Author: Margaret Evans

It was miserably hot last week. Again. Honestly.  Since you can’t stay home forever, though, I headed out to a local discount store to buy a few things and maybe see how others were coping with this weather.

Legendary Explorer & Discoverer of Titanic to Visit the Lowcountry:A Conversation with Dr. Robert Ballard By Mark ShafferPhotos provided by National Geographic “There’s more history in the deep sea than all the museums of the world combined.”                                           –Dr. Robert Ballard 60 years ago young Bob Ballard read Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and it changed his life. The enigmatic Capt. Nemo catpured his imagination and he dreamed of roaming the ocean’s uncharted depths in a Nautilus of his own. Over more than five decades Dr. Robert Ballard has led more than 150 expeditions leading to discoveries of which Nemo himself would be proud.

Legendary Explorer & Discoverer of Titanic to Visit the Lowcountry:A Conversation with Dr. Robert Ballard By Mark ShafferPhotos provided by National Geographic “There’s more history in the deep sea than all the museums of the world combined.”                                           –Dr. Robert Ballard 60 years ago young Bob Ballard read Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and it changed his life. The enigmatic Capt. Nemo catpured his imagination and he dreamed of roaming the ocean’s uncharted depths in a Nautilus of his own. Over more than five decades Dr. Robert Ballard has led more than 150 expeditions leading to discoveries of which Nemo himself would be proud.

The Santa Elena History Center in downtown Beaufort continues to set the historical record straight, hosting a variety of special programs to educate and entertain. Here’s what’s coming up . . .  

Midway through my molten walk with Dixie last week, we came upon an iridescent green lizard, perched alertly on a bush… all two inches of him. Who knew they could already crane their necks smartly at that size? I dubbed the little guy Freddie.

  Legendary Explorer & Discoverer of Titanic to Visit the Lowcountry: A conversation with Dr. Robert Ballard By Mark ShafferPhotos provided by National Geographic   “Space, the final frontier.” It’s been half a century since Capt. James T. Kirk’s first words introduced the world to Star Trek. The Starship Enterprise continues to explore strange new worlds and captivate the imagination of a new generation. But even before the Enterprise began its fictional exploration of uncharted outer space, an ambitious young marine scientist had already embarked on a mission to lift the veil of Earth’s inner space.