I'm on the board of directors at a small subdivision, Southpointe, of a large Wyndham resort on Edisto Island, South Carolina.
We left home on Saturday and drove to Spartanburg, SC. On Sunday, we drove to Charleston and stayed overnight there. On Monday morning, October 27th, we drove the 40 miles or so to Edisto and I attended the very short meeting and we drove back north as far as Spartanburg again. We got home on Tuesday.
The reason we drove so far for a short meeting is that although Wyndham has set things up such that board members have little say over what happens at or to Southpointe, I want to stay involved in hopes that I can eventually change that, although I confess I don't know just how. But it's on my to-do list.
The nicest part of the trip was that we got to have lunch at one of our favorite places, Hyman's Seafood in Charleston. It's a really interesting place near the city market on the site of the old slave market .The following is from Hyman's website:
THE HISTORY OF HYMAN'S SEAFOOD AND AARON'S DELI
This historic block was the wholesale district in the 1800s. Eli and Aaron’s great-grandfather, W.M. Karesh, a Jewish immigrant from eastern Europe, started Southern Wholesale in this location in 1890. This became one of our first distributors of Union & Hanes underwear in the Southeast.
Wolf Maier Karesh’s son-in-law, Herman Hyman, took over the business in 1924, changing the name to Hyman’s Wholesale Company. He then passed the business down to the third generation, to Wolf Maier Hyman, who continued on with the wholesale dry goods business until 1986. (He presently lives on the 3rd floor) At that time the Omni hotel was under construction and the City condemned the back 280 feet of these warehouses to make room for a parking garage. The floors are heart pine and the bricks are Old English, with the original Oyster mortar.
The wrought iron stair case was built in Kenton, Ohio in 1887 and shipped to Charleston upon construction of this building.
The two brothers, Eli and Aaron Hyman, the great grandsons, changed the name from Hyman’s Wholesale to Hyman’s Seafood and Aaron’s Deli in 1986, and are now operating Hyman’s Seafood and Aaron’s Deli in these same locations. Brad, Aaron’s son-in-law (5th generation) is Eli’s operating partner today. There has been 118 years of customer service in these buildings and they are proud of it. If you happen to see Eli, Brad, Mother Phyllis, Tim, Laurie or Rusty tell them hello. For those who are curious, we employ between 160-190 GREAT people!
The food is really good, the atmosphere is comfortable, and folks just love it. We do, too.
Stay tuned for our next exciting adventure.
Someone once told me that travel shouldn't be an excuse for eating -- but I never use it as an excuse! It's a prime reason that I love travel; the opportunity to try new preparations of familiar, and unfamiliar, foods :) Good tip on Hyman's ... I'll definitely remember that :)
ReplyDeleteHymen's sounds great, I know you guys love it, and so do a lot of people. That's a heck of a line waiting! Nancy's is pretty cute, too.
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