Author: Margaret Evans

Vic and Friends at the Jazz Corner

Beaufort jazz ensemble Vic and Friends will perform at the Jazz Corner August 5th and 6th. A year ago, they launched their CD, entitled “V”, at this legendary Hilton Head establishment. We recently sat down with Vic Varner to talk about his band and what they’ve been up to lately.

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USCB Vice Chancellor, First Fulbright Recipient

USCB Vice Chancellor for Advancement and External Relations, Dr. Lynn McGee, has been selected for a 2016-17 US Scholar grant to participate in a Fulbright International Education Administrators seminar. Dr. McGee’s selection makes her the first Fulbright recipient to receive the prestigious award while an employee of USCB.

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A Night in History

Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage presents ‘A Night in History,’ a family-friendly event featuring war games, pirate treasure hunts, light refreshments and face to face encounters with costumed soldiers, on Saturday, July 23 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.

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Hampton Humorist in Beaufort

Hampton County Guardian Editor/Publisher and South Carolina Wildlife magazine humor columnist and feature writer, Michael M. DeWitt, Jr., has recently released his second book, which marks the first humor collection for the award-winning humorist.

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High on the Lowcountry

Robert Sefton brings South Carolina’s wonderful coastal environment to life with High on the Lowcountry, an exhibit at the Art League of Hilton Head Gallery from July 26 – August 20. The opening reception is Wednesday, July 27th from 5-7 pm. PM. 

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Our National Infection

By Margaret Evans, Editor Before sunup last Thursday morning, I dragged my creaky self, in my creaky station wagon, over to the Lowe’s parking lot to fetch my daughter. She’d been bussed back to Beaufort overnight with 80 local teenagers who’d just spent the week at Young Life camp in the mountains of Virginia.

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BHM’s Summer Docent Classes

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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Dates and Nuts

“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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Local Color

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 Water’s Edge

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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