cover notes
The watercolor painting gracing our cover is Bouillabaisse by Mary Whyte, from "We the People," her collection of veterans' portraits and book by the same name. The painting is of Army veteran Wendy from Birmingham, Alabama. See our story on page 7.
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An Affair to Remember RANTS & RAVES
It was a breezy October evening, not quite dark, when we arrived at our destination, a wide, welcoming porch looking out on a gold-tipped marsh.
Reader, we were there to socialize. There were only six of us – three couples – but there was no denying the festivity in the air, the merriment in the eyes, the open wine bottles, the heavenly smells wafting from the kitchen. This was a party! It almost felt naughty, like a scandal. We were busting loose, throwing caution to the Lowcountry wind, thumbing our noses at Covid. And it felt good.
Don’t get me wrong, reader. We were careful. There were elbow bumps instead of hugs, and as I said, the porch was expansive. We did our due distancing. But the gentle nip in the air, after months of oppressive heat . . . the presence of treasured friends, after months of social deprivation . . . These simple gifts, so long denied, gave our casual gathering a luster of decadence.
And then there were the guests of honor –my college English professor and his wife, visiting from Sewanee, TN. I hadn’t seen Dr. R since my 30th reunion, in 2017, when I marveled that the man hadn’t changed a bit since 1987. There is something in the brisk mountain air at Sewanee – or maybe it’s just the perpetual immersion in the liberal arts –that preserves its citizens in a state youthful wellbeing. It’s a shame most of us have to
leave that hallowed domain after four years and enter the withering world.
Our hosts were Sewanee folk, too, so we had ready-made conversation, but much to my husband’s relief, we didn’t stick to that script entirely. Sewanee people can converse on a whole range of subjects. It’s part of our charm.
In fact, I vividly remember Dr. R telling an auditorium full of new freshmen – and our parents – that a Sewanee education, among other things, would make us the most interesting guests at all the cocktail parties of our future.
(This was 1983. I have a feeling professors can’t say things like that at freshman orientation in 2020. More’s the pity. It was funny, and it calmed our nerves.)
If you’ve never had the chance to hang out with a favorite professor decades after graduation – as a full-fledged adult – let me tell you, it’s a blast! You can broach all the topics. Most of them, anyway. Wine helps.
Dr. R. put me immediately at ease, standing from his seat on the porch – that’s what gentlemen do when a lady arrives – and exclaiming, “Hello, Margaret! So good to see you again. I read your essay in the Lowcountry Weekly last night, and you get an A! You always were such a good writer.”
Between you and me, reader, I suspect Dr. R has no recollection of my college scribblings – I certainly don’t recall distinguishing myself back then – but I blushed at his gracious fib,
and blossomed like a flower under his praise of my recent column. The mere fact that he referred to it as an “essay” gave me a new lease on life.
We talked about all the news of the day, starting with the dreaded Covid 19 and how it’s affecting college life. Our host reported that Sewanee seems to be doing very well – it’s easier to maintain a protective bubble on an isolated mountaintop – but Dr. R worried about the students, especially the freshmen, who aren’t getting as much in-person time with their professors – or each other – as their happiness and personal growth require.
“That’s the whole point of going away to college,” he said, with all the passion of a true believer who’s made that “point” his life’s work. A true believer, myself, I shared my sorrow that my own daughter is currently missing out on the full experience at Clemson.
We discussed an essay by one of Dr. R’s colleagues – another of my former professors –that’s just been published in the Sewanee Review; it’s a searing piece describing the sexual harassment she suffered at the hands her grad school advisor many decades ago. This conversation led to talk of the MeToo Movement – its necessity, but also its potential casualties.
“I worry that we will lose that special thing between men and women,” I boldly offered. (Thanks, wine). “That ineffable thing we all enjoy. Flirtation . . . romance . . . seduction . . .
The man/woman dance.” Dr. R seemed to like that metaphor – “the dance” – and agreed that this would be a great loss. And I thanked my lucky stars – not for the first time – that none of my professors had ever stepped over the line, that my “dance partners” in college were always fellow students.
Undeterred by controversy – this porch felt like a very safe space – we discussed the racial reckoning afoot in our country. (As you might imagine, Sewanee, an institution also known as The University of the South – founded just after the Civil War by former Confederates –has its own reckoning to do, and has been deeply engaged in that work for years now.)
We discussed the terrible divisions in our nation, the importance of the upcoming election, our fears that violence might follow. We covered all these touchy subjects – and religion, too! – with perfect comity and nary a ruffled feather, reminding me that such conversation is possible and that social media is a sick distortion of reality.
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But mostly, we talked about happy things. Beautiful things. Dr. R’s wife was a theater major, and wanted to hear all about Lowcountry Shakespeare, my husband’s old company. Later, we shared our favorite Broadway musicals. We agreed that Hamilton really is “all that,” and Lin-Manual Miranda a genius. We wondered what would come of the movie industry, post-Covid . . . which led us to the subject of the Beaufort International Film Festival. Dr. R raved about an Ann Patchett essay in the latest issue of the New Yorker. I confessed I hadn’t subscribed to the New Yorker in decades but read the occasional piece online. Our host reminded us that Ann Patchett is married to a Sewanee grad, and we wondered about bringing her to Beaufort for a visiting writer’s event. Dr. R asked lots of great questions about the Pat Conroy Literary Center.
The conversation flowed like honey and the hours flew by, and, reader, your faithful correspondent was surfing a wave of bliss. At some point late in the night, Dr. R said to me, “I’m so delighted to see that time hasn’t wizened you.” It was a poetic thing to say – Dr. R is a professor of poetry, after all – and somehow I knew he wasn’t referring to my face. (Well, not just my face, anyway.) The compliment brought tears to my eyes. Because, reader, I have felt wizened lately – so very, very wizened –in these strange, dark days of isolation and unrest. But that night on the porch, among old friends, I knew these days wouldn’t last forever. That this, too, would pass.
Near the end of the party, as we were preparing to leave, Dr. R began quoting poetry. I don’t remember why, exactly, but I do remember the line he quoted, because it’s one I know by heart. “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas, is a poem I learned on a golden mountaintop in Tennessee, over 30 years ago, and have never stopped loving to this day.
“Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,” recited Dr. R, with playful drama, “Time held me green and dying, though I sang in my chains like the sea.”
Reader, may you soon find yourself, young and easy, on a happy porch with friends. We must all keep singing in our chains.
Margaret Evans is the editor of Lowcountry Weekly (www.lcweekly.com) and blogs at www.memargaret.com
Water, Water Everywhere
First-ever virtual Walk for Water brings more than a drop to those in need
Sarah Folzenlogen knows first-hand the struggle millions of people face every day just to get water for their families.
“I’ve been to Kenya on mission trips and seen how far people have to walk for water — and it’s not even clean water,” the Lady’s Island resident said a few days after participating in the Beaufort Walk for Water. “This walk really hits home how fortunate we are.”
Folzenlogen was one of nearly 400 people from across the county (and four other states) who “picked up the bucket” on a 3-mile trek the last two weekends in September as part of Beaufort Walk for Water’s first-ever virtual event. Participants joined one of 24 different teams or walked on their own in neighborhoods and parks in Beaufort, neighboring islands and Bluffton to raise awareness of the global water crisis.
Along the way, they raised more than $58,000 for Water Mission, a Charleston-based Christian engineering organization that builds safe water solutions in developing countries and disaster areas.
The camaraderie of sharing a singular mission with others was part of the appeal for Nena McSween of Lost Island, a veteran participant who walked this year with a small team in Beaufort’s historic district.
“It brings home what children go through day after day, what parents go through trying to get water for their families,” McSween said.
“There’s just a great sense of giving back to others, and it’s so easy for us to do.”
The pandemic-produced virtual approach was surprisingly successful, accord-
ing to walk committee chair Robert Lasher. “We weren’t sure what to expect, but the community rallied around the walk again this year,” he said.
The event attracted plenty of first-timers, too. Brent Jones of Synergy Cycling Studio in Habersham pulled together a team of more than 50 neighbors and customers in less than two weeks after he heard about the event.
“Being a fitness guy, I know the importance of hydration is huge — then think about needing water just to live,” Jones said. “We’re all about helping people live healthier, happier, higher-quality lives.
“The decision to participate was a slam dunk.”
For more information about Walk for Water or to donate, visit the Walk for Water site at bit.ly/Bftwalk20. Learn more about Water Mission at watermission.org.
