Between the Waters VOLUME XIV, ISSUE 1 SPRING 2013 HOBCAW BARONY The Belle W. Baruch Foundation B O A R D O F On Call at Hobcaw TRUSTEES

Minor Mickel Shaw immy Bessinger knows the barony better than was a good change for Jimmy and his growing family. Chairman anyone. Maintenance manager is his official Carol, Jimmy’s wife, has been his partner at Hobcaw title, but his responsibilities are vast and include Edwin H. Cooper, III since the beginning. As Jimmy says, “Carol is always repairing roads, operating heavy equipment, Vice Chairman J by my side.” Their home on the bluff near Hobcaw conducting controlled burns, rescuing stranded House is identified by local fishermen as Bessinger Albert Baruch Mercer, MD fishermen and arresting poachers. While Jimmy Shore and they have reared two boys and a grandson Secretary gained most of his knowledge on-the-job over 42 years from this cottage. Being a maintenance manager is not of working at Hobcaw Barony, he’s been preparing for Benjamin T. Zeigler a 40 hour a week job. There have been many long this job his whole life. Treasurer nights patrolling the woods and swamps in heat, His grandfather, Clarence Bessinger, was a game humidity, bugs and bitter cold. A network of plantation Hayne Hipp warden in Georgetown County during a time when security managers along with state and federal officers

Hugh C. Lane, Jr. wardens provided their own firearms and vehicles. support each other whenever there is a need and Jimmy grew up at his knee and observed his ways. Jimmy always responds. Carol understands, supports Grainger McKoy His Uncle Leroy Bessinger was employed at Arcadia his work and when safe accompanies him. Plantation, adjacent to Hobcaw, “He taught me the Benedict Rosen In 1985, Jimmy played an integral role in Operation way of the woods and the ways of poachers. He also Socko, a yearlong undercover investigation, which led taught me how to keyhole clams and fish in a treetop,” Dale Rosengarten, PhD to the arrest of 19 men for clam poaching. Jimmy and says Jimmy. other plantation security personnel worked with law

In June 1971 the plantation manager, Nolan Taylor, enforcement officers to identify and convict these men INSIDE THIS offered Jimmy a job at Hobcaw working for the Belle of the illegal sale and transport of nearly $1Million I S S U E : W. Baruch Foundation on a crew with 4 other men for worth of SC clams. Jimmy recollects the day the sting maintenance and security work. “I was hired to be (continued on page 2) boot-tracker, woods rider and security guard,” Jimmy On Call at Hobcaw: 1 explains. He learned forest management and Jimmy Bessinger prescribed burning, bridge and ditch work and often Executive Director 2 trapped feral hogs. It was not uncommon to cook, sell Notes or give hogs away at that time. The first 5 hogs that Yum Young’s BBQ, owned by George Young of Educational 3 Arcadia, ever cooked and sold were purchased from Partnerships Taylor for exactly the money George had in his pocket - $12. New Website 3 Jimmy remembers that Hobcaw was secluded, quiet Contributors 4 and protected. The gate opened at 8am and closed at 5pm no matter what. Only authorized personnel came in or out and only during operating hours. Hunter Pace 5 The foundation, Clemson University and the University The Caines Legend 6 of South Carolina formed an agreement in 1975 to allow the schools to conduct research on the property. At this time, the foundation contracted with Clemson Hobcaw 7 for maintenance and security, so Jimmy and his co- Happenings workers became Clemson employees. After working

for the foundation with modest wages, becoming a state employee with higher wages and better benefits Donald Withers

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Executive Director Notes from George Chastain

elle Baruch had a vision for foundation. These trustees understood The new vision will continue the Hobcaw Barony when she her passion, the uniqueness of the ecological research and ensure that the created the trust that owns property and the boldness of her plan for unique historical assets at Hobcaw the plantation today. She had Hobcaw Barony. Barony are conserved. Our plans will Ba vision to create something that did not move Hobcaw Barony toward becoming Over 49 years later, the current nine exist in South Carolina, a private-public the premier site for all ages to study members of the Board of Trustees have partnership to facilitate research in coastal ecology and history in South been creating a new vision statement for forestry and marine biology by the Carolina. We are excited about this next Hobcaw Barony. This new vision will be colleges in our state. chapter in Hobcaw Barony’s future and consistent with Belle’s original mission, believe that this is what Belle Baruch To carry out her vision, Belle turned to six but one that can direct the foundation’s intended for the property. of her closest friends and family to serve work for the coming decades in an era as the first Board of Trustees for the very different from that of Belle Baruch.

