WASHINGTON — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush wants to be president.
That's according to his brother, former President George W. Bush, who recently encouraged him to enter the 2016 presidential race during a private conversation at an event honoring veterans.
"I think he wants to be president," George W. Bush said in a Thursday interview on the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," adding that he doesn't think his brother has made a final decision. "I think he'd be a great president. He understands what it's like to be president, for not only the person running or serving, plus family. He's seen his dad. He's seen his brother."
Much of the Republican establishment is encouraging Jeb Bush to enter the 2016 race, but his level of interest is unclear seven years after leaving the Florida governor's mansion. Other potential Republican candidates have been far more active in national politics recently, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Rodham Clinton is the overwhelming front-runner should she enter the race.
"He's a very thoughtful man and he's weighing his options," George W. Bush said of his brother.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015
SHOPPING WITH: STEPHEN FANUKA | Contractor's Choice
ON THE JOB Stephen Fanuka says expensive items are not necessarily of high quality. ARCHITECTS seem to get all the glory. Their work is published in glossy magazines, where they wryly and confidently discuss the transformation as if they themselves had picked up hammers and smashed the remnants of those scary ’70s bathrooms.
But what about the contractor, the character in the renovation drama who knows that if you rip out an inconvenient wall, it may expose pipes that can’t be moved — yes, the very wall the architect has just zapped from the design with one mouse click.
Some contractors are made, others are born. Stephen Fanuka, who grew up in Fresh Meadows, Queens, said that at an early age he followed his father, a cabinetmaker, on jobs. “My father would take me and sit me on a paint can,” he said.
After graduating from college and working in advertising briefly, Mr. Fanuka went into his father’s business and in 1994 renovated an apartment for a member of Imelda Marcos’s family, and that started his contracting career.
Working for celebrities as well as schoolteachers, he runs around the city in his summer attire of choice, shorts and a T-shirt. He is never without the BlackBerry he uses to manage his 22 jobs (with an average price of $350,000).
At social gatherings — he lives on Long Island with his wife, Lisa, and their two children — people always want to know what’s hot. He agreed to share a list of materials frequently called for in high-end Manhattan renovations these days, along with a few caveats.
First, he said, expensive materials do not guarantee high quality. Some high-end appliances and plumbing fixtures need repair in the first week.
Nor does style equal function. A prime example is the honed Carrara marble so coveted for kitchen counters. One client who installed Carrara marble had friends over for margaritas and, not surprisingly, went to sleep before cleaning up. The next day, “There were 22 rings from 22 glasses.” The marble had to be sanded and resealed.
Sealant isn’t as strong as polish, which is removed when stone is honed, and if acidic liquids are not wiped up immediately, they leave a stain. (Mr. Fanuka’s own kitchen has polished granite surfaces, which stand up to abuse.)
Glass is hot everywhere, especially in bathrooms, where clients ask for glass tiles or with white milk glass laminating walls. But if not done properly, the glue will show through the glass. “You have to have a good installer,” he said.
He is often asked how to find a contractor. He suggests calling several candidates, taking note of how fast they return calls and whether they are punctual.
Don’t choose rashly, he said. “A contractor is like a cold: you’re not going to get rid of it.”
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Friday, May 1, 2015
Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter
Grace Hartigan, a second-generation Abstract Expressionist whose gestural, intensely colored paintings often incorporated images drawn from popular culture, leading some critics to see in them prefigurings of Pop Art, died on Saturday in Baltimore. She was 86.
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Marty Katz/baltimorephotographer.comGrace Hartigan in her studio in 1993 with her painting “Junk Shop With Egyptian Violet.” 
Grace Hartigan/Corcoran Gallery of Art"Summer Street," 1956.
The cause was liver failure, said Julian Weissman, a longtime dealer of hers.
Ms. Hartigan, a friend and disciple of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, subscribed to the Abstract Expressionist notion of the painterly brushstroke as existential act and cri de coeur but, like de Kooning, she never broke entirely with the figurative tradition. Determined to stake out her own artistic ground, she turned outward from the interior world sanctified by the Abstract Expressionists and embraced the visual swirl of contemporary American life.
In “Grand Street Brides” (1954), one of several early paintings that attracted the immediate attention of critics and curators, she depicted bridal-shop window mannequins in a composition based on Goya’s “Royal Family.” Later paintings incorporated images taken from coloring books, film, traditional paintings, store windows and advertising, all in the service of art that one critic described as “tensely personal.”
“Her art was marked by a willingness to employ a variety of styles in a modernist idiom, to go back and forth from art-historical references to pop-culture references to autobiographical material,” said Robert Saltonstall Mattison, the author of “Grace Hartigan: A Painter’s World” (1990).
