Author: Margaret Evans

CSP Presents ‘Sex Please, We’re Sixty!’

This weekend the cozy B&B is hosting three mature women for a relaxing get-away. The guests include the plucky romance novelist Victoria Ambrose (Connie Hoskins), who is suffering from writer’s block and hoping for some local inspiration; the sophisticated scientist/researcher Hillary Hudson (Anne Helm), and a properly over-the-top Southern charmer Charmaine Beauregard (Carol Miller).

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LeFavi Named Founding Dean of USCB’s Beaufort Campus

The University of South Carolina Beaufort has selected Robert (Bob) LeFavi, Ph.D., a career academic scholar, to become the Founding Dean of the university’s Beaufort Campus. Dr. LeFavi comes to USCB from Georgia Southern University where he was Professor and Head of Health Sciences and Kinesiology, a department that served roughly 2,000 students.

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Auldbrass Now On Tour Annually

Frank Lloyd Wright’s only home in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Auldbrass, is now on tour every year. The privately-owned home was previously only open for public tours every two years, but that’s changed. The Beaufort County Open Land Trust has teamed up with local event planner, Ashley Rhodes, to host the Auldbrass Plantation Tours annually! 

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Conroy Center Hosts ‘Southern Writers on Writing’ Panel

The South is often misunderstood on the national stage, characterized by its struggles with poverty, education, and racism, yet the region has yielded an abundance of undeniably great literature. In the newly published anthology Southern Writers on Writing, editor Susan Cushman collects 26 writers from across the South whose work celebrates southern culture and shapes the landscape of contemporary southern literature. Contributors hail from Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida.

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2018 Short Story America Festival

The 2018 Short Story America Festival and Conference is scheduled for the weekend of September 28-30 in downtown Beaufort. This fifth celebration of short fiction will feature top presenting authors like John Engell (San Francisco, CA), Niles Reddick (University of Memphis), Marjorie Brody (San Antonio, TX), Gregg Cusick (Durham, NC), Nancy Allen (Dallas, TX), John Newlin (Wilmington, DE), James Goertel (Rochester, NY), Ray Morrison (Winston-Salem, NC), and Beaufort-based author and editor Tim Johnston (left).

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‘Our Prince of Scribes’ Book Launch at Rose Hill Mansion

More than a dozen contributing writers will be on hand to honor Pat Conroy. New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In sharing their stories in the forthcoming anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, Pat’s fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary life in and well beyond the American South.

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Beaufort Author at Mississippi Book Festival

A Past That Won’t Rest: Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi collects never-before-published photographs taken by Jim Lucas (1944-1980), an exceptional documentary photographer. His black and white images, taken during 1964 through 1968, depict events from the civil rights movement including the search for the missing civil rights workers in Neshoba County, the Meredith March Against Fear, Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s visit to the Mississippi Delta, and more.

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At ‘Got Art?’ Everyone Gets Art!

Art League of Hilton Head’s annual fundraising benefit, Got Art?, makes collectors out of art enthusiasts. Each $100 ticket provides admission for two guests, participation in a random drawing, and guarantees one original piece of art. Only 100 tickets will be sold. This fun and popular event is sure to be a sellout! 

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Blending Digital Art with Photography

Beaufort Art Association (BAA) Gallery presents an exhibit entitled ‘Blending Digital Art with Photography’ featuring artist Gordon Fritz from Sept. 2 – Oct. 28. A reception for the artist will be held at the Gallery located at 913 Bay Street in Beaufort on Friday, Sept. 7, from 5 – 7:30 p.m. The public is invited.

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Beaches, Backyards & Beyond

Joan Moreau McKeever is the September featured artist at the Society of Bluffton Artists (SoBA) gallery. “Beaches, Backyards & Beyond” will be an exhibit of various mediums. The show is scheduled from September 3 – 30, with an opening reception slated for 3-5 pm on Sunday, September 9 at the gallery in Old Town Bluffton.

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