More than 40 years ago, the late owner of Boone Hall Plantation, Willie McRae, and the late executive director of the Charleston Restaurant Association, Kathy Britzius, formed a partnership that established the Lowcountry Oyster Festival on the property’s grounds. On June 5, in honor of McRae and Britzius, Charleston Restaurant Foundation presented recycled oyster shells that were saved and collected from the festival and prepared by the Coastal Conservation Association of South Carolina and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources for the dedication of a reef.