Author: Margaret Evans

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. 

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.”

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.

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.

“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)