A history professor at USCB has been awarded a grant of nearly $200,000 by the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct a three-week institute for school teachers on the history of Reconstruction and its aftermath along America’s Southeastern coast.
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Isn’t life tricky? Filled with potholes, loopholes, sinkholes and human threats to peace and safety. Gosh, it’s so tricky and even scary that we need a constant stream of reminders and warnings about all those products that otherwise make modern life possible. Caveat emptor indeed.
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By Margaret Evans, Editor Life as an independent publisher has many rewards, but they’re not always monetary. When both adults in a household toil in that noble field for a living, much of that household is likely to be held together with duct tape. The situation can be humbling, but it can also be an exhilarating test of your resourcefulness!
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A Senior Fish Story “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven today and we don’t know where the hell she is.” – Ellen DeGeneres Let’s face it, one’s ability (ok my ability at least) to remember the everyday basics of life as the years fly by can careen downhill into a forgotten art.
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Vic Varner and Friends will play two shows at The Jazz Corner, August 8th and 9th starting at 8 pm. The ensemble specializes in the music of Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim (of “Girl from Ipanema” fame, for the uninitiated).
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Editor’s Note: This summer, Lowcoutry Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore is celebrating 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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The Society of Bluffton Artists presents “Watercolor Memories, Here and There,” a collection of paintings by award-winning artist Don Theodore, on display from August 4 – 30, at the SOBA Gallery.
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Two giants of the self-taught art world are featured artists in the 2014 Annual Summer Show at the Red Piano Too Art Gallery on August 9, 2014. The theme for the show is “The Genius of Creativity.” Both Missionary Proctor and Ernest Lee “Chicken Man” can be classified as creative geniuses.(On our cover: paintings by Ernest Lee, aka “Chicken Man”)
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Beaufort Art Association presents DIVERSITY by artist, Dennis Wilkins. This new, very exciting exhibit opens on Monday, August 4 and runs through Saturday, September 13. An opening reception will be held on Friday, August 8 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm, with light refreshments.
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By Margaret Evans, EditorY’all know how I tend to get my little obsessions – subjects I become wildly interested in, then write about ad nauseam? (That’s a rhetorical question. Of course you know.) Well, my latest thing is birds.
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