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SUMMARY:CAMP in the STACKS 2026: Scientists in the Stacks
DESCRIPTION:Week 4: JULY 27th – JULY 31st \n\nJoin CLS for Camp in the Stacks\, Summer 2026! During the fourth and final week of Camp in the Stacks\, campers will explore the wonders of the world we live in… from the little bugs in our garden to the planets in outer space! \nPlease fill out the waiver form linked here after you’ve purchased your ticket below. Spots will not be held for your children until the waiver forms are complete.  \nNOTE: All Campers must be potty trained and accustomed to a classroom environment. \nPurchase tickets HERE! \nCAMP in the STACKS details: \n\n\n\n\nCamp times and days are Monday – Friday\, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. Drop-off and pick-up will be outside in front of our marble staircase.\nAges 4-8 years old are invited to attend.\nAt drop-off and pick-up\, your child will be met by a CLS member who will escort your child into the Rabbit Hole to meet our camp staff. If your child would prefer to be walked in by you\, a few “loading” parking spots are available across the street that don’t require payment. Otherwise\, there are several parking meter spots on King. Pickup will be at 12:00 pm for Standard Campers and 1:00 pm for our Lunch Bunch Campers.\nWe are offering a “Lunch Bunch” hour option from 12:00-1:00 pm at the end of camp for an additional $50. CLS will not be providing lunch. If you’re choosing this addition\, please send your child’s lunch for a picnic outside in our beautiful garden\, weather permitting! We have a refrigerator if needed. During this additional hour\, our campers will have an opportunity to listen to an audiobook and/or have time for choice play in the designated stations of the Rabbit Hole once they’re finished with their lunch.\nEach day’s agenda will tentatively look like this: Begin with circle time\, followed by stories and two crafts. Our campers will be able to enjoy choice play with the toys and games available in the Rabbit Hole if they have free time.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/camp-in-the-stacks-2026-scientist-in-the-stacks/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tiny Tales In The Rabbit Hole
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time and Tiny Tales\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our new addition to the Rabbit Hole! During this half-hour\, baby-centered program\, children ages 0-2 and their parents/caregivers will join Justine\, our Children’s Programming Coordinator\, to read in the Rabbit Hole and participate in movement and tummy time. \nReserve your spot HERE. \nPlease note\, we’ve updated our ticketing system—purchases now go through Neon Events for a smoother registration experience. For any issues\, please call our Front Desk at 843-723-9912.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/tiny-tales-in-the-rabbit-hole-65/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Tour Exclusive // "If Books Could Kill"
DESCRIPTION:We’ve all wished to be transported into our favorite books\, especially those with a happy ending. But what happens when it’s not such a happy ending…rather\, a horror-filled one instead? Romance lovers meet the crime thriller obsessed in one fantastic debut from self-proclaimed “grown-up theater kid” Kate Eberle\, joined in conversation by Inky Phoenix acquiring editor and author Kathryn Budig. Bringing to life the inner yearnings of all romance (and thriller) lovers in If Books Could Kill\, join us in celebrating Kate’s Charleston stop on her book tour with a trip to the Main Reading Room. \nPurchase Tickets HERE!  \nIf you are unable to attend the event\, but would like to purchase one or more copies\, please visit Buxton Books. \nAbout the Book \nA Novel Love Story meets Love in the Time of Serial Killers in this rom-com following Roxie Mitchell\, an adventure-loving romance reader who finds herself trapped in a meet-cute turned murderous. When Roxie makes a tongue-in-cheek wish to live out the plot of her favorite author’s next novel\, she has romance in mind—namely\, the sweet\, safe\, swoon-worthy storylines Anna Matthews is known for. It should be a dream come true when her wish is granted\, and she finds herself swept into a first date with a handsome stranger who seems designed to take her breath away. Except for one little hiccup: That handsome stranger tries to take her breath away. Literally. With a knife. The thing is\, Roxie\, may be the new Anna Matthews protagonist—but this time\, Anna is writing a crime thriller. Thrown into a perilous genre she’s never read\, Roxie is desperate for help. So when her escape takes her straight into the path of Grant Hoffman\, an anxious English professor with a convenient love of crime novels\, she decides that kidnapping a grown man is a small price to pay for her own survival. Together\, Roxie and Grant navigate a madcap story in which the lines between fiction and reality blur. They’ll find out if they have what it takes to make it to The End—or maybe even Happily Ever After. \nAbout the Author \nKate Eberle studied journalism at Boston University before rediscovering her love of fiction. She lives and