A collaboration between downtown organizations focused on Beaufort’s history – Beaufort History Museum, Historic Beaufort Foundation, Santa Elena Foundation, and Spirit of Old Beaufort – is established collectively as “Experience Beaufort History.” In addition to creating a single avenue for convenient, custom ticket purchases, the effort will now help visitors travel to each destination and around downtown.
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Spring is in the air with the Hilton Head Choral Society’s SOUNDS OF AUSTRIA concert with orchestra and soloists as well as a special performance by the Von Trapp children from Hilton Head Christian Academy’s “The Sound of Music” production. Tickets are now on sale for the Sounds of Austria at TICKETS at www.hiltonheadchoralsociety.org or by calling 843-341-3818.
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Micah McLaurin will play a free youth concert at USCB A recent study asked Americans if they had attended a live classical music concert within the last twelve months; 8.8% replied, “Yes.” I tremble to think what the percentage would have been if the question were asked only in rural South Carolina and only to Americans under 25. There is reason to hope that the percentage will be higher than we might expect if the question is asked after March 25, 2018, when USCB is presenting Micah McLaurin to play Mozart, Chopin, Lady Gaga and others and to talk about being a classical pianist in 2018.
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Rosie O’Grady’s Irish Pub presents the St. Patrick’s Day Festival at Beaufort Town Center. The event is free and open to the public and will take place on Saturday, March 17 from 1pm-4pm. Area restaurants and food trucks will be selling food and drinks and there will be live entertainment including a bagpipe player, a local musician, and dances by Revolution Ballroom.
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A new manner of fundraising will be held in an old venue when the Verdier House Museum introduces Southern Settings, a tablescaping which will bring regional and one international table-top designers together. It will benefit Historic Beaufort Foundation’s fundraising campaign to paint the ca. 1804 Verdier House.
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The Santa Elena Foundation and the Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club will sponsor the Santa Elena Regatta for PHRF sailboats on March 17 and 18, 2018. This event is the major big boat sailing event in Beaufort each year and commemorates 452 years since the founding of Santa Elena on Parris Island in the spring of 1566.
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Beaufort History Museum, in partnership with the Beaufort County Library, announces an upcoming lecture, Reconstruction in Beaufort, SC and the Nation, by renowned historians Dr. Stephen Wise, director of the Parris Island Museum, and Dr. Lawrence Rowland, distinguished professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort. The talk, part of the popular Museum-Library Lecture Series, will be held on Friday, March 16, 2018 from 2 – 4 pm at the Beaufort Branch Library, 311 Scott Street. The well-known scholars are co-authors of Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861-1893, The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina, Volume 2.
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Patricia Moore-Pastides is the first lady of the University of South Carolina and an adjunct faculty member in the university’s College of Hospitality, Retail and Sport Management, where she teaches the course “Healthy Mediterranean Cooking.” Moore-Pastides holds a master of public health degree from Yale University and has served as a director and planner for several health-care organizations. She promotes health and wellness throughout the various USC campuses and the region.
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Fleetwood Covington’s Blues Soaked Art Comes to USCB By Mark Shaffer I knew of Fleetwood Covington long before I finally met him prior to his 2015 show at the Thibault Gallery on Bay Street. Mostly I knew of him through his brother Vince as well as his sister-in-law – my longtime Lowcountry Weekly colleague – Debbi Covington. “Fleetwood’s quite a character,” she told me. I figured he had to be with a name like Fleetwood. I mean, how many Fleetwoods do you meet in life? And as if that were not enigmatic enough, in addition to being an artist with a considerable following, he’s also a musician, songwriter and Blues fanatic.
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By Margaret Evans, EditorI tend to be an accidental gardener. If anything grows in my yard, it’s by pure serendipity. Somebody planted azaleas and camellias decades ago . . . Wisteria appears magically every year . . . A jack-o-lantern carved out back one fall becomes a small pumpkin patch the next summer . . . That sort of thing.
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