“The one (continued from page 1) piles of limbs, the men discovered victory was assisted by the after two days that all the swamp testimony from Jimmy, who time I came to a head, “The arrests took causeways had been destroyed. asserted knowledge of the north place one morning at high tide They came up with another plan boundary lines which owners had wished for and we caught most of the to clear the road. With help from acquiesced for over 30 years. poachers at home, since they a out-of-state power company Confidence in his testimony and usually worked during nighttime employees, they cut a straight his composure on the witness railroad low tides.” shot from Highway 17 to Hobcaw stand led to the retention and strike and No story of Hobcaw is complete House down Kings Highway using continued protection of the land The one without a discussion of the a backhoe and bulldozer. as foundation property. impacts of Hurricane Hugo. There was no power or water at George Chastain, executive time I Jimmy remembers, “We'd worked Hobcaw for two weeks, so Jimmy director of the foundation, credits through other bad storms and wished for and Carol dug their own well and him by stating, "His institutional knew how to get ready, but we used an old hand pump and knowledge as the longest serving had no idea of the strength of the no galvanized pipe to get water. It Hobcaw Barony employee is storm that ended up hitting us.” was four months until there was important to us." His ability to passage They prepared by moving some sense of normalcy at remember the smallest details equipment, boats and trucks home.” Hobcaw and years before most of and the biggest challenges is inland to the airplane hangar, but the causeways, piers and roads crucial in managing a large the devastation from that storm could be rebuilt. Jimmy plantation. leveled much of the plantation. remembers other storms and Mary Lawrence Time and tide stand still for no Jimmy recalls the water was forest fires, but also funny stories Post man and for a man such as within inches of his house and and staff long gone. Long Island, NY Jimmy Bessinger, the job he has hardly a tree was standing after Entry in In 2003, Jimmy was instrumental is hard and long and dangerous, Hugo. Making his way through Hobcaw Barony in assisting the foundation win a but his devotion to duty and love debris from Hobcaw House, Guest Book lawsuit involving the proof of of the land has made him Jimmy communicated by radio Nov. 7, 1919 ownership of 70 acres of barrier invaluable to the future of Hobcaw with the crew at the gate. island, long considered a part of Barony. Working towards each other by the barony. The foundation's removing fallen trees and weighty

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hobcawbarony.org gets a facelift artnerships between deeper understanding and The Belle W. Baruch appreciation of the estuarine Foundation, the South ecosystem. he Hobcaw heard while visiting the Carolina Department Another mutually beneficial Barony website homepage. There are many Pof Natural Resources (SCDNR) recently received new features such as the partnership took place in and the South Carolina Forestry a new . The Google calendar for easier November 2012, when Hobcaw Commission (SCFC) have taken Tgoals for the new design viewing of special programs Barony hosted, for the first time, the educational programs at were to give visitors a more and links that enable the Wood Magic Forest Fair. Hobcaw Barony to the next inviting feel and to teachers access to the This event was sponsored by level. encourage exploration. curriculum offered to various the SCFC and the USDA Forest However, one thing that grade levels. Also new are In October 2012, the SCDNR Service along with numerous stayed the same is the grant submission, Carolina Coastal Discovery donors including International background shade of green membership application, and (CCD) docked their 45 foot Paper. Through this program, which was Belle Baruch’s board member biographies. catamaran, Educational Vessel 396 fourth grade students were favorite color. Music Experience our facelift Discovery, at the newly rebuilt introduced to the importance of selected from her personal firsthand at pier at Hobcaw House on forests and forest products in collection of albums can be www.hobcawbarony.org. Winyah Bay. The SCDNR CCD their everyday lives. The staff, the National Estuarine students and teachers learned Research Reserve staff, 183 the value of good fire over bad students and 26 adults fire, the function of sawmills, the participated in hands-on impact of recycling to the forest educational activities on the ecosystem and the significance inherent value of South of the forest in providing soil and Carolina’s marine ecosystem water protection, air filtration, and resources. The students wildlife habitat and jobs. took water samples and “We will continue to seek interacted with various marine partnerships to enhance and organisms leaving them with a expand our educational programs,” says Trista Hindman, environmental educator.

