Lowcountry resident Jane Hearn has curated a powerful exhibit for the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer.

"When you are in Mississippi, the rest of America doesn't seem real; and when you are in the rest of America, Mississippi doesn't seem real." – Dr. Robert "Bob" Moses, Program Director 1961-65 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

When a South Carolina native Marian Wright took then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to a sharecropper's house in the Mississippi Delta, she didn't know the name of the lanky, white Millsaps College student in the shadows snapping photographs.

But 23-year-old Jim Lucas knew that he was witnessing – and capturing – history with his 35mm camera.

By Margaret Evans, Editor

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You know it's tomato season in the South Carolina Lowcountry when you can't find one single frozen pie crust in the freezer at Publix. Everyone's making tomato pies. It's a Beaufort thing.

The Beaufort Art Association presents "Seas and Trees, Paintings by Tom Van Steenbergh," an exhibit that runs through August 2nd. The work of 70 other Lowcountry artists is also on display. The BAA Gallery is located at 813 Bay Street, downtown Beaufort. Open Mon– Sat, 10am – 5 pm, Sun, 12:30 – 4pm. For more information, call 521-4444 or visit www.beaufortartassociation.com