Trips & Tours

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Sunday, February 4, 2024
Pure Theatre
THE LEHMAN TRILOGY
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Friday, February 16, 2024
Plum Island Wastewater Treatment Plant
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Thursday, March 7, 2024
Joint Base Charleston C-17
101 Lawson Drive – JB Charleston, SC 29404

10:00 a.m.-11:30 p.m.

Cost: $5.00 per person contribution
Deadline – Monday, February 26, maximum of 40 (waiting list)
Arrival Time: 9:45 a.m.

CCR is offering a rare opportunity to tour the Joint Base Charleston C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft used to airlift troops and cargo around the world. These huge aircraft have participated in almost every American humanitarian operation since their arrival at the 17th Airlift Squadron in Charleston in 1995.  Capable of landing on dirt runways in hostile locations, they can transport liters and ambulatory patients during medical evacuations. They have broken 33 world records, including payload, altitude, time to climb, and short takeoffs and landings during their thousands of tactical airlift and airdrop missions.

Parking: Outside the base entrance. A bus will meet us and drive us around the base along with a guide. Parking lot is at:
32.913151, -80.044609 (View GPS in “satellite mode”)
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Sunday, March 17
3:00p.m.
Footlight Players
“Cadillac Crew”
Queen Street Playhouse
20 Queen Street, Charleston, SC 29401
Arrival Time: 2:30-2:45p.m.
Cost: $49.00 per person, but there will be at discount if we have a large enough level of interest
Cadillac Crew

On the day of a much-anticipated speech by Rosa Parks during the
height of the Civil Rights Movement, four activists working in a
Virginia civil rights office wonder whether the proclamation of
equality amongst mankind includes women. With remarkable insight
and unexpected humor, Cadillac Crew reclaims the stories of the
forgotten leaders who blazed the trail for desegregation and women’s rights and asks: when will the world be ready to embrace women in
all their capacity?
Driving Directions: Queen Street Playhouse is between East Bay Street
and Meeting Street, two blocks south of Market.
Parking: A Public Parking Deck about three blocks away at 90
Cumberland (between Church and Meeting) and another Public Parking
Deck on Queen (between Meeting and King). Metered street parking
may be available on Sunday for free.
You can learn more by visiting the website. www.footlightplayers.net

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Friday, April 5, 2024
Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
1254 Long Point Road Mt. Pleasant, SC

10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Arrival Time: 9:45 a.m.
Cost: $5.00 per person contribution – After our March 25 meeting, you still can sign up by April 1. Email bschwartz1945@comcast.net

First, we will see “Forgotten Founder” a 15-minute film produced by ETV about Charles Pinckney’s contributions to local, state, and national government.

Next, the Park Ranger on duty will speak to your group about Pinckney’s activities at the Constitutional Convention (his efforts included 25 clauses in the final draft of the Constitution) and about his property, Snee Farm. Snee Farm is one of seven plantations Charles Pinckney held, which produced both rice and indigo- staple crops in the Lowcountry. The plantation had approximately 70 enslaved people laboring on site, including cooks, cowhands, and field hands. Learning about the Gullah Geechee culture and acknowledging the expertise of enslaved workers will ensure our group recognizes both the Pinckney’s contributions as a founding father, and the forced contributions of enslaved people in the United States. Pinckney also served four terms as governor of South Carolina and as President Thomas Jefferson’s Minister to Spain (1801-1805). The demands of Pinckney’s political career made it difficult for him to manage his extensive landholdings. He conveyed Snee Farm to trustees in 1816, and it was sold in 1817. One of the subsequent owners built a new coastal cottage-style house on the site of the Pinckney home around 1828.

Last, a Ranger-led walk around the site – approximately 2/10 of a mile.

Directions:
Follow US Highway 17 North through Charleston and over the Cooper River Bridge. Continue on US-17 for approximately six miles then turn left onto Long Point Road. Follow Long Point for about ¾ mile. Charles Pinckney National Historic Site will be on the left.

Parking: A parking lot in front of the comfort station offers plenty of free parking.