The Emotion of a Moment
‘We
the People’ artist Mary Whyte will make virtual appearances at November festivals
By Holland Perryman
Mary Whyte is an internationally acclaimed watercolor artist who makes her home in the Lowcountry. Whyte is known for her detailed, hyper-realistic portraits and her unique ability to capture the emotion of a moment. In 2019, she unveiled a project that was years in the making: “We the People.” Her aim was to paint a vision of America through portraits of fifty veterans from fifty states. She captured these veterans in moments that surprise, empower, and expand the viewer’s understanding of our country. The exhibition now tours nationally and also takes the form of a book, also titled We the People. Whyte will soon visit us, albeit virtually, as part of our Pat Conroy Literary Festival and the Crescendo arts festival, on Thursday, November 5, at 6:30 p.m., in conversation with ETV Lowcountry’s Holly Jackson. To register for this free event, visit https://bit.ly/3lQbS6M or the Pat Conroy Literary Festival Facebook page, www.facebook.com/PatConroyFestival.
In an email interview, Whyte shared her experiences as an artist and as creator of “We the People,” her incredible tribute to our country and our veterans.
Holland Perryman: In your artist’s statement to “More than a Likeness,” you write, “I have always believed that as artists we don’t choose our vocation . . . Art chooses us.” When did art choose you? And what advice would you give to someone considering life as an artist?
Mary Whyte: I remember drawing as a very small child. It was something I just did— it didn’t seem unusual or special. Being an artist isn’t something that we decide to do, it’s something that we discover we were all along. But at some point we must decide, “How much am I going to commit to this gift I have been given?” The advice I would give to young artists is, decide how important creating art is to you, and how much you are willing to sacrifice to make it happen.
HP: Let’s talk about the origin of “We the People.” Why did you decide you wanted to paint veterans?
MW: The idea for the series came from a desire to paint an earnest, contemporary
portrait of our country. The first challenge I faced was how to select just one American from each state. I realized then that our truest Americans are our military veterans, and in them I would find the great diversity of people I was looking for.
Artist Mary Whyte
HP: Journeying across the country to find subjects from all over for this project is a huge endeavor. How did you meet your subjects?
MW: I began by making a list of the types of people I wanted to include. I wanted to incorporate all kinds of Americans, from an astronaut down to a homeless person, and everything in between, such as a tattoo artist, teacher, boxer, farmer, lobsterman and so on. Then I started searching the internet and making phone calls. I wanted to create enough diversity in the portraits so that everyone who sees the exhibition might feel recognized. There were, of course, many people along the way that I wish I could have included, or that I thought would be interesting to paint. I will have to save them for the next project. “We the People” took over seven years to get to all fifty states and to complete the paintings. I self-funded the project, traveled mostly by myself, and accomplished it almost entirely in secret.
HP: What did you learn about our country through the veterans’ stories? What do you hope it teaches us about lives of service?
MW: Traveling the United States for seven years showed me an amazingly beautiful country, rich in wildlife, natural resources, and gorgeous vistas. Talking with veterans and hearing their stories taught me a great deal about strength and perseverance, and that the ideals on which this country were founded are still worth fighting for. Each possessed an unwavering sense of honor and commitment to their community, family, and country. All of them touched my heart. Through the veterans I have learned that no matter what challenges we may face, to never, ever give up. Living a life of service, whether it is in the military or in our neighborhood, is the only way we can ensure the future of freedom, hope, and democracy in this country.
HP: How best can we honor the service and sacrifices of our veterans?
MW: Every veteran raised their hand in a pledge to our nation and risked their life for our freedoms. Theirs is an amazing sacrifice on the very face of it, and it wasn’t until I had finished the project before I realized that in many countries, I wouldn’t be able to do this— to be a woman traveling wherever I want on my own, and to paint what I choose, all with the expectation of a better life. For this, I have our military and veterans to thank. To all of them we owe our deepest gratitude and a sincere commitment that their sacrifice was not in vain.
HP: Some artists say that watercolor is the most difficult medium, and yet you create pieces that look as detailed as photographs. How do you create such detailed and realistic pieces? How do you convey your subjects’ emotions so effectively?
MW: Most artists would agree that watercolor is challenging, especially because it is the only medium that relies strictly on timing. Color gradation, textures, hard and soft edges—all must be timed perfectly in the brushwork in order to achieve the desired effect. It takes years of practice to gain proficiency as well as a technical vocabulary. Conveying the deep emotion of the model in the painting is something entirely different. It starts with observation and ends with the heart.
HP: We are grateful that you will be part of our Pat Conroy Literary Festival and Cre-
scendo. What does it mean to you to be a part of the festival established in Mr. Conroy’s honor?
MW: I have always admired the writing of Pat Conroy, and I have read most of his books. I was fortunate to have met him, and I adored his raw humor. His work represents the very essence of Southern literature, and to have a festival established in his honor seems only fitting. I would like to think he would approve of “We the People,” as the son of a Marine fighter pilot and a chronicler of the human spirit.
HP: In “We the People,” you painted individual portraits only, no groups or scenes. Why do our individual stories matter?
MW: I am aware that when people view my work that they probably won't recognize the person in the painting. But my hope is that they will recognize the emotion. It’s the one thing we all have in common, the universal thread that connects us one to another. When people talk about the veteran paintings, they generally don’t mention what the individual in the painting was wearing, or what he or she was depicted doing. They talk about the emotion of the painting, and how it connects to something significant in their own lives.
Holland Perryman is a junior at Beaufort High School and an intern at the Pat Conroy Literary Center.
The Little Ones
Have you ever considered that the lack of meditation means you’re likely to miss out on life’s everyday miracles? Even worse, you may not believe in daily miracles at all. Miracles aren’t always Hollywood epic. More than likely, if you’re looking for Hollywood epic every day, you’re going to be epically G.O.T. (Game of Thrones) disappointed. For those that didn’t go down the G.O.T. rabbit hole, it was a long (epic, remember), sometimes wonderful, sometimes horrifically compelling, always enthralling ride that skidded to a sudden, unsatisfying halt with blue-faced, angry fans that did NOT have a ball.
What follows is a little compilation of items I consider to be every day miracles. I’ll call them the “Little Ones.” After all, it’s the little things that count. If the devil is in the details that’s the devil I want to know.
There is peace in simple tasks. I find a great deal of peace in blowing off my driveway. I know it’s loud, but hear me out. It’s the one place the outside world isn’t able to reach me. It’s satisfying to observe something so simple, make the property look that much better. I hum to myself along with the thrum of the backpack blower beaming through my chest. Not to mention the fact that the blower often accompanies the smell of freshly cut grass. This releases something inside me, allowing me to have a transpersonal moment of higher perspective. Wow, never thought of it that way until I had to write it just then, but it’s a truth for me.
The realization that just because you think something is so, does not (insert Captain Picard voice) make it so. I get that we can all accept this “simple” truth on a mental level, but I mean the “hair raising, aha” realization that there can be, and often is, other truth(s) to
any situation. This is a “little one” that is truly a gem. What will it force you to acknowledge in yourself and in others?
Or how ‘bout when you’re having a frustrating time and a friend steps in to help you finish putting together your daughter’s bed? I’m telling you, the entire second floor our house was in disarray because of that bed not fitting together. We three Suddeths were getting a little crabby about it. Later on, that same day, another friend made me laugh without knowing how much it lightened my mood. (The signs look pro-style, bud.)
The full moon has been hanging on during this second week of October, no doubt. That said, I’m grateful for the “little ones” that will emerge in the wake of the new moon.
Speaking of little ones not so little anymore, our daughter got into the National Honor Society on the same day the aforementioned bed came together. Two miracles can be found here: 1) On a frustrating day, something uplifting may have been missed if I didn’t slow down to appreciate it. If I didn’t stop right then to take stock, even for the briefest of moments, who knows? How much do we miss by becoming a slave to the emotion? 2) I’m grateful for having a daughter with the motivation to do such things as become a member of the National Honor Society.
How many incremental improvements go unnoticed because they’re incremental? Does that make them less than? I don’t think so. In each activity you engage in daily, even if said activity is rest, work with integrity and see if you don’t agree.
I feel there’s a whole world of little miracles in things left unsaid. Some moments speak for themselves. They need no commentary. Verne Lundquist only said, “Yes Sir!” at the ’86 Masters when Jack Nicklaus won his 6th Green Jacket. Grace, like the silence of freshly fallen snow, comes in not hurling a comment so incisive that it cuts too deeply. I think I’m safe in saying that such restraint gives one’s words added weight and veracity when the timing is Divine. The “little ones” that it takes to build such character add up.
Consider “little ones” such as just removing qualifying words like “just” from your written and spoken language. Go back and rewrite the previous sentence in your mind to see what I mean. It’s one little word, but its assertive impact will be felt.
by Sutty Suddeth
Allow me to posit for you the beautiful little miracles that come with pain. Childbirth is certainly up there with unanswered prayers and mourning a friend, dead or otherwise. Birth, death, and rebirth happen daily.
