This week’s broadcast of Peter Greenberg Worldwide comes the Montage Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton, South Carolina, a true luxury resort nestled within a community surrounded by 20,000 acres of maritime forest. Peter Greenberg reports on the latest State Department warning classifications and his picks for the hot spots of 2018. Mayor of Bluffton Lisa Sulkayor joins the show to talk about the town’s development from 450 people in 1993 to its current population of more than 20,000. Bluffton Historical Preservation Society Director Kelly Logan Graham speaks about Bluffton’s role in the Civil War, and what was preserved after the Burning of Bluffton. Did someone say not to feed the alligators? That’s Jay Walea, Director of the Conservancy, who speaks about the 300 alligators on the property as well as the area’s wildlife and the conservancy’s research projects. There’s all of this and more as Peter Greenberg Worldwide broadcasts from the Montage Hotels & Resorts Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton, South Carolina.

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