Grace Hartigan was born in Newark in 1922 and grew up in rural New Jersey, the oldest of four children. Unable to afford college, she married early and, in a flight of romantic fancy, she and her husband, Bob Jachens, struck out for Alaska to live as pioneers. They made it no farther than California, where, with her husband’s encouragement, she took up painting.
“I didn’t choose painting,” she later told an interviewer. “It chose me. I didn’t have any talent. I just had genius.”
In the mid-1940’s she left her husband, placed their son, Jeffrey, in the care of his parents and moved back to Newark, where she trained in mechanical drafting and took painting lessons with Isaac Lane Muse. After moving to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1945, she became part of the postwar New York artistic scene, forming alliances with the Abstract Expressionist painters — although de Kooning reduced her to tears by telling her she completely misunderstood modern art — and poets like Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch.
Ms. Hartigan won fame early. In 1950, the critic Clement Greenberg and the art historian Meyer Schapiro included her in their “New Talent” show at the Kootz Gallery, and a one-woman exhibition at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery soon followed. “Persian Jacket,” an early painting, was bought for the Museum of Modern Art by Alfred Barr.
Barr and the Museum of Modern Art curator Dorothy Miller included her in two important shows, “12 Americans” in 1954 and “The New American Painting,” an exhibition that toured Europe in 1958 and 1959 and introduced Abstract Expressionism abroad. In 1958, Life magazine called her “the most celebrated of the young American women painters.”
After starting out as a purely abstract painter, Ms. Hartigan gradually introduced images into her work. It was O’Hara’s blending of high art and low art in his poetry that influenced her to cast far and wide for sources.
In 1949 she married the artist Harry Jackson, “not one of my more serious marriages,” she later said. The marriage was annulled after a year. In 1959 she married Robert Keene, a gallery owner, whom she divorced a year later. In 1960 she married Winston Price, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University who collected modern art and had bought one of her paintings. After injecting himself with an experimental vaccine against encephalitis in 1969 and contracting spinal meningitis, he began a long descent into physical and mental illness that ended with his death in 1981.
Ms. Hartigan is survived by a brother, Arthur Hartigan of Huntington Beach, Calif.; a sister, Barbara Sesee of North Brunswick, N.J.; and three grandchildren. Her son, Jeffrey Jachens, died in 2006.
Ms. Hartigan’s move to Baltimore coincided with a drastic shift in artistic fashion, as Pop Art and Minimalism eclipsed Abstract Expressionism. Out of the spotlight, Ms. Hartigan embarked on what she later recalled as “an isolated creative life.” For decades she painted in a loft in a former department store and taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art. The college created a graduate school around her, the Hoffberger School of Painting, of which she became director in 1965. She taught at the school until retiring last year.
As historians and curators reassessed the history of postwar art, she experienced a resurgence of sorts. Her use of commercial imagery led her to be included in “Hand-Painted Pop,” a 1993 exhibition at the Whitney Museum, despite her loathing for the movement.
“Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion,” she said in the 1960’s. On the other hand, she reflected at the time of the Whitney show, “I’d much rather be a pioneer of a movement that I hate than the second generation of a movement that I love.”
Her work was exhibited as recently as May at the Jewish Museum in New York, in “Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976.”
On an artistic path marked by twists and turns and restless experimentation, she maintained a fierce commitment to the modernist agenda and a belief in art’s near-magical powers.
“Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me,” she told the reference work “World Artists: 1950-1980.”
“Or perhaps the subject of my art is like the definition of humor — emotional pain remembered in tranquillity.”
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Marty Katz/baltimorephotographer.comGrace Hartigan in her studio in 1993 with her painting “Junk Shop With Egyptian Violet.” Grace Hartigan/Corcoran Gallery of Art"Summer Street," 1956. The cause was liver failure, said Julian Weissman, a longtime dealer of hers.
Ms. Hartigan, a friend and disciple of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, subscribed to the Abstract Expressionist notion of the painterly brushstroke as existential act and cri de coeur but, like de Kooning, she never broke entirely with the figurative tradition. Determined to stake out her own artistic ground, she turned outward from the interior world sanctified by the Abstract Expressionists and embraced the visual swirl of contemporary American life.
In “Grand Street Brides” (1954), one of several early paintings that attracted the immediate attention of critics and curators, she depicted bridal-shop window mannequins in a composition based on Goya’s “Royal Family.” Later paintings incorporated images taken from coloring books, film, traditional paintings, store windows and advertising, all in the service of art that one critic described as “tensely personal.”
“Her art was marked by a willingness to employ a variety of styles in a modernist idiom, to go back and forth from art-historical references to pop-culture references to autobiographical material,” said Robert Saltonstall Mattison, the author of “Grace Hartigan: A Painter’s World” (1990).
