Silent Auction Baskets Needed

We need volunteers to donate Silent Auction baskets for the Lobsterfest Silent Auction. Items can be purchased online or at discount stores like Tuesday Morning and Steinmart, etc.

All you have to do is supply the contents, the Silent Auction Committee will buy the baskets, stuff them & decorate them.

If interested, please contact Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Webster, or Linda Sawyer.

Your imagination can run wild! The basket can contain items or certificates (or both!)

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Great Items at Lobsterfest Silent Auction

The Silent Auction at Lobsterfest is offering fantastic items this year. Silent auction bidders have the opportunity to bid on luxurious vacation homes, sporting events, entertainment and adventure opportunities, fashion and art Items plus an array of unique items and gift baskets.

Vacation opportunities include one week at fabulous homes in North Litchfield Beach, SC or Pensacola, FL.

Tickets to “Bear Country” at the Springer Theatre, tickets to “Grease” at the River Center and an invitation to a Luau are available for bidders seeking entertainment.

The auction offers an airplane ride over Harris County, a private tour of Fort Benning, plus Fly Fishing lessons.

Art items include jewelry items by local artists as well as paintings by area artists.

Are you a Sports Fan? Well, there are tickets in the auction to the UGA vs. Georgia Tech game on November 27th. Tickets are on the 45 yard line, lower tier, under cover, along with a parking pass for the Hull lot across from the stadium where most of the tailgating occurs.

Also, this just in…we have 2 tickets to the Wednesday practice round of the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia!

Need a babysitter? Bid on 5 hours of babysitting from one of our talented youth!

This is a sampling of the great auction items available at the St. Nicholas Episcopal Church Lobsterfest on September 24th at Sweet Home Plantation in Pine Mountain. There is much more. To order Lobsterfest tickets, click here.

What Should I Draw?

I did not draw this. Really.

Lobsterfest is looming large over me. I’m really excited about the event, I really am, but due to Sue Halmrast twisting my arm, I agreed to donate a couple of pieces of original artwork to the silent auction. What was I thinking?

For those of you who may not know, I am somewhat of a cartoonist, and a deep lover of sequential art, not just comic books, but any art that tells a sequential story. I think the marriage between words and pictures is fascinating, and I’ve been a fan of such art, particularly comics, since I was a boy. I can remember copying Garfield comic strips by Jim Davis when I was younger, and learning just how to get those eyes right.

My high school years were when I was at my artistic peak. I spent most of my time in the art room, with my teacher Ms. Haroldson, whom I loved to pester as much as learn from. In my senior year, I received the Art Award on Honors Night, which is my only claim to fame from high school. I still have a lot of that work.

When I went to Berry, I had every intention of being an art major. However, my advisor and professor was too…well…artsy for my taste, and I didn’t think that I was going to make it in that program. So I switched to my other love, religion, and studied that instead. But I did my fair share of drawing in college. For two years, I was the editorial cartoonist for the Campus Carrier, which taught me how to draw on a deadline. There were nights where I was burning major midnight oil trying to get one of those single-panelled terrors in on time. Luckily, my editor was also a dear friend and Episcopalian, so she cut me some slack. Read more