USCB’s Upshaw to Retire
Jane T. Upshaw, Ph.D., the chancellor of the University of South Carolina Beaufort, announced today she will retire after serving as USCB’s chief administrative officer for 15 years.
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Author: Margaret Evans
Music of Dreams & Drama
The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Music Director and Conductor John Morris Russell, will open the orchestra’s 33rd season, “Music of Dreams and Drama,” with the works of Leonard Bernstein and Dmitri Shostakovich.
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Jazz at Fripp
Fripp Island Friends of Music opens its 31st season of bringing music to the Sea Islands with an outstanding jazz duo. Bert Ligon and Craig Butterfield exemplify the very best of our uniquely American musical idiom—jazz!
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TheraFest is Here!
Beaufort’s Premier Healing Arts Fair October in Beaufort is a feast for the senses . . . lusciously cooler weather, bright sunny skies, golden marshes, and no bugs! The excitement of fall festival season in the Lowcountry is already in the air. This year a new fall fair will bring a new burst of energy onto the Beaufort scene: 2014 TheraFest: Healing Arts Fair.
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A “Novel” Wine Tasting
The Second Annual “Novel” Wine Tasting, Arts, and Literary Festival will take place in Ridgeland, South Carolina on Saturday, October 25, 2014, from Noon to 6 p.m. at September Oaks Vineyards, 893 Grays Highway, Ridgeland, South Carolina. The vineyards’ website is www.septemberoaks.com.
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Art with a Conscience
As part of the celebration of its 150th Anniversary, Penn Center on St. Helena Island, SC, will present an exhibition of work by Ellen Zisholtz, the Director/Curator of SC State University’s I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium, at Penn’s York W. Bailey Museum.
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‘South’ Bound
By Margaret Evans, EditorTwo of my friends and creative co-conspirators have just released a book that people will be talking about for a long time. Publisher/designer Lydia Inglett and author/editor Wendy Pollitzer are the proud parents of South, a collection of essays and images by all sorts of interesting characters who hail from the warmer climes – some of them only in spirit. According to the website, South features “emotional essays from notable musicians, athletes, journalists, writers, business leaders, artists, actors, clergy, chefs and more . . . with defining photography and quotes that collectively embrace the charm and harmony of the new South.”
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Almost, Maine
On October 10, Shakespeare Rep, Beaufort’s professional classical theatre company launches its Season of Wonders with the quirky contemporary comedy Almost, Maineat the USCB Center for the Arts. Almost, Maine is a study in contrasts: alternately funny and heartbreaking, it is about simple folks grappling with complicated matters of the heart.
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Sea Island Stories
The Backyard Tourist gets vocal…By Mark ShafferIt’s a breezy Sunday afternoon in May and I’m hunched over a microphone in a recording studio in the spectacular new St. Helena public library pretending to be someone else. I’m doing my best to channel a young soldier named Will Bedford. The year is 1898 and like thousands of his peers, young Mr. Bedford’s enlisted in the aftermath of the destruction of the U.S.S. Maine, swept up in the nation’s battle cry, “To hell with Spain! Remember the Maine!”
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Her Life’s Work
NAMI facilitator Carola Eldridge has looked at mental illness from both sides now.
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Celebrate with Catering by Debbi Covington
