Author: Margaret Evans

Benefit for Phil Griffin

Join Richard Darby in hosting a musical extravaganza and art auction for Phillip Griffin at the The Arts Council of Beaufort. Phil was brutally attacked last month while driving his taxi. The fundraiser featuring The Sometimes Later Band, jazz vocalist Jan Spencer, The Warsaw Island Boys, Sweetgrass Angels and other possible artists will raise monies to offset hospital and other costs the family has incurred as the result Phil’s injuries.

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Like Cornbread Telling Jokes

Dusty Slay’s Homegrown Stand Up Returns To The Spaghetti ClubBy Mark Shaffer   “We get a lot of tourists in the restaurant . . . and they ask weird questions sometimes like, ‘What’s something non-touristy we can do?’ I don’t know. You could get in your car and go home… or buy a house and start paying some taxes around here.” – Dusty Slay, “I’ve Waited Tables”    

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The Great Tim Belk

Pat Conroy remembers a remarkable man and a friendship that spanned almost half a century.   Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life. I met Tim Belk in Beaufort in 1967, the first year I taught and coached at Beaufort High School. We were the only guests at a dinner that the only writer in Beaufort, Ann Head, had put together so we could meet and form what she was certain would become a serious “literary” friendship.

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Come Hell or High Water

Thoughts on Veterans Day    Veterans Day is a landmark observation, the official day in America that honors those who have served in our armed forces across all wars. A federal holiday, it falls on November 11.

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Were You There?

Were you there when Joel Fan played Fripp? This will be one of the most frequently asked questions where music-lovers gather, as Fripp Island Friends of Music continues a long tradition of bringing accomplished Steinway artists to the Lowcountry.

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There’s a Kind of Hush

Homes for the Holidays will softly shimmer on Distant Island. Homes along the hushed waterfront community of Distant Island will sparkle for Beaufort’s Homes for the Holidays 14th Annual Tour, Saturday and Sunday, November 22 and 23 benefitting St. Peter’s Catholic School tuition assistance fund.  The weekend event is Beaufort’s only annual holiday tour.

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Alex Marwood at USCB Lunch With Authors

If you want to write crime novels but you got your literary start as a travel-news columnist and chick lit author, you might do what Serena Mackesy did, take on a pseudonym and live the life of Alex Marwood. Alex hails from South London and will be in the Lowcountry on November 19th as the guest author for the USCB Lunch With Author Series.

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