Our Labor Day issue is online and in print around the island!
Have
you been looking for a great plumber or handyman but been unable to
find one? Do you have one that you would highly recommend? Lost your
dog? Are you in need of a golf cart, or piece of furniture, or looking
sell or buy one but would rather not deal with barge and delivery costs
involved in getting it here? Looking for a reliable babysitter? Hosting a
garage sale or fundraising event? We are recommending a website that is
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significantly and only some of our content is solely for residents.
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send your information to info@daufuskieislandfrontporch.
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From Bloody Point:
Labor Day Sunday Fun-day at Bloody Point
Join
us this Sunday for brunch from 11AM - 3PM, including a $6 Bloody Mary
Bar, followed by a poolside cookout from 12PM - 5PM featuring poolside
drink service, and $10 Frozen Drinks. Our Sunday night special will be
Fried Chicken Night. Call 843-341-5522 for reservations.
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From Melrose on the Beach:
Greetings
From Melrose Resort. Please join us this weekend for a great Labor Day
Celebration- Friday night - Low Country Boil/Oyster Roast with music
by Positive Vibrations, Saturday is Prime Rib Night at the Beach Club,
and Sunday we celebrate Labor Day with an amazing "cook out" buffet from
5-8PM with music by The Horan Brothers.
Join us Tuesday, September
9th from 6-8PM at the Melrose Beach Club and "meet the managers", we
have a lot of new faces at Melrose, and would love for you to come by,
say hello, enjoy some delicious complimentary appetizers and a cash bar,
and let us know what YOU would like to see in the way of special events
and services. We look forward to seeing you there!
Wednesday,
September 10th Melrose Golf Club is hosting a Calloway Format 18 hole
golf tournament. Entry fee is $40 for Melrose Members, Firemen, Teachers
and the Military, and $50 for guests. Price includes golf, prizes and
lunch! Call 843-422-6963 for details!
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From the Bat House Project:
Please let us know the following:
1. If your bat houses have any occupants
2. Where the bat house is located
Email nolfilighthouse@aol.com
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From island resident Melissa Davis:
I
recently signed up to help take care of injured or orphaned wildlife
with the DNR. If anyone knows of an injured/needy animal or non-venomous
reptile on this island, please contact Melissa Davis at 706-829-3149 or
email me at melissasp33@aol.com.
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From the Old Daufuskie Crab Company:
Over
the Labor Day holiday in addition to the regular menu we will also be
featuring an outdoor cookout with a southern style barbecue, Low Country
Boil, and hand-dipped ice cream stand.
Entertainment:
Saturday August 30th; The Horan Bros. 2-8PM
Sunday August 31st: Danielle Hicks and The Eight Ohm Resistance 2-8PM
Monday September 1st: Danielle Hicks and The Eight Ohm Resistance 1-6PM
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Daufuskie Farmers Market
Saturdays 11:00AM - 1:00PM
Public dock parking lot next to Marshside Mama’s.
Vendors welcome.
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Best regards,
Paula Nickels
Editor, The Daufuskie Island Front Porch
www.daufuskieislandfrontporch
Friday, August 29, 2014
Friday, August 8, 2014
The Daufuskie Island Rum Company
Everyone is super excited for the opening of the Daufuskie Island Rum
Company. I can't wait until my 1st tasting. Be sure to join their
facebook page to keep up with the progress of the company. Here are a
few fun pictures of the new building.
Friday, August 1, 2014
Summer Drive-In Movies at Bloody Point
From Bloody Point:
Join us this Saturday, 8/2, at 8:30pm for a Drive-In Movie on the Clubhouse Lawn! We will be showing The Lego Movie. Bring your golf cart or picnic blanket! We'll provide snacks, ice cream, and beverages for purchase. Admission is free. In the event of rain, this event will relocate to the screened-in porch on the back of the Clubhouse. Feel free to call 843-341-5505 if you have any questions.
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Daufuskie Farmers Market
Saturdays 11:00AM - 1:00PM
Public dock parking lot next to Marshside Mama’s.
Vendors welcome.
Join us this Saturday, 8/2, at 8:30pm for a Drive-In Movie on the Clubhouse Lawn! We will be showing The Lego Movie. Bring your golf cart or picnic blanket! We'll provide snacks, ice cream, and beverages for purchase. Admission is free. In the event of rain, this event will relocate to the screened-in porch on the back of the Clubhouse. Feel free to call 843-341-5505 if you have any questions.
