Murrells Inlet Messenger

Murrells Inlet
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The local newspaper for Murrells Inlet and Garden City Beach
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We are calling this 27th issue of the monthly
Murrells Inlet Messenger our book issue.
We didn’t plan it that way – it just happened.
We were contacted by the South Carolina
Academy of Authors with a big story about
the inlet’s Mickey Spillane. A local author let
us know she won a book award. The Murrells
Inlet History Project’s provided a story on the
Wayside Restaurant, which will – someday be part of another book by Murrells Inlet native Steve Strickland. And, Claude Bachand,
a Murrells Inlet man, sent us a story about his
authoring a book about living with a loved
one with Parkinson’s.
Then there are book themes:
You can read the MI 2020 update, and our
community events pages and briefs, and fill
up your date book with upcoming events.
And, want some help with your own financial books? Edward Jones and Wells Fargo
financial advisors offer some good tips inside.
I’m running out of ways to connect everything in the April edition to books. So, enjoy
this 27th issue of the local monthly newspaper
for Murrells Inlet and Garden City Beach that
encourages, informs and inspires the community: the Murrells Inlet Messenger.
-Tim Callahan
Editor/Publisher
Print edition and more stories
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www.murrellsinletmessenger.com
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Academy honors inlet
icon Mickey Spillane
The South Carolina Academy of Authors will
celebrate writers Franklin Burroughs, Marian
Wright Edelman, Charles W. Joyner and the late
Mickey Spillane, inducting the four into the
state’s literary hall of fame on April 21 at the Atkins Field House on the Coastal Carolina University campus.
The event has already sold out but there are
many other events surrounding these authors and
their works taking place in the community this
month.
Founded at Anderson College in 1986, the S.C.
Academy of Authors identifies and recognizes
the state’s distinguished writers, living and deceased. Its board of governors considers writers
whose works have been judged culturally important because of scholarly attention or historical
prominence.
Serving as the induction committee for 2012 are
SCAA governors from Horry and Georgetown
counties: Libby Bernardin, Veronica Davis GerContinued on page 9
MI History Project: The Wayside Restaurant
By Steve Strickland
The Wayside Restaurant was located in the
same building as the Hot Fish Club.
It was constructed in the early 1940’s by Jamel
Lokey’s family (he was married to Pat Morse,
Clarence “Beau” Morse’s sister).
Jamel Lokey was from the Greenville, S.C., area
and moved here after graduating high school.
Clarence and his family had their house and
oyster roast beside Lokey’s, where Morse Park
is located. George “Son” Morse and his wife,
May Wesley Morse, lived in a three-story house
located on the site of Russell’s Seafood Grill.
Lokey’s stayed open for several years and was
operated by Ruby and Esau Lazarowitz and by
Ida Pearl Lee (of Lee’s Inlet Kitchen) during the
early 1950’s. The restaurant survived Hurricane
Hazel in 1954 with minimal damage, having no
water enter the building during the storm surge
due to its location on the crest of a small hill.
Jim and Lucy Vereen Bailey bought the building after Hurricane Hazel and opened it initially
as the Angler’s Club (a bar and grill) but changed
the name to the Wayside Grill, and the menu to
traditional Murrells Inlet seafood. Lucy Vereen
was one of Sam Permenter Vereen’s daughters
(her sisters included Francis Vereen, who married Judge H. K. Wilson, and Teeny, who married Mac Oliver). The Vereen’s of Murrells Inlet
descended from John Fletcher Vereen, a Civil
War veteran who owned the Ark Plantation (we
know this area as Surfside and Garden City).
Jim and Lucy Vereen Bailey operated the Wayside Restaurant for about eight years. The Wayside was kept in the Vereen family when they
sold it in 1963 to Lucy’s nephew, Sam Vereen,
who ran it for another 20 years.
Wayside was run as a family operation, with
in-laws and children involved in keeping the
Continued on page 10
The Bachands: life, love and Parkinson’s
What would you do if your wife was diagnosed
with Parkinson’s disease?
