Author: Margaret Evans

Pick Pocket Plantation Farmers Market is now open through the year…   Now Pick Pocket Plantation Farmers Market, the only farmers market located on a 15-acre farm right in the center of Beaufort, is open for the winter months, Tuesdays, 11 am – 5 pm. “Throughout the summer there have been a lot of requests for a winter market in our ‘real farm environment’ in Beaufort,” said Kathy Lambert, Market Manager.  “Our local farmers grow a variety of winter vegetables they would like to sell directly.  Although this is a new market, our vendors realized long ago folks would really like to have fresh local vegetables and the ‘farmers market experience’ year round.  It’s gets pretty chilly in the Lowcountry, but people still want a place to get outdoors for a while and get fresh organic food.”

Your holiday season doesn’t have to be all hustle and bustle, all the time. There are still plenty of opportunities to “keep Christmas” amid the swirl of shopping, socializing, and stressing.   To that end… a special collection of Nativity Scenes will be on exhibit in the fellowship hall of Beaufort’s First Presbyterian Church on Friday and Saturday, the first weekend in December.

 Spend Saturday, November 19 at the Technical College of the Lowcountry Beaufort Campus learning techniques on floral arranging, photography, sewing, and cake decorating – just in time for the holiday season. You’ll create your own holiday projects and gather ideas to keep you going all year long! “This is our inaugural Holiday Retreat, and we’re very excited about it,” says Rebecca Bass, Dean of TCL’s Continuing Education Department. 

A Civil War Sesq uicentennial Event presented by Penn Center, USCB & the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute As the first year of the Civil War Sesquicentennial draws to a close, historians, educators and Civil War buffs will have a un ique opportunity to journey through The Civil War in 3D on November 11 at the University of South Carolina Performing Arts Center from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Civil War photography expert Bob Zeller will present Lincoln in 3D, a complete stereoscopic slide show on the history of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln and the battlefield photography of America’s epic Civil War.