Left: Students test water salinity using a refractometer while aboard the SCDNR Educational Vessel Discovery during a joint learning session at Hobcaw Barony.

Right: Richard Camlin, foundation senior interpreter, shows 4th graders that a healthy forest provides animals, including the white-tail deer, with important habitat. Courtesy of North-Inlet Winyah Bay NERR Michelle Johnson P A G E 4 The Belle W. Baruch Foundation 2012 Contributors

Baruch Society Dr. & Mrs. Hal Crosswell Ms. Rebecca Martin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Wolfe Dr. & Mrs. John J. Britton Mr. & Mrs. Bob Daragan Mr. & Mrs. Donald Mathis Donors Mr. & Mrs. George Chastain Mr. Gene L. Davis Mr. & Mrs. Herbert McClary Mr. Richard Camlin Mr. Lloyd Clark Mr. T. Dudley Davis Mr. & Mrs. Duncan McIntyre "I contribute to Ms. Susan Carson Mr. & Mrs. Don Corey Mr. & Mrs. Andy Douglas Mr. & Mrs. Jay McNamara the Belle W. Ms. Margaret Crump Mrs. Anne Floyd Mr. John Draughn Mrs. Ginger McNeill Baruch Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Danen Mr. & Mrs. George Geer Dr. & Mrs. Paul DuBois Ms. Molly McNeill Ms. Christina Divelbiss Foundation for Mr. & Mrs. Robert Green Dr. & Mrs. Tom Dulin Ms. Beverly Meadow Ms. Celeste Drouin many reasons, Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Lane Mrs. Marcia Dunn Mr. & Mrs. Christ Mellas Mr. & Mrs. Scott Goebel but I have a Mr. & Mrs. Richard Martin Mr. & Mrs. Austin Farley Mrs. Kay Nance Ms. Charlene Haupt Mr. & Mrs. J.C. McGinty great Mr. & Mrs. Bernice Farmer Ms. Marcia Nellos Mr. Waldo Hyman Mr. & Mrs. Jay Mills respect for the Mr. & Mrs. Jim Finch Mrs. Karen Olson Mr. & Mrs. Larry Jones Dr. & Mrs. E. E. , Jr. Ms. Donna Fiocca Ms. Laurie Oreskovic research that is Mr. William Kolodi Mr. & Mrs. Benedict Rosen Mrs. June Chandler Hora Ms. Sally Overcash conducted at Mr. & Mrs. Robert Nichols Dr. Sally Self Ms. Mary Emma Foster Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Pioth Hobcaw and Mr.& Mrs. Robert Sobon Dr. & Mrs. Hal Shaw Ms. Sharon Gascon Mr. & Mrs. Albert T. Quantz known to In Kind Donors Mr. Jerome A. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. John Gomolski Mr. & Mrs. William Raley researchers all Mr. & Mrs. Donald Withers Mrs. Annette Arroyo Mr. & Mrs. Tommy Graham Mr. & Mrs. John Sands over the Mrs. Sharon Corey Friends of Hobcaw Mrs. Myra Hager Ms. Jill Santopietro world. More Mrs. Nancy Corrigall Dr. & Mrs. Mason Ahearn Ms. Beth Hawkins Ms. Ellen Schaengold Mr. & Mrs. John J. Dempsey people should Ms. Cynthia Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Clinch Heyward Mr. & Mrs. Ron Schenk Mrs. Marcia Dunn know about the Mr. & Mrs. Jack B. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Robert Honeycutt Mr. Bill Schwartz Mrs. Carol Gomolski impressive work Mr. & Mrs. Linwood Altman Mr. & Mrs. William Hoyle Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Siegrist Mrs. Avis Hutchinson being done Mr. & Mrs.John Aragona Mr.& Mrs. Doug James Mr. & Mrs. James Silvers Mr. Hugh C. Lane, Jr. here." Ms. Marguerite Assey Mr. & Mrs. Rhett Johnson Mr. Tommy Skinner Mrs. Posy Lough Ms. Margaret Balcer Dr. & Mrs. Webster Jones Mr. Harry Slifer Mr. Stephen Mantell Mr. & Mrs. Stephens Baldwin Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Kaminski Mr.& Mrs. Cary Smith Mr. & Mrs. Mac McGinty Clinch Heyward Mrs. Shirley Bingaman Mr. John Kester Ms. Eileen Snell Mrs. Ginger McNeil Mr. & Mrs. James Black Mrs. Janet Krapels Ms. Becky Sparrow Mrs. Celeste Mellas Friend of Hobcaw Mr. & Mrs. Tate Bowers Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kreikemeier Mr. Steve Steinwedel Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Revere Partner, Sterling Dr. & Mrs. William Boyd Mr. & Mrs. John LaMaster Ms.Julie Stenton Mrs. Phyllis Shaw Homes Ms. Katherine Breiter Ms. Kay Latimer Mr. & Mrs. Barry Teague Mrs. Gayle Spencer Mr. & Mrs. John Brienza Mr. & Mrs. Philip Lemon Mrs. Charla Tindall Mrs. Robert Wolfe Ms. Lee Gordon Brockington Mr. & Mrs.Lindsay Little Mrs. Pam Toemmes

