Author: Margaret Evans

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.

Like the majority of residents, I love living in Beaufort. And one reason is its abundance of “good neighbors,” people who go out of their way for strangers. This morning as I was turning on to the Woods Bridge, a woman pulled up beside me to tell me that my back tire was flat, that I was driving on the rim. I’d no idea. Contemplating the situation as I waited for a lovely sailboat with a mast that must’ve been 48 feet tall to pass through, I decided to limp across to the old White Hall turnoff and call AAA. This is the reason I pay for road service every year. Turns out, however, I didn’t have to use it.

Writing “King For a Day” a few months ago was great fun, followed by nice reader feedback. It prompted me to take a fresh look at more ways to shape a better world and refine them into a follow-up on our better angels . . . and angles.

Community Foundation of the Lowcountry will launch The Giving Marketplace, a web-based initiative intended to provide detailed, comprehensive information about local nonprofits in Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton and Colleton Counties, in early July.