A Conversation with Bestselling Author Patti Callahan Henry By Margaret Evans, Editor Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels, including the The Bookshop at Water’s End, which is dedicated to Pat Conroy and will be published in July. She’s been a finalist in the Townsend Prize for Fiction, an Indie Next Pick, a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Okra pick (a booksellers’ favorite), and a multiple nominee for the SIBA Novel of the Year. The mother of three children, Patti now lives in both Mountain Brook, Alabama, and Bluffton, South Carolina, with her husband. She will be the Pat Conroy Literary Center’s Visiting Writers Series guest author on July 14, appearing in conversation with fellow novelist Ellen Malphrus. Patti recently joined me on the virtual porch of the Conroy Center to chat about her new novel and her writing life.
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Gayle Miller: Women Together, Feminine Expressions in Watercolor, will be featured at Art League of Hilton Head Gallery from August 1 – 26. The artist’s reception is on August 9, from 5-7 pm. The event is free and open to the public.
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By Rikki Parker In 1974, a member of the Council of the British Plastics Federation said, “Plastics litter is a very small proportion of all litter and causes no harm to the environment except as an eyesore.” Forty-three years later and hindsight being 20/20, the plastics industry could not have been more wrong as the world faces a plastic pollution problem of titanic scope and scale.
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“I had once hoped my father might approve of you, even though you’re a dancer,” he began. “But when I saw you on New Year’s Day, I realized he never would.”
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The USTA has announced that the Dataw Island Club Tennis Center in St. Helena Island, S.C., is one of just 12 winners in the 36thannual USTA Facility Awards program, which recognizes excellence in the construction and/or renovation of tennis facilities throughout the country. The Dataw Island Club Tennis Center will be honored at the Next Generation: A Tennis Innovation Workshop at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld in Orlando, FL, Oct.11-15.
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Beaufort Academy recently announced that Vic Varner will be joining its staff as Director of a new Vocal Music and Guitar program. A longtime music educator who retired from teaching six years ago, Varner has enjoyed a very active “retirement” – running the music program at First Presbyterian Church, directing the University Choir at USCB, and playing regular gigs around town with his jazz band.
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The 62nd Annual Beaufort Water Festival is thrilled to announce that national recording artist Candice Glover has joined their entertainment roster as a special musical performer for this yearâs Lowcountry Supper.
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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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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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