Grace Hartigan was born in Newark in 1922 and grew up in rural New Jersey, the oldest of four children. Unable to afford college, she married early and, in a flight of romantic fancy, she and her husband, Bob Jachens, struck out for Alaska to live as pioneers. They made it no farther than California, where, with her husband’s encouragement, she took up painting.
“I didn’t choose painting,” she later told an interviewer. “It chose me. I didn’t have any talent. I just had genius.”
In the mid-1940’s she left her husband, placed their son, Jeffrey, in the care of his parents and moved back to Newark, where she trained in mechanical drafting and took painting lessons with Isaac Lane Muse. After moving to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1945, she became part of the postwar New York artistic scene, forming alliances with the Abstract Expressionist painters — although de Kooning reduced her to tears by telling her she completely misunderstood modern art — and poets like Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch.
Ms. Hartigan won fame early. In 1950, the critic Clement Greenberg and the art historian Meyer Schapiro included her in their “New Talent” show at the Kootz Gallery, and a one-woman exhibition at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery soon followed. “Persian Jacket,” an early painting, was bought for the Museum of Modern Art by Alfred Barr.
Barr and the Museum of Modern Art curator Dorothy Miller included her in two important shows, “12 Americans” in 1954 and “The New American Painting,” an exhibition that toured Europe in 1958 and 1959 and introduced Abstract Expressionism abroad. In 1958, Life magazine called her “the most celebrated of the young American women painters.”
After starting out as a purely abstract painter, Ms. Hartigan gradually introduced images into her work. It was O’Hara’s blending of high art and low art in his poetry that influenced her to cast far and wide for sources.
In 1949 she married the artist Harry Jackson, “not one of my more serious marriages,” she later said. The marriage was annulled after a year. In 1959 she married Robert Keene, a gallery owner, whom she divorced a year later. In 1960 she married Winston Price, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University who collected modern art and had bought one of her paintings. After injecting himself with an experimental vaccine against encephalitis in 1969 and contracting spinal meningitis, he began a long descent into physical and mental illness that ended with his death in 1981.
Ms. Hartigan is survived by a brother, Arthur Hartigan of Huntington Beach, Calif.; a sister, Barbara Sesee of North Brunswick, N.J.; and three grandchildren. Her son, Jeffrey Jachens, died in 2006.
Ms. Hartigan’s move to Baltimore coincided with a drastic shift in artistic fashion, as Pop Art and Minimalism eclipsed Abstract Expressionism. Out of the spotlight, Ms. Hartigan embarked on what she later recalled as “an isolated creative life.” For decades she painted in a loft in a former department store and taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art. The college created a graduate school around her, the Hoffberger School of Painting, of which she became director in 1965. She taught at the school until retiring last year.
As historians and curators reassessed the history of postwar art, she experienced a resurgence of sorts. Her use of commercial imagery led her to be included in “Hand-Painted Pop,” a 1993 exhibition at the Whitney Museum, despite her loathing for the movement.
“Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion,” she said in the 1960’s. On the other hand, she reflected at the time of the Whitney show, “I’d much rather be a pioneer of a movement that I hate than the second generation of a movement that I love.”
Her work was exhibited as recently as May at the Jewish Museum in New York, in “Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976.”
On an artistic path marked by twists and turns and restless experimentation, she maintained a fierce commitment to the modernist agenda and a belief in art’s near-magical powers.
“Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me,” she told the reference work “World Artists: 1950-1980.”
“Or perhaps the subject of my art is like the definition of humor — emotional pain remembered in tranquillity.”
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Friday, October 3, 2014
Georgia Happenings
FRIDAY
Fun at the Park: Crooked River State Park, 6222 Charlie Smith Senior Highway, St. Marys. Parking $5. (912) 882-5256.
¦ Roving Ranger, 3-4 p.m. Features a park ranger roving through the campground to answer questions and share information about the park.
¦ Campfire Fun, 6-7 p.m. Features a ranger with stories and songs around a campfire. Bring s’mores supplies and roasting sticks. Free.
¦ Sunset Boat Cruises, 6-8 p.m. Features a park ranger-guided tour on birds, dolphin and marine creatures that inhabit this ecosystem. $30. Registration required. (912) 882-5256.
St. Simons Food & Spirits Festival, through Sunday, various venues. (912) 638-3158 or saintsimonsfoodandspirits.com.
¦ Friday — Sip, Taste and Tour Pier Crawl, check-in, 5:30 p.m., pier crawl, 6-8 p.m., dance music, 8-10 p.m., Heritage Center, 610 Beachview Drive, get a passport to the pier, featuring live music by the Spike at the Beach Band, $30.; Friday Night Festival Feast, 7 p.m., Halyards Restaurant, 55 Cinema Lane, $200.
