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SUMMARY:CAMP in the STACKS 2024: Week 4\, Around the World
DESCRIPTION:JULY 29th – August 2nd \nTheme: Around the World \nDuring this week\, campers will experience a different culture from around the world each day. \n\n $250 for Members // $275 for Non-Members// $50 additional for the Lunch Bunch option\nTo reserve your camper’s spot\, please CLICK HERE. \nCAMP in the STACKS details: \n\n\n\n\nAges 5-8 years old are invited to attend.\nMonday – Friday\, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. Drop-off and pick-up will be outside in front of our marble staircase. Here\, your children will be met by a CLS member who will escort your child into the Rabbit Hole to meet Kenna\, our wonderful teacher. If your child would prefer to be walked in by you\, there are a few “loading” parking spots 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 audible book 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-2024-week-4-around-the-world/
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Fruit
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Tori\, our Children’s Librarian. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Tori will read The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli and the craft will be paper plate watermelons! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-fruit/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Fruit
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Tori\, our Children’s Librarian. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Tori will read The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli and the craft will be paper plate watermelons! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-fruit-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:August New Member's Mingle
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our New Members Mingle! 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. Questions are welcome throughout our time together. \nThe tour starts at 5pm\, and generally ends around 6pm. 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 \nPlease RSVP with the form below. We look forward to seeing you! \n*Please note: if this session fills to capacity\, RSVP for September’s New Member Mingle!
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/august-new-members-mingle-3/
LOCATION:SC
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Beach
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Tori\, our Children’s Librarian. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Tori will read Sandcastle by Einat Tsarfati and the craft will be paper sandcastles! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-beach/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Early Democracy and the Path to the Civil War
DESCRIPTION:In the first of two Civil War-focused programs this Fall\, the CLS and Buxton Books are honored to welcome WSJ journalist and historian Robert W. Merry for his sixth book and latest debut. Exploring a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever\, Decade of Disunion illustrates the separation of the country during the enveloping slavery crisis of the 1850s\, or rather\, the long prelude to the Civil War – specifically\, how Massachusetts and South Carolina led the way\, and the American struggle through the aims\, fears\, and maneuvers of the subsequent prominent figures at the center of the drama\, with particular attention to the key players from these two states. \n\n“With characteristic wisdom and grace\, Robert W. Merry takes us back to critical hours in the history of American democracy\, shedding new light on ancient questions that are\, alas\, urgent once more. To revisit how we fell apart in the nineteenth century can help us see the crises of the twenty-first more clearly.” – Jon Meacham \nIf you are unable to attend the event\, but would like to reserve one or more signed copies\, please purchase here. \nThis is a collaborative event with Buxton Books\, guest information such as email and name will be shared between both parties for promotional purposes only. \nAbout the Book \nThe Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States\, which precipitated a growing crisis over slavery. The new territories seemed unsuitable for the type of agriculture that depended on slave labor\, but they lay south of the line where slavery was permitted by the 1820 Missouri Compromise. The subject of expanding slavery to the new territories became a flash point between North and South. \nFirst came the 1850 Compromise legislation\, which strengthened the fugitive slave law and outraged the North. Then in 1854\, Congress repealed the Missouri Compromise altogether\, unleashing a violent conflict in “Bleeding Kansas” over whether that territory would become free or slave. The 1857 Dred Scott decision—abrogating any rights of African Americans\, enslaved or free—further outraged the North. And John Brown’s ill-planned 1859 attack at the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry stirred anger and fear throughout the South. \nThrough a decade\, South Carolina\, whose economy depended heavily on slave labor\, struggled over whether to secede in a stand-alone act of defiance or to do so only in conjunction with other states. Meanwhile\, Massachusetts became the country’s antislavery epicenter but debated whether the Constitution was worth saving in the effort to abolish bondage. Both states widened the divide between North and South until disunion became inevitable. Then\, in December 1860\, in the wake of the Lincoln election\, South Carolina finally seceded\, leading the South out of the Union. \nBeginning with the deaths of the great second-generation figures of American history—Calhoun\, Webster\, and Clay—Decade of Disunion is a sobering reminder that democracy is not self-sustaining—it must be constantly and carefully defended. \nAbout Robert Merry \nRobert W. Merry is the author of five previous books\, including President McKinley: Architect of the American Century and A Country of Vast Designs\, James K. Polk\, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent. He spent a decade covering Washington for The Wall Street Journal and served as an executive at Congressional Quarterly Inc. for twenty-two years\, including twelve years as CEO. He lives with his wife\, Susan\, in Langley\, Washington\, and Washington\, DC.