Author: Margaret Evans

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.

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.

The Beaufort Art Association presents “Seas and Trees, Paintings by Tom Van...

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.

The painting on our cover is “Stepping Out Blues Man” by visual artist, poet and...