Hunting Island’s Visitor Center is undergoing a complete transformation over the next year. To kick off the initial work, six Beaufort Academy art students from teacher Paula Quinn’s class came to the park last week to see the sketches and meet the artists.
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Cecilia Wright, a Senior at Beaufort High School, was presented with a $1000 check at the Lowcountry Wind Symphony’s recent Spring Concert, ‘European Treasures’ at Sea Island Presbyterian Church.
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Join hundreds of people for the third annual Beaufort Walk for Water on September 21, 2019 to help bring safe water for life to thousands of men, women and children across the world. This year’s ambitious fundraising goal is $50,000 – almost doubling the amount raised in the first two years combined.
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On June 8th, people throughout theLowcountrywill have a unique opportunity to explore, purchase and learn about hemp andCBDproducts – all at one fun, festive and free event.
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Beaufort-based glass artist, Kathy Oda, is presenting her newest glasswork as part of her Coastal Glassworks exhibit at Art League Gallery. Fern leaves, flowering bromeliad and images of sea turtles are abundant in her glass.
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By Margaret Evans, EditorStory of my life, in a nutshell . . . I’m sitting at a red light on Ribaut, listening to two women on NPR discuss President Trump’s recent meeting with Congress, which, according to them, has gone awry in typical Trumpian fashion. The NPR women are speaking in quiet, respectful tones and I’m listening closely and diligently – because I care! – when all of a sudden I hear (and actually feel) some loud, familiar music coming up behind me.
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“Ladies and Gentlemen. I guess that takes in most of you. This is the opening of a new opera season, a season made possible by the generous checksof Mrs. Claypool. [Applause] I am sure the familiar strains of Verdi’s music will come back to you tonight, and Mrs. Claypool’s checks will probably come back in the morning. And now on with the opera. Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons and necking in the parlor.” – Groucho Marx as Otis B. Driftwood in “A Night at the Opera” (Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 1935)
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This year’s Garden a Day event, celebrating National Gardening week, is June 3 to June 7, and features gardens on The Point, Pigeon Point, near town and two on Lady’s Island. The Beaufort Garden Club invites the public to visit five gardens, free of charge, from 9 am to 12:30 pm, rain or shine.
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St. James Orthodox Church seems to be one of the best kept secrets of Beaufort County. But if it is hidden, it is hidden in plain sight. “We are one of only two Orthodox churches in the county, the other one being Holy Resurrection Greek Orthodox Church in Bluffton. So it isn’t surprising if we aren’t all that well known yet in Beaufort,” offered Father James Bozeman.
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Beaufort became a “Tree City USA” in 1986, an honor bestowed by the National Arbor Day Foundation. The local Beaufort Council of Garden Clubs was instrumental in helping the community achieve this distinguished status. The City has continued to be honored as a recipient of Tree City USA awards over the past years for demonstrating progress in its community in the areas of tree inventory and analysis.
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