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First Sullivan's Island Earth Day is April 22
Sullivan’s Island’s first annual Earth Day celebration will be held April 22. The family-friendly event will feature fun and educational nature-themed activities and art projects, bird banding demonstrations and a guided tour of the Maritime Forest. Earth Day is a collaborative initiative of Sullivan’s Island For All, the Sullivan’s Island Bird Banding Station, Poe Library, The Island Turtle Team and the Sullivan’s Island Community Garden.
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Earth Day Will Be A Big Day On Sullivan’s Island
Sullivan’s Island For All will host the first annual Sullivan’s Island Earth Day Celebration April 22. This free, family-friendly event will feature fun and educational nature-themed activities and art projects, bird banding demonstrations and a guided tour of the Maritime Forest. This is a collaborative initiative of Sullivan’s Island For All, the Sullivan’s Island Bird Banding Station, Poe Library, The Island Turtle Team and the Sullivan’s Island Community Garden.
NEW for 4/26: Photos of maritime forest; Dumbed-down discourse; More
Charleston Currents #13.24 | April 26, 2021 TAKE A WALK through a maritime forest and you’ll find an abundance of nature’s diversity. Check out the photo essay in this issue by Karen and Rob Byko to see what a now-threatened maritime forest looks like on Sullivan’s Island. See something you think our readers would enjoy? Snap a shot and send it along to editor@charlestoncurrents.com.
NEWS BRIEFS: Wienermobile made Mount Pleasant appearance Thursday
Karen Byko with the Wienermobile. Photo by Rob Byko. By Rob Byko, contributing photographer “THE WIENERMOBILE IS IN TOWN!” Karen Byko shouted excitedly. “One day, if I’m really, really lucky, I will be the driver of this awesomely fabulous vehicle!” For 35 years, my wife’s not-so-secret dream was to one day captain the world-renowned Wienermobile. On Thursday afternoon, the 27’ long wiener with mag wheels and a sports car suspension put in an appearance at Mount Pleasant’s Patriots Point.
PHOTO ESSAY, Byko: Roadside beauty
By Karen Byko, special to Charleston Currents | Separated and confined to my yard, excluding the short walks around my neighborhood with the dogs, I have had to challenge myself to rediscover the extraordinary gifts of beauty that surround me every day. On my walk this morning, my attention was captured by a tiny splash of color in the patch of dry, dusty grass growing just next to the road.
NEW for 4/6: More mass transit; Getting through this; Photo essay; Lift a glass
Charleston Currents #12.21 | April 6, 2020 COMING IN FOR A LANDING. This butterfly is just about to land on a stalk of the aptly named butterfly bush as temperatures get more spring-like every day. Sullivan’s Island resident Karen Byko provides several photos of roadside floral beauty in a special Photo Essay below. Enjoy. Charleston Currents photo.
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