“The Beaufort Council of Garden Clubs is proud to host a National Garden Club accredited standard flower show right here in Beaufort,” says Norma Miller, President of the Council. “This flower show is our gift to the people of Beaufort County and its visitors. Admission is free and open to the public.”
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The Heritage Library is now offering classes at the Santa Elena History Center at 1501 Bay Street in Beaufort. These classes are on Thursdays from 1:30 – 3:30 pm. Class fees:$10.00 Heritage Library members; $15 Non-members. Class size limited, reservations are required. Call 843-379-1550 or visit www.santa-elena.org
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Since January 2016, Parenting with Purpose has successfully hosted 5 parenting workshops. The workshops are held quarterly and are always free and open to the community. Free childcare is provided to make it easy for parents to attend.
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Shopping online never sounded so sweet! Take part in the 8th Annual Bid for PAL Online Auction, and help Palmetto Animal League save homeless pets. Visit www.PALauction.org Friday, April 21 at 8 a.m. through Monday, April 24 at 10 p.m. to get great deals on hundreds of fantastic items.
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It’s hard to believe that this will be the 7th year for that great summer gardening series, Lunch and Learn, which begins Saturday, April 29th in the Gazebo at the Port Royal Farmers’ Market and continues each Saturday until August 26th. This award winning series of classes, workshops and lectures is free to the public and no registration is required.
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Avid golfers will tell you there’s no finer place than a golf course for kids to gain life skills and the leadership abilities they’ll need to make their mark on the world. Knowing this, and knowing the challenges involved with creating affordable community-based junior golf programs, The PGA Tour of America helped created The First Tee in 1997.
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The Beaufort History Museum’s Third Annual Spring Tea is titled “Crowning Glory – Celebrating the Role of Women’s Hats in Southern Culture.” Patrons are invited to wear their favorite hat and to “Strut their Hattitude” as they savor delicious traditional delicacies, sip tea, learn about the fascinating allure of fashionable hats from celebrity speakers, enjoy a Parade of Hats and bid at a silent auction featuring trips, dinners and other attractive items.
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(Note: The following interview was excerpted with permission from the Pat Conroy Literary Center’s blog, Porch Talk. Portions of this interview previously appeared in the inaugural issue of Shrimp, Collards, and Grits magazine.) Cassandra King is the author of five novels, most recently Moonrise, and the nonfiction book The Same Sweet Girls Guide to Life: Advice from a Failed Southern Belle. This same sweet girl and failed belle from L.A. (Lower Alabama, y’all) famously met her late husband Pat Conroy when he wrote a blurb for her first novel. That circle has now completed itself in her beautiful introduction to Pat’s posthumously published collection of nonfiction A Lowcountry Heart.
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The Charles Street Gallery invites you to the opening of “A Serbian Celebration of Art,” featuring the works of Zoran Srbljin and Zoran Kuzmanov. The artists will not be in attendance, but their friends, countrymen and collectors will be! The reception is from 5:30 to 9 pm on Friday, April 21st, at 914 Charles Street, Beaufort. 843-521-9054.
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“Gullah-Geechee Island” is the name of the next Beaufort Art Association (BAA) show, featuring the artwork of local artist Amiri Geuka Farris. The show starts May 1st and runs through June 30th, and will feature a “pop-up” shop of a variety of handmade small and medium size pieces of art, as well as t-shirts, postcards and a music CD, all made by Farris.
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