After Hurricane Matthew forced a postponement last fall, the USCB Center for the Arts is delighted to finally host the much-anticipated musical tribute to the legendary three time Grammy winner Etta James on Saturday, January 21 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, January 22, at 3 pm. Dr. Marlena Smalls, world renowned singer, entertainer, educator and actress, will perform many of James’ hits including her signature hit, “At Last.”
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DragonBoat Beaufort members get back as much as they give.By Joy CraigThe first time I set foot in Beaufort was when I took my place on those famous Yellow Footprints over on Parris Island. Suffice to say that for the next thirteen weeks I looked forward to putting Beaufort far in the rear view mirror. My Drill Instructors called it, “The land that God forgot” and boy did I agree.
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A living history program with battles, infantry and period demonstrations, local authors, Gullah historian Aunt Pearlie Sue and a traveling exhibit of a life-size replica of the CSS H.L. Hunley Submarine will take place on the grounds of Frampton Plantation House and Visitors’ Center in Yemassee, SC, January 21 & January 22. The program runs from 10 am to 5 pm both days and admission is free.
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Right down the road in Savannah, returning for its 17th year, the Annual Low Country Home &...
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Museum members and the public are invited to attend the Annual Meeting of the Beaufort History Museum, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017 at 6 p.m. in the museum’s main hall on the second floor of The Arsenal, located at 713 Craven St.
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The popular Books Sandwiched In (BSI) series, sponsored by the Friends of the Beaufort Library (FOL), will return in January 2017 with local authors, well-known community leaders and Gullah experts lined up as presenters for this free event.
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Margaret Evans, EditorIt never felt much like Christmas to me this year. For starters, it was too dadgum hot – all December, really, but especially Christmas Day. Even up in North Alabama, land of my birth – where it’s usually 10-15 degrees chillier than it is here in Beaufort – it was pushing 80 on December 25th, as we drove from my parent’s house to my sister’s for the big family shindig. I know lots of folks found this yuletide climate “merry and bright,” but in our Family of Many Females, it just meant nobody got to wear their new boots or sweaters.
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“I think often of Celia Davies. She could squeeze a conversation to its rind, leap it east to west, or change its axis wholly. Her wits were as supple as her fingers were rigid. I don’t know her story, for she was an adept evader of questions, but her life would be a giddy crossword, working down from some clues and across from others.” Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome (2008, Grove Press)
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I’ve been struggling with writer’s block, y’all. It was so bad, I had to recycle a two-year-old column in our last issue, a “last resort” that always fills me with shame. Seems I’m often filled with shame these days. And when I’m not, I worry that maybe I should be. And here’s a secret: Worrying that you should feel shame when you don’t . . . feels almost exactly like shame.
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Words. Words. Words. It’s tricky enough navigating the fast-paced wit and verbal gymnastics of a noisy family’s repartee but for Billy, the only deaf member of his talkative clan, lipreading the nuances is particularly challenging. What’s more none of the family including Billy know sign language—a decision his parents made early on so he wouldn’t feel disadvantaged in a hearing world.
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