Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Missing Pat Conroy
We're all missing Pat Conroy, each in our own way.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/entertainment/books/reading-matters-blog/article73803547.html
Monday, April 25, 2016
Sail Magazine sailing group in Beaufort
Full text of Sail Magazine's daily entry can be found at : http://icw.sailmagazine.com/blog/11/a-day-in-beaufort/
Post Civil War Reconstruction
Come join us on our Reconstruction Tour of Beaufort, South Carolina!
The National Park Service has been visiting Beaufort over the past two
years looking for sites to include and we take you to a few of these
sites here in Beaufort, including some related to Robert Smalls. This article in the New York Times gives some of the current discussions on how to treat the Reconstruction era in our nation's history.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/arts/park-service-project-would-address-the-reconstruction-era.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/arts/park-service-project-would-address-the-reconstruction-era.html?_r=0
Sunday, April 24, 2016
Thursday, April 21, 2016
El Galeon sails past Bermuda Bluff
The Spanish ship El Galeon Andalucia as it sails into the Port Royal Harber from St. Augustine. It is a replica of the ship used by Pedro Menendez de Aviles in 1566 when he came to Beaufort to settle the colony of Santa Elena, which was the first capital of Spanish Florida.
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Opening of the new Santa Elena History Center
http://santa-elena.org/
Get ready for the grand opening of the Santa Elena History Center on April 30th!
Gump Medical Center
Where is this Spaceship?
A little bit of South Carolina weirdness... Can anyone tell me where this flying saucer monument is located?
Erosion South of Hunting Island Lighthouse
The new erosion at Hunting Island SOUTH of the lighthouse is saddening. North of the lighthouse has eroded a lot over the past 5+ years with palmetto trees laying everywhere, but to the south had pretty much been great beaches. Further south where the cabins had been greatly eroded too, but where these photos were taken today was just nice, wide sandy beaches a year ago. Now there is new fencing along the water and just a mound of sand to keep water from flowing up into the parking lot. At this rate, the lagoon could be oceanfront in a matter of years.
Santa Elena - Walking with Chester DePratter
Beaufort Tours spent Saturday with 20 archeologists from all over the US
who were in Beaufort to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Santa Elena.
We shuttled the scholars out to Parris Island, where the Santa
Elena settlement by the Spanish began in 1566 and lasted until 1587.
Santa Elena was the ORIGINAL capital of Spanish La Florida, until the
capital was moved to St. Augustine. At its peak, over 400 people lived
in this early colony, which existed before the Lost Colony of Roanoke
(1584), Jamestown (1607) and the Mayflower (1620).
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