As Smith Stearns Tennis Academy looks forward to completing its first decade next year, we join in the congratulations, and we reflect on all that it means to excel at that sport, in this place, and to pass it on to future generations.

One of the many attractions we look forward to is how the plaza of The Shops at Sea Pines Center looks in “the golden hour.”

As a place to touch base, a place where people come again and again, over the course of years, to hear what’s happening this week, what’s going on that might be of interest – for this the plaza was already deep in the hearts of the people who know.

Here in the middle of the Miracle Mile, the very center of the vision that became America’s favorite vacation island, we give thanks for the fortunate position of seeing so many people experience such extraordinary joy.