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Editor’s note: Before we begin, you’ll notice one obvious problem with this page: the smiling attractive publisher has been replaced by the shlubby editor. Do not adjust your magazine. Lori is currently on a brief medical leave, but is by any measurement in the best shape of her life and will be back with us shortly. She asked that I extend her deepest thanks to everyone who supported her during her leave. And as a personal aside, It’s going to be great to have you back, boss.
For a word nerd like myself, that headline up there is nothing short of sublime. I encountered that phrase on a sign at the currently-under-renovation Walmart on the north end and immediately snapped a picture. It was up on Facebook within a heartbeat.
I wasn’t sure how many of my Facebook friends would find the irony of the situation as chuckle-worthy as I did (Get it? They misspelled “stationery,” thus implying that a stationary department had done something very … well, un-stationary), but I just knew I had to expose all my virtual friends to this little slice of the island.
In a way, that’s what we hope to do with this magazine (not misspell stationery, although if we’re being honest we did that once). I’m hoping we can root out the little things here and there around the Lowcountry that you might not have noticed or you might have missed, and share them with all of you.
Our intriguing people issue is a pretty good example of this ethos.
These folks are your neighbors. They’re the people in line in front of you at the coffee shop. Some of them you’ve heard of (and if you haven’t heard of Ted Huffman, you owe it to yourself to make an introduction) and some of them you haven’t. Letting you know what makes them so intriguing is the best way we can think of to start out 2012
We’ve been sharing the fascinating backstories of your neighbors for years, and you’d think by now we would have covered pretty much everyone. Not true.
It’s been a trip to read all these profiles as they’ve come in, hearing who had brushes with famous movie stars, who has baked a cake at the Pentagon and who just barely escaped a bloody civil war to come to the island. And that’s the amazing thing about this exercise in biographies we undertake every January: if you take the time to ask them, you’ll find that everyone has an amazing story to tell.
Covered pretty much everyone? We haven’t even scratched the surface.
But we’ve made quite a dent in it this year, with a crop of truly amazing locals, and I’d like to extend my appreciation to them all for participating.
I’d write them all a thank you note, but I have no idea where that stationary department has run off to.
