Events

Meet up at your favorite neighborhood coffee shop - Coastal Coffee Roasters (Summerville SC) at 10 am for sign in and review of paddle.

Kayak and paddleboard Rentals are $45 and we offer shuttle for those with their own equipment for $20 per person.

Pre-order your Coastal Breakfast BLT at 20% off for this event only from CCR, and it will be ready at sign in ( call CCR at 843-376-4559).

Join us on the Second Saturday ERCK Trail (ercktrail.org) Series. This is our #3 paddle of #6. We will meet up at the primitive campsite at Colleton State Park for coffee and sign in at 7:30 am, and by 8:00 we will start the shuttles.

Don't miss the 17th Annual Walterboro Criterium on East Washington and Hampton Streets in Historic Downtown Walterboro. Come see professional and olympic level bicyclists as they race our city streets at speeds up to 35 miles per hour and compete for $10,000 in cash prizes.

Ameteur races start at 4 pm. Kids race at 6 pm ages 3-10 (helmet required), with free registration starting at 5 pm at Waterfall Plaza. Free admission.

The VIP Section will include local cuisine, beer and wine and and live music — Tickets are $25 at the door.

HOLIDAY SCHEDULE

City Hall offices will be closed Monday, January 21, 2019, in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Residential and Commercial garbage will not be picked up. For assistance, please contact the Police Department (843-782-1030). City staff wishes you a safe and happy holiday.  

Free and open to the public

Fishing rodeo at Gladys Whiddon park

Register online at dnr.sc.gov

BYOP - Bring your own poles!

Discover the Victorian era influence on the sentimental practices of today. Friendship albums, hair work, and mourning practices are discussed. In addition, guests will have the opportunity to peruse authentic displays of hair jewelry, mourning pieces, and friendship albums. Kim Poovey demonstrates Victorian era hair work as well as scripting with a dip pen. Take a sentimental journey to the past and discover the origins of today's nostalgic rituals.

From Plume Street to the Polls: The Women’s Suffrage Movement in South Carolina–What do a small-town doctor’s wife, a Connecticut-born governor’s wife, an upper-class but down on her luck Charleston stenographer, and the first woman licensed to sell real estate in South Carolina have in common? They fought tirelessly to gain women’s right to vote in the Palmetto State. As we approach the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, learn more about the South Carolina women who led that struggle.

This lecture presents in narration and interpretation an introduction to the Gullah language. The presentation, partially in storytelling form, is spoken in the Gullah language with the English translations.

When they first came they were the enemy - Union soldiers burning, plundering, pillaging, emancipating and fighting on Southern soil. With the end of the Civil War they became residents, businessmen, husbands, fathers, civil servants, and community leaders. In this presentation Historian Elizabeth Laney talks about the Union veterans who were brought to Walterboro in war but settled in peace to become backbones of the local community. A large focus will be on the town's largely forgotten black union soldiers, members of the 35th US Colored Troops.

Take a stroll with local historian Elizabeth Laney. The cemetery tour will be centered around the Colored Section of Live Oak Cemetery featuring some of Walterboro's most prominent 19th century African-American families, including two of Walterboro's forgotten black Union soldiers. 

Please call ahead and register 843.549.2303. This event is free and open to the public.