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/early-democracy-and-the-path-to-the-civil-war/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:CLS Book Club // "The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store" by James McBride
DESCRIPTION:CLS Book Club is FREE\, in-person\, and open to the public—and also member-researched and led through thoughtfully curated discussion. Whether you’ve finished the book\, are thinking about starting it\, or couldn’t make it past the halfway point\, please join us. \nRSVP is required via the form below so that we can plan for seating. \nPlease note that the authors of our selections ARE NOT in attendance.  \n~~ This is a rescheduled date\, previously Aug. 7\, if you have already RSPV’d\, your place is held ~~ \nAbout Book Club: \nOffered a few times a year\, the CLS Book Club seeks to explore a wide range of topics\, authors and diversity within its book selections. Under this objective\, Book Club also offers space for conversation\, perspectives and discourse. For The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store\, the ambitious duo\, Sugar Slaubaugh and Mary Gus Smith will present and explore the book’s overarching narrative\, after which the floor will open for questions and discussion. \nAbout the Book: \n\n\nIn 1972\, when workers in Pottstown\, Pennsylvania\, were digging the foundations for a new development\, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill\, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him\, it was Chona and Nate Timblin\, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill\, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen\, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white\, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it\, McBride shows us that even in dark times\, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us. Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store\, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird. \n\n\nFor a copy of the book\, check out our catalog here\, or shop local at Buxton Books.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/cls-book-club-the-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store-by-james-mcbride/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Beach
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Tori\, our Children’s Librarian. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Tori will read Sandcastle by Einat Tsarfati and the craft will be paper sandcastles! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-beach-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Tour Exclusive "A Great Marriage" // Frances Mayes in Conversation with Patti Callahan Henry
DESCRIPTION:Just days after publication\, the Library Society and Buxton Books are proud to host New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun\, Frances Mayes. A not-to-miss evening\, Mayes will take the audience through her latest publication\, A Great Marriage.  She will be joined in conversation by Patti Callahan Henry\, fellow New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels\, including her newest\, The Secret Book of Flora Lea. \nSecure your seat for this exclusive opportunity to join the audience with one of the most acclaimed storytellers of the era.  \nTickets*: PURCHASE HERE \n$ 40 – Members & General Admission // 1 Ticket and 1 signed copy of A Great Marriage \nNOTE: If you are unable to attend the program\, and wish to secure a signed copy (or copies!)\, please pre-order through the following link: A Great Marriage or call Buxton Books at (843) 723-1670. \nThis is a collaborative event with Buxton Books\, guest information such as email and name will be shared between both parties for promotional purposes only. \nABOUT THE BOOK \n\n\n\n\n\nDara Willcox\, in New York for a weekend\, meets Austin Clarke at an art gallery. If love at first sight can happen\, it happens to them. These two vivid\, ambitious people are on different courses—he’s British\, working temporarily in New York. She’s from North Carolina\, set on law school. They don’t care. They will make their lives together happen. At their April engagement dinner at Dara’s family home\, her mother\, Lee\, sets a beautiful table\, and the family and close friends gather to celebrate. Rich\, Dara’s father\, raises a toast. Suddenly\, Lee spills the wine\, a brilliant red stain splashing onto the tablecloth and onto Austin.Days later\, Austin hears unsettling news from London that wrecks their plans. Dara abruptly cancels the wedding. She refuses to reveal the reason\, not even to her best friends or her parents or grandmother\, disrupting their family tradition of openness. As everyone knows\, Lee and Rich have a great marriage\, and Charlotte\, her grandmother\, had a colossal one\, to the late Senator Mann.  