Did you know that one doesn’t burst into flames for not cleaning one’s plate? We can expand the previous sentence by making “plate” into a metaphor. The Clean Plate Society’s gluttonous truth is multifaceted and complicated. It is worth spending a little time each day pondering. See if you don’t agree. I also feel to my core it’s important to not always consume everything because we can or feel we should. It’s fine to leave a little meat on the bone or tip your gambling provider after a win. For entertainment purposes only, of course.
It’s becoming aware of “little ones” that are so pervasive in your heart and your mind that you choke on them like pine pollen in the South. These self-defeating thoughts pose as truths to be hurled willy-nilly at your soft underbelly with the precision of a ninja with a stiletto. Tell me a little misplaced guilt isn’t a big bully and I’ll tell you to go reconsider your life.
Endeavor to discover that forgiveness is another way to love yourself. This “little one” leads to the mind-blower that one can BE love rather than DO love. Love will NOT demand you be one way every day. Being an instrument of love is satisfaction in all its glory. In closing, allow me to get all rose-quartzy. Ignoring the small things can lead to cynicism. Let’s call cynicism life’s splinter. Splinters are super small, but you can hardly think of anything else if you have one. Be aware that cynicism is a commodity in an election year. A year unlike any other we’ve ever seen. Cynicism does tend to cloud one’s vision. It makes it hard to see the little things in life. Chris (Sutty) Suddeth was born in Greenville and has lived his whole life in South Carolina. A
USCB Chamber Music Returns, Live & Live Streamed
By Michael Johns
In the midst of the pandemic, many performing organizations are presenting live musicians virtually; on November 1 at five, USCB Chamber Music will present them live for a limited audience of subscribers who are comfortable attending and by live streaming and by video for patrons who prefer the safety of watching and listening at home. Seating in the Center for the Arts will be reduced, but not eliminated, to comply with physical distancing and CDC guidelines. Fueled by the ingredient that performers and listeners have been denied due to Covid—the warmth and sustenance of human interaction—the artists, with relief and joy, will once again create their life-affirming communication with all who love chamber music.
Three unique works will grace the concert. The first is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Duo in G Major, K. 423, arranged for violin and cello. It is an excellent example of Classical style and a perfect antidote for hectic times: balanced formal proportions, tuneful melodies, pleasing—not clashing—variety, elegant style, carefully chosen and sophisticated conversation. The American original, Charles Ives (1874-1954), will be represented with Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano (written between 1904-16). Ives is generally acknowledged as the greatest American composer from the country's founding into the 1920s. He was a unique blend of old-time values and modernist aspirations. Brought up to revere home, church, and country in small-town New England while listening to hymns, bands, organ
recitals, and patriotic tunes, he took those values with him to Yale, where he fully engaged in sports, fraternity life, and musical activities. All of these influences found their way into his music. No starving artist, Ives became a financially successful insurance-industry leader and was free to write music to his own specifications. The second movement, titled “TSIAJ” (This scherzo is a joke), is a particularly good example of his capacity to conceive and implement the technique of musical sampling (70 years before this procedure was 'discovered' by hip-hop). He combined and overlapped fragments of American folk melodies, hymns, fraternity ditties, and campus songs, creating a vibrant texture in which all tunes have equal billing.
The concert concludes with Johannes Brahms' Piano Trio in b minor, Op 8. This is his only work existing in two published versions. The earlier version was written when he was 20; the revision, written in his fifties, is the more frequently performed and will be played at this concert. Although substantial, the second version is one third shorter than the first with youthful ramblings excised and newly-composed music added. The exuberance and intellectual invention of youth, leavened with the wisdom of maturity, combine to create an accessible and deeply satisfying work.
The three performers, familiar collaborators on this series, share a love for playing chamber music. Not unlike the Brahms Op. 8 Trio, they combine youthful energy with decades of musical insight. Award-winning violinist Aaron Boyd is the Director of Chamber Music and Professor of Violin at the Southern Methodist University Meadows School of the Arts. Boyd enjoys an international career as soloist, chamber musician, orchestral leader, recording artist, lecturer and teacher. Since making his New York recital debut in 1998, he has given concerts throughout the United States, Europe, Russia and Asia. Pianist Andrew Armstrong has been praised by critics for his passionate expression and dazzling technique in concerts across Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the United States, which have included an enormous repertoire of more than 50 concertos with orchestra, solo recitals, and chamber music of all types. Cellist, Artistic Director, and Host Edward Arron is an artist of intense expression, a brilliant and highly respected chamber music collaborator, and a sought-after teacher.
Support the arts and experience the beautiful, dramatic, and regenerative power of chamber music. Specifically, during these unstable times, support your local Lowcountry arts and the talented artists who require stages opened and audiences engaged in order to work. USCB Chamber Music is fully supporting the artists and offering the series at reduced rates to sustain the concerts during these challenging times. There will be limited, first come-first serve seating for subscribers. A professionally recorded live stream and a video will also be available for chamber music lovers around the world.
Complete season information and tickets, as well as information about the newly
launched Endowment, are available at the new USCB Chamber Music website, www.uscbchambermusic.com or at 843-208-8246, Monday through Friday. The concert will be held at the USCB Center for the Arts, 801 Carteret Street, on Sunday, November 1, at 5:00 pm. Celebrate and savor the beauty of chamber music!
Pianist Andrew Armstrong
Violinist Aaron Boyd
Conroy Center Hosts Two Free Virtual Author Visits
The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host two free virtual author visits this month. In collaboration with First Presbyterian Church of Hilton Head Island, on Wednesday, October 21, at 6:30 p.m, the Conroy Center will host journalist Wanda Smalls Lloyd, author of Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism. Lloyd’s memoir chronicles her story as an African American woman who grew up privileged and educated in the segregated South before and during the Civil Rights Movement and became one of the nation’s highest-ranking newspaper journalists and among the first African American women to be the top editor of a major newspaper.
please email info@fpchhi.org, with Coming Full Circle in the subject line.
An Evening with Wanda Smalls Lloyd will be presented on Zoom, hosted by First Presbyterian Church. To register for the free event,
Lloyd served as an editor at the Washington Post and a senior editor at USA Today before returning to the South as the executive editor of the Montgomery Advertiser. Her empowering memoir maps the intersection of race, gender, and culture in professional journalism—and also serves as an inspiring story for aspiring journalists, writers, and storytellers, like those she now mentors as an educator in her native Savannah.
Not Afraid But Not Naive
On Tuesday, October 27, at 6:00 p.m., the Conroy Center will host a free online reading with award-winning poet Tony Ray Morris, author of the newly published debut novel Deep River Blues. In praise, Longmire author Craig Johnson said, "With the perception of a poet and the knack of a novelist, Morris joins the ranks of some of the finest crime fiction writers. In turn part James Lee Burke, Tennessee Williams, and William Faulkner, Deep River Blues will pull you under and have you gasping for breath." Associate editor of Southern Poetry Review and director of the Ossabaw Island Writers’ Retreat, Morris teaches in the writing program at Georgia Southern University.
An Evening with Tony Ray Morris will be presented on Zoom and livestreamed on the Conroy Center’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/patconroyliterarycenter. You can also register to attend via Zoom through the Center’s Facebook events page or at https:// bit.ly/34x0jd6.
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lives. He gave evidence of this again and again as he came in contact with others.
I’ve been hearing the same voices many others in society have been listening to – media, government officials, friends. And the focus is pretty constantly the same: coronavirus. A lot of people have learned a new word, and too many of them are afraid of it. But recently a little phrase has been surfacing in my thought. It’s this: Christ is voicing good, right within consciousness. What an incredible contrast to all the bad stuff I was taking in. It’s clear to me that the source of that more hopeful thought is Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, where she writes, “Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness” (p. 332) Now these words weren’t telling me to ignore the difficult things going on in society. But they were assuring me that there was something more going on than all the discussion about contagion. The Christ is the Godlike nature of Jesus that he lived so fully and successfully in his human life. Jesus promised that this Christ always has existed and always will. It speaks to us of God’s goodness and all-power, and of man’s immortal, indestructible nature. And Jesus’ life proved that this “good” voiced by the Christ has a healing and calming influence in our
Over a lifetime I’ve seen a wonderful consistency in what Jesus taught. I’ve seen evidence that the Christ can bring a spiritual poise that literally changes our experiences. Changes them in a way that may be unexplainable to the material senses, but is quite understandable to our more spiritual sense.
