Fall Lifelong Learning Begins! The fall semester of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Coastal Carolina University starts Wednesday, Sept. 12. The course catalog is available at the three outreach centers in Conway, Myrtle Beach and Litchfield, as well as at area libraries. More than 350 courses and workshops are offered for seasoned adults [...]
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Fall Lifelong Learning Free Week! The fall course catalog for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Coastal Carolina University is available at the three outreach centers in Conway (2431 U.S. 501 E.), Myrtle Beach (900 79th Ave. N.) and Litchfield (160 Willbrook Blvd.), as well as at area libraries. More than 350 courses and [...]
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The Moveable Feast This popular series is presenting its 14th season of exciting authors talking about their new books at Waccamaw Neck restaurants, followed by lunch and a book signing. Held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast. Each feast is $25. The [...]
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The Moveable Feast This popular series is presenting its 14th season of exciting authors talking their new books at Waccamaw Neck restaurants, followed by lunch and a book signing. Held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast. Each feast is $25. The 2012 [...]
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Take a Local Author to the Beach What a difference a year makes! Last June, Bob O’Brien started Prose Press to publish his first novel “The Toppled Pawn” and a joint effort with Ted Gagliano (“Circle of Twelve”). This May at the South Carolina Book Festival in Columbia, Prose Press set up a booth to [...]
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FOWL Request for Art Donations The Friends of the Waccamaw Library (FOWL) will be holding a live and online art auction Saturday, June 23, at the home of Caroline and Rich Drummond in Prince George ~ River to raise matching funds for The Library Center – Waccamaw (TLC), a new facility to be constructed on [...]
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FOWL Request for Art Donations The Friends of the Waccamaw Library (FOWL) will be holding a live and online art auction Saturday, June 9, at the home of Caroline and Rich Drummond in Prince George River to raise matching funds for The Library Center – Waccamaw (TLC), a new facility to be constructed on Willbrook [...]
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The Moveable Feast This popular series is presenting its 14th season of exciting authors talking their new books at Waccamaw Neck restaurants, followed by lunch and a book signing. Held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast. Each feast is $25. The 2012 [...]
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Songs of the Unpainted South Join music, poetry and photography enthusiasts at Coastal Carolina University’s Waccamaw Higher Education Center (160 Willbrook Blvd., Litchfield) for a free OLLI-sponsored performance, Sunday, March 11, 4 to 5:30 p.m. The Songs of the Unpainted South is a collaboration between Mindy Burgin (vocals, guitar, cello), Rutledge Leland (vocals, mandolin, guitar, [...]
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The Moveable Feast This popular series is presenting its 14th season of exciting authors talking their new books at Waccamaw Neck restaurants, followed by lunch and a book signing. Held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast. Each feast is $25. The 2012 [...]
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The Moveable Feast This popular series is presenting its fourteenth season of exciting authors talking their new books at Waccamaw Neck restaurants, followed by lunch and a book signing. Held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast. Each feast is $25. The 2012 [...]
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Strand Cinema Located in Georgetown, the region’s only art film theatre opened the first weekend in December with a slam-dunk subtitled French film, four inspiring documentaries of the American spirit during World War II, and a vintage holiday charmer. If you missed them, no worries – the selection committee has chosen outstanding films for the [...]
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The Moveable Feast for Winter 2012 The perfect stocking stuffer or girlfriend gift: A gift certificate for one or more feasts in this popular series of literary luncheons! Each features an exciting author at different Waccamaw Neck restaurants and is held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Paid reservations are requested by the [...]
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Strand Cinema Opens with a Veterans Tribute The new Strand Cinema opens Friday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m., with a delightful French romantic comedy, “Potiche” (English subtitles) starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu, following a reception. Then two shows on Saturday, Dec. 3, will feature documentary films of World War II battles: Heidi Mehltretter and [...]
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By Glenn Arnette, III Santa Is Real! The Sleigh Is Ready To Fly! Is Your Package On Board? What does Christmas mean to you? Does it bring happiness into your life? How can you not have great memories when you see all the sparkling lights and hear the wonderful songs of the holiday? To me [...]
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Les Films Having recently returned from a memorable two weeks following writers, artists and musicians around Paris via David McCullough’s “The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris” and John Baxter’s “The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: Pedestrians in Paris,” I’m sufficiently Francophiled to reap great satisfaction in the debut film choices for the area’s first [...]
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OLLI Conway Book Club Three for the price of one: Free! Join the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Conway Book Club at the Foundation Center (2431 U.S. 501 East near Coastal Carolina University’s campus) for a special meeting on Monday, Nov. 14 at 1 p.m. Authors Robert O’Brien (“The Toppled Pawn”), Ted Gagliano (“Circle of Twelve”) [...]
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Jewelry & More – So Much More! The Friends of Waccamaw Library’s 21st Annual Luncheon & Auction was the event of the season ~ at least for the lucky 190 participants on Thursday, Oct. 13. Co-chairs Kathy Gramet, Bonnie Chandler and Diane Stern were high-fiving after the event which netted $8,600 toward the support of [...]
