Jack Thompson’s Myrtle Beach
Friday, March 26th, 2010 Posted in In print/published, People | No Comments »When I stopped in to see photographer Jack Thompson one day this winter, he suggested we go for the buffet at Shoney's in Myrtle Beach. While we ate, he told stories and I wrote up the interview for Grand Strand ...
Pumpkin farm stop
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 Posted in Home & garden, People, Travel | No Comments »Before he switched over to planting patches of pumpkins, squash and peas, Mr. Billy Lineberry grew long rows of tobacco. "He was a tobacco farmer, until all that ended," his wife said, then leaned down to pick up their shivering ...
Singing on St. Helena
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, People, Travel | No Comments »In a white-painted, one-room building on St. Helena Island, Joseph “Rev.” Bryant was singing “Oh Lord, come by here.” His voice filled the spare, shed-sized structure, with its benches of narrow boards nailed together, one bare bulb in the ceiling. ...
Mr. Biggerstaff and his honey
Monday, May 18th, 2009 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, People, Wild animals and places | No Comments »His business cards read, “Honey is my hobby,” and 72-year-old Robert Biggerstaff isn’t kidding. Since 1967 he’s been building bee boxes, tending hives and collecting honey – all under the oak trees in his sideyard that backs up to a ...
“I ain’t old no more.”
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Posted in Art, Craft, People, Travel | 1 Comment »The music never seems to stop in Clarksdale, Mississippi. One morning there earlier this year, the first person we met on Delta Avenue was bluesman T-Model Ford, who was sitting in a folding chair eating eggs and toast from a ...
New G&G is out
Sunday, October 12th, 2008 Posted in Art, Craft, In print/published, People | No Comments »In the new issue of Garden & Gun I've got a nice little piece on Aaron Wells, who builds cypress strip boats in Live Oak, Florida. (You can read the complete story online at G&G.) The images of Aaron in ...
Fishing the Inlet
Friday, September 26th, 2008 Posted in Art, Craft, Food, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Oysters, People | No Comments »We just spent a couple days and nights along the road just inside the creeks of Murrells Inlet, SC where no less than 30 seafood restaurants are set in with houses and a few other businesses like hair salons, boat ...
Cypress boats and summer thunder
Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Art, Craft, People | No Comments »In late June I drove to Florida to meet Aaron Wells, who lives near the Suwannee River; the sinkholes, shoals and springs of North Florida. Clouds in the shape of fists and baseball mitts towered in the sky, matched by distant ...
Bees’ life
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Home & garden, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, People, Wild animals and places | No Comments »Robert Biggerstaff, 72, looks in complete ease in his wide-billed cap as he leans against his garage wall and points out a cedar bee box a few yards away. A few honeybees buzz in and out, stopping at a ...
One man, many hammocks… and stories
Sunday, January 20th, 2008 Posted in Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, People | No Comments »This is an excerpt of a piece I just published about Marvin Grant, who I first met several years ago at the Pawleys Island Hammock Shops. He’s one of two hammock makers there for daily demonstrations. And while he guides ...