On a number of occasions, I’ve seen times when everyone expected contagion to take a particular course, and it didn’t work out that way at all. And I’ve experienced times when a kind of mental contagion was stopped in its tracks. Once when a doctor had set some bones after an accident, he explained a number of drugs I needed to take in order to protect myself from potential harm. He described one drug intended to deal with a condition that he said could be fatal. While I certainly wasn’t naive about his warning, my preference was to protect myself with what I had learned about the healing Christ over the years. But his warning remained a little like a contagion from his thought to my thought.
Not too many days later the very condition he had told me about developed. I did something I wasn’t accustomed to doing, and
which wasn’t helpful. I looked up the condition in a medical publication. Sure enough, the word “fatal” was prominent in the description. At first, fear tried to take over. But I began to discern the Christ I had come to trust “voicing good,” and soon I felt a spiritual peace and confidence. And within a few days the condition disappeared as I prayed specifically about it.
This voicing of good is a promise to every individual on this planet. In fact, Science and Health also affirms that the Christ is “a divine influence ever present in human consciousness” (p. xi). No one is without access to this healing influence. As we open our hearts to its messages, we recognize that it’s the true and only influence, bringing a calm that changes the course of human discord.
You don’t need to know a lot about the Christ to open your thought to its divine presence and discern the good it is voicing. In fact, when surrounding voices are making their views too prominent in your consciousness, take a moment and acknowledge that Christ is voicing good, and listen for its message right within your mind, assuring you of your safety in God.
– By Nathan Talbot
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Novelist Julie Cantrell Selected for Conroy Center Residency
New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist and TEDx speaker Julie Cantrell has been selected as the recipient of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center’s fall writer’s residency. The eight-day residency is made possible by the generous support of a lowcountry benefactor and will overlap with the 5th annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival. As part of her residency experience, Cantrell will also attend several online writers workshops and serve as the featured writer for the festival’s Open Mic Night, livestreamed on the festival’s Facebook page on Saturday, November 7, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.: www. facebook.com/PatConroyFestival
Cantrell is the author of the novels Perennials, Into the Free, When Mountains Move, and The Feathered Bone, and, with Allen Cheney, co-author of the nonfiction book Crescendo. She also served as editor-in-chief of the Southern Literary Review and has received the Mississippi Arts Commission Literary
Arts Fellowship as well as the Rivendell Writer’s Colony Mary Elizabeth Nelson Fellowship. Cantrell is an adjunct writing professor at Drexel University, a certified speech-language pathologist, and a naturalist who loves to explore the many wonders of this world. She lives and writes in Houston, Texas.
During her residency, Cantrell will be working on a new manuscript for a Lowcountry-based novel, a sample of which thoroughly impressed the Center’s selection committee. The Conroy Center’s first residency, offered in March 2020 and conjoined to the Center’s annual March Forth event, was awarded to David Kiser of Anderson, South Carolina.
Charles Street Gallery & frame shop presents
Julie Cantrell
Masked, Hiding Behind Plain Sight
Paintings and Sculptures by Judy Blahut at Art League Gallery
Masked, Hiding Behind Plain Sight, an exhibit of artwork by Judy Blahut, will be on view at Art League Gallery November 3-28. Blahut’s work, reminiscent of kaleidoscopic images, is largely abstract and inspired by nature. This collection of acrylic paintings, charcoal drawings and sculptures aims to explore the space between the observable and the hidden in the form of an object. Blahut deconstructs natural objects such as plants and shells and reassembles them in a new way, thereby creating a new relationship between the object and the viewer. “It’s an exploration of life interrupted yet forever connected,” she says.
Blahut’s background is in education, yet painting has always been her passion. “My paintings are an extension of my emotional and physical life. They are the most authentic part of me . . . They are the expression of the inner emotional places that I pass through daily. The painting’s method is interrupted and fractured in order to illustrate the fragility of what we experience and hold as our truth, masked or obvious.”
An opening reception will be held Wednesday, November 4, 5-7pm. Blahut will lead a gallery walk on Wednesday, November 11 at 11am, and hold a demo of her work on Wednesday, November 25 at 11am. Please RSVP to gallery@artleaguehhi.org in order to attend any of these events as spots are limited to facilitate social distancing.
Art League Gallery is dedicated to providing as safe an environment as possible. To that end, Art League is following all CDC and Town of Hilton Head guidelines, including mandatory masks for patrons and all employees, contactless and cashless service, frequent sanitization of
the gallery, and a limit of 10 visitors in the gallery at any one time except during special events.
Art League Gallery is located mid-island inside Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, 14 Shelter Cove Lane, Hilton Head Island, 843-681-5060.
Mystic Osprey
Beaufort’s Mystic Osprey Gallery in Habersham Marketplace will showcase new works from Artists Pamela Corwin and Mark S. Holland, Friday October 23, 4-7 pm.
Mystic Osprey has made a name for itself in the South Carolina Arts scene with its single-minded curation and focus on fine artists who use their talents to showcase nature, wildlife, and our earth’s precious habitat.
Artist Pamela Corwin is a wildlife and fisheries biologist here in South Carolina focusing on American shad and striped bass. The only art courses Pam ever took were in high school. Most of Pam’s work is wildlife and outdoors related and as her artistic voice developed Pam became known in the biology community as the “Artistic Biologist.”
After college, Pam obtained her first real job with SCDNR as a fisheries technician and she joined the South Carolina Army National Guard where her main job the last two years was suicide prevention.
As Corwin states, “The only way we can help is to talk about it. I believe by talking, we’re breaking that stigma and taboo. It’s deep, tough, and emotional, but silence is a killer.”
She had her fair share of Army life but some of her sisters and brothers in arms had way more than their fair share in the crossfire. They were coming back with PTSD; some were missing legs and arms.
After many years with no art in her life, Pamela volunteered at a veteran’s shelter in Charleston, S.C., where she picked up some art supplies and started having art therapy with
Medallion, above; Two Moons, below; Smokin’ Rose, left
Osprey Hosts Fall Opening
these veterans. Pam did not really draw or paint; she was there for support. She was there to show them, and eventually herself, that art is a form of therapy that speaks without words. After graduate school for Avian Ecology at The Citadel, Pam decided to paint a brown trout as a birthday card. She said, “The brush strokes felt as if they had never left.” Once the trout was finished, she gave it to her husband, and he showed it to someone at DNR headquarters, the ideas started brewing. DNR was
coming up with a program for anglers that catch trophy fish.
This was called the Trophy Angler Program and the certificates were to have fish artwork painted by Corwin. So, she started painting fish. Then, projects for S.C. Wildlife Magazine followed.
Be sure to stop by the gallery to see the Great White Shark made with 300 fossilized shark teeth found here in the Lowcountry.
The second artist to meet at Osprey on Oct. 23 is Mark S. Holland. Holland’s oils of woodland & wetlands scenes on wood panels look as if John Audubon had a long afternoon tipple with Lewis Carroll.
Fanciful and playful, his painted panels of nature’s flora and fauna remind you of a childhood memory spent barefoot in nature in the most dreamlike outdoor setting with nature’s creatures unseen, yet right in front of you. As Holland says of his own work, “There is no hidden meaning in my work.
Nothing for the viewer to figure out. I am sharing what we all need. It is our shared attachment to this planet and the living things in it . . . I make my work not only for myself but for all so that together we can celebrate Nature and our existence in it.”
“I’ve always been an artist who observes culture and nature, particularly the hidden things not readily seen in a glance. It is my mission to take the unseen and make it seen.”
Holland’s work is part of the Kessler Collection at the Grand Bohemian Galleries in Asheville, NC; Charleston, SC and Orlando, Fla; and exhibited at Beaver Lake Lodge, Beaver Lake, CO and a featured artist at 2020 SEWE in Charleston, SC.
Osprey with Shad by Pamela Corwin
“As artists, Mark and Pam are exactly what Mystic Osprey is all about. This is collectible (and affordable) art that brings the outdoors into your home decor beautifully. Every time someone looks at these works, they will see something new in nature, and hopefully that looking for something extra will carry forward in the way in which that person appreciates our planet on which we live, and the creatures we should be celebrating & sustaining for our children, and their grand-children,” said Robert Howell, the gallerist behind Mystic Osprey Gallery.
Mystic Osprey’s Fine Artists are represented in other geographic areas by worldclass galleries and have their work in private collections around the world. You can reach Osprey’s website to shop online, or set up a private appointment at MysticOsprey. com. The gallery reopens for Fall on October 16th, and to keep its patrons safe, CDC recommendations for social distancing and masks will be followed. Masks will be provided for guests who do not have them.