Mr. & Mrs. Roger Chastain Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lorenz Ms. Elizabeth Tucker

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Cordeiro Ms. Cheryl Love Ms. Margaret Ulrichsen

Ms. Leila Coyle Mrs. Barbara MacDonald Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Van Dillen

Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Crosby Mrs. Susan Maloney Mrs. Faith Williams

Mr. & Mrs. Bill Cross Dr.Allan Markezich Mr. & Mrs. Robert Withers

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Foundations/ Agencies/ Business & Corporations

Arcelor Mittal USA New South Lumber Company South Strand Antique Arts Hunter Pace: Association ARMA NRCS The Bunnelle Foundation Applewood House of Pancakes NFWF Total Tree Care A Tradition of Horses Blue Cross Blue Shield of SC Rose Arbor Fabrics Wisteria Garden Club Hayne Hipp Foundation Santee Cooper Windwalker Horse Trails At Hobcaw International Paper SCDNR A hunter pace is an event where Volunteers riders follow a course that

Annette Arroyo Mary Hewson Celeste Mellas simulates the riding conditions Sharon Corey Mary Holman Kay Nance encountered Lane Crosby Sandra Hood Marcia Nellos during a foxhunt. Sue Daragan Peg Howell Kathy and Bill Raley On November Debra and Jack Dempsey Bill Hoyle Sandy and Ron Revere 17, 2012, the

*Marcia Dunn Avis Hutchinson Sheila Rogers foundation held Above: Sarah Sarb takes a jump the first annual Gerri Emanuele Phyllis Jividen Anita and Bob Schuhmacher at the Hobcaw hunter pace. hunter pace Donna Fiocca Pam Kerschner Janet Shaw fundraiser. Ten teams of riders competed on a Anne Floyd Janet Krapels *Bill Shehan crisp fall day through woods and over jumps and

*Mary Emma Foster Bonnie Linado Joshua Shubrick, Sr. all enjoyed a delicious lunch provided by

Carol Gomolski *Barbara MacDonald Becky Sparrow Applewood Restaurant on the grounds of the historic Bellefield Plantation stable. (Below: Bill Griffin, Jr. Gloria Mattox Gayle Spencer pictured left to right) team riders Laura Getz, Bill Hanley Jan and Mac McGinty Julie Warren Sandy Clarke, and Angela McBey took the win in *Virginia Hayes Ginger McNeill *Maryann and Bob Williamson the first flight. Nikki Graham, owner of Justintime

Ella Henderson Molly McNeill Joan and Donald Withers Farm, and Amy Vlahos assisted the foundation in planning the event. Additional photos are on the Sue Hess Beverly Meadow *Margaret and Robert Wolfe Hobcaw Barony Discovery Center Facebook * 10 year volunteer page.

