“At lunch they went through three hundred two-foot loaves of bread, 150 gallons of milk, and twelve hundred cups of ice cream. At dinner they dished up fifteen hundred pounds of red meat (except on Sunday, when they served twelve hundred pounds of chicken) and 330 pies. Joe never left a scrap on his plate, or anyone else’s within reach.” (Daniel James Brown, “The Boys In The Boat”; New York: Viking, 2013)
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“We started this recording last summer at a studio on Hilton Head called The Sound,” says Vic Varner. “We laid down 27 tracks hoping for five good ones, instead we got lucky and have ten.” Varner and his band V will officially launch their new CD at the Jazz Corner on Hilton Head on August 7th and 8th.
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Lowcountry Music Studio is proud to announce a strong fall lineup of performing arts classes, workshops and training opportunities. The studio, which opened in June of 2015 under the direction of Anna Powell Schaffer (left), was created to enrich training opportunities for all performers in the Lowcountry.
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A “secret” painting society exposed at the Beaufort Art Association Gallery A group of artists called THE THURSDAY PAINTERS, who have been working together quietly for over 20 years, has popped up on the local radar screen.
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Watercolor Paintings by Pat Wilund at the SOBA Gallery The Society of Bluffton Artists Gallery is pleased to welcome Pat Wilund as the featured artist August 3 through September 5. Pat will be exhibiting a body of new watercolor paintings she has named “To Pour or Not to Pour.” In this work Pat experiments with traditional and non-traditional methods of painting the backgrounds for her subject matter.
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Murrells Inlet artist Asher Robinson to be featured at Red Piano Too’s 23rd Annual Summer Show. When Asher Robinson began marketing his folk art along the beach, he took the advice of his mentor and friend, Ernest J. Lee, who encouraged Robinson to paint what made him feel good, and what he loved.
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By Margaret Evans, Editor It’s far from perfect, its politics are not pristine, and it’s very much a product of its time and place. Harper Lee’s new (old) book Go Set A Watchman is a lot like her iconic character Atticus Finch. And I love them both anyway.
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The University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB), in partnership with the City of Beaufort, Penn Center, and the University Of South Carolina College Of Education, is hosting 30 K-12 teachers from around the country for a three-week summer institute that started July 12 and runs through August 1. The institute, “America’s Reconstruction: The Untold Story,” will guide the educators through more than a century of American history—from the final years of the cotton kingdom in the South, through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and up to the modern civil rights era.
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