Habersham Marketplace offers restaurants, retail shops, and wellness services all within
walking distance. When you plan your visit to Mystic Osprey Gallery, please allow enough time to wander the one-mile Habersham Discovery Trail and find eleven beautiful, community-painted birdhouses for wren, kestrel, owl, and wood ducks and enjoy the Habersham marketplace and community. Marketplace.HabershamSC.com.
Red w Crab by Pamela Corwin
Sandpipers by Mark Holland
Raccoon with Red Winged Blackbird by Mark S. Holland
What Is American Food?
When I was sixteen years old, on the “edge of seventeen,” (Stevie Nicks fans will know what I'm talking about) my high school boyfriend turned eighteen, on November 4th, election day 1980. I went with him to the Post Office to register for Selective Service and then stood in line with him for several hours so that he could cast his first vote for the President of the United States. While Spence was in the voting booth, I waited patiently in my smart wool blazer, wool skirt and high heels feeling so proud to be there with my fellow Americans and looking forward to the time when I would be 18 and old enough to cast own ballot.
Many presidential elections later, and I haven't missed a single one, I still feel the reverence and the responsibility of choosing the best candidate and casting my vote. Voting is both an obligation and a privilege and I'm grateful for our forefathers and foremothers who fought so hard to give that right to me.
Somehow, in all of the upcoming election discussion, the question of American food came up. I suppose we all consider hot dogs, apple pie and pizza American food staples. Intrigued, I started researching some of the cuisine that my colonist ancestors served. With the help of some old cookbooks, I recreated a few recipes that I felt truly represented American food back when America was in her infancy. One thing is for certain. American food is meant to be shared. Lowcountry Weekly Publisher and Editor, Jeff and Margaret Evans joined Vince and me for an old-style American dinner a couple of weeks ago. Jeff even baked dessert. Please be sure to vote on Tuesday, November 3rd. God Bless America.
CRABMEAT AND ARTICHOKE DIP
1 lb. jar of artichoke hearts, drained (about 24 )
½ small onion chopped (about 2 tablespoons)
1 tablespoon diced pimentos, drained
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
¼ cup mayonnaise
¼ grated parmesan cheese, plus 1 tablespoon to garnish
1 tablespoon dry sherry
¼ teaspoon garlic salt
8 ounces lump crab meat
Paprika, to garnish
In a medium bowl, mix artichoke hearts with onion, pimentos, cream cheese, mayonnaise, ¼ cup parmesan cheese, dry sherry and garlic salt. Mix well to combine. Fold in crab meat. Turn into a lightly greased baking dish. Sprinkle with remaining parmesan cheese. Garnish with paprika. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 20 minutes or until dip is heated through. Serve with cocktail crackers. Serves 6 to 8.
¼ teaspoon salt
HUGE POPOVERS WITH HERBED BUTTER
For the butter:
1 stick salted butter, at room temperature
1 tablespoon chopped fresh Italian parsley
¼ tsp. chopped chives
¼ tsp. dried tarragon
For the popovers:
1 cup whole milk, at room temperature
1 cup all-purpose flour
3 large eggs, room temp
2 tablespoons cold butter
Place softened butter in a medium bowl. Add parsley, chives and tarragon; stir well to mix. Put herbed butter in a small bowl, cover and chill until ready to serve. Before serving, remove from refrigerator for 30 minutes to soften. To make the popovers: place milk, flour, eggs and salt in a blender. It's important that the eggs and milk are not cold. If needed, warm the milk for about 30 seconds in the microwave. Blend all ingredients until the batter is very smooth. Let the batter rest for 15 to 20 minutes. Place oven rack in the center of oven. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Spray popover pan with cooking spray. Place popover pan on a baking sheet. Place 1 teaspoon of cold butter in each cup of the popover pan. Place pan on baking sheet in hot oven for 1 to 2 minutes, just long enough to melt the butter. Do not stir the batter. Evenly divide the batter into the prepared pan. Each cup should be filled approximately halfway. Bake for 20 minutes until puffed and golden brown. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and continue baking for 10 more minutes until crispy. Do not open the oven door during baking. Serve warm with herbed butter. Serves 6.
By Debbi Covington
soup and onion soup mix in a large crock pot on high heat. Cover and cook for 5 hours. Add carrots, mushrooms and bok choy and cook for an additional 75 minutes. Turn heat down to low until ready to serve. Serves 6 to 8.
CROCK POT
LONDON BROIL WITH VEGETABLES
1 (3-lb.) top round London broil
1 (10.5-oz.) can cream of mushroom soup
1 (1-oz.) package onion soup mix
20 baby carrots
8 ounces baby portobello mushrooms, halved
1 head bok choy, cut into bite-sized pieces
Place London broil, cream of mushroom
CHIVE AND HORSERADISH MASHED POTATOES
3 pounds red potatoes
½ cup butter
1 tablespoon prepared horseradish
2 teaspoons salt
½ teaspoon pepper
1 cup sour cream
1¼ cup heavy cream
¼ cup chopped fresh chives
In a saucepan, bring potatoes to a boil in enough water to cover. Lower heat to a simmer and cook until tender, about 15 to 20 minutes. Drain. Place potatoes, butter, horseradish, salt and pepper in a bowl. Mash until potatoes are softened and butter in incorporated. Stir in sour cream, cream and chives. Taste for sea-
soning. Place in a lightly greased baking dish and heat in preheated 350 degree oven for 15 minutes just before serving. Serves 4 to 6.
PUBLISHER'S PEACH PIE
Recipe courtesy of Jeff Evans.
For the crust:
2½ cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. white sugar or 1 tbsp. powdered sugar
1 tablespoon salt
1 cup Crisco or ½ cup Crisco and 1 stick cold unsalted butter broken into small pieces
1/3 cup plus 1 tbsp. ice water
For the filling:
2½ pounds of peaches, about 6 peaches, skinned, pitted, halved and cut into slices
¾ cup sugar
disk. Wrap each disk in plastic and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes or up to 2 days. (May be frozen for up to 6 months.) Preheat oven to 425 degrees and position rack in the lower third of oven. Remove the disks of dough from the refrigerator and roll one out to about ¼ inch thick and fit it into a 9-inch pie dish. Return to refrigerator. Mix together peaches, sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice, almond extract and salt. Set aside for 15 minutes. Roll out second disk of dough for the top crust of the pie. Remove pie pan from refrigerator and fill with peach mixture. Cut 2 to 3 tablespoons of butter into small pieces and put on top of peach mixture. Cover pie with top crust or lattice then crimp the edges and trim off the excess. Cut vents in the crust if not using a
4 tablespoons cornstarch
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
¼ teaspoon almond extract
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 to 3 tablespoons butter
Milk or cream
2 teaspoons sugar
Whisk dry ingredients together. Cut fat into flour mixture using 2 knives or pastry blender until it has peas sized pieces mixed with course crumbs. Drizzle ice water over flour. Softly blend dough together until mixture forms a rough looking dough. Halve the dough and form each half into a thick round
lattice top and then brush the top with milk or cream and sprinkle with sugar. Bake pie for 25 minutes. Lower temperature to 350 degrees, place cookie sheet under pie and continue baking for another 30 minutes. Let cool completely before cutting. Serves 6 to 8. The writer owns Catering by Debbi Covington and is the author of three cookbooks, Celebrate Beaufort, Celebrate Everything! and Dining Under the Carolina Moon. Debbi’s website address is www.cateringbydebbicovington.com. She may be reached at 525-0350 or by email at dbc@cateringbydebbicovington.com.
A Willow Point Story
From Chapter 28: Beaufort, South Carolina
“This is a work of fiction, However, with a single exception (and as outrageous as some of them may sound) all the incidents described here really happened” . . . Thus begins the Author’s Note introducing The Chronicles of Willow Point, a new novel by Beaufort’s E.T. “Tommy” Baysden. The following is an excerpt from that novel.
The white supremacist organization known as the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was founded in Pulaski Tennessee in 1866 by former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest had grown wealthy as a slave trader before the war and organized and funded his own cavalry regiment of volunteers. He was among the most enigmatic characters of the Civil War, known both for brutal cruelty (his forces had
executed dozens of unarmed black prisoners at Fort Pillow) and for remarkable feats of heroism and courage. The Klan had disappeared and reemerged at least three times in the first half of the twentieth century, but its mission had remained basically the same: opposition (often violent) to minorities and immigrants. Even Catholics were targeted for a time.
was a job he had essentially created, and if the merchants didn’t pay him (and some did) they took care of him in dozens of other ways.
But Tootie’s primary occupation was leading parades. Whether for the annual Christmas pageant or the Water Festival each summer, Tootie was always out front, dressed in white shirt and trousers and a captain’s hat, carrying a little baton with which he kept time like a drum major. When Tootie was no longer able to walk the parade route, the town created a special little float for him to ride in and lead the parade. On it was a sign that read “Tootie Fruity – A Beaufort Icon!”
