Mike McCombs

USCB Artist in Residence Fayle to lead public workshops Feb. 27-28

The University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) has announced Hillary Waters Fayle as the Sea Islands Center Gallery Artist in Residence, according to a media release. A Virginia-based textile artist, Fayle is known for her delicate botanical constructions. Using found leaves and simple hand tools—needle and thread and X-Acto knives—she creates refined, fragile assemblages that invite viewers to see art in nature.

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Voice, violin, piano: The Lindsay and Jason Duo

Are you one of the lucky people who got to hear — and see — TAKE3 on Fripp Island in the fall of 2023? Three musicians who dazzled both the ears and the eyes of the audience and received such enthusiastic ovations that they played two encores. Well, two of those fabulous musicians are coming back to Fripp on Sunday, March 1: Lindsay Deutsch, founder of TAKE3, vocalist, violinist, raconteur and gymnast (of sorts), and Jason Stroll, pianist. The duo is adhering to Lindsay’s idea of combining, as she put it, “classical music with music people actually like.” A principle that she applied to the repertoire of TAKE3.

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‘The most exciting environment in the world’ — Beaufort resident remembers his Olympic experience as 2026 Winter Games continue

George Greenfield sits comfortably in his Lady’s Island home overlooking a pond where blue herons visit daily as he thinks back to the warm day of Aug. 26, 1972. He was one of the 400 U.S. athletes marching into the Olympiastadion in Munich for opening ceremonies of that summer’s Olympics.

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It was a close call

A group of students from the local elementary school appeared and thanked Dorothy for her lesson on duplicity. As a reward, they presented her with a pair of magic slippers made in class, slippers that, when their heels were clicked together in a joyful leap, could grant a wish.

So Dorothy leaped joyfully, clicked, wished, and she and Toto were back in Kansas.

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