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August 19 – September 1, 2020

Signs of the Times 4 It's election season

Mother & Daughter

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Painter & poet

Popular Pickleball It's all the rage

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Chef Daniel Salazar On food & life

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Dine in For MM 15 #ShowMeYourTable

Camellia Care 19

Not another whack job

Book Club Convention Live-streaming Wiley Cash

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cover notes The painting on our cover is "Sand Cast Shadows" by Beth Tokey Williams, from her upcoming exhibit with her poet daughter Hailey at the Beaufort Art Association Gallery.

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August 19 – September 1, 2020 Publisher: Jeff Evans — Jeff@LCWeekly.com Editor: Margaret Evans — Editor@LCWeekly.com Staff Writer: Mindy Lucas — Mindy@LCWeekly.com Editor at Large: Mark Shaffer — BackyardTourist@gmail.com Sales & Marketing Director: Amanda Hanna — 843-343-8483 or Amanda@LCWeekly.com Digital Marketing & PR Director: Kim Sullivan — 803-606-1530 or kim.theislandnews@gmail.com Advertising Sales: Betty Davis — 843-252-9076 or Betty.IslandNews@Gmail.com Art Director: Lydia Inglett Layout & Design: Amalgamated Sprinkle Works Contributing Writers: Will Balk Jr., Vivian Bikulege, Katherine Tandy Brown, Debbi Covington, Sandra Educate, Susan Murphy, Terry Rice, Laura Lee Rose, and Sutty Suddeth What’s Happening Calendar: Staff – Editor@LCWeekly.com Letters to the Editor, comments or suggestions can be addressed to: Lowcountry Weekly 106 West Street Extension, Beaufort, SC 29902 Call: 843-986-9059 or Email: editor@lcweekly.com Lowcountry Weekly is published every other Wednesday and distributed throughout Beaufort County at various restaurants, retail locations, hotels and visitor ’s centers. The entire contents of Lowcountry Weekly is copyrighted 2020 by P. Podd Press, LLC. No part may be reproduced without permission from the publisher.

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Signs of the Times I t’s starting.

Political yard signs are beginning to appear in my neighborhood. They seem to be springing up overnight like mushrooms after a rain.

This fact should come as no great surprise – there’s an election in November, after all – but for some reason, it’s been a shock to my lockdown-weary, media-saturated system. I’ll be out for my morning walk, listening to a podcast, or maybe some music – pondering the enduring beauty of cardinals or the endless audacity of squirrels – when suddenly, WHAM. A campaign sign.

Cue the record scratch.

Ours is a wonderfully “mixed” neighborhood – ethnically, economically, and, yes, politically. I am seeing Trump signs and Biden signs on the same block. As a chronic centrist, this warms my heart, even as it sets off some internal alarm for reasons I can’t quite articulate.

I’m old enough to remember a time in this country when politics felt more like a friendly rivalry than a death match. Seeing yard signs in the neighborhood was exciting – a sign of our vigorous, healthy democracy – and election season was fun. In my Alabama childhood, Republicans and Democrats were kind of like ‘Bama and Auburn fans; they pulled hard for their respective

teams, but at the end of the game, they shook hands, grabbed another beer, and fired up the grill together.

Election season hasn’t felt that way in a long time – not to me, anyway – and I’m pretty sure that has something to do with social media. With each passing year, people become more aggressive in their online commentary, less sensitive to the feelings of their virtual neighbors. No longer content to criticize policy and ideology, many people now delight in ripping a politician for his looks and personality. And no longer limiting those rips to the politician himself, they ruthlessly mock and deride the politician’s supporters. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to seeing adults openly demeaning other adults – their so-called Facebook “friends” – with language so foul they’d surely punish their kids for using it.

By now, most partisans have heard what folks on the “other team” think of them – in no uncertain terms, ad nauseam – and I don’t see that it’s done our union any good.

So, what does any of this have to do with yard signs? Well, it’s one thing to know that your virtual neighbors see you as one of the “bad guys” because of your politics. It’s quite another to receive that message – in big, bold print – from your actual neighbors. In 2020 America, you can be fairly certain that your yard sign feels like fightin’

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words – even a slap in the face – to at least some of your neighbors, whether you mean it that way or not.

There are two houses across the street from each other, a couple of blocks from mine. In one yard sprout signs touting Democratic congressional candidates Jaime Harrison and Joe Cunningham. Across the street, a Trump flag waves in the breeze.

I don’t know the residents of these houses – both are semi-new to the community – but I find myself imagining all manner of tense “neighborly” encounters while walking by those houses each morning.

Because let’s face it, this is not your grandfather’s, or even your father’s, election season. And I know, I know . . . we said that in 2016. How innocent we were back then.

In a June article for Byline Times entitled “Is the United States on the Brink of Another Civil War?” CJ Werleman worries that our troubled country is awash in 300 million guns and plenty of ammo to go with them.

“More worrying, however,” he writes, “is the fact that political polarization has reached levels not seen in the US since the Civil War of the 1860s. The divide between left and right has been widened by cable television news outlets, social media platforms and a President who sees his path to electoral victory in cornering 40% of the country . . .

“For Republican voters, the left represents a lethal threat to their cultural values, including religion, individualism, and nativism. For Democratic voters, the right represents a mortal threat to theirs, including secularism, collectivism and multiculturalism. All forms of violent extremism are rooted in this form of in-group versus outgroup thinking. Neither side can imagine surviving the duration of two presidential terms with their party out of political power, which makes dialogue and compromise impossible. As the 19th Century Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz opined: ‘War is the continuation of politics by other means.’”

Surely he’s exaggerating, right? Another American civil war? In the enlightened year of 2020? Ridiculous! But Werleman’s is just one of many such articles I’ve come across lately. In the summer of George Floyd and Covid 19, war talk is all the rage, and when you look at what’s actually been happening

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– in cities and boardrooms and universities across the country – it doesn’t seem so far-fetched.

Writing for the July/August issue of Commentary magazine, Abe Greenwald skips the civil war talk, arguing, instead, that we’re in the midst of a Revolution, complete with – but by no means limited to – violence in the streets.

“For partisans, it often feels as if everything stands or falls on the ideological battles of the day,” he writes. “But this is different. This is objectively real, and it’s remaking the nation before our eyes. We know it’s different this time because the stakes are continually articulated by the enemies of the current order. They are demanding, and in some cases getting, a new and exotic country. The police are indeed being defunded. The statues are coming down. The heretics are being outed. The dissenters are being silenced. The buildings are burning, and the demands are ever growing.”

Greenwald’s article is either thrilling or chilling, depending on how you feel about the “current order.” I know my own heart and mind – I am a reformer, not a revolutionary – but your mileage may vary. In either case, I respect your right to uphold your position. I find that revolutionaries seldom return that favor. Revolutions aren’t about compromise or accommodation; they’re about winning. Out with the old and in with the new, no matter the cost.

If, indeed, a revolution is upon us, I just hope the baby survives the ousting of the proverbial bathwater. We shall see.

The yard signs are going up. November is coming. Pollsters are making their forecasts, but in a country where almost 60% of the citizens are now afraid to speak their political views aloud, nobody can predict the future with certainty.

It’s election season in 2020 America.

Would that our nation felt more like a neighborhood and less like a war zone.

Margaret Evans is the editor of Lowcountry Weekly (www.lcweekly.com) and blogs at www.memargaret.com

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Mother & Daughter, Painter & Poet Beth and Hailey Williams will be featured at BAA Gallery

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featured in the Pastel Journal and was chosen for the Pastel 100 Top 20 Landscape Pastelists in America for 2017 and 2018. Her current work focuses on sea island landscapes. Her home studio is on Edisto Island, SC. Besides viewing her work at this show in Beaufort, you can also see it in Studio 15 at Atelier on Bay in Beaufort and at Charleston Artist Collective Gallery. You can also find it on line at www.bethwilliamspastels.com.

Besides being an award-winning poet, Hailey Morgan Williams is a fiction and non-fiction writer. Prior to being chosen as the 2019 Dry Tortugas Artist In Residence, she studied writing for eight years at Charleston’s School of the Arts and at Johns Hopkins University, where she recently graduated with her B.A. in Writing Seminars. Her current work focuses on the bridge between nature and the human spirit, tending to draw on surreal details which reflect human emotion onto landscapes, such as swamps, marshes, and seascapes. As these landscapes become more and more threatened in modern society, Hailey finds connection as a conduit to express human impact and to explore its remedies. Read more of her work at www.pellwrites.com.

Both artists were chosen in September 2019 as joint Artists in Residence for the Dry Tortugas National Park. Beth had a mentor who had a positive experience as an Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park in 2009; she recommended it as a next step in Beth’s career.

Beth Tokey Williams at Dry Tortugas National Park “I found the Dry Tortugas Beth Tokey Williams, a nationally recog- residency through the National Park Arts nized, award-winning artist, is a Signature Foundation,” says Beth. “But, because of the member of the Pastel Society of America and remote location (70 miles off the Florida the National Association of Women Artists. Keys), it required two artists. I thought that, She earned degrees in Fine Art and Art Edu- with Hailey’s writing and my paintings, we cation from Texas Tech University. She could bring something unique.” spent her career teaching art in public and Beth’s son died of suicide in 2010 at the age private schools, as well as in art museums of 16, and she turned to painting and art for sonationwide and abroad. She began painting lace. She feels the work she and Hailey profull time in 2009 pursuing a career in fine art duced in the residency focused on their shared landscape painting. Recently, her work was grief and healing through art and nature. he work of artist Beth Tokey Williams and her poet daughter Hailey Morgan Williams will be featured at the Beaufort Art Association (BAA) starting September 1st and running through October 31st. The theme of their exhibit is “Seeking Solace” featuring ocean scenes and verse produced primarily from an Artist in Residence stint in the Dry Tortugas National Park last year.

