Author: Margaret Evans

(with apologies to Jimmy Buffett) Story by Mark Shaffer Photos by Mark Shaffer, Jeff Evans, and Eric Horan Shortly after the shots ring out, I figure it’s time to go. At the very least it’s a sign. The Tuesday after Matthew buzz sawed up the South Carolina coast there is a surreal quality to the storm’s aftermath. Less than two weeks past a spinal procedure on my lower neck I’m still using a brace (the human equivalent to the Cone of Shame) and feeling the aftereffects of the Percocet. Time has only recently become relevant again. Much of the past week and a half – including the storm – is one long, blurry smudge, like a child’s attempt at a watercolor rainbow.

“The troop visits got harder over time because, as I looked into each face, I increasingly would wonder to myself which of these kids I would next see in the hospital at Landstuhl or Walter Reed or Bethesda—or listed for burial at Arlington cemetery. For those on the front line who ate with me, I realized it might well be the occasion for the first hot meal or shower in days if not weeks. Each forward unit I visited seemed to have its own makeshift memorial in a small tent or lean-to dedicated to those who had been killed… I always went in alone.” – Robert Gates, “Duty” (2014, Vintage)

Administrators, faculty, staff and parents at Holy Trinity Classical Christian School are celebrating after the school’s first annual fundraising campaign ended in a blaze of glory.

Come enjoy an afternoon of picnics, ponies and polo at the 23rd Polo for Charity event, organized by the Rotary Club of Okatie, on Sunday, Oct. 23 at the historic Rose Hill Plantation, Bluffton. Gates open at noon, and the match begins at 2 p.m. You don’t want to miss this premiere event of the fall in Bluffton.

Come enjoy an afternoon of picnics, ponies and polo at the 23rd Polo for Charity event, organized by the Rotary Club of Okatie, on Sunday, Oct. 23 at the historic Rose Hill Plantation, Bluffton. Gates open at noon, and the match begins at 2 p.m. You don’t want to miss this premiere event of the fall in Bluffton.