The community is invited to a celebration honoring the release of photographer Marge Agin’s new photography book, “What It Means To Be Here: Palmetto Bluff, Bluffton, The Lowcountry and Beyond” on Thursday, June 18, from 5:30-8 pm at Palmetto Bluff.

In 1889, they hung a man from a tower for stealing. He took it rather well. They were tired of him sneaking around lifting hardware off buggies, so they tied a rope to his belt and hoisted him up where they could keep an eye on him.

-       Garrison Keillor, “Lake Wobegon Days” (New York, Viking, 1985)

Acclaimed Fine Artist Fleetwood Covington Comes Home With a Show at Thibault Gallery

 By Mark Shaffer

Up until now Fleetwood Covington has been something of an enigma – a name attached to the local mythology that precedes me. Mostly I know of him through his brother Vince and sister-in-law, Debbi and a handful of mutual friends with longer histories in Beaufort than mine. Artist, musician and songwriter are among the list of words attached to the name when it comes up in conversation along with another: character. A few days before we’re set to do this interview I mention to a mutual friend that I’m finally meeting the man himself. “You won’t be disappointed,” he says. “That Fleetwood, he’s quite the character.”

The Photography Club of Beaufort has announced the winners of the annual Spring Competition, held Monday night, May 11. Judging the event were photographers Ed Funk, Scott Hansen and Phyllis Seas.