A candid interview with Water Festival Parade Grand Marshal, Pat Conroy, who says he’s doing it to impress the grandkids… The Grand Marshal for this year’s Water Festival Parade is beloved best-selling author and long-time Beaufortonian Pat Conroy. The oldest of seven children born to a Marine Corps fighter pilot from Chicago and a southern beauty from Alabama, Pat landed in Beaufort at age 15 – after moving every year, all his life – and decided to call it home.
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Brandy Gray is Water Festival’s first Pirette-turned-Commodore. (We predict she won’t be the last!) We had some questions for Madam Commodore… Q) Tell us about yourself. When you’re not Commodore-ing, what do you do? A) I am a Sales Manager for Veritas Hospitality Group and I work in Bluffton at the Holiday Inn Express. I enjoy volunteering for various events in town and also serve on the board at Beaufort Jasper Water & Sewer Authority.
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With all the locally-grown festivals around here, it was bound to happen! The only question is – what took ’em so long? Beaufort’s 1st Annual Tomato Festival is Saturday, July 12th.
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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.
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Craft Brews debut at Beaufort’s annual waterfront celebration. “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”– Benjamin Franklin Beer. Like so many things – the first date, first car, first apartment – we all tend to remember our first one. My first beer was a warm can of Pabst my pal Ben liberated from the toolbox in the back of his old man’s pick up truck. We were 14. It was awful.
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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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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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The Beaufort Art Association presents “Seas and Trees, Paintings by Tom Van...
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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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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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