What's Going On at Bloody Point on Daufuskie Island, SC?

I wanted to remind everyone of the October 16th-19th Fall Frolic golf tournament at Bloody Point. But while your here take a look at all the other fun events that are happening. Call them for a T-Time or Reservations.

Daufuskie Island Updates from the Front Porch News

Dear Front Porch Readers,

Please note the following:

From the Daufuskie Island Front Porch:

From the Daufuskie Island Conservancy:
Annual Beach Sweep scheduled for Saturday, September 20, 2014. Volunteers are requested to gather at 10:30AM at one of two locations on the Island:
Beach Road Gazebo at Bloody Point
Calibogue Beach Club at Haig Point
Refreshments will be provided by Haig Point, Bloody Point and Melrose.
For further information, please contact Eileen Pojednic aat 842-6770 or erpojednic@aol.com.  Thank you!
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From Bloody Point:
Please note that the Eagle's Nest Restaurant will be closed beginning September 22nd for renovations and will re-open October 2nd, resuming regular business hours. A limited menu will be available for take-out only, through the Pro Shop, during lunch hours from 11AM to 3PM during the renovation. 
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From Melrose on the Beach:
Join us at Melrose on the Beach Friday night for live music and an oceanfront 
low country boil/oyster roast!! 
Tuesday, September 9, join us at Melrose Beach Club for a "meet the managers" 
reception. Come say hi to our management staff, enjoy some complimentary 
appetizers and cash bar, and lets us know what you would like to see happening 
this Fall!  6-8PM
Join us Wednesday, September 10th Calloway Golf Tournament at Melrose Golf 
Course.  
From the Daufuskie Island Elementary School:
Daufuskie Island Elementary School welcomes 16 students in pre-kindergarten – fifth grade for the 2014/15 school year. Teachers, Amy Dungan and Kym Castillo continue for their second year on the island and look forward to stretching student learning to reach each individual’s potential. They’ll also continue to commute to school on bikes, adding to the 900 miles they logged last year getting to and from school. Leanne Coulter comes back to work with students in Speech and Resource, Amanda Lofton and Yvonne Wilson continue to keep the school running smoothly.
We look forward to planning our annual Fall Festival at the first Parent Teacher Organization meeting. Look for details on time and date of the Festival to come out soon.  
As always, we welcome community volunteers who will read one on one with a student, or share a special talent.  Contact Amanda Lofton at 686-1580 if you are interested in volunteering.
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From the Daufuskie Island Front Porch:

Don't forget our latest issue is now available in print on the island and online.



Best regards,

Paula Nickels
Editor, The Daufuskie Island Front Porch
www.daufuskieislandfrontporch
info@daufuskieislandfrontporch.com

Daufuskie Island Updates from the Front Porch News

Dear Front Porch Readers,

Please note the following:

From the Daufuskie Island Front Porch:

From the Daufuskie Island Conservancy:
Annual Beach Sweep scheduled for Saturday, September 20, 2014. Volunteers are requested to gather at 10:30AM at one of two locations on the Island:
Beach Road Gazebo at Bloody Point
Calibogue Beach Club at Haig Point
Refreshments will be provided by Haig Point, Bloody Point and Melrose.
For further information, please contact Eileen Pojednic aat 842-6770 or erpojednic@aol.com.  Thank you!
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From Bloody Point:
Please note that the Eagle's Nest Restaurant will be closed beginning September 22nd for renovations and will re-open October 2nd, resuming regular business hours. A limited menu will be available for take-out only, through the Pro Shop, during lunch hours from 11AM to 3PM during the renovation. 
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From Melrose on the Beach:
Join us at Melrose on the Beach Friday night for live music and an oceanfront 
low country boil/oyster roast!! 
Tuesday, September 9, join us at Melrose Beach Club for a "meet the managers" 
reception. Come say hi to our management staff, enjoy some complimentary 
appetizers and cash bar, and lets us know what you would like to see happening 
this Fall!  6-8PM
Join us Wednesday, September 10th Calloway Golf Tournament at Melrose Golf 
Course.  
From the Daufuskie Island Elementary School:
Daufuskie Island Elementary School welcomes 16 students in pre-kindergarten – fifth grade for the 2014/15 school year. Teachers, Amy Dungan and Kym Castillo continue for their second year on the island and look forward to stretching student learning to reach each individual’s potential. They’ll also continue to commute to school on bikes, adding to the 900 miles they logged last year getting to and from school. Leanne Coulter comes back to work with students in Speech and Resource, Amanda Lofton and Yvonne Wilson continue to keep the school running smoothly.
We look forward to planning our annual Fall Festival at the first Parent Teacher Organization meeting. Look for details on time and date of the Festival to come out soon.  
As always, we welcome community volunteers who will read one on one with a student, or share a special talent.  Contact Amanda Lofton at 686-1580 if you are interested in volunteering.
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From the Daufuskie Island Front Porch:

Don't forget our latest issue is now available in print on the island and online.



Best regards,

Paula Nickels
Editor, The Daufuskie Island Front Porch
www.daufuskieislandfrontporch
info@daufuskieislandfrontporch.com

Labor Day-Updates from the Daufuskie Island Front Porch News

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 strictly for Daufuskie Island residents and property owners.
While we print stories and items of interest quarterly and send out weekly email blasts detailing time sensitive news, our readership has grown significantly and only some of our content is solely for residents. Additionally, we receive far too many classified requests to accommodate them all in the weekly blast.
We would like to encourage our readers to sign up on nextdoor.com where a Daufuskie Island account has been set up. This is an online network for sharing useful information, available only to people with verifiable addresses on Daufuskie Island. Please consider signing up and posting helpful information on this site.

We are updating and expanding our website directory. If you would like to have your business or organization listed in our directory 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

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.

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.

There is so much history on Daufuskie Island.

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.

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

Text by Julia Reed | Photography by William Abranowicz | Produced by Anita Sarsidi

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

Singer-songwriter John Mellencamp at his retreat on South Carolina's Daufuskie Island; he stenciled the wall with lyrics from one of his songs. The home was designed by Neil Gordon Architect and decorated by Monique Gibson Interior Design. For details see Sources.

Dining Area

The dining table displays an assortment of glass vessels from Balsamo Antiques; RG Ironworks made the French doors.

Screened Porch

The screened porch includes furnishings by RH (the dining and cocktail tables, dining chairs, sofa, and club chair); the platter is from Balsamo Antiques.

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.

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.

Environmental Committee works for sustainable living at Haig Point

By Special to the Packet and Gazette

Hilton Head Island PacketFebruary 19, 2014 

Read more here: http://www.islandpacket.com/2014/02/19/2958697/environmental-committee-works.html#storylink=cpy

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.”

Read more here: http://www.islandpacket.com/2014/02/19/2958697/environmental-committee-works.html#storylink=cpy