Discovering Our Culture - Event Blog
27th Annual Lowcountry Oyster Festival
Feb 2, 2010 | Comment(s) 0
The sun sets on a sea of plastic cups, halved oyster shells, and empty buckets that litter the tree-lined field behind Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, SC. It’s all that remains from 65,000 pounds of oysters and the 9,000 people that kicked off the 27th Annual Oyster Festival seven hours …
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The Salley Chitlin Strut
Dec 12, 2009 | Comment(s) 1
Up until last week I had no idea what a Chitlin was. I think Chitlins can best be defined as gross, and I am not alone in this school of thought. In fact, the majority of people that I spoke with also concurred that Chitlins, on a gross scale of …
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3rd Annual CU for Kids ID Day
Nov 3, 2009 | Comment(s) 0
Two weeks ago, prior to attending the Lee County Cotton Fest, we were in Florence for the 3rd Annual CU for Kids ID Day at the Health Facilities Federal Credit Union. Local law enforcement and the Health Facilities FCU were working together to provide free IDs for young children. They were even …
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The Lee County Cotton Fest
Oct 18, 2009 | Comment(s) 0
I believe in my last post I mentioned something about being at a small festival, in a small town. The Irmo Okra Strut was soundly beaten by The Lee County Cotton Fest in Bishopville in the small town, small festival categories. Lindsey was out of town attending a graduation ceremony …
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The Irmo Okra Strut
Oct 18, 2009 | Comment(s) 1
Two weeks ago we were at the Irmo Okra Strut. It was a rather small event, in a rather small town but ironically we were also shown the most Credit Union love, than perhaps some of the larger events that we've been to. We had dozens of people strike up …
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