Beaufort Memorial to host free health-themed party Do your body good. Join your friends for Beaufort Memorial Hospital’s Girls’ Night Out, a women’s wellness fair, only way more entertaining. The free health-themed party, scheduled for Thursday, October 18 at The Shed in Port Royal, will feature music, games, food and prizes, along with important medical information designed to help women make informed decisions for themselves and their families.
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This Halloween season, make plans to take a haunted tour through downtown Beaufort. Ghostly spirits are expected to take over downtown Beaufort while the Exchange Club hosts its 20th Annual Ghost Tours beginning Friday, October 12, 2012. Sign up now to take a carriage ride or walking tour through Beaufort’s Historic District while listening to haunting tales of the area.
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Friends of Hunting Island (FOH) and Hunting Island State Park will sponsor its 4th annual 5K Run/Walk along the park’s beautiful refurbished trails. The Run/Walk will be held on October 13th, starting at 10:00 am. Runners, walkers, and supporters will gather at the park’s Nature Center, the entrance is just short of the Fripp Island Bridge.
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You can probably guess what I’m itching to write about this week. I’m just dying to get into it. But I know better, so I shall resist. I’ll practice self-control. I will not succumb to pride or pettiness or schadenfreude or any other base human emotions currently on display throughout Facebook Nation. I will “be the change I want to see.” Oh, who am I kidding?! I’m no Zen master.
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We’ve all heard little kids plead “Are we almost there yet?” from the back seat of the car in an apparent attempt to speed the journey along. This may also reflect humans’ inner need to hang on to a reliable and satisfying sense of time.
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Beaufort couple creates website that will revolutionize online shopping I’m always intrigued by the myriad of stories of how people got to Beaufort. It’s a relatively small town, full of more vibrant personalities than any town I’ve ever known. Sometimes I think it’s a pre-requisite to be labeled as Type-A in order to claim Beaufort as home. We come from all walks of life, each with our own captivating narrative of yesteryear. But, when we begin to talk about our histories elsewhere, we all end up in a place that we collectively agree is “Over the Rainbow…” Beaufort, SC. Sometimes it’s a fairy tale. Most times it’s not.
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The 19th annual Polo for Charity event, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Okatie, will be held Sunday, Oct. 14 at the historic Rose Hill Plantation, Bluffton. Come out and experience Bluffton’s biggest picnic. The gates open at noon, and the match begins at 2 p.m. Bring your friends and family to this exciting, fast-paced match and engage in one of the best people watching and socializing opportunities of the fall.
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Agatha Christie, Britain’s grande dame of mystery, would have celebrated her 122nd birthday in September and the Arts Center on Hilton Head is celebrating by bringing her classic whodunit The Unexpected Guest to the stage in October.
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Edwin McCain to Open Season for USCB Center for the Arts Edwin McCain Acoustic Trio will open the University of SC Beaufort’s Center for the Arts 2012- 2013 Season on Thursday, October 4 at 7:30 pm. Blending equal parts folk, soul and rock, platinum selling artist Edwin McCain just released a new studio album called “Mercy Bound.” He’s best known for his top ten hits “I’ll Be” and “I Could Not Ask For More.” Over a million Dr. Phil viewers voted “I’ll Be” the best wedding song ever written. The New York Times dubbed him “the great American romantic,” and at any given moment on this very day a radio station is playing one of his songs.
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A new book captures the essence of an old Lowcountry tradition. “Scattered around the South Carolina Sea Islands are camps that have become very special places to generations of families and friends in the Lowcountry. These camps are referred to as fish camps. Full of character and fairly remote, the camps are accessible only by water and, therefore, exclusive (as well as reclusive, if need be). These camps have been witness to so many life experiences and lessons that you can almost hear the memories whispering to you as you step from the boat to the dock…” Thus begins Janet Garrity’s beautiful new book, Goin’ Down the River: Fish Camps of the Sea Islands, 128 pages of stories, history and photos that capture the essence of an old Lowcountry tradition still quietly flourishing today.
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