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Daufuskie Farmers Market
Saturdays 11:00AM - 1:00PM
Public dock parking lot next to Marshside Mama’s.
Vendors welcome.
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Architectual Digest did a great piece on John Mellancamps Beach House in Daufuskie Island.
The
Gothic Revival House is in Bloody Point on Daufuskie Island, SC 29915.
The back of the house is my favorite part. It opens up to the wide
Atlantic Ocean with an infinity pool and two beautiful covered porches,
both with fire places. An outdoor kitchen offers year round relaxed
living right on the beach.
Some 30 years ago John Mellencamp discovered Daufuskie Island, a relatively unspoiled spot in South Carolina, just across the border from Savannah, Georgia. Fascinated by the island's history (until the 1980s it had been inhabited largely by the Gullah, descendants of freed slaves) and enamored of its privacy (it can only be reached by boat), the singer-songwriter purchased several acres on the Atlantic Ocean. But the land sat empty for more than a decade. "I had every intention of building a house—I just never got around to it," says Mellencamp, who is also an accomplished painter, occasional actor, Farm Aid cofounder, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. (The recently released box set John Mellencamp 1978–2012 features 19 of his studio albums, including 30 Billboard Hot 100 singles.) Then one day he snapped a photograph of a church in Myrtle Beach, and the structure's shape inspired him to finally hire an architect.
The finished residence—the work of Neil Gordon, whose office is on neighboring Hilton Head Island—bears ample evidence of that church's influence, with pointed-arch windows and doors and a navelike central living hall that is ringed by a gallery reminiscent of a choir loft. Mellencamp filled the rooms with odds and ends from storage, but the home, like the property before it, "just kind of sat fallow," he says. It's not that he didn't love the area. Two of his five children grew up nearby, and he has lived part-time in the region for more than half of his life. But this particular house never felt right. Mellencamp's girlfriend, actress Meg Ryan, however, thought the place had promise, and asked last year, "Why don't you make it as beautiful as it can be?" Energized by her enthusiasm, he called New York City interior designer Monique Gibson, with whom he'd collaborated on three previous dwellings, including his Indiana home base.
The decorator headed to Daufuskie "to let the house tell me what it needed," she says. "I'd walk around on the phone and tell John, 'This kitchen makes no sense' or 'These doors are too small.'" Thus, the kitchen was redone, the doors were enlarged, and the woodwork was stained to give it depth. Gibson played off the peaked windows by incorporating their shape into the metal base of the 27-foot-long table that bisects the living hall. On one side of that space is a library rich with art books; on the other is a movie room, where classic films are a regular after-dinner feature. Mellencamp is notably partial to movies with screenplays by Tennessee Williams—he can recite whole stretches of dialogue from Baby Doll, and a prized possession is a poster of The Fugitive Kind, a gift from his friend Joanne Woodward, who starred in it.
One of Gibson's first clients was Elton John, so she is especially comfortable working with creative powerhouses. (Jon Bon Jovi is another client.) On their first project together, long ago, Mellencamp gave the designer a tight budget and a six-week deadline, all without actually meeting her: "The first time I saw him was when he rang his own doorbell," she says. Fortunately, he liked what he walked into. "John's a tough businessman, and he's very clear about how he wants to live," Gibson continues, adding that the musician's not above making his own contributions. During the improvements on the Daufuskie house, Mellencamp inquired if she had selected any art for an unusually large expanse of wall in the living hall. "When I said, 'Not yet,' he got his stencils out," the designer recalls. The result is a mural that reproduces the lyrics to his song "For the Children."
"I meant it as a blessing for the house," Mellencamp says with a grin. "Then my kids saw it and laughed at me."
Artworks by Walt Kuhn, Marvin Cherney, and Jack Levine are displa ed everywhere—from the shelves in the kitchen to the wall above the headboard in the master bedroom—the expressive social-realist portraits evoking the characters in Mellencamp's gritty songbook. (The musician is currently working on his first solo album in four years, with producer T Bone Burnett.) Mixed among that boldface art are cherished bits of ephemera, such as vintage signs from a now-demolished mental hospital; the gilt letters of one spell out the institute for wayward young women.
Gibson added warmth and texture to the airy interiors and generous porches with lots of linen and leather upholstery and furnishings that are either sculptural, comfortable, or both. But she remained acutely aware that the house serves as laboratory for one man's rampant creativity. "There is always something going on in that big brain of his," she says. "He's always making something: music, art, houses, chaos!" Mellencamp often paints in a studio located on the second floor; nearly 40 of his works were recently exhibited by the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, in a show that will travel in the fall to the Museum of Art–DeLand, Florida.
