Best bets to enjoy Easter brunch on South Carolina’s Hammock Coast
One popular way to celebrate the spring season and the Easter holiday is to visit a restaurant for a tasty Easter brunch. Fortunately, South Carolina’s Hammock Coast® offers several options for this special holiday tradition in restaurants from Garden City and Murrells Inlet to Pawleys Island and the historic city of Georgetown.
Southern Living offers high praise for the Hammock Coast, Georgetown
Southern Living, the venerable lifestyle magazine, heaped praise on South Carolina’s Hammock Coast as part of its annual Best of the South awards. The magazine hailed the Hammock Coast as a place to live, a destination to visit and two of the area’s most popular attractions – Brookgreen Gardens and…
Second annual Kite Festival will display art in the sky at Huntington Beach State Park
Hundreds of colorful kites of all shapes and sizes — from triangles and diamonds to animals such as birds, turtles, fish, jellyfish, butterflies, dragonflies, and octopi — will soon fill the sky on South Carolina’s Hammock Coast ®. Huntington Beach State Park will host its second annual Kite Festival on Saturday,…
Dinner a la Art: Brookgreen serves up special for Rodin exhibit
To ensure that as many people as possible can experience a sculpture exhibit by world-renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin, Brookgreen Gardens is now extending hours and offering a special dinner menu once a week for visitors to the Murrells Inlet attraction. Dubbed “Dinner a la Art,” Brookgreen Gardens, one of the…
Popular Murrells Inlet MarshWalk food events back on the menu
With spring coming into view on the horizon, the event calendar along South Carolina’s Hammock Coast® is beginning to cook for foodies. Two of the area’s most popular culinary events will be held in the coming weeks, attracting locals and visitors alike to enjoy the beauty of the Murrells Inlet…
Hammock Coast Birding Festival makes a successful first flight
Bird enthusiasts flocked to South Carolina recently to take part in an inaugural event — the Hammock Coast Birding Festival. For three days, ornithophiles — or, more simply, “birders” — took part in various tours, attended lectures and even a film. And, of course, they focused their binoculars and scopes…
Harriet Tubman sculpture to be displayed on the Hammock Coast
For three months, beginning on August 1, 2023, a nine-foot sculpture of Tubman, one of the most well-known abolitionists and social activists in American history, will stand in Joseph H. Rainey Park in downtown Georgetown. On Oct. 31, 2023, it will move to Brookgreen Gardens near Murrells Inlet to be displayed there for two more months.
MLK, Black history celebrated on the Hammock Coast
The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lives on through annual events that highlight his non-violent fight for racial equality. Here on South Carolina’s Hammock Coast®, there are two events planned on or around the national holiday named for him, this year on Monday, Jan. 16, to celebrate King,…