WAHHI Awards Community Grants
At its February event “Celebrating the Craft of Writing,” The Women’s Association of Hilton Head Island (WAHHI)announced Community Grants to 8 deserving nonprofit organizations.
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Author: Margaret Evans
The Coming of Spring
Once again the legions of the Midwest and northeast will longingly look to the Lowcountry with envy. The chilblains of winter are gone and spring is in the air. The annual rite of unfolding into warm breezes and scanning colorful flora will be celebrated in sound at the Sunday, March 1, 5:00 pm concert of USCB Chamber Music.
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Tret Fure, Renaissance Woman
Tret Fure will perform at Music on Malphrus, 110 Malphrus Road, in Bluffton, SC, Saturday, February 22, 2020, at 7 pm. General Admission is $20. Doors open at 6:00 pm.
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Marco Mantovani, a Magician on the Piano
Do you remember the Mantovani Orchestra playing “Some Enchanted Evening”? Magical, don’t you agree? Well, pianist Marco Mantovani may as well be related to the conductor Annunzio Mantovani. He shares that captivating name, and he plays the piano with that magical Mantovani touch. Ask Marco when you come to Fripp on February 23 for his concert whether Annunzio and he are family members. In any case, it will be an enchanting evening.
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Beaufort Garden Club Gives the Gift of Trees
The Beaufort Garden Club is having a birthday, and they want to give YOU a present! To celebrate their 85thanniversary, The Beaufort Garden Club, in conjunction with the National Garden Clubs Plant America project, is giving away 85 Redbud tree saplings.
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Lowcountry PRIDE to Return in June
In 2019, the concept of Lowcountry PRIDE went from dream to reality when a small group of friends gathered around a kitchen table celebrating the love of two women and their new engagement. Instead of trekking far and wide to attend another PRIDE festival, they decided to start one of their own — of our own — and Lowcountry PRIDE was born.
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Hot Wax, Cool Paintings at BAA Gallery
The work of artist Anne Kennedy will be featured at the Beaufort Art Association (BAA) starting March 1stand running through April 26th. The theme of her exhibit is “Hot Wax, Cool Paintings” featuring encaustic painting, which is an unusual blend of hot wax with pigment.
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The Transcendent Gift of Film
Like everything else I hold sacred, movies are increasingly grist for our national Division and Discord mill. Movies, that is, and the people who create them.
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Then and There, Here and Now
Did you happen to catch the special event in Columbia last week, commemorating the 75thAnniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz? It was live-streamed on SCETV, and I only knew about it because my church choir director was involved in the musical part of the ceremony. He had been asked to arrange a choral rendition of the Jewish folk song ‘Dona, Dona,’ and would be playing guitar with the Clover Choraliers – a phenomenal high school choir from the upstate – as they performed his arrangement.
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‘Downtown Tennis’ takes its best shot
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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Celebrate with Catering by Debbi Covington
