The First Annual Bridges Block Party was a smashing success! A good time was had by all, money was raised for Bridges Charter School, and a group of high school students from Goose Creek, SC, swept the Shrimp & Grits competition. That’s right, Stratford High School won both the official judges’ award AND the People’s Choice Award for their Classic Charleston Breakfast Shrimp. (See recipe below.)
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Janis Wilson Hughes at the Art League Gallery The Art League of Hilton Head announces the exhibition Cycles of Vitality: Ceramic Sculpture by Janis Wilson Hughes opening May 8 in the Walter Greer Gallery on Hilton Head and continuing through June 1.
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Author and aviatrix, Millie West, has done it again! With the publication of her most recent novel – Catherine’s Cross – she weaves together a Lowcountry mystery imbued with romantic tension and intriguing characters.
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“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” – George Orwell This Orwell quote has been floating around Facebook Nation lately. I keep seeing it, again and again, which isn’t particularly unusual. (That’s what FB memes do; they multiply.) What is unusual is that the adage keeps popping up on the pages of people who have very different values and, frankly, very different ideas about “truth.”
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Marine WormsOccasionally on a kayak tour, the dolphin are feeding elsewhere, the eagles are perched just out of sight, and the blue crabs refuse to let themselves be caught in the cast-net. So when these super-stars of the salt marsh are nowhere to be found, I start to look for some of the supporting actors – our marine worms.
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Phillip Greene’s Wood Song Canoes By Mark ShafferPhotos Courtesy of Phillip Greene As a child growing up in the wilds of the Northern Adirondacks in upper New York state, Phillip Greene’s first passion was fishing and a canoe was simply “a way to get to where the fish are; a mode of transportation.” With time this opinion has evolved. Today Greene’s meticulously handcrafted canoes and paddles are commissioned and collected as pieces of fine functional art.
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I keep trying to stay upbeat. Remember that wonderful Shirley Temple song, “Be Optimistic” from the 1930’s movie “Little Miss Broadway”? I shoot for that only without the dimples and curly hair. Some days that quest seems to get a tailwind behind it, like this little gust.
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Everything Sinatra and more will hit the USCB Center for the Arts stage when producer Terry Herron, who brought “Moon River,” the Johnny Mercer tribute to Beaufort last year, brings the Swing and Jazz inspired production, “Fly Me to the Moon,” to Beaufort on April 19.
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The music on the April 27th’s program of USCB’s chamber music series comes from four distinct periods and three unique outlooks: Baroque-era rigor and craft from Johann Sebastian Bach; World War II-era intensity and pathos from Dmitri Shostakovich; Classical-era grace and balance coupled with Romantic-era passion and self-expression in the person of Felix Mendelssohn.
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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. The local Restore started officially in 2004. To celebrate this 10th anniversary, the Restore will hold an “Upcycled Art Auction” Saturday, August 23, at the Shed, 809 Paris Avenue in Port Royal. This is the site of the ReStore’s former location. As a run-up to this event, Lowcountry Weekly will feature four articles – one per month – about different aspects of the ReStore. This first article explores the history of the local ReStore.
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