Local Seabrooker Carroll Gantz announced the release of a new book The Industrialization of Design.  The book traces the history of industrial design over three centuries, beginning with the eighteenth-century industrial revolution.  It identifies the major figures, organizations, styles and evolutionary events of the profession, looking particularly at the refinement of industrial design by the twentieth-century European artists and the congruence of American design and industry during and immediately after the Great Depression.  The 330 page book is available at www.Amazon.com

3706 Bonita Ct, Seabrook Island, SC - $1,395,000

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Feel the ocean’s breeze and listen to the surf from any room in this beach lover’s home. This professionally decorated home was recently completely redone inside and out. The result-the best living “near the ocean” can offer. The custom lighting system highlights the Australian Cypress floors. There is a gas fireplace in the living/dining area with imported tile surround and custom wood mantle and trim. The kitchen has stainless appliances, new granite counters and dual side lighted access cabinets over the bar between the kitchen and dining aarea. Each bathroom was refitted with new cabinets, countertops, and fixtures. Picture yourself enjoying your morning coffee on the screened porch overlooking the heated, saltwater pool. Entertain your family and friends around your pool which has a retractable cover, or at the beach which is just a few feet away. At the end of the day come back to the pool area and have a drink while grilling at your awning covered outdoor kitchen. After dinner climb your spiral stairway to your observation deck and enjoy the sun setting over the ocean. In short, enjoy the best in luxury living within a stone’s throw of the beach.
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Seabrookers and their guests are always fascinated by the alligators on the island so here are some interesting facts about their behavior.  During summer months, we often see alligators lying on the banks of ponds basking in the sun for warmth.  But where do they go in the winter?  When the weather is warm an alligator will dig itself a hollow in the mud (gator hole) which becomes filled with water.  This guarantees its access to water at all times.  These underground hollows may be as long as sixty-five feet.  The temperature there remains fairly stable, so the alligator can retreat there in the cold of the winter as well.  They do not bury themselves totally because they need air; they can stay submerged for only 45-60 minutes.  In extreme cold, alligators exhibit “icing behavior”.  Before the pond freezes, an adult will move to shallow water, place its nostrils out of the water, and let its snout become frozen into the ice.  Feeding activity is governed by water temperature, with foraging activity ceasing when the temperature drops below 70 F.  This is because they feed only when their body temperature is warm enough to digest their food which is a steady 89 F.  Alligators are ectothermic, or “cold-blooded” creatures whose primary source of body heat is external and as such require only one-tenth the amount of food that a “warm-blooded” animal does.  Adults will consume up to 20 pounds per week in hot weather, but no food during the winter.

It’s official!  Seabrook experienced the seventeenth coldest winter (December-February) the mean temperature was 46.5 F.  The coldest winter in the last 140 years was in 1977/78 when the mean temperature was 44.2 F. On the flip side last summer (June-August) was recorded as the second hottest on Seabrook in 140 years.  Only the summer of 1998 was hotter.  Berkeley Electric just loves those numbers.