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, vegan tastings, 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, Cindy Clark, Natalie & Ron Daise, Marc Davison, Dawn Dixon, Millie Doud, Anton DuMars, Bryan England, Johnny L. Ford, Liz Gallo, Cindy Hedrick, Seldon (Bud) Hill, Maureen Horwath, Robert Jenkins, 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, Robin Salmon, and William Woodson.
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, Litchfield Books, My Sister's Books, The Original Hammock Shop, and in Georgetown, at the Georgetown County Museum, The Rice Museum, and Waterfront Books, and the Preservation Society of Charleston Shop.
The Moveable Feast has transitioned from its 25-year run of Friday literary luncheons to smaller, more intimate luncheons on (mostly) TUESDAYS, featuring presenters on a broad range of cultural topics (music, art, drama, history, and some literature, mostly by local and CLASS-published authors). Each Feast is $35 per person (or 3 for $100).
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.
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 will resume in the fall.
Lee will host her semi-annual Women's Retreat at the Sea View Inn, Tuesday-Thursday, Oct. 24-26, 2023;
Lee and Capt. Paul Kenny offer Imagine Charters, 6-passenger pontoon boat excursions on the rivers and tributaries of Winyah Bay to Sandy Island, Arcadia and the PeeDee - for dates and availability, click on CLASS List & Publishing above, then under Travel with CLASS;
"Tuesday Tastings," orchestrated by professional foodie Holly Poteet and 20-year vegan Cindy Hedrick, held monthly in The Reserve. Classes will resume in the fall. Click on "CLASS List & Publishing" above for details.
CLASS LLC (productions and publishing) and The Moveable Feast are owned and managed by Linda Ketron.
If I Were a Garden, a creativity workshop
Instructor: Betsy Haase and Phil LaBorieDates: Jun 14, 2023 to Jun 14, 2023
Time: From 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Materials: All art materials and tools provided
Class Cost: $30.00
Is Class Open? yes
Description: CLASS offers “If I Were a Garden,” a creativity workshop led by Betsy Haase (retired educator specializing in the writing arts) and Phil LaBorie (professional artist for more than 50 years). Join Betsy and Phil at Holy Cross Faith Memorial Parish Hall for a relaxed two-hour workshop that combines writing, drawing, and painting. We will discuss the garden as creative metaphor for our lives and the use of flowers to communicate feelings. We will explore our own gardens of development through guided writings and illustrations. Each participant will make and take home a personalized keepsake.
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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...
Marie Bostwick
author of "Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly" at 21 Main, North Myrtle Beach.
"Following the success of "The Restoration of Celia Fairchild," Marie Bostwick brings us "Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly" – a novel about family, friendship, and finding your true path in life. Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from her husband, and possessing little more than a broken-down car and a pile of unfinished manuscripts, she drives home to Asheville at the request of her late grandmother, Adele, who had begged her, just before she died, to return to the place she grew up. There she discovers the once-charming lakeside retreat run by her family is sliding toward financial ruin, so with the help of her grandfather, George; estranged mother, Robyn; and a travelling chef Dawes (maker of the world’s best grilled cheese sandwich) they set to work. In the attic, Esme unearths a trove of museum-worthy art quilts, sewn by Adele. Piecing together the inspiration behind them, Esme discovers a forgotten chapter in her family history and her grandmother's untold story, that of a gifted artist who never received her due. This is an always - emotional, sometimes humorous, very human novel of what it means to be family — the ties that bind us together and the unintentional hurts that can rend us apart. And, along the way, Esme learns that failure can be the first step toward the life you’re meant to find."
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