Author: Margaret Evans

Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry Serve Up a Literary Feast! Sample gourmet food prepared by 16 of the top restaurants in the area. Mingle with Southern authors and purchase autographed books. Watch a heated chefs’ competition.

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…  

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.

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.