Author: Margaret Evans

World Class Composer to Conduct Choral Festival

The Hilton Head Choral Society presents its first Choral Festival at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 2 at Holy Family Catholic Church, on Hilton Head Island. The group’s third concert of the season includes the 100 voices of the Choral Society in addition to 4 invited choruses, for a wall of sound that will feature over 175 voices.

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Susan Graber Wins ‘Best in Show’

Susan Graber, a local artist best known for her portraits, was recently awarded “Best In Show” for her portrait entitled, “Ellen” (left) at the Beaufort Art Association’s 56th annual Spring Show. She had two portraits in the show, both stunning works of art.

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The Art of Quilting

Three gals and a guy form Art Quilters of the Lowcountry: Ron Hodge, Shaaron Thomas, Peg Weschke and Jody Wigton. Their exhibit The Art of Art Quilting showcases the use of fabric, thread and quilting to create the illusion of 3D art. The remarkable images presented range from realistic to abstract. 

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circa1910 Goes Mobile

Talk about creative entrepreneurship!     Lowcountry residents Kayla Derrick and her fiancé Matt Devito – co-owners of the jewelry company circa1910 – spent the past year and a half renovating and fully restoring a 1985 Chevrolet minibus – turning it into a full-blown store. They installed hardwood floors, built in cabinets and concrete style counter tops, along with reinventing countless cast-aside vintage furniture pieces into displays.

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On Living, Dying, and Sharing Stories

Hospice chaplain Kerry Egan listens to stories at work everyday. Now she’s telling them, too – along with her own – in her book ‘On Living.’ She says the dying have a lot to teach us.By Margaret Evans, Editor  I’m on the phone with Kerry Egan for two solid hours. That’s a half hour longer than Terry Gross kept her on the line for their “Fresh Air” interview on NPR. Pretty nervy of me, huh? Terry Gross is a hero of Kerry’s. I’m just some stranger from Beaufort. But I’ve spent the last few days reading Kerry’s luminous memoir On Living (Riverhead Books), so she’s no stranger to me. And from the uproarious laughter, to the “me, too!” moments, to the overlapping outbursts of confession, our conversation feels more like a reunion with an old friend – one who knows all your secrets and loves you anyway. My guess is that most people feel that way about Kerry Egan.

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Into the Light

Carissa Doig came back from the darkness of MS to open Creations & Libations of the Lowcountry, a Wine & Paint Boutique. Sometimes, you have to lose your vision in order to gain it.             “Ten years ago, if you’d told me I’d be living in South Carolina and running my own Wine & Paint Boutique, I’d have told you that you were crazy,” says Carissa Doig.             When Carissa was 22, she had a very promising career as a regional manager and makeup artist for a well-known fashion cosmetics brand. “One morning I woke up and my vision was blurred,” she says. “A week later I was unable to see out of half of my right eye.”

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Time Benders

“How to stay current without latching onto every trend, how to age without growing into a cranky old [fool] mired in the past—those were my questions. I drew inspiration from my grandparents’ generation, because it more than my parents’, lived through a time of dizzying technological change, radical upheavals in society.

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