Tim Conroy on his new collection of poetry and the brother who encouraged him to write it.

By Margaret Evans, Editor

When he was a little boy, Tim Conroy remembers listening to his teenage brother and sister fight over which of them would grow up to be the best poet. The sibling rivalry was intense.

"They'€™d always tease each other with that poem by C.P. Cavafy. "€˜For some people the day comes when they have to declare the great Yes or the great No. It'€™s clear at once who has the Yes ready within him..." They'd argue about which of them had the 'Yes'. . . about which one was destined to go 'from honor to honor, strong in his (or her) conviction.'"€

Local theatre company Coastal Stage Productions, one of this area'€™s top producers of quality short-run theatre projects, returns to The Shed in Port Royal with the heart warming and hilarious play, The Dixie Swim Club, a Southern comedy about friendships that last forever.

"I am thrilled to be bringing CONRACK, our musical adaptation of The Water Is Wide, to the stage in Beaufort, Pat Conroy'€™s adopted home town,"€ says Granville Wyche Burgess, bookwriter and lyricist for the musical and director of The Beaufort Theatre Company production of CONRACK.