By Margaret Evans, EditorRecently, I was lying in bed at 3:40 am – never a great time to be awake – thinking about the column I had to write later that day. When you’ve been penning columns for 15 years, like me, you sometimes approach them with a degree of weariness. (Been there, said that, and who cares, anyway?) If you’re also approaching deadline, that weariness can be tinged with panic. Weary panic is an unpleasant sensation.
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The painting on our cover is “Fripp Garden Path” from Quintessential Bluffton, and new...
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Two boys fight in the playground. Two teeth get knocked out. Four parents meet to settle the matter peaceably but negotiations deteriorate as they plunge into a minefield of parenting issues and skirmishes between the sexes that veer from the comical to unsettling truths.
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When you’re not worrying about one thing or another, what do you think about . . . maybe on your way to work or coming home? When you’re pulling weeds or putting dishes away? Taking a shower? How about when taking those first sips of coffee in the morning?
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Spring time is the perfect time for a state fair and May River Theatre’s first show of the season is smack on with their version of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s State Fair. I call this show one of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “sleepers” as most people know the names of two of the songs in the show rather than the title itself. Might As Well Be Spring and It’s a Grand Night for Singing will bring back memories for many.
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The Wardle Family YMCA of Beaufort County announces that the popular Beaufort River Swim (BRS), now in its 9th consecutive year, will return June 6, 2015.
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Beaufort-based literary house Short Story America has published its newest collection of short stories: Loss Angeles, a beautiful hardcover collection of fifteen stories by Los Angeles author Mathieu Cailler. Cailler, the winner of the first Short Story America Prize for Short Fiction in 2012, will make his third trip to Beaufort (he was a guest star at the first two Short Story America festivals) to give a reading and book signing at ARTworks in Beaufort Town Center.
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Nature is the lifeblood of Mary Alice Monroe novels, and fans of her bestselling Lowcountry Summer Trilogy will soon enjoy reading the powerful conclusion, The Summer’s End, on sale May 19th. (Gallery Books)
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Pat Conroy’s work as a novelist and a memoirist has indelibly shaped the image of the American South in the cultural imagination. His writing has rendered the physical landscape of our own South Carolina Lowcountry familiar to legions of readers, and it has staked out a more complex geography as well, one defined by domestic trauma, racial anxiety, religious uncertainty, and cultural ambivalence.
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In May, ARTworks will be launching a new series of classes for adults. Managing Director, Laura Maxey says “Since we’re a community arts center, we try to be responsive to the requests of our community and that has resulted in some exciting new class offerings.
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