Author: Margaret Evans

Going Off Label

Got labels? According to MedicineNet.com,“In the United States, the regulations of the Food and Drug Administration permit physicians to prescribe approved medications for other than their intended indications. This practice is known as off-label use.”

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Spanish Moss Trail Starts Phase 4

The Friends of the Spanish Moss Trail (FSMT) are pleased to announce that the much-anticipated Phase 4 of the Spanish Moss Trail has just broken ground from Depot Road to Broad River Boulevard, to bring the Lowcountry a 7-mile connected Trail by the end of 2015.

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Southern Skies & Southern Ties

The Society of Bluffton Artists Gallery welcomes Margaret Crawford as featured artist from September 8 through October 4. Originally from New Jersey, Margaret and her family have vacationed in the Lowcountry since the early seventies, eventually moving to Hilton Head full time. An accomplished painter, she truly loves the South and is inspired to interpret her beautiful surroundings on watercolor paper and canvas, motivating her to share her latest work in this show called Southern Skies and Southern Ties. 

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School Daze

Margaret Evans, EditorIt’s that time of year when I always feel like a space alien surrounded by earthlings. Or a foreigner who just woke up in a country where she doesn’t speak the language. Or a Jane Austen character trapped in a Ray Bradbury novel. Or . . . well, you get the picture.

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Barlow Debuts with ‘Lowcountry Rising’

A high-speed car chase in the dead of night, a love triangle, drug dealers gone wild, a vengeful cousin, and a disembodied spirit returning for retribution . . . Will there be devotion or betrayal? A descent or ascension? A rebirth or painful death? Or all of the above?

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Speed: A (Very) Quick History

“In Philadelphia, the same day as the British landing on Staten Island, July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress, in a momentous decision, voted to “dissolve the connection” with Great Britain. The news reached New York four days later, on July 6, and at once spontaneous celebrations broke out. ‘The whole choir of our officers . . . went to a public house to testify our joy at the happy news of Independence. We spent the afternoon merrily,’ recorded Isaac Bangs.’” (David McCullough, “1776”; NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005)

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Portraits of the Human Spirit

David Millman at the Art League of Hilton Head Gallery David Millman gives a first impression of being quiet and conservative. A gregarious laugh soon corrects that misinterpretation. Lively in both thought and art, he embodies the spirit of an artist with expert ability across many disciplines, including sculpture, photography, illustration and music.

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Birds of a Feather & the Political Animal

By Margaret Evans, EditorNot too long ago, a friend made a pithy comment on my Facebook page – so pithy, in fact, I immediately wished I’d said it myself. “Oh, no!” he wrote. “Is it already that time again, when we all start insulting each other while pretending to insult the candidates?”

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