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Welcome to the Pawleys Island/Litchfield SC CLASS website!



CLASS LLC plans and delivers a variety of cultural events and services, including The Moveable Feast, selected art courses, boat excursions, women's retreats, and local author publishing. Our message machine is on duty when we're not! You can email [email protected] or call 843.235.9600, and we will retrieve messages and return calls.

CLASS Publishing Division is growing by leaps and bounds and demonstrates the terrific talent residing among your neighbors. The local authors (fiction, history, children's books, photography and art) include Tanya Ackerman, Tracy Bailey, William (Billy) Baldwin, Virginia & Dana Beach, Ginny Brock, Lee Brockington, Cindy Clark, Sonya Cooper, Natalie & Ron Daise, Marc Davison, Dawn Dixon, Christine Doran & Janice Coward, Millie Doud, Anton DuMars, Bryan England, Jennie Holton Fant, Johnny L. Ford, Liz Gallo, Cindy Hedrick, Seldon (Bud) Hill, Maureen Horwath, Robert Jenkins, Judy Johnson, Miranda & Thomas Johnson, John Kenny, Maura Kenny, Larry Ketron, Patricia Kolencik & Jane Petrone, Mike Lassiter, Anne Swift Malarich, Jesse Marshall, John Mathis, Robert (Mac) McAlister, Susan Hoffer McMillan, Ernie Merchant, Vennie Deas Moore, Flo Phillips & Janice Coward, Archibald Rutledge, Robin Salmon, C.E. Smith, and William Woodson.

REPRINTS FOR HAMPTON PLANTATION:
At the behest and backing of The Friends of Hampton Plantation, the long out-of-print but absolutely invaluable history of the "St. James Santee: Plantation Parish" has been reprinted by CLASS Publishing. This meticulously researched and highly readable work by Anne Baker Leland Bridges and Roy Williams III, both now deceased, records the history of the territory between Georgetown and Charleston from 1685-1925, the challenges of the French Huguenots and English Protestants to settle and thrive as refugees from religious persecution, and their struggles with climate, terrain, wars, and disease.

Spring 2024 reintroduces two of SC poet laureate Archibald Rutledge's beloved works, spearheaded by Jayson Sellers, park manager of Hampton Plantation and funded by the South Carolina State Park Service:
"Days Off In Dixie" (a collection of 25 short stories originally published 100 years ago by the young author working far from his beloved home, the tales reveal Rutledge’s love and longing for the world of Hampton Plantation, to which he traveled at every opportunity)
and
"How Wild Was My Village" (A story-cycle of 75 prose poems, each recounting a pivotal moment in the lives of people who lived, loved, laughed and died in the wild village of Archibald Rutledge’s youth).

Click on "CLASS List & Publishing" above for details of these and our other publications. Selected titles are available on the Waccamaw Neck at Brookgreen Gardens Keepsakes, Driftwood Mercantile, My Sister's Books, The Original Hammock Shop, and in Georgetown, at the Georgetown County Museum, The Rice Museum, and Waterfront Books, The Village Museum in McClellanville and the Preservation Society of Charleston Shop.

The Moveable Feast, in operation for the past 27 years, offers literary luncheons on (mostly) TUESDAYS, featuring presenters on a broad range of cultural topics (music, art, drama, history, and literature). Each Feast is $35 per person (or 3 for $100), unless special circumstances dictate a higher fee.

To register or receive updates for Moveable Feasts, send your e-dress to [email protected] or call 843.235.9600. To pay for Moveable Feasts or any of the CLASSes, send your check, payable to CLASS, to PO Box 2884, Pawleys Island, SC 29585. Or wait for our call to confirm and secure your credit card information.

CLASS (Community Learning About Special Subjects) offers special excursions, retreats, and unique art courses & workshops. Click on CLASS List & Publishing above for details about:

Twice monthly Paint-Ins at the Litchfield Exchange with Danny McLaughlin;

Stained Glass courses with Kathy Welde and Sharon Knost, held at the Parish Hall of Holy Cross Faith Memorial Church, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays. Spring schedule posted on CLASS List above. If you are interested, call Linda at 843.235.9600 and we'll see if we can get you in one of the classes.

Lee Brockington will host her next semi-annual Women's Retreat at the Sea View Inn, in October, 2024;

Imagine Charters, 6-passenger pontoon boat excursions on the rivers and tributaries of Winyah Bay to Arcadia, Hasty Point and the PeeDee, captained by Paul Kenny and interpreted by Lee Brockington, are scheduled for the "season." Dates and availability posted on CLASS List & Publishing above;

CLASS LLC (productions and publishing) and The Moveable Feast are owned and managed by Linda Ketron, 843.235.9600 or [email protected].

The Moveable Feast

The Moveable Feast offers monthly luncheons featuring presenters on a broad range of cultural topics (music, art, drama, history, and some literature, mostly by local and CLASS-published authors). Each is individually priced.

The Next Feast...

Henry Middleton Rutledge, Donald Middleton Rutledge & Jayson Sellers

author of "Archibald Rutledge's Days Off in Dixie" at DeBordieu Colony Clubhouse.

"CLASS Publishing has been entrusted to reprint several books by South Carolina's first poet laureate and beloved chronicler of life in this land in the 20th century. "Days Off in Dixie" features 25 short stories previously published individually in magazines of the day when Archibald Rutledge was teaching in the English Department at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania. Published as a collection in 1921, the tales reveal the young author's love and longing for the world of Hampton Plantation, to which he traveled at every opportunity. This 1920s collection celebrates his sensitive appreciation of nature, knowledge of wild creatures, hunting traditions, and experiences with relatives and friends – none diminished by the passing of a century. Grandson Henry Middleton Rutledge, who penned the new foreword, and great-grandson Donald Middleton Rutledge join us to share memories and launch the effort by Hampton Plantation to renew our appreciation of one of South Carolina’s favorite sons."

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