2017 Year in Review

 2017 Year in Review

Highlights: 

• In February we took a Fanthom Cruise from Miami to Cuba with stops in Santiago de Cuba, Cienfuegos and Havana.  (See Doris and Bill's Travel Adventures Blog) 

  http://dorisandbilltraveladventures.blogspot.com/2017/02/cuba-january-2017-  havana.html

• We attended a "Sinatra:  A Man and His Music" concert at the Music Hall.

• In March we went to Beaufort to go Kayaking and stayed in our favorite hotel the Rhett House Inn.



Kayaking ACE Basin



• March 14th we hiked the Hobcaw Barony with our friends Chris and Jo Hayes. 


• We went to the Woolfe Street Theater to see the play "The Father".

• May-June Spoleto Festival for Jazz at the Cistern and Chamber Music at the Dock Street Theater

• We attended a Giants vs. Braves game with Jeff June 17 at Sun Trust Stadium in Atlanta. Giants lost 9-0.

• Our Cousins from Melbourne visited the end of June and we took them downtown Charleston and also toured Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie.

• July 15 we attended our Niece's son Skyler and Samantha's (maiden name Booth) wedding in Finley, Washington close to Kennewick.

With Chris, Debbie and niece Courtney

• We flew into Portland and drove through the Columbia gorge, stopped in Dallas for lunch and on the way back overnighted at the Columbia Gorge hotel on the river.

• While in the bay area we also visited Eddie and Mike and went to Cousin Ken's in Lafayette for the summer Meehan family BBQ. Great trip. We also took in a Giants game while we were there and hooked up with a former colleague from Paris, Jerry Helmick who recently relocated to the City.

• August 16 we went to the Gibbs Museum to listed to a Jazz trio feturing James Lewis (Saxophone), Gerald Gregory (Piano) and Ron Wiltrot on drums.

• In August we also went to the Woolfe Street theater to see "Sex with Strangers"

• We took our first Road Scholar Trip in August from Asheville to Nashville  (See Doris and Bill's Travel Adventures Blog) 

     http://dorisandbilltraveladventures.blogspot.com/2017/09/road-scholars-quintessential-south.html

• We started at the Biltmore Estate and Thomas Wolfe house in Asheville and went through Appalachia stopping in Brea, Knoxville and the capitol of Kentucky, Frankfort. We hit the bourbon trail stopping at the Buffalo Trace distillery where I discovered Bourbon Cream (better than Bailey's). We also visited the site of the Kentucky Derby, Corvette factory in Bowling Green and Louisville (Slugger) before arriving in Nashville. In Nashville we visited the Counrty HOF Museum, Ryman Auditorium and attended a Buddy Guy concert.

• In October, Raine and I attended a Herbie Hancock concert at the Gaillard concert hall.

• November 18 we had dinner at the Indaco with Gary & Harriet and Dick & Barb and then caught "Sweeny Todd" at the Woolfe Street Theater.

• We spent New Year's at Jekyll Island and had a ball.  

                                     

• In 1733, General James Oglethorpe named Jekyll Island in honor of Sir Joseph Jekyll, his friend and financier from England. In the late 1800s, Jekyll Island became an exclusive hunting club for families with names like Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Pulitzer, and Baker. The once private retreat is now part of The Jekyll Island Club National Historic Landmark District, one of the largest preservation projects in the southeast.

  In November 1910, a group of Senators, The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and five of the country's leading financiers held a private meeting at the Jekyll Island CLub to develop recommendations for a central banking system that could respond to financial panics which ended up as the Federal Reserve Act. 

  In 1947, the Governor and the Georgia state legislature established Jekyll Island as a State Park. The Jekyll Island Authority oversees the operation, maintenance and promotion of the island's amenities and Historic District, and the provision of municipal services for the residential community, 10 hotels, rental cottages and businesses.  There is also 63 holes of golf, a tennis center, miniature golf and bike rental, Summer Waves Waterpark, an oceanfront soccer complex, a 55,000 square foot Convention Center, restaurants, and a campground. The Authority provides a fire department/emergency medical service and maintains several public picnic areas, beach crossovers, bike paths, a boat ramp, and a small airstrip.

  From 1967-68 a master development plan with the goal to restore the area known as "Millionaire's Village" to its 1910–1929 era. The plan served as a foundation in the redevelopment of today's Jekyll Island Historic District and Museum, Including the Club House , Commissary, Faith Chapel, Georgia Sea Turtle Center, Rockefeller Cottage among others.

  

  Jekyll Island Resort

    

Jekyll Island Club