Claude Bachand found out, starting in 1998.
In 2008, his wife, Dotty, died.
In 2012, he published “Please Stop,” a memoir
about their lives, their enduring love, and how
they coped with Parkinson’s.
About half of the memoir is set in South Carolina, primarily in Murrells Inlet, where the couple
lived during the years Dotty was afflicted with
Parkinson’s. Claude, 76, still lives in Wachesaw
East.
A former journalist and public relations and
marketing man, Claude describes their pasts
growing up in a small mill town, their meeting
and marriage and life before Parkinson’s, and
how they dealt with problems related to her mobility, balance, eating and drinking:
They adapted.
For example, at the movies, they’d sit in the
back row, in case Dotty’s dyskinesia began; they
asked waitresses to bring Dotty’s iced tea with a
lid and straw, in case she knocked the drink over;
Claude Bachand, memoir writer and inlet resident
and Claude carried four handkerchiefs with him
at all times, handing one to Dotty if she began
drooling.
He also rushed her to the emergency room at
Waccamaw Hospital twice after serious falls.
Dotty was diagnosed and treated originally by
Continued on page 10
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Hospital System’s April calendar of events
Weekly health screenings: Tuesdays, mall area of
Georgetown Memorial Hospital; Thursdays, Waccamaw Community Hospital. Screenings offered:
finger stick lipid profiles with blood sugar for $20
(8-10 hour fast required); diabetes screening-hemoglobin A1C for $15 (no fasting required); blood
sugar levels for $3 (2 hour fast required); and free
blood pressure screenings, from 7:30 a.m. - noon.
For more information, call 546-0623.
(Many of the classes below can be signed up for
online, www.georgetownhospitalsystem.org
Also, some of the classes are held at the Wachesaw
Conference Center, 4367 Riverwood Drive, Suite
160, in Murrells Inlet, across from Waccamaw
Community Hospital.)
April 5: OB TOUR - MURRELLS INLET. Tour
of Labor & Delivery, Postpartum Unit and Nursery,
Waccamaw Community Hospital, 6 p.m. Registration required; call 520-8490.
April 6: RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE –
GEORGETOWN. Private dining room, 10 a.m-4
p.m. Call 527-7173 for information.
April 9: CANCER SUPPORT GROUP. Education Center, Georgetown Memorial Hospital, 4:30
p.m.-5:30 p.m. Call 520-8062.
April 11 & 25: ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT
GROUP - MURRELLS INLET. 10 a.m. Belin
Church, Murrells Inlet. Information, 651-9711.
STROKE SUPPORT GROUP. Waccamaw Community Hospital, 4th floor dining room, 3 p.m. Call
652-1875 for information.
April 11: I CAN COPE EDUCATION SERIES.
Waccamaw Community Hospital, 5:30 p.m-7:30
p.m. Program for people facing cancer. Free; preregistration is required; call 652-1640. Information, 652-1640.
April 12: PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP.
Timber Lake Baptist Church, Rte. 707, 650-8756.
April 16: HEART FAILURE EDUCATION SUPPORT GROUP – MURRELLS INLET. CAR SEAT
SAFETY CLASS – MURRELLS INLET. Wachesaw
Conference Center, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Offers instruction
to parents and infant caregivers on general safety
guidelines for car seats. Free; pre-registration required, call 520-8490.
April 17: HANDLE WITH CARE – GEORGETOWN. Education Center on the Georgetown Memorial Hospital campus, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Free; pre-registration required; call 520-8490.
April 18: AMPUTEE SUPPORT GROUP. Waccamaw Community Hospital, 4th floor dining room, 1
p.m. Information, 652-1839.
April 19: PEDIATRIC FIRST AID – MURRELLS
INLET. Valuable basic information for the community and specifically for those caring for others such
as day care workers. Wachesaw Conference Center, 6
p.m.-10 p.m. $20; pre-registration required, call 5208490.
