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Author: Margaret Evans

Beaufort’s Best Garden Party

HBF’s Lafayette Soiree Sails Into Spring  On Saturday, March 28 at 6:30 pm, the grounds of Scott Sonoc and Marsha Williams’ historic George Moss Stoney House (c.1823) in the Old Point will become a lively cocktail and fireworks fete to celebrate the Marquis de Lafayette’s famed 1825 visit to Beaufort.

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Father and Sons

“Did you ever think you’d have another boy?” That’s what my wife asked me in the quiet aftermath of receiving the genetic results of blood tests for our baby due in July.  

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On Springing Forward

By Margaret Evans, EditorWell, they went and did it again. They made us spring forward.    Seems like only yesterday we were falling back, doesn’t it? In reality, it was four months ago. We now spend only four months a year on Standard Time. (Is it just me, or does that completely upend the meaning of “standard”?) Yes, my friends, Daylight Savings Time is steadily expanding – creeping like kudzu right under our noses – and we’re just letting it happen. Some people even like it.

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Moving Still Lifes

New work by Casa Huger Bacot will be on display through mid-March in an exhibit at the Charles Street Gallery in Beaufort. The public is invited to an opening reception on Friday, February 27, from 5:30 to 9pm.

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International Prize Winners Play USCB

Piano Quartets will comprise the primary offerings of the March 8 Chamber Music concert at the USCB Center for the Arts. Schubert, Saint-Saens and Dvorak quartets will display the brilliant talents of composer and pianist Adam Neiman, violinist Maria Bachmann (left), violist Hsin-Yun Huang, and the USCB Festival Series host and resident cellist Edward Arron. Neiman and Bachmann, who tour and record together as two-thirds of the Trio Solisti, will also perform a serenade composed by the pianist.

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Ancestors with a Plan

It was a week before Christmas, 1882. Stephen Binyard was at work, loading lumber onto boats at Duncan Wilson’s lumber yard located on the Beaufort River at the end of Pigeon Point Road. Stephen’s wife, Jane, was home just a few blocks away caring for their eight children.

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Stevie Wonder, Ruby Slippers & Hoop Cheese

Did you watch the all-star tribute to Stevie Wonder television special last week? It was wonderful! I was 12 years old when Stevie’s album, Songs in the Key of Life, was at its peak. Listening to all of the old songs made me a bit homesick for my friends, my youth and the food that I grew up with.

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