Nature Takes Its Course
In the weeks since I last wrote an article for this wonderful publication, we have witnessed our...
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Author: Margaret Evans
A Leader Among Us
Meet Penn Center’s Executive Director Rodell Lawrence By David Campbell With apologies to Charles Schultz, creator of “Peanuts,” Lucy was reading a short bedtime story that went like this: “He was born, he lived and he died.” To be sure, this is not the story of Rodell Lawrence, recently appointed Executive Director of historic Penn Center on St. Helena Island.
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Jack Hanna Headlining ‘Night On The Sound‘
It was thought by some that having Philippe Cousteau and Dr. Robert Ballard as guest speakers at the Port Royal Sound Foundation’s first two Night on the Sound events would be too difficult to top, but they’ve done it again with this year’s host, animal expert Jack Hanna. The SOLD-OUT event on October 21st will not only feature a boat cruise on the Chechessee River, great food and inspiring conversation, “Jungle Jack,” as he is affectionately known, is bringing some of his most beloved animal friends too!
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Brunch with Author Ann Kidd Taylor
USCB Lunch with Author Series continues with Ann Kidd Taylor for a special Brunch during the Pat Conroy Literary Festival on October 22. Taylor is the coauthor the New York Times best-seller Traveling with Pomegranates, a memoir written with her mother Sue Monk Kidd.
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Elemental Flair at BAA Gallery
“Elemental Flair” is the name of the upcoming Beaufort Art Association (BAA) show, featuring the jewelry-making skills of local artists Barbara Miller and Jan Glover. The show opens October 29th and runs through January 9th.
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On Our Cover
The painting on our cover is “Laughing Lady in Blue” by John K. Crum. His exhibit...
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The Great Yes
Tim Conroy on his new collection of poetry and the brother who encouraged him to write it. By Margaret Evans, Editor When he was a little boy, Tim Conroy remembers listening to his teenage brother and sister fight over which of them would grow up to be the best poet. The sibling rivalry was intense. “They’d always tease each other with that poem by C.P. Cavafy. “For some people the day comes when they have to declare the great Yes or the great No. It’s clear at once who has the Yes ready within him…” They’d argue about which of them had the ‘Yes’. . . about which one was destined to go ‘from honor to honor, strong in his (or her) conviction.'”
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SCP Presents ‘The Dixie Swim Club’
Local theatre company Coastal Stage Productions, one of this area’s top producers of quality short-run theatre projects, returns to The Shed in Port Royal with the heart warming and hilarious play, The Dixie Swim Club, a Southern comedy about friendships that last forever.
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Them Peaches
A Short StoryJerry Sanders turned hard onto Route 217, his freckled hands soft on the battered van’s wheel. At 81, he was still sharp enough to drive though he usually wasn’t so sure where he was headed. He glanced at his wife Barb as she turned down the blasted radio. “Don’t we have any decent CDs with us? And I’m hungrier than a spider monkey. . . maybe we should pull over into the next mall while they’re still around. I read the papers, you know, and not just the obits. Malls are headed south, Barbie.”
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Presenting ‘Conrack’ (The Musical!)
“I am thrilled to be bringing CONRACK, our musical adaptation of The Water Is Wide, to the stage in Beaufort, Pat Conroy’s adopted home town,” says Granville Wyche Burgess, bookwriter and lyricist for the musical and director of The Beaufort Theatre Company production of CONRACK.
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Celebrate with Catering by Debbi Covington
