David Lauderdale

1 week ago | islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale

Emanuel 9 shooting survivor Polly Sheppard, left, of Florence, and Margaret Seidler of Charleston pose following a presentation called “Building Bridges Across Time and Race” at First Presbyterian Church on Hilton Head Island on Oct. 26, 2024, co-sponsored by the Lowcountry Coalition Against Hate, the Hilton Head MLK Committee on Justice and St. Andrew By-the-Sea United Methodist Church.

2 weeks ago | islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale

The Edgar Fripp House in Beaufort, also called Tidalholm, built around 1853, added to its lore when it appeared in the 1983 film “The Big Chill.” Historic Beaufort Foundation “Keep Beaufort Beaufort.”What beautiful marching orders from Cynthia Jenkins, who stepped down this month as the director of the Historic Beaufort Foundation after a-14 year tenure there. You’d think this is a group that looks back in time, sometimes to an aggravating degree, and it does.

3 weeks ago | islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale

Thomas C. Barnwell Jr. holds up the transcript of testimony about poverty in the South Carolina Lowcountry that he and others made before the U.S. Senate Select Subcommittee on Nutrition and Human Needs in February 1969. David Lauderdale/For The Island Packet Thomas C. Barnwell Jr. was born on an incoming tide on Hilton Head Island 90 years ago, and he’s been riding a flood of change ever since.

1 month ago | islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale

David Harter addresses a class of students on a field trip to the Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center in 2014. Handout photo Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center David Harter is not a scientist or a rabble-rouser or even a fisherman anymore, now that he has eased past his 78th birthday and passed his 30-foot fishing boat to third-generation charter boat captain, Stratton Pollitzer.

1 month ago | islandpacket.com | David Lauderdale

Author Ann Head at work at a manual typewriter during her career as a pioneering writer about the Lowcountry provided The story ends with Ann Head’s disturbing death. “Unlike her fiction, her ending was never resolved,” her daughter Nancy Thode writes in a biography of her mother that launched in Beaufort on Saturday. Ann Head is a little-known native of Beaufort who overcame personal fears to become one of South Carolina’s most accomplished writers.