That's That

• Getting visitors to the Lowcountry to relax is really hard work
  Relax.

• Stop the presses! Harbour Town lighthouse color hasn't changed
  Only those of us stuck in the pluff mud of life get anonymous tips like this:

• St. Patrick's Day reminds us that we are all ingredients in the American stew
  It's not easy being green in the LO'country.

• Daffodil picking: How we know it's nearly spring in the Lowcountry
  Daffodil fields are open for public picking today in Beaufort and Bluffton.

• Pianist brings her talent, her story to the Lowcountry
  Maybe Stephanie Chen will leave with a whisper of the Lowcountry in her musical voice.

• How one woman overcame the racial barriers that divide us
  Laura Markovich came to Beaufort County in 1965 because it had one of the few places in the South where whites and blacks could gather.

• Ray Smith had a passion for music, abhorrence for war
  Ray Smith's melodic voice has been stilled. With his passing Feb. 26 at age 87 goes an interesting slice of Americana.

• Fighting fire with fire -- effigy pushes vultures to more pleasant pastures
  High in a tree over a bucolic lane in Bluffton hangs a dead vulture, of all things.

• Hilton Head man put his money where his heart was for Haiti
  Harry Kitchen had just come off the golf course and was enjoying a quiet moment alone at home. Then the phone rang, and a string of miracles took flight.

• Not one to argue with an expert -- barbeque began right here on Parris Island
  This just in: Barbecue was invented in Beaufort County in the late 1500s.

• The ospreys are back just in time to dazzle volunteer naturalists
  Our magnificent ospreys have returned to their high perches all over Beaufort County.

• How Beaufort welcomed The Yankee with open arms
  As God is my witness, The Yankee is going to rise again.

• World-class promoters to reminisce at Hilton Head Ad Club reunion
  If you answered the siren song of Hilton Head Island in the roaring 1980s, the chorus that wooed you is still humming.

• Love provides cure for an era of pain
  Bonnie Lowrey should be whining and pouting.

• Heritage Library embodiment of rich, brave history of gullah residents
  Richard Oriage smiles as he holds a loose-leaf notebook full of information about his family.

• Beaufort County has good reason not to do things like they do up North -- our marshes
  By now everybody in Beaufort County has heard, "We don't care how you did it up North."

• A quiet county vet heals animals, helps create a community
  When the screen door slaps behind you at Dr. Fred E. Ducey Jr.'s veterinary clinic in Ridgeland, you have to blink your eyes. For a moment, you think you've stepped back into 1960.

• With format change at local station, sound of beach music grows fainter
  Put another scratch in the long record of beach music's struggle to be heard.

• Hugh and Nancy Pearson left Beaufort better than they found it
  Dr. Hugh Oliver Pearson Jr. and his wife, Nancy Fraser Pearson, weren't from around here.

• Don't judge Battery Creek High by its undeserved reputation
  Scott Conant went to Battery Creek High School in Beaufort to teach.

• Beaufort loses prolific poet, community fixture Walter Dennis
  Beaufort lost one of its characters when Walter Dennis was found dead Monday in his home at 905 1/2 Wilmington St.

• How one quiet woman made a big noise for customer service
  It sounds so simple -- customer service.

• Newcomer prompts a refresher in how some things are different in the South
  I had a date with a room full of women Thursday, and left with a new appreciation for the Lowcountry.

• Beaufort man's correspondence with Obama continues with family photo
  James A. Watson Jr. of West Street in Beaufort got mail Tuesday from the White House.

• Pastor's advice to Christians: Raise more hell on behalf of the poor
  Tony Campolo is a hell-raiser.