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j&a opens new office in bluffton, south carolina |
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from our February 2006 newsletter |
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| “I've been coming to the Lowcountry for about 10 years and just love it here,” said Jan Johansen, speaking from her new office in Ridgeland, South Carolina. |
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| “While I’ve lived in the Chicago suburbs my entire life, I have always loved the ocean and fell in love with the marshes & wildlife in this area.” |
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| Jan started visiting the Lowcountry with her family in the ‘80s??? They were driving through Virginia to Georgia; stopping in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Myrtle Beach, and ultimately, Hilton Head. They were casually looking at real estate at a Hilton Head plantation when her daughter Aaron, spotted a white ibis. |
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| Jan remembers, “I became interested in the ibis about 20 years ago when I was doing some research for a client about the history of the written language. I learned that the Egyptian hieroglyph of a feeding ibis means ‘to find’ as in searching for the truth, and that the Egyption god Thoth was the 'tech writer' to the gods and was represented as a man with the head of an ibis.” |
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The ibis has played a significant role in Jan’s business life as well, being a technical writer.
“I began researching this connection to our business and started to collect ibises – first as they related to Thoth and hieroglyphics – and eventually the shore birds found along the Atlantic coast,” said Jan. |
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| Besides collecting photos & information about the Lowcountry’s wildlife, Jan enjoys riding her horse Honey and visiting nearby Pinckney Island Wildlife Refuge to see the roosting ibises at sunset. |
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