April 21: SIBLING PREPARATION CLASS MURRELLS INLET. Waccamaw Community Hospital 1st floor classroom, 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Pre-registration required; call 520-8490. BREASTFEEDING
CLASS - MURRELLS INLET. Taught by a Certified
Lactation Consultant. Waccamaw Community Hospital, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free; pre-registration required, call 520-8490.
April 23: BOSOM BUDDIES SUPPORT GROUP.
Wachesaw Conference Center, 6 p.m.-7 p.m. Call
237-8787.
April 26: DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP – MURRELLS INLET. Waccamaw Community Hospital 1st
floor classroom, 1:30 p.m. Information, 652-1281 or
652-1638.
April 26: FRIENDS & FAMILY CPR – MUR-
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MI races are a success, more fun to come
By Sue Sledz
Executive director
Murrells Inlet 2020
The skies cleared and a beautiful sunrise appeared over the marsh for the 2012 South Atlantic Bank Race for the Inlet on March 24, as 450
runners and walkers, from all corners of South
Carolina, ten states and Canada took to the beautiful oak-lined streets to complete the 5K and 8K
courses.
And, the following morning, 123 cyclists
whirled off from the Grand Strand Bicycle Shop
at Woodside Village to participate in the 2012
Inaugural Ride for The Inlet event. Cyclists had
their choice of an 8-mile, 26-mile or 65-mile
route that took them through the backroads of
Georgetown and Horry counties. Murrells Inlet
2020 sincerely thanks our sponsors and donors,
our army of volunteers, the Georgetown County
and Horry County Sheriff’s Offices, Murrells
Inlet/Garden City Fire District, and the Grand
Strand Bicycles Cycling Club/Racing Team for
all their help in making these events huge successes.
As for future events, keep in mind...
On Saturday, April 7, MI 2020 is hosting the
Marshwalk Masters, so put on your knickers and
putt yourself through the marshwalk and stop
at restaurants along the way. Lowest individual
score winner receives $500 cash, with additional
2nd and 3rd place and best dressed golfer prizes. Cost is $20 per player (over 12) and $15 per
player (under 12). Visit the Events page at www.
murrellsinletsc.com to download a registration
form and get more details. It’s guaranteed a fun
time for all!
On April 22, MI 2020 invites every Murrells
Inlet resident to spend a morning giving back to
the inlet we all love. Please join our community
at the 21st Annual Spring Tide, South Carolina’s
longest running community clean up day. The
“Day for the Inlet” is that one day in spring when
hundreds of volunteers gather together to comb
the creeks and streets of Murrells Inlet to pick
up litter. Volunteers should meet at Morse Parking Landing on Hwy. 17 in Murrells Inlet at 9:45
a.m. to get their clean-up assignments. Bring
boots, boats, bug spray and gloves. The clean-up
continues until 1 p.m., when all the workers are
invited back to the Hot Fish Club for live music
and some light-hearted festivities. Dozens of restaurants will compete in the “Best Damn Chowder Cook-Off” during the afternoon to feed the
volunteers. If you have never participated, then
this is your year to catch the fever! And if you
helped out in previous years, we know you’ll be
back … because you care. Contact Murrells Inlet
2020 at 843-357-2007, or visit www.murrellsinletsc.com for more information.
Dead Dog employee benefit raises
$33,000 thanks to community
Dead Dog Saloon owner, Charlie Campbell, reported that the employee relief benefit held on
March 25 at On the Half Shell and Island Green
Country Club raised $33,000. The money raised
is to be split between all the employees currently
out of work due to the fire in March.
Living with grief program
On April 24, Tidelands Community Hospice
will host the Hospice Foundation of America’s
19th annual Living With Grief Program entitled
“End-of-Life Ethics.” Event from 1:30 p.m.4:30 p.m., Georgetown Memorial Hospital Education Center. Contact Harrison Grey, Tidelands
Community Hospice, Inc., (843) 546-3410.
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What is the difference between a will and a revocable living trust? Basically, a will is a legal document
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It is important to update a will periodically to reflect
any material or personal changes in your life.
