It all began when I started seeing them along the roadsides, great noisy machines and giant trucks, their handlers high above in buckets or down below feeding limbs into the growling maw of a huge grinding machine.    

The Society of Bluffton Artists Gallery welcomes Margaret Crawford as featured artist from September 8 through October 4. Originally from New Jersey, Margaret and her family have vacationed in the Lowcountry since the early seventies, eventually moving to Hilton Head full time. An accomplished painter, she truly loves the South and is inspired to interpret her beautiful surroundings on watercolor paper and canvas, motivating her to share her latest work in this show called Southern Skies and Southern Ties. 

Margaret Evans, Editor

It’s that time of year when I always feel like a space alien surrounded by earthlings. Or a foreigner who just woke up in a country where she doesn’t speak the language. Or a Jane Austen character trapped in a Ray Bradbury novel. Or . . . well, you get the picture.

The Friends of the Spanish Moss Trail (FSMT) are pleased to announce that the much-anticipated Phase 4 of the Spanish Moss Trail has just broken ground from Depot Road to Broad River Boulevard, to bring the Lowcountry a 7-mile connected Trail by the end of 2015.