Three cheers for the Beaufort Garden Club
Our community owes a huge “Thank you” to the ladies of the Beaufort Garden Club, which just happens to be the second largest garden club in the state.
Their “Garden A Day” tours were initiated in the mid-1990s and have been a source of pleasure for thousands since then. So kudos to the Club itself and to the homeowners who worked so hard to put their gardens in A-1 shape for the tours.
Their efforts have been a gift that keeps on giving and I hope they never stop presenting this gift to us each year to celebrate National Garden Club week.
— Edie Rodgers, Beaufort
Another poem
Condoning, normalizing
Arrogantly patronizing
Explaining in a twisted
Confused, absurd
Tone of voice
Complicit in the scam
Assisting in the grift
Collusion every time
Propping up the man
A demented lunatic
Like a dead El Cid tied
Up on s horse
They lead him on through
All the people to do
The devil’s work
And as they move forward
Trying to save themselves
From future wrath
They’ll always be known
As a maga sycophant
— Carol Conner
Trump brings back Confederate Army slave-owning generals
Just when I thought Trump could not surprise me anymore, well, I am surprised. According to a story in Rolling Stone, June 10, 2025, Trump announced that he would be restoring names of forts changed in recent years back to names of Confederate Army slave-owning generals. The generals who fought to overthrow the U.S. government and lost. The generals who fought to uphold the right to enslave people.
The forts whose current names are Liberty, Barfoot, Cavazos, Eisenhower, Novosel, Johnson, Walker, and Gregg-Adams will now be called Bragg, Pickett, Hood, Gordon, Rucker, Polk, A.P. Hill, and Lee. Why should Dwight Eisenhower’s name be taken off a fort so former slave owner, Confederate General and Governor of Georgia, John Gordon, be reinstated? It is because Trump is a stone cold racist.
Trump has evidently developed an interest in Civil War history. He must be trying to uphold the Lost Cause of the South. For some, it is never too late to fight the War of Northern Aggression. All over again.
— Terry Gibson, Beaufort