An opening reception will be held at the Gallery at 913 Bay Street in Beaufort on Friday, September 4, from 5 to 8 pm. There will also be on exhibit the work of over forty other local artists, who are members of the Gallery.

The public is invited.

Thundering Gulf by Beth Tokey Williams Hailey says that she and her mother often of whom exhibit in the Gallery. To find out refer to a quote from the ancient Greek philos- more, call (843) 521-4444, or go to our website opher Plutarch to describe their creative part- at www.beaufortartassociation.com. nership. He said, “Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”

“We find that our shared grief has a language all its own, which is best translated through the intersection of art and nature,” she continues. “I find that the best way for me to process grief and find the value of art is to witness it in the cycles of nature.”

Chartered in 1957, the Beaufort Art Association is a tax-exempt membership organization. Currently, there are around 175 local Poet Hailey Morgan Williams artists who are members, 65

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The Popularity of Pickleball The country’s fastest growing sport is also the Lowcountry’s

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have heard of pickleball, but have no idea what it is,” many comment when the subject arises. Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in America! It is described as a cross between tennis, ping pong and badminton. Played on courts smaller than tennis courts, the ball is plastic with holes in it, like a wiffle ball. Sometimes thought of as a sport for active seniors, it continues to gain popularity in all age groups. It is a fun, addictive game that is easy to learn and safe to play.

Safe that is, if flat-soled shoes are worn, muscles are stretched and warmed up and the first few outings are focused on understanding body movement and racquet position. Physical therapists and orthopedic specialists have seen increased traffic due to players injuring themselves on their first or second outing because of these very things. Many players will confess that their bodies aren’t up to the demands of tennis but still want to be active, have fun and socialize.

Kelly Procida, age 30, left New York City on March 20 when COVID-19 expressed its first surge of infection, and moved in with her parents in Coosaw Point to work remotely from their home. Kelly’s parents, Chris and Barbara, had just relocated to Beaufort in June 2019 after Chris spent the bulk of his career in Singapore. “My dad was playing and I decided to check it out for the exercise and to get out of the house after working all day at home for UNICEF USA. The players were very welcoming and I had a lot of fun. I just love it. We play four times a week. I’m addicted now.” Kelly plans to return to NYC in January 2021. “I want to work on my 3rd shot drop and hitting the ball harder before I go back,” Kelly said.

Current research indicates that in the U.S., pickleball has grown to over 3.8 million core players at a rate of 11-13 % a year, compared to tennis – which is decreasing 3-5 % a year. According to Jeff Conradi, A “USA Pickleball” District Ambassador for South Carolina, USA Pickleball (originally USAPA) was formed in 2005 as the governing body with over 40,000 members and 1,900 ambassadors. Jeff is a professional pickleball instructor and partners with Habersham players to coordinate and mobilize the sport there.

While Sun City, Hilton Head Island and

Players on a court at Coosaw Point in the middle of a rally now Latitude Margaritaville Hilton Head are hotspots for pickleball players, it has also caught on in Beaufort & the Sea Islands. Over the last three to five years, many private communities have demonstrated an interest/need for dedicated courts and POAs have responded. Beautiful, new dedicated courts can be found at Beaufort Yacht & Sailing Club, Coosaw Point, Dataw Island (under construction) and Pleasant Point. Fripp Island, Habersham and Islands of Beaufort play on modified tennis courts with portable nets. As private communities, courts are restricted to residents and their guests.

Four new Dataw courts are expected to be ready in the fall. Members there have formed a club and a Board of Directors with 20+ active players. “Our vision is to be proactive as we witness the growth and popularity of the sport. We want to develop a program that fosters a positive playing experience for all members,” said Chuck Schweitzer, President of the Dataw Pickleball Club.

Pleasant Point players worked closely with their POA resulting in the completion of four new dedicated courts this month. “We are confident more residents will join-in as we

showcase the game and new courts to the community. We could not be any more excited,” said Carl Diiorio of Pleasant Point.

“As a resort community with more vacationers than full time residents, we find that people come out to learn how to play pickleball while visiting Fripp Island. As a result, we often find ourselves introducing people to the sport during our regular round-robin play,” explained Vanessa Penaherrera. She and her husband, Cesar oversee the pickleball program at Fripp Island. They met while playing pickleball 34 years ago. Cesar adds, “we look forward to the possibility of establishing league play in Beaufort & the Sea Islands.”

Meanwhile, there are many pickleball players in the area who seek public places to play. The Shed, in Port Royal, was an option for a few years, but recently closed due to proposed development plans. According to Emily Upperman, they have organized their group into the Sea Island Pickleball Club (SIPC), presently in the process of electing a Board of Directors. “Before we had to leave The Shed and before Covid-19, our courts were being utilized by a group of 100 players with play

options for three to four times a week. Now, we have temporary play at Southside Park,” Emily said. SIPC is looking for an indoor venue to accommodate play in the heat as well as develop a park & rec style program that will include teaching and coaching at all levels of play. Both Emily with SIPC and Mickey Stoble of Habersham report that the lag time in finding a place to play or in the case of Habersham – proposing for more courts – creates the risk of losing player interest. COVID-19 and the summer heat have added an extra layer of distraction as communities try to calibrate play and court availability.

The Olde Beaufort Golf Club in Royal Pines is in the process of building six dedicated courts that will be open to the public. “We plan to be open for play in late summer / early fall. More information will be coming out soon on their website about rates and membership,” said new owner, Jon Fulmer.

There has been talk at the county level for an 8-12 court complex dedicated to pickleball to be built at the Burton Wells facility. The understanding was that the monies had been allocated over a year ago and then were transferred to other projects. More good news on that front is expected. The city tennis courts across from the National Cemetery would be a perfect spot to take two tennis courts and change them into 6 pickleball courts. Creating public pickleball space would be an asset and benefit to Beaufort County.

The common denominator among the communities and the public is the idea of having enough players at the same skill level to play against each other so as to embrace the competitive aspect of the sport and as a way to better their own game. Likewise, ensuring that beginners and novices have a format to learn and play where injuries are minimized and a love of the game is nurtured.

Beaufort High School held their 2nd annual tournament, The Pickled Eagle, in mid March 2020 - the weekend before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the country.

Approximately 80 participants from the general public and local private communities were in attendance. Existing tennis courts were modified by taping to regulation court size and portable nets were used. (Continued on page 18)

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Do We Mutually Agree to be Mutually Exclusive?

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utually exclusive is a statistical term describing two or more events that cannot happen simultaneously. It is commonly used to describe a situation where the occurrence of one outcome supersedes the other. For example, we can’t have heads and tails at the same time. Can we?

No doubt, the binary life we lead has its advantages as the comfort food we think we can’t live without. Once we’re bloated like Violet Beauregarde in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, we feel we can no longer do without gluttony’s purple-faced embrace. It must be this way, mustn’t it? Can we not have a storm and the sunshine at the same time?

I have to ask what the big deal is with masks? I mean, don’t we wear them all the time anyway? Oh, you don’t believe they’re effective? Perhaps I agree with you on the technicalities of it all, but who cares as long as it alleviates stress in others? I understand this is not an issue elsewhere in the world. Remember it’s an election year and history has shown us certain people will do anything to attain and retain power.

Reference the Dixiecrats in the 1968 election. Is this a political statement? I feel it’s rather a plea to be mindful. I mean we’re about to lose college football. As a son of the South, this is something I never even considered as a possibility.

In this apocalyptic time, “Tiger Rag”

may no longer be able to raise gooseflesh over my birthplace—the Upstate of South Carolina. God knows my Carolina Gamecocks need a break after being blanked by one of Alabama’s native sons for the better part of the last decade. Is calling the implosion of college football and hopefully the downfall of the toothless NCAA apocalyptic, hyperbole? I don’t think so. Who would have ever thought the broken BILLIONS of dollars system that was college football would ever be called to the carpet by its “essential workers”? Must something be vilified so that the rainbow doesn’t show?

Speaking of billionaires, one in particular has just called for grace. History has shown he comments on everything within his purview and some of which is not within his purview. Yet he has been silent since George Floyd until recently, despite high-profile people calling him out. It’s been about three months since eight minutes and forty-six seconds changed the course of history. He came on national TV to practically demand grace. The voice of grace is innocent and quiet like a whisper, while its vibration is loud enough to fuel the spirit. His statement was neither a whisper nor did it fuel my spirit. Instead, it likely fueled more division. This will appeal to some of his fanbase as he, no doubt, calculated it would. To others, it will ring as intentionally tone-deaf as another college that held our very votes in their hands for generations.

The electoral college only offers mouth services and never guarantees to do as we’ve wished. This year’s election is perhaps the most important in our nation’s history and we have candidates that are more sizzle and scent than steak. I mean, would it really be that outlandish to have voted for Kanye West after some of the wild s*** that’s come out of D.C. this year? I was considering it if it became an “option.”

There’s an example of non-mutually exclusive.

Since crazy pills are now available over-the-counter, perhaps 2020 is the last leap year of the travesty that is the electoral college. I mean, we’ve got a sitting President openly trying to screw with the postal system to make it harder to vote via mail.

In contrast, we’ve got an elite level athlete arranging an MLB stadium, as has never been done before, to allow people to vote.

