Author: Margaret Evans

Through difficulty often comes learning and progress, sometimes spiritual, sometimes practical, and if you’re lucky, both. That simple realization has come home to me through a series of recent experiences. At one point I actually found myself slipping back over 40 years to college courses nearly forgotten. Didn’t we cover a nickel or so worth of Zen and other Eastern religions? Have I been having little Jack-style Zen episodes?

The Learning Center of Beaufort County to open at multiple locations A new partnership is forming in Beaufort County, and the unique collaboration has the potential to change the lives of many Lowcountry children. The Learning Center of Beaufort County will soon be opening its doors to students in need of tutoring services and specialized instruction thanks to the alliance between the Boys and Girls Club of the Lowcountry, Bridges Preparatory School, Penn Center, St. Peter’s Catholic School and the Coastal Community Foundation.

The 2nd Annual High on the Hog BBQ Festival celebrates a long legacy of barbequing in Beaufort County.  By Jim Gibson Beaufort recently celebrated its 300th anniversary, and now the LowCountry Habitat for Humanity, with their 2nd annual High on the Hog BBQ Festival, presented by CBC National Bank on June 7th and 8th, will be celebrating 447 years of barbequing in Beaufort County.

By Willa Koretz When Mayor Billy Keyserling handed Candice Glover the key to the city, everyone cheered! But no one had ever seen a key quite like this. True to Lowcountry tradition, it was made out of the bulrush that grows along the Beaufort River shore. How did this key come to be? You’d have to ask Mayor Billy himself – and the much beloved traditional basket weaver Jery B. Taylor – to find out. And that’s exactly what we did.