Author: Margaret Evans

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.

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.

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.

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.