writes in Connecticut\, where she spends the rest of her time listening to audiobooks like it’s her job (it literally is) and being the ultimate menace to society: a grown-up Theatre Kid. If Books Could Kill is her first novel. \nAbout the Moderator \nKathryn Budig is a yoga teacher\, author\, publisher\, and acquiring editor of Inky Phoenix Press\, and founder of the online platform\, Haus of Phoenix. Kathryn (she/her) is known for empowering her students and readers through her accessibility\, humor\, and creative instruction. The Kansas native graduated from the University of Virginia with a double degree in English Literature and Drama before moving to Los Angeles\, where she trained at Yogaworks under the tutelage of her mentors\, Maty Ezraty and Chuck Miller. With nearly two decades of experience in her field\, Budig served as the yoga editor to Women’s Health magazine for five years\, contributed recipes and sat on the Yahoo Health Advisory Board\, was an athlete in Under Armour’s “I WILL WHAT I WANT” campaign\, and regularly contributed to Yoga Journal\, The New Potato\, and MindBodyGreen. She is the creator of the Aim True Yoga DVD\, author of The Women’s Health Big Book of Yoga\, and the best-selling book Aim True. Off the mat\, Budig founded and runs The Inky Phoenix\, a membership book club and publishing imprint for lovers of magic and story. She lives in Charleston\, SC\, with her rescue pup\, Ragnar.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/book-tour-exclusive-if-books-could-kill/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:August New Member Orientation
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our New Member Orientation! Every second Monday of the month\, we host our newest members of the CLS family for a fun and informative tour of the facility\, including key information on utilizing Library resources\, an exploration of some of the treasures from the CLS archives\, a visit to the Igoe Shakespeare Library\, concluding with a tour of our bindery and information about our conservation efforts. Feel free to ask questions throughout our time together. \nThe tour starts at 5 pm and generally ends around 6 pm. The tour schedule includes:\n5:00 – 5:10 pm Welcome\n5:10 – 5:20 pm Introduction of staff and an overview of the Main Reading Room and Exhibits\n5:20 – 5:40 pm Tour of key areas of the Library\, including the Melvin P. Seiden Gallery\, the Kellogg Family Map Room\, the Ruth and Bill Baker Conference Room\, the Igoe Shakespeare Library\, and the Stephen F. Gates Vaults\n5:40 – 6:00 pm  Tour of Dorothy’s Book Bindery and the Jerrold and Ann Mitchell Conservation Lab; Q&A \nReserve your spot HERE. We look forward to seeing you! \n*Please note: if this session fills to capacity\, RSVP for September’s New Member Orientation! 
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/august-new-member-orientation-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Divided Loyalty // Herb Frazier & Joe McGill Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Historic preservationist Joseph McGill Jr. and journalist Herb Frazier\, renowned in Charleston for their incredible insights and documentation of various areas of our history have newly compiled stories of Native Americans and free and enslaved people of African descent during the Revolutionary War in South Carolina in a special report\, “Native Americans\, Black Patriots and Black Loyalists in the Revolutionary War in South Carolina\,” made possible by the SC250 Commission. Join us with Evening Post Books for a special discussion and preview of this report that has been expanded to a book set to publish later in October – Divided Loyalty: Uneven Paths to Freedom in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War – outlining varying perspectives of how individuals ‘chose sides’.. \nPurchase Tickets HERE! \n\n\nAbout Herb Frazier \nHerb Frazier is a Charleston\, South Carolina-based writer. He’s a senior editor for the Charleston City Paper and the former marketing director at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston. Before he joined Magnolia\, Herb edited and reported for five daily newspapers in the South\, including his hometown paper\, The Post and Courier. Herb’s international reporting includes West Germany during the fall of the Berlin Wall\, humanitarian post-war relief efforts in Bosnia and Rwanda during its post-genocide recovery\, social and political issues in Japan and South Korea and Cuba’s cultural ties with Florida and Lowcountry South Carolina. He also reported on the military conflict in Sierra Leone. Herb has written about the historical and cultural ties between West Africa and the Gullah Geechee people of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. Herb represented South Carolina on the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission\, created by the U.S. Congress in 2006. He also served as secretary of the Jazz Artists of Charleston\, which supports the Charleston Jazz Orchestra. Currently\, Herb is a member of the Historic Charleston Foundation Board of Trustees. He is the author of Behind God’s Back: Gullah Memories. He is a co-author of We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel with Marjory Wentworth and Dr. Bernard Powers Jr. Herb also co-edited a collection of poems and essays titled Ukweli: (pronounced – you ̶ quail – lee) Searching for Healing Truth\, South Carolina Writers and Poets Explore American Racism with the late Horace Mungin. Herb’s latest book\, Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery\, is a collaboration with Joseph McGill Jr.