When Arnetta Devlin learned she had breast cancer five years ago, she set her mind to make the most of the experience. “There’s no point in wallowing in self-pity,” said the 62-year-old Beaufort Middle School math teacher. “It’s counterproductive. You have to take what’s been given to you and go from there.”
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This is the first in a series about Roger Pinckney XI, his life on Daufuskie Island, and his book, Reefer Moon. Readers are encouraged to purchase Reefer Moon and participate in the Lowcountry’s first virtual book club on Facebook. 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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Remember when you first got email? No? Then you’re probably much younger than I. More and more people are these days. But verily I tell you, children, there was a time when email simply didn’t exist… when humans were limited to painfully primitive channels of communication like the telephone, the fax machine, and an ancient priesthood of intrepid message-bearers called the US Postal Service.
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COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FRIDAY, JULY 13 Festival Art and Craft Market Noon – 5 p.m.,...
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James Otto brings his Nashville-to-Memphis, country-soul blend to Water Festival. James Otto may be 100 percent country, but he’s also got a heart full of soul. On his third album, Shake What God Gave Ya, Nashville’s breakout star puts his God-given lung power to work on a set of songs that make even more determined use of the old-school R&B grit in his powerhouse voice. “I look at my sound as somewhere between Nashville and Memphis,” says Otto, setting the new record’s compass point firmly on the map.
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The popular open-air series “Lunch and Learn” has returned to the Port Royal Farmers Market! The series of talks kicked off with a presentation by J. Weidner called “How To Prune About Anything.” The season continues this Saturday and continues through mid-September. This FREE series is presented by the Lowcountry Master Gardeners Association. Classes begin at 11:30 each Saturday. Just bring a folding chair!
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Our own Debbi Covington’s gorgeous new cookbook asks the question “why wait to celebrate?” (Story by Mark Shaffer, Food Photography by Paul Nurnberg) Debbi Covington’s Everyday Gourmet column has been reason enough to pick up a copy of this publication for nearly a decade. Trust me, there are file folders and loose-leaf notebooks stuffed with pages of Debbi’s recipes in kitchens all over the Lowcountry and beyond. Anyone who’s ever attended an event she’s catered or even a simple social gathering she’s thrown together knows that Debbi is passionate about her craft and damn good at it.
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Author/columnist Ken Burger heads to Beaufort with a new book about the South. – Review by Margaret Evans, Editor As a longtime columnist here at Lowcountry Weekly, I am always intrigued by other columnists and how they ply their trade – especially those who are much more successful than I and who, unlike me, have had the gumption to compile their old columns into books to be published. Ken Burger is just such a columnist, and I salute him.
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You regular readers know that many of my big ideas – and the occasional little epiphany – come to me while I’m exercising. The fact that I’ve been a complete slug this summer explains a lot about the recent caliber of this column… But I did happen to be at the Y on the morning the Supreme Court announced its ruling on the Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare” if you prefer).
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