¦ Saturday — The Grand Oaks Tasting Tour, noon-3 p.m., Gascoigne Bluff, with arts, crafts and farmers market, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Tasting Tent, noon-3 p.m., Mixology Tent, informational sessions and a Kid Zone, $50; Festival Oyster Roast, 7 p.m., Coastal Kitchens, 102 Marina Drive, with special guest Libbie Summers, featuring samples and music by Jeff Montaigne, $25.
¦ Sunday — SPIRITual Sunday Brunch, 12:30-3:30 p.m., King & Prince Resort, 201 Arnold Road. Includes a seated brunch and soulful guest singers. $75.
SATURDAY
Rock Shrimp Festival, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m., downtown St. Marys. Schedule includes 5K and 10K races, 7:30 a.m.; vendors, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; a 1-mile Kids Fun Run, 8:30 a.m.; race awards, 9:30 a.m.; parade, 10 a.m.; dinners, live entertainment and demonstrations, 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Program in conjunction with Railroad Days featuring the St. Marys Express train excursions with a live steam locomotive train, viewing rail equipment and 1/8 scale trains at Theatre by the Trax. (912) 882-4000 or visitstmarys.com.
Free exercise class, 9-10 a.m. Saturdays, Agape Church, 10600 Colerain Road, St. Marys. Exercise using only free weights and a mat. (912) 576-2008 or email getufit2008@yahoo.com.
Fun in the Okefenokee, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge’s Visitor Center, about 11 miles southwest of Folkston, off Georgia 121/23. (912) 496-7836 or fws.gov/okefenokee.
¦ The Special Bird of the Okefenokee, hike 9 a.m., program 2 p.m. Saturdays, on the unique requirements of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker.
¦ Cane Pole Trail Nature Walk, 10 a.m. Saturdays, on the Okefenokee’s plants and animals and the importance of fire, Chesser Island Boardwalk.
¦ Gator Gossip, 10 a.m. and 3 and 4 p.m. Saturdays. Features interesting facts about the alligator.
St. Marys Express Steam Special, 10 a.m., noon and 2 and 4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Theatre by the Trax, 1000 Osborne St., St. Marys. Features an authentic steam locomotive, viewing rail equipment and 1/8 scale trains. In conjunction with Railroad Days and the St. Marys Rock Shrimp Festival. Event repeats Oct. 11-12. $20 adults, $15 children 3-12. (912) 200-5235 or stmarysrailroad.com.
Coastfest, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., DNR Coastal Regional Headquarters, 1 Conservation Way, Brunswick. Includes environmental, educational research and resource exhibits and displays, along with interactive activities for all ages. Parking $5. (912) 882-5256.
Andersonville Historic Fair, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Georgia 49, 50 miles south of Macon. Includes a parade at 11 a.m. Saturday, Mock Civil War battles at 3 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, arts and crafts, live entertainment, The Drummer Boy Civil War Museum and children’s activities. $4 adults, $1.50 children; parking free. (229) 924-2558 or andersonvillegeorgia.info.
SUNDAY
Meet the Local Authors, 1-5 p.m., St. Simons Island Casino’s Atrium, 550 Beachview Drive. Features more than 20 local authors who will share their books, available for purchase. Free admission. (912) 289-7357.
Picnic in the Park themed “Fly Me to the Moon,” 3:45-9:30 p.m., Forsyth Park, Savannah. Features music by the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra. Includes family friendly activities and a picnic contest. Free. savannahga.gov/arts.
Tea Dance, presented by the Shoreline Dance Club, 4-6:30 p.m., the Cloister’s Club Room, 100 Cloister Drive, Sea Island. Features swing, Latin and ballroom dances with live music and refreshments. $37.50 members, $45 guests. Reservations required. (912) 638-2249.
MONDAY
Mammograms by the Wellness on Wheels mobile health vehicle. Mammograms required a physician’s order; insurance is accepted and financial assistance is available to patients to qualify. (912) 466-5234 or sghs.org.
¦ Monday-Tuesday — 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Glynn County Health Department, 2747 Fourth St., Brunswick. (912) 279-3351.
¦ Wednesday — 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Camden County Health Department, 905 Dilworth St., St. Marys. (912) 882-8515.
¦ Thursday — 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Camden County Health Department, 1501 Georgia Ave., Woodbine. (912) 576-3040.
TUESDAY
Friends Meeting, 6:30 p.m., Crooked River State Park, 6222 Charlie Smith Senior Highway, St. Marys. Features a meeting by the Friends of Crooked River group with plans for upcoming projects and the Halloween event. Parking $5. (912) 882-5256.