\, founder of the Slave Dwelling Project. Herb’s forthcoming books are Crossing the Sea on a Sacred Song\, which tells the story of an African funeral song that links a Georgia family with a woman in Sierra Leone. He and McGill are the co-authors of Divided Loyalty: Uneven Paths to Freedom in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.  \nAbout Joseph McGill Jr \nJoseph McGill\, Jr. is a public historian\, preservationist\, author\, and educator with over three decades of experience in heritage interpretation\, museum leadership\, and community-based public humanities. He is the Founder and Executive Director of The Slave Dwelling Project (SDP)\, a nationally and internationally recognized nonprofit organization based in Charleston\, South Carolina\, dedicated to preserving\, interpreting\, and elevating the history of the enslaved. Since founding the organization in 2010\, Mr. McGill has conducted more than 250 overnight stays in former slave dwellings across 25 U.S. states and Canada\, transforming these historic spaces into platforms for storytelling\, education\, and racial reconciliation. Through programs such as Campfire Conversations\, Inalienable Rights: Living History Through the Eyes of the Enslaved\, and Sleeping with the Ancestors\, The Slave Dwelling Project has become a model for truth-telling and descendant engagement at historic sites nationwide. Mr. McGill’s nationally acclaimed book\, Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery (Hachette\, 2023)\, coauthored with journalist Herb Frazier\, chronicles his personal and professional journey to preserve the dwellings of the enslaved and amplify their stories. The book has been featured by The New York Times\, Smithsonian Magazine\, Booklist\, and The Washington Post\, praised for transforming preservation work into a powerful form of restorative public history. Before founding The Slave Dwelling Project\, Mr. McGill served as a Field Officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation (2009–2016)\, where he supported sites across the country in advancing inclusive preservation practices and interpretation of African American history. A U.S. Air Force veteran and a native of Kingstree\, South Carolina\, Mr. McGill earned his Bachelor of Arts in Professional English from South Carolina State University. His interpretive work has extended to partnerships with institutions such as the International African American Museum\, James Madison’s Montpelier\, Belle Grove Plantation\, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Beyond his professional life\, Joseph McGill’s family anchors his mission. He is married to Vilarin Mozee McGill and is the proud father of Charity Barriere Muhammad and Jocelyn Mozee McGill. His deep sense of duty to truth-telling\, preservation\, and intergenerational education continues to guide his work to ensure that the stories of the enslaved—America’s Ancestors—are preserved\, honored\, and taught with dignity and reverence. \n\n\nAbout SC250 \nSC250 Charleston is intended to serve as an umbrella for Charleston-area community organizations\, governmental entities\, and business enterprises interested in conceiving\, building and sponsoring initiatives that commemorate the American Revolution and the leading roles played by Charleston’s people and places. This program is sponsored (in part) by the South Carolina American Revolution Sestercentennial Commission. SC250 was established by the SC Legislature to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary-Era and highlight the state’s significant role in securing America’s freedom by engaging and inspiring South Carolinians and visitors through heritage tourism\, rural economic impact initiatives\, and educational programs. Contents and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of SC250\, nor does the mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation by SC250.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/divided-loyalty-herb-frazier-joe-mcgill-jr/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Workshop // Exploration in Marbling
DESCRIPTION:Given the ongoing success of our paper marbling workshops\, we are thrilled to introduce a new twist using traditional Turkish paper marbling in creating your own designs on a variety of materials. In this hands-on class\, you’ll learn how to float pigments on water\, manipulate colors with tools\, and transform them into enchanting shapes like flowers\, butterflies\, and other imaginative motifs. Perfect for beginners and creatives of all levels\, this workshop blends techniques\, history\, and play—resulting in one-of-a-kind artworks to take home. \nPurchase Tickets Here!
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/workshop-exploration-in-marbling/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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