SHORES PROPERTY
As Mack and Billy were having the house special hamburger steaks at Harry’s Café on Bay Street, Klan members were gathering outside in preparation for their march from Carteret to Charles and up to the post office, where speeches would be made. Seeing a parade forming, Wilson Lane Bourke wandered over to join in. Known to all as Tootie Fruity, a name he apparently gave himself, he was a muchloved institution in the little town. A slightly feeble-minded black man of indeterminate age, he could be seen almost any morning sweeping the sidewalk in front of the shops along the main street. This
But Tootie was in fine walking form as the KKK prepared to march that day, their robes and hoods hiding their identities and giving the whole group an aura of menace and fear.
And then, as soon as the march began, there was Tootie, right out front, leading the whole group down the street. The Klansmen looked at each other in total confusion and stunned disbelief. “What the hell?!” one could almost hear them saying beneath their hoods. And so the Klan indeed marched down Bay Street that day, led by a feeble-minded black man, waving his arms.
Trent, always wearing them Wolverine boots . . . there goes Mike Ransom, brown tassel loafers . . . Melvin Goodman, suede Hushpuppies . . . Johnny Tyler and them old black wingtips. When he comes in I have to fix his shoes while he waits, ‘cause they’re the only pair he’s got!” Driving back to Willow Point late in the day, Mack wondered where all of this was heading. Black people had been a part of his life for so long he just couldn’t see the situation at a distance. The challenge for him – just as it had been for the Captain – was to avoid thinking of them, and treating them, like children. But since many of them had been seemingly happy with this for decades, a change of attitudes would be needed for black and white alike. We could all learn something from the people on St. Helena, he thought.
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But that was not the only incongruent event at the parade that day. Henry Soden, proprietor of Henry’s Shoe Repair and the town’s only cobbler, was watching the march go by at the corner of Scott Street and Bay. As was his wont, he had already had a few drinks that day. And since he worked on the shoes of almost everyone in Beaufort, he had no problem identifying, for all to hear, almost every robed figure that went by. “There’s Frank
E.T. Baysden has spent the last half century in the SC Lowcountry. He was chief marketing officer for Sea Pines Resort, Callawassie Island, Spring Island, Oldfield Club, and Palmetto Bluff. He is also the author of The Rock Jaw Ladies Club: A Memoir of the Other Vietnam. He's a fly fisherman, Episcopalian, and Tar Heels fan. For more information visit www. baysdenbooks.com
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Southern Living Showcase Home in Habersham
Allen Patterson Builders, Habersham Land Company, and K. Lo Designs announce the completion and opening of a 2020 Southern Living Showcase Home. This new house plan is named “The Loudon,” and is being built with innovative quality, functionality, and an elevated interior design featuring the iconic colors and textures of the Lowcountry. The home is located at 10 N. Loudon in the Southern Living Inspired coastal community of Habersham just minutes from historic Beaufort, South Carolina. Tickets are $10 each and will go on sale at SouthernLivingShowcase.com Oct. 1, 2020. Tours will be from 10am-5pm Wednesday-Sunday from Nov 4 – Dec 27 (excluding Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays). A portion of all ticket sales go to benefit local non-profit Friends of Caroline Hospice (www.focHospice.org).
exquisite millwork give this Lowcountry cottage the perfect blend of luxury with all the comforts of home.
The fully furnished and professionally decorated Showcase Home features products from national and regional partners such as James Hardie, GE Profile, Sherwin Williams, Carolina Lanterns, Marvin Windows & Doors, and many more. This Showcase Home is idyllic in size and layout. Authentic pine wood floors throughout, quartz countertops and custom cabinetry in the kitchen and baths, and
and founder, Allen Patterson. “Anytime we build a home, it is always a team project. From blueprints through to completion, top-notch partners make all the difference and we are thrilled with the team we have assembled for this Showcase Home.”
For more information about the partners and touring “The Loudon,” please Visit SouthernLivingShowcase.com for tickets and further detail. The Home will be open for general tours for the month of November and reopen fully decorated for the Holidays beginning Dec 2, 2020. Social distancing protocol will be observed for all tours.
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Plants for Pollinators
Who are the Pollinators? Insects, including bees, beetles, wasps, flies, moths, and butterflies are most commonly thought of as pollinators. Hummingbirds and bats are also important in pollination services. We should not underestimate their importance when 90% of the plant species on earth depend on pollination.
Nectar is food for adults. It gives energy for flight and mating. Flowers large and small are designed to attract pollinators who get a reward for their services. Both the plant and insect benefit from this arrangement. Nectar is a liquid sugar produced by flowers. Some flowers are flat; small or large insects can land and drink. Others have deep tubular flowers whose nectar can only be accessed by stronger flying insects and hummingbirds.
Host plants provide food for caterpillars; keep in mind that insects have co-evolved for millennia with native plants. Plants don’t want to be eaten and have all kinds of nasty compounds in the leaves that discourage herbivores (animals that eat plants). Many insects are host plant specific, and they lay their eggs only on plants that can be eaten by their larvae. Milkweed is one example, because monarch larvae only eat milkweed leaves. The adults do feed on nectar of milkweeds but can also get energy from other floral sources.
The list of host plants is extensive. Depending on what kind of butterfly, moth, bee, wasp, beetle, or fly you are trying to attract there is a native vine, shrub, tree, or perennial that you need to grow. Favorite woody plants for butterflies and moths are native oaks, cherry, willow, crabapple, blueberry, maple, pine and hickory. Any wooded lot in South Carolina has many of these. Unfortunately, with development these trees may have been cut down and replaced with non-native species. Research has shown that Carolina Chickadees need to have at least 70% native plant species to successfully fledge their young. Birds need soft bodied insects or caterpillars to feed their babies. Caterpillars need native host plants to grow into adults or become bird food. Herbaceous host plant families include Daisy-sunflower, goldenrod, aster, and liatris, carrot (parsley, dill), milkweed, citrus, mint, grass, and laurel.
Pollen contains fats and proteins, and it is routinely fed to newly hatched insect larvae of beetles and bees. Native bees collect the pollen on their bodies, mix it with saliva, form pollen balls, and lays her eggs either on or next to them. When the eggs hatch food is waiting. Honeybees have saddle bags that they collect pollen and then bring it back to the hive to be processed into bee bread.
When most people think of a pollinator garden they are focused solely on butterflies. There are far more less spectacular but also colorful species of moths and other small insects that are important and efficient pollinators. For vegetable and fruit crop pollination honeybees are good at it and get a lot of attention. They are charismatic and social. They have been studied and respected for their industrious ways and products that they make. Honeybees are not native to North America but were brought intentionally by colonists (as were chickens, pigs, and cows) for their wax and honey. Native bees, while not social, are also important pollinators for vegetable and fruit crops. Bumble bees and mason bees are prized by gardeners, and we even make houses for them.
Pollinators need food – nectar and pollen, water, host plants, and places to shelter. Provide diverse groups of native plants, introduce some non-invasive introduced
plants, include small flowers, hollow stems, and limit the use of pesticides. As the fall weather delights us with cooler temperatures the fields and roadsides are aglow with color and beauty of the autumn golds, yellows, and purples and the mating dances of pollinators that keep it all going.
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Laura Lee Rose is the Consumer Horticulture Agent and the Master Gardner Coordinator for both Beaufort and Colleton counties. Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service offers its programs to people of all ages, regardless of
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CLASSES & SEMINARS
SCREENWRITERS CALL FOR MEMBERS Lowcountry Screenwriters is a new group in Beaufort looking for committed individuals with either screenwriting experience, prior film or prose experience, or have an interest in film writing. Not a class, but a workshop to critique and provide feedback to the group. For interest in attending email a little about yourself. emilydfj@gmail.com bakerjef@hotmail.com
FRIDAY SOCIAL DANCES The Hilton Head Carolina Shag Club hosts Friday dances from 6-9:30 pm at Dolphin Head Golf Club, 59 High Bluff Rd, Hilton Head Plantation. Open to the public. Shag, ballroom, swing, country, or line. Singles welcome. Cash bar and light dinners available. $5 floor fee. HHICSC also teaches beginner Shag lessons Tuesday nights. www.hiltonheadshagclub.com, or www.facebook.com/HHICSC
STAINED GLASS CLASSES IN BEAUFORT Pinto Bean Studio forming morning, afternoon and evening classes for adults 18 or older. Beginning & advanced classes. Marty Nash at 614-260-6668 or pintobeanstudio@hotmail.com
ART LEAGUE OF HH ACADEMY KIDS CLASSES Tuesdays, 9/12-9/26. Ages 5-10, 4:30-6pm; Ages 11+, 6:30-8pm. $40 per child/session. Debi West has 24 years teaching art to children and has national leadership advocating for art education.