Charlotte literally wrote the book on the subject: She’s the author of international bestsellers on what makes a good or possibly a great marriage.While Dara escapes to California and Indigo Island\, South Carolina\, Austin\, back in London\, faces a major tragedy\, the consequences of which are life-altering. But it’s Lee\, Dara’s mother\, whose impulsive visit to London alters their fate.With her signature warmth\, humor\, and incisive style\, beloved author Frances Mayes creates a multigenerational probe into the complexity of love and the great mystery ride of marriage. A novel of casual choices and fateful consequences\, A Great Marriage introduces two unforgettable families and the arrival of a stranger who rearranges their futures. \n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nFrances Mayes is the author of four books about Tuscany\, including the now-classic Under the Tuscan Sun\, which was a New York Times bestseller for more than two and a half years and became a Touchstone movie starring Diane Lane. It was followed by Bella Tuscany and two illustrated books\, In Tuscany and Bringing Tuscany Home. She is also the author of the novel Swan\, six books of poetry\, and The Discovery of Poetry. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Her most recent books are Women in Sunlight and A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home. Mayes and her work have been featured on “CBS Sunday Morning\,” and in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, among other outlets. \nABOUT PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY \nPatti Callahan Henry is a New York Times\, Globe and Mail\, and USA Today bestselling author of seventeen novels\, including her newest\, The Secret Book of Flora Lea. She’s also a podcast host of original content for her novels\, Surviving Savannah and Becoming Mrs. Lewis. She is the recipient of The Christy Award “Book of the Year”; The Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year for Becoming Mrs. Lewis. She is the co-host and co-creator of the popular weekly online Friends and Fiction live web show and podcast. Patti also was a contributor to the monthly life lesson essay column for Parade Magazine. She’s published in numerous anthologies\, articles\, and short story collections\, including an Audible Original about Florence Nightingale\, titled Wild Swan narrated by the Tony Award winner\, Cynthia Erivo. A full-time author\, mother of three\, and grandmother of two\, she lives in Mountain Brook\, Alabama with her husband\, Pat Henry. \n\nHer newest novel\, The Secret Book of Flora Lea\,  is set outside Oxford in the hamlet of Binsey and was released May 2\, 2023\, with Simon & Schuster Atria and is available now.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/book-tour-exclusive-frances-mayes-shares-a-great-marriage/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Books and Reading
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Tori\, our Children’s Librarian. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Tori will read Wild About Books by Judy Sierra and the craft will be bookmarks! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-books-and-reading/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Storytelling Series // Elizabeth Varon's Latest Biography
DESCRIPTION:RESCHEDULED EVENT FROM MARCH 2024 \nThe Library Society and Buxton Books are pleased to host renowned historian\, Elizabeth Varon\, of the Civil War era\, for her latest release – the story of American history’s most remarkable political about-face. \nElizabeth Varon’s Longstreet is a bold new biography of the Confederate general whose support of constitutional rights for Black Americans after the Civil War enraged Southern critics and ignited a campaign to destroy his reputation. General James Longstreet fought tenaciously for the Confederacy. He was alongside Lee at Gettysburg (and counseled him not to order the ill-fated attacks on entrenched Union forces there). He won a major Confederate victory at Chickamauga and was seriously wounded during a later battle. \nAfter the war\, Longstreet dramatically changed course. He supported Black voting and joined the newly elected\, integrated postwar government in Louisiana. When white supremacists took up arms to oust that government\, Longstreet\, leading the interracial state militia\, did battle against former Confederates. His defiance ignited a firestorm of controversy\, as white Southerners branded him a race traitor and blamed him retroactively for the South’s defeat in the Civil War.  \nAlthough he was one of the highest-ranking Confederate generals\, Longstreet has never been commemorated with statues or other memorials in the South because of his postwar actions in rejecting the Lost Cause mythology and urging racial reconciliation. \n\nTickets:  Members – $10 // General Admission – $15 \nIf you purchased tickets for the event in March and did not receive a refund\, your tickets are valid for this event. If you are unable to attend the new event date please call (843) 723-9912 for a refund.  \nTo purchase\, click here  \nor  call 843.723.9912 during Box Office Hours  \n(11:00AM–4:00PM Monday through Thursday).  \nIf you are unable to attend but would still like a (signed) copy of  “Longstreet”\, Click Here\, or call Buxton Books at (843) 723-1670 \nThis is a collaborative event with Buxton Books\, guest information such as email and name will be shared between both parties for promotional purposes only. \nAbout the Book:\nLONGSTREET reintroduces Americans to one of the Civil War era’s best known\, but least understood\, figures. This is the first full biography in decades\, and the first to give proper attention to Longstreet’s long post-Civil War political career. Longstreet’s unusual life illuminates both the transformative changes and the entrenched inequalities of the Civil War era. Longstreet is being rediscovered in the new age of racial reckoning. Varon\, an acclaimed Civil War historian and author of the 2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize-winning book\, Armies of Deliverance\, demonstrates that Longstreet’s controversial choices have enduring relevance for our modern debates over American history. \n\nAbout the Author:\nElizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams professor of American history at the University of Virginia and a member of the executive council of UVA’s John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History. Varon’s books include Southern Lady\, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew\, A Union Agent in the Heart of the\nConfederacy\, and Appomattox: Victory\, Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War. Her most recent book\, Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War\, won the 2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and was named one of The Wall Street Journal’s best books of 2019.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-elizabeth-varons-lastest-biography/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Books and Reading
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Tori\, our Children’s Librarian. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Tori will read Wild About Books by Judy Sierra and the craft will be bookmarks! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-books-and-reading-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240827T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240827T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053632
CREATED:20240725T165706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T151804Z
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Pirates and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Tori\, our Children’s Librarian. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Tori will read The Night Pirates by Peter Harris and the craft will be paper pirate hats! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-pirates-and-the-sea/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240828T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240828T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053632
CREATED:20240725T165754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T151818Z
UID:10001785-1724859000-1724862600@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Pirates and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Tori\, our Children’s Librarian. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Tori will read The Night Pirates by Peter Harris and the craft will be paper pirate hats! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-pirates-and-the-sea-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240903T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240903T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053632
CREATED:20240822T134945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T151833Z
UID:10001794-1725377400-1725381000@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Cows
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Tori\, our Children’s Librarian. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Tori will read The Cow Loves Cookies by Karma Wilson and the craft will be paper cow handprints! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-cows/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240904T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240904T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053632
CREATED:20240822T135022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T151847Z
UID:10001795-1725463800-1725467400@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Cows
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Tori\, our Children’s Librarian. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Tori will read The Cow Loves Cookies by Karma Wilson and the craft will be paper cow handprints! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-cows-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240907T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240907T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053632
CREATED:20240826T175647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T181053Z
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SUMMARY:Welcome Back to Saturday Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Libraries & Books
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Kenna\, our incredible Camps in the Stacks leader. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Kenna will read Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk and the craft will be paper bag books and flower bookmarks! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm and Saturday at 10:00 am–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/saturday-story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-library-books/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240909T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240909T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053632
CREATED:20240819T192504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240906T201517Z
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SUMMARY:September New Member's Mingle
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our New Members Mingle! 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. Questions are welcome throughout our time together. \nThe tour starts at 5pm\, and generally ends around 6pm. 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 \nPlease RSVP with the form below. We look forward to seeing you! \n*Please note: if this session fills to capacity\, RSVP for November’s New Member Mingle!
