The popular Books Sandwiched In (BSI) series, sponsored by the Friends of the Beaufort Library (FOL), will return in January 2015 with local authors, well-known community leaders, journalists and world travelers lined up as presenters at this free event.    

            With a wide-range of book selection and subject matter, including those by local authors, bestsellers and fascinating prizewinners, the series has attracted large audiences for the past 29 years.  Held at the University of South Carolina Beaufort’s Center for the Performing Arts, the series schedule also leaves time after each presentation for audience Q and A.

The search for the Lowcountry’s best handmade burgers continues...

Story & photos by Mark Shaffer

“Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.”

- Matthew McConaughey, Oscar-winning actor & cheeseburger aficionado

Living by the seat of our gardening pants is my usual gardening style. There is a time to every season and a right time to do most tasks. The logical order is plan, prepare the soil, plant and of course harvest.

I’m full.

       I don’t know about y’all, but I can’t eat another bite… well, unless it’s something chocolate.  The cocoa plant from the gods is simply, to me at least, something akin to a collapsible shoe organizer or a few of those stackable multi-sized Tupperware containers: a reason, if not a vessel, to hoard the things we love and can’t live without until a more appropriate time presents itself sometime in the future (you know, late at night).