Do you love history? Come learn about and share the incredible 500-year history of this area at the Beaufort History Museum (BHM). We are recruiting the Summer 2016 class of volunteer docents to lead tours and serve as community liaisons. The museum displays artifacts, photos and special exhibits to help our volunteers bring Beaufort’s history to life for visitors.
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“Come here often, good lookin’?” (ahOOgah, ahOOgah, Dive, Dive!) Award winning thriller and crime novelist Harlan Coben unleashed a chilling corker that plumbs the depths of online dating when he published “Missing You” (New York: Signet, 2015). The schemes, pandering and horrors of electronic matchmaking ooze creepily from every page as one begins to fear that for every date up for grabs there are a half dozen nuts (or far worse) competing for it:
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The SOBA Gallery is excited to feature the very “painterly” work of Lauren Terrett from July 5 – 31. Lauren’s show is titled “Local Color” which is appropriate in more ways than one.
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The York W. Bailey Museum will host an exhibition featuring artist Diane Britton Dunham July 8, on view until October 29, with an opening reception July 15, from 5:30 – 7:30pm. The Water’s Edge will feature new works by Dunham on what she has coined Gullah-Creole History, highlighting the Gullah/Louisiana connection discovered through years of researching her own family lineage, through DNA tests and public records.
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By Margaret Evans, Editor”This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England . . .” It’s 6 a.m. on Friday, June 24th, and I’ve just awakened to the news that Great Britain voted to leave the European Union. Things might change between now and publication time, but as of this moment, Brexit is real, and it’s a shocker. They said it wouldn’t happen. (You know . . . they. Them. The ones who know.)
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Ben Wolfe, well-known pillar of the local theatre community, will produce three professional shows this summer through a unique collaboration of Broadway directors, a cast of New York performers and elite young actors.
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Can we talk about the blues? Back in the 50’s and 60’s lived a popular show on TV called “Queen for a Day.” It starred Jack Bailey, a backbench actor who played miniscule parts in huge hits like “It’s A Wonderful Life” and “Gunsmoke.”
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The experience of acting as the primary caregiver for an abusive father forms the basis of an article by USCB Sociology Professor Deborah Cohan that appeared in the April 2016 issue of Utne Reader.
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In 2006, 100 Women from Jackson, Michigan were faced with the challenge of providing funds to purchase 300 baby cribs. Not wanting to take on a major fund-raising event, they gathered and came up with a simple concept: “What if we all just chipped in $100?”
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“Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.” – Beach Music The friends of Pat Conroy – including his wife Cassandra King – are currently raising funds and seeking volunteers to help create a living memorial to the beloved writer here in his adopted hometown of Beaufort. Pat started his working life in Beaufort as a teacher, then went on to become one of America’s best loved writers, revered for his extraordinary storytelling abilities, his truth-telling courage, and his great heart.
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