By Margaret Evans, EditorThere is a powerful force at work in our community, but if you don’t have a high school or middle school student in your house, you might be unaware of it. No, I’m not talking about adolescence – though, indeed, that is a force to be reckoned with. I’m talking about Beaufort Young Life. Adolescence, meet your match.
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By Margaret Evans, EditorI think I’ve mentioned our cat door, haven’t I? There’s no more certain indicator that spring is sprung than the sudden annual influx of critters – the undomesticated kind – through the small, humble flap that separates our kitchen from our backyard.
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In this time of increasing incivility, at least in politics, I have a confession to make. Across a lifetime in nine states—from New York to California—I can barely give myself a B- in etiquette.
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“Hey, let’s put on a show! We can put a stage in that old barn out back, and surely it won’t be too hard to rig up a spotlight or two…” This movie motif became a cultural cliché thanks to young film stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. (If you’re too young to remember them or their impact on pop culture, think Brad and Angelina.)
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In recognition of their long-standing support of both the hospital and the arts, the Beaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation has announced that Bill and Martha Harvey will serve as honorary chairmen for its 13th annual Duke Symphony Orchestra concert fundraiser, scheduled for April 9.
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Set in the turbulent, colorful 1970’s, Stephanie Austin Edwards’ debut novel What We Set in Motion finds the daughter of a prominent old South Carolina Lowcountry family fleeing to New York’s Greenwich Village in pursuit of a dance career.
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Bay Street Jewelers celebrates 75 years in the heart of downtown Beaufort. Last Wednesday afternoon, Mark and Terri Stokes finally cut the ribbon they never got to cut 25 years ago when they purchased Fox Jewelers, which was already a staple of downtown Beaufort after 50 years in business.
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Art League Academy students who have won awards during the Spring 2015-Winter2016 sessions will showcase their award-winning artworks alongside their instructors at “The Academy Awards” exhibition opening on April 5, 2016 at Art League Gallery. Winning categories are: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, honorable mention and People’s Choice awards. The public is invited to the artist’s reception on Thursday, April 7th from 5-7pm.
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Bees, Cold Wax, and Melba Cooper Oil paint and beeswax are a marriage of content and medium in Melba Cooper’s new abstract paintings inspired by the Honeybee.
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By Margaret Evans, Editor In the days immediately following Pat Conroy’s death, I couldn’t write a word. It happened on a Friday night, and by Saturday morning there were already long, comprehensive tributes appearing in publications as nearby as the Beaufort Gazette, as far-flung as the New York Times, and everywhere in between. Lowcountry Weekly was scheduled to go to print the following Monday morning. I’d already written my column – some trifle, or so it now seemed, about the Trump phenomenon – but there was still time to bump it for a Conroy homage. And I couldn’t write a word.
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