FESTIVALS WITH LOCAL Warm up with the World Grits Festival , an elevation of the humble breakfast staple held each April in St. George. May’s WHAM! celebrates Walterboro’s history, art and music (W-H-A-M, get it?) with everything from a sweetgrass-basket workshop to colonial dancing. Farms and markets across the state welcome visitors each May and June as part of the South Carolina Ag + Art Tour for an in-person look at fresh produce and the works of local artisans. Greenwood becomes a photographer’s Flair dream each June, when topiaries of multicolored animals, fun photo ops and even a Jeep Wrangler made entirely of plants line the town as part of the South Carolina Festival of Flowers . Seed spitting is the skill du jour at July’s Pageland Watermelon Festival , when the state’s sweetest summer fruit takes center stage. Come September, the Hold My Tea bar crawl is part of the Sweet Tea Festival in Summerville, the self-proclaimed birthplace of sweet tea. In October, Georgetown’s Wooden Boat Show showcases the classic craft with boat-building and a youth sailing regatta, while smoky, spicy aromas fill Loris' streets during the Loris Bog-Off Festival , a tribute to chicken bog—a one-pot chicken and rice stew—that, of course, includes a cook-off. November’s SC Pecan Music & Food Festival in Florence offers a feast for the senses with pecan-inspired dishes and brews. And cultural traditions shine through music and storytelling during A Gullah Christmas Concert in Mount Pleasant. 3 STARLITE PHOTOGRAPHY 4 3. Sweet Tea Festival, Summerville 4. South Carolina Festival of Flowers, Greenwood 34
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