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CH2's Bachelors of the Year ALUMNI: A Q&A With The Guys Who Took The Title
In remembering some of the fonder moments of the last few years at CH2, we would be remiss not to mention the Bachelor of the Year contest. It was, after all, the shameless exploitation of these good-hearted young men that put CH2 on the map.…
GOOD EATS - Food Glorious Food
In the late 1800s, a lot was happening in our country. Development and commercial production of electric lighting and gasoline-powered automobiles was underway, steel frame construction of skyscrapers was happening for the first time, and Thomas Edison was inventing the first movie in his New…
Gullah Heritage Tour
To tell the history of Hilton Head Island is to tell the story of the Gullah people. For the Campbell family and their Gullah Heritage Trail Tours, it all starts with five generations of their own family, and the story expands from there. Family members…
Halloween History and Traditions
With spooky Spanish moss draping from ancient oaks and places named Skull Creek and Bloody Point, come October 31, there’s no better place than the Lowcountry to make merry or mischief. Halloween is one of the world’s oldest holidays. Over the eons, each generation has added…
LIFE AT CH2 - A Walk Down Memory Lane
Silly Wabbit - A Look at Some Famous Bunnies
I always found it odd that Easter was celebrated with a white bunny. I mean really; Lent ends, and the second you are allowed to consume meat again, there’s a potential meaty delicacy handing you colored eggs, marshmallow peeps, and chocolate versions of itself? Apparently, I…
Thanksgiving, 1621
“History is written by the victors.”—Winston Churchill “Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.”—Mark Twain (Author’s note: I’d like to thank the research department at the Pilgrims’ Progressive, a slick tabloid, rarely published in Plymouth, MA, for their almost unbelievable efforts, on my behalf, for finding the…
The Day the Verizon Heritage Didn’t Disappear
“Basically it came down to a phone call,” said Mike Stevens. In this case, the “it” was the future of the Heritage. It was 1986. Stevens, now president of the Champions Tour, was tournament director of the Heritage. In question was whether there would be…
The History of Mistletoe "How kissing went out on a limb"
A good smooch depends on a fascinating number of things. Did you know two-thirds of people tilt their heads to the right when they kiss? Scientists believe this stems from the way we hold our heads in the womb—but the top three, generally speaking, are…
The People of Hargray. Think 1981.
There was no “Town of Hilton Head Island.” The island was still an unincorporated “suburb” of Beaufort County. It wouldn’t become a town until 1983. Space Shuttle Columbia shot into the Florida sky to begin an extraordinary, and sometimes tragic, program of manned space flight…
In remembering some of the fonder moments of the last few years at CH2, we would be remiss not to mention the Bachelor of the Year contest. It was, after all, the shameless exploitation of these good-hearted young men that put CH2 on the map.…
GOOD EATS - Food Glorious Food
In the late 1800s, a lot was happening in our country. Development and commercial production of electric lighting and gasoline-powered automobiles was underway, steel frame construction of skyscrapers was happening for the first time, and Thomas Edison was inventing the first movie in his New…
Gullah Heritage Tour
To tell the history of Hilton Head Island is to tell the story of the Gullah people. For the Campbell family and their Gullah Heritage Trail Tours, it all starts with five generations of their own family, and the story expands from there. Family members…
Halloween History and Traditions
With spooky Spanish moss draping from ancient oaks and places named Skull Creek and Bloody Point, come October 31, there’s no better place than the Lowcountry to make merry or mischief. Halloween is one of the world’s oldest holidays. Over the eons, each generation has added…
LIFE AT CH2 - A Walk Down Memory Lane
LIFE AT CH2…A Walk Down Memory Lane
Silly Wabbit - A Look at Some Famous Bunnies
I always found it odd that Easter was celebrated with a white bunny. I mean really; Lent ends, and the second you are allowed to consume meat again, there’s a potential meaty delicacy handing you colored eggs, marshmallow peeps, and chocolate versions of itself? Apparently, I…
Thanksgiving, 1621
“History is written by the victors.”—Winston Churchill “Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.”—Mark Twain (Author’s note: I’d like to thank the research department at the Pilgrims’ Progressive, a slick tabloid, rarely published in Plymouth, MA, for their almost unbelievable efforts, on my behalf, for finding the…
The Day the Verizon Heritage Didn’t Disappear
“Basically it came down to a phone call,” said Mike Stevens. In this case, the “it” was the future of the Heritage. It was 1986. Stevens, now president of the Champions Tour, was tournament director of the Heritage. In question was whether there would be…
The History of Mistletoe "How kissing went out on a limb"
A good smooch depends on a fascinating number of things. Did you know two-thirds of people tilt their heads to the right when they kiss? Scientists believe this stems from the way we hold our heads in the womb—but the top three, generally speaking, are…
The People of Hargray. Think 1981.
There was no “Town of Hilton Head Island.” The island was still an unincorporated “suburb” of Beaufort County. It wouldn’t become a town until 1983. Space Shuttle Columbia shot into the Florida sky to begin an extraordinary, and sometimes tragic, program of manned space flight…
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