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, 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, Rick Baumann, Virginia & Dana Beach, Ginny Brock, Lee Brockington, Libby Cantrell, Mandi Casey, Natalie Chapman, Cindy Clark, Sonya Cooper, Natalie & Ron Daise, Marc Davison, Dawn Dixon, Bill Doar, Christine Doran & Janice Coward, Millie Doud, Anton DuMars, Mark Easton, Bryan England, Jennie Holton Fant, Johnny L. Ford, Liz Gallo, Lynn Genda, Patricia Goodwin & Karen Olson, Steve Hall, Cindy Hedrick, Hastings Hensel, Seldon (Bud) Hill, Corinne Hoch, Diana Kayla Hochberg, Maureen Horwath, Ann-Chadwell Humphries, English Hurteau, Wilmot Irvin, Robert Jenkins, Judy Johnson, Miranda & Thomas Johnson, Donna Jones, John Kenny, Maura Kenny, Larry Ketron, Patricia Kolencik & Jane Petrone, Mike Lassiter, Thomas W. Lee, Jason Lesley, Anne Swift Malarich, Jesse Marshall, John Mathis, Robert (Mac) McAlister, Susan Hoffer McMillan, Ernie Merchant, Susan Middleton, Vennie Deas Moore, Carolyn Callison Murray, Flo Phillips & Janice Coward, Jennifer Plunkett, Carolyn Radin, Thomas P. Russo, Archibald Rutledge, Robin Salmon, O'Neal Smalls, C.E. "Chip" Smith, Donna Thornton, Elizabeth Hatcher True, Daniel Cross Turner, Nancy Udell, Kay Wade, Stephanie Wilds, and William Woodson.

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

THE MOVEABLE FEAST, now in its 29th year, offers literary luncheons mid-week, featuring presenters on a broad range of cultural topics (music, art, drama, history, and literature). Through 2026, each Feast is $40 per person, unless special circumstances dictate a higher fee. Held at local restaurants weekly throughout the year on Tuesdays or Wednesdays when the presenter or the preferred venue is available, the presentation precedes the meal. For each Feast, the chef prepares a special menu. Food allergies are accommodated with advance notice; vegetarian option available. Individuals, couples, friends, book clubs, and other small groups are assigned table seating.

MOVEABLE FEAST RESERVATION/PAYMENT PROCESS:
To make a reservation for one or more Moveable Feasts, please copy and paste the link below in your browser. There will be a separate link for each month's Moveable Feasts.
It will take you to a Shopify site managed by My Sister's Books where you can make your selection and enter your credit card information, as well as who you want to sit with, any food allergies, etc.
You will receive an immediate confirmation of your reservation(s). Please note the date, time and location in your calendar. The Friday prior to each Feast, reminder notices will be emailed.
If you need to cancel, please do so 72 hours prior to the Feast, you will be granted credit for a future Moveable Feast.

Link to September Moveable Feasts:
https://www.mysistersbooks.com/products/moveable-feast-september-2026-tickets

Link to October Moveable Feasts:
https://www.mysistersbooks.com/products/moveable-feast-october-2026-tickets

Link to November Moveable Feasts:
https://www.mysistersbooks.com/products/moveable-feast-november-2026-tickets

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 by check, send it payable to CLASS, PO BOX 2884, PAWLEYS ISLAND, SC 29585.

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

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. Returning students given priority in the four classes each term, but a few openings are usually available. If you are interested, call Linda at 843.235.9600.

If you are looking for Lee Brockington's Women's Retreat at the Sea View Inn or the boat excursions formerly offered by CLASS, visit Storehouse Tours (www.StorehouseTours.com). The 5-passenger pontoon boat excursions on the rivers and tributaries of Winyah Bay to Arcadia, Hasty Point, PeeDee Plantations, Port of Georgetown, and Sandy Island are captained by Paul Kenny and interpreted by Lee Brockington.

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...

Carolyn Hooker

author of "Leaving Edgefield: Carrie Butler’s Story" at Litchfield Country Club.

"An English teacher for over 30 years at both the high school and college levels and native of Spartanburg, South Carolina, Carolyn W. Hooker received a B.S. Degree in Education and an M.A. Degree in English from the University of South Carolina. It was at USC graduate school where she developed a love for literature under such notable professors as Donald J. Greiner and James Dickey. "Leaving Edgefield: Carrie Butler’s Story" is a work of historical fiction that reimagines a story silenced by time. Set in 1948 in the poverty ward of the Philadelphia General Hospital, "Leaving Edgefield" introduces Carrie Butler, the mother of Strom Thurmond's secret bi-racial daughter. Carrie is dying of renal failure at age thirty-eight while, at the same time, Thurmond is running as the Dixiecrat segregationist candidate for President of the United States. Carrie has asked the eminent Philadelphia attorney, Mrs. Sadie T. M. Alexander, whom Carrie met in her job as a seamstress, to document her story to ensure that Thurmond will keep the promise he made to pay for their daughter's education. Because Carrie is dying, her urgency to tell her story propels the novel from beginning to end. After Thurmond died in 2003 at the age of 100, his biological daughter, Essie Mae Washington Williams, publicly revealed her father's identity. The author relied on extensive information available about Thurmond and his family, as well as on the limited information available on Carrie Butler and her relatives, to try to piece together the events of her life and imagine the interaction that occurred between the two. While no one will ever know the true nature of their relationship,"“I am inclined to believe that the complete imbalance of power between Thurmond, the 22-year-old son of a powerful, white Southern family, and Butler, a 16-year-old black maid in the Thurmond household, would have made such a relationship unlikely and have taken that stance in the novel.""

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