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Strand Cinema The Swamp Fox Players announces the creation of a new division, Strand Cinema, the area’s first and only art house cinema, located at the Strand Theater on Front Street in Georgetown. Opening the first weekend in December, Strand Cinema will show recently released independent films, documentaries and foreign films not available in the [...]
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By Linda Ketron Help SCELP Help CMC! The South Carolina Environmental Law Project (SCELP) is representing a small, rural, low-income group called Citizens for Marlboro County (CMC). They are fighting a mega-dump that would accept 2.4 million tons of out-of-state waste annually. Marlboro County itself generates less than 25,000 tons per year. CMC has practically [...]
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OLLI Fall Semester Begins On Wednesday, Sept. 14, scores of exciting noncredit classes and workshops will begin at the three outreach centers hosting the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Coastal Carolina University. The fall catalog, detailing membership benefits and course offerings, is available at each of the centers and can be accessed online. In addition, [...]
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Fall CLASS Registration CLASS (Community Learning About Special Subjects) is registering students for the fall semester. In addition to the Moveable Feast – literary luncheons held each Friday with an exciting author at one of the Waccamaw Neck restaurants – several unique short courses are offered at the Litchfield Exchange, just behind Applewood House of [...]
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Fall OLLI Registration Registration for the fall semester of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is underway at all three Coastal Carolina University outreach centers. Catalogs are available at the centers, local libraries and chambers of commerce. With more than 350 enrichment courses offered for seasoned adults, it may take the rest of August to plan [...]
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Blueberry Jam in McClellanville The first jam drew a crowd of 300! So the owners of Blue Pearl Farms have turned the “Blueberry Jam” into a monthly Sunday afternoon delight! The farm is open to all (no admission charge) on Sunday, July 17, from 4 to 8 p.m. The focus of the event is to [...]
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Summer Reading from the FOWL Book Sale The 21st Annual Book Sale, sponsored by the Friends of Waccamaw Library and chaired by Roz Breit, will be held July 7-9 at St. Paul’s Waccamaw United Methodist Church. Some 10,000 books are organized into fiction (by author) and nonfiction (by category) and sold to benefit the library. [...]
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Local ‘Boys’ Make Good! At 75, 80 and 89, three South Strand “retirees” have launched new careers as published authors. Bob O’Brien spearheaded this effort by forming Prose Press after his manuscript was favorably reviewed by agents and publishers, but nonetheless rejected. After attending the Self-Published Authors Book Fair at the Litchfield Exchange last fall [...]
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Good Karma Yoga This summer, Lisa Rosof, M.A., PRYT (certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist) and guest yoga teachers offer Good Karma Yoga, an act that gives and gets, for teens and adults. Rosof will lead each Tuesday class, while Thursdays will be rotated among the talented stable of yoga instructors in the community, including Sandy [...]
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The Moveable Feast This popular series of literary luncheons, each featuring an exciting author at different Waccamaw Neck restaurants, is held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast; each feast is $25. The 2011 schedule is available onsite at Art Works inside the [...]
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The Moveable Feast This popular series of literary luncheons, each featuring an exciting author at different Waccamaw Neck restaurants, is held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast; each feast is $25. The 2011 schedule is available onsite at Art Works inside the [...]
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The Moveable Feast This popular series of literary luncheons, each featuring an exciting author at different Waccamaw Neck restaurants, is held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast; each feast is $25. The 2011 schedule through July is available onsite at Art Works [...]
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SavanaFest in McClellanville The weather gods smiled on the tiny fishing village two days in a row to allow the Wisteria Parade to prance through town on Saturday and SavanaFest to rock out on Sunday. The benefit to “raise a roof” for Savana Whalen ~ while she awaits a kidney transplant and deals with dialysis [...]
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About The Marsh Princess My column this week is devoted to telling you about The Marsh Princess, a friend of mine and many others who has fallen on hard times ~ physical, emotional and financial. If you are overwhelmed by the scope of the disasters surrounding us and the seeming impossibility of making a difference, [...]
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Mid-March through May brings another term of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Coastal Carolina University. With 165 courses being offered at the three outreach centers in Conway, Myrtle Beach and Litchfield, there is truly something for everyone! In addition to a host of popular computer, art, photography, history, music and creative writing courses, new [...]
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S.C. Academy of Authors Honors Three Writers The S.C. Academy of Authors will celebrate writers Percival Everett, Sue Monk Kidd and the late Gamel Woolsey, inducting the three into the state’s literary hall of fame in a March 18 ceremony at USC Aiken. Percival Everett, who grew up in Columbia, is the author of 17 [...]
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The Moveable Feast This popular series of literary luncheons, each featuring an exciting author at different Waccamaw Neck restaurants, is held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast; each feast is $25. The 2011 schedule is available onsite at Art Works inside the [...]
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By Linda Ketron The Moveable Feast This popular series of literary luncheons, each featuring an exciting author at different Waccamaw Neck restaurants, is held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast; each feast is $25. The 2011 schedule is available onsite at Art [...]
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By Linda Ketron The Moveable Feast This popular series of literary luncheons, each featuring an exciting author at different Waccamaw Neck restaurants, is held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast; each feast is $25. The 2011 schedule is available onsite at Art [...]
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