Aunt Pearlie Sue and The Gullah Kinfolk will appear in a public performance of their original musical, The Gullah Journey From Africa to America…the Circle Unbroken, Saturday, November 9 at 6 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Beaufort, 178 Sams Point Road, Lady’s Island. Reservations are required and may be made by calling toll free: 1-866-726-9346. Seating is limited. There is no admission charge, but a love offering will be welcome at the door.
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Every once in a long while, a musical performance is so stunning that it demands not only an immediate encore, on-the-spot, but also an invitation for a return engagement. Fripp Friends of Music, which has been painstaking in selecting performing groups and soloists who appeal to Lowcountry audiences, found a just such a treasure in ETA3, when the group made its Fripp debut in 2010.
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Caterer and ‘Lowcountry Weekly’ columnist Debbi Covington’s new cookbook, Celebrate Everything! Has been named the 2013 Gold Medal Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award in the cookbook category.
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A young man in love with old furniture, John Doig opens up shop in the Habersham Marketplace. At 31 years old, sporting a “Keep Calm and Restore On” tee-shirt, New Jersey born and Connecticut raised John Doig does not look like someone you’d peg as an expert in the restoration and conservation of fine period antique furniture and decorative art. The recently rejuvenated “Keep Calm” slogan on his shirt, he explains, comes from a motivational poster made by the British in 1939, in order to raise the morale of the British public in the aftermath of widely predicted mass German air attacks.
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Looking for some great holiday gift ideas? Look no further than the “Books are Fun” Book Fair at Beaufort Memorial Hospital, a benefit for the non-profit Born to Read program.
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The dangers facing U.S. Border Patrol Agents while policing our frontier are brought to life in Allan Winneker’s Border Line, a story of murder, kidnapping and the footprints that drug trafficking leave on the lives of those brave people locked in the battle to protect us.
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The Society of Bluffton Artists presents “From Cotton to Cows,” a compilation of original oil paintings by Spring Island artist Kimberly Bisger, on display now through November 30.
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The historic Penn Center’s York W. Bailey Museum presents The Art of Cassandra M. Gillens— a spectacular collection of art depicting Lowcountry living at its best and the Gullah lifestyle. The collection will be on exhibit November 7th through the end of December. Cassandra Gillens was chosen to be the 31st Heritage Days Celebration Featured Artist and was commissioned to create a work of art depicting the Penn School story and the rich heritage of the Gullah people. She created “Teaching the Trade,” beautiful rendition of the Penn School era. Penn Center cordially invites the public to attend this free art event opening—a meet the artist wine and cheese reception from 8-10 pm on Thursday, November 7th.
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As his new memoir The Death of Santini floods bookstores nationwide, we bring you a free-style, freewheeling, unabridged conversation with the man whose life has been an open book. By Margaret Evans, Editor If you’ve lived in Beaufort for any time at all, you probably have a Pat Conroy story. Maybe you played basketball together as teenagers, or he was your high school English teacher. Perhaps you were in his writers’ group, or he was your neighbor on Fripp, or you still smoke cigars together on his back porch every Sunday afternoon. Maybe your association is more ephemeral – you ran into him once at Publix, or at the old Bay Street Trading Co., or in his favorite restaurant, Griffin Market. But you really connected. Or maybe you’ve just read his books, and you feel like you’ve known him forever. No matter how fast or loose the relationship, we Beaufortonians all think of Pat Conroy as ours. He belongs to us. He’s part of our mythology. Heck, he wrote our mythology.
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No less of a profound thinker than Ralph Waldo Emerson once observed that “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” And who am I to argue with Ralph, especially since he’s been gone since 1882? Besides, the essay in which this quote appears is “Self-Reliance,” in itself an enduring American value.
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