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 and Dana Beach, Ginny Brock, Natalie and Ron Daise, Marc Davison, Dawn Dixon, Millie Doud, Bryan England, Johnny L. Ford, Liz Gallo, Cindy Hedrick, Seldon (Bud) Hill, Robert Jenkins, Miranda and Thomas Johnson, John Kenny, Maura Kenny, Larry Ketron, 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 and Publishing" above for details of these and our other publications. Selected titles are available at Litchfield Books, The Original Hammock Shop, Brookgreen Gardens Keepsakes, My Sister's Books, Driftwood Mercantile, and The Rice Museum, Georgetown County Museum, and Waterfront Books in Georgetown.
The Moveable Feast is transitioning from its 25-year run of Friday literary luncheons (which, effective June 21, will be delivered by Litchfield Books - for details, go to their website at www.litchfieldbooks.com) to less frequent, smaller and more intimate luncheons featuring presenters on a broad range of cultural topics (music, art, drama, history, and some literature, mostly by local and CLASS-published authors).
To register or receive updates for Moveable Feasts, send us your e-dress by calling 843.235.9600 or [email protected]
CLASS (Community Learning About Special Subjects) offers special excursions, retreats, and unique art courses & workshops. Click on CLASS List above for details about twice monthly Paint-Ins at the Litchfield Exchange with Danny McLaughlin. Stained Glass courses with Kathy Welde and Sharon Knost at the Parrish Hall of Holy Cross Faith Memorial Church will resume in the fall. Lee Brockington hosts her semi-annual Women's Retreat at the Sea View Inn, Oct. 25-27. And, Lee and Capt. Paul Kenny offer Imagine Charters, 6-passenger pontoon boat excursions on the rivers and tributaries of Winyah Bay. Click on "CLASS List and Publishing" above for details.
CLASS LLC (productions and publishing) and The Moveable Feast are owned and managed by Linda Ketron.
Our Vanishing Americana: South Carolina on ETV
Instructor: Mike LassiterDates: Aug 11, 2022 to Aug 28, 2022
Time: From 9:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Materials:
Class Cost: $0.00
Is Class Open? yes
Description: Based on Mike Lassiter's book published by CLASS Publishing, the documentary follows Mike on his nostalgic travels throughout the state, photographing the disappearing businesses in rural communities and on Main Streets with touching and funny conversations with their owners and long-serving employees. The film airs on SC ETV channels prior to nationwide distribution: Thursday, August 11, 9:00 pm on ETVHD; Wednesday, August 17, 2:00 pm on ETV World; Monday, August 22, 8:00 pm on SC Channel; Monday, August 22, 9:00 pm on ETVHD; Thursday, August 25, 10:00 pm on SC Channel; Sunday, August 28, 2:00 pm on ETV World; Signed copies of the book ("Our Vanishing Americana: A South Carolina Portrait") are available at the Friends Center in the Waccamaw Neck Branch Library and at Brookgreen Gardens' Keepsakes ($45).
Click the name above to register!
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...
Gretchen Downer, pianist
author of "Musical memories of film and Broadway show tunes" at Hopsewee Plantation.
"Enjoy a docent-led tour of Hopsewee's plantation house, a delicious lowcountry lunch, and lovely musical memories wafting through the parlor from the fingertips of a fine pianist. Explore the home from room to room, learn about the rich history of Hopsewee, its previous families as well as its current owners, the Beatties, and the enslaved who lived and worked on the plantation. A lowcountry gourmet lunch awaits while musician and champion of the arts, Gretchen Downer, plays from her vast repertoire of film and Broadway show tunes. CDs available, proceeds to benefit the Pawleys Island Festival of Music & Art, for which Gretchen serves as president of its Board of Directors."
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