You can get a free coronavirus test on Hilton Head on Monday. What you need to know
Hilton Head Island will host another testing event for COVID-19 from 7 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Monday at Hilton Head High School.
The event will be set up as a drive-thru with nasal swab tests available without a doctor’s note or appointment.
The new testing event comes after 900 people were tested on Wednesday at the school. The National Guard opened the testing site early and stayed an hour late to test as many people as possible.
S.C. Sen. Tom Davis said the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control will stock 1,000 tests for Monday’s event.
The results of tests are confidential and cannot be reported to your employer. You do not need a driver’s license or personal identification to be tested.
Planning to go on Monday? Be prepared for long lines by bringing The Island Packet crossword puzzle or reading one of the following books to bide the time.
The Island Packet summer reading list
The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette staff have been working from home since mid-March to get you the news.
Here’s what we’ve been reading in our free time:
Lowcountry Flair
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis by Patti Henry
Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy by Cassandra King Conroy “gives an inside look into the life of one of Beaufort’s favorite people,” according to David Lauderdale.
Classics
1984 by George Orwell is “quite simply my favorite book of all time,” Hilton Head reporter Katherine Kokal said.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Cookbooks and Self-help
Magnolia Table by Joanna Gaines, which reporter and audience team member Lisa Wilson said is “a lovely book to look at and to use. Lots of great comfort-food dishes that have been good to try while eating more at home.”
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth, which Beaufort reporter Stephen Fastenau said is “deeply interesting and worth the time” to understand how high achievement and grit can be learned attributes.
Graphic Novels/ Fantasy
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Memoir/ Essay/ Story collections
The White Album by Joan Didion
Educated by Tara Westover
Dispatches by Michael Herr
I Hate to See that Evening Sun Go Down by William Gay
Mystery/ Crime/ Suspense
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens “paints a beautifully familiar picture of the Lowcountry marshes we love with a hint of love, mystery and growing up in solitude,” according to reporter Kokal.
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, which has recently been turned into a Hulu series.
Social Issues
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic by Eric Eyre and edited by Island Packet alum Wade Livingston.
This is Chance! by Jon Mooalem
Cheated by Jay Smith and Mary Willingham, which education reporter Rachel Jones said is a detailed look into her alma mater UNC’s athletics scandal.
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