A revocable living trust (RLT) is an entity, like a
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‘Onion Made Goodness’
Pawleys Island Specialty Foods, the creators of Palmetto Cheese who
were featured recently in USA Today, announced the newest addition to
their product lineup: OMG! Onion Made Goodness, a caramelized onion
dip with a kick.
The dip, created by Pawleys Island natives Laura Tiller and Kelli Blair, is
loaded with real onions and big on flavor. It was created out of their love
for food and entertaining.
Laura, as a single mom of three boys, started a business making dinners
for friends and families out of her home kitchen. Kelli gave her a recipe
for a caramelized onion dip as a potential menu item. The caramelized onion dip became a regular offering and quickly became a favorite amongst
friends and locals. Based on this demand, the two friends decided to offer
the dip to local markets.
In June 2011, OMG! became available at Get Carried Away Southern
Takeout, a new business in Pawleys Island. This outlet features many local
products, and OMG! became one of the best selling items during the busy
tourist season. In order to keep up with demand, Laura and Kelli began to
produce OMG! in the kitchen of Get Carried Away after hours.
In an effort to expand OMG’s distribution, Laura and Kelli turned to Brian and Sassy Henry, owners of Get Carried Away Southern Takeout and
Pawleys Island Specialty Foods, a wholesale food producer based in Pawleys Island and the creators and marketers of a popular brand of pimento
cheese called Palmetto Cheese, The Pimento Cheese with Soul. They were
interested in the marketing expertise, production resources, and distribution channels established by the Henrys through the successful growth of
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an ownership interest of OMG in March.
OMG! will be marketed, distributed, and sold under the banner of Pawleys Island Specialty Foods and offered to grocery stores throughout the
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Editorial/Opinion: something to think about this Easter
By Tim Callahan
Editor/Publisher
It’s time to celebrate the Easter story.
But, is it fact or fiction?
Here are some things to consider to help you
decide if Jesus Christ was the main character in
a story designed to fool the masses into joining a
religious cult, or truly the Son of God:
A Jewish carpenter from a cult has a special day
for him 20 centuries after He died?
Why did Jesus not save himself from torture
and execution and back down from his claims
as the Son of God and that He needed die to repair man’s broken relationship with God? Why
would He die horribly for a lie?
Why would 12 men, His disciples, allow themselves to be tortured and die for a con?
How did 12 uneducated and stubborn men run
with a made up story and turn a Roman world
upside down in a matter of a few years?
Why have more than 5,000 full or partial copies of Scripture been found spanning 2,000 years
and yet they still tell the same stories. Why not
embellish? Take out or put in? Why not spice
it up? Why not downplay the bad parts? If you
were writing a book to con the masses would
you include Jesus’s agony in the garden? Peter’s denial? Thomas’s doubt? Judas’s betrayal?
The disciples’ fear, hiding in closed rooms after
Christ’s death? The disciples thick-headedness
that caused them to only really believe after they
saw the resurrected Christ. (He had been telling
and showing them who He was for the previous
three years).
Why would Paul run with a lie and subject him-
self to being beaten, whipped, stoned and left for
dead, chased through towns, jailed several times,
tortured and killed?
Why does anybody need a Savior? People are
basically good with a few bad apples thrown in,
right? (Well, have you’ve kept all the ten commandments? I haven’t.)
Why does anyone have to follow commandments? Think of your town, your state, your
country, your world without laws. Maybe they
are for our own protection and good, not to spoil
the fun.
Was the world created out of nothing? A creation without a creator? If we are all here because gases exploded in a big bang, where did
the gases come from? Who made the gases?
If man is ever evolving, getting bigger and
stronger and smarter, why haven’t we seen drastic physical changes in man over the last several
thousand years. And why have there been more
deaths in wars in the last century than in all of
history combined? Is that evolving?
Finally, why is Christianity the one religion
where God came down to man, and man doesn’t
have to work his way to God and paradise and
heaven?
