As part of the Lowcountry Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration, The Coastal Discovery Museum and the Lowcountry Civil War Roundtable are pleased to announce a performance of “The Road Home” on Thursday, December 1st at 7:30 pm at the Hilton Head Island High School Visual and Performing Arts Center. “The Road Home” is a journey and weaving of thoughts, words, songs and speeches of those caught in the maelstrom of the early years of the Civil War.
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Conversations about ethics, education, creativity, love, parenting and pretty much anything else except chess or math. Dr. Maggie: Of the countless questions we’ve received thus far, which strikes you guys’ fancy this week? Dr. Martha: Questions? Did we get any questions? This is our first column. Who would’ve written in? A benevolent psychic?
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Conversations about ethics, education, creativity, love, parenting and pretty much anything else except chess or math. Dr. Maggie: Of the countless questions we’ve received thus far, which strikes you guys’ fancy this week? Dr. Martha: Questions? Did we get any questions? This is our first column. Who would’ve written in? A benevolent psychic?
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Piano Virtuoso Thomas Pandolfi makes a much-anticipated return to Fripp Island. Fans remember his incredible Fripp performance in 2009. Scarcely had the encores and raucous standing ovations faded, when the audience was demanding that Fripp Island Friends of Music book him again as soon as possible. Well, his many fans are getting their wish!
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(And you don’t have to go to Lincoln Center!) ”It would be hard—very hard—to find better chamber music playing than at the cellist Edward Arron’s enterprising series.” This high praise appeared in the NEW YORKER, and although the reference was to Mr. Arron’s chamber music series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it could just as easily be said of the USCB Festival Series that Mr. Arron will continue in the Lowcountry on December 11 at the USCB Center for the Arts.
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The BMH Valentine Ball is back in February, and the dinner party hosts and hostesses are already planning their menus… Join the Beaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation for an evening aboard the Orient Express for this year’s Valentine Ball on February 11, 2012. The Ball will benefit BMH’s Emergency Room Expansion, so it can continue to serve the needs of our town so successfully. This vital renovation, which will more than double the size of the ER, will help the hospital meet the community’s increasing demand for emergency medical services. Beaufort Memorial’s emergency department visits currently total nearly 40,000 a year.
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CJ Lyons says she let out “a fan girl squeal of delight” when Erin Brockovich, a fan of her books, asked her to co-write Rock Bottom. Since then, their second book, Hot Water, debuted in October with rave notices. CJ’s e-book, Blind Faith, debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list and has been purchased by St. Martin’s Press. This has been an exciting few months for CJ Lyons, a Hilton Head resident, who will be the featured author at the USCB Lunch With Author Series on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at the Sea Pines Country Club. Lunch is served at noon. The all-inclusive price is $42. Reservations are made at 843-521-4147 or kingsley@uscb.edu.
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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.”
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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.
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Last week, my husband accused me of being a “critic.” It was one of the nicest things he’s ever said to me. “That’s what you are,” he told me, after reading my last column. “You’re a social critic. That’s what you do.” I felt myself blushing like a schoolgirl who’d just been asked to the prom. I’d never really thought of myself – or my column – in quite those terms before, but I liked it. It felt right. Social Critic. Huh.
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