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/september-nmm/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053632
CREATED:20240822T181940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T151900Z
UID:10001797-1725982200-1725985800@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Day and Night
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Tori\, our Children’s Librarian. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Tori will read Good Day\, Good Night by Margaret Wise Brown and the craft will be paper plate suns and moons! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-day-and-night/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053632
CREATED:20240813T182208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240819T172716Z
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SUMMARY:Castle Pinckney\, A Definitive History
DESCRIPTION:As the first publication on its subject matter\, and with extensive primary research and archaeological evidence\, the impressive history of Castle Pinckney\, one of Charleston’s iconic but less often discussed landmarks\, is now documented in print. With much of the research coming from resources here at the Library Society\, we could not be more pleased to host the author’s launch of their new work\, Holding Charleston by the Bridle: Castle Pinckney and the Civil War. Join Authors W. Cliff Roberts and Matthew Locke in celebration of this achievement and to discover more about this little island played an important role in the succession turmoil of 1832 and 1850 that led to the 1861 bombardment of Fort Sumter. Given its importance to America’s history\, it is a history long overdue. \nIf you are unable to attend the event\, but would like to purchase one or more signed copies\, please visit Buxton Books here. \nAbout the Book: \nHolding Charleston by the Bridle: Castle Pinckney and the Civil War by Cliff Roberts and Matthew Locke is the first book on the subject\, from the fort’s innovative design as part of America’s “Second System” of coastal fortifications to the modern challenges of preserving its weathered brick walls against rising sea levels. The impressive bastion was constructed as a state-of-the-art seacoast fortress on the eve of the War of 1812. President James Monroe and Gens. Winfield Scott\, Robert E. Lee\, and P. G. T. Beauregard inspected its casemates and barracks. The history of Pinckney is as impressive as its list of visiting VIPs. \nOn the eve of the Civil War\, the London Times informed its readers that Castle Pinckney has “been kept garrisoned\, not to protect Charleston from naval attack from the ocean\, but to serve as a bridle upon the city.” Located on a marshy island in the center of Charleston’s magnificent harbor\, the large cannons on the ramparts of this horseshoe-shaped masonry fort had the ability to command downtown Charleston and the busy wharves along East Bay Street. This inescapable fact made Pinckney an important chess piece in the secession turmoil of 1832 and 1850\, and in the months leading up to the 1861 bombardment of Fort Sumter. \nAbout W. Cliff Roberts Jr.: \nW. Clifford Roberts is a retired businessman and educator and the co-author of Atlanta’s Fighting 42nd: Joseph Johnston’s “Old Guard” (2020). Cliff was raised outside of Washington\, D.C. and has a BA in Southern history from Vanderbilt University (1981) and an MBA from Emory University (1983). An active board member of several historical\, preservation\, and genealogical associations\, Cliff lives with his wife Vicki and dog Hashbrown in downtown Charleston. \nAbout Matthew A. M. Locke: \nMatthew Locke was born and educated in London where he worked as an Executive Officer in the British Civil Service. As a passionate student of the Civil War and living historian\, he visited Charleston in 1999\, fell in love with the city\, and became fascinated with Castle Pinckney. He moved to South Carolina in 2001 and began researching the history of the Castle and Shutes Folley Island. In 2021\, he was appointed as a Guardian of Castle Pinckney and works there with archeologists\, historians\, and conservationists. Matthew\, his wife Jacqueline\, and daughter Abigail live just outside Charleston.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/holding-charleston-by-the-bridle-an-exploration-of-castle-pinckney/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240911T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240911T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053632
CREATED:20240822T182018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T151914Z
UID:10001798-1726068600-1726072200@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Day and Night
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Tori\, our Children’s Librarian. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Tori will read Good Day\, Good Night by Margaret Wise Brown and the craft will be paper plate suns and moons! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-day-and-night-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240912T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053632
CREATED:20240628T131823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T140403Z
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SUMMARY:New Perspective on Conquests of the Native South
