Living, Working and Writing in Myrtle Beach: Ex-Buckeye "at the beach"

     When Coastal Carolina host Garder-Webb at Brooks Stadium on October 12th, the most recognizable football player on campus won't be wearing a uniform. Coastal announced that former OSU running back Maurice Clarett, who led the Buckeyes to the 2002 BCS national championship before having his career and life careen into a much published turmoil, will be the headliner for the university's Faith and Family Day prior to the football game.
     The 2014 edition of "Guinness World Records" book says that the worlds largest living feline, a liger,- a hybrid of a lion and a tiger - lives in Myrtle Beach. Hercules, who lives at Myrtle Beach Safari, an area wildlife preserve, tips the scales at 922 pounds. He consumes between 25 and 30 pounds of red meat every day.
     Myrtle Beach International Airport recorded its busiest August ever, about 105,045 passengers arrived at the airport in August, up 20% for the same month last year.
     In real estate news, more single-family homes were sold in Horry County in August in at least seven years, including the last of the boom days in 2006. The market is starting to boom again, but prices are staying down where they should be, so come on down and find yourself a bargain while they're still around.
     I did two more book signings for my book Murder on the Front Nine. One at the North Myrtle Beach Library and the second time at La Belle Amie Winery. Both were tons of fun and very successful. If you're ever in the area, be sure to visit both establishments.
     Thomas and Melissa are on their way for a visit from Alaska, with 50 #'s of frozen fish, and several other friends are heading this way in October. It's a great time of the year to come to the beach.
     See ya, Steve & Bev