On Going Happenings
Agave Bar & Grill - Happy Hour 5-7pm, 2 for 1 12 oz. Margaritas.
Thursday thru Saturday - party upstairs. 402 1st Street.
A-J’s Dockside - Happy Hour 4-7pm, Live music Friday thru Sunday,
Lunch 7 days a week 11am-5pm, Dinner 7 days a week 5-10pm. Kayak
and paddle board rentals available. Call 912-786-9533. 1315 Chatham
Ave.
American Legion Post 154 - Canteen open 5pm Monday-Saturday,
First Mondays Pizza Night 5-7pm, Bar Games Tuesday and Thursday
6-9pm, Line Dancing Wednesday 7pm, Thursday Dinners 5:30-7:30pm,
Bingo (come early!) and Karaoke Friday 8-10pm. 10 Veterans Dr.
Benny’s Tavern - Happy Hour Monday thru Friday 10am-7pm, Open
Pool Tuesday all day, Pool Tournament Wednesday 8pm, Karaoke
Thursday thru Sunday 9pm. Kitchen open Wednesday-Sunday from 3pm
until.1517 Butler Ave.
Bubba Gumbo’s - Open Sunday thru Thursday 12-9pm, Friday and
Saturday 12-10pm. Happy Hour food 4-7pm with $9.95 Shrimp Dinner.
Happy Hour drinks 3pm-6pm, $1.00 off house wine and beer. 3 Old
Highway 80.
Doc’s Bar - Happy Hour Monday thru Friday 4-7pm, Karaoke Thursday
8pm, Live music Friday and Saturday 9pm. 10 Tybrisa St.
Fannie’s on the Beach - Live music on weekends. Saturday and Sunday
Brunch Specials. 1613 Strand Ave.
Nickie’s 1971 Bar and Grill - Happy Hour Monday thru Friday 4-7pm,
Daily Lunch Specials Monday thru Friday, Roy Swindelle Band Tuesday
8pm, Sips and Scenes every Wednesday 7pm, 8 Ball Pool Tournament
and Karaoke Thursday 7pm, Live Band Friday and Saturday 9pm-?? Roy
Swindelle Band Sunday 7-11pm with a rib eye steak and shrimp dinner
for $14.95. 1513 Butler Ave.
Social Club – Open 7 days a week. Daily Happy Hour from 5-6pm, Live
music Thursday at 7pm and Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Bluegrass
Brunch Sunday 11am-3pm. 1311 Butler Ave.
Spanky’s - Daily cocktail and beer specials. Home of the Original
Chicken Finger! 1605 Strand Ave.
Sting Ray’s Seafood – The home of blue crabs, beach music and beer.
Live music every night 6-10 pm. 14th St. at Butler Avenue.
The Deck – Open Monday thru Thursday 11am-9pm, Friday 11am-
10pm, Saturday 9am-10pm, Sunday 9am-9pm, Live music Saturday
2-5pm. Only restaurant on the beach. 404 Butler Ave.
Tybee Time - Happy Hour Monday thru Friday 4-7pm, DJ Marty
Thursday-Saturday. 1603 Strand Ave.
Wind Rose Café - Happy Hour Monday thru Friday 4-7pm. Daily Lunch
Specials, Wednesday Night Bingo with Doug, Sunday Night Bingo with
Patty, starts 9ish. 19 Tybrisa St.
28 TYBEE BEACHCOMBER | JULY 2018
By Hollie Sessoms
America – Our Home
Roots are hard for people like me, people who were raised like gypsies,
moving house every few years, leaving friends, schools, and towns behind
without a second thought. Origins are hard for people like me, people
who don’t know how to answer the question “Where are you from?”
because it’s too complicated, too involved, we would have to tell life
stories to answer that question and no one is interested in hearing that.
Home is hard for people like me, people who pick up regional accents
in a matter of months—Southern one year, Yankee the next—and don’t
really know for sure what our true voices sound like.
But I have left this country, traveled to other lands in the world,
enjoyed their food, their people, the beautiful things they have to show,
breathtaking sights. I have loved every minute of being gone from here,
yet couldn’t wait to get back. I have sat with excitement as plane wheels
lower and hit, one bump, then another, and a third, then smooth rolling—
back in America. Even I know what home is.
We all know how divided the country is now. We all see the arguments
on Facebook, Twitter, the news channels even pitted against one another.
Everyone thinks they’re in the right, and the other is undoubtedly in the
wrong, holding so tight to our belief sets that we won’t let any other
opinions in. But we share one thing in common—we all call this place
home. Let’s face it, we’re not going anywhere, there’s nowhere else we
would rather be.
This Fourth of July is an opportunity for us to come together and rejoice
over this one thing we have in common. A time to remember how hard
our forefathers fought to bring this country into being and how hard we
should still fight to keep it together. A time to reflect on all the things, both
foreign and domestic, that have tried to drag us to our knees, but have
failed. A time to celebrate that no matter how different we are, we can all
agree that a hot dog and an ice-cold beer go pretty good with fireworks
and that we look damn good in stars and stripes.
So, this July Fourth, make sure you hug a liberal, shake hands with a
conservative, buy lots of cocktails for people in the middle like me who
think all y’all are nuts, breathe in the sweet air of freedom, and enjoy this
place we all call home. ‘Merica.