Author: Margaret Evans

Brooklyn Rider, Chamber Music Rebels

There will truly be something for everyone during the next USCB Festival Series Chamber Music Concert, when Brooklyn Rider blazes onto the stage. Like classical music? How about something tuneful from the 18th century and something emotionally-charged from the 19th? Or maybe you like the latest cutting-edge rock? Brooklyn Rider does it all!

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Annual Nativity Celebration

The Presbyterian Women of First Presbyterian Church invite you, once again, to take time off from your holiday hustle and bustle to enjoy some moments of quiet wonder at the annual Nativity Celebration. In just a few short years, this exhibit of crèches from around the world has become one of Beaufort’s favorite downtown Christmas events.

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CraftHiltonHead2016

One-of-a-kind crafts are available for inspired gift-giving at the 5th edition of CraftHiltonHead2016. This National Juried Fine Arts Craft Guild Exhibition, which occurs only once every two years, showcases ninety 2 and 3-dimensional craft works of featured artists from around the country, competing for cash awards.

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Give the Gift of Art

Deck Your Halls with limited-edition treasures from Beaufort Art Association’s Holiday Boutique. Are you looking for that special one-of-a-kind Christmas gift? Something funky like a painting of an alligator with a Santa hat? Or just beautiful, Beaufort inspired Christmas cards? The classroom area of the Beaufort Art Association Gallery has been transformed into a winter wonderland full of fine art and crafts especially created for this event.

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When The Holidays Hurt

By Margaret Evans, Editor I’m not sure when it happened, exactly. Looking back, I can’t pinpoint the specific year things changed… when I transformed from a cheerful holiday enthusiast into one of those folks who often feels cranky and overwhelmed this time of year.

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Short Story Contest Winners

Lowcountry Weekly is pleased to announce the winners of the Second Annual Sea Island Spirit Writers Short Story Contest. Participation was even better this year than last! The writers were asked to complete the prompt “The sky went black…” in 750 words or less. There were so many great stories, we’re glad the Sea Island Spirit Writers served as judges, not us. Thanks to everybody who entered a “short short” this year, and congratulations to the winners!

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All Ground Up

June, 1944: Saipan, Mariana Islands: “After a sleepless night, [U.S. Marine] Robert E. Wolin, an amtanker with the Second amphibious Tractor Battalion, considered being alive at sunrise ‘one of the great experiences of my life.’ He didn’t wish to move from his foxhole, fearing that if he did ‘all hell would rain down.’ But a senior officer happened by then, swagger stick under his arm, and said his unit was a hundred or so yards out of position. ‘He suggested we move south, collecting men as we went. Then he concluded: After all, Lieutenant, you don’t want to live forever.’” – James D. Hornfischer, The Fleet At Flood Tide (Random House, 2016)

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What Have You Done for Me Lately?

  In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, an insurance agent explains what he can do for his clients – year-round. Insurance is not straighforward and I find myself, an insurance agent, having to read and re-read policy forms to determine exactly what they say . . . or don’t say. When you purchase an insurance policy, you are buying something that is often expensive, intangible, you hope you never have to use, and when you do need it, you are terrified that it won’t work the way it should. Therein lies the reason a relationship with an insurance agent can truly benefit you as the buyer – if you take advantage of it.

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High Art in the Lowcountry

The Charleston Opera production of the Puccini masterwork La Bohème, the most beautiful, tragic love story of all Italian Grand Opera, will come to the Sonesta Shipyard on Hilton Head Island January 21st and 22nd, 2017.  This whole year, in all the cities across America, there have been just six productions of this magnificent and popular opera.  

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