“This is a work of fiction. However, with a single exception (and as outrageous as some of them may sound) all the incidents described here really happened”… Thus begins the Author’s Note introducing The Chronicles of Willow Point, a new novel by Beaufort’s E.T. Baysden. The following is an excerpt from that novel...

Masked, Hiding Behind Plain Sight, an exhibit of artwork by Judy Blahut, will be on view at Art League Gallery November 3-28. Blahut’s work, reminiscent of kaleidoscopic images, is largely abstract and inspired by nature. This collection of acrylic paintings, charcoal drawings and sculptures aims to explore the space between the observable and the hidden in the form of an object. Blahut deconstructs natural objects such as plants and shells and reassembles them in a new way, thereby creating a new relationship between the object and the viewer. “It’s an exploration of life interrupted yet forever connected,” she says.

An interview with Holland Perryman, first intern at the Pat Conroy Literary Center

By Margaret Evans, Editor 

For over a year now, 16-year-old Holland Perryman has enjoyed the distinction of being the Pat Conroy Literary Center’s very first intern. During that tenure she has served as a counselor at Camp Conroy, assisted in the production of SCETV’s ‘By the River,’ taught several writing workshops, publicized numerous literary events, introduced on-camera interviews with authors, and had her book review of a YA novel published in the Charleston Post & Courier.

By Margaret Evans, Editor

For generations, American parents have been tutoring their children in some version of the following concept:  “It doesn't matter what people look like on the outside; it's the inside that counts.” 

            My mother said this to me, her mother said it to her, and I have said it, ad nauseam, to my own daughter. Trust me, this is just something mothers say.