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'I’m the sock-burning guy': Meet the Pawleys Island boater who started a quirky tradition

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Bob Turner started the annual event while managing a boatyard in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1978. The Georgetown museum started its own tradition in 2011, the year Turner moved to Pawleys Island. The event at the maritime museum featured a bateau filled with socks to be donated to Friendship Place.

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'I’m the sock-burning guy': Meet the Pawleys Island boater who started a quirky tradition

In 1978, a Maryland boatyard manager named Bob Turner started burning socks as a way to say goodbye to winter. The idea spread. Now the tradition continues in Georgetown.

1 month ago·Charleston, United States

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