Definitely not mutually exclusive.

It is difficult to see innocence in others when you cannot see it in yourself. Why can’t we be more than one thing at a time?

Why can’t we be the person that is whole in one sense, but a work-in-progress in another arena? Why do we have to be complete in every moment and if we’re not—if we’re not, doom and gloom. The phrase, “always leave them wanting more,” comes to mind here.

Compassion in our most sacred of technologies. It’s not mutually exclusive to

WHOLLY HOLISTICS

by Sutty Suddeth

the chaos we’re all experiencing in our lives. I do feel that if you search for only love in the heart of darkness, you’ll find it. I mean love in the broad sense, not the romcom ideal that we’d all love to make us sleepless. It is possible to continue with life while scared out of your mind if we embrace our God-given innocence. Some will be attracted to this innocent luminescence, others will fear it. Shine brightly anyway.

If there’s one word to describe the year of 2020 so far, that word is revealing.

COVID apparently isn’t going anywhere and we’re not likely to find that elusive “new norm” any time soon. May we continue to reveal what’s in our hearts and minds.

Lord knows certain things have been concealed far too long.

Chris (Sutty) Suddeth was born in Greenville and has lived his whole life in South Carolina. A graduate of USC, Sutty lives with his wife and daughter on Fripp Island, where he is a full-time Mr. Mom with his own holistic health business. He’s been a practicing Reiki Master and emotional energetic healing specialist since 2010. He uses his passion and proficiency with energy work to inform his writing. Visit www.soulshinerefinery.com for more info.

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Lowcountry Book Club Convention to be Live-Streamed

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he nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host the 4th annual Lowcountry Book Club Convention as a livestreamed event on Saturday, September 12—featuring New York Times best-selling novelists Grady Hendrix (The Southern rBook Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires) and yWiley Cash (The Last Ballad); actress, counIselor, and author Ruthie Landis (Beyond the -Book Club); and a trio of authors selected by s h l ,

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The Lowcountry Book Club Convention was created by Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt as an opportunity for local book club members—and those considering joining or forming a book club—to gather together to discuss ideas for deepening their reading experiences and strengthening the bonds of their literary communities. This year’s convention will be presented virtually and in partnership with NeverMore Books and SCETV Lowcountry, with the generous support of the Pulpwood Queens Books Club, the largest book club in the U.S. Broadcast from the SCETV Lowcountry studio in Beaufort, the live-streamed video of the Lowcountry Book Club Convention will be freely available on the Pat Conroy Literary Center’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/patconroyliterarycenter), with the recorded videos posted afterwards to the Conroy Center’s YouTube channel. Limited in-person attendance for this event is now sold out.

Books by the presenters will be available cussion of Pat Conroy’s 1972 teaching memoir through the Beaufort-based independent The Water Is Wide.

Noon to 1:00 p.m.: Lunch break, catered by bookstore NeverMore Books (www.neverDebbi Covington for our in-studio audience. morebooks.com).

(No live-streaming at this time.)

1:00 to 2:30 p.m.: New York Times best-selling novelist and winner of the 2019 Pat Conroy Legacy Award Wiley Cash will discuss his innovative Open Canon Book Club in conversation with a trio of writers selected for the Open Canon (participating remotely): memoirist Lori Horvitz (The Girls of Unusually) and novelists Silas House (Southernmost) and Crystal Hana Kim (If You Leave Me).

3:00 to 4:00 p.m.: New York Times best-selling horror writer Grady Hendrix will discuss his new novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, inspired by his mother’s long-running book club in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, where he was raised.

(Hendrix will be presenting remotely.)

Author Silas House

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 10:30 to Noon: Ruthie Landis, author

d of Beyond the Book Club: We Are the Writer Grady Hendrix s Books We Must Read, will lead an interace Wiley Cash’s Open Canon Book Club: Lori tive workshop for our in-person and online -

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Horvitz (The Girls of Unusually), Silas House participants to help enrich their reading expe-

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Landis’s workshop will also incorporate a dis-

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Conroy Center’s Haupt to Judge High School Writing Contest

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pen to all Palmetto State high school juniors and seniors, the annual South Carolina High School Writing Contest was created in 2013 by Steven Lynn, dean of the South Carolina Honors College at USC; writer and editor Aïda Rogers; best-selling writer Pat Conroy (the competition’s original judge); and Jonathan Haupt, then director of the University of South Carolina Press and now executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center.

It is fitting then that Haupt was invited to return to the project to serve as the competition’s judge this year. In addition to Conroy, previous judges have included Walter Edgar, Nikky Finney, Pam Durban, Mary Alice Monroe, and Marjory Wentworth.

“It was my tremendous privilege to have helped Steve Lynn and Aida Rogers shepherd this important contest through its early years, and I’m beyond honored to be invited back to judge the 2020 competition,” Haupt said. “Opportunities like these can begin to give shape to the arc of a writing life for burgeoning storytellers. And this contest has always done such a masterful job of letting us know what’s on the minds and in the hearts of our young writers as they survey the present and look toward the future. It’s all the more important now that we recognize and listen to their voices.”

The writing contest’s topic is “How should we improve the state of South Carolina?” Submissions of up to 750 words are welcome by September 25 in all creative genres, including

fiction, drama, and poetry, as well as straightforward essays, diary/ journal entries, letters, or other literary forms.

After students submits their work, 15-20 finalists will be chosen.

Those finalists will have their work reviewed by the 2020 writing contest judge.

Cash prizes of $1,000, $500, and $250 will be awarded to the first, second, and third place winners. The entries of finalists and winners will be showcased by the South Carolina Honors College on its website.

The SC Honors College at USC partners with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, the South Carolina State Library, the UniJonathan Haupt, photograph by Milton Morris versity of South CaroliAbout 2020 the South Carolina High na School of Library and Information Sciences, the South Carolina Academy of Authors, School Writing Contest Judge: Jonathan and the South Carolina Writers Association Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and the to present the annual statewide contest.

Learn more and submit entries at www. former director of the University of South Carolina Press, where he created the Story schonors.com/hswritingcontest.

River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy, named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of "the top ten things to love about the South."

Haupt’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier, Beaufort's Lowcountry Weekly, Beaufort Lifestyle magazine, Savannah Morning News’ Beacon magazine, the Southern Review of Books, and Southern Writers Magazine’s Suite T blog. He is co-editor with Nicole Seitz of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, the recipient of more than a dozen book awards.

He is also host of Live from the Pat Conroy Literary Center, a monthly author interview podcast on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network, and associate producer of the TELLY Award-winning SCETV author interview program By the River.

Haupt serves on the boards of the South Carolina Academy of Authors and the Friends of South Carolina Libraries and on the advisory board of the South Carolina Humanities and the affiliates committee of the American Writers Museum. Under his leadership, the Conroy Center has been honored as South Carolina’s first affiliate of the American Writers Museum, second American Library Association Literary Landmark, and winner of Beaufort’s 2019 Civitas Award for Tourism Leadership. Earlier this year, Haupt was recognized with the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award presented by the Pulpwood Queens, the largest book club in the U.S.

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icie Phillips has been selected as the new Executive Director of the Beaufort Digital Corridor.

Phillips moved to Beaufort this past year from the Pacific Northwest where she was Dean of Students at Pacific Bible College in Medford, OR. She also has extensive experience in the private sector working for DuPont Pharma, among other companies.

Phillips attended Clemson University for engineering and then received a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from the University of South Florida. She is finishing up a Master of Science in Information Science from Texas Women’s University.

“As Executive Director, my mission is to develop Beaufort’s technology entrepreneurs, fortify the tech economy in the region, and help create diversity in jobs,” Phillips said. “I love Beaufort and want to see it thrive.”

The Beaufort Digital Corridor launched in late 2016 as a spinoff of the Charleston Digital

workshops, mentoring, and gallery area for local artists.

“My passion is to help others determine what they need to be successful and to be part of growing the Beaufort business economy,” Phillips said.

At Pacific Bible College, Phillips’ responsibilities included facilitating collaboration, marketing, program management, and outreach Corridor with the aim of incubating tech-related to the business community - all of which are an startups, and overtime bring better-paying jobs important part of her new position. to Beaufort. Housed at the city-owned 500 CartPhillips replaces Shelley Barratt who led eret Building in downtown, the BDC BASEcamp the BDC for several years and moved back to offers co-working spaces for entrepreneurs, her home state of New Mexico.

“We are delighted to have Nicie Phillips as the Beaufort Digital Corridor’s new Executive Director,” said City Councilman Stephen Murray, who was integral to the startup of the corridor and is a member of the Board of Directors. “We conducted a nationwide search to replace Shelley, and Nicie’s mix of college leadership experience, private sector experience, and current pursuit of a Master’s in Information Science was the perfect mix. We are confident she will build on the success we’ve had as we continue to build diversification into Beaufort’s economy.”

Nicie and her husband Jay live in Beaufort. Jay Phillips is the Financial Systems Analyst for the City of Beaufort. Their daughter is a senior at Bridges Prep, and their son just graduated from Chapman School of Law in California.

For more information about the BDC please contact info@beaufortdigital.com

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Talking Food and Life E with Anchorage 1770’s chef Daniel Salazar xecutive Chef Daniel Salazar has been working in professional kitchen settings since he was 14 years old, when a colorful mentor first came into his life.

Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Salazar attended the Cordon Bleu in Scottsdale, Arizona, and has opened four kitchens, three in boutique hotels.

The cuisine obviously is different. Out here it’s more Lowcountry and in Texas it’s more Tex-Mex, that type of cuisine.

