Annual Thanksgiving Dinner
A community tradition

Photos by Shelle Fisher Davis

Feeding 1,400 people on Thanksgiving Day is nothing short of a miracle, swapping loaves and fishes with turkey and potatoes. Despite grand proportions, everyone is fed, and thankful. The Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner at Hudson’s Seafood House on the Docks is a celebration of fellowship and giving thanks, with all the trimmings you would expect at a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.

This year the 15th Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 28.

Congregation Beth Yam in Hilton Head is proud to announce its Fall 2013 Semester series of live satellite presentations. Gain unparalleled access to some of the most important players and thinkers today. Get the opportunity to e-mail questions directly to the panel participants live. Live from NY's 92nd Street Y, now in its 11th year, uses satellite technology to simultaneously broadcast 92st Y's renowned educational and cultural programming to community organizations across America. 

If you’re a fan of the University of South Carolina Gamecocks, there is a good chance you’ve already seen the “Ride for My Team (Forever to Thee)” fan video that has gone viral on the Internet. As of Sept. 17, the video had been played 111,476 times on YouTube, just 28 days after it was posted to the site by creators Dynobrite Productions.

Country music star Darius Rucker, Miss South Carolina 2013 Brooke Mosteller, San Francisco 49ers running back Marcus Lattimore and former USC star George Rogers are all featured in the music video along with players from every era of Gamecock football. The music is done by a collection of Columbia-based rappers.

Pino Gelato and The Village at Wexford are hosting an animal rescue fundraiser titled, "Gelato For Paws" from 2-5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12 at the Village at Wexford. Free activities, contests and food samples will be provided. No entrance fee.

Award winning naturalist and author Todd Ballantine will lead a guided sea kayak nature tour from 9-11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5, departing from Wilson Landing at Palmetto Bluff. Ballantine, the author of Lowcountry field guide “Tideland Treasures” is an internationally recognized educator, environmental scientist, writer and artist.

The Cottage Cafe, Bakery & Tea Room is hosting a Wednesday dinner and lecture series titled "Journey of a Spiritual Nomad" with Dwanna Paul. The three parts of the series are Beyond the Veil: Connect to the Other Side (Oct. 2), Hauntings: Things That Go Bump in the Night (Oct. 9) and Gallery: Message from the Other Side (Oct. 16).

The Art League of Hilton Head announces its most exciting fundraising event where all ticket holders are winners. GOT ART? is a charity art auction event that will be held Wednesday, Oct. 2 in the Walter Greer Gallery located in the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina to benefit Art League of Hilton Head, a 501 (c) 3 charitable organization. 

Hilton Head Monthly proudly presents Pour 4 Pets, a wine and food event, from 2-5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28 at the Old Oyster Factory on Hilton Head Island.

Forty-five years ago, Mary Wyman Stone Fraser, wife of Sea Pines Plantation developer Charles E. Fraser, founded the Sea Pines Montessori School (SPMS), the first Montessori school in South Carolina. She was guided by her desire to provide Montessori education for her own two daughters as well as the growing Sea Pines Plantation and island-wide community of children. From the beginning, Sea Pines Montessori School (later Academy) has always been an outstanding and exemplary school in the national and international Montessori community.