This Week In History: Author Pat Conroy dies
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Engineering a deathbed peace
When mother was leaving this realm, I was with my brother and sister at her bedside. We were not fighting, although there were lingering disagreements, unresolved. We had — thanks to a last minute gift of Scotch — been passing around a bottle of Dewar’s; talking in the semi-darkness; recounting our peripatetic, mostly happy childhoods thinking mother might still hear us. Eventually the nurse came in the room, looked at each of us in turn, then said, “You know she passed 30 minutes ago.”
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This Week In History: It’s birthdays for Dee Delaney, James Edwin McTeer
On Feb. 20 in 1868, future Beaufort County Sheriff James Edwin McTeer was born. And 127 years later, Whale Branch football star, NFL player and now Warriors head coach Dee Delaney was born.
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USCB Center for the Arts showing Academy Award-nominated ‘Hamnet’
USCB Center for the Arts will be showing Academy Award-nominated film “Hamnet” at 3 and 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 23
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This Week In History: Frazier Wins at MSG
On Feb. 16, 1970, boxer Joe Frazier, a Beaufort native, defeats Jimmy Ellis at Madison Square Garden in New York City to improve to 25-0 and win the WBA and vacant WBC world heavyweight titles.
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Executive Director Haupt leaves Pat Conroy Literary Center
Jonathan Haupt, longtime Executive Director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center, has resigned, according to a news release dated Sunday, Jan. 22.
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This Week In History: Lincoln authorizes Beaufort National Cemetery
In a letter bearing the date Feb. 10, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln authorizes that part of a 64-acre tract known as Polly’s Grove Plantation be used for Beaufort National Cemetery. The land had been acquired by U.S. Army Gen. David Hunter for $75 at an 1863 tax sale of properties confiscated by the federal government. After the Civil War, 29 acres of the parcel was retained for the cemetery.
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