When I was in Boerne, I was working in a French restaurant and I was working in a steakhouse, so at that point it was just my training. I wasn’t in a chef’s position, but I was treated as a chef and I was paid as a chef.

The cuisine I feel comfortable doing is obviously my own. I’m not a Southern chef or trying to say that I am. Just because I’m living in South Carolina doesn’t mean that I know what’s indigenous here. I’m learning that because I’m inspired by that, and I live out here now, but my whole cuis i ne has b e e n Anchorage 1770 at 1103 Bay Street French, Italian, He and his wife, Misty Baker, now both global in that sense, but also local and work for the Anchorage Inn’s Ribaut Social farm-to-table.

Club – named for the original club established So it wasn’t that different for me because at the Anchorage in 1891 – and have since I’m still doing my thing. made Beaufort their home.

LCW: Do you find the pace is different?

Lowcountry Weekly recently sat down with Salazar: It’s a lot slower.

“Chef Dan” to talk about cooking, what inspires LCW: (laughing) It takes some getting him, and new things in the works at the inn. used to right?

This interview has been edited for length.

Salazar: It’s definitely the slow country.

Lowcountry Weekly: You recently made LCW: So you’ve been the head chef at the move from Boerne in the Texas Hill Anchorage 1770 now for about six months?

Country to Beaufort, South Carolina. How Salazar: Yes, six months. much of a change was that for you and your LCW: What sort of challenges did you wife, and are there differences in the type of first face, if any, and how have you worked cooking or cuisine you would find there? toward meeting those or how have you Salazar: Through travelling there were a brought your own style of management lot of things that I was familiar with, and there here? were a lot of things that I was surprised that Salazar: I’m very critical of myself. I’ve weren’t here that I would have thought would always been my worst enemy as far as critihave been here, ingredient wise. cism goes. Coming out here it was all very The biggest difference is that yes, we challenging, because you only have one opcame from the Texas Hill Country, and now portunity to make a reputation and it takes we’re along the Atlantic coastline in South years to do that.

Carolina. What makes it interesting is that we So I wanted to be sure that I was doing kind of wanted to be in this situation or this things the right way . . . and I wanted to do location. So I think that kind of made it feel a something completely different here. I said, let’s elevate it. little more surreal, in that sense.

Misty Baker and Chef Daniel Salazar (The Anchorage) was always something that people locally said, ‘This is a special place that we go to’ and that’s great. There was a lot of support here prior to me coming here, but I also wanted to know what the reviews were.

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Mindy Lucas to be some of the challenges here, because the kitchen space isn’t really equipped to be self-sufficient in terms of the direction I want to take it in.

So there was a lot of tearing down, a lot of setting up and a lot of reorganizing to where I felt comfortable with that. . . . One of the issues for me was the fact that people, including the staff, were used to a certain type of performance here. One of them was a bread service. The restaurants I have been part of, yes you have a bread service and yes you don’t have a bread service sometimes.

But it was one of those things where if you’re only having four people tonight and that’s it, I don’t really see a reason for saying, ‘Let’s fill them up on bread and then see if they want to split an entrée.’

So it was breaking down little barriers like that and kind of rebuilding it.

The menu changes every day. It’s always inspired by what’s at the market or what’s at the farm. Clearly weather has a lot to do with that. So it doesn’t make sense to leave something and say this is it, this is the menu.

Also, discovering different types of pur-

Smoked Blue Ridge Mountain Trout Cakes appetizer with white anchovy and caper remoulade, pickled fennel and green tomato relish I wanted to know what the staffing was like, what the setup was, what kind of ingredients were actually being brought in here. And once I actually laid everything out on the table, then I was able to say OK these are going

veyors out here, what they have and where they can get things from . . . I get a lot of my proteins flown in locally or within the U.S. at other farms or globally.

So that’s kind of the reputation I want to

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have here. You can have creative, local fresh salads and starters, but then when it comes time for the entrée, you’re going to have a big main event.

While we are talking, Frank Lesesne, who owns the Anchorage with his wife, Amy, steps in. Lesesne is excited to announce the Anchorage has purchased a 26-foot World Cat and beginning this fall, the inn will offer sunset dinner cruises catered by Salazar.

Salazar: So there’s a lot going on here that we’d like to get out there.

Another thing is we’re going to install a chef’s table. . . .We’re going to have temperature-controlled wine racks . . . and a big table that can seat about 12 to 16 people.

LCW: And the concept behind a chef’s table is for people to interact with the chef?

Salazar: Yes, it’s a table right where the kitchen is, so it’s kind of like a private dining area.

It’s going to be volume controlled, temperature controlled. Obviously you’ll have your privacy . . . so hopefully that attracts a lot of people who want to have that experience.

And then of course putting out the food that we have or showcasing that, I think it goes hand in hand.

LCW: And you said the menu would change daily?

Salazar: It changes pretty frequently.

Daily is accurate. It can change between a few tweaks, or it can change completely. . . Again it’s based on what is fresh, what’s available and that’s something that I want people to know is that they’re not going to have something that’s a week old, or not inspired.

I have realized there are some favorites that people have as far as proteins go. So I’ll keep those, and I’ll rotate them, but I’ll do different plates on them and then go back to what it was before so that it’s unique in that sense.

But I have a vast array of different types of choices on there that kind of make the menu look bigger at the same time. So for instance, tonight I’ll have USDA prime bone-in ribeye with foie gras, and I have a sablefish which is black cod, and I have a Blue Ridge Mountain trout that I smoked.

I’ll do rack of lamb, I’ll do wild boar chops or pork crown. I’ve even done different types of game. Bison sells a lot here. Wagyu beef, from Miyazaki, Japan, which I sold out of in two days. Those are $120, six-ounce steaks. I had the certificate, which the servers took to the table to prove their authenticity.

People just eat it up. I had ostrich, rabbit.

So we’re calling all the foodies here. People who are like, ‘Oh man, I’ve never had this before, but I trust the execution here, so I’m going to try it here.’

I think that’s pretty exciting, especially if you’re going to rotate the menu to keep it on things that people are going to be interested in, especially the foodies.

LCW: How did you first become interested in food and cooking?

Salazar: It’s not the same story that most people have about their grandma or my mom.

It wasn’t either of those people for me.

I was going on 15 and near my high school there was a restaurant. . . This is in San Angelo in West Texas. I’d go to the grocery store with my mom, and I’d see this big guy with a ponytail, he’s German – Austrian. Scruffy.

T-shirt. Baggy, chef pants.

And I was like who is this person? And people at the store were very kind and friendly to him, and I was very intrigued by this and thought what’s going on with this? . . . Then at night we’d drive by the restaurant, and I’d see these nice cars out there and people very well dressed, and I’d see the chef out there drinking a beer having a good time, and I was just so captivated by that.

I was like, ‘What kind of job is this? What does this guy do?’ It’s like he’s hosting these individuals, but he’s not like them. He’s still his own person. There was some connection there.

So one day, after school I went into the kitchen, which, it was a house that was renovated. It was built in the early 1920s and . . . it was an old building that had been renovated into a house and then renovated into a restaurant, so when I went in through the back door it was like a carport area, but that’s where the kitchen was.

Pan Seared USDA Prime Bone in Ribeye with seared foie gras, green peppercorn dijon cognac demi grace, golden chanterelles, sweet potato & leak au gratin, and sautéed farm vegetables So I’m there, and all of a sudden I hear these big foot steps coming down the dining room hallway, and the door swings open, and there’s this guy standing over me, and he’s freaking out on me.

He says, ‘What are you doing? Are you a thief?’

I didn’t even know what to say. I froze. Finally I was able to talk and I said, ‘I’m just curious about what you do?’ I think that’s what I said.

The view from the porch at sunset

So after he made sure I wasn’t stealing from him or anything, he put me to the test.

Jason, the kind of test he would give someone would be like, are you just someone who is full of words or are you full of actions.

LCW: What was his name?

Salazar: Jason Helfer.

So everyday before and after school, I would be there in the kitchen ready to do whatever – cap strawberries or whatever.

I have a hearing loss in my left ear. I was born with that. I didn’t know how to handle that. I didn’t know how to address that. It made me feel very self-conscious, and I always sacrificed my learning so I didn’t feel like I was hindering someone else’s ability to learn.

I kind of had those issues as a kid but being there in the kitchen and being with Jason, it really helped me – instilled confidence and helped me get over that.

LCW: That’s a great story.

Salazar: So after about two months, he said, ‘Hey, I can’t pay you a lot of money, but you’ve been consistent. How would you like to be a pot washer?’

I jumped all over that. I thought it was the best thing in the world. Unfortunately, you don’t see a lot of ambition like that nowadays.

LCW: Right? And you were still in high school too. What did your family think of this?

Salazar: My family always told me that everything you want, you have to work for it.

So when I started showing that I was good at something, and not (Continued next page)

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(Continued from previous page) You have these talking heads and these only was I good at it but I respected and took it people who just get mad all the time for no seriously, it became something that was very reason, but I’ve worked for chefs before who positive, as far as my parents were concerned. were that way, but you didn’t mind it because of what they showed you and how they would take care of you.

LCW: They pushed you to be better than maybe you thought you could be?

Salazar: Yeah, they were positive in that way.

