50 Years of Christmas

When I first moved to Bluffton in 2004, I was a bit lost. The job I’d moved south for did not work out as planned. The silver lining: that job […]

The Eternal Debate: Stuffing vs. Dressing

At the age of 58, with a heart condition threatening to end his life at any moment, celebrated novelist John Steinbeck set out to find America. One of the first […]

The Bluff Holiday 2021

Welcome to the holiday edition of The Bluff. We created this issue to get you in the holiday spirit, perhaps by taste-testing the new Burnt Church Distillery’s spirits. Or starting […]

From Dusk to Dawn: Fall Update From the Field

The Palmetto Bluff Conservancy began studying bats in 2015 and has established Palmetto Bluff as a long-term bat research and monitoring site. We attempt to net bats year-round and divide […]

Wood Duck

It was June. Hot, humid. Blueberry season; certainly not duck season. A small outbuilding sat on the edge of a field in northeastern North Carolina. A year or so […]

New Developer Release: Moreland Forest

Palmetto Bluff is excited to introduce its newest residential offering, Moreland Forest. Strategically and thoughtfully designed to include homesites that overlook preserved areas in perpetuity – and built around wildlife […]

In the Field: November Eye to the Sky

I thought that when I wrote the October Eye to the Sky that I was finished talking about black-bellied whistling-ducks for the year… Boy, was I wrong! The whistling-ducks that […]

Much Ado About Nothing

On January 9, 1918, FBI Agent William V. O’Brien arrived in Bluffton, on the trail of a possible enemy operative working for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. O’Brien quickly sought out the […]

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