There’s so much to see and do this weekend in the Lowcountry! Attend a home and design show, meet a favorite cartoon character, and eat your way through a roundup of food trucks. Whatever you choose to do, the agents and staff at Johnson & Wilson Real Estate Company wish you a safe and happy weekend.
The Charleston Home + Design Show takes place this weekend at the Gaillard Center. Come out and meet Charleston’s best contractors, craftsmen, and designers. Listen to one—or more—of seven seminars. Have a free one-on-one consultation with a professional interior designer. If you’re looking to build, remodel, design, or upgrade the home of your dreams, the Gaillard Center is the place to be this weekend.
Get a taste of Charleston on-the-go at the 7th Annual Charleston Food Truck Festival this Saturday from 11am until 5pm in Park Circle. The festival, which started with 5 trucks and 500 customers in 2011, has grown by leaps and bounds over the last seven years and now serves about 8,000 customers. Be sure to get out there and support local food trucks!
Come one, come all to Magnolia Park and Community Garden Saturday for Cornhole for a Cause! The Rotary Club of St. Andrews - Charleston hosts this event for the second year, which seeks to raise $10,000 to benefit three nonprofits: the Charleston Parks Conservancy, Lowcountry Orphan Relief, and Pattison’s Academy. Teams of two can register for the cornhole tournament for $50 per team. Admission is free for spectators. There will be music, food trucks, and beverages for sale and tournament prizes awarded at the end of the day.
Fans of the popular children’s show Paw Patrol are in luck as they’ll have two opportunities this weekend to Meet Chase From Paw Patrol. Chase will be greeting his adoring fans at Wonder Works in Mt. Pleasant on Saturday from 9am until 1pm, and then at the store’s West Ashley location on Sunday from 12pm until 3pm. The meet and greet benefits the Charleston Animal Society, who will have dogs and puppies available for adoption at Saturday’s event.
If you’re a lover of oysters, make sure to head out to Boone Hall Plantation on Sunday for the 35th Annual Lowcountry Oyster Festival. It’s the world’s largest oyster festival and has been named one of the “top 20 events in the southeast” by Southeast Tourism Society. This charity fundraising event features oyster shucking and oyster eating contests, live music, wine, domestic and imported beers, a children’s area, and a food court hosting a variety of local faves for those who don’t eat oysters. The Lowcountry Oyster Festival benefits the Ronald McDonald House, Hollings Cancer Center, Shriners Hospitals for Children, and Charleston County Schools Science Materials Resource Center.