POTTERY CLASSES IN BEAUFORT McSweeney Clay Studio is offering morning, afternoon and evening classes for children and adults. Pottery dates and parties available as well. Classes are on going. Beginner or advanced welcome. mcsweeneyclaystudio.com or call 843-694-2049.
LOWCOUNTRY SHAGGERS Mondays at the Moose Lodge, 350 Broad River Blvd. 6-9pm. Carolina Shag
Lessons with Tommy & Sheri O'Brien and others. Occasional Ballroom Dance and once a month a Line Dance is taught. Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced lessons. Open dancing after lessons. Visit www.lowcountryshaggers.com or lowcountryshaggers@aol.com
BEAUFORT ART ASSOCIATION offers classes for artists at all levels. For info visit www.beaufortartassociation.com. or 913 Bay St.
WEDNESDAYS, BEAUFORT SHAG CLUB founded '02, meets Wed evenings at AMVETS on Ribaut Rd., Port Royal. Free lessons to members. The club is an ACSC, SOS, and the National Fastdance Association member. For info visit www.beaufortshagclub.com
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for HELP of Beaufort, 1810 Ribaut Road. Looking for committed volunteers for clothes sorting, pantry help, front desk help and Mobile Meals drivers. We are open M-F from 9:30-12:30, Mobile Meals delivers to home bound seniors 5 days/ week, routes takes about 30-45 mins. Email Lori at helpbeaufort@gmail.com, or call 843-524-1223, or stop in and fill out an application.
SNOWBIRDS! Wondering what to do with unopened, non-perishable food items at the end of your stay? Drop them off at the YMCA and we’ll deliver them to a local food bank on your behalf. Conveniently located in Port Royal at; 1801 Richmond Ave., 843-522-9622, beaufort-jasperymca.org
PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP - First Thursday of the month at Beaufort Memorial LifeFit Wellness Center, from 1:30-2:45pm, 900 Ribaut Rd. Beaufort. We are individuals with Parkinson’s care partners of those with Parkinson’s, and individuals or companies providing products or services for Parkinson’s patients. For more info: Rick Ostrander at pdawaresc@gmail.com or Facebook at Parkinson’s Support Group Of Beaufort SC Port Royal & Lady’s Island.
US COAST GUARD AUXILIARY, Flotilla 07-10-01, Port Royal Sound, a uniformed, all volunteer component of the U.S. Coast Guard. We conduct safety patrols, assist search & rescue, teach boat safety, conduct free vessel safety checks and other boating activities. Monthly meetings are open to all and held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Port Royal Sound Foundation classroom at 7pm. For info call Flotilla Commander Pattie McGowan (706-6336192) and visit us on Facebook - USCGA Beaufort.
PASTEL ART CLASSES IN BEAUFORT now forming by artist Randall Messina. Beginner to advanced. Max class size 5 students. At Atelier on Bay, 203 West Street. Supplies provided. Classes fill quickly so call or email to reserve. One on one classes also available. 843-321-3281 or e-mail: randallmessina@gmail.com
PORT ROYAL MUSEUM now open to the public by The Historic Port Royal Foundation every Saturday at 1634 Paris Ave., from 10 - 2 or upon request. New exhibits added weekly; historian on hand 10 - 12. Free admission! Call 843-524-4333 or email unionchurch1004@gmail.com to request a special opening.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for a few hours each week at St. Francis Thrift Shop. Open Tuesday thru Saturday. Call 843-689-6563 or come in to speak with Mr. Hal. Definitely shop.
COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE Safe & effective centuries old healing system treats and prevents a wide range of health-related conditions. Experience individualized treatment in a peaceful group setting. Sliding scale fee. Beaufort Acupuncture, 12 Fairfield Rd, 5B, Lady’s Island. For info and to schedule: (843) 694-0050 or www.BeaufortAcupuncture.com
SECOND HELPINGS seeking Day Captains and other volunteers to crew our trucks distributing food to local charities. Flexible schedule at your convenience. Email officeadmin@secondhelpingslc.org
AGAPE HOSPICE seeks volunteers to spend time bringing joy to our patients and families during a difficult time. Activities include playing music, baking, arts and crafts, pet therapy, manicures, listening to stories, holding hands, etc. Provide companionship to the elderly who often feel lonely and unappreciated. Contact Ashlee Powers at 843592-8453 or apowers@agapehospice.com
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for HELP of Beaufort. Come join the team providing food, mobile meals, clothing and emergency financial assistance to those in need in our community. Open Mon-Fri 9:30-12:30. 2 Ice House Rd., Beaufort. Call or email Jennifer 843-524-1223 or info@helpofbeaufort.org
TIDEWATER HOSPICE SUPPORT GROUP: Last Wed. and Thurs. of the month. Weds. 10-11am at Sun City; Thurs. 12-1pm Brookdale Hilton Head Ct., Hilton Head; for those who provide physical, emotional or practical support to a family member or friend. Jodi Johnson, LMSW. Bereavement Group: 5-6 pm., Thursdays, 10 Buckingham Plantation Drive, Suite A, Bluffton; for those who have experienced a loss and would like support and info associated with grief and bereavement. Corrie VanDyke, LMSW or Marie James, MA. 843-757-9388
THE SANTA ELENA HISTORY CENTER in downtown Beaufort hosts regular lectures, presentations, exhibits and programs about history, culture, science and archaeology. For more info visit www. Santa-Elena.org or 843-379-1550.
INTERESTED IN HEALTHY EATING? Second
Helpings, of Beaufort, Hampton, and Jasper counties, seeks committee members and chairperson for Healthy Food Program. Funding available to procure fresh produce and protein for the 60 food pantries and soup kitchens served by Second Helpings. Contact Exec. Dir. Lili Coleman, 843-6893616 or execdirector@secondhelpingslc.org
BORN TO READ working for early childhood literacy, needs volunteers to deliver books and materials to new mothers at Coastal Community Hosp., HH Hosp., and BMH. Visits are from 10am – noon. More info at borntoread.org. Interested volunteers call 843-379-3350.
ALZHEIMER’S FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER BEAUFORT, Support groups and Respite Pro-
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grams: Caregiver - Weds., 12:30pm, Helena Place Assisted Living, 1624 Paris Ave., Port Royal; Living with Alzheimer's - for those diagnosed and still in early stages - Mondays 1pm, Parsons Parlor, Carteret Street Methodist Church, 408 Carteret, Beaufort; Social Day Program- 10am-1:45pm $40 Day Fee, Mon. & Wed., Port Royal United Methodist, 1602 Columbia Ave., Port Royal, Weds. at Cornerstone Christian Church, 2301 First Blvd., Beaufort; In Home - Respite Aides available for 2 hr. minimum, $12-$24 sliding scale; Maintain Your Brain2nd & 4th Thursday, 10-11:30am, $10/person, $15 couple, Port Royal United Methodist, 1602 Columbia Ave., Port Royal; Free Memory Screenings available. (843) 521-9190 or (843) 263-2062.
THRESHOLD SINGERS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY
A choir to ease and comfort people at bedside by offering gentle voices and sacred songs, with sincere kindness. Two to four singers go to bedside when asked and sing a cappella and in harmony. Practice at St. John's Lutheran Church the 2nd & 4th Sundays of the month from 2:304:00 pm. Our songs are our gift of service for no charge. Call Pat Keown at 843-476-6073 to either join or ask us to sing for a loved one.
THE LITERACY CENTER is seeking volunteers to tutor adults in reading, writing, math and ESL. Students hope to acquire skills to pursue life goals, support families, and contribute to our community. Daytime and evenings in Bluffton and HHI. Call 843-815-6616 (Bluffton); 843-681-6655 (HHI). No teaching, tutoring or other language knowledge necessary. www.theliteracycenter.org
THE SANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY. Volunteer-based, non-profit provides groceries, clothing and basic needs items to ANYONE in need. Open Tues & Fri 11:30am-1pm. Located at 114 Beach City Rd., Hilton Head. Donations of food and funds are needed. For info contact Rev. Dr. Nannette Pierson at 843-715-3583 or email sandalwoodpantry@gmail.com
PARRIS ISLAND MUSEUM. The legacy of the Marine Corps and the history of the Port Royal region. Thousands of artifacts, images, and other materials illustrate the stories in exhibit galleries from Native American to modern Marines. FREE admission. Mon-Sat 10am4:30pm and 8am on Family Graduation Days. Closed New Year’s Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Info at parrisislandmuseum.com or 843-228-2166.
