Author: Margaret Evans

Dale Wescott Nature Awards

The 8th annual Dale Westcott Memorial Nature Awards were presented at the photography Club of Beaufort. Each year the club sponsors a nature photography contest for local high school students in memory of Dale Westcott, one of the club’s early members.

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The Old Ways Are Sometimes the Best

Most of the gardens in my life – the private gardens, the gardens of friends and relatives – have a history associated with them. Sometimes the home has some historical significance; sometimes the garden itself has been designed and worked and maintained for generations of gardeners; and sometimes the garden simply carries with it the long memory of gardening traditions in the deep South.

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Dale Wescott Nature Awards

The 8th annual Dale Westcott Memorial Nature Awards were presented on Monday evening at the photography Club of Beaufort. Each year the club sponsors a nature photography contest for local high school students in memory of Dale Westcott, one of the club’s early members.

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Amateur Hour

By Margaret Evans, Editor As a columnist, I’m what they call a “generalist.” I know a little about a lot, and a lot about very little. I’m extremely interested, but only moderately informed. (When you spread your curiosity so thin, your knowledge tends to be wide, not deep.) So, you’ll have to go elsewhere, reader, for your experts and specialists, your connoisseurs and aficionados. Here on this page, it’s all amateur hour, all the time.

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Bottles & Barrels Rolls Out

Habersham’s inaugural Bottles and Barrels weekend rolled out to enthusiastic crowds of Lowcountry foodies June 14 and 15th. This Southern Living Inspired Event showcased fine wines, craft brews and farm-to-table cuisine prepared by top-tier local chefs.

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Get a Clue

Come have a killer time for canines . . . A heartbroken lifeguard and a steroid-shooting surf pro. A couple of sexy gold diggers willing to fight for the bijillionaire they both, um . . . love. A lottery winner looking to try the part of International Playboy on for size. A local girl with a heart of gold . . . and a thirst for revenge. Big screen superstar Loni Luhan, who’s SUPPOSED to be in rehab, but just can’t pass up the party.

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Spaghetti for Breakfast

Hear that quirky sound? Bzzzzt. Nothing makes time fly quite like an impending colonoscopy (ok, maybe tax day looming on the horizon or your semi-favorite crowd of relatives scheduled to visit from out of town). My June 2 colonoscopy approached with increasing speed as the previous one in 2009 spiraled into a tiny retreating speck in the rearview mirror. My, how quickly five years can whiz by when it comes to scheduled major medical tests.

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Lowcountry Habitat ReStore: Part 3

Shopping at the ReStore Editor’s Note: This summer, Lowcountry Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore will celebrate 10 years in operation as the Beaufort area’s ‘store that builds houses.” Lowcountry Habitat, the northern Beaufort County affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, was founded here in 1990.

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