Beaufort Symphony Orchestra is bursting with the season’s spirit as they usher in the holidays with delicious hot chocolate, cookies, and Merry Christmas music during their “’Tis the Season” concerts. These performances are the perfect place to bring the family for some warm holiday cheer.
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My Visit to the Jazz Corner The Jazz Corner. For this Beaufortonian, it’s been a hidden treasure. For most islanders on Hilton Head, it’s a venue they wish was still a secret. But it’s no secret anymore. It’s a world-wide phenomenon and one of the top jazz clubs in the country.
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. . . with a Christmas Tour of Homes and Holiday Concert Get out of the house and into the holiday spirit with the festive 28th Annual Christmas Tour of Homes from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9.
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Deemed as “close to perfect as you can get” by The State, the USC Beaufort Center for the Arts presents the Columbia City Ballet’s 52nd anniversary production of Beaufort’s holiday family tradition, The Nutcracker, on Tuesday, Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. This award-winning spectacle is South Carolina’s largest single performing arts event, with more performances in more cities reaching more audience members than any other South Carolina arts event!
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Ben Walker will be in signing copies of his new novel, An Island in the South, at McIntosh Book Store on Saturday, December 15 from 12 – 3 pm. The book is set in Beaufort, and Walker is no stranger to the city. His play Blood Relations was the winner of the 1997 South Carolina Playwrights Conference here, and for years, Walker returned to the conference as a drama coach.
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White. Is it a color? The dictionary describes white as the color of light containing all of the wavelengths of the visible spectrum without absorbtion. For painters, since white can not be created from other colors, most consider it the absence of color. Already we have a difference of opinion.
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Beaufort County Administrator Gary Kubic unveiled the 2013 land preservation calendar Monday, November 26, during the regular meeting of county council.
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That one word conjures up so many different things for different people: celebration of the birth of Christ, old fashioned songs, images of horses jingling away in the show, presents under the tree . . . etc.
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A Christmas Meditation . . . of sorts“Mom, what’s wrong?” My daughter’s curled up on the sofa under three blankets, with Arthur the cat on her feet. She’s home sick today. So am I. But for me, “home” is synonymous with “office,” and I’m sitting at my computer, head in my hands.
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Spartina 449 combines strength, quality and style. The salt marsh that bounds our habitat, this place we call the Lowcountry, is an unparalleled resource. And the vast expanse here in Beaufort County spoils us daily. The natural green hues that radiate from the blue horizons, border the coffee-colored pluff mud and reflect on the still gray water change from season to season. Every now and again, we witness a magical yellow sunrise or an orange and magenta sunset that accents the grass divinely. But the salt marsh, Spartina alterniflora, is so much more than beautiful, just like the company I write about today, Spartina 449.
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