Best Bets for the Myrtle Beach area, May 8-14

“Military Appreciation Days’ continue

The seventh annual “Military Appreciation Days” celebration for all of May continues with various events across the Grand Strand, before really going into overdrive on the weekends of May 15 and 22. More details at 918-1014 or www.militaryappreciationdays.com:

▪ Mother’s Day Breakfast, 8-11 a.m. Sunday at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10420, U.S. 17 Bypass, Murrells Inlet. $7, and public welcome. 651-6900.

▪ Vietnam war-era helicopters on display, six aircraft in all, from N.C. Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association, Wednesday-May 29, outside Myrtle Beach Convention Center, on Oak Street at 21st Avenue North, and on Ocean Boulevard, between Eighth and Ninth avenues North.

▪ Exhibits for 50th anniversary of the ground offensive in the Vietnam War, May 14-16 on Ocean Boulevard, between Eighth and Ninth avenues North – Agent Orange Victims & Widows Support Network Inc.’s Agent Orange Quilt of Tears (www.agentorangequiltoftears.com), and a traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall – “The Wall That Heals.”

▪ “Veterans and Friends” golf outing by Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 925 Grand Strand, 9 a.m. May 14 at Indian Wells Golf Club in Garden City Beach. $45 individual, $180 four-person team. www.vva925.org/more/golf-outing-may-14.pdf.

Also, in North Carolina: “Fort Fisher’s V-E (Victory in Europe) Day,” 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, including Cliff Tyndall signing copies of his book, “Greetings from Camp Davis,” at Fort Fisher State Historic Site, off U.S. 421 in Kure Beach (open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays). Free. 910-458-5538 or www.nchistoricsites.org/fisher/.

Brookgreen to unveil two new exhibits

Brookgreen Gardens will open two new exhibits Saturday, going through July 26:

▪ “Carolina Roots: Works by Sigmund Abeles and Grainger McKoy,” with paintings, prints, and drawings, and sculptures in wood, bronze, and resin. Abeles, a printmaker, painter, and sculptor, grew up in Myrtle Beach, and McKoy, is a sculptor from Sumter.

▪ “Antebellum Waccamaw: Paintings and Drawings by Emily Esdaile Weston,” of local vistas from the 1840s-’60s. Weston was the British wife of Plowden C. J. Weston, who in the 19th century, owned Laurel Hill Plantation, the north section of Brookgreen Gardens’ property.

Both are free with garden admission, which lasts seven days – $15 ages 13-64, $13 ages 65 and older, and $7 ages 4-12 – as are a host of other daily activities:

▪ Huntington Sculpture Garden Tour, 11 a.m., noon and 2 p.m.

▪ “Mother Nature’s Cafe” animal feeding, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

▪ “Meet the Animals” talk, 2:30 p.m.

▪ Children’s Discovery Room , noon-4:30 p.m.

▪ Gullah Program, 1 p.m. Wednesdays (but not May 27), with Ron Daise, Brookgreen’s vice president for creative education.

Find the gardens, on U.S. 17, between Litchfield Beach and Murrells Inlet, across from Huntington Beach State Park. Details at 235-6000, 800-849-1931 or www.brookgreen.org.

Benefits in run/walk, ‘Great Strides,’ Tams concert

▪ “Girls on the Run Grand Strand 5K Run/Walk, benefiting after-school physical fitness and social programs for local girls in grades 3-8, 9 a.m. Saturday at Myrtle Beach’s Grand Park, on Farrow Parkway, across from The Market Common. $15. 314-9132 or www.gotrgrandstrand.org.

▪ Annual “Great Strides” Myrtle Beach Walk, 3 miles, benefiting Cystic Fibrosis Foundation S.C. Chapter (based in Mount Pleasant), 10 a.m. Saturday at TicketReturn.com Field at Pelicans Ballpark, 1251 21st Ave. N., Myrtle Beach, at Robert Grissom Parkway. Registration open 9 a.m. All donations welcome. Also, annual Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Night at the Myrtle Beach Pelicans game against Carolina Mudcats at 7:05 p.m. May 14 – Buy fundraising tickets for $11 each or five for $50 by ordering at 388-5968, otherwise they’re at regular box office rates: $9, $11 or $13 field box in advance, and each $2 more on game day (www.myrtlebeachpelicans.com). More CCF details at 866-324-2242 or sc.cff.org.

