Quilt Festival 2018 is the Palmetto Quilt Guild’s 14th biennial Quilt Show, featuring a display of over 150 quilts, and a quilt competition, judged by a nationally-certified judge. A Boutique of handcrafted items, Vintage Marketplace, Silent Auction, and thirteen vendors will offer visitors an array of shopping opportunities.

It’s almost April, Lowcountry folks. And we all know what that means.

Spring breakers descend like sand gnats during a dead ocean breeze. Azaleas pop, sizzle and drop while the dogwood blooms slowly open as an offering for lingering warmth and alfresco dining over glasses filled with chilled chardonnay peppered in drowned mosquito wings.

“When I was growing up, Grandmama used to say, ‘The Lord works in mysterious ways’ or ‘He might not be there when you want Him, but He’s always right on time.’ Evie used to say, ‘God will do to you what He feels like needs to be done to you.’ Then Grandmama would tell Evie to hush and remind her that getting left by a man was not the worst thing that ever happened to somebody. And Evie would say, ‘It’s the worst thing that ever happened to me.’ She said it so much that she came down with lupus. ‘God wanted me to see what misery really was,’ Evie said.” – Tayari Jones, An American Marriage (2018, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Fleetwood Covington’s Blues Soaked Art Comes to USCB

By Mark Shaffer

I knew of Fleetwood Covington long before I finally met him prior to his 2015 show at the Thibault Gallery on Bay Street. Mostly I knew of him through his brother Vince as well as his sister-in-law – my longtime Lowcountry Weekly colleague – Debbi Covington. “Fleetwood’s quite a character,” she told me. I figured he had to be with a name like Fleetwood. I mean, how many Fleetwoods do you meet in life? And as if that were not enigmatic enough, in addition to being an artist with a considerable following, he’s also a musician, songwriter and Blues fanatic.