As She Knew Him
Local author Teresa Bruce interviews Anne Serling about her famous father Rod, her new memoir, and her upcoming visit to Beaufort for the Short Story America Festival. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
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Author: Margaret Evans
Writers’ Roundtable
Three writer/educators of three different generations discuss the state of literature today – reading it, writing it, publishing it, and teaching it – in anticipation of Beaufort’s second annual Short Story America Festival and Conference.        Richard Hawley                Tim Johnston                 Mathieu Cailler
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Rescue Bound
I like this straightforward definition of “rescue”: responsive operations that usually involve the saving of life, or prevention of injury during an incident or dangerous situation. For anyone who has ever been rescued, it is a precious gift.
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Here & There
An exhibition of the art of longtime Hilton Head Island residents Joyce and Don Nagel has just opened at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Hilton Head Island classroom at the Pineland Station Shopping center at 430 William Hilton Parkway, Suite 304A. Entitled Here and There, the exhibit is free and open to the public and will continue through December 6, 2013.
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Calendar Winners Announced
Sixteen photos depicting the beauty, history and traditions of Beaufort County were selected for the County’s 2014 land preservation calendar, which will be available for sale in November.
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The Lucky One
There has been a great deal of press lately about hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. Angelina Jolie, one of the world’s most beautiful women, shocked everyone by disclosing she had a prophylactic mastectomy because she carries a “faulty” BRCA1 gene.
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Celebrate the Short Story
The Second Annual Short Story America Festival and Conference will bring readers, authors and teachers of short stories together again in this new Lowcountry literary tradition. Scheduled for September 26-29 in Beaufort, the event includes readings by authors, workshops on writing stories and on understanding this great literary art form, book signings, the launch of Short Story America, Volume Three, and two great receptions to foster new and old friendships around a mutual passion for stories.
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The Best We Ever Had
The wonderful people portrayed in Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation (1998, Random House) were a tough act to follow. These were “America’s citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America.” A good case can be made that this remarkable group had its roots several decades earlier and laid the cultural foundation for very special future generations.
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The Choreography of Love
‘The Other Mother: a rememoir’ by Teresa Bruce, 2013, Joggling Board PressReview by Margaret Evans, Editor On the cover of her new book The Other Mother, Pat Conroy writes, “Mark my words, Teresa Bruce will be one of the next great American authors.” The admiration is mutual. In her acknowledgments, Bruce thanks Conroy, calling him “my literary inspiration.”
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Celebrate with Catering by Debbi Covington
