Author: Margaret Evans

The Friends of Hunting Island Sea Turtle Conservation Program is underway again. Dawn patrol volunteers walking the beach on May 23 discovered Nest #10. It was located below the Spring High Tide Line, so the nest was carefully uncovered, the eggs were moved to higher ground, and the nest was cordoned off.

The South Carolina Humanities Festival returns to Beaufort By Mark Shaffer For many of us the humanities constituted a portion of our college curriculum that we were either eager to pursue or desperate to avoid. One of the best explanations of the humanities I’ve come across is simply: “the study of how people process and document the human experience.” That generally encompasses things like philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history, language and all that spins within these complex and interconnected orbits. Back in 1972 the South Carolina Humanities Council was formed “To enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of all South Carolinians.”

Photographer: “I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday.” Winston Churchill at 75: “I don’t see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.”                                                                                                 

           American Legion Baseball returns to the Lowcountry with both senior and junior Beaufort Osprey teams.  There was no Beaufort American Legion baseball in 2015, for the first empty season in more than 25 years. American Legion Beaufort Post 9 is bringing back Legion Baseball; for their 2016 regular season the senior Ospreys will play 18 games and the junior Ospreys will play 14 games.