WEDNESDAY
Story Time, 11 a.m., Ida Hilton Public Library, 1105 North Way, Darien. Features “It’s a Mad Hatter Story Time with Craft.” Includes a craft. (912) 437-2124.
Savannah Quilt Guild, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Cultural Arts Gallery, 9 W. Henry St., Savannah. Includes guided tours and demonstrations in conjunction with the “Cloth, Color and Creativity” exhibit on display through Oct. 17. Demonstration topics: Wednesday — “Art Quilts;” Oct. 15 — “Embellishments.” (912) 651-6783 or savannahga.gov/arts.
Free screenings, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesdays, Dick Mitchell Health Information Center, Outpatient Care Center, 2415 Parkwood Drive, Brunswick. Includes blood pressure and blood sugar screenings. (912) 466-5160 or email bcarr@sghs.org.
THURSDAY
Caregiver Coffee: Making Time for Yourself, 10 a.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 900 Gloucester St., Brunswick. Topic is “Don’t Forget You: Coping with Caregiver Stress.” Series continues Jan. 15. (912) 265-4735.
Speaker Series, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Georgia Tech-Savannah, 210 Technology Circle, Savannah. Speaker is Russell Clark, senior research scientist in Georgia Tech’s School of Computer Science, on Mobile Apps. $45 a person, includes lunch. Registration, pe.gatech.edu/sav-oct.
Movie Time, 6 p.m., Ida Hilton Public Library, 1105 North Way, Darien. Features “All About Rosalind Movie Month.” Call for movie title. (912) 437-2124.
“The Godfather,” as part of the Cinema Gourmet series, tasting of food/film pairings, 6:30 p.m.; talk, 6:50 p.m.; film, 7:15 p.m.; The Ritz Theatre, 1530 Newcastle St., Brunswick. $18; talk and film only $5. (912) 262-6934 or goldenislesarts.org.
“No Boundaries,” presented by the Valdosta State University’s Repertory Dancers, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, VSU’s Sawyer Theatre, 1500 N. Patterson St. Features original choreography as restagings from the group’s repertoire. Show continues 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10-11, 3 p.m. Oct. 12. (229) 333-5804.
OCT. 10
Home School Time, 11 a.m., Ida Hilton Public Library, 1105 North Way, Darien. Features “Falling for Gravity.” (912) 437-2124.
Fun at the Park: Crooked River State Park, 6222 Charlie Smith Senior Highway, St. Marys. Parking $5. (912) 882-5256.
¦ Sunset Boat Cruises, 6-8 p.m. Features a park ranger-guided tour on birds, dolphin and marine creatures that inhabit this ecosystem. $30. Registration required. (912) 882-5256.
¦ Composting Basics, 7-8 p.m. Camden County Extension Agricultural with a family-friendly program featuring interactive components, what can and can’t be composted, different composting techniques and strategies, how to avoid stinky compost and make your own edible compost to take as a snack.
Halloween Party for kids to benefit The Love of Pets, 7-10 p.m., 821 Riverview Drive E., St. Marys. Includes movies, games, food and entertainment. $5, children 5 and younger get in free. (912) 882-0840.
Pajama Party, 7 p.m. Oct. 10, 3 p.m. Oct. 11-12, 7 p.m. Oct. 17, 3 p.m. Oct. 18-19, Savannah Children’s Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Drive, Savannah. Features “Good Night Moon, the Musical,” followed by cookies and milk, storytelling, face painting, photo opportunities and a meet the cast. $35 children, $20 adults. (912) 238-9015 or savannahchildrenstheatre.org.
SATURDAY
Woodbine Super Saturday, 7 a.m.-1 p.m., downtown Woodbine. Features a community-wide yard sale. Includes a book sale and the 4-H Lucky Clover Walk/Run. To sell, bring your own table. (912) 576-3211 or woodbinegeorgia.net.
Under the Oaks Half Marathon and 10K and 5K run, 7:30 a.m., Great Dunes Park. (912) 248-5275 or email leighanne62@gmail.com.
Free exercise class, 9-10 a.m. Saturdays, Agape Church, 10600 Colerain Road, St. Marys. Exercise using only free weights and a mat. (912) 576-2008 or email getufit2008@yahoo.com.
Zumbathon to benefit the Donna Foundation, 9-10:30 a.m., I-Live Center of the Arts, 1001 Osborne Road, St. Marys. (912) 227-0934.
Native Plant Sale, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Cay Creek Wetlands Interpretive Center, 189 Charlie Butler Road, Midway, off Interstate 95 on Georgia 84. Includes a bird walk, 9:30 a.m.; plant walk, 10:30 a.m.; Site Master Plan, 11 a.m.; and a self-guided boardwalk available all day. Registration, email info@coastalwildscapes.org.
