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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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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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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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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“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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The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Lowcountry is excited to present South Carolina’s very own singer-songwriter Angela Easterling in concert on March 24.
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Mellow Mushroom of Hilton Head Island will host the sixth annual St. Baldrick’s headshaving fundraiser on Saturday, March 18 from 3pm to 5pm.
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The Santa Elena Foundation and the Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club will sponsor the Santa Elena Regatta for PHRF sailboats on March 25 and 26, 2017. This event is the major big boat sailing event in Beaufort each year and commemorates 451 years since the founding of Santa Elena on Parris Island in the spring of 1566.
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The Lowcountry’s Running Festival Hosting World-Class Marathon Athletes The 9th Annual Beaufort Twilight Run (BTR) welcomes three top marathoners to this year’s race presented by Habersham Properties on Saturday, March 18 in Habersham Marketplace – with races and festivities from 4 – 9:30 pm.
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The legacy of much-loved Beaufortonian Abbie Holmes Christensen will be in the spotlight on Tuesday, March 14, when the Beaufort History Museum presents a talk as part of its popular history lecture series.
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