While Daufuskie is Mellencamp's refuge, he readily throws open the five guest rooms to friends and family, proof that a once forlorn and overgrown piece of real estate has become absolutely essential. "John really uses this place now," Gibson notes. "I take that as a huge compliment."
John Mellencamp's South Carolina Island Getaway
The musician's Daufuskie Island retreat, designed by Monique Gibson, is a striking complement to his all-American songs
Some 30 years ago John Mellencamp discovered Daufuskie Island, a relatively unspoiled spot in South Carolina, just across the border from Savannah, Georgia. Fascinated by the island's history (until the 1980s it had been inhabited largely by the Gullah, descendants of freed slaves) and enamored of its privacy (it can only be reached by boat), the singer-songwriter purchased several acres on the Atlantic Ocean. But the land sat empty for more than a decade. "I had every intention of building a house—I just never got around to it," says Mellencamp, who is also an accomplished painter, occasional actor, Farm Aid cofounder, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. (The recently released box set John Mellencamp 1978–2012 features 19 of his studio albums, including 30 Billboard Hot 100 singles.) Then one day he snapped a photograph of a church in Myrtle Beach, and the structure's shape inspired him to finally hire an architect.
The finished residence—the work of Neil Gordon, whose office is on neighboring Hilton Head Island—bears ample evidence of that church's influence, with pointed-arch windows and doors and a navelike central living hall that is ringed by a gallery reminiscent of a choir loft. Mellencamp filled the rooms with odds and ends from storage, but the home, like the property before it, "just kind of sat fallow," he says. It's not that he didn't love the area. Two of his five children grew up nearby, and he has lived part-time in the region for more than half of his life. But this particular house never felt right. Mellencamp's girlfriend, actress Meg Ryan, however, thought the place had promise, and asked last year, "Why don't you make it as beautiful as it can be?" Energized by her enthusiasm, he called New York City interior designer Monique Gibson, with whom he'd collaborated on three previous dwellings, including his Indiana home base.
The decorator headed to Daufuskie "to let the house tell me what it needed," she says. "I'd walk around on the phone and tell John, 'This kitchen makes no sense' or 'These doors are too small.'" Thus, the kitchen was redone, the doors were enlarged, and the woodwork was stained to give it depth. Gibson played off the peaked windows by incorporating their shape into the metal base of the 27-foot-long table that bisects the living hall. On one side of that space is a library rich with art books; on the other is a movie room, where classic films are a regular after-dinner feature. Mellencamp is notably partial to movies with screenplays by Tennessee Williams—he can recite whole stretches of dialogue from Baby Doll, and a prized possession is a poster of The Fugitive Kind, a gift from his friend Joanne Woodward, who starred in it.
One of Gibson's first clients was Elton John, so she is especially comfortable working with creative powerhouses. (Jon Bon Jovi is another client.) On their first project together, long ago, Mellencamp gave the designer a tight budget and a six-week deadline, all without actually meeting her: "The first time I saw him was when he rang his own doorbell," she says. Fortunately, he liked what he walked into. "John's a tough businessman, and he's very clear about how he wants to live," Gibson continues, adding that the musician's not above making his own contributions. During the improvements on the Daufuskie house, Mellencamp inquired if she had selected any art for an unusually large expanse of wall in the living hall. "When I said, 'Not yet,' he got his stencils out," the designer recalls. The result is a mural that reproduces the lyrics to his song "For the Children."
"I meant it as a blessing for the house," Mellencamp says with a grin. "Then my kids saw it and laughed at me."
Artworks by Walt Kuhn, Marvin Cherney, and Jack Levine are displa ed everywhere—from the shelves in the kitchen to the wall above the headboard in the master bedroom—the expressive social-realist portraits evoking the characters in Mellencamp's gritty songbook. (The musician is currently working on his first solo album in four years, with producer T Bone Burnett.) Mixed among that boldface art are cherished bits of ephemera, such as vintage signs from a now-demolished mental hospital; the gilt letters of one spell out the institute for wayward young women.
