Set in the turbulent, colorful 1970’s, Stephanie Austin Edwards’ debut novel What We Set in Motion finds the daughter of a prominent old South Carolina Lowcountry family fleeing to New York’s Greenwich Village in pursuit of a dance career.

My girls are giddy, y’all.

         The temperatures have reached a steady warmth and, despite the pollen dusted sidewalks and porch swings, we’ve finally felt safe enough to put up those bulky winter sweaters and pull out our pretty, flowy and fresh outfits for spring.

Bees, Cold Wax, and Melba Cooper

Oil paint and beeswax are a marriage of content and medium in Melba Cooper’s new abstract paintings inspired by the Honeybee.  

As he prepares for his investiture this month, USCB’s new Chancellor Al Panu is excited about the future of the university.                                 

By Margaret Evans, Editor

    When young Al Panu, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, arrived at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in the early 1970s, he was fluent in several languages.

  English was not one of them.

 Thinking back on that time of difficult transition, the new Chancellor of the University of South Carolina Beaufort has a faraway look in his eye. It’s been 40 years, but his memories are vivid.