After I opened up a hotel in College Station (Texas), my contract ran out, and they asked if I wanted to renew the contract. I didn’t really see myself being in ColStation. It just Farm Tomato Salad with pickled red onions, local chèvre, basil pesto lege wasn’t for me. vinaigrette, tomato jam, and micro greens So I was trying to When I graduated high school, Jason figure out what I wanted to do, so I thought, said, ‘The best advice I can give you is to wait well, I’m back in (San Angelo) Texas now, let and work a few years before you go to culinary me reach out and see what Jason is doing. school just so you’ll know what kind of stuSo I reached out – I hadn’t spoken to him dent you’ll be, what kind of questions you’ll in like 20 years. He was just beyond impressed ask and what you’re interested in doing there.’ with what I had done with my life and And so I did. I went and worked for the everything.

Marriott in San Antonio – the Marriott RiverHe went to Johnson & Wales in Charlescenter. That was my first major experience. It ton, so that was his stomping grounds. So he was just a huge kitchen or kitchens; it wasn’t said, ‘I have this restaurant. You want to be a just one. And then from there they started special guest chef?’ training me and building me up to go to school.

He was newly engaged and said, ‘Now So I went to school from there and then that you’re here, I feel like you could run the the executive sous chef there, at the Marri- restaurant for the week, and I’m going to go ott, recommended me to a friend of his with my wife-to-be, and we’re going to take a who was opening a Marriott Hotel in trip with her parents.’

Cleveland. So I quickly went and did that.

So I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll run the restaurant.’

LCW: Did you keep in touch with Jason? And when he came back, he said, ‘This is Does he know what an influence he had on great. Great feedback, great reviews, it was your life? busy, we made some good money and the Salazar: Oh he introduced me to my wife. menu looked great.’

LCW: What?! You’re kidding.

So he said, ‘Let me take you out.’

Salazar: This is like 21 year years ago, but So we went out, and we had some ScotchJason made me cry. He was a bastard you es and Bourbons and all that and it was a comknow. (laughing) pletely different relationship now. And then LCW: (laughing) So he was tough? we ordered some Japanese food and when we Salazar: But very fair. And I learned to re- went to go and pick it up, Misty was there with spect that about people. her restaurant owners who were friends with Jason because they owned a restaurant in town as well, and so Jason introduced me to them and he saw Misty and he was like, ‘I’m going to do Daniel a solid here.’

So he kind of paired us up, and said, ‘Let’s For more information or reservations go back and have some more cocktails’ and as to the Ribaut Social Club at Anchorsoon as we got there, he said, ‘Oh, I gotta go’ age 1770, call (877)-951-1770 or visit and he left us there. . . . So that was like twowww.anchorage1770.com. and-half years ago now.

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The owners told me they were in Atlanta LCW: (laughing) I think you got a lot and they started having a conversation with out of that deal.

Salazar: He really said thank you for run- someone and they said the Chicken Piccata ning my restaurant for a week. I mean it’s cool there (at The Anchorage) is amazing. And in how he was a big part of my life then and he Atlanta they’re saying that. So that’s cool that people responded that well. stayed in contact.

I think another major identity that we One of the things he made me promise when I got out of high school and before I left have here is that we can do whatever we want. town was, that if someone ever came to me and So it’s not like, ‘Oh this is seafood,’ or ‘This is wanted to learn, I would do what he did for me. this or that or this kind of theme.’ We can adAnd I’ve been able to do that. I’ve turned just to whatever environment or situation dishwasher cooks . . . that are now junior sous we’re in. . . . We have a lot of weddings coming up chefs and everything. It’s very gratifying in here this fall. And that’s something I always that sense.

LCW: And your wife has that back- try to sell them on that it’s not like your typical, ‘Oh I’ll have the chicken and you have the ground too?

Salazar: She is the manager here. She’s beef’ kind of catering. actually a sommelier.

She has over 20 years in general manager experience. She’s very sharp when it comes to beverage and all that and they love her here. She’ll bake cakes . . . she does a lot.

LCW: What do you like about Beaufort or what do you and your wife like to do when you have a day or two off from the inn?

Salazar: We love Bluffton. Bluffton is a cool town. We’ll go Seared U-10 Diver Sea Scallops with beet risotto, roasted beets, carrot pure, saffron versus blanc and beluga caviar over there and check It’s different kind of composition stations out different restaurants and little spots, little on each floor . . . and to me that’s cool because shopping areas.

We’ve made some pretty good friends here a lot of my experience is not just from restauso we kind of hang out with them. We have a rants, but it’s also from catering, so that’s great beautiful house in Pigeon Point, so a lot of that we can do all that.

LCW: Is there anything I should have house work. We’re sort of homebodies in a way.

Tuesdays I’ll sometimes go to Hampton asked that’s important for readers to know.

Salazar: I think something that’s importand go to the farm that we use here, visit out there with them, check out what they’re doing. ant, or one thing I want to stress, is how appreWe just kind of take things a little easy and ciative I am to the community, so I want to kind of let that slow-country rhythm come in. open by just saying thank you.

Thank you for taking an interest in my life, What we’d like to do is, but of course we’re very limited because of the whole Covid thing, as well as Misty’s life and who she is as a perbut we’d like to get more involved. I’d love to son. I’m glad that we’re local and small enough start an American Culinary Federation (ACF) to where people can identify who people are, chapter in Beaufort. . . . Another one is the and I appreciate that.

And I appreciate people supporting us South Carolina Chef Ambassador Program.

There’s a lot of cool things that I’d like to do, during lockdown when we were doing the takeaways. but we’re on stand by as far as that goes.

And, I want people to be excited that this But when Covid hit and a lot of these places started closing down, that’s when we decid- is a special place. ed to do a pop-up Italian restaurant here . . . with handmade pastas and everything. And Mindy Lucas is a staff writer for Lowcountry people were flipping out.

Weekly and reporter for The Island News.

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Dine In for MM: #ShowMeYourTable

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ultiple Myeloma is a rare cancer of blood plasma cells. MM treatments have advanced quite a bit over the years but the disease still desperately needs a cure. When Beaufortonian

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Steve Mix was diagnosed with MM in February, his daughter Caroline Mix Stapleton created a Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) Facebook page to support her

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father and to solicit funds for study and testing. Proceeds from Caroline's fun and delicious virtual fundraiser will subsidize the quest to help Steve and many other MM patients. The concept is great and simple! Instead of going out for dinner, prepare your meal, set your table, take a photo of your tablescape and post it on #showmeyourtable. Then, donate the money that you would have spent at a restaurant to MMRF through Caroline's “Dine in For MM” page on Facebook. The recipes this week are from Vince's and my offering. We've all been touched by cancer at one time or another.

It's time to find a cure. Please join Vince and me in supporting Steve, Caroline and the entire Mix family by participating in this creative crusade. #ShowMeYourTable

Sea salt 1 (6 to 7 bone) frenched rack of lamb, Freshly ground black pepper well-trimmed 2 tablespoons olive oil ½ cup fresh or prepared basil pesto ½ cup panko breadcrumbs Position rack in center of oven. t Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

Season lamb rack all over with salt and pepper. Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large, heavy, oven-proof skillet over medium-high heat. Sear lamb for 1 to 2 minutes on all sides.

Set aside to cool. Spread lamb evenly with pesto. Press breadcrumb mixture evenly on the h meaty side of the rack of lamb. , Cover the ends of the bones with foil and place bone-side s down in the skillet. Roast in e oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until internal temperature s reaches 125 degrees with an instant-read thermometer. Let rest for 5 minutes before serving. Serves 2.

ORZO AND OLIVE PASTA SALAD 1¼ cups (8 ounces) dried orzo pasta ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil ¼ cup red wine vinegar 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 2 tablespoons honey

½ teaspoon garlic powder ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 teaspoon salt 1 large red bell pepper, diced 1 cup sliced kalamata olives ¼ cup chopped red onion ½ cup chopped fresh Italian parsley ¾ cup crumbled feta cheese ½ cup pine nuts, toasted Cook orzo to al dente, according to package directions.

While pasta is cooking, whisk together olive oil, vinegar, lemon juice, honey, garlic powder, pepper and salt in a medium bowl. Add bell pepper, olives, red onion and parsley; toss lightly. Drain cooked pasta and let cool for 5 minutes. Add pasta to the vegetable mixture and toss to coat.

Garnish with feta cheese and pine nuts. Serves 6 to 8.

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1 egg ½ cup shredded Swiss cheese 1 cup blueberries In a small bowl, mix butter with 1/3 cup brown sugar; set aside or refrigerate until ready to use. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease and flour a loaf pan. In a medium bowl, combine muffin mix with milk, egg and Swiss cheese; batter will be slightly lumpy. Gently fold in blueberries. Spread batter into greased and floured loaf pan. Sprinkle with remaining 1/3

cup brown sugar. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of bread comes out clean. Cool in pan for 5 minutes.

BLUEBERRY STREUSEL CORNBREAD Remove from pan and cool on wire rack. Serve WITH STREUSEL BUTTER warm or at room temperature with streusel Cornbread and blueberries are a classic com- butter. Serves 8. bination. This sweet bread teamed with brown sugar-butter is a wonderful comfort food!

The writer owns Catering by Debbi Covington and is the author of 1 stick salted butter, softened three cookbooks, Celebrate Beaufort, Celebrate Everything! and 2/3 cup light brown sugar, divided Dining Under the Carolina Moon. Debbi’s website address is www.cateringbydebbicovington.com. She may be reached at 1 (8.5-ounce) box corn muffin mix 525-0350 or by email at dbc@cateringbydebbicovington.com.

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Photographer’s Guide to Beaufort Gets Digital Update

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ooking to find unique photo ops, locations for model shoots and even drone photography in Northern Beaufort County? The Photography Club of Beaufort to the rescue!

