Local grassroots group seeks to improve the quality of Beaufort’s downtown tennis facilities while the area’s tennis community continues to grow. By Mindy Lucas It’s a bright, crisp Sunday morning in downtown Beaufort. A group of women are playing doubles tennis at the courts on the corner of Bladen and Boundary streets. As the players trade shots, traffic passes by on Boundary, though the women seem oblivious to the noise just a few yards away.
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“If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that’s going faster and faster, we’re spinning off the edge of the universe.” – Martin Scorsese
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Lowcountry Wind Symphony and Beaufort High School Band Partner for ‘An American Portrait’The Lowcountry Wind Symphony Winter Concerts will be given at two different venues in Beaufort Country, South and North of the Broad River. The first is Wednesday, 7 pm February 12 at The Lowcountry Community Church, 801 Buckwalter Parkway, Bluffton. The second is Thursday, February 13, 7 pm at Beaufort High School Performing Arts Auditorium, 84 Sea Island Parkway on Lady’s Island. Both concerts are FREE and open to the public.
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The Lowcountry Community Concert Band’s spring season opens with two upcoming concerts of music...
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It’s time for some food, music and fun! Beaufort Memorial Hospital presents the 2020 Bands, Brews & BBQ, bringing two days of food, music and fun with wings, barbecue, craft beers, live music and kids’ activities on Friday and Saturday, February 28 & 29. This year’s event will take place at The Port of Port Royal.
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Lowcountry biologist Travis Folk will return to the Verdier House Dinner & a Lecture Series with a program on the landscape of conservation, management and appreciation of the rural lowcountry. The lecture is set for Monday, February 24, 2020 at 5:30 p.m. at 801 Bay Street, the John Mark Verdier House.
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Vivian Bikulege, Director of the South Carolina Writers Association (SCWA), in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, is pleased to announce “Open Mic Night” for writers of all types held at Common Ground in downtown Beaufort. Poets, Fiction, and Non-Fiction writers are invited and welcome to attend from 6 -7:30 pm on the 2nd Thursday of each month.
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Last month, LowcountrySpeaker Series, in partnership with the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce, successfully kicked off its inaugural season by hosting the 66th Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (2005-2009). Nearly 1,000 community members attended the lecture, which was hostedin a live, face-to-face forum at the Marriott Hilton Head Resort & Spa.
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Weekend will feature three winners of the Willie Morris Award for Southern FictionThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center invites writers to an exclusive retreat weekend at the historic Anchorage 1770 Inn (1103 Bay St.) in the heart of beautiful Beaufort by the sea. Participating writers will immerse themselves in a collaborative experience with our distinguished faculty of award-winning writers and publishing professionals as they share their insights and experiences in the same generous mentoring spirit as the late Pat Conroy.
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Conroy classmate, novelist Stephanie Austin Edwards, to lead The Pat Conroy Literary Center Book Club has been reading and discussing all twelve of Conroy’s memoirs and novels in order of publication. Led by a guest discussion leader, these monthly gatherings are free and open to the public.
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