Herban Marketplace Hosts Healthy Eating Classes with Sarah Mastriani-Levi Herban Marketplace, the Lowcountry’s premier organic grocery, will host “Eat Well. Live Well. Stay Well Healthy Eating Classes” starting on July 20, 2014 from 3 – 5 pm. Classes have been designated as either ‘beginner-level’ or ‘advanced-level’ depending on the participant’s interest level and experience in preparing vegetarian, vegan, and raw foods.
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Explorations in Water Media with Mary Kelly & Mary Sullivan Two artists, both with the same first name – and frequently mistaken for one another probably due to their Irish-looking faces and Irish-sounding last names – decided to take the bull by the horns in presenting a joint exhibit of their water media art works. The exhibit, “Mary & Mary! Splash! Explorations in Water Media” will run through August 22 at the Hilton Head Public Library on Beach City Road off Hwy. 278.
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2015 County Calendar Photo Contest focuses on trees. Beaufort County is now accepting submissions for its tenth annual Land Preservation Calendar photo contest. The 2015 calendar theme is Branching Out: The Life, Landscapes & Love of Trees in Beaufort County.
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By Margaret Evans, Editor This month marks a somewhat terrifying milestone in the life of my family. In a couple of weeks, our daughter will be a teenager. It’s been coming on for a while now – the eye rolling, the constant texting, the bikini-clad beach walking – but I’ve been in denial.
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William Rhett, III designed this year’s logo as a tribute to Water Festivals past and present. When the 2014 Water Festival committee asked William Rhett III to design this year’s logo – the one that will grace tee-shirts all over Waterfront Park – they didn’t give him any strict marching orders. The Festival’s theme, “A Tradition Since 1956,” was to be the guiding principle – beyond that, Rhett had free reign.
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A candid interview with Water Festival Parade Grand Marshal, Pat Conroy, who says he’s doing it to impress the grandkids… The Grand Marshal for this year’s Water Festival Parade is beloved best-selling author and long-time Beaufortonian Pat Conroy. The oldest of seven children born to a Marine Corps fighter pilot from Chicago and a southern beauty from Alabama, Pat landed in Beaufort at age 15 – after moving every year, all his life – and decided to call it home.
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Brandy Gray is Water Festival’s first Pirette-turned-Commodore. (We predict she won’t be the last!) We had some questions for Madam Commodore… Q) Tell us about yourself. When you’re not Commodore-ing, what do you do? A) I am a Sales Manager for Veritas Hospitality Group and I work in Bluffton at the Holiday Inn Express. I enjoy volunteering for various events in town and also serve on the board at Beaufort Jasper Water & Sewer Authority.
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With all the locally-grown festivals around here, it was bound to happen! The only question is – what took ’em so long? Beaufort’s 1st Annual Tomato Festival is Saturday, July 12th.
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Lowcountry resident Jane Hearn has curated a powerful exhibit for the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer. “When you are in Mississippi, the rest of America doesn’t seem real; and when you are in the rest of America, Mississippi doesn’t seem real.” – Dr. Robert “Bob” Moses, Program Director 1961-65 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. When a South Carolina native Marian Wright took then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to a sharecropper’s house in the Mississippi Delta, she didn’t know the name of the lanky, white Millsaps College student in the shadows snapping photographs. But 23-year-old Jim Lucas knew that he was witnessing – and capturing – history with his 35mm camera.
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Craft Brews debut at Beaufort’s annual waterfront celebration. “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”– Benjamin Franklin Beer. Like so many things – the first date, first car, first apartment – we all tend to remember our first one. My first beer was a warm can of Pabst my pal Ben liberated from the toolbox in the back of his old man’s pick up truck. We were 14. It was awful.
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