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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The Charleston Opera production of the Puccini masterwork La Bohème will come to the Sonesta Resort on Hilton Head Island on January 21st and 22nd, 2017. Bringing an opera to the stage involves dozens – maybe hundreds – of talented, committed people, but one Hilton Head man is at the heart of this production, coordinating all the moving parts from start to finish. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing that extraordinary man, producer/presenter Martin McFie.
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This February, there will be some exciting new twists to the Beaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation’s annual Valentine Ball!
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Area artists Wayne Chambers and Daniel McSweeney will be featured at the Beaufort Art Association (BAA) starting January 8 and running through February 26, 2017. The theme of their exhibit will be “Water & Earth” highlighting Chambers’ watercolor technique and McSweeney’s pottery techniques. An opening reception will be held at the Gallery at 913 Bay Street in Beaufort on Friday, January 13, from 5 to 7:30 pm. Light refreshments will be served. There will also be on exhibit the work of 65 other local artists, who are members of the Gallery. The public is invited.
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The SOBA Gallery is excited to start the new year by introducing Nancy Vineburgh as the January Featured Artist with her show “Contemporary Impressionism.” Appropriate for a fresh new year as the work to be displayed is lively and carefree, characterized by colorful, quick brushstrokes. This exhibit represents Nancy’s artistic journey for the past two years and is sure to delight with lovely paintings inspired by our Lowcountry surroundings. The local ornamental grasses fascinate Nancy and her canvas, ‘Penelope’s Pink Muhly Grass’ is the centerpiece of this, her first one-person show.
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Can one photo accurately depict the essence of a song? The Photography Club of Beaufort hopes that’s the case. Throughout 2016, members of the club were asked to select a song title and spend the year photographing events, places, landscapes, still lifes or portraits that represent that song in a single photograph.
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