(A version of this essay first appeared in October of 2011. Hopefully, you won’t remember it any better than I did. – Margaret) So, last week I’m on my back deck, beating a rug into submission with a broom. It’s another splendid fall afternoon, but I hardly notice.
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The Artists of Palmetto Bluff, a collection of professional and semi-professional painters, potters, photographers and jewelry makers from Bluffton’s vibrant coastal community, will open three gallery days at 64B Boathouse Street in Wilson Village, Palmetto Bluff, Bluffton this fall. The public is invited to attend.
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USCB Chamber Music is about to begin its 39th season. Five Sunday concerts with five different instrumental combinations will feature 14 performers playing the music of 22 composers ranging across a period of 250 years. Strings and piano predominate with clarinet and guitar being featured on one concert each.
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Are you a fan of classical music? I am, and I love piano and violin duos. So I am looking forward to this season’s first concert on Fripp Island on Sunday, October 21, when the fabulous Kobayashi/Gray Duo will perform three outstanding pieces: A Beethoven sonata (No. 4 in A minor, if you must know), followed by “D’un matin de Printemps” by Lili Boulanger (yes, a French composer who wrote the composition in 1918, the year she turned 25 and, sadly, the last year of her life; and yes, Boulanger was a female, one of the few notable composers at that time).
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Mitchell Bellison always had an agenda. As a college student at the University of Florida, he didn’t let the fact he lived in a trailer deter him from getting what he wanted. Now, with intelligence and looks, he cunningly charms his way into the life–and arms–of unsuspecting Southern belle Kate Canterfield.
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YBR Publishing is proud to announce the public debut of Driftwood Unmasked, a novel by Beaufort’s own Gibbes McDowell, at Boondocks Restaurant, 1760 Sea Island Parkway, Saint Helena Island, on Saturday, October 13 from 4:30 – 8:30 pm.
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Meet Annie Spence, keynote author for the Second Annual Lowcountry Book Club Convention “Perfect for any bibliophile and terrifically funny.” That’s how the esteemed Library Journal, in a starred review, praised Dear Fahrenheit 451, the debut book from librarian Annie Spence. It’s an apt description of the author as well. Spence will keynote the Pat Conroy Literary Center’s second annual Lowcountry Book Club Convention, a free day of learning and fellowship to be held at the Technical College of the Lowcountry’s MacLean Hall on Saturday, October 6.
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Award-winning artist and visiting Vermont instructor, TJ Cunningham, will return to the Lowcountry this November to hold a 3-day workshop on landscapes for oil painters. In this studio painting class, held at Art League Academy, Cunningham will help students focus on challenges that tend to impede upon successful landscape paintings.
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A conversation with Patti Callahan, author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis By Margaret Evans, EditorLike so many of my favorite people, Patti Callahan Henry entered my life thanks to Pat Conroy. Though her reputation as a New York Times bestselling novelist preceded her, we met at Pat’s 70th birthday celebration a few years ago, quickly learned we had some things in common – Alabama, for one – and just sort of clicked, like women sometimes (but not always) do. I interviewed Patti for the Conroy Center’s Porch Talk blog when she published her 12th novel, The Bookshop at Water’s End, and our friendship grew, but it wasn’t until I heard about her latest project that I knew we were truly kindred spirits.
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“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns Most of us bewitchingly blissful souls, miserable wretches and those in between seem to spend a soul withering amount of time focused on happiness, both our own and that of others. Even back in my academic days, the science of human happiness was built on often intriguing research.
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