National Association of Women Artists and the Pat Conroy Literary Festival partner on exhibit

The National Association of Women Artists In conjunction with the Pat Conroy Literary Center present a thought provoking new exhibit “Inspirational Journey: Small Chapters”at the Coastal Discovery Museum on Honey Horn Drive in Hilton Head, October 14, 2020 – November 30, 2020.  

“This is a work of fiction. However, with a single exception (and as outrageous as some of them may sound) all the incidents described here really happened”… Thus begins the Author’s Note introducing The Chronicles of Willow Point, a new novel by Beaufort’s E.T. Baysden. The following is an excerpt from that novel...

Lean Ensemble presents an online reading of a new play by Aurin Squire

November 1861. Union forces oust Confederates on Hilton Head Island during the Battle of Port Royal. Over the next few months hundreds of enslaved men, women and children flee plantations and seek protection at the Union army encampment. A year later the country’s first self-governed town of freed Africans, now numbering 1500, would be established here. Its name was Mitchelville.