Gibson added warmth and texture to the airy interiors and generous porches with lots of linen and leather upholstery and furnishings that are either sculptural, comfortable, or both. But she remained acutely aware that the house serves as laboratory for one man's rampant creativity. "There is always something going on in that big brain of his," she says. "He's always making something: music, art, houses, chaos!" Mellencamp often paints in a studio located on the second floor; nearly 40 of his works were recently exhibited by the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, in a show that will travel in the fall to the Museum of Art–DeLand, Florida.
While Daufuskie is Mellencamp's refuge, he readily throws open the five guest rooms to friends and family, proof that a once forlorn and overgrown piece of real estate has become absolutely essential. "John really uses this place now," Gibson notes. "I take that as a huge compliment."
John Mellencamp
How to get to paradise---Daufuskie Island, SC 29915
Getting to Daufuskie Island, SC. 29915
First
you must make your way to Broad Creek Marina on Hilton
Head Island and wait for one of the few boats that arrive each day to
take you
on the 45-50min cruise over to Daufuskie Island. It has no bridge from
or to
the mainland. You start to feel all the stress drain out of your system.
The tickets run about $33 a person unless you live or have a residence
on Daufuskie Island. You will also pay $5.00 a day to park and can only
take two bags. Golf clubs and large bags will be subject to an
additional fee. Also be sure to call and make reservations. (843)
342-8687.
Monday, April 21, 2014
Congratulations to Matt Kuchar on winning the RBC Heritage Classic
Congratulations to Matt Kuchar on winning the RBC Heritage Classic played on Hilton Head Island at Sea Pines Plantation. The wind was strong and it was difficult play for everyone. Boats filled the Calibogue sound many from Daufuskie Island watching the golf event.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Environmental Committee works for sustainable living at Haig Point
The residents of the Haig Point community on Daufuskie Island are united by their love of the area’s natural beauty. And for the past four years the community’s Environmental Committee has been working to make sure its natural beauty endures.
“We want to be recognized for being a sustainable and green community,” said Yvonne Clemons, chairwoman of the seven-person group that has brought recycling and water conservation initiatives to the residential development where electric golf carts are the only mode of private transportation.
“The things we are doing are good for the residents and good for the community,” she said.
The committee also has positioned Haig Point to be a leader in building environmentally sound homes, complete with water conservation methods and native plants that will reduce the amount of water needed for lush, green lawns.
And while South Carolina is still behind the curve when it comes to recycling, Haig Point now has a community program where recyclables are collected from each household on a regular schedule.
“It can be hard to break old habits, but we have to rethink our ways, Clemons said. “Recycling was the committee’s first initiative and we have made great strides, and we have saved the community money in the process.”
The committee also is seeking recognition for its Rees Jones Signature golf course as an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary. And its members are revitalizing a nature trail in the center of the community that winds through an old Gullah cemetery.
On an island-wide scale, the committee shares a common bond with the Daufuskie Island Conservancy that includes five Haig Point members on its board and has more than 100 members total.
Recycling is a once-a-week collection at curbside for each homeowner. In addition, there are recycling bins at other businesses around the island inclduding the restaurants, golf club, visitor center and mansion. The recyclables are then collected, loaded on a ferry and delivered to a company on Hilton Head.
“You have to love this island first,” said Clemons, who relocated with her husband, Michael, to Haig Point from Columbus, Ohio, seven years ago. “I was in the fashion industry, so this is like a whole new second life to me. I love this place. And I want it to look this beautiful for a long time to come.”
Friday, January 24, 2014
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
Minor fire reported on Daufuskie ferry
rlurye@islandpacket.comJanuary 22, 2014 Updated 14 hours ago
Fortunately, a fire chief was among the ferry's 50 passengers, Hilton Head division Battalion Chief Mick Mayers said.
Daufuskie Island Fire District Chief Eddie Boys used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames, which originated from a fan in the bathroom shortly before 4 p.m., Mayers said. The fire was out by the time the boat arrived at the Haig Point Embarkation at 4:06 p.m., Mayers said.
The fire, which spewed smoke throughout the ferry's cabin, caused about $1,000 in damage, he said.
No one was injured.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Hilton Head Island liquor store owner, distiller team up with Gullah women to produce moonshine
Hooch, White Lightning, Hillbilly Pop, Radiator Whiskey and Mule Kick are just a few nicknames for moonshine, an illegal spirit distilled in backwoods Appalachia since the 1800s.
Moonshine has Lowcountry roots as well. On Daufuskie Island, the Gullah called it "scrap iron," perhaps for the metal still it was made in or the iron will it took to drink it.
