Art League Gallery showcases local talent with international fame
Jan Ross, a beloved instructor at Art League Academy, will be showcasing her watercolor paintings at Art League Gallery this August. Ross is known for her technique of layering pigment to produce vibrant, translucent colors; her work is bold, cheerful, and sometimes humorous, presenting people and places in a loving light. She strives to capture the personality of a person, or draw attention to overlooked details in a landscape or ordinary objects.
Beaufort History Museum Opens Fort Fremont Exhibit
Written by Editor
Tuesday, 21 July 2020 10:59
Visitors to Beaufort History Museum are invited to explore the history of Fort Fremont, a fortification built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Saint Helena Island in 1898, by viewing a special exhibit that displays award-winning images and a modern instructional video featuring exclusive drone photography of the site.
Summer brings more great opportunities for writers to engage with one another through three more online workshops from the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center. Each workshop will be held on Zoom and is limited to 15 participants. Registration is now open through Eventbrite at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com.
Conroy Center Hosts ‘Scribes’ Conference in Ridgeland
Written by Editor
Tuesday, 21 July 2020 10:44
With more than a dozen awards and honors to its credit, the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, edited by novelist Nicole Seitz and Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt, has been the subject of more than 50 events across ten states, featuring (thus far) 54 of the volume’s 67 contributing writers.
Celebrating the Lowcountry Weekly Gang (Volume One)
By Debbi Covington
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then 20 pictures has to be a volume. Y'all know that I've been writing a food column for Lowcountry Weekly since 2005. What you probably didn't know is that I'm also the unofficial “every time we get together” photographer and keeper of the scrapbooks. Yep. I'm that person who shoves her iPhone into the hands of the most available body and sweetly asks, “will you please take a picture of us?' When it comes to photos, I have no shame.
I met a young farmer who said he was growing Yuccas in one of his fields. As a lifelong learner it was surprising to me that he was growing it for fiber, not as a landscape plant.
Allow me to preface this article with a few thoughts: First, this was definitely outside the norm of things that I would do. I have stated on several occasions that, while I’m open-minded, hallucinogenic journeys weren’t something I was particularly drawn to. After all, if you’ve read my writing, you know that I see and experience plenty on my own. That said, I’ve wanted to write about it for quite some time.
Twenty years ago, Jeff and I were newlyweds with big dreams and little common sense when we whimsically invested our savings in an obscure local rag, about a year old, called Lowcountry Bi-weekly. We hated the name – it was clunky – and we figured we’d soon go weekly anyway, so we dropped the “bi,” spruced up the design, added some new features, and Lowcountry Weekly was born.
We’re still biweekly. But, hey, it’s only been 20 years. Give us time.
We're celebrating twenty years of celebrating at Lowcountry Weekly – not that we need an excuse.
Those of you who know me know that I'll make up a reason to celebrate something, even when there's no real occasion. In this case, I think a party to commemorate a milestone for Lowcountry Weekly is in perfect order – even if we're having to do it virtually.