DESCRIPTION:Last spring\, we explored the less-referenced Spanish link in early American history with author Kevin Kokomoor. As a follow-up\, and on his suggestion\, we look forward to hosting Evan Nooe\, Assistant Professor of History and historian for the Native American Studies Center at the University of South Carolina Lancaster\, on his 2022 McMillan Prize reinterpretation of coalescence and its role in the American South. For Indigenous people\, coalescence generated shared histories\, inherited traditions\, creation stories and legends that knitted together once-disparate groups. Kokomoor notes that “if this was how many of the Native people of the Southeast came into being\, then so it was with its white population\, too. More specifically\, combined memories of violence at the hands of Natives cut across regional and socioeconomic lines\, unifying Southerners through a collective (if not largely fabricated) heritage of suffering. While this framework does not perfectly describe the complexities of southern identity\, it does as good a job with white experiences as it does Native ones.” The narrative in Aggression and Sufferings complements important and influential studies by Peter Silver\, Patrick Griffin\, and others\, though it is the first to focus on the South by examining the long struggle between settlers and Creeks\, from the Creek Red Stick War to the Seminole Indian Wars. Nooe will share insights as well as frame his lecture specifically exploring Charleston’s relationship to the start of the Second Seminole War (1835-1842) in Florida and the legacy of violence left behind for Native peoples in Florida and Southerners in South Carolina. \nIf you are unable to attend the event\, but would like to purchase one or more signed copies\, please visit Buxton Books here. \nAbout the Book \nA bold reconceptualization of how settler expansion and narratives of victimhood\, honor\, and revenge drove the conquest and erasure of the Native South and fed the emergence of a distinct white Southern identity. In 1823\, Tennessee historian John Haywood encapsulated a foundational sentiment among the white citizenry of Tennessee when he wrote of a “long continued course of aggression and sufferings” between whites and Native Americans. According to F. Evan Nooe\, “aggression” and “sufferings” are broad categories that can be used to represent the framework of factors contributing to the coalescence of the white South. Traditionally\, the concept of coalescence is an anthropological model used to examine the transformation of Indigenous communities in the Eastern Woodlands from chieftaincies to Native tribes\, confederacies\, and nations in response to colonialism. Applying this concept to white southerners\, Nooe argues that through the experiences and selective memory of settlers in the antebellum South\, white southerners incorporated their aggression against and suffering at the hands of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeast in the coalescence of a regional identity built upon the violent dispossession of the Native South. This\, in turn\, formed a precursor to Confederate identity and its later iterations in the long nineteenth century. Geographically\, Aggression and Sufferings prioritizes events in South Carolina\, Florida\, Tennessee\, Georgia\, and Alabama. Nooe considers how divergent systems of violence and justice between Native Americans and white settlers (such as blood revenge and concepts of honor) functioned in the region and examines the involved societies’ conflicting standards on how to equitably resolve interpersonal violence. Finally\, Nooe explores how white southerners constructed\, propagated\, and perpetuated harrowing tales of colonizers as both victims and heroes in the violent expulsion of the region’s Native peoples from their homelands. This constructed sense of regional history and identity continued to flower into the antebellum period\, during western expansion\, and well through the twentieth century. \nAbout Evan Nooe \nF. Evan Nooe is an Assistant Professor of History and historian for the Native American Studies Center at the University of South Carolina Lancaster. His book Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence\, Native Resistance\, and the Coalescence of the Old South examines how the violent dispossession of the Indigenous South remade the region and white Southerners. The book won the 2022 McMillan Prize for best manuscript in Southern history from the University of Alabama Press. Nooe has also published numerous journal articles and essays on on the US South\, Native American history\, tourism\, and foodways. His work has appeared in academic journals such as Ethnohistory\, The Southern Quarterly\, Native South\, and the Journal of Tourism History.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/new-perspective-on-conquests-of-the-native-south/
LOCATION:SC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240914T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053632
CREATED:20240826T175850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T175850Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Dogs and Puppies
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Kenna\, our incredible Camps in the Stacks leader. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Kenna will read Boop! by Bea Birdsong and the craft will be dachshund/wiener dog puppets! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm and Saturday at 10:00 am–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/saturday-story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-dogs-and-puppies/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053632
CREATED:20240822T182339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T151926Z
UID:10001799-1726587000-1726590600@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Fall