▪ Annual “Pawleys Pavilion Reunion,” benefiting Habitat for Humanity Georgetown County, 6-11 p.m. Saturday at Pawleys Nature Park, on North Causeway, with music by The Tams and food by Moe’s Original Bar B Que. For ages 13 and older: $30 advance, $35 at gate; $10 ages 3-12; and free ages 2 and younger. Group rates available. 10 for $22 each, 20 for $20 each, and 50 for $18 each. 546-5685 or www.habitatgeorgetown.com/events.html.

Nature, pottery fill galleries

▪ The Rice Museum’s Prevost Gallery, , 633 Front St., Georgetown, will have an opening reception 2-4 p.m. Saturday for an exhibit by about 25 members of the Myrtle Beach region in the Carolinas’ Nature Photographers Association (www.cnpa.org). The display, by a group focused on nature photography, will continue through June 13. Gallery open 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, and 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Sundays, with free admission. Also, visit the museum, now 45 years old, Mondays-Saturdays, for $7 adults, $5 ages 60 and older, $3 ages 6-21 and students, and free ages 5 and younger. Details at 546-7423 or www.ricemuseum.org.

▪ Sunset River Marketplace, 10283 Beach Drive (N.C. 179), Calabash, N.C., has a special exhibition and sale of pottery through May 28 by instructors Jamie Futera and Jane Truesdale, and their respective students, in hand-built pieces from slab and others thrown on the pottery wheel. Also, “Sculptural Clay Art” exhibit by Marty Allran, Wednesday-June 6, including meet-and-greet with him, noon-4 p.m. Saturday. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays. 910-575-5999 or www.sunsetrivermarketplace.com.

Mother’s Day events, two school concerts

Special outings with Mom in mind, this weekend:

▪ Andrews Heritage Festival – Saturday: Lions Club Mother’s Day Breakfast 7-10 a.m. at 209 N. Rosemary Ave., festival opening at 9:30 a.m. and art activity 10 a.m.-noon in Andrews Pavilion, and pageant at 2 p.m. at Andrews High School; Monday: “History of Andrews,” 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Ole Town Hall Museum and 6-8 p.m. at Georgetown County Library Andrews branch; Tuesday: Beautification Project by high schoolers 3:30-6:15 p.m. from town hall; Wednesday: concert 6-9 p.m. in pavilion; May 14: Community Mural 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in pavilion; May 15: Shopping even and street dance 4-11 p.m. on Main Street; and May 16: 5K run/walk at 7 a.m., parade 11 a.m., festival noon-9 p.m. at Andrews Recreation Center, including “Taste of Andrews.” Many events free. 359-1574 or www.andrewsheritagefestival.com.

▪ “Make Mom a Necklace for Mother’s Day,” 11 a.m. Saturday at Museum of Coastal Carolina, 21 E. Second St., Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. (open 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays), with youngsters encouraged to make a bead-and-pearl necklace to give for Mother’s Day. Free with admission: admission, are each $9 ages 13-61, $8 ages 62 and older, $7 ages 3-12, and free ages 2 and younger. 910-570-1016 or www.museumplanetarium.org.

▪ Free Mother’s Day admission for all moms, Sunday, at N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher, on U.S. 421, just south of Kure Beach, open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Regular admission: $10.95 ages 13-61, $9.95 seniors and military, $8.95 ages 3-12, and free ages 2 and younger. Also, this Sunday: Mother’s Day Brunch and take-home crafts 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., for extra $24 ages 13 and older, $22 ages 3-12, $5 age 2, and free ages 1 and younger, by reservation only. 910-458-7468 or www.ncaquariums.com/fort-fisher.

Also, join staff from North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. May 13 for a naturalist-guided tour on kayak through North Inlet to the remote North Island beach, near Georgetown, with a capacity of six, and beginners welcome. $50 per person. 904-9017 or www.northinlet.sc.edu.

Students at two schools have special productions on stage, later next week:

▪ Spring Show Choir Concert, 7 p.m. May 14-15 at Socastee High School, 4900 Socastee Blvd., near Dick Pond Road and S.C. 544. $5. 293-9041 or socasteeperformingarts.com.

▪ Cedar Grove Middle School of Supply, N.C., in Chorus Concert, 6:30 p.m. May 14 at Sharon United Methodist Church, 2030 Holden Beach Road, Supply. Free. 910-253-2900 or www.bcswan.net.

This story was originally published May 7, 2015 at 8:00 AM with the headline "Best Bets for the Myrtle Beach area, May 8-14."