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Folk musician Mary Edna unites protest with art – upcoming events

This week I am putting on my musical hat. In the 60’s and 70’s I was a folk singer and traveled the South, mainly in my home state of NC, playing guitar on porches and various venues. My first coffee house was opened when I was in the 10th grade in a church basement in […]
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DHEC Board denies second bulkhead permit

Nancy Vinson of the Coastal Conservation League reports about their progress in protecting Kiawah Island’s sand spit from development: The DHEC Board did the right thing in denying a second permit for a bulkhead on the river side of Captain Sam’s Spit. They corrected their staff’s inconsistent permit decision (staff had approved it). The DHEC […]
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Mary Edna’s words in the Secret Garden Journal

Up in the Air Editors’ Note:  Mary Edna Fraser transforms her aerial photographs into batiks featured in spaces from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to NASA and Duke University’s Art Museum.  Inspired by environmental concerns, she uses her art for equilibrium.  Her forthcoming book will be published by Duke University’s press.  Visit her exhibit […]
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