Hilton Head Island - Bluffton, SC
Thursday, July 3, 2008
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Diving for ship lost in the Lowcountry in 1526: Photo by Jason Lesley
Sunken treasure: Having trouble finding DeAllyon Avenue on the south end of Hilton Head Island?
Try finding Lucas Vazquez De Ayllón’s ship believed to be wrecked near Georgetown.
The Georgetown Times tells about the search for the 1526 wreck of Capitana near the entrance of Winyah Bay resuming for the third summer.
Mary Geer Di Raddo, author of "Steaming in Charleston.": Photo by Ashley Garner
Steamah: Cooking rice is the first lesson on the first day of Lowcountry 101. How do you do it?
In Charleston, they use steamahs.
I love this video from Charleston's Post and Courier of Teresa Taylor talking to Mary Geer Di Raddo, author of "Steaming in Charleston."
Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina, unless you happen to be a pig
North Carolina won the barbecue showdown against South Carolina on The Today Show this week.
I knew we were in trouble when Al Roker mispronounced the name of our pitmaster, the Lowcountry’s own Jimmy Hagood of Charleston’s BlackJack Barbecue.
That would be HAY-good, not HAG-ood.
• Curiouser and curiouser: Readers send condolences about Tommy the cat and share their own cat stories:
Mr. Lauderdale,
I always read your column in The Island Packet but today is by far my favorite
and one that I am sorry you had to write. I am sorry for the loss of Tommy
but I am glad to know your family learned to love and accept the love of such
a wonderful cat.
I especially liked that you wrote about all of Tommy's other names-- a sure
sign he had you all hooked.
School trailers could be avoided more ways than one
• Save money on school buildings: A reader tells how local taxpayers could save $160 million.
• Sea shells: Can anybody help answer this reader's scientific question:
David,
I love your perspective on most things and coming across the cross island bridge I saw the dead body of an Armadillo...they have made it across the bridge.do they live on the Island now..?
• See there, I told you newspapers are useful: Another reader sends this:
• Do something: The people who brought us the "Corridor of Shame" exposing poor Lowcountry schools now wants you to sign a petition to end the "minimally adequate" support for South Carolina public schools.
You can sign the peitioin at that link.
They want MORE for the schools. So does the state superintendent of education:
Sisters Mary Connor and Priscilla Coleman
• The Bluffton Farmers Market: Is happening this afternoon. The three sisters from Pinckney Colony hoped to be selling Swiss chard, mustard greens, carrotts, pastured eggs, blackberries and a little bit of cut herbs.
A lot of the Lowcountry staples aren't in yet, including tomatoes, okra and corn.
• SPAM: It's More Than Haute Cuisine: A reader Spammed me today with these helpful hints on Understanding South Carolina:
Things I Learned Living in South Carolina:
1. A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in South Carolina
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in South Carolina , plus a couple no one's ever seen before.
• Help the Navy League: A reader writes:
I have a bit of an unusual request.
This year the Hilton Head Island Council of the Navy League would like to recognize World War II vets who may be living in the Hilton Head Island, Bluffton and Jasper county areas at the Memorial Day Observation at the Veterans Memorial at Shelter Cove Park.
