Why is this theatre important to you? This simple question was posed to the cast of Beaufort Theatre Company’s ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ opening this month on the ‘main stage’ of The USCB Center for the Arts. The expectation was that answers would be similar, with echoes of “it is important to the community,” or “I love having the opportunity to do something I love.” But, they weren’t…
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Deeply rooted in an ancient, time-honored tradition, the Golden Dragon Acrobats bring to the stage incredible grace, power and beauty in performance that is unparalleled in other art forms.
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Beaufort’s newest bookstore offers up the stuff of dreams. Story and Photos by Mark Shaffer “Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.” ― Stephen King, The Waste Lands
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The Italian Heritage Festival on Hilton Head celebrates a growing population and cultural influence in the Lowcountry. Growing up on Hilton Head in the 1970’s, I was accustomed to a certain kind of southern pace, that included predictable, hot, hazy, slow summers, blended with buttery, salty, lowcountry flavors that stewed all day long with fat back. Houses took four to nine months to build, give or take (nobody got into a fist-fight over a completion date, because well… why rush it?), and the lines at banks and post offices stood still while people caught up with one another’s family news. There weren’t many stoplights, but there were a lot of ‘Yield’ signs and of course, rotaries.
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The Santa Elena Foundation if offering Lowcountry residents two unique opportunities to meet Spanish Count Alvaro Armada, the current Adelantado of la Florida and direct descendent of 16th century founder of Santa Elena, Pedro Menendez de Aviles.
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By Margaret Evans, Editor Writer Richard Hawley will be the featured presenter at the opening of the 3rd Short Story America Festival and Conference in Beaufort, where he’ll debut his new novel Greeves Passing. I met Hawley two years ago during this same event, and a few months later had the pleasure of reviewing his marvelous short story collection, The Other World, about which I wrote…
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Attention All Writers and Readers: The third Short Story America Festival and Conference is scheduled for the long weekend of September 24th-26th in Beaufort.
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This year’s Friends of the Beaufort Library Fall Book Sale will be held Friday, September 25th through Sunday, September 27th at the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park in downtown Beaufort.
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The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) announces an exhibit of the photography of Kendra Natter that will be mounted in the new OLLI classroom on Hilton Head Island at 2 Mathews Court, Suites B and C. The exhibit will be available for viewing in conjunction with the beginning of OLLI’s Fall Semester of classes on September 14, and will continue through December 6.
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On October 17, The Lowcountry Jaycees will host the area’s ONLY local International Chili Society sanctioned cookoff to benefit Jaycee Camp Hope – the 2nd Annual Party in the Park Chili Cookoff.
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