Jesus did the work for us on the cross. Remember the story of the thief on the cross recorded
in Luke 23:39-41? Jesus told him, “Today you
will be in paradise” because the dying man believed Jesus was who He said He was. The thief
had nothing to commend himself to God but Jesus. Didn’t Jesus simply say, as recorded in John
3:16: “He who believes in me shall not perish
but have everlasting life”?
What if the story is true? What if Jesus was who
He said He was? What if he was fully man and
fully God, died for our sins, and rose from the
dead?
I’ve left you something to think about this Easter.
And, maybe, after Easter.
(This article appeared in the April 2010 issue.)
Messenger wins state press awards
The Murrells Inlet Messenger won third place
for best newspaper publication in 2011 among
associate and individual members of the South
Carolina Press Association.
The Messenger’s first published book, “Murrells Inlet: Memories, Memoirs and Miracles,”
won first place for best innovative concept. Designer Nathan Kirk’s beautiful cover helped garner that award, along with 70 stories from the
past pages of the Messenger, including 22 local
business stories. The local businesses featured
also made the book idea a success as they preordered 20 copies apiece.
The Messenger came away with four awards,
matching 2010’s award totals, in a highly competitive environment as associate and individual
members have far fewer awards to compete for
than weekly and daily newspapers.
Editor/Publisher Tim Callahan also won third
place for best editorial/op ed, “What is the Burgess Community?” and third place for best feature story, an article on the Christian Counseling
Center’s Johnny DeLoache chance meeting with
basketball legend Pete Maravich.
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Fundraiser for animal shelter
On Tues., April 24, the animals at Coastal Animal Rescue in Murrells Inlet will benefit by a
fundraiser held at Bob Evans Restaurant on
Route 544, off Hwy.17 Bypass in Myrtle Beach.
From 5 p.m. - 8 p.m., the restaurant will donate 15 percent of sales to the shelter. Coastal
Animal Rescue is 100 percent volunteer and a
no-kill shelter. Any questions, please call Paula
713-0046.
Lupus support group
On April 16 at 6 p.m., a Lupus support group
will be held at the fellowship hall of the Grand
Strand Church of Christ on Glenns Bay Road
in Surfside Beach. The Lupus Foundation of
America (LFA) support groups are intended to
provide a warm and caring environment where
people with lupus, their family members, caregivers and loved ones, can share their experiences, methods of coping and insights into living with chronic illness. The support group also
offers community resource information.
Elks Lodge parade of flags
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Singing in the sun
Brookgreen summer camps
This summer Camp Brookgreen 2012 will host
one-week sessions of fun and educational enrichment for children and adults that will include
activities at Brookgreen Gardens and Huntington
Beach State Park. Activities include storytelling,
arts and crafts, native plant and animal interactive programs, and a boat ride along freshwater
creeks and rivers. Two-day arts camps and a oneday Camp Brookgreen for Adults will also be
held. Registration begins March 19 for members
and March 26 for non-members. Call 235-6049
or visit www.brookgreen.org and click on the
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Tues., April 17 through Sat., April 21 at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center in Myrtle Beach,
many of Southern Gospel music’s most popular
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Edward Jones: Earth Day lessons can apply to investors, too
April 22 is Earth Day. Started in 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day is designed to
create awareness of the Earth’s environment and
to encourage conservation efforts. If you and
your family participate in Earth Day events, such
as helping clean up a local park or taking materials to a recycling center, you know the benefits
of doing your part to improve your surroundings.
But are you doing everything you can to upgrade
your environment for investing?
Actually, as an investor, you can learn a lot
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you know that it involves multiple activities, including educational programs and do-it-now action steps. This variety is necessary because protecting our environment is a complex challenge.
Meeting your short- and long-term investment
goals can be challenging, too, but you’ll have
a better chance of success by diversifying your
investment dollars across a range of vehicles,
such as stocks, bonds, government securities and
certificates of deposit (CDs). Diversification can
help reduce the impact of volatility on your portfolio — and high volatility can be an obstacle
for some people trying to follow an investment
strategy. (Keep in mind, though, that diversification, by itself, cannot guarantee a profit or protect against loss.)
