Frank Lloyd Wright’s only home in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Auldbrass, is now on tour every year. The privately-owned home was previously only open for public tours every two years, but that’s changed. The Beaufort County Open Land Trust has teamed up with local event planner, Ashley Rhodes, to host the Auldbrass Plantation Tours annually! 

The South is often misunderstood on the national stage, characterized by its struggles with poverty, education, and racism, yet the region has yielded an abundance of undeniably great literature. In the newly published anthology Southern Writers on Writing, editor Susan Cushman collects 26 writers from across the South whose work celebrates southern culture and shapes the landscape of contemporary southern literature. Contributors hail from Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida.

Author’s note:  As regular readers of this column have noticed, I frequently like to start with a related quote, something to whet the reader’s appetite, so to speak.  Some are from notable authors, politicians, or comedians, while others are deliberately chosen from less well-known writers whose thoughts caught my attention and hopefully yours as well. 

The University of South Carolina Beaufort has selected Robert (Bob) LeFavi, Ph.D., a career academic scholar, to become the Founding Dean of the university’s Beaufort Campus. Dr. LeFavi comes to USCB from Georgia Southern University where he was Professor and Head of Health Sciences and Kinesiology, a department that served roughly 2,000 students.