93 www.ReadMPM.com | www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.MountPleasantPodcast.com When Kevin Jayroe, local realtor and chairman of Georgetown’s Architectural Review Board, and Trudy Bazemore, associate director of the Georgetown County Library, sat down for lunch at the Rice Paddy restaurant 23 years ago, they hatched an idea to create a holiday tour of homes as an event to raise funds for the library’s children’s area and its programs. Jayroe and Bazemore invited homeowners from the historical district, as well as the Willowbank and West End neighborhoods, to open their decorated doors for touring during the season, all for a great cause. Last year the four-hour event, which falls on the second Saturday of December, attracted over 700 guests, the biggest attendance so far, according to Jayroe, whose home, built in 1739, will be one of the featured homes this year. “We love seeing repeat visitors on the tour because it feels like homecoming,” he said. “The homes we select for the tour never disappoint,” Bazemore BY SARAH ROSE on the coast Stroll Through Time Georgetown’s Yuletide Tour of Homes
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