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Tori\, our Children’s Librarian. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Tori will read Goodbye Summer\, Hello Autumn by Kenard Pak and the craft will be paper plate wreaths! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-fall/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053632
CREATED:20240628T131851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T150353Z
UID:10001751-1726596000-1726599600@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
SUMMARY:Global Reverberations of the Civil War Beyond Domestic Shores
DESCRIPTION:Along with Buxton Books\, we welcome USC Emeritus and acclaimed historian Don H. Doyle for the second of two Civil War-focused programs this fall. \nFollowing the success of The Cause of All Nations\, Doyle has just released his latest book The Age of Reconstruction\, a sweeping history of how the Union’s victory in the American Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination sparked an international chain reaction that inspired democratic reforms\, revolutions\, and emancipation movements across Europe and Latin America. \nIf you are unable to attend the event\, but would like to purchase one or more signed copies\, please visit Buxton Books here. \nAbout the Book \nThe Age of Reconstruction looks beyond post-Civil War America—in this international history of Reconstruction\, Don Doyle chronicles the world events inspired by the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1870\, France withdrew from Mexico\, Russia sold Alaska to the United States\, and Britain proclaimed the new state of Canada. British workers demanded more voting rights\, Spain toppled Queen Isabella II and ended slavery in its Caribbean colonies\, Cubans rose against Spanish rule\, France overthrew Napoleon III\, and the kingdom of Pope Pius IX fell before the Italian Risorgimento. Some European liberals\, including Victor Hugo and Giuseppe Mazzini\, even called for a “United States of Europe.” Yet for all its achievements and optimism\, this “new birth of freedom” was short-lived. By the 1890s\, Reconstruction had been undone in the United States and abroad\, and America had become an exclusionary democracy based on white supremacy—and a very different kind of model to the world. \nAt home and abroad\, America’s Reconstruction was\, as W.E.B. Du Bois wrote\, “the greatest and most important step toward world democracy of all men of all races ever taken in the modern world.” The Age of Reconstruction is a bracing history of a remarkable period when democracy\, having survived the great test of the Civil War\, was ascendant around the Atlantic world. \nAbout Don Doyle \nBefore this most recent installment\, Don H. Doyle authored of The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War\, Nations Divided: America\, Italy\, and the Southern Question (2002)\, Faulkner’s County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha (2000). He spent most of his career teaching at the University of Michigan (Dearborn)\, Vanderbilt\, and the University of South Carolina where he is a professor emeritus of history. In 2018 he served as a Fulbright Specialist at the University of Toulouse and the Sorbonne in France. Additionally\, Doyle has taught abroad in Italy\, England\, and Brazil. He is now retired and lives in Folly Beach\, South Carolina.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/global-reverberations-of-the-civil-war-beyond-domestic-shores/
LOCATION:SC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053632
CREATED:20240822T182426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T151939Z
UID:10001800-1726673400-1726677000@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Fall
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Tori\, our Children’s Librarian. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Tori will read Goodbye Summer\, Hello Autumn by Kenard Pak and the craft will be paper plate wreaths! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-fall-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T123000
DTSTAMP:20260404T053632
CREATED:20240816T165126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241111T165506Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop // Paper Marbling in the Bindery
DESCRIPTION:Join Charleston Library Society’s Director of Conservation James Davis and Conservation Intern Sam Barnhart for an introduction to the ancient art of decorative paper marbling: a method of aqueous surface design using ink and paint colors\, which can produce patterns similar to smooth marble or other kinds of stone. During this creative session\, you will explore the fascinating craft that transforms prepared papers with fluid patterns and vibrant colors. The workshop will introduce the history of paper marbling which dates back to the 10th century\, and provide insights into materials\, tools\, and techniques to create your own unique papers. Whether you’re a seasoned artist or a beginner\, this class offers something for everyone who wishes to experiment with creative paper techniques using various color combinations and designs. Join us to discover the joy of creating your unique marbled papers! \nTickets are $150 for CLS members and $175 for General Admission.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/workshop-paper-marbling-in-the-bindery-3/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Untold Narratives of the Revolutionary War