Each year, local photographers and visitors search Beaufort for the most interesting and photogenic locations in the Beaufort area. Members of the Photography Club of Beaufort decided it was time to get to work. The club had a 10-year-old guide for photographers, but the public wanted this publication to be user friendly and digital. An eBook !

"We spent almost a year updating and recreating this guide as an eBook so photographers, once they downloaded the pdf to their phone or tablet, could have this resource with them 24/7,” said Sandy Dimke, co-editor of the book. "We also had to add new places that have opened more recently, that are especially picturesque for photographers – for instance Port Royal's Cypress Wetlands and The Spanish Moss Rail Trail."

This e-edition includes everything that an artist or photographer needs: photos that illustrate the sites, precise GPS locations, links to websites, directions, accessibility, parking information, and tips about when to shoot for the best photo opportunity. Ms.

Dimke continued, "This is a valuable resource for any artist and is geared to photographers of all skill levels."

With over 37 pages and over 65 photographs, the Photographers Guide to Beaufort is the best source available. For more information visit www.beaufortphotoclub.com/ ebook ($14.99 through the club website).

Club president Al Heacox remarked, "The book became available last week and already two Beaufort residents left these comments: ‘Got my copy and love it . . . learned of some places I have not yet been to” and "An afternoon of exploring. Thank you for introducing us to some very cool places."

For more information visit www.beaufortphotoclub.com/ebook (The book is $14.99 through the club website).

Illegal and Undocumented

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ntegrative health coach and author Dr. Veronica R. Lynch has released her latest book, Undocumented: One Woman's Traumas and Triumphs in Becoming a Documented United States Citizen. Her new book chronicles her journey as a young teen escaping her Caribbean Island hometown in search of safety and freedom in America. It provides a record of the treatment and reclusion she faced as an undocumented immigrant and the struggles she faced to become a documented citizen.

In Undocumented, Dr. Lynch begins her book with a look at how she arrived in America as an undocumented immigrant, what it took to understand and adjust to the American culture and social norms, and what marginalization felt like. She then provides a harrowing look at what her life was like before arriving to America and the circumstances that forced her to leave her hometown and seek shelter elsewhere.

While America presented a young Veronica with many cultural barriers and mistreatments that made her feel alienated, it also presented her with opportunity. Working hard to accomplish her goals and overcoming limiting factors that halted her progress, she was able to become a documented United States citizen and create a career for herself that she had dreamt of since she was a young child.

Veronica R. Lynch, PhD, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and an Integrative Health Coach who works proactively with

people from all walks of life. Also, as a Licensed Psychotherapist, she helps people rise above adversity and unlock their truest potential in order to find happiness and fulfillment in life. Her new book is for anyone who wants to grow their potential and find their inner voice, leading them towards sustainable success and progress in all areas of life. Her unique techniques, which she has developed

throughout the toughest situations in her life, are now being shared with the world.

Having contributed to several international best-selling books, Dr. Lynch is also credited to having created the “7 Balancing Acts to Wholeness: A System of Personal Revitalization.” She currently manages Blissed: an Inward Sanctuary and Wellness Retreat Center that she founded to provide people an escape from their traumas, recuperate from their daily stress, and leave with a newfound energy and zest for life.

Dr. Lynch lives on Lady’s Island. For more information, visit www.blissedretreats.com

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(Continued from page 6) Proceeds from that tournament were to support the 2020 boys’ and girls’ tennis season, which subsequently was cancelled. Two visiting players reported finding the tournament on an internet search while looking for “places to play” as they travelled from North Carolina to Florida. Another couple actively travel regionally and look for places to play.

throughout South Carolina were to be invited.

Complete with medals, t-shirts and food, Berkshire Hathaway/Bay Street Realty Group was slated to be the Title Sponsor. Proceeds were to go towards upgrading the children’s playground. It would’ve been the first local pickleball tournament to be played on dedicated courts. One of the objectives was to bring local pickleball players together at one venue.

Courts on Fripp Island COVID-19 interfered with a tournament scheduled and planned by Coosaw Point for the end of April 2020. Set to be an inaugural tournament on their brand new courts, players from Beaufort & the Sea Islands and

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“Our goal is to have a fun playing experience with other local players and welcome them to Coosaw Point,” said John Horne, in an unpublished press release. A new date will be scheduled when it is safe to hold a tournament.

With all this local interest in Pickleball, Dataw player Mike Chambers is interested in bringing the different communities together by developing leagues and tournaments. This could help identify player skill levels and provide a forum for friendly competition among beginner/novice, intermediate, and advanced players.

Pickleball, like beaching and golf, has become a destination activity. Players can search a national database of registered sites to find “a place to play.” The growth of Pickleball is a 21st century reminder of the famous line from a 1989 classic movie Field of Dreams, “If you build it, they will come.” Jeff Conradi reinforces this notion by commenting that “the growth of pickleball is limited only by the number of courts available.”

Jeff also said that, “Latitude Margaritaville Hilton Head is the major sponsor of the US Nationals and US Open pickleball tournaments and advertise in many sports publications. Margaritaville realize the numbers of retiring baby boomers looking for an area to live that promotes an active lifestyle.”

The United States of America Pickleball Association (USAPA) released “Return to Play Guidance” after the shutdown in April. This guidance is designed to be applied in accordance with community mandated rules and recommendations as well as the latest local, state, and federal guidelines related to the containment and prevention of COVID-19.

In the spirit of Southern Hospitality, the interest and momentum of playing pickleball in Beaufort & the Sea Islands has reached a point where various stakeholders could come together to create a forum for introduction, education and opportunity to play - in a friendly, organized culture.

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Not Just Another Whack Job H ere at the farm, camellias – those magnificent queens of the southern garden – have been a part of the landscape for a very long time. While none of the shrubs/trees date all the way back to the 1840-ish origin of the farmhouse, these big old plants are very prominent under the oaks and hickories, blooming faithfully year after year from late September until March or April.

The oldest, a pair of very handsome Camellia japonica bushes, produce each winter masses of handsome classic double cherry-red blooms, each bush growing and blooming slightly differently to its companion. One grows with an upright habit; its flowers are usually slightly paler than those on its nearby sister. The sister bush seems to want to make a weeping habit, its branches bending downward a bit as they reach out – especially when the branches are laden with dozens of perfect formal double red-pink flowers.

When my parents bought the farmhouse and its surrounding buildings in the 1970s – nearly a half century ago! – these two camellias had been growing for many decades among three old oak trees, with whom they had competed for moisture and nutrients from the soil. Growth is slow under such circumstances, but the camellias had reached some seven feet in height and eight feet in width. They are now nine feet tall and ten feet across; it’s taken them fifty years to reach out two more feet.

Younger, but much larger, are the two Camellia sasanqua trees, which had been plant-

ed in the 1940s. Both are the simple, single-flowered, fast-growing sasanquas popular in southern gardens long before modern hybridization introduced such variety of form and color. They bloom months earlier than the C. japonicas, beginning to flower as the fall weather approaches, and seem much more accepting of full sun.

The huge sasanqua in the side yard – it’s nearly fifteen feet tall – is covered for weeks each October with the palest pink single blooms, each flower lasting only a couple of days, but replaced with another as soon as it falls.

Its vitality I long attributed to its location shading the old hen house (now long gone), but it is more likely simply genetics.

There’s an equally robust Camellia sasanqua in the back yard. This one blooms with single white flowers at about the same time as the pink one. Some thirty five years ago, my father decided it had gotten too large for its place and completely cut it back to its very substantial stump, about two feet above the ground. This “bush” is now twelve feet tall and fifteen feet across!

Beneath the pecan trees and redbuds on the west side of the house, my father’s beloved camellia garden began to take shape in the 1980s. He began buying camellias he liked and locating them in partial shade, offering them plenty of space to grow, some irrigation, and a location where their months of bloom each winter could be enjoyed from the house.

Under such conditions, even slow growing camellias can attain size and mass surprisingly quickly. One, a Professor Sargent, is twice my height with a spread of some seven feet, and quite densely branched. Others are not quite so big, but handsome plants indeed.

Finally, along the eastern side of the farmhouse, my father decided to plant a foundation row of camellias – fast growing hybrid sasanquas – to make a low green wall at the base of the house.

Here’s where my problem lies. The plants, small when acquired, were planted some four feet from the house. They are all, regrettably, fast-growing, although some grow faster than others. Despite the spectacular blooms they put on every fall and early winter, they have now reached the windows on the second floor

– no longer just a green foundation planting, growth is extremely vulnerable to any freezes; but a wall of green covering the east side of it will likely be killed back.

Far better to choose a more reliable time the house. for pruning, when there will be sufficient time for new growth to harden off before facing a freeze. March is probably the earliest for safe pruning here at the farm. That’s probably still early enough for the plant to form its flower buds for the fall, but that’s not my main worry.

I can still prune through the summer, but once fall begins, I need to worry that new growth may be vulnerable to the coming cold weather. I just don’t worry about missing a year of flowering if I’m reasonably assured of a healthy plant.

Here’s the pruning I will do – it will require a bit of assessing each plant for it to work. The idea is to remove no more than about a third of the mass of growth each season, leaving most of the bush alone to keep growing and flowering.

Because these plants have grown so enormous, that presents a challenge. I will remove the tallest trunks/stems, cutting them out as It is long past time for me to get out the near to the base or trunk as I can. I imagine loppers and do something – drastic! this will require only removing one or two of One possibility is to follow my father’s these main tall branches to make up a third of practice years ago and chop everything down the bush’s growth, but some, with smaller to a low stump. Most will likely recover and branches will require cutting out five or ten start blooming in a couple of years. Another is branches to eliminate one third of the bush. to be more judicious in my pruning, maintain- These, too, will be cut as close to the base of ing a decent looking shrub over the seasons it the branch as possible.

