The Atalaya Arts and Crafts Festival features more than 100 fine artisans. The festival provides aesthetic beauty against a background of natural beauty. Enjoy fine art, quality crafts, Lowcountry food, and the area’s finest musicians.

The BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by SYNNEX Corporation is the only tournament on the Nationwide Tour where amateurs and celebrities are grouped with Nationwide Tour professionals in a four-day better-ball competition over three courses. The 2010 tournament will take place May 13-16 at Thornblade Club (Greer, SC), The Carolina Country Club (Spartanburg, SC) and Bright's Creek Golf Club (Mill Spring, NC). Amateurs, celebrities and pros rotate between three courses on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with the 14 lowest scoring pro-amateur/pro-celebrity teams advancing to play Sunday's final round at Thornblade Club. Celebrities play once at each course on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The Professional winner of the overall 72-hole event will take home $108,000 from the total purse of $600,000. Amateurs and celebrities compete for individual prizes and cash donations to the charity of their choice out of the beneficiaries selected by South Carolina Charities, Inc. Past celebrities include Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell, Catherine Bell, Joe Pesci, Luke Wilson, Dennis Quaid, John Elway, Wayne Gretzky, George Lopez and Gary Player, among many others. Celebrities play once at each course. If you'd like to play in the 2010 tournament as an amateur contestant, contact the tournament office at 864.297.1660. For more information about the 2010 tournament, visit bmwcharitygolf.com.

Charley's Crab accommodates guests with seating indoors in three dining rooms and outdoors on an open-air deck and two screened-in porches. The restaurant serves fresh seafood like the shrimp off the docks of the Benny Hudson Seafood Ships and fresh trout from Hoover Farms. Charley's Crab also offers premium aged cuts of beef, homemade pastas, fresh poultry and an award-winning lineup of desserts and ice creams from the in-house pastry kitchen. Wine connoisseurs will feel at home with the restaurant's expansive wine list and single malt scotches.

Back-in sites; full hook-ups; heated bath house. Located adjacent to the Comfort Inn, just off of the interstate. Includes a complimentary continental breakfast and an outdoor pool.

The NKF Golf Classic is a national series of amateur golf tournaments benefiting the National Kidney Foundation. It is the largest amateur charity golf event in the world raising more than $6 million annually for the NKF. There are over 130 tournaments throughout the country, and the winners of each local event are invited to attend the National Finals at Pebble Beach Resorts in January.

Heritage Days Celebration is a three-day cultural event celebrating the Gullah/Geechee/Sea Island history, folk arts, food, music, crafts and West African cultural legacy. Located at the Penn School, one of the first schools for enslaved Africans on St. Helena Island, visitors can experience the unique setting of the 50-acre historic campus of Penn Center. Special events for the weekend include demonstrations of the West African/ Gullah cultural connection including bateau making, quilting, basket making and net making; live demonstrations of rice production in an authentic rice shack; Gullah storytellers; singers; African drummers; dancers; gospel singers; a craft fair; a parade; and fun fuh de chillun (fun for the children). This year's theme will be: "HBCU Reunion Weekend - The Homecoming" to celebrate the history of historically Black colleges and universities, many of which originated from freedmen's schools. An educational symposium will feature HBCU presidents and commissioners from the National Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.

Soup? At the beach? If you're under the impression that beach food is all about tidal waves of fried fish, shrimp, and hushpuppies, you need to come to Roz's tiny bistro. To start, it's cheap. You can eat a huge lunch for less than $10, with tip and taxes. Better still, that lunch will be unforgettable. Roz offers three different soups each day ($3 cup; $4 bowl). All the food at Roz's isn't super fancy--her children's menu includes PB&J and grilled cheese sandwiches (both served on French bread), making the cafe a great place to bring the wee ones. Finally, if you're wearing pants with an elastic waistband, finish with a dessert, such as the warm, sweet, heavenly banana bread pudding.

Located near the interstate with shopping and restaurants nearby.