Build a Scarecrow, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Theatre by the Trax, 1000 Osborne St., St. Marys. Call to reserve scarecrow kit, first come first serve; reservations being taken to place scarecrows in a median on Osborne Street. The Scarecrow Stroll is Oct. 14. (912) 882-7350 or email stmarysdma@gmail.com.
Fun in the Okefenokee, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge’s Visitor Center, about 11 miles southwest of Folkston, off Georgia 121/23. (912) 496-7836 or fws.gov/okefenokee.
¦ The Special Bird of the Okefenokee, hike 9 a.m., program 2 p.m. Saturdays, on the unique requirements of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker.
¦ Cane Pole Trail Nature Walk, 10 a.m. Saturdays, on the Okefenokee’s plants and animals and the importance of fire, Chesser Island Boardwalk.
¦ Gator Gossip, 10 a.m. and 3 and 4 p.m. Saturdays. Features interesting facts about the alligator.
Lap Band Surgery Patient Information and Seminar, 10 a.m., Georgia Coast Surgical, 3226-F Hampton Ave., Brunswick. (912) 264-9724 or email brooke@georgiacoastsurgical.com.
Wildlife of Our World, 2-3 p.m., Crooked River State Park, 6222 Charlie Smith Senior Highway, St. Marys. Features a meet and greet with the animals who make Coastal Georgia their home. Program $1, parking $5. (912) 882-5256.
Low Country Boil to benefit Southeast Georgia Health System Brunswick Campus Auxiliary, 4-6 p.m. and 6-8 p.m., Two Way Fish Camp, 250 Ricefield Way, Darien. $20 a person. Reservations, (912) 466-1071 or email kdoll@sghs.org.
Fax events to (904) 359-4478 or email events@jacksonville.com. Complete listing at jacksonville.com/calendars. To put your event in the free online calendar, go to events.jacksonville.com.
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Fun at the Park: Crooked River State Park, 6222 Charlie Smith Senior Highway, St. Marys. Parking $5. (912) 882-5256.
¦ Roving Ranger, 3-4 p.m. Features a park ranger roving through the campground to answer questions and share information about the park.
¦ Campfire Fun, 6-7 p.m. Features a ranger with stories and songs around a campfire. Bring s’mores supplies and roasting sticks. Free.
¦ Sunset Boat Cruises, 6-8 p.m. Features a park ranger-guided tour on birds, dolphin and marine creatures that inhabit this ecosystem. $30. Registration required. (912) 882-5256.
St. Simons Food & Spirits Festival, through Sunday, various venues. (912) 638-3158 or saintsimonsfoodandspirits.com.
¦ Friday — Sip, Taste and Tour Pier Crawl, check-in, 5:30 p.m., pier crawl, 6-8 p.m., dance music, 8-10 p.m., Heritage Center, 610 Beachview Drive, get a passport to the pier, featuring live music by the Spike at the Beach Band, $30.; Friday Night Festival Feast, 7 p.m., Halyards Restaurant, 55 Cinema Lane, $200.
¦ Saturday — The Grand Oaks Tasting Tour, noon-3 p.m., Gascoigne Bluff, with arts, crafts and farmers market, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Tasting Tent, noon-3 p.m., Mixology Tent, informational sessions and a Kid Zone, $50; Festival Oyster Roast, 7 p.m., Coastal Kitchens, 102 Marina Drive, with special guest Libbie Summers, featuring samples and music by Jeff Montaigne, $25.
¦ Sunday — SPIRITual Sunday Brunch, 12:30-3:30 p.m., King & Prince Resort, 201 Arnold Road. Includes a seated brunch and soulful guest singers. $75.
SATURDAY
Rock Shrimp Festival, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m., downtown St. Marys. Schedule includes 5K and 10K races, 7:30 a.m.; vendors, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; a 1-mile Kids Fun Run, 8:30 a.m.; race awards, 9:30 a.m.; parade, 10 a.m.; dinners, live entertainment and demonstrations, 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Program in conjunction with Railroad Days featuring the St. Marys Express train excursions with a live steam locomotive train, viewing rail equipment and 1/8 scale trains at Theatre by the Trax. (912) 882-4000 or visitstmarys.com.
Free exercise class, 9-10 a.m. Saturdays, Agape Church, 10600 Colerain Road, St. Marys. Exercise using only free weights and a mat. (912) 576-2008 or email getufit2008@yahoo.com.
Fun in the Okefenokee, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge’s Visitor Center, about 11 miles southwest of Folkston, off Georgia 121/23. (912) 496-7836 or fws.gov/okefenokee.
¦ The Special Bird of the Okefenokee, hike 9 a.m., program 2 p.m. Saturdays, on the unique requirements of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker.