Seek growth opportunities. Some people plant
trees on Earth Day, hoping to watch them grow
over the years. As an investor, you, too, need to
plant “seeds” today in the hopes of growth in
the future. That means, among other things, that
when you purchase growth-oriented investments
for the long term, you need to try to stick with
them and not “uproot” them after short-term declines in price.
Develop good habits. If you attend an Earth
Day program, you will learn about many ecofriendly habits you can develop, from using
energy-efficient light bulbs to recycling old
computers and other electronic devices. To invest successfully, it’s important to develop good
habits, such as staying invested in all types of
markets, seeking tax-advantaged investments
and reviewing your portfolio regularly to make
sure it’s still appropriate for your risk tolerance,
time horizon and long-term objectives.
Avoid “toxins.” At some Earth Day events,
you can learn about “green” substitutes for toxic
chemicals in common household cleaners. When
you invest, you may also want to avoid “toxins”
— or at least “toxic” behaviors, such as chasing
after “hot” stocks that are inappropriate for your
needs or trading so frequently that you run up
big fees, commissions and taxes.
Think long term. Above all else, Earth Day is a
reminder to us that we all want to leave a healthy
planet to future generations — which means we
need to make moves that are beneficial for the
environment over the long term. When you invest, you also need to focus on the future. That
means following a long-term investment strategy
and not getting sidetracked by short-term events,
such as political crises and economic downturns.
Earth Day comes once a year, but its lessons
can have a lasting impact on our environment.
When you apply these same lessons to your own
investment environment, you may be able to
achieve some healthy results.
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The 2012 SCAA Inductees are:
Frank Morrison “Mickey” Spillane attained
mythical status in the
annals of popular fiction. Considered the
king of the pulp novelists in the post-WW
II period, he sold an
estimated 200 million
copies worldwide. By
1980, Spillane was the
author of seven of the top 15 all-time bestselling
fiction books in the U.S. Despite critical condemnation, Spillane explained the extraordinary
appeal of his novels with typical frankness: “I’m
a writer, not an author. The difference is a writer
makes money.”
Born in Brooklyn in 1918, Spillane moved to
Murrells Inlet in 1954. From 1983 until his death
in 2006, Spillane shared his waterfront home
with his third wife, Jane Rogers Johnson. The
house was destroyed by Hurricane Hugo in 1989
but was rebuilt.
After service in the Army Air Corps during
WWII, Spillane wrote “I, the Jury” in 19 days.
The novel sold 6.5 million copies in the United
States alone, and introduced Spillane’s most famous character, hardboiled detective Mike Hammer. Although tame by current standards, his
novels featured more sex than competing titles,
and the violence was more overt than the usual
detective story. The Hammer novels spawned
two television series and multiple movies. He re-
ceived an Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award
in 1995.
After his death, his friend and literary executor,
Max Allan Collins, began the task of editing and
completing new books and reprints.
Franklin Burroughs (b.1942, Conway, S.C.),
is the Harrison King McCann Research Professor of the English Language Emeritus at Bowdoin College where he has taught for 30 years.
A graduate of the University of the South, he
earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard.
Burroughs writes eloquently about the natural
history of his childhood home in Horry County
and his adult home in Maine. His work has been
honored with a National Endowment for the Arts
fellowship, an Editor’s Prize from the Sewannee
Review, and the Cecil Woods, Jr. Award for creative nonfiction. He lives in Maine.
Marian Wright Edelman (b.1939, Bennettsville, S.C.) is the founder and president of the
Children’s Defense Fund (CDF).
She has received numerous awards, including
the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize, the
Heinz Award, a MacArthur Foundation Prize
Fellowship, the Presidential Medal of Freedom
and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings.