During the year, I will try to keep any new will take for me to repeatedly cut portions growth from becoming too large, and next back to a handleable size.

But what are the rules? How do I prune in a year, when warm weather comes after the way that won’t damage or even kill the camellia? blooming season, I will identify and remove The primary recommendation given by another third of the old growth in the same the experts is to limit pruning to the time im- way. And finally, by the third season, after mediately after blooming. The reasoning for pruning back that final third of old branches, I this is to prune before the next year’s blooms will be left with a completely new bush, much are set on the exiting branches; that is, it is to more contained in size and ready to keep try to assure that you’ll get blooms on the pruned more regularly than I’ve been doing.

On the other hand, the giant sasanquas out plants next fall and winter.

Sasanquas have usually finished flower- in the yard may just get the chop-off approach. ing by February. That might seem like a de- One has only so much energy and discipline to cent time to prune. However, I am far less spare; and, after all, it worked for my father! concerned about losing one season of bloom than I am about losing new growth to a freeze.

It’s hard to remember that pruning is only partially about removing growth; even more, Will Balk, Jr., is a Master Gardener who grew up as the son, pruning is a major impetus for the cut plant to grandson, and great-grandson of accomplished gardeners.

He is a past president of the Lowcountry Master Gardener send out new growth. If I cut in February (or in Association. Currently he gardens on the family homestead in October, November, December, January . . . Barnwell County and tries to fight back the jungle in Northmaybe even March!) new growth will immedi- ern Beaufort County. Will is also an occasional contributor to ately start where I have cut. That tender new the online journal Weekly Hubris (www.weeklyhubris.com)

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All Those Isms I hate racism, sexism, ageism, lookism. I hate them because they make life more limited and not nearly as interesting or as much fun. I also hate them because they are hurtful and wrong.

These isms are issues that everyone says we need to talk about, but when we try to talk, it just gets worse. Being the foolhardy person I am, here goes: The first thing we humans need to recognize if we are going to address prejudice is the fear of the other. That fear is pretty hardwired. I was fortunate enough to have a mother who was drawn to the different and she passed that on to her children. However, birds of a feather generally do flock together, and I am still thrilled to run into an Irish Catholic from St. Louis, and, now anyone from Beaufort.

Fortunately, our society is more and more diverse in every way, and research shows us that the younger generations do not distinguish the differences based on physical traits such as sex or ethnic background in the same way as their parents did.

Each generation becomes more open, mainly because they deal with each other on a daily basis.

The second thing we need to recognize if we are going to address prejudice, is that there is more than one kind.

The first, a hard-wired hatred for another group based on nothing but one’s own sense of inferiority or fear, is dreadful and can only be overcome through years of social conditioning and the constant message that it is a lower way of viewing one’s fellow humans. This is a totally uncool way of thinking.

Many count on laws to smite these bad attitudes, but, although laws have opened up some roads to equality, human nature can’t be legislated. If it could, men would always put the seat down.

The second kind of prejudice, a distaste for a group based on experience or knowledge of them, is actually way more complicated. I call it “postjudice.”

For example, if I am an average white parent with an average white kid and most of the Asian kids in our school are leaving my kid in the dirt, that might make me less loving of Asians. This is not fair and not right, but it is understandable.

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If I am a smart parent, I will take a look at exactly what it is that these other families are doing to help their kids excel, decide whether that is something I want for my family and kid, and make adjustments in line with my goals. I could also develop the thought that it is a fine thing that we have a group of kids who excel in areas that will eventually lead to the betterment of all of our lives.

Now, before you go getting your knickers in a twist, I am not saying that all Asian kids are smarter than the average white kid. I am sure there are some dumb Asian kids, but school records indicate that Asian kids are doing better in school. I also know that in my neighborhood in NJ, which is predominately Asian, recent immigrants are working their tails off, thriving, and putting my work ethic to shame.

As long as we are talking about Asians (and I am closely related to a whole tribe of Vietnamese and a lone Filipino) don’t you find it interesting that a group of people that is composed of such an enormous diversity of background – Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Malaysian, Filipino, etc. – is referred to as one group and we don’t have marches and rioting over that?

When you consider that we put Japanese-Americans in concentration camps on US soil in the 1940’s, and few people ever even hear about that, it boggles the mind. I am beginning to think that Asians don’t waste energy caring about what other people think about them.

Postjudice invades our lives. If two blonde women in a row dump a fellow, he is likely to be suspicious of blondes.

When I see a very heavy person headed toward the seat next to me on an airplane, it upsets me that I don’t want them to sit next to me because it will be uncomfortable. I know that from experience, and I am postjudiced. My heart breaks for them, but I don’t want them in my airplane neighborhood because they will make my life much harder while they are there. On the other hand, if that person looks me in the eye and says, “I’m sorry, I know I am taking up extra space” I melt, and the discomfort is more than bearable. In other words, if you or your group is the one causing discomfort, if you acknowledge that, you create communication , which leads to understanding.

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My favorite ethnic heritage is Italian. This is totally based on postjudice. I have met a couple I didn’t like, but, generally, their authenticity, humor, zest for life, and food, thrill me. As for my own group, Irish Catholic, they started out with a bonus because they were what I knew the best. However, when I moved to Boston and witnessed some of the variety within that group, I was less enamored.

So, we are all prejudiced and postjudiced. What can we do about it?

We, as individuals, can check our attitudes and be sure we aren’t making stupid judgments about other individuals or groups. We, as individuals or groups, can make sure we aren’t endorsing or excusing uncivil, hostile, unproductive, or threatening behavior toward others. We can be sure not to make excuses for bad behavior. We can concentrate on being the best we can be and not worry about whether other groups think we are wonderful or not. We can open our hearts to others and not assume that they are prejudiced. We can open our minds to others and understand why they might be postjudiced.

Bottom line: In our call to “have a conversation about isms” we have to open our ears, minds and hearts. If a person criticizes your tribe or a member of your tribe, you have to be open to considering if it is prejudice or postjudice. You have to be open to accept that a person who criticizes your tribe may be heartbroken to see the behavior they criticize. You have to be open to understand it doesn’t mean they hate you or your tribe. You have to be open to accept that the other person is sincere in wanting to help.

Too often we see people who do not think like prejudiced people, talk like prejudiced people, or act like prejudiced people, rejected because the “other” insists that no one outside of their group can understand and is therefore the enemy. This is very effective in pushing a good-hearted person into a corner.

This makes it more difficult for a good-hearted person to avoid cynicism. This makes it more difficult for a good-hearted person to avoid becoming postjudiced.

When fighting against prejudice of any kind, it is useful to ask yourself if you are merely indulging your special feeling of being put upon or if you are acting in a way that will move you closer to your goal. Keep your eye on the goal and involve as many people as you can, through honest and open attention to their point of view, in reaching it. You will be surprised how quickly things can move.

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Charles Street Gallery & frame shop presents

Over Fifteen Years Experience Serving the Lowcountry’s Buyers & Sellers with Closings, Deeds & Contracts 2 Professional Village Circle, Beaufort, SC 29907 Phone: (843) 524-4000 • Fax: (843) 524-4006

Derek C. Gilbert - derek@dcgilbert.com Melissa R. Wicker - melissa@dcgilbert.com

Alisha Doud - alisha@dcgilbert.com Bonnie Hart - bonnie@dcgilbert.com Dawn Shipsey - dawn@dcgilbert.com Joy McConnell - joy@dcgilbert.com

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Bobbi Tealey - bobbi@dcgilbert.com Daun Schouten - daun@dcgilbert.com Emily Dixon - emily@dcgilbert.com Kathy Crowley - kathy@dcgilbert.com

914 Charles Street in downtown Beaufort • 521-9054 www.thecharlesstreetgallery.com

Captain Woody’s, 6 Target Rd., Hilton Head or 17 State of Mind St., Bluffton. www. captainwoodys.com

Book Club); and a trio of authors selected by Wiley Cash’s Open Canon Book Club: Lori Horvitz (The Girls of Unusually), Silas House (Southernmost), and Crystal Hana Kim (If You Leave Me). For more information visit www.patconroyliterarycenter.org

The Jazz Corner, Village at Wexf1ord, Hilton Head. Saturdays - Closed. 8/19 Quiana Parler with the Lavon Stevens Trio, 8/21 Deas Guyz, 8/26 Bobby Ryder, 8/28 The Charlton Singleton Quartet, 9/2 Quiana Parler with the Lavon Stevens Trio, 9/4 John Brackett Quartet.

(843) 842-8620 or www.TheJazzCorner.com

OTHER EVENTS

Saturday, 8/22, Summer Night Market, an open-air shopping event with live music that features local artisans and makers from 5-9 pm, in the Southern Barrel parking lot in Buckwalter Plaza in Bluffton. The event is sponsored by Lowcountry Made, an online community and marketing organization that encourages everyone to shop local.

Omni Hilton Head Ocean Front in Palmetto Dunes. Buoy Bar - HH Prime (843) 842-8000 or www.omnihotels.com

OUT OF TOWN

BEAUFORT/PORT ROYAL Foolish Frog, 846 Sea Island Pkwy, St. Helena Island. (843) 838-9300. thefoolishfrog.com Luther’s Rare & Well Done, 910 Bay Street. (843) 521-1888 or www.luthersrareandwelldone.com Q on Bay, 822 Bay St, Beaufort. (843) 524-7771 or www.qonbay.com Rosie O’Gradys Irish Pub, in Beaufort Town center adjacent K-Mart. Karaoke Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays with Eric and the Girls 9pm. Open daily for Rock N Roll Lunch 11:30am.

