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Author: Margaret Evans

Sam Doyle Celebration

See paintings by Sam Doyle from private collections and support community arts. ARTworks is hosting a celebration of creativity and ingenuity, a rare opportunity to see the artwork of Sam Doyle presented in the community where he spent his life and derived his inspiration. All paintings on display in the gallery at ARTworks will be on loan from private collections. The Sam Doyle Celebration is a partnership between ARTworks, Penn Center, the Red Piano Too gallery, and Gordon W. Bailey.

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Back to The Book

By Margaret Evans, EditorIf you went looking for me lately, you probably found me with my face in a book. Or an aspiring book (aka manuscript). Or bound galleys of an almost book. Or maybe it was a press release about a book. Not only have I just landed a couple of juicy editing jobs, but suddenly, there’s this crazy tsunami of literary energy here in Beaufort.

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Write Away: Part II

The Process of Writing Non-Fiction Recently, I explored the creative process used by fiction writers. Thriller writer extraordinaire John Sanford’s explanation prompted me to develop questions for non-fiction writers to consider. By answering them myself, I got a feel for their validity and could provide others with a sample of the sort of process flow I was looking for.

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A Kind of Dance: Part One

A conversation with award winning Beaufort writer Teresa Bruce about her upcoming book, “The Other Mother,” and the transformative power of chance encounters.    Many years ago during his travels in Africa, Ernest Hemingway got to know a fearless young woman named Beryl Markham who showed him a bit of a memoir she was working on. The notoriously egocentric Hemingway immediately dashed off a letter to his editor, the legendary Maxwell Perkins. “She has written so well, and marvelously well,” Hemingway concedes, “that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen.” This is sort of how I feel about my friend, Teresa Bruce.

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Auditions for Flat Stanley

If you’re between the ages of 6 and 18, Beaufort Children’s Theatre needs YOU! Auditions for “The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, Jr.” have been set for Tuesday, September 10 and Wednesday, September 11, at USCB Center for the Arts . (See specific ages and times below)

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8-Track: Sounds of the 70’s

Attention all Baby Boomers and wannabes – put on your leisure suits, your halter tops, wrap-dresses and platform shoes and get ready to boogie down when 8-Track, The Sounds of the ’70’s in Concert comes to USCB Center for the Arts beginning on September 6.

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1st SC Volunteers at Bft History Museum

When Andy Holloway was in Beaufort Middle School, his Social Studies teacher, Jennifer Woods, showed his class the movie, “Glory,” about the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. And she told them about another group of African Americans, born here, who fought for the Union even while they were still slaves.

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King & Boyer at McIntosh

McIntosh Books in downtown Beaufort will host two fabulous literary events this month… and those are just the ones we know about! First, Beaufort’s own Cassandra King will be reading from and signing her new novel, Moonrise.

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Expressions in Watercolor

The Society of Bluffton Artists presents “Expressions in Watercolor,” an exuberant collection of recent paintings by local artist Carol Snyder, on display from September 3 through October 5.

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