¦ Cane Pole Trail Nature Walk, 10 a.m. Saturdays, on the Okefenokee’s plants and animals and the importance of fire, Chesser Island Boardwalk.
¦ Gator Gossip, 10 a.m. and 3 and 4 p.m. Saturdays. Features interesting facts about the alligator.
St. Marys Express Steam Special, 10 a.m., noon and 2 and 4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Theatre by the Trax, 1000 Osborne St., St. Marys. Features an authentic steam locomotive, viewing rail equipment and 1/8 scale trains. In conjunction with Railroad Days and the St. Marys Rock Shrimp Festival. Event repeats Oct. 11-12. $20 adults, $15 children 3-12. (912) 200-5235 or stmarysrailroad.com.
Coastfest, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., DNR Coastal Regional Headquarters, 1 Conservation Way, Brunswick. Includes environmental, educational research and resource exhibits and displays, along with interactive activities for all ages. Parking $5. (912) 882-5256.
Andersonville Historic Fair, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Georgia 49, 50 miles south of Macon. Includes a parade at 11 a.m. Saturday, Mock Civil War battles at 3 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, arts and crafts, live entertainment, The Drummer Boy Civil War Museum and children’s activities. $4 adults, $1.50 children; parking free. (229) 924-2558 or andersonvillegeorgia.info.
SUNDAY
Meet the Local Authors, 1-5 p.m., St. Simons Island Casino’s Atrium, 550 Beachview Drive. Features more than 20 local authors who will share their books, available for purchase. Free admission. (912) 289-7357.
Picnic in the Park themed “Fly Me to the Moon,” 3:45-9:30 p.m., Forsyth Park, Savannah. Features music by the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra. Includes family friendly activities and a picnic contest. Free. savannahga.gov/arts.
Tea Dance, presented by the Shoreline Dance Club, 4-6:30 p.m., the Cloister’s Club Room, 100 Cloister Drive, Sea Island. Features swing, Latin and ballroom dances with live music and refreshments. $37.50 members, $45 guests. Reservations required. (912) 638-2249.
MONDAY
Mammograms by the Wellness on Wheels mobile health vehicle. Mammograms required a physician’s order; insurance is accepted and financial assistance is available to patients to qualify. (912) 466-5234 or sghs.org.
¦ Monday-Tuesday — 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Glynn County Health Department, 2747 Fourth St., Brunswick. (912) 279-3351.
¦ Wednesday — 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Camden County Health Department, 905 Dilworth St., St. Marys. (912) 882-8515.
¦ Thursday — 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Camden County Health Department, 1501 Georgia Ave., Woodbine. (912) 576-3040.
TUESDAY
Friends Meeting, 6:30 p.m., Crooked River State Park, 6222 Charlie Smith Senior Highway, St. Marys. Features a meeting by the Friends of Crooked River group with plans for upcoming projects and the Halloween event. Parking $5. (912) 882-5256.
WEDNESDAY
Story Time, 11 a.m., Ida Hilton Public Library, 1105 North Way, Darien. Features “It’s a Mad Hatter Story Time with Craft.” Includes a craft. (912) 437-2124.
Savannah Quilt Guild, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Cultural Arts Gallery, 9 W. Henry St., Savannah. Includes guided tours and demonstrations in conjunction with the “Cloth, Color and Creativity” exhibit on display through Oct. 17. Demonstration topics: Wednesday — “Art Quilts;” Oct. 15 — “Embellishments.” (912) 651-6783 or savannahga.gov/arts.
Free screenings, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesdays, Dick Mitchell Health Information Center, Outpatient Care Center, 2415 Parkwood Drive, Brunswick. Includes blood pressure and blood sugar screenings. (912) 466-5160 or email bcarr@sghs.org.
THURSDAY
Caregiver Coffee: Making Time for Yourself, 10 a.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 900 Gloucester St., Brunswick. Topic is “Don’t Forget You: Coping with Caregiver Stress.” Series continues Jan. 15. (912) 265-4735.
Speaker Series, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Georgia Tech-Savannah, 210 Technology Circle, Savannah. Speaker is Russell Clark, senior research scientist in Georgia Tech’s School of Computer Science, on Mobile Apps. $45 a person, includes lunch. Registration, pe.gatech.edu/sav-oct.
Movie Time, 6 p.m., Ida Hilton Public Library, 1105 North Way, Darien. Features “All About Rosalind Movie Month.” Call for movie title. (912) 437-2124.
“The Godfather,” as part of the Cinema Gourmet series, tasting of food/film pairings, 6:30 p.m.; talk, 6:50 p.m.; film, 7:15 p.m.; The Ritz Theatre, 1530 Newcastle St., Brunswick. $18; talk and film only $5. (912) 262-6934 or goldenislesarts.org.
