"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."  
- Lewis Carroll

By Margaret Evans, Editor

Cassandra King Conroy is curled up in an armchair, buried in a pile of family photos, when she waves me through the front door.

            “Margaret, if it’d been anybody but you coming over, I might’ve cleaned up this mess,” she laughs, and I’m instantly at home. 

           It’s been a while. In recent years, I’ve attended a few Conroy Center parties in this cozy living room, but if memory serves, the last time I sat on this sofa visiting with Cassandra, her husband was in the other chair. Beyond the glass doors, Pat Conroy’s beloved Battery Creek is primed for sunset like a canvas for paint, and I feel his absence in my throat.

On Saturday, October 26, Beaufort will honor its newest Americans at Celebrating Citizenship, a public event in the Waterfront Park Pavilion, from 2 – 4 pm.

Stephen Moscowitz will exhibit “Birds and Other Stuff” from October 18-20 at the Society of Bluffton Artists (SoBA) Center for Creative Arts, located next door to the SoBA gallery on Church Street in Old Town Bluffton. Come meet the artist at the opening reception at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18th. His exhibit will feature acrylic paintings of wild life, real life and still life.