The Photography Club of Beaufort presents its 2014 annual photography exhibit,” Impressions in Black and White” at USCB’s Center for the Arts. The show will begin on Thursday, Dec 4th with a preview reception. The public is invited to attend. The exhibit will remain open through December 21.
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Bestselling author and Beaufortonian Pat Conroy remembers the friendship of a lifetime. (Read Part One) I was living with my family in Italy when I read a report in the International Herald Tribune about a mysterious disease that was killing gay men in San Francisco and New York. I ran to the telephone and dialed Tim Belk’s number in San Francisco. When he answered in his refined, cultured Southern accent, I said, “Tim, whatever you are doing in your unspeakable gay life, I want you stop this minute. No more hanky-panky for you, son.”
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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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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 USCB Center for the Arts delivers a cap note performance in partnership with Penn Center’s 32nd Heritage Days Celebration with a spiritual on its stage at the University’s historic campus in Beaufort, South Carolina on Sunday, November 9 at 3 pm.
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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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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 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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The Beaufort Female Benevolent Society Turns 200
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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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