Homes for the Holidays Turns 10 at Habersham The silver sparkles at this year’s Homes for the Holidays Tenth Anniversary Tour in the award-winning Habersham neighborhood where the vision for a holiday home tour in Beaufort all began. A celebration under Habersham’s marketplace tent will be underway commemorating ten successful years of holiday home design.
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On the Occasion of her 90th Birthday By Anne RobertsI wish I had known Dottie sooner. As she is about to celebrate nine decades on this good earth, I realize that I have not known Dottie long enough.
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It’s about 8:20 on a Tuesday morning as I inch my car forward in the drop-off line at my daughter’s school. It’s a long line this morning, and I watch the children emerge from the cars, one by one, with a growing sense of dread. They look like typical fifth graders – fresh faces, tidy school uniforms, clean and scrubbed, hair neatly combed. I feel sick.
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Hilton Head Island’s marvelous motoring festival turns ten. Vicki Head estimates that she’s owned about 117 cars in the 39 and 1/2 years she and her husband Bill Head have been married. That works out to about a new car every four months.
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In Beaufort, fall is the giving season… along with all the others. There is no doubt that the people of the Lowcountry of South Carolina are generous. During the fall, weekends are filled with benefits raising money for a variety of non-profit organizations. There are cocktail parties, wine tastings, read-a-thons, tours, oyster roasts, fashion shows…you name it; volunteers have come up with creative ideas to gather people together and collect money for many deserving organizations.
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In Beaufort, fall is the giving season… along with all the others. There is no doubt that the people of the Lowcountry of South Carolina are generous. During the fall, weekends are filled with benefits raising money for a variety of non-profit organizations. There are cocktail parties, wine tastings, read-a-thons, tours, oyster roasts, fashion shows…you name it; volunteers have come up with creative ideas to gather people together and collect money for many deserving organizations.
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Beaufort County has been recogized as one of America’s Promise Alliance’s 100 Best Communities for Young People for its comprehensive menu of initiatives to help young people. The competition recognizes communities across the country that focus on reducing high school dropout rates and providing service and support to their youth.
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On October 22nd beautiful historic downtown Beaufort will celebrate Artwalk. From 4:30 – 7:30 pm, the Guild of Beaufort Galleries will welcome everyone with wonderful original works of art and refreshments.
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My grandfather, Herman Henry Von Harten, had a nickname, as did most men in Beaufort in the early 20th century. It’s hard to imagine now, but there were once vast hordes of Lowcountry men who smelled of sea-salt and tobacco and went by names like Skeeter, Skipper, Sonny, Spanky, Bubba, Buddy, Buster, Buck, Bo and, my favorite, Zoo.
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Experience the Metropolitan Opera “live” at USCB’s Center for the Arts The Metropolitan Opera will begin its 2011-2012 season of Met Opera: Live in HD on Saturday, Oct. 15, at USCB Center for the Arts with Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena.” Now in its sixth season, the Peabody and Emmy Award winning series’ first production is one of three operas in the composer’s “Tudor Queens” trilogy and stars Anna Netrebko in the feature role as Henry VIII’s doomed young queen.
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