Ben Speaks
“If you could spend one evening with any American living or dead, wouldn’t Ben Franklin be fairly close to the top of your list?” asked popular local Ben Franklin interpreter Steve Nousen.
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Author: Margaret Evans
Beaufort Birthday Prayer
The following invocation was given by Bishop Alden Hathaway on the occasion of Beaufort’s 300th birthday, at the USCB Performing Arts Center, on January 17, 2011…
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Take your Sweetheart by the Hand…
Come enjoy the Guild of Beaufort Galleries Valentine’s Day Art Walk on Monday, Febuary 14th, from 4 pm til 8 pm. Historic Beaufort has been voted one of the 100 best Art towns in America and 12th best small town art destination in the country. Each of the twelve galleries in beautiful downtown Beaufort will display wonderful works of art for everyone to enjoy.
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Celebrate Love
Victoria Smalls romances the canvas… For the past three years around Valentine’s Day, the Red Piano Too Art Gallery on St. Helena Island has hosted an art show with the theme of “Love” always in mind. This year the Red Piano Too will feature the art of St. Helena Island native Victoria Smalls, in its annual “Celebration of Love.” The collection will primarily showcase paintings in the artist’s favorite medium – soft pastels. The artist has combined her signature series of “Contemplation Faces” in varying hues and flesh tones and images of couples embracing, walking along the seaside, reflecting and celebrating their love for one another.
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
PJ and Play returns to the USCB Center for the Arts USCB Center for the Arts is proud to announce the return of the popular family event P J and Play. Two Bean Productions’ play based on Judy Blume’s contemporary classic “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” will be performed on February 4, at 7 PM. Nine-year-old Peter Hatcher struggles with an end-of the year assignment to write about the most important thing that happened to him during fourth grade. This is a daunting task, given how much took place that year. Particularly when dealing with his toddler terror of a brother, Fudge. Peter writes about this brother’s refusal to eat, to open his mouth at the dentist, a disastrous third birthday party, and getting blamed for Fudge knocking out his two front teeth. Peter always has to help out with Fudge, who gets all the attention, while Peter gets all the blame. It’s enough to make a kid feel like a fourth grade nothing.
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Oyster Roast at Marshlands
Historic Beaufort Foundation gears up for its popular annual event The grounds of Marshlands, a historic view on Beaufort’s waterfront, will be the site of the 11th annual oyster roast sponsored by Historic Beaufort Foundation January 21st, 5:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. Open to HBF members and the general public, the event will feature a traditional oyster roast, chicken gumbo, beverages and dessert catered by Reeves Outdoor Catering and music by the bluegrass band of Beek Webb and the Sea Island Ramblers.
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Dinner & A Lecture
The history of African American troops in the Civil war kicks off HBF’s 300th anniversary series Historic Beaufort Foundation will focus its 2011 lecture series on topics directly related to Beaufort’s history beginning January 24 with “African Americans in the Civil War” by Joseph McGill, Jr., a program officer with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Civil War reenactor. Beaufort was the site of the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the Civil War, the First South Carolina Volunteers, by Gen. Isaac Saxton, commander of Union forces in Beaufort. Just a year after the Union occupation, Saxton called on abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, to command the troops. The neighborhood which developed behind the National Cemetery on Boundary Street after the war was named Higginsonville in his honor.
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Making Beautiful Music Together
Marina Lomazov and Joseph Rackers, world-renowned pianists, will play in concert on Sunday, January 30th 5 pm, at the Fripp Island Community Center. This performance is not to be missed! Lomazov & Rackers are winners of countless international competitions, Steinway artists, Julliard & Eastman trained, and have to their credit appearances on four continents and in 50 states. Tickets at the door are $20; students $10. A free Fripp pass is available at the island gate. Attendees are invited to meet the artists at a catered event following the performance.
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What if a Postmistress chose not to deliver the mail?
USCB Lunch with Authors welcomes Sarah Blake The NY Times best selling novel, The Postmistress, debuts in paperback at the USCB Lunch With Author series on Thursday, February 3rd/ Author Sarah Blake will discuss this mind-boggling, fabulous book which alternates between an America on the eve of entering into World War II, still safe and snug in its inability to grasp the danger at hand, and a ravaged Europe being torn apart by war. The stories collide in two letters: one kept by Iris James, the postmistress of a tiny Cape Cod town, and the other by Frankie Bard, an American radio journalist covering the London blitz and fleeing European Jews with the iconic radio broadcaster, Edward R. Morrow.
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Share Joan’s Space
The Charles Street Gallery will host a reception for Joan Templer on Friday, January 21st, in...
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Celebrate with Catering by Debbi Covington
