Author: Margaret Evans

 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.

Excerpts from the book Images of America: Port Royal, by Wendy Nilsen Pollitzer The Town of Port Royal is in the midst of making significant history… again. The incorporated town has seen its ups and downs for over a century; and now, Port Royal is on the brink of prosperity. Many believe the current slate of events will the propeller that finally puts the quaint coastal village on the map. With the sale of the port property, the completion of the Cypress Wetlands project and surprises planned for The Shed and Lemon Island Marina, the Town of Port Royal is prepared to stand tall and distinguished once more.

Excerpts from the book Images of America: Port Royal, by Wendy Nilsen Pollitzer The Town of Port...

Another great LowCountry Habitat project is in the works… and there’s jazz involved. Women. The word conjures many images, surely, but for me it’s just a big question mark. They might as well wear a tight green outfit with a symbol in the middle like Frank Gorshin’s Riddler on the 1960’s Batman television program. I’ll never understand them, but I won’t give up trying either. All anatomy aside, there is something inherently different in the genetic and chemical makeup of men and women, just as God intended. That’s not to say they should not be desired as companions, sought out as leaders, or appreciated as the last bastions of civility and virtue. There’s currently a commercial on ESPN radio – of all places – touting women as the world’s most underutilized resource. While that may be true in Afghanistan, it’s certainly not in my little world.