<em>Photo above: Jean Bye with Mayor Billy Keyserling. Photo by Debbie Parker.</em>

October was proclaimed National Colonial Heritage Month by Beaufort’s City Council. Mayor Billy Keyserling, with President Jean Bye of Beaufort’s Dr. Henry Woodward Chapter of the Colonial Dames XVII Century, read the proclamation at the chapter’s October meeting held at the home of Chapter Historian, Anita Henson.