PUBLISHER’S NOTE Vol. 4, Issue 2 March/April 2014
Publisher/Editor BILL MACCHIO
Publisher@MountPleasantMagazine.com
Managing Editors DENISE K. JAMES BRIAN SHERMAN
Editor@MountPleasantMagazine.com Art Director
DANA COLEMAN Webmaster
GEORGE CONKLIN
Contributing Editor STACY E. DOMINGO
Editorial Assistant CAMERON HAINES
Contributing Writers STACY E. DOMINGO BILL FARLEY PAM GABRIEL
TAYLOR GRIFFITH HELEN R. HAMMOND CULLEN MURRAY-KEMP BARBARA M. PATRICK JULIE SPRANKLES
Contributing Photographers JENN CADY
BRANDON CLARK ANDY HAGEDON
RONNIE MARTINELLI KATE MCKINLEY BRIAN SHERMAN CAMERON HAINES
Internet Marketing BRIAN BOYD SHERMAN PAGGI
Media Consultants JENNIFER BURKE
Jennifer@mediaservices1.com BRANDON CLARK
Brandon@MountPleasantMagazine.com CULLEN MURRAY-KEMP
Cullen@MountPleasantMagazine.com SANDRA ORSELLI ODOM
Sandra@MountPleasantMagazine.com
Administration & Bookkeeping JANET KILKENNY-HEIN Distribution
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that strives to strengthen the community we live in. None of us are actually related, but, when you’ve worked with someone for many years, you might as well be. Te publishing community behind the walls of our little of- fice mirrors the community our magazine serves. I don’t know why, but, when I was thinking about writing this column, the word “community” popped into my mind. I asked myself several questions: Why has Mount Pleasant Magazine been able to grow? Why are our readers so passionate about Mount Pleasant Magazine? What have we been doing right? According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edi- tion, a community is “a group of people forming a smaller social unit within a larger one and sharing common interests, work, identity, location, etc.” Despite Mount Pleasant’s growing population of 71,875 and all the activity that
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comes with growth, we still have a real sense of community. Tink about it: In 1696, 51 new settlers arrived. Each family was allotted several hundred acres in the area that became known as Christ Church Parish. And now look at where we are today. Back then, our sense of community helped us overcome attacks by the Spanish and the French in the early 1700s. You might also have heard about the Secession Convention in Charleston in 1860. In fact, before Charleston’s Secession Convention, a public meeting was held in Mount Pleasant that produced South Carolina’s first secession resolution. Even before Linda Page and Joe Riley, the Lowcountry was blessed with strong lead- ership and a sense of community. Tis was never more evident than in the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo. Even when we were surrounded by devastation, we all pulled together, helped each other and comforted one another. I think one major reason for the growth and popularity of Mount Pleasant Maga-
zine is that we’ve worked hard to represent what our town is all about. We will strive to continue to reflect Mount Pleasant’s strength and sense of community through the pages of our publication. Please let us know if we sway from that mission, because even though we have fun doing what we do, we take our jobs very seriously. Strong families make strong communities. With Mothers Day coming up and
Father’s Day following right on its heels, we would like to interview some of Mount Pleas- ant’s favorite moms and dads for our May/June edition. If you are a daughter, son, family member or good friend who knows a super mom or dad, flip to page 84 and cast your ballot for that special mom or dad – or access the ballot online at
www.MountPleasant-
Magazine.com/momanddad. Mount Pleasant’s favorite moms and dads will be featured on the cover of our May/
June issue. To us, this is just one more way to showcase the strength of the Mount Pleas- ant community.
Until next issue,
— BILL MACCHIO Publisher
WISH YOU COULD WALK IN MY SHOES FOR JUST A DAY OR so. Why? Well, one reason is that you’d have a lot of fun. But I also wish I could show you what goes into publishing Mount Pleasant Magazine and our many local websites. We are a fun-filled and creative business family
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