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with SC250 (the South Carolina American Revolution Sestercentennial Commission)\, we are so pleased to have been a recipient of one of their many generous grants oriented around commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary Era\, and the state’s significant role in securing America’s freedom\, by highlighting historical documents from this time period that had not previously been brought to the surface. Of the almost 900 manuscript materials held at CLS\, approximately 90+ items were selected as candidates for digitization and transcription. \nJoin us for a special audience with two South Carolina historians\, Rev. Dr. Paul Wood\, Jr. and Dr. Larry D. Watson\, who will reflect on this newly-established digital collection and contextualize how this important work illuminates new information about what we know of the Revolutionary War through a myriad of under-represented narratives\, which in many cases\, tell the “rest of the story.” By uncovering and sharing these raw materials of history\, the project provides a deeper narrative and a pathway for individuals to connect to many of the unique and profoundly personal Revolutionary documents. \nSpecial thanks to Brett Bennett and Heather Hawkins at SC250\, as well as the diligent work of our staff\, volunteers and interns: Collin Butler\, Debbie Fenn\, and Erin Perkins for their work in transcription\, Jules Silberberg for creating and organizing the metadata\, and the rest of our team at CLS (Jennifer Comer\, Danielle Cox\, Debbie Fenn\, Lisa Hayes and Laura Mina for their hard work in completing this project). \nAttendance is Free with RSVP\, Please register below. \nAbout SC250 \nThe digitization and transcription of these materials were supported by funding from the South Carolina American Revolution Sestercentennial Commission (SC250). 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. Its mission is to celebrate and promote South Carolina’s role in the American Revolution by engaging and inspiring South Carolinians and visitors through heritage tourism\, rural economic impact initiatives\, and educational programs. \nAbout Rev. Dr. Paul Wood\, Jr. \nThe Rev. Dr. Paul A. Wood\, Jr. was born in Charleston\, SC\, and raised in Camden\, where he graduated from Camden High School in 1973. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Furman University\, a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School\, and a Doctor of Ministry from Candler School of Theology\, Emory University. Paul is a retired United Methodist minister. He served churches throughout South Carolina from 1980 until 2017. He and his wife Rev. Kay Wood retired to Inman\, SC\, but moved to Camden in 2021. For many years\, Kay worked as a Registered Nurse. She later received ordination as a Full Deacon in the United Methodist Church and ministered as a hospice chaplain until her retirement in 2017.  Upon his retirement\, Rev. Dr. Wood became a historian of the American Revolution in South Carolina. He specializes in: South Carolinian Dicey Langston Springfield\, heroine of the American Revolution\, Ann Pamela Cuningham\, defender of the Cunningham family and founder of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association\, and “The Civil War” which embroiled South Carolina during the Revolution. Additionally\, Paul is writing a biography of William Cunningham\, “Bloody Bill\,” who became the state’s most prolific murderer during the American Revolution. \nRev. Dr. Wood’s academic article on Dicey Langston can be found under Education Resources at southcarolina250.com. He is writing the William Cunningham biography with support from South Carolina’s Sestercentennial Commission. \nAbout Dr. Larry D. Watson \nDr. Larry Watson is Associate Professor in the department of History at the University of South Carolina. He is also an Adjunct Professor of History at SC State University and Department Chair for Social Science. His fields of research are colonial America\, Civil War and Reconstruction and Twentieth Century America.  Dr. Watson received his Masters in History from SC State University and his Ph.D. in African American and United States History as well as Early American Literature at his current residence\, USC\, in Columbia\, South Carolina. \nDr. Watson is an experienced speaker and panelist\, producing presentations and essays throughout his professional career.  His most recent work includes  “Impact of the American Revolution on Slave Manumissions in South Carolina” 2023\, “The Women of Reconstruction” 2022\, Moderator for the Documentary “Meltdown in Dixie” 2022 and “The Charleston Hospital Workers Strike” 2021.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/untold-narratives-of-the-revolutionary-war/
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SUMMARY:Saturday Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Apples
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Kenna\, our incredible Camps in the Stacks leader. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Kenna will read Ten Little Caterpillars by Bill Martin Jr. followed by an apple and worm lacing craft! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm and Saturday at 10:00 am–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/saturday-story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-apples/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T163000
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Getting Clean
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Tori\, our Children’s Librarian. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Tori will read Pigeon Needs a Bath by Mo Willems and the craft will be paper bubble baths! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-getting-clean/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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