Casey Ryan Bokhoven
November 22, 1980 – March 11, 2006
http://www.myspace.com/justice4casey
Shaggers!
Allow me this personal privilege
with an unrelated shag story. Sunday morning after the finals, I was awakened by
my youngest son, David calling from
Casey and his girlfriend had
just left the corner diner. She stayed behind to talk with friends as he waited
for her on the sidewalk in front of his apartment. He was hit by a speeding
pickup truck driven by a local news anchor. Police said the driver did not pass
their sobriety test, that he refused a breathalyzer and that he smelled strongly
of alcohol.
We see accounts of drunk drivers
every week. Recently a female in Murrells Inlet was arrested for hitting and
leaving the scene of an accident where a fifteen year old student was killed.
Hopefully you will not feel the pain and loss as Casey’s and the fifteen year
old victim’s family and friends are feeling.
Along with shag events comes some drinking. If you do, make sure you have a designated driver! Nothing original here! It will happen again and again! Just don’t let it happen to you as a driver. It is a guilt no one would want to carry.
Barry Thigpen, NDSC Chairman
RECOMMENDED SHAG READING
Shagging in the Carolinas is a history of dance, romance, and the New South. The Shag defied social conventions as carefree white teenagers were inspired by the possibilities inherent in improvisational black dance and music. This is the story of how Southern society’s emerging middle class embraced its multicultural roots while its political leaders continued to debate and deny the outcome of the Civil War. These are the unique people and circumstances that nurtured the evolution of Shag and Beach Music at places like the “jump joints” of Carolina Beach, the inland lake retreats, and the pavilions of Ocean Drive, Atlantic, Folly, Wrightsville, and Tybee beaches. With lively music and dancers, the Shag was popular at famous dance clubs, teen canteens, and armories. Venues such as the Coachman and IV, the Cellar, the Bushes, the Embers Clubs, and the Beach Club at Myrtle Beach are captured within these pages. The early pioneers and iconoclasts of dancing brought about a cultural revolution, embodied today by the many societies, competitions, and innumerable entertainers and bands that continue the Beach Music tradition.
To order "Shaggin' In The Carolinas" mail your order to John Hook, POB 422, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29597. Books are $20.00 each, Shipping & Handling rates are as follows: 1-2.00, 2-2.50, 3-3.00, 4-3.50, 5-4.00, 6-4.50, 7-5.00.
Coming Christmas 2007: Dancing On the Edge: The Complete History of Shag & Beach Music
