November News in Charleston: Here’s What’s Happening Around Town
This is such an important month. The decisions we make in the voting booth will have impact for many more than the next four years. Choose wisely, but please choose. Educate yourself on all the races large and small; stand in the line with the rest of us because your vote does matter. Remember, you can’t complain if you don’t vote.
Veteran’s Day weekend will be celebrated by a Living History Day on the 8th at Patriot’s Point. Reenactors will help honor our vets by bringing past conflicts to life. Get ready for helicopter rides taking off from the Flight Deck and a special fly-over from the Air Force.
November brings cooler temperatures and Thanksgiving. We can be thankful for living in such a great location. Charleston’s Waterfront Park was named one of the nation’s 10 Great Public Spaces. The eight acre park is now ranked with landmarks like New York City’s Central Park, Union Station in Washington, DC and Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon.
Congratulations to the SC Research Authority. Their SC Launch program was one of four honored nationally with the “Building Entrepreneurial Capacity Award.” They were recognized as the best practice model in knowledge-based economic development. Wow!
For the sixteenth consecutive year, readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine have chosen Charleston as one of the Top 10 travel destinations in the US. Moving up one slot, Charleston was bested only by San Francisco. Kiawah Island was voted the #2 island in North America, joined by Nantucket and Vancouver for the top three choices. The Sanctuary ranked as the #3 Resort in the mainland US, beaten only by Kenwood Inn and Spa in Sonoma and The Inn at Thorn Hill, Jackson, NH.
What’s all the fuss about? Learn what makes Charleston special at the Charleston Museum on the 8th. Shag with the folks from J.B. Pivots, sip sweet tea with the Charleston Tea Plantation staff and learn lots of fun facts about our area.
The Moore School of Business announced that South Carolina is the 5th best housing market in the country. Their research shows fewer subprime mortgages and fewer foreclosures in our state. Good News!!!!
Mixon, the sustainable neighborhood in the Park Circle area has garnered another honor. The American Institute of Architects Charleston Award for Service to the Community and Design Profession is given each year to a builder or developer who betters the community at large through excellence in their work.
Design is the Problem and the Solution: The future of design must be sustainable is the subject of a presentation on the 18th by Nathan Shedroff, chair of the MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He will speak at the Visitor’s Center Theater at 6:00 pm.
The Fetes de Artisans will be at The Navy Yard at Noisette on the evening of the 6th to showcase the work of rising top artisans of the American College of the Building Arts and tour their workshops. The party is in conjunction with Design Week uptown in Charleston.
Celebrate Edible Arts: A Lowcountry Cooking Experience on the 15th at the Art Institute of Charleston. Prepare to impress your friends this holiday with duck, greens even pecan pie. They’ll thank you for going.
Summerville will present Taste of the Town on the 9th as Azalea Park turns red white and blue to honor our veterans.
The Junior League is sponsoring a Friday Family Fest. Admission is free at the Children’s Museum on the 21st and dinner is provided by Chic-fil-A !
The Shindig is scheduled at the Pine Forest Country Club on the 21st. You get to eat oysters and shag and the YMCA benefits.
The Center for Women is sponsoring their 2nd Annual Lowcountry Women Authors Holiday Book Signing at The Citadel Alumni House on the afternoon of the 23rd. Get your holiday shopping out of the way in one stop with personalized inscriptions from the authors.
The Holiday Festival of Lights at the James Island County Park opens on the 15th. If the nighttime sky intrigues you, the Old Santee Canal Park is the spot to be on the 29th. Learn about the stars above in their Astronomy class held from 7-8 pm.
Looking for something indoors on the 29th? Visit the Charleston Museum and check out the From Slave to Sharecropper: African Americans in the Lowcountry after the Civil War exhibit. Then, watch The Tuskegee Airmen, a movie about the Fighting 99 which picks up at the end of the exhibit period.
Towne Center in Mt Pleasant will kick off the holiday season with a tree lighting ceremony on the 22nd at 6 pm. Don’t forget to mark your calendar for more tree lighting and holiday revelry in North Charleston and the City of Charleston on the 6th of December. The same evening, join the crowds as the 29th Parade of Boats passes through the harbor.
The Maritime Center will host Historic Landmark, Schooner Roseway from the 5th-7th, open to the public 10-6 daily, free.
The 500th Anniversary of Palladio’s Birth will be celebrated the 6th & 7th.The architect’s influence is seen at Drayton Hall.
Making music with gourds is a special children’s hands-on history program at the Charleston Museum on the afternoon of the 6th. On the 8th, Charlestowne Landing will showcase “Colonial Trades and Harvest Festival” from 10-4. Ever want to design a walking stick? This is your chance. Select, prepare and decorate your own on the 8th and 10th at The Old Santee Canal Park. Bring your tools or they will provide. Is a basket more to your liking? The Basket Workshop will be held there on the 15th.
Google celebrated its official arrival in the Lowcountry at its $600 million, 500 acre site near Goose Creek off Highway 52. The internet search giant will employ about 200 when fully operational.
The Juicy Ideas Contest sponsored by Google involves 37 students from 4 area colleges in the quest to create the best new value from a glass medicine bottle. The prize? A visit to Google headquarters. That’s something a lot of people would love to do!
Golf World has announced the first ever Reader’s Choice Awards recognizing the 50 best private, public and resort golf destinations in the country. Courses were evaluated on 13 different performance criteria, such as quality of the course, course conditions, reputation and service. Kiawah Island Golf Resort was rated overall number one in the Resort category. The remaining top five resort courses were, beginning with number 2: Turning Stone Resort in Verona, NY; Sea Island Golf Club, Sea Island, GA; Reynolds Plantation, Greensboro, GA. Rounding out the top 5 was Pinehurst Resort, Pinehurst, NC. Florida had the most resorts on the list (10) followed by Hawaii (8) and South Carolina (5).
ESPN Charleston Classic will kick off at a dinner at Patriots Point on the 13th. Basketball teams from C of C, Clemson, TCU, Temple, Western Michigan, ETSU, Hofstra and SIUE will be participating in the tournament.
Running seems to be what November is all about. I guess that’s preventive medicine with the holiday parties coming up.
2008 Lean and Green 5K run will be at Brittlebank Park on the 8th. The Holiday Festival of Lights Fun Run /Walk will open the season with this 2 mile non-competitive event on the 15th at James Island County Park.
The Charleston Tea Plantation 5K Memorial Run/Walk on the morning of the 15th will honor Faye Mitchell, longtime employee and lifelong Wadmalaw resident. Funds raised on her behalf will go to MUSC for lung cancer research.
The 24th Annual Run for Thanks in Pinopolis will benefit the children of Berkeley County. Runners should bring canned goods to donate to the local food bank.
The iconic Turkey Day Run and Gobble Wobble is Thanksgiving morning. For over 30 years the Knights of Columbus have sponsored the event, now second only to the Cooper River Bridge run in size. Be at Marion Square at 9 am on the 27th.
You could look at all of these runs as a tune-up for the…Mark your Calendar … Stiletto Stampede coming to Mt Pleasant March 21st and benefiting the MUSC Children’s Center. Gotta see that one!!!!!!!!
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