27th Annual Garden-A-Day

National Center for Victims of Crime, and the Georgia Victim Assistance Academy. Her writing has been published in The Savannah Anthology, Savannah Magazine, The Savannah Morning News, and Law Enforcement Magazine. She volunteered for 10 years with Deep Center, a Savannah youth literacy program that won a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts award.

In August 2022, Helen won first place in a national essay contest out of a field of 55 entries. NextTribe, the “voice of women aging boldly,” sponsored the contest in which Helen’s essay, “From High Heels to Hot Wheels,” reveals how she unexpectedly became a first-time mom at the age of 52, when her husband’s two-year-old grandson came to live with them.

Learn more about the Pat Conroy Literary Center at www.patconroy literarycenter.org

This year’s Garden a Day event, celebrating National Gardening week, is June 5 to June 9, and features gardens on The Point, Bay Street, Broad River Rd, Beaufort downtown and Lady’s Island. The Beaufort Garden Club invites the public to visit these gardens, free of charge, from 9 AM to Noon, rain or shine.

The Garden a Day schedule can be found on beaufortgardenclub.com and is as follows:

Mon. June 5 – 2203 & 2009 Bay St.

Tues. June 6 – 1 Laurens St., The Point

Wed. June 7 – 2215 Wilson St. & 610 Bladen St.

Thur. June 8 – 882 Broad River Dr.

Fri. June 9 – 41 Sunset Bluff

“We are thrilled to offer seven beautiful and very distinctive gardens for this event –in spite of the challenging conditions created by our December freeze. These will please and inform all types of gardeners,” said Deena Culp, 2023 Garden-A-Day Chair.

“We continue our long history of demonstrating the many benefits of gardening in the Low Country and we are very appreciative of the dedicated gardeners who are making this possible,” said Lora Quincy, President, The Beaufort Garden Club.

The Beaufort Garden Club, the second oldest garden club in South Carolina, has been holding its Garden A Day event every year since 1994.The event draws large crowds from South Carolina, surrounding states and even as far as Canada.

Garden visitors are asked to not bring pets.

Read descriptions of the gardens on page 6.

Beaufort) on Thursday, June 8, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Open Mic Night features short readings of 3 to 5 minutes by local writers, followed by an extended reading by a featured author. To request to read from your work during Open Mic, email contact@patconroy literarycenter.org in advance.

Our featured writer for June is Helen P. Bradley, author of the newly published novel Breach of Trust. The book draws from the author’s experiences during twenty-seven years heading a nationally-recognized crime victim advocacy program. A former newspaper journalist, Helen has written curricula, essays, and articles for the National Organization for Victim Assistance, the