If the self-explanatory monikers are any indication, then moonshine is not something one consumes quickly or easily.
The original name, "moonshine," is said to emanate from bootleggers who illicitly distilled the unaged corn whiskey by the light of the moon, far away from the prying eyes of Prohibition revenuers.
Thanks to new South Carolina micro-distillery laws, moonshine is now legal -- if the appropriate taxes are paid -- and coming back in a big way.
In accordance with its increasing trendiness, its nicknames are getting more inviting. At Sea Pines Liquor and Market on Hilton Head Island, moonshine goes by Midnight Moon, Tillman's Baby and Black Spirit.
It used to come in one flavor: alcohol. Now, the mind-bending proofs are sweetened with the flavors of apple pie, raspberry and lemonade.
"The first perception of moonshine is that it's made in a radiator and that it'll blind you. Once people get past that and actually taste it, they realize it's as tasty as anything they've ever had," said Jeff Gould, the owner of Sea Pines Liquor and Market.
Gould is one of the handful of South Carolinians taking advantage of moonshine's new legality.
Two years ago, Gould had two varieties of moonshine available in his store. Now he has more than 100.
"We see the whole liquor store turning into moonshine," he said. "It's amazing where this has gone in just a short period of time."
As a top moonshine retailer in South Carolina, Gould is working to rapidly expand his business, even shipping cases of 'shine overseas.
Gould owns five distilleries, two of which are in South Carolina, and a spring in the North Carolina mountains, because "moonshine is meant to be made with pure mountain spring water, just like Kentucky bourbon is made with limestone water," he said. He also owns an orchard in North Carolina that provides the fruit for the apple pie moonshine, his best seller.
"What you're seeing here is a new twist to an old industry," Gould said. The twist is the abundance of flavors, the fancy, health-code-abiding distilleries and the aggressive business plan. But the base is a collection of old family recipes and an appreciation for where moonshine came from. Both Gould and his wife, Debby, are from North Carolina and familiar with moonshine.
After opening a retail store on Daufuskie Island, Gould discovered the Gullah had a similar appreciation. He approached three Gullah sisters about adding their family recipes to his moonshine.
Janice Gordon, Amelia Stevens and Cynthia Murray grew up on Daufuskie Island. Their grandmother used to sell moonshine made from a still their uncle operated. Moonshine was a part of their family and their culture. It was used in times of sickness and in health, in celebration and in sorrow.
When someone took sick on the island, they would send for Meme, or Lemon, as their grandmother was called by non-family members. Before leaving, she'd grab a couple jars of roots brewing in moonshine and a handful of dried herbs for making a Gullah hot toddy.
"I didn't go to the doctor until I was 13. Any ailments I had, my grandmother treated. It apparently worked," Gordon said.
People up in the mountains of North Carolina have moonshine in their medicine cabinets, too, Gould said. "When I came here to the Lowcountry and found out the Gullah had done the same thing, I saw the link between the two," he said.
When someone died on the island, friends and family of the deceased would have a "sittin' up," where everyone would stay awake through the night, sipping moonshine and telling stories. It was also a big part of Christmas season, for visiting relatives and sharing a drink.
But most importantly for the sisters, it was income.
"Meme had to make a living off the island and its surroundings," Gordon said. She would sell crab and shrimp to tourists from Savannah, along with her moonshine, but only if they knew to ask. She kept it in brown paper bags hidden under the table until it was requested. A half pint cost 75 cents.
Eventually, revenuers discovered their uncle's still and destroyed it, bringing the family's moonshine business to an end.
Now, Gordon, Stevens and Murray are reviving it, with Gould's (and the law's) help. They created Meme's Fuskie Gals, a homemade moonshine and wine label with products that will be made in Gould's distilleries and sold in his stores.
Their homemade wine, called Black Spirit, is already available, and they have three moonshines coming out in March.
There will be a Black Spirit 'shine, Fuskie Mysteek, which is intended to be used for medicinal purposes, and Ole Red Eye, for the reddish color moonshine took on when tree bark was added to it.
"We're committing as much time to it as possible," Stevens said. "This culture is near and dear to us, so this is a venture that we're very proud of."
Like Appalachian moonshine, the Gullah spirit didn't have much flavor, so the sisters are working off the family recipes and tweaking them.
"It's reimagining the moonshine we grew up with," Gordon said. "The moonshine business was good to our family while it lasted. Looks like the good times are here again."
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