The second annual hunter pace will be held November 2013, look for details in the fall “Every time I visit Hobcaw I am touched and inspired by the newsletter and at hobcawbarony.org. natural beauty. We are so fortunate to have a place like this and we need to make sure that it is protected and shared.”

Joan Withers, Baruch Society

We are grateful to the support that we receive from contributors and volunteers. Your support allows us to grow. We in turn give back to the community by way of new and expanded programs, opportunities to experience nature, and conservation of the beauty and history of Hobcaw Barony. To learn more contact us: 843-546-4623 or hobcawbarony.org P A G E 6 Continuing the Caines Legend

he Caines brothers are barbeque pit or an oyster roast have been dominating the recognized by after a long day in the field. competitive scene since. They “I don’t believe collectors as the only Baruch greatly admired Hucks’s call themselves the Caines boys known South Carolina skills in the woods and on the to distinguish themselves from Roy and I would Tdecoy carvers. Their water. He wrote, “Hucks could their grandfather and great uncles. extraordinary artistry, the value of call a duck so well with his mouth be carving The foundation asked the Caines their rare decoys, and the tradition or with a caller that neither the boys for their help in repairing two and heritage of these men of hunter nor the duck could today had it not badly damaged decoys, a mallard Georgetown County are what distinguish the call for that of a and a black duck, carved by their creates legends. real duck. When I asked Hucks been for the grandfather. “The decoy heads the secret of his success as a During the mid 1800s the Caines were broken off from years of duck man, he would say, ‘Mr. relationship our family worked as commercial hunters carrying them by the Bernie, this business is like fishermen and hunters making necks. We knew that Jerry and family had with everything else – you just got to their home on the shores of Roy would be able to restore them know.’” Winyah Bay at Caines Village. to their original condition,” says the Baruchs 100 This area was part of the colonial And know ducks they did. They George Chastain, foundation years ago.” Hobcaw Barony and was carved their mostly mallard executive director. purchased by Bernard Baruch in decoys from a single piece of Jerry and Roy carved new heads 1905. cypress or gum. Many believe - Jerry Caines for the two decoys and painted that Hucks carved either the Baruch felt that the family them the same patina making the majority or at least carved the fine members of Caines Village lived new heads indistinguishable. features of the head, neck and on his land illegally and were They also carved a preening wings. The Caines’s signature therefore poaching. However, mallard based on a decoy of their “Repairing our was a “snakey neck” or heart- after many attempts to prosecute, grandfather’s design. All three shaped wings or both. Of the 550 Baruch realized that if he got rid of decoys are on display at The grandfather’s decoys that existed, only 50 are the Caines family, then Hobcaw Hobcaw Barony Discovery Center known to have survived and it is would become open season for where they were unveiled on decoys was an their rarity and artistry that has other poachers. He offered the February 21, at a Friends of commanded the near $200,000 Caines brothers jobs as hunting Hobcaw opening event. honor and we’re price tag. guides, in essence paying them Lee Brockington, foundation not to hunt. Four of the five Hucks’s grandsons, Jerry and Roy proud of how senior interpreter, put it best when brothers worked for Baruch and all Caines, are continuing their she said, “History books rarely they turned are buried on the Hobcaw grandfather’s legacy. After record the voices of those who property. spending most of their lives as know the land and waters best. out.” commercial fishermen, the two The brothers were much loved by The Caines’s heritage speaks to began carving their own decoys in guests and Hucks was Baruch’s the generations of South - Roy Caines 2005. They took home two favorite, a great raconteur, he Carolinians who have called the ribbons at their first show and would tell stories around a Lowcountry their home.”

(Far right): Jerry and Roy Caines with their award winning decoys.

(Right): Mallard and black duck decoys (ca. 1910) carved by Hucks Caines and repaired by Jerry and Roy Caines. Both are on display at The Discovery Center.

