Danish Scholar, Southern Lit
Jan Nordby Gretlund will give a talk called “Clyde Edgerton’s Grandmas and Mummies: Age and Aging in the Carolinas” on Tuesday, August 7th at 4 pm at the Beaufort branch of the Beaufort County Library.
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Author: Margaret Evans
A Festival to Celebrate the Short Story
The inaugural Short Story America Festival and Conference comes to Beaufort. Great news for fans...
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Out of the Box in Photoshop
The Photography Club of Beaufort will have Bluffton photographer Marge Agin as their guest speaker for their August meeting. Marge’s program is “Out of the Box in Photoshop.” She will show how to enhance average or even exceptional photos using Photoshop techniques.
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Lowcountry Inspirations
Carol Newsome will be the featured artist from August 5 through September 15 at the Beaufort Art Association Gallery. Carol first started painting in watercolor and it’s her first love, but she’s branched out to oil and acrylic. You will see some of each in her show. The public is invited to meet the artist at a reception on Friday, August 10th from 5:30 – 7:30 pm.
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3 Scheins Roundtable #8
What Can We Do? Lately (or perhaps always?) the news has been filled with heinous people doing heinous things: Sandusky, Holmes, among others. The comments under the news feeds spew outrage, fear, horror and are riddled with terms like “evil,” “sick,” “madman,” and “crazy.” I have two questions: How DO we judge these shocking people? And how do we keep up with the reality of our world without becoming totally overwhelmed and embittered? Jennifer, St. Helena Island, SC
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Hot and Bothered
August makes me grumpy. It always has. Not only are we knee deep in swampy, soupy summer now, but we know what’s coming – September… with all its false promise. We never learn, do we? Every year, we look to September with renewed energy and hope in our hearts (back-to-school! first-day-of-fall!), only to have that hope crushed out – mercilessly – by a month even hotter and more oppressive than August.
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Living on the Right Side of the River
Roger Pinckney, Reefer Moon, and Life on Daufuskie Island Several years ago in 2005, I had the pleasure of meeting Roger Pinckney XI. The Beaufort Book Store hosted the two of us for a book signing. I was signing copies of my book, Port Royal; and Roger was embossing his signature on his debut collection of essays, The Right Side of the River.
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Sand Sculptures & Side Street Walkers
The Friends of Hunting Island will sponsor the 4th Annual Sand Sculpture Contest at Hunting Island State Park on Saturday, July 28th.
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On Our Cover: “Gullah Strut”
The painting on our cover is “Gullah Strut” by Shirley “SA” Hunter, the...
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Photo Contest for 2013 Calendar
Beaufort County Birds and Their Habitats is the theme for Beaufort County’s annual photo contest and photographers have until 5 p.m. September 4 to submit pictures of birds and/or selected habitat locations.
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Celebrate with Catering by Debbi Covington
