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6 days ago | 
islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale
Thomas C. Barnwell Jr. holds up the transcript of testimony about poverty in the South Carolina Lowcountry that he and others made before the U.S. Senate Select Subcommittee on Nutrition and Human Needs in February 1969. David Lauderdale/For The Island Packet Thomas C. Barnwell Jr. was born on an incoming tide on Hilton Head Island 90 years ago, and he’s been riding a flood of change ever since.
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1 week ago | 
islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale
David Harter addresses a class of students on a field trip to the Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center in 2014. Handout photo Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center David Harter is not a scientist or a rabble-rouser or even a fisherman anymore, now that he has eased past his 78th birthday and passed his 30-foot fishing boat to third-generation charter boat captain, Stratton Pollitzer.
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2 weeks ago | 
islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale
Author Ann Head at work at a manual typewriter during her career as a pioneering writer about the Lowcountry provided The story ends with Ann Head’s disturbing death. “Unlike her fiction, her ending was never resolved,” her daughter Nancy Thode writes in a biography of her mother that launched in Beaufort on Saturday. Ann Head is a little-known native of Beaufort who overcame personal fears to become one of South Carolina’s most accomplished writers.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | David Lauderdale
The story ends with Ann Head’s disturbing death. “Unlike her fiction, her ending was never resolved,” her daughter Nancy Thode writes in a biography of her mother that launched in Beaufort on Saturday. Ann Head is a little-known native of Beaufort who overcame personal fears to become one of South Carolina’s most accomplished writers. At the time of her death in 1968, she was believed to be South Carolina’s most widely-read novelist.
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3 weeks ago | 
thestate.com | David Lauderdale
Tom Reilley, co-owner of Reilley’s Grill & Bar on Hilton Head Island, stands behind the bar on April 21, 2017 for a portrait. Drew Martin [email protected] Maybe it was because everybody knew his name. Maybe it was because he seemed to know everybody else’s name. Or maybe it was the Hot Lips Look-Alike contest.
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1 month ago | 
islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale
Comet the marsh tacky horse spent his last 11 years as a living history exhibit at the Coastal Discovery Museum on Hilton Head Island. Courtesy of Laura Badger Comet was supposed to be common, but he wasn’t. He was a marsh tacky horse from the Lowcountry of South Carolina, where his feral forebears had survived for centuries against the longest of odds after being left behind by Spanish explorers.
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1 month ago | 
islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale
The Capt. Dave arrives in Washington, D.C., in 1970 after a highly publicized trip from Hilton Head Island to oppose a petrochemical plant planned for Victoria Bluff near Bluffton. Islander magazine of Hilton Head Island Ahead of America’s first Earth Day in 1970, an oil spill famously stained a California beach and a polluted river was on fire in Ohio. But in the South Carolina Lowcountry, a great environmental battle was being waged that’s also worthy of the history books.
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1 month ago | 
islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale
Bill Carson brought out the best in us, or so it seems each year when the PGA Tour comes to Hilton Head Island. When the $20 million RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing is played this weekend over the Harbour Town Golf Links in Sea Pines, 72 of the best golfers in the world and tens of thousands of rollicking fans will little know what they owe Carson. He was there in the beginning, when it was all just a crazy idea without the first tee or green.
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1 month ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | David Lauderdale
Bill Carson brought out the best in us, or so it seems each year when the PGA Tour comes to Hilton Head Island. When the $20 million RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing is played this weekend over the Harbour Town Golf Links in Sea Pines, 72 of the best golfers in the world and tens of thousands of rollicking fans will little know what they owe Carson. AdvertisementHe was there in the beginning, when it was all just a crazy idea without the first tee or green.
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2 months ago | 
islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale
Helen Richards stands with a portrait of her brother and Medal of Honor recipient Ralph Henry Johnson. Provided photo Helen Richards was at home in Charleston when her 7-year-old daughter ran in with the news. Two men in white suits were coming toward the house. They told Richards that her younger brother had been killed in Vietnam. It would be many months before the family knew what happened: that U.S. Marine Corps Pfc.
