Author: Margaret Evans

Garden A Day 2011

During the first week in June, The Beaufort Garden Club will again sponsor Garden a Day, a weeklong event celebrating National Garden week.  Each day for five days, beginning June 6th, a private garden will be opened to the people of Beaufort.   This has been a much anticipated event for the past 16 years, and this, the 17th Annual Garden a Day, will take visitors through some of the loveliest private gardens in Beaufort.  As always, there is no charge to stroll through these unique gardens, since the Beaufort Garden Club sponsors the entire event as their gift to the townspeople and visitors.

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USCB Lunch with Authors…

Debuts Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank There’s only one Dottie Frank whose matchless podium style is as striking as her books, to bring to life her new book, Folly Beach, which she will debut on Wednesday, June 15th at the Sea Pines Country Club, Hilton Head. Frank will talk about the research and yes, traumas, of writing the book, answer questions and sign copies which will be available for sale. The luncheon, which starts at noon, is sponsored by Continuing Education of the University of South Carolina Beaufort.  Registration is made with Jo Ann Kingsley at 843-521-4147 or kingsley@uscb.edu.  The all-inclusive price is $42.

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Spring Fling in Downtown St. Helena Island

Featuring the Art of Mel Green Time and tide have unique ways of creating new perspectives on our lives and life’s journeys, and the routes they take.  This is especially true in the life of artist Mel Green, an internationally known abstract artist. Melvin Green was born during the height of the Great Depression to Whitaker and Sarah Green in the Jenkins Community of Beaufort County.  Born into a large extended family with limited job opportunities and his love of drawing to pass the time, Mel left the Lowcountry after graduating from Robert Smalls High School and joined the army in 1953.

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Beaufort Artists Head to Piccolo Spoleto

 Four award-winning Beaufort area artists were selected to participate in the 27th Annual Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Art Exhibit being held May 27 –June 11, 2011. Sandra Baggette, Kathy Crowther, Diane S. Dean, and Mary Grayson Segars will exhibit their work along with 110 South Carolina artists at the Marion Square Park between King and Meeting Streets in Charleston SC. The artists will be in attendance from 10am to 5pm daily to talk about their work. There will be scheduled art demonstrations by various artists in all mediums twice daily at 11am and 2pm.

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Abstract Impressions

An exhibit of recent paintings by N. Jack Huddle   The Art League of Hilton Head, located in the Walter Greer Gallery of the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, presents Abstract Impressions – an Exhibit of Recent Paintings by N. Jack Huddle, opening with an artist reception at the gallery on Thursday, June 2 at 5:00-7:00 p.m. The exhibit continues through July 2.  Refreshments, Public welcome. 843-681-5060 or www.Artleaguehhi.org

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Confession

Years ago, my mom gave me an Italian olive jar for Christmas. It’s like a big urn, earthen and ancient-looking  – it actually is semi-ancient, I think – and I put it in my front yard, near the azalea bushes, amidst a bunch of flower pots. The first spring, I filled the jar with dirt and planted begonias in it. They did pretty well, but they died that winter, and after a few seasons, I stopped replanting them. It was kind of a hassle – the olive jar’s wide in the middle but small at the top – and eventually, I just kind of… let it go.  (I’m always letting things go.) The jar was pretty enough on its own, I thought, and it looked nice surrounded by my potted plants.

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Spring Fling on St. Helena Island

Featuring the Art of Mel Green   Time and tide have unique ways of creating new perspectives on our lives and life’s journeys, and the routes they take.  This is especially true in the life of artist Mel Green, an internationally known abstract artist. Melvin Green was born during the height of the Great Depression to Whitaker and Sarah Green in the Jenkins Community of Beaufort County.  Born into a large extended family with limited job opportunities and his love of drawing to pass the time, Mel left the Lowcountry after graduating from Robert Smalls High School and joined the army in 1953.

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The Architecture of The Enemy

HBF’s Dinner & A Lecture continues, with a focus on Colonial St. Augustine.   Architecture of the Enemy, a discussion of the history, architecture and preservation of Spanish Colonial St. Augustine will be the topic of Historic Beaufort Foundation’s Dinner & a Lecture, Monday, May 23rd, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m., at the Verdier House, 801 Bay Street.

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Picnic & Pops at Rose Hill

The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra presents JB Scott’s Swingin’ Allstars, a “Picnic & Pops” Concert at Rose Hill on Saturday, May 14, 2011, at 5:30 pm. JB Scott’s Swingin’ Allstars is a high level group of pros dedicated to the playing of Chicago Swing/New Orleans style Dixieland Jazz in a highly entertaining, musical, and spirited fashion! Led by the flamboyant, virtuoso trumpeter, JB Scott, a former musical director of the world famous Dukes of Dixieland, the group also features award winning vocalist Lisa Kelly, well-known for her rich, smooth tone and swinging delivery of lyrics.

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