Best Reubens, Phillys, Fish & Chips and Now a Great Shrimp Burger. (843) 379-7676 or Rosie O'Grady's on Facebook.

The Music Farm, 32 Ann Street, Charleston. 8/19 KT Tunstall, 8/25 Black Label Society; Obituary; Lord Dying, 9/3 Miss College of Charleston. 843577-6969 or www.musicfarm.com.

The Pour House, 1977 Maybank Hwy, Charleston. Performances on the Deck Stage until further notice. Sundays - David Grimm, Stuart White & Jonathan Lovett; Mondays - Slim S.O.U.L. and Friends; Tuesdays Nightshades - Instrumental Improvised Jamtronica; Wednesdays - Grateful Dead Wednesday with Reckoning. 8/20 Doom Flamingo; Stripped, 8/21 Shady Recruits, 8/22 Reckoning - Dead tribute, 8/23 The Motown Throwdown, 8/27 The Destinators, 8/28 Runaway Gin - Phish tribute, 8/29 Schema, 8/23 The Motown Throwdown. (843) 571-4343 or www.charlestonpourhouse.com

Editors Note: Events listed here may be subject to postponement or cancellation.

Please check for further information.

GALLERIES/ART Now - 8/29, The World Through My Brush, works

by Wyn Foland at the Beaufort Art Association Gallery, 913 Bay St. in downtown Beaufort. Reception on Fri 7/3 from 5 to 8 pm, light refreshments will be served. Also on display will be works by other local artists who are members of the Gallery. www.beaufortartassociation.com Now - 8/29, Jan Ross Watercolors at Art League Gallery on Hilton Head. Please check Art League's Facebook page (@ArtLeagueHiltonHead) for live events with the artist. Located mid-island inside Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, 14 Shelter Cove Lane, Hilton Head Island, 843-681-5060.

9/1 - 10/31, Seeking Solace, the work of artist Beth Tokey Williams and her poet daughter Hailey Morgan Williams will be featured at the Beaufort Art Association Gallery. This work was created during an Artist in Residence stint in the Dry Tortugas National Park. Opening reception Fri9/4 from 5-8pm at 913 Bay Street in Beaufort on Friday, September 4, from 5 to 8 pm.

Windjammer, 1008 Ocean Blvd, Isle of Palms.

Thursdays - Karaoke. 8/21 But Light Seltzer Acoustic Beach Series with Midnight City, 8/27 BLUFFTON/HILTON HEAD Sister Hazel's Lyrics for Life Charleston Harbor Sunset Dinner Cruise, 8/28-8/30 Sister Hazel .

Big Bamboo, Coligny Plaza. (843) 686-3443 or (843) 886-8596 or www.the-windjammer.com 9/3 - 11/2, 'Art Speaks' Exhibit at USCB Center for www.bigbamboocafe.com Saltus River Grill, 802 Bay St, Beaufort. (843) 379-3474 or www.saltusrivergrill.com

Logan LAW FIRM

Real Estate Closings • Titles • Deeds Impeccable Reputation • Reasonable Fees

Henri Ann Logan Attorney

email: henriann@loganlawfirm.com

www.loganlawfirm.com 806 Charles Street • Beaufort, SC 29901 • 843 524-0042

the Arts. www.uscbcenterforthearts.com

Wednesdays in August, Non-Objective Abstract Painting, an online course taught by Art Cornell focusing on composition, texture and points of focus in abstract painting. 9:30am-12:30pm. Sponsored by Art League of Hilton Head. www. artleaguehhi.org Thursdays in August, The Watercolor Method for Landscape & Still Life, an online course taught

by Alexandra Sharma focused on painting intuitively, simplifying a landscape, and examining the qualities of light, perspective and volume. 9:30am12:30pm. Sponsored by Art League of Hilton Head. www.artleaguehhi.org

WRITERS & BOOK EVENTS Sat 9/12, 4th Annual Lowcountry Book Club Convention sponsored by the Pat Conroy Literary Center. The event will be live-streamed from the SCETV Lowcountry Studio in Beaufort, and viewable on the Conroy Center's Facebook page. 10:30 am - 4 pm. Presenters include New York Times best-selling novelists Grady Hendrix (The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires) and Wiley Cash (The Last Ballad); actress, counselor, and author Ruthie Landis (Beyond the

Saturdays, 8/22, 9/12, 10/24 and 11/21, CPR Classes at The Wardle Family YMCA, located at 1801 Richmond Ave in Port Royal. 8am-12:00 pm. Cost is $35 for this YMCA certified course and those interested need to register at the Y as space is limited and filled on a first come, first serve basis. Questions? Contact Lou Bergen, Aquatics Director to register for this class. Call the Y: 843-522-9622 or visit: beaufort-jasperymca.org

Sat 9/5, Discovery Night at Coastal Discovery Museum. “Indigo Exploration” from 5-7 pm. Take a journey to the past and “meet” Eliza Lucas Pinckney. In 1739, when Eliza was just 17 years old, her experiments with indigo resulted in a very profitable industry for the colony of South Carolina. Hear her unique story, learn how indigo dye was made, and make your own indigo dye t-shirt to take home. This family friendly educational experience is fun for all ages. Cost is $15 per person and reservations are required by calling 843-6896767 ext. 223. The museum is located at 70 Honey Horn Drive on Hilton Head Island.

First & Third Tuesday, Beaufort Toastmasters Club meets from 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm in the Beaufort College Building, Rm. 103 (USC-Beaufort Campus), 801 Carteret Street, Beaufort. To learn more visit www.beauforttoastmastersclub.toastmastersclubs.org

First & Third Wednesday, FREE Acupuncture for Veterans – Veterans, Active Duty, Transition, Their Families and First Responders are Eligible) 4 6pm. Walk In Clinic. No Need to Pre-Register or Call. Nourishing Health Acupuncture and Herbs Clinic. 1214 Prince Street, Downtown Beaufort

Thursdays and some Tuesdays, Tours of the Historic Hunting Island Lighthouse sponsored by the Friends of Hunting Island. Keeper Ted and his team will tell you all about the history of the Lighthouse which was built in 1875 and is the only Lighthouse in South Carolina open to visitors. If you are at least 44 inches tall you may also climb the 167 steps to the top of the Lighthouse for a 360 degree view. Reservations are recommended by calling the Nature Center at 843-8387437. Tours are $2 a person and park entry fees apply.

Third Thursday, TECHconnect is a monthly networking event for professionals working in and around technology. Come and join on the for the conversation at BASEcamp 500 Carteret 5:30-7:30pm. 843-470-3506. www.beaufortdigital.com

Thursdays, History Tours of Fort Mitchel by the Heritage Library, 10am. $12/Adult $7/Child. 843-686-6560.

1st Saturday of Every Month, Maye River Quilters meeting at Palmetto Electric Cooperative, 1 Cooperative Way, Hardeeville. Members meet at 9:30am for social exchange. The meeting starts at 10 am. We welcome new members. Please call 843-707-6034.

4th Saturday of Every Month, While Fort Fremont is closed during the construction of an Interpretive Center, the Friends of Fort Fremont is presenting historical lectures at 10am at the St. Helena Library. The first lecture will be “Bringing History to Life, Fort Fremont Dioramas"

by Dennis Cannady, Master Modeler. For more information call the Library at 843-255-6487.

820 Bay Street • Beaufort, SC 29902

843.521.4200

$1,669,000

$269,900

$429,000

FRIPP ISLAND | MLS 164980

HABERSHAM | MLS 167458

CAT ISLAND | MLS 167490

$475,000

$899,000

$1,425,000

4BDRM | 4.5B | 2900sqft | Oceanfront Pat Dudley 843.986.3470

DATAW ISLAND | MLS 167401 3BDRM | 3B | 3083sqft Trudy Arthur 843.812.0967 Nancy Butler 843.384.5445

$489,000

3BDRM | 3B | 1660sqft Paige Walling 843.812.8470

BULL POINT | MLS 165755

4BDRM | 3.5B | 3357sqft | New Construction Amy McNeal 843.521.7932

$2,650,000

CAT ISLAND | MLS 162259

3BDRM | 3B | 1810sqft | New Construction Lloyd Williams 1.843.754.4735

3BDRM | 2B | 1600sqft Julia O’Hara 1.201.456.8620

PLEASANT POINT | MLS 163873

5BDRM | 4.5+B | Deep Water | Private Dock David Polk 843.321.0477 Laura Blencoe 843.321.1615

$332,500

$1,649,000

BURCKMYER BEACH | MLS 167520 6BDRM | 4B | Deep Water | Private Dock Edward Dukes 843.812.5000

$759,000

LANDS END | MLS 167123 5BDRM | 3B | 3030sqft | Waterfront Scott Sanders 843.263.1284

$470,000

HISTORIC DISTRICT | MLS 163167 DATAW ISLAND | MLS 162053 HAMPTON LAKE | MLS 166767 6BDRM | 6B | 4944sqft | Private Dock Edward Dukes 843.812.5000

3BDRM | 2B | 2470sqft Trudy Arthur 843.812.0967 Nancy Butler 843.384.5445

3BDRM | 3.5B | 2277sqft Donna Duncan 843.597.3464

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