Folly Beach bar continues decades-old Christmas potluck tradition

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCSC) — As Christmas Day closes many doors, one remains open for those who may have nowhere to go.

Planet Follywood, a bar and grill in Folly Beach, is carrying on a family tradition of a Christmas potluck, inviting new and familiar faces with a backstory that began in the 1960s.

The tradition started when Florence O’Donnell was a U.S. Navy wife alone for Christmas, unable to see her family in Philadelphia. She went to the one place open in Folly…

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