Susan Shirley Duerk of Murrells Inlet recalled a day she spent with Maxine Oliver Hawkins and Roosevelt “Rooster” Pickett as they roasted, shucked and ate oysters by the campfire in the backyard of Oliver’s Lodge.
“They cooked the oysters and they lit heaters to the side that kept us warm. It’s a lot of history here,” she said.
Duerk reminisced about times she spent at one of the oldest restaurants in Murrells Inlet as she stood outside the chain-link fence that now surrounds the perimeter of the Oliver’s Lodge property that Belin Memorial United Methodist Church’s purchased for $2 million last week…