USCB Center for the Arts announces the fabulous addition, By Experience Live, to their dynamic offerings to the Beaufort community. By Experience Live brings award winning live stage performances from all over the world to the big screen at Center for the Arts.
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Beaufort’s Reconstruction Initiative Enters Next Phase with the Launch of Educational Programs By Mindy LucasMiddle school teacher Emily Fowler sat in what amounted to a classroom of her own at the Santa Elena History Center in Beaufort recently. Fowler, who teaches at Lowcountry Montessori in Beaufort, joined about 15 other educators, volunteers and community leaders for the launch of a new “Teaching the Teachers” pilot program which aims to equip educators with the skills and resources needed to teach Reconstruction.
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When Beaufort Memorial Hospital (BMH) unveiled its newly renovated Collins Birthing Center last month, it gave the community another opportunity to recognize the contributions of the late Dr. Earnest Collins, the area’s first OB-GYN. But the birthing center’s namesake did far more than deliver babies in Beaufort. He created a family legacy of service now in its third generation. “My father was among a small group of physicians who started from the ground up,” said BMH Medical Director of Laboratories Dr. Brad Collins, who joined the hospital in 1996, three years after his father retired. “We’re trying to build on that and improve the hospital every day.”
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The Women’s Association of Hilton Head Island (WAHHI)is pleased to announce the keynote speaker for the September luncheon will be Neely Powell, founder of the Charleston Shoe Company. The event will take place on September 24, 2019 at the Hilton Head Marriott Resort and Spa, located in Palmetto Dunes. Social hour begins at 11:00am. Program and luncheon start at Noon. Cost for the luncheon is $34 for members and $39 for guests.
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World leaders, award-winning journalists, exceptional artists, athletes, military heroes, and more are coming to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina for the newly founded Lowcountry Speaker Series. For its inaugural 2020 season, the Lowcountry Speaker Series will host Condoleezza Rice; Sanjay Gupta, M.D.; Paul Nicklen; and Robert O’Neill as they deliver inspiring presentations to residents of the Lowcountry and beyond. The season will kick off in January 2020 and will feature one lecture per month through April 2020.
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Another wonderful Beaufort holiday tradition unfolds this December with scenes from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker performed by local ballerinas and guest artists at USCB Center for the Arts on December 13 and 14. Beaufort’s Community Nutcracker will be directed by Melissa Derrick, who a studied classical ballet in Brazil, South America for over 15 years and has taught ballet in Beaufort for just as long.
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Local artist Louise Hall has been painting pet portrait commissions for over 20 years, but this is the first time that several of them will be gathered in the same place at the same time.
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Jessica Handler learned creative writing from the late Pat Conroy when he served as a guest instructor at the Paideia School in Atlanta, just prior to the publication of his first novel, The Great Santini. Handler, the author of two memoirs, published her debut novel The Magnetic Girl in April of this year. The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center (905 Port Republic Street, Beaufort) will host Handler for a reading and discussion of her novel on Tuesday, August 6, at 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, the discussion will be followed by a book signing.
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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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