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Author: Margaret Evans

Just One Story

By Margaret Evans, EditorEverybody has their Tales from the Time of Coronavirus, and thanks to social media, those tales are being widely and wonderfully told. From the harrowing to the humorous to the merely mundane, we’re all telling our stories, because here in the land of humans, stories save. They always have and they always will. Hallelujah!

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Tobin Bridge Blues

We all have bad days, some far worse than others. Last month I caught myself on fire while lighting a scented candle at home. The cute little flame jumped its glass container and scampered up my shirt. In seconds a comfortable polyester piece with no ironing requirements turned into a torch.

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Crossing Ribaut

The last link in the Spanish Moss Trail will be a game changer for Beaufort and Port Royal, planners sayBy Mindy Lucas Four years after the Spanish Moss Trail opened in 2012, planners for the popular walking and bicycling path hit a snag. A new section, just over half a mile, was to extend the trail past the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in northern Beaufort County. There was just one problem. The section wasn’t paved.

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Community Foundation Launches COVID-19 Response Fund

As many of our neighbors struggle with hardships and consequences caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Community Foundation of the Lowcountry has responded by creating the Lowcountry Community COVID-19 Response Fund. The fund will rapidly deploy resources to community-based, frontline nonprofit organizations addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton and Colleton Counties. 

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Local Poetry

April is National Poetry Month, and this year, the timing couldn’t be better. Over the next few issues of Lowcountry Weekly, we’ll feature the work of 14 local poets.

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Photography Club of Beaufort Print Awards

Someone once said, “It’s not really a photograph until the photograph is printed.”   To members of the Photography Club of Beaufort, a print is the completion of the photograph. Printed images are necessary as photographic art. Members cannot imagine that the digital age will render prints irrelevant. Fine art photographer Huntingon Witherill stated that an electronic image could no more replace a fine art print than a synthesizer could replace a violin!  

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The Cruelest Month?

By Margaret Evans, EditorMarch pulled a switcheroo this year – coming in like a lamb, going out like a lion. A whole pride of lions, actually. And boy, did the month morph fast. My head is still spinning.             Two columns ago, in early March, I casually wondered whether my husband and I should consider canceling our April trip to visit our exchange student daughter in Central Europe. There was this thing called Coronavirus, and it was starting to sound a little scary. But it was early days yet, and maybe it would pass. We decided to play it by ear.

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