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“My favorite part of contributing to Monthly is connecting with new personalities and blending them with the magazine’s distinctive brand and valued ‘Voice.’ ” Amy Bartlett relocated to South Carolina in early 2020 to return to her first love, writing. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Bartlett started as an editor with Guideposts in New York City before becoming a published author, Napster music editor, and 15-year marketing director for a San Diego church and Northern California university. Now settled in the Bluffton-Hilton Head area working for John Wiley & Sons, Bartlett continues to create as a freelancer and consultant, including as a contract writer for group46 Marketing Agency in downtown Bluffton. Since arriving in the area with her parents, Bartlett has established deep local roots, building a house in “B-town,” adopting her dog Rudy from Rogue Rescue, and opening her home as a Foster Resource Parent. Add music and a boat, and the “Bluffton State of Mind” will be complete. Pen in hand, and peace in heart, Bartlett is finding no shortage of inspiration, living in love with the Lowcountry. 12 // H I LT O N H E A D M O N T H LY. C O M
Students and the public had a chance to view history with the presentation of the Anne Frank — A History for Today exhibit at Cross Schools in Bluffton. The Anne Frank Partnership was sponsored by The Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, and local partner, University of South Carolina’s College of Education Anne Frank Project. The Anne Frank Partnership has worked since 2015 to create globally and socially aware students in South Carolina classrooms. The international exhibit has traveled all over the world and is presented more than 300 times per year. It tells the story of Anne Frank against the background of the Holocaust and the Second World War. Various versions of the exhibition were available and the exhibit at Cross Schools featured 31 story panels, detailing her life. The Anne Frank exhibition is primarily aimed at students from 11 to 18 years old. Prior to the opening of the exhibit, Cross Schools’ high schoolers and middle schoolers trained to act as guides to the exhibition. Fifteen students, members of the Cross Schools Archivists Club, spent two days with trainers learning about the background of the exhibition; how they can communicate its content to people of their own age and how they can introduce more general themes such as tolerance and discrimination. The event ran through the end of last month. “Experiences like this act as windows to the world for students, helping them develop empathetic responses to current events in their lives,” said Heather Brougham-Cook, teacher mentor for the Archivists Club.
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