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RETIREMENT: THE RUTLEDGE WAY
Spend just five minutes in the company of Don Rutledge, and you’ll fully understand the great success he’s had with clients during his tenure at KIRE. His warmth, wit, and a wily sense of humor are evident immediately—natural assets that have, undoubtedly, served him well in his interactions with future…
Party in the Park 2018
The only thing that can make cool fall weather, craft cocktails, delicious food, and celebrating with friends and loved ones even better? A stellar performance by Lowcountry legend Darius Rucker! We had all this and more at November’s Sixth Annual Party in the Park! This event, hosted by Kiawah Island…
Charity Begins With “Home”
Charity Begins With “Home” Through Sea Island Habitat, Sales Executive Gordon Hillock gives back. In his lifetime, Gordon Hillock has called many places “home.” Raised in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, he made his way down to Florida in early adulthood. Later, a foray into real estate development led him to Puerto Rico…
SEWE by the Sea 2018
SEWE by the Sea notches another success This autumn, Kiawah Island Real Estate and the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition came together a second time to bring SEWE to Kiawah for the second annual SEWE by the Sea! Open to all Kiawah Island property owners, the SEWE by the Sea Showcase held…
THE CIVIL WAR
In December 1860, 169 state representatives met in Charleston to sign the Ordinance of Secession. Morale was high as three thousand citizens cheered the delegates. Then on April 12 of 1861 Charleston was witness to the first shots of the Civil War at Fort Sumter. Locals lined the Battery facing…
THE GINKGO TREE
No tree survives these conditions better than the fabled Ginkgo biloba, with its fan-shaped leaves. Even the most botanically illiterate New Yorker can recognize the tree when its buttery yellow leaves litter the sidewalks in the waning days of autumn. The easy identification is possible because no other tree produces…
LIKE NOBODY’S WATCHING
We’d been at the beach a couple of days. You don’t realize how much you’re escaping until you’re gone. You think you’re going for the pluses: the beach and the golf and the pool with the flume waterslide, but the minuses, the things you leave behind, count almost as much.…
RITE OF SPRING
There is a moment, the split second when the first chords of music fill the air and the audience gets a glimpse at what is to come. That magical moment this past May—as the curtain rose on the Gaillard Center stage to reveal an astonishingly gorgeous wrought-iron gate behind which…
LOWCOUNTRY PLANTATIONS
Middleton Place Since 1741 4300 Ashley River Road, Charleston, SC Open Daily | 9am to 5pm 110 Acres Throughout Lowcountry history, the Middleton family has occupied a prominent place in politics and commerce. Henry Middleton (1717–1784), a wealthy planter with plantations throughout South Carolina, established Middleton Place as his family…
