#McClellanville

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7/11/2024

Did not realize McClellanville was actually a town! It has a very fancy old middle school

For future reference: Best Things to Do in McClellanville, South Carolina

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Farmhouse-McClellanville, South Carolina

Information on this house is limited, but I believe it was built in 1824.

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In a yard in McClellanville, SC

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McClellanville, South Carolina (Barber Shop Through Screen Door), Photo by Robert Frank, 1955

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Another Wood-engraved Feathursday

JOHN MCWILLIAMS

Now here's a couple of intense fellows! The print is entitled Sparrow Hawk by South Carolina artist and engraver John McWilliams (b. 1941). The print was selected for inclusion in the Fourth Triennial Exhibition 2020-2022 of the American wood engravers society, the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN), and this image is from the catalog for that traveling show.

McWilliams's work is inspired by Lowlands flora and fauna, so it seems a little odd that he would choose as his subject the Eurasian Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus) rather than the American Kestrel (Falco sparverius), which is so common to his native habitat. Both species are used in falconry. Nevertheless, both offer something for the engraver, and we enjoy how McWilliams's Sparrow Hawk looks like it's about to take a bow.

John McWilliams received his BFA and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and is Professor/Director Emeritus of Georgia State University Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design. He has received numerous awards, including the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in photography. Today he maintains a studio in McClellanville, S.C. He counts as his inspirations the work of Albrecht Dürer and the German expressionists, the illustrations of Rockwell Kent, and the graphic novels of Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel. Of working in wood, he writes:

Woodcuts and wood engravings . . . have held much fascination for me. . . . The process of developing an image into a woodcut or wood engraving gives structure to my life. . . . It is such sweet irony that, although the act of creating gives my life structure, it nevertheless produces an enigma, a puzzle that others may interpret through their own lives. There are no easy answers. Such is life.

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t6 50 mm, 18-55mm

seen in OBX; mcclellanville, sc

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McClellanville, SC

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DSC_3798 by scsmitty St James Santee Episcopal Chapel of Ease; McClellanville, SC; constructed in 1890 as a chapel-of-ease for the original St. James Episcopal Church, after the majority of the congregation had relocated to the village of McClellanville.

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Shrimping on the Miss Sandra, McClellanville, South Carolina, 2016:

Returning to specific communities year after year, Lynton moves beyond mythology to reveal a complex social landscape suffused with tradition but unburdened by nostalgia. She says: ‘Being on the shrimp boat, it wasn’t just the work of shrimping, it was the sea, the weight of the humidity in the air, and the dolphins and birds following us’. Bare Handed is published by L’Artiere Edizioni. 

Photograph: Holly Lynton

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Great Loop: McClellanville

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Hurricane lan continues to present a combination of tropical and subtropical features as it barrels towards the Carolina coast. The highest wind report so far has been 83 mph at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The highest over land so far has ben 73 mph at the south end of Folly Beach.

Radar imagery shows the center of Ian starting to approach the area near McClellanville and the Santee Delta. Satellite appearance is also resembling the structure of an enclosed low.

Fair amount of convection is currently developing on the western side (NW) of the center as seen on the infrared.

At the present time, all sustained hurricane-force winds are located within the western quadrant, as determined by measurements from Hurricane Hunter aircraft. The motion of lan's center has been somewhat erratic over the past 6-12 hours, as there have been several swirling features appearing to rotate around a common center.

Hurricane Ian is currently moving North at 14 mph with max wind speeds of 85 mph at category 1 strength.

Track models indicate that the storm has become more stable, and all show Ian's center making landfall and passing the through the coast of South Carolina this afternoon, then moving across eastern South Carolina and central North Carolina tonight and on Saturday.

Although the SW shear is fierce due to a trough in place pushing E, Ian is likely gathering this strength from warm waters and its interaction with a shortwave trough.

Hurricane-force winds can be expected along the coasts of South Carolina and southeastern North Carolina within the Hurricane Warning area by this afternoon. Hurricane conditions are possible in North

Carolina within the Hurricane Watch area by this afternoon.

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Rice trunk at the state-owned Santee Coastal Reserve still uses the rising tides to irrigate old rice fields. McClellanville, SC.

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McClellanville, South Carolina

Photo Credit: Instagram- warrenonwarren

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charlestonspired Charleston, South Carolina

God’s Grace and Neeia Ann docked in McClellanville SC

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An impulsive road trip that ended up in a fishing town: McClellanville, SC. ⠀ ⠀ Population 499, but only saw one person.⠀ ⠀ #december #roadtrip #mcclellanville #southcarolina #roadtrip #usa #trumpland #swing #sparkly #solitude #vanlife #happy #travel #wanderlust #carefree #homeless #smalltown #fishing #amazing #lost