Charles W. Joyner (b.1934, Myrtle Beach,
S.C.) is Distinguished Professor of Southern
History and Culture Emeritus at Coastal Carolina University. He also taught at the University
of California, Berkeley, the University of Mississippi and the University of Alabama. He was
an associate of the DuBois Center at Harvard
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University in 1989-90.
Joyner is perhaps best known for his book
“Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave
Community” (University of Illinois Press, 1984).
It won the National University Press Book Award
and has been called “the finest work ever written
on American slavery.”
Among his many awards, he won the South
Carolina Humanities Council Governor’s Award
for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities. In
addition to his writing and teaching, Joyner has
produced award-winning films and television
and radio programs about the South. Most recently, he co-edited (with Vernon Burton) Gale’s
new “Slavery & Anti-Slavery Transnational Archive,” an acclaimed four-part digital series.
(The event is sold out but there is plenty more
going on in the community surrounding these
authors and their works. See page 11)
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restaurant running smoothly. Jim and Lucy had
a little house built behind the restaurant around
1958 that they lived in for a while. After Sam
bought the restaurant, he and his wife and children (Karen, Russell and Steve Vereen) lived in
the house.
Sam’s brother-in-law, Ray Abbott, started
working at Wayside with Sam around 1967 and
he went on to open the Ship’s Log Restaurant
with Mike Strickland in Garden City in 1980.
The kitchen was usually staffed with eight to
nine people on busy days, including a fry cook, a
broiler cook, a couple prep folks, a couple dishwashers, a breader, and a salad girl. Some of the
kitchen help included Joe Pickett, Mary Herriott,
Viney Judge, Betty Jo Holmes, Vermell Sands,
Daisy Grate, Viola Carr, Ellen Carr, Sarah Gary,
Mary Lena Sparkman and Debbie Sparkman.
Some of the waitresses and busboys included
Florence Altman, Agnes Ammons, Sue Spears,
Beulah Smith, Sandra Ammons, Glenda Hughes,
Clifton Haselden’s wife, Becky Cameron, Nancy
Altman, Jessie Byo Johnson, Mike Strickland,
Wayne Ammons, Clebe McClary, Jimmy Strickland and Glenn Ammons.
A menu from the Wayside Restaurant in the early 1960’s included a Deluxe Shore Dinner (clam
chowder, shrimp cocktail, fried fish, scallops,
oysters, shrimp, deviled crab, lobster tail, cole
slaw, French fries, ice cream, and tea or coffee)
for the princely sum of
$3, or the smaller Seafood Platter for $1.50.
A large bowl of oyster
stew was $1.20 and a
T-Bone steak dinner
was $3.75.
Those days are gone
forever, but the memories will live forever in
Murrells Inlet history.
© 2012 by Steve
Strickland. Used with
author’s permission.
(Steve Strickland is
a Murrells Inlet native and owner of the
Earthworks Group.)
Bachands...continued from page 1
local physicians, but the couple also traveled
500 miles, twice a year, up to Baltimore to visit
with a noted Parkinson’s specialist. The book describes some of those sessions in detail.
The memoir first takes the reader back to the
1940’s and 1950’s in Southbridge, Mass. The
Great Depression had just ended, but money was
still scarce and their fathers – unfortunately drank away much of their paychecks.
Dotty was well behaved and watched over
closely by her mother. In contrast, Claude, the
last of eight children, had relatively free rein and
was a bit of a scamp, he said, having behavioral problems at home and school, and in the Air
Force.
Through the Korean GI Bill, he studied journalism at Louisiana Tech University, where he
was editor of the school newspaper. He graduated summa cum laude, and was awarded an assistantship for graduate study at the University
of Illinois.
Claude and Dotty met after his graduation from
Illinois, married, and raised three children, all of
whom live in or near South Carolina.
Claude worked briefly as a reporter for a daily
newspaper and United Press International, but
spent most of his working life in public relations
and marketing.
The couple moved to Murrells Inlet upon his
retirement in 1998.
Dotty passed away 10 years later.
(“Please Stop” by Claude Bachand is available
at Amazon.com and Kindle.)
