Beaufort Columnists
We're honored to bring you several local voices, below our their latest columns on issues ranging from food, to wellness, to nonprofits. Check back soon and we'll have individual pages for each columnist.
Terri Powell Jul 25 2011 - 2:45pm
What does it take to get your children ready for the school year?
[Editor's note: Terri Powell one of our latest local columnists. Terri is director of E.C. Montessori School on Lady's Island.]Back to school is in the air and we all are being bombarded withback-to-school sales in magazines, newspapers, television ads and storeflyers. But perhaps getting your...
Terri Powell Jul 5 2011 - 6:00am
What exactly is the Montessori method of teaching?
[Editor's note: Today we introduce Terri Powell one of our latest local columnists. Terri is director of E.C. Montessori School on Lady's Island.]If you are at a time when you have the unenviable task of choosing a school for your child, it would be wise to look into the Montessori option of...
Edna Crews Jan 30 2011 - 6:30am
Helping a cause by making connections
I love my job. I wake up each morning and realize that I get to do good everyday. This past week I had one of those bonus days.I had a call from Anne Guthrie, the founder of the Little Red Dog Foundation. We just recently did a site visit with them at Beaufort Memorial Hospital’s Healthlink program...
Edna Crews Nov 1 2010 - 7:32am
Making choices, we can all support causes in need this season
My mailboxes, postal and electronic, are full of requests for donations. All are from legitimate organizations that add value in my local community, statewide, or nationally. But how do we decide who gets something and who will not make the cut at this time?These are decisions based on real...
Bill Pendergraft Oct 21 2010 - 4:52pm
Gray's Feet
“How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.” -Annie DillardGray’s feet hang in my kitchen. Well, not literally, although the painting of Gray Segars’ bare feet by his mother and Beaufort artist Mary Segars, is so realistic and plainly connected to life in the Lowcountry, that it defines...
Amanda Brewer Oct 10 2010 - 2:14pm
I didn't know you could do that at Beaufort libraries (and upcoming events)
I wish I had a dollar for every time someone said “you can do that in a library?” The answer is simple: yes, you can! Libraries are no longer quiet repositories of information accessible to the few. That was years ago. Today, they are information supermarkets for every person who walks through...
Bill Pendergraft Oct 6 2010 - 9:46pm
Mary Lib's Puzzle
[Editor's note: We'd like to welcome our newest columnist, Bill Pendergraft, who will be sharing stories of a slower Lowcountry life. The first installment comes from his project Slow Guides™ Regional guides for the mindful traveler.]“When it hurts, we return to the banks of certain rivers...
Shelley Lowther Oct 4 2010 - 10:01am
Mantras, malas and the power of meditation
In this very hectic world, the power of meditation is coming increasingly apparent and finding time to settle the mind is becoming a more accepted therapy for stress and anxiety. Meditation is not, as many believe, the emptying of the mind, but rather it is the focusing of the mind to allow...
Edna Crews Oct 2 2010 - 9:26am
Get to know your local Community Foundation and what we do
A few weeks ago I had lunch with a friend who works with a local nonprofit organization in Beaufort. I listened as she described the needs of her organization and the current financial state, and wished I had the ability to write a check then and there to cover the gap between their current balance...
Shelley Lowther Sep 7 2010 - 2:21pm