MEDICAL SERVICES OF AMERICA SEEKS VOLUNTEERS - Volunteers needed to provide companionship or skills like yard work, music, and crafts to patients and their families or assist in the office with admin tasks. Volunteers needed in Beaufort, Hampton, and Jasper counties. For info contact 843-322-0063
CHRIST CENTERED RECOVERY MEETINGS Join Shell Point Baptist Church Saturdays for “Celebrate Recovery”, addressing life’s problems and looking to scripture for solutions. Meal at 6pm; Praise and Worship at 6:30pm followed by Small Groups at 7:15pm. 871 Parris Island Gateway, Beaufort. Info at 843-592-1046.
Mitchelville
November 1861. Union forces oust Confederates on Hilton Head Island during the Battle of Port Royal. Over the next few months hundreds of enslaved men, women and children flee plantations and seek protection at the Union army encampment. A year later the country’s first self-governed town of freed Africans, now numbering 1500, would be established here. Its name was Mitchelville.
Mitchelville would become a beacon for African Americans seeking freedom. And it would be a test: could the newly freed govern themselves? The answer was yes. Not only did the town elect its own officials, it built roads, housing, stores, a church, and established a school –– the first in the South requiring compulsory education for children ages six to fifteen. The town’s success, however, made it a target for whites threatened by its very existence.
Award winning playwright and television writer Aurin Squire (This is Us, Brain Dead) turns the spotlight on this important but little known chapter in American Civil Rights history. He takes us from the present day when a Mitchelville descendant returns to the island to rediscover his roots and leads us back in time to the thriving Civil
War-era African American community. Here we meet six formerly enslaved men and women as they work through the challenges and experiences of their new freedom.
Get your first look at this exciting new play, directed by Christopher Windom and read by a cast of actors from across the country. Talkback with the playwright and director to follow.
Lean Ensemble Theater, a professional performing arts company, is the Lowcountry's home for conversation-based theater. A full production of Mitchelville is planned for Lean Ensemble Theater’s 2021-22 season.
Mitchelville: Airing October 29-November 1, 2020. For information and tickets: leanensemble.org 843.715.6676
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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
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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 Saltus River Grill, 802 Bay St, Beaufort. (843) 379-3474 or www.saltusrivergrill.com
BLUFFTON/HILTON HEAD
Big Bamboo, Coligny Plaza. (843) 686-3443 or www.bigbamboocafe.com
Captain Woody’s, 6 Target Rd., Hilton Head or 17 State of Mind St., Bluffton. www.captainwoodys.com
The Jazz Corner, Village at Wexf1ord, Hilton Head. Sundays - Deas Guyz; Mondays - Martin Lesch Band; Tuesdays - Fat Tuesdays - a Swinging Celebration of New Orleans & Beyond; Thursdays - Lavon Stevens with Louise Spencer. 10/14 Grammy Winner Quiana Parler with Lavon Stevens Trio, 10/16 & 10/17 Nicki Parrott, Justin James & Taylor Roberts, 10/21 Bobby Ryder, 10/23 & 10/24 The Quentin Baxter Quintet, 10/28 Grammy Winner Quiana Parler with Lavon Stevens Trio, 10/30 & 10/31 Bob Masteller's Jazz Celebration of Stevie Wonder. (843) 842-8620 or www.TheJazzCorner.com
Omni Hilton Head Ocean Front in Palmetto Dunes. Buoy Bar - HH Prime - (843) 842-8000 or www.omnihotels.com
OUT OF TOWN
The Pour House, 1977 Maybank Hwy, Charleston. Performances on the Deck Stage until further notice. Sundays - The Motown Throwdown; The G.L.O.W., Mondays - SlimJim; Tuesdays - Nightshades; Wednesdays - Grateful Dead Wednesday with Reckoning; Saturdays - Yoga Saturdays - 11am. 10/15 Of Good Nature; Big Yen, 10/16 & 10/17 Keller Williams, 10/22 The Destinators, 10/23 Consider the Source, 10/24 Little Stranger; Pip the Pansy, 10/29 The Exorcist, 10/30 The Delta Circus - Rolling Stones tribute, 10/31 & 11/1 Runaway Gin - Phish tribute. (843) 571-4343 or www.charlestonpourhouse.com
Windjammer, 1008 Ocean Blvd, Isle of Palms. Thursdays - Karaoke. 10/16 Jupiter Coyote on the Beach Stage, 10/17 Page Mackenzie on the Beach Stage, 10/23 Brendan Bayliss & Ryan Stasik on the Beach Stage, 10/24 Rare Creatures; Whitehall on the Beach Stage, 10/31 Midnight City Halloween Party on the Beach Stage. (843) 886-8596 or www. the-windjammer.com
Editors Note:
Events listed here may be subject to postponement or cancellation. Please check for further information.
THEATER/DANCE/FILM
Now - 10/31, Mitchelville, a work in progress by award-winning playwright/screenwriter Aurin Squire (This is Us), will be read online by actors from across the country, presented by Lean Ensemble Theater. For information and tickets, visit www.leanensemble.org or call 843-715-6676.
GALLERIES/ART
Now - 10/30, USA from Sea to Shining Sea. Penny Healy has captured all 50 state flowers and seascapes for her upcoming art exhibit at The Society of Bluffton Artists (SOBA) gallery in Old Town Bluffton. For more information visit www.sobagallery.com or call 843-757-6586.
Now - 10/31, CraftHiltonHead2020, Art League's 7th National Juried Fine Art Craft Exhibition, Art League Gallery, 14 Shelter Cove Lane, Hilton Head Island. A virtual awards reception will be held Wednesday, 10/7, 5-6pm via Facebook Live. 843-681-5060.
Now - 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.
Now - 11/2, 'Art Speaks' Exhibit at USCB Center for the Arts. www.uscbcenterforthearts.com
Fri 10/23, Mystic Osprey Gallery Fall Opening, in Habersham Marketplace. Featuring artists Pamela Corwin and Mark S. Holland. 4 - 7 pm. www.marketplace.habershamsc.com
WRITERS & BOOK EVENTS
Wed 10/21, An Evening with Wanda Smalls Lloyd (Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism), presented via Zoom at 6:30 pm, by the Pat Conroy Literary Center and First Presbyterian Church of Hilton Head. To register for the free event, please email info@ fpchhi.org, with Coming Full Circle in the subject line.
Tues 10/27, An Evening with Tony Ray Morris,
award-winning poet, livestreamed on the Pat Conroy Literary Center's Facebook page. www.facebook. com/patconroyliterarycenter. You can also register to attend via Zoom. https://bit.ly/34x0jd6
11/5 - 11/8, Annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival goes virtual, as a series live-streamed author presentations and panel discussions, online writing workshops, exhibits, and virtual tours. Highlights included by appearances by Brad Taylor, former U.S. Army Special Forces officer and now the New York Times best-selling author of the Pike Logan thriller series; Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Award-winning artist Mary Whyte, author of We the People: Portraits of Veterans in America; and, from A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South, editor Cinelle Barnes and contributing writers Latria Graham and Gary Jackson. Registration for programs and workshops is now open through the festival’s Facebook page (Facebook.com/ PatConroyFestival), website (PatConroyLiteraryFestival.org), and—for workshops—Eventbrite page (PatConroyLiteraryCenter.Eventbrite.com).
MUSIC
Sun 11/1, USCB Chamber Music will host a LIVE concert before a limited audience of subscribers; the performance will also be live streamed and video-recorded. Music by Mozart, Ives and Brahms will be featured. The concert begins at 5 pm at USCB Center for the Arts. For more information, visit www.uscbchambermusic. com or call 843-208-8246.
OTHER EVENTS
10/17, 11/14, Bluffton Artisan Market, an open-air shopping event with live music that features local makers from 1-6 pm. Southern Barrel parking lot in Buckwalter Plaza in Bluffton.
10/17, Holy Trinity Classical Christian School 2nd Annual Swing Bridge 5K & Prayer Walk, virtual format. The 5K and 2K “Tater Tot” races will now start virtually any time after the date of registration. Times must be submitted by email on or before midnight on Oct. 17. Online registration is available at https://www. htccs.org/give/swing-bridge-5k/. This year, there is even a “Couch Potato” no run option. Winners will be announced on Sunday, Oct. 18. For more information, call 843-522-0660 or contact cpruit@htccs.org.
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 10/31, Truckin' It Virtual 5K, 10K & Fun Run. The Junior Service League of Beaufort is sponsoring this fun family event. For more information, visit www. touchatruckbeaufort.com
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) 46pm. 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. 843-4703506. 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.
