 South Island Square, 686-3353 Sheridan Park, 815-5300, 10% Off

Palmetto Eye Specialist, p. 73 Hilton Head, 785-2525, Sun City, 843-705-2678 Ridgeland, 726-6509 $20 Off Refraction or Contact Lens Fitting with CH2 Card The Sanctuary - A European Day Spa, p. 110 Park Plaza 843.842.5999 See ad for details Stephens Pharmacy, p. 82 2 Marshland Rd. in the HH Health & Wellness Building 686-3735 Receive $5 Off Your First Prescription

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