temperate climate and friendly residents, the transition from the big city of Boston to the big town of Mount Pleasant has been interesting for the Stewarts. For example, in Boston, they shared a car, using public transportation to get around much of the time. In South Carolina, traffic problems are minimal compared to the driving conditions in Boston. And farmers markets, ubiquitous in the Palmetto State, have caught their attention. Te Stewarts are regulars at the Mount Pleasant market and also have paid a visit to the one held on Daniel Island.
Tey also have noticed a large difference in the way people feel about sports. In Boston, professional teams rule – the Red Sox, the Patriots, the Celtics and the Bruins. In South Carolina, however, it all about college athletics, especially football and especially the University of South Carolina and Clemson University. Te Stewarts don’t mind, because, as Artise said, “We like college better anyway.” However, as the orange University of Tennessee flag on their porch will attest, they don’t pay a whole lot of attention to the Gamecocks/Tigers rivalry. Jeremy pointed out that
the weather, the beach, friendly people and low real estate prices were not the only factors in their decision to move to the Charleston area. His family, in east Tennessee, is fairly close by, while her family isn’t all that far away either, in northern Alabama. However, the opportunity to help Boeing launch its 787 Final Assembly and Delivery Center in
South Carolina was the deciding factor for Jeremy.
“I wanted to come here to be part of using the best of what Boeing has done in the past to help set up this facility,” said Jeremy, who earned his engineering degree at
240-acre campus are up and running on schedule. He likes to think of himself as a problem solver. His other major responsibility at Boeing is to help train the team members the company hires to build airplanes in North Charleston. He’ll accomplish this important job by putting together mockups of 787s so employees can practice assembling them before they begin work on the real thing.
In addition to the
final assembly facility, Boeing employees eventually will spend their days in three other buildings, one of them currently under construction and another in
the University of Tennessee and the University of Cincinnati. “I wanted the opportunity of being part of something like this.” Stewart’s official title is
manufacturing engineering manager, 787 Final Assembly and Delivery, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. He works with Boeing leadership to hire personnel, provide support for the
the planning stages. “Tere’s going to be four very large buildings with a lot of people working in them,” he commented. Artise, a University of
Tennessee alumni, was an associate at private veterinary practices in Seattle and Boston. Now she fills in for people who are on vacation at several clinics in the Charleston area. She also teaches at Trident Technical College. When they are
not working, Jeremy and Artise Stewart are enjoying their new way of life in the Lowcountry. Tey’ve already realized that networking is an important part of living in coastal South Carolina. “When you need to
have some work done on your house or your car or
whatever, you usually can find
company’s mechanics and in other strategies involved in making sure the 692,000-square foot final assembly factory and other facilities on the
the person you need through your friends and acquaintances,” Artise commented. “Tere’s a real sense of community here.”
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