Community events surrounding artists and wordsmiths
Learn Gullah songs
“Down by the Riverside” and other spirituals at
Brookgreen Gardens is offered every Wednesday
at 1 p.m. through May 23. Sing along with Ron
Daise, Brookgreen’s vice-president for creative
education, and learn Gullah songs that shaped
the culture. Information from Charles Joyner’s
groundbreaking book, “Down by the Riverside:
A South Carolina Slave Community,”and Daise’s books and personal insight will be featured.
Free with garden admission. Call 843-235-6000
or visit www.brookgreen.org for more information.
See Barry Moser illustrations
“I Can Make a Difference: Illustrations by
Barry Moser from the book by Marian Wright
Edelman” at Burroughs & Chapin Art Museum
through April 22. Moser has illustrated 200
books for children and adults. Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m., and Sunday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free, for
information, call 843-238-2510 or visit www.
myrtlebeachartmuseum.org.
Attend a Burrough’s poetry workshop
Poetry Workshop: “The Making of River Poems” will be held at CCU/OLLI’s Waccamaw
Higher Education Center on April 12. Libby
Bernardin will use quotations from Franklin
Burroughs “The River Home,” Charles Joyner’s
“Down By the Riverside,” and Marian Wright
Edelman’s writings about the river. If possible,
bring a photo of your favorite river spot. Prompts
and poems about rivers will be provided from
which ideas will be drawn. Materials provided.
Thursday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., $25. For more information, call 843-349-6485 or info@coastal.edu/olli.
See a Chandler play
Watch a Spillane movie
“The Girl Hunters” (1:30 p.m.) and “Kiss Me, “When I Just Can Remember,” Tara Theatre,
Deadly” (4:30 p.m.) will be held at the Strand Litchfield Beach & Golf Resort on April 22 at
Cinema, Georgetown, on April 14. Introduced 2 p.m. Coastal Carolina University professors
by Jane Spillane, with a reception between films, Veronica Davis Gerald, Preston McKever-Floyd
Strand Cinema members pay $5/film. General and Sandra L. Shackelford perform a play based
admission, $7/film or $10 for both. Call 843- on the local interviews by Genevieve Wilcox
Chandler during the 1930s. Free with ticket
527-2924 or visit www.strandcinema.org.
(available at CCU’s Waccamaw Higher EducaSee Edelman tribute
The Life Work of Marian Wright Edelman at tion Center), 843-349-6485.
CCU’s
Waccamaw
Higher Education Center on April 19. Her life
and body of work will
be honored in this tribute by Tracy Swinton
Bailey. Thursday, 10
a.m.- noon, free, 843349-6485 or info@
coastal.edu/olli.
Discuss Burroughs’
Franklin Burroughs’
“The River Home, ”
profoundly
moving
love letter to the rivers of South Carolina,
310 Prince Creek Parkway
will be discussed by
Murrells Inlet, SC 29576
Tom Johnson at CCU’s
Waccamaw
Higher
Education Center on
April 19, from 1 p.m.Worship 10:30 a.m. Sundays
3 p.m. Free. Info,
"Connecting people to Jesus Christ, to one another
call 843-349-6485 or
info@coastal.edu/olli.
and to God's work in the world"
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Your good health is the
reason we continue to build.
As the needs of our community grow, we
continue expanding to meet every single one of
them. And with the opening of our new medical
office building next to Waccamaw Community
Hospital, we’ve done just that. This beautiful,
state-of-the-art facility is the new home
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of NextStep Rehabilitation Services, NextStep
Neurological Rehabilitation Center and NextStep
Pain Management Center, with many more
impressive services to come in the near future.
For us, this is just another important step in
helping you get better.
4 0 4 0 H I G H WAY 1 7 B Y B A S S , M U R R E L L S I N L E T
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NextStep Rehabilitation Services 843 652 8240 • NextStep Neurological Rehabiltation Center 843 652 8250
NextStep Pain Management Center 843 652 8260 • www.georgetownhospitalsystem.org
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