• 2023 Spring Luncheon – April 29, 2023: Don’t miss our visit from the GSMD Governor General Jane Hurt. Join us at the Poseidon Restaurant, 38 Shelter Cove Lane, Hilton Head Island, SC. Doors open at 11:30 and the meeting begins at noon. Be sure to register early; attendance is strictly limited to 83 people. Lunch includes salad, choice of two entrees, dessert, iced tea, water and a cash bar is available.
    There will not be a Friday night Meet and Greet for this meeting and hotel blocks have not been reserved. We offer the following three suggestions if you wish to stay overnight:
  • ● Hilton Garden Inn Hilton Head, 1575 Fording Island Rd, Hilton Head Island, SC 29926, 843-837-8111
  • ● Comfort Suites Bluffton Hilton Head, 23 Towne Dr., Bluffton, SC 29910, 843-815-1700
  • ● Home 2 Suites by Hilton Hilton Head Island, 836 William Hilton Pkwy, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928, 843-802-2700
  • RESERVATION DEADLINE: April 18, 2023 Sign up online here.

  • 2023 Compact Day Luncheon Meeting & Election Please plan to join us on November 11, 2023 at The Piedmont Club, 361 East Main Street, Spartanburg, for the 2023 Compact Day Luncheon Meeting. Our speaker will be Jennifer Sinsigalli, pen name J.L. Rose. Jennifer lives in historic Duxbury and works at Plimoth Patuxet Museum (formerly Plimoth Plantation) as an historic interpreter. Jennifer is the author of the novel, Before the Mayflower. She will share with us details of writing about the thirty-three years before the Mayflower crossing; from religion to daily life, to the perils of fleeing one country to take refuge in another, and then to consider repeating that risky act and including Brewster, Bradford, Carver, Robins and Standish families.


  • Future SMD-SC Semi-Annual Luncheon Meetings
  • ● 2023 Spring Luncheon Meeting: April 29, 2023: Governor General Jane Hurt visits, Hilton Head, SC
  • ● 2023 Compact Day Luncheon Meeting: November 11, 2023, The Piedmont Club, Spartanburg, SC
  • ● 2024 Spring Luncheon Meeting: April 27, 2024, South Carolina Coastal Area
  • ● 2024 Compact Day Luncheon Meeting, TBD, Midlands


  • GSMD Dates to Plan Around
  • ● September 8 - 13, 2023, GSMD Congress, Plymouth, MA
  • ● September 6 - 10, 2024, GBOA Meeting, Asheville, NC
  • ● September 5 - 9, 2025, GBOA Meeting, San Antonio, TX
  • ● September 11 - 15, 2026, GSMD Congress, Plymouth, MA
  • ● September 10 - 14, 2027, GBOA Meeting, Atlanta, GA
Jane Hurt

Governor General Jane Hurt - 2023 Spring Luncheon

Jennifer Sinsigalli - J.L. Rose

Jennifer Sinsigalli, pen name J.L. Rose - 2023 Compact Day Luncheon