It’s early on the morning of July 5th and I’m at my desk, catching up on yesterday’s work. It was the least Fourthy Fourth I can remember at our house, with nary a dash of pomp nor circumstance. I just wasn’t feeling it. But old habits die hard, so I took the day off. It seemed the patriotic thing to do.
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“By all rights, that morning should have been a newspaperman’s dream. There were fantastic stories of escape, including recounting of fear and elation. Any one of them would have made a first-page feature story in any newspaper. Yet I was defeated by the flood of experiences. I listened until the stories finally became merged, overlapping and paralleling and contradicting, until the whole adventure became a composite, and today it is in my mind as in theirs a sort of generalized blur.” – Ernie Pyle, Here Is Your War (New York, Henry Holt, 1943)
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Head of the Pat Conroy Literary Center Inspired by Friendship to Search for His Own Defining Time By Mindy Lucas On a recent weekday morning, Pat Conroy Literary Center Executive Director Jonathan Haupt found himself trying to access the roof of the building where the center and all of its trappings – from Conroy’s Fripp Island writing desk to the Great Santini’s flight jacket – are housed. As Haupt and an air conditioner repairman poked around the Port Republic Street property in downtown Beaufort, they realized there was no obvious scuttle hole or hatch. Then it dawned on Haupt. The former bank building, built in the early ‘70s, had been designed to be impenetrable.
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Back in the day, when “the real rock and roll” ruled, Beaufort’s Melody Makers was one of the most sought after beach bands in the state. Local folks wax nostalgic remembering beach parties, teen romance and shagging the night away to high-energy music. As far as history goes, the band was an important part of growing up in Beaufort.
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“Transcendence,” the next exhibit at Art League of Hilton Head, scheduled for July 30-August 24, will be like no other at the nonprofit gallery. The featured artists will not be present at the opening reception Aug. 7 – because they are incarcerated at Allendale Correctional Institution in Fairfax, S.C.
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The people, landscape, architecture and the culture of the South are the subjects of Lauren Terrett’s art exhibition entitled, “The Lowcountry is My Home,” which runs now through August 4 at The Society of Bluffton Artists (SoBA) gallery in Old Town Bluffton.
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For the past four years, Brian Canada has been moonlighting like crazy. USCB professor by day, after hours he’s been developing and promoting Bugs ‘N Boo Hags, a video game inspired by the South Carolina Lowcountry that’s set to launch in September. A longtime favorite setting for major motion pictures, Beaufort is finally poised to hit the small screen. Just how “Beaufort” is this game? Very.
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“When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.Then, of course, you spoke.”- Helen Hunt as Carol Connelly, As Good As It Gets (1997)
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Parker’s recently donated $10,000 to the Lowcountry Autism Foundation, supporting the nonprofit organization’s Art Therapy Program in full for the year through the company’s Fueling the Community charitable giving program.
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The Hilton Head Public Service District (PSD) has achieved designation as a “Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary” through the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program (ACSP), an Audubon International program.
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