Donald Withers Georgetown Times

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Register by calling 843-546-4623 (unless otherwise specified) or email us at [email protected]. Additional activities are offered by the North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve www.northinlet.sc.edu

Hobcaw Barony Photo Safari Watercolor Textural Effects with Natural Objects Workshop Friday, April 5 6:00AM—10:30AM Saturday, April 20 Tuesday, April 23 5:45AM—10:15AM $40 per person 10:00AM – 4:00PM $50 per person for each session This one day workshop will encourage you to explore the marvelous shapes found in nature. Natural objects will be the Spend an early morning with Donald Withers, master naturalist foundation which can then be developed into an abstract or and nature photographer, capturing the beauty of Hobcaw realism composition. Bring a brown bag lunch. Intermediate level Barony. There will be several sites visited on the property. All of painting. Review equipment list at www.hobcawbarony.org. levels of photographic expertise welcome.

True Blue, An Indigo Workshop Build a Bat Box Friday, May 10 Saturday, April 6 Cost $50 9:00AM—4:00PM Cost $20 per box 5:00PM—8:00PM During the Carolina colony’s early history, rice and indigo shared Bats are one of the most unique animals in the world, and are success as early crops. Learn a bit of history and chemistry and crucial to many ecosystems. Insect-eating bats are the primary then in a workshop, dye materials to understand the colorfast blue predators of night-flying insects. One little brown bat can eat dye that catapulted Carolina into economic wealth by 1750. several thousand insects each night. Join us as we discuss bat Lunch included. biology, build and install bat boxes around the pond at Bellefield, and watch and wait for the flying mammals to appear at dusk.

Coastal Ecology Camp Spring Cleaning? Green Cleaning! June 5,6 & 7 June 26, 27 & 28 Thursday, April 18 June 12,13, & 14 July 10,11, & 12 Cost $15 10:00AM—12:00PM June 19, 20, & 21 It’s hard to get away from cleaning products. They go on our $65 per child 9:00AM—12:00PM dishes, countertops, furniture, clothes, floors, windows and even Each 3-day nature camp is open to rising second through fifth float through the air. In the war on dirt and germs, our techniques graders. Campers will explore different environments where may often be making things worse. The health and environmental activities, games and animals are used to teach the importance of implications of the cleaning products we all grew up with can be each ecological setting. Habitats covered will include the pond, surprising. Instead of opting for cleaning products that kill forest and salt marsh. everything in their path, there are plenty of natural products and methods that keep a house clean without the toxic side effects. Wild Wednesdays Don’t miss this opportunity to eliminate chemicals in your home. $5 per child

Adult must accompany children 3:00PM—4:30PM Boater Education Class Targeted to children ages 5 through 10, but all ages are welcome. Saturday, April 20 Each program begins with an informal discussion and hands-on 10:00AM—4:00PM activities are part of the experience. Hobcaw Barony in partnership with The South Carolina June 5 What Lies Beneath: Life in a Pond Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) ) is hosting a boater June 12 What’s Pressing You: Leaves of Nature education class. Learn the fundamentals of safe and responsible June 19 Salt Marsh: Wild and Salty boating. Boaters under 16 years of age are required by law to June 26 The Sting on Pollinators pass an approved boater education course before operating, July 3 Alligator Birthday Party without supervision, a personal watercraft (including jet ski) or a July 10 Blues, Stones, Hermits—We’re Talking CRABS! boat powered by a motor 15 hp or more. To sign up go to July 17 The Inside Scoop on Owl Pellets dnr.sc.gov/education/boated.html. Under “Instructor-led Classes” July 24 Snakes, Gators, Skins and Skulls click on “Boating Course Calendar”. Enter zip code 29440 and July 31 Tortoise or Turtle? select April 3rd. Bring your lunch. Aug 7 History Mystery

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Collectable Miniature Decoys

Miniature wooden decoys made locally by the award- winning carvers the Caines Boys. For more on the Caines Boys, Jerry and Roy, see the article on page 6. These hand-carved and hand-painted decoys are about 6” long and have all the detail of a full sized model. Shown left is a wigeon drake and on the right is a black duck priced at $350 each. Carving kits are available for $25. Donald Withers