David Lauderdale
The Island Packet
Hilton Head Island, SC, United States
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That time Ross Perot bought a Hilton Head Island home ... and never spent a night in it
H. Ross Perot bought Hilton Head Island SC oceanfront home in Sea Pines for $1.1 million in 1985 but sold it because of publicity about what was thought to be a record real estate sale → Read More
Museum to feature legendary Beaufort SC rhythm and blues band
You know that nobody imagined that those salty hot Saturday nights at Oak Grove, when the Melody Makers band had them swaying to “Walking Up a One Way Street,” would one day be considered historic. → Read More
Stop digging killer beach holes and leaving tents on Hilton Head Island beach
Hilton Head Island Town Council needs to ban garden shovels and tents from the beach because they harm loggerhead sea turtle nesting; most other SC towns have figured this out already. → Read More
Send in the Beaufort Marines for SC July 4 beach flyover: How to see it and what to do
Salute from the Shore July 4 flyover of SC coastline will include F-18s from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort for the first time in flight from Myrtle Beach to the Bluffton sandbar → Read More
‘I’m a wheeler-dealer’: Colorful Lowcountry character Henry Ingram dies in NC
Henry Ingram dies, colorful Lowcountry SC character from Ridgeland and Hilton Head was in amusement game, video poker business, ran for mayor, said Yankees could not buy his property → Read More
‘Don’t these people know any better?’: The come-to-Jesus Lowcountry tomato experience
Fresh heirloom tomatoes from u-pick or corporate farms on St. Helena Island in Beaufort County SC make a big business. But tales of Duke’s, Hellmann’s, Weejuns, even the Iraq war, come gushing out as well. → Read More
The perfect tomato sandwich from the SC Lowcountry, with love, drips, and Duke’s
Tomato season arrives in Beaufort County SC, where St. Helena Island’s $17 million industry on large farms and u-pick farms produce the glorious tomato sandwich with Duke’s mayonnaise on Sunbeam bread. → Read More
D-Day heroes land on Beaufort County’s beaches with a message that still resonates
D-Day veterans Donald Bennett, Benjamin Vandervoort and Earl Rogers leave mark on Hilton Head Island SC and Sun City as world marks 75th anniversary of Normandy Invasion in World War II. → Read More
So why does it hurt when a Hilton Head grocery store says it’s going to close?
When Bi-Lo opened its supermarket in Port Royal Plaza on the north end of Hilton Head Island SC it complemented the brand new Walmart in the rapid-fire growth of the 1980s and 1990s. → Read More
Julia Grant, first principal of Hilton Head Primary School, dies at 75
Julia O. Grant, a former principal at Hilton Head SC Elementary School, then known as Hilton Head Primary, dies May 25, 2019. She married into the native islander Gullah family of husband Joseph Grant. → Read More
This Vietnam war bird wasn’t glamorous, until Bob Hope and Miss World climbed aboard
Vietnam veteran from Hilton Head Island SC opens up after plaque to C-123 air crews in Vietnam War is dedicated at the U.S. Air Force Academy’s Southeast Asia Memorial Pavilion → Read More
This Clemson legend (not named Dabo) rises from the sweet sod of the SC Lowcountry
Bryson Nimmer of Bluffton SC leads Clemson University Tigers men’s golf team to NCAA D1 men’s championship in Arkansas from native Ridgeland and Berkeley Hall, Sea Pines Resort, JPGA on Hilton Head → Read More
Hilton Head’s Piggly Wiggly hits this red-and-white milestone on Saturday
Piggly Wiggly at Coligny Plaza on Hilton Head Island SC marks the 50th anniversary of ownership by Gene Martin, inducted into the Rotary Club’s Hilton Head Hall of Fame, and his son, David Martin. → Read More
A wedding, and then a funeral. The last days for Vince Handley, Hilton Head’s car genius
Vince Handley dies of renal cancer after working more than 40 years at Hilton Head SC’s Island Tire and H&H Auto, while also racing at Summerville Speedway, Sebring and Atlanta → Read More
The last bateau on Hilton Head whispers the 2 secrets to life in the SC Lowcountry
SC Lowcountry waterman Bluffton native Frank Kidd Sr. makes a wooden oyster bateau for display at the Gullah Museum of Hilton Head because of its importance to African-American history. → Read More
The last bateau on Hilton Head whispers the 2 secrets to life in the SC Lowcountry
SC Lowcountry waterman Bluffton native Frank Kidd Sr. makes a wooden oyster bateau for display at the Gullah Museum of Hilton Head because of its importance to African-American history. → Read More
Good dog! Hilton Head Golden carrying Starbucks wins the beach this week
Golden Retriever at Islanders’ Beach Park on Hilton Head Island, SC, leaves with cup of Starbucks coffee in its mouth, but would not say where it got it. → Read More
Hilton Head leaf blower war cranking up quietly in Sea Pines neighborhood
Sea Pines property owner suggests restricting leaf blowers in Sea Pines and all of Hilton Head Island SC just as Washington, DC, has done as told by James Fallows in the April issue of Atlantic magazine. → Read More
Meet the stranger who won the RBC Heritage: ‘Make every day better than every yesterday’
Just who is C.T. Pan, surprise winner at RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing Easter weekend at Harbour Town Golf Links in Sea Pines on Hilton Head Island SC → Read More
C.T. Pan of Taiwan wins 51st RBC Heritage on Hilton Head Island
C.T. Pan of Taiwan won the 51st RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing at Harbour Town Golf Links in Sea Pines on Hilton Head Island, SC. PGA Tour players Pan, Patrick Cantlay and Matt Kuchar battled at back nine. → Read More