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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“A petite piano powerhouse” and an “inspirational pianist,” that’s how Ronée Boyce has been described. She is quickly establishing herself not just as an inspirational, but also as an international artist.
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On Sunday, March 4 at 5 pm, USCB Chamber Music celebrates the brilliance of four musical wunderkind as well as the anniversary of two American originals. Composer Amy Beach’s 150th birthday was on September 5, 2017; Leonard Bernstein’s 100th will be on August 25, 2018. Both were prodigies and ground breakers but different in temperament and style.
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At age 45, A.J. Croce has already lived 15 years longer than his legendary father Jim, who died tragically in a plane crash before his son’s second birthday. Though inextricably linked to that legacy, A.J.’s musical career has taken a path of its own.
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Kristy Woodson Harvey on sharing stories, loving old houses, and standing in Pat Conroy’s library.Standing in Pat Conroy’s private library is not something I had ever imagined I would do. But then, suddenly, the night before a speaking engagement at USC-Beaufort, I found myself there, in Cassandra King’s lovely home that she shared with her late husband, with an amazing group of women who had gathered to welcome me to town, as Southern women do.
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The Mather School Alumni Beaufort Chapter is celebrating 150 years of educational excellence with “Remembering Mather: Honoring The Legacy,” a series of special events taking place February 22 – 24.
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