The city of Beaufort’s Cultural District Advisory Board has scheduled a sit-in. The event, Friday, May 10 at 6 pm in the University of South Carolina Center for the Arts Center on Carteret Street will be the launch date for the CDAB’s newest project designed to draw attention to the area’s multitude of cultural opportunities and the one-year-old free public shuttle.
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Beaufort History Museum will present its fifth annual Tea on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 from 1 – 4 pm at Dataw Island Club. The popular event, the Museum’s principal fundraiser, will showcase national best selling author Kristy Woodson Harvey, who is using the occasion to launch her newest book, The Southern Side of Paradise. Local author Patricia Bee and her book, Mama’s Pearls, will also be featured. Both women will talk about their books and the importance of family, heritage and communal traditions to southern culture.
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Trouble the Water, the debut novel from Rebecca Dwight Bruff, is inspired by the larger-than-life true story of Robert Smalls, the first African American hero of the Civil War. On May 13, 1862, the enslaved Smalls commandeered the Confederate vessel The Planter in Charleston harbor, which he sailed to the Union blockade, securing freedom for his own family and the enslaved crew with him. Smalls served with distinction as Union captain of the Planterduring the duration of the war and was later a U.S. Congressman representing his native lowcountry.
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The Harriet Tubman Monument Fund will host award-winning historian Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs for a book talk and signing at the 156-year-old historic Tabernacle Baptist Church in Beaufort, SC on Saturday, May 18th at 3:00pm.
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The Sea Island Quilters will present their biannual “Southern Comforts” quilt show on Friday, May 10, and Saturday, May 11, at the National Guard Armory (Beaufort Readiness Center), 1 Cavalry Lane, Beaufort, SC (Highway 21 near the Marine Corps Air Station). The hours are from 10 am to 5 pm on Friday and 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday. Admission is $7.00 for adults. Children under 12 are free.
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I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first, I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map, so it won’t fall down. – Mitch Hedberg (1968-2005)
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By Margaret Evans, EditorI was driving to the Y the other day when a conversation on NPR caught my attention. The show was On Point, the interview was just starting, and I actually passed the Y and drove around Port Royal for a while, just listening, because I couldn’t believe my ears.
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The Lowcountry Wind Symphony, under the direction of Donald F. Jemella, will partner with the Mary Green Chorale, led by Mary Woodmansee Green for the LWS Spring Concert, entitled ‘European Treasures.’
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The May River Theatre returns in its 19th season to present ‘Love Letters’ by A.R Gurney, an emotional play that tugs alternately at the funny bone and the heart-strings. It tells the story of two childhood friends whose life-long correspondence begins with birthday party thank-you notes and summer camp postcards.
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Hear these Beaufort poets and five other diverse South Carolina poets read at the launch of Archive: South Carolina Poetry Since 2005 on Saturday, April 27, from 5 pm at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Published by Ninety-Six Press, Archive features 46 contributors, documenting the poetic life of the Palmetto State over the past 13 years. This event is free and open to the public; copies of Archive will be available for sale and signing after the reading.
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