Hunting Island Takes On Ted Turner’s Former Island Retreat

Interview and Photos by Mark Shaffer

Remember that old line about never looking a gift horse in the mouth? Now, apply it to a gator and bug infested barrier island once owned by a flamboyant billionaire, with no development potential, critically limited access and resources and you’ve got the horse the state park system just handed over to JW Weatherford to whip into shape. Weatherford had barely broken in his desk as the new superintendent of Hunting Island State Park when, after months of top secret negotiations, the state’s prestigious new acquisition landed in his lap, as well.

The Backyard Tourist Finds 100 Things to Do In Charleston

By Mark Shaffer

The late Pat Conroy waxed poetically about the Lowcountry and Charleston. South of Broad was his love letter to the city (calling it “the Mansion on the River”) and many of the places mentioned in the novel can be visited through his words.

– From 100 Things To Do in Charleston Before You Die by Cele & Lynn Seldon