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Picture postcards in prose.™ Check out the blogroll on the front page for official merchandise and other resources!Archive for October, 2010
The PGA of Mini Golf
By Linda Tancs
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is a family-friendly destination. After all, the nearby Children’s Museum of South Carolina has interactive exhibits and programs such as a science lab and a kiddie ATM. And what could be more family friendly than miniature golf. Myrtle Beach is known in many circles as the mini golf capital of the world. So it probably would come as no surprise that the area hosts a Masters National Pro Mini Golf Championship at Hawaiian Rumble, a course sporting a 40- foot lava rock volcano that erupts every 20 minutes or so for a few seconds. The event, held this year between 14 and 17 October, is the official national championship for top professional mini golfers in America. It is approximately five and a half miles from Myrtle Beach International Airport and similar distances from Broadway at the Beach and Barefoot Landing. Look for the Hawaiian Rumble sign at the intersection of Highway 17 and 33rd Avenue South.
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London Food Fest
By Linda Tancs
London’s Restaurant Festival is in full force until 18 October. Malaysian and Mexican foods are the featured fare this year. Notable events include Street Kitchen, a mobile pop-up restaurant serving up gourmet food across the city. Speaking of pop-ups, one capsule of the London Eye is a 10-seat “pop-up” restaurant presided over by one of London’s most celebrated chefs. It’s sold out, but you can still enjoy 800 or so restaurants that will be featured on Festival Menus. Bring your appetite.
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Shard Sale in Hyannis
By Linda Tancs
Bikini season may have ended at the beach, but early fall brings out beach goers for treasure hunting as sea glass washes ashore in large numbers. Whether it’s shipwrecked or household waste, the right color shard could land you big bucks if you know what you’re looking at. Not sure? Then bring it to the North American Sea Glass Association convention in Hyannis, Massachusetts this weekend. Taking place at the Resort and Conference Center, the annual event features the award of Shard of the Year. Who knows, maybe you’ll be a contender.
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Tree World Olympics
By Linda Tancs
Every October on the second Sunday of the month near the English village of Oundle in East Northamptonshire the folks go bonkers for conkers. So on 10 October make your way to New Lodge Fields where ladies and gents from 20 countries will compete in the World Conkers Championship beginning at 10:30 a.m. and ending at 3 o’clock. A conker (otherwise known as a buckeye in the USA) is the seed of a horse chestnut, which is fastened like a yo-yo to a string at the event. The aim of the competition (no pun intended) is to knock out your opponent’s conker (oh, what imagery there). You do that by wrapping the conker string around one hand and then taking the conker in the other hand and drawing it back for the strike. Releasing the conker you swing it down by the string held in the other hand and try to hit your opponent’s conker with it. No doubt this year’s championship will be a smashing success.
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Pebble Beach of the East
By Linda Tancs
Sea Island is a resort along the southeast coast of Georgia sporting ocean-view villas, a football field-sized spa, and a seaside golf course. Sounds like the perfect spot for a golf tournament. The PGA folks think so, too; that’s why the resort’s course will host a new PGA Tour event called the McGladrey Classic. Gates open tomorrow through 10 October. Proceeds from the event benefit Special Olympics, the Boys and Girls Club of Southeast Georgia and Safe Harbor. Free parking is located at McKinnon Airport on St. Simons Island, where a shuttle to the course will be provided. Need a place to stay? The resort’s centerpiece, The Cloister Hotel, awaits you with five miles of private beach to keep you busy while the pros square off.
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Rural Life in New Jersey
By Linda Tancs
Experience rural life in the late Victorian era at Fosterfields Farm, a living historical farm in Morristown, New Jersey. The first of its kind in the state, the property was bequeathed to the local park commission by Caroline Foster, a successor in title from General Joseph Warren Revere, grandson of Paul Revere. Drop by and take in the agricultural heritage of the Garden State.
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