Short Story America Festival Returns
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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Author: Margaret Evans
Fall Book Sale with Friends
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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Kendra Natter at OLLI
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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The Chili Cookoff is Coming
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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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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Celebrate with Catering by Debbi Covington
