Author: Margaret Evans

The Loosening

By Margaret Evans, EditorI don’t know about the rest of you internet junkies, but early morning is my prime time for scrolling. I get up before everybody else, brew myself some coffee, settle down at my computer with a hot mug -€“ and two squares of Dove dark chocolate -€“ and start scrolling away.

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Patti Callahan Henry in Beaufort

The Pat Conroy Literary Center’€™s Visiting Writers Series welcomes Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times best-selling author of The Bookshop at Water’s End, a new novel about women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town that harbors secrets as lush as the marshes surrounding it.

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Birds & Other Stuff

Stephen Moscowitz will exhibit “Birds and Other Stuff” from July 3-August 5th at the Society of Bluffton Artists (SoBA) gallery, located at 6 Church Street. Come meet the artist at the opening reception at 5 p.m. Friday, July 7th at the gallery. His exhibit will feature acrylic paintings of wild life, real life and still life.

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DragonBoat Race Day 2017

The beginnings of DragonBoat Beaufort were inspired by the documentary film “€œAwaken the Dragon”€ presented at the Beaufort International Film Festival in February 2012 which told the story of Dragon Boat Charleston’s cancer survivor dragonboat racing team.

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Is You Is or Is You Ain’t?

“€œDestroyers love to pick up airplane pilots out of the ocean”…€ They put Jimmy [Van Fleet] to bed, got the water out of him and some morphine into him, and sewed up the gash in his head. The doctor joked as he sewed, telling Jimmy he was sorry he couldn’€™t find a bigger needle so it would hurt more. Jimmy was nightmarish all night. He didn’€™t get sick at his stomach until next morning, when he tried to get some breakfast down…

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Auditions for ‘Conrack’

The Center for the Arts and Beaufort Theatre Company will hold auditions for CONRACK, a musical based on Pat Conroy’€™s famous semi-autobiographical novel ‘€œThe Water is Wide,’€ on June 20 and 21 from 6 – 7:30 pm in the CFA auditorium. The production is scheduled for October.

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‘Loving the Low Country’ at BAA Gallery

The work of artists Joseph “Big Joe” Abell and Anne M. Jennings will be featured at the Beaufort Art Association (BAA) starting July 2 and running through August 27, 2017. The theme of their exhibit will be ‘€œLoving the Low Country’€ dedicated to the marshes, ocean, people and wildlife of this fascinating and mysterious land we call home.

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Abroad

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. – Mark Twain

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Passing Fancies

By Margaret Evans, EditorMy family’s on vacation, so to lighten my load, I’€™d planned to rerun a column I wrote this time last year called “€œA Graduation Address Of Sorts.”€ I read it over, and it seemed relevant enough, but I couldn’t help wondering if I’d gained any additional insight since I wrote it. Had I soaked up any Life Lessons in the past year that might be worth sharing with our fresh-faced graduates?

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