“No Boundaries,” presented by the Valdosta State University’s Repertory Dancers, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, VSU’s Sawyer Theatre, 1500 N. Patterson St. Features original choreography as restagings from the group’s repertoire. Show continues 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10-11, 3 p.m. Oct. 12. (229) 333-5804.
OCT. 10
Home School Time, 11 a.m., Ida Hilton Public Library, 1105 North Way, Darien. Features “Falling for Gravity.” (912) 437-2124.
Fun at the Park: Crooked River State Park, 6222 Charlie Smith Senior Highway, St. Marys. Parking $5. (912) 882-5256.
¦ Sunset Boat Cruises, 6-8 p.m. Features a park ranger-guided tour on birds, dolphin and marine creatures that inhabit this ecosystem. $30. Registration required. (912) 882-5256.
¦ Composting Basics, 7-8 p.m. Camden County Extension Agricultural with a family-friendly program featuring interactive components, what can and can’t be composted, different composting techniques and strategies, how to avoid stinky compost and make your own edible compost to take as a snack.
Halloween Party for kids to benefit The Love of Pets, 7-10 p.m., 821 Riverview Drive E., St. Marys. Includes movies, games, food and entertainment. $5, children 5 and younger get in free. (912) 882-0840.
Pajama Party, 7 p.m. Oct. 10, 3 p.m. Oct. 11-12, 7 p.m. Oct. 17, 3 p.m. Oct. 18-19, Savannah Children’s Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Drive, Savannah. Features “Good Night Moon, the Musical,” followed by cookies and milk, storytelling, face painting, photo opportunities and a meet the cast. $35 children, $20 adults. (912) 238-9015 or savannahchildrenstheatre.org.
SATURDAY
Woodbine Super Saturday, 7 a.m.-1 p.m., downtown Woodbine. Features a community-wide yard sale. Includes a book sale and the 4-H Lucky Clover Walk/Run. To sell, bring your own table. (912) 576-3211 or woodbinegeorgia.net.
Under the Oaks Half Marathon and 10K and 5K run, 7:30 a.m., Great Dunes Park. (912) 248-5275 or email leighanne62@gmail.com.
Free exercise class, 9-10 a.m. Saturdays, Agape Church, 10600 Colerain Road, St. Marys. Exercise using only free weights and a mat. (912) 576-2008 or email getufit2008@yahoo.com.
Zumbathon to benefit the Donna Foundation, 9-10:30 a.m., I-Live Center of the Arts, 1001 Osborne Road, St. Marys. (912) 227-0934.
Native Plant Sale, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Cay Creek Wetlands Interpretive Center, 189 Charlie Butler Road, Midway, off Interstate 95 on Georgia 84. Includes a bird walk, 9:30 a.m.; plant walk, 10:30 a.m.; Site Master Plan, 11 a.m.; and a self-guided boardwalk available all day. Registration, email info@coastalwildscapes.org.
Build a Scarecrow, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Theatre by the Trax, 1000 Osborne St., St. Marys. Call to reserve scarecrow kit, first come first serve; reservations being taken to place scarecrows in a median on Osborne Street. The Scarecrow Stroll is Oct. 14. (912) 882-7350 or email stmarysdma@gmail.com.
Fun in the Okefenokee, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge’s Visitor Center, about 11 miles southwest of Folkston, off Georgia 121/23. (912) 496-7836 or fws.gov/okefenokee.
¦ The Special Bird of the Okefenokee, hike 9 a.m., program 2 p.m. Saturdays, on the unique requirements of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker.
¦ Cane Pole Trail Nature Walk, 10 a.m. Saturdays, on the Okefenokee’s plants and animals and the importance of fire, Chesser Island Boardwalk.
¦ Gator Gossip, 10 a.m. and 3 and 4 p.m. Saturdays. Features interesting facts about the alligator.
Lap Band Surgery Patient Information and Seminar, 10 a.m., Georgia Coast Surgical, 3226-F Hampton Ave., Brunswick. (912) 264-9724 or email brooke@georgiacoastsurgical.com.
Wildlife of Our World, 2-3 p.m., Crooked River State Park, 6222 Charlie Smith Senior Highway, St. Marys. Features a meet and greet with the animals who make Coastal Georgia their home. Program $1, parking $5. (912) 882-5256.
Low Country Boil to benefit Southeast Georgia Health System Brunswick Campus Auxiliary, 4-6 p.m. and 6-8 p.m., Two Way Fish Camp, 250 Ricefield Way, Darien. $20 a person. Reservations, (912) 466-1071 or email kdoll@sghs.org.
Fax events to (904) 359-4478 or email events@jacksonville.com. Complete listing at jacksonville.com/calendars. To put your event in the free online calendar, go to events.jacksonville.com.
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