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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT – Speaker Series: John Oller
DESCRIPTION:Join the College of Charleston Friends of the Library and author John Oller to explore the real story of the “George Washington of the South\,” Francis Marion. Catapulted into popular memory by fictional depictions on television and in film\, the historical Marion bears little resemblance to these caricatures. His exploits\, however\, were no less heroic. The first biography in nearly half a century\, Oller’s “Swamp Fox” compiles striking evidence to provide a fresh look at Marion the man and his integral role in the American Revolution. \nIn this action-packed true story we meet many colorful characters from the Revolution: Banastre Tarleton\, the British cavalry officer who relentlessly pursued Marion over twenty-six miles of swamp\, only to call off the chase and declare (per legend)\, that “the Devil himself could not catch this damned old fox\,” giving Marion his famous nickname; Thomas Sumter\, the bold but rash patriot militia leader whom Marion detested; Lord Cornwallis\, the imperious British commander who ordered the hanging of rebels and the destruction of their plantations; and “Light-Horse Harry” Lee\, the urbane young Continental cavalryman who helped Marion topple critical British outposts in South Carolina. But most of all we’ll Francis Marion himself\, “the Washington of the South”—a man of ruthless determination yet humane character\, motivated by what his peers called “the purest patriotism.” \nJohn Oller’s stories will no doubt be riveting to fans of this piece of Lowcountry legend. \nTickets to this event are free to the public\, however RSVPs are requested. To reserve your tickets\, please click here \n\nJohn Oller\, a lawyer and journalist\, is the author of six non-fiction works of American history.  A graduate of The Ohio State University and Georgetown University Law Center\, Oller is a member of Biographers International Organization and the Dramatists Guild.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/sold-out-speaker-series-john-oller/
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library: Small Opera Presents
DESCRIPTION:Small Opera will present a portion of their Love & Death program this Valentine’s Day at the Charleston Library Society.  What better way to celebrate the holiday than with classic pieces from performances including highlights from Bizet’s Carmen and Puccini’s La Boheme.  Tickets are $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers. To purchase\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nSMOP is a no-frills opera company bringing compact shows & pop-up community events around the southeast U.S. Our goal is to make the classic art form fresh\, fun\, and accessible for all by bringing the opera to YOU\, the audience: we sing in unconventional spaces and environments\, we have modern interpretations of classic repertoire\, and we encourage audience participation! \nWe use intimate casts\, minimal costumes\, stripped sets\, simply… \nNOMADIC VOCAL DRAMA
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-small-opera-presents/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190220T100000
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SUMMARY:Lifelong Learning: Best Friends\, Whether We Like It or Not: US-Canada Relations and Interactions 1760-Present
DESCRIPTION:Best Friends\, Whether We Like It or Not: US-Canada Relations and Interactions 1760-Present \nThis Lifelong Learning class will cover the history of the relationship between the US (or its precursor colonies) and Canada (or its colonial precursor) from the fall of Quebec near the end of the French and Indian War to the present. The impact of each on the other\, in terms of flow of people\, of trade\, of conflict or cooperation\, and of cultural interaction will be covered. Perspectives on identities in the 40 years following the Declaration of Independence and a somewhat new take on the War of 1812 will be covered. The shift from cautious friendship after 1870 to the closest of allies today will be addressed\, and contemporary relationship challenges related to trade and defense will be analyzed.   \nTickets are $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nPresenter: Dr. John Scott Cowan\, PhD\, DMilSc \nPrincipal Emeritus\, The Royal Military College of Canada \nJohn Scott Cowan studied physics and then physiology at Toronto. A post-doc at Laval University preceded 24 years at the University of Ottawa as professor\, chair of the department of physiology\, and then VP. Leaving Ottawa in 1995\, he became VP at Queen’s University before becoming principal of the Royal Military College of Canada (1999-2008). RMC is the university of the armed forces in Canada. \nHe has been President of the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies\, the Canadian Physiological Society\, and the Canadian Association of University Business Officers. He has also worked extensively in labour relations. A pilot\, he has flown about 6000 hours in 64 aircraft types. Research in physiology co-existed with defence issues\, starting with a 1963 monograph on defence policy. Since 2001 he has focussed on asymmetric threats\, piracy\, the characteristics of the profession of arms\, and defence education. He was president of the CDA Institute 2008-2012\, and chair of the Defence Advisory Board of Canada 2010-2013. In 2
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/lifelong-learning-best-friends-whether-we-like-it-or-not-us-canada-relations-and-interactions-1760-present/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190221T190000
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT – Music at the Library: Bachanalia
DESCRIPTION:Join The Bach Society of Charleston as they celebrate Bach. This evening of music and romance begins with a concert of Baroque chamber music for harpsichord\, violin\, and voice followed by a talk offering glimpses into the personal life of Bach. Our speaker is Pulitzer Prize-finalist\, scholar Christoph Wolff\, author of the New York Times best-selling biography\, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician. The program concludes with a book signing and reception featuring European wines\, cheeses\, and confections. Delightful in itself\, this event is an amuse bouche for the Bach Society’s upcoming spring festival of Baroque music\, March 8-10. \nThe Bach Society of Charleston is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to presenting Baroque music on Baroque instruments in an American Baroque city. \nTickets are strictly available through the Bach Society of Charleston and are $25 for adults and $10 for students. To purchase tickets\, click here. \nPulitzer-prize finalist author and Harvard University Professor\, Christoph Wolff will offer a lecture on the private life of Bach as chronicled in his New York Times best-selling biography\, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician. His talk will be preceded by Baroque chamber music\, featuring London Royal College of Music graduate and international guest soloist\, Margaret Kelly Cook; Murray Somerville\, founding conductor of the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra\, on harpsichord\, and Allison Willet\, founding member of the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra\, on Baroque violin.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/sold-out-music-at-the-library-bachanalia/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Sally Mott Freeman
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear Sally Mott Freeman discuss her critically acclaimed book\, The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family’s Quest to Bring Him Home. Boasting a rave review from The New York Times\, The Jersey Brothers tells the real- life survival tale of a trio of Navy brothers\nat the epicenter of World War II. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nThis extraordinary adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II is “liable to break the hearts of Unbroken fans\, and it’s all true” (The New York Times). \nThey are three brothers\, all Navy men\, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of the war’s most crucial moments. Bill\, a naval intelligence officer\, is tapped by FDR to set up and run his secret map room in the White House basement. Benny is the gunnery and antiaircraft officer on USS Enterprise\, one of the few ships to escape Pearl Harbor and\, by the end of 1942\, the only aircraft carrier left in the Pacific to defend against the Japanese. Barton\, the youngest\, gets a plum commission in the Navy Supply Corps because his mother wants him out of harm’s way. But this protection plan backfires when Barton is sent to Manila and listed as wounded and missing after a Japanese attack. Now it is up to Bill and Benny to find and rescue him… \nBased on a decade of research drawn from archives around the world\, interviews with fellow shipmates and POWs\, and half-forgotten letters stashed away in attics\, The Jersey Brothers is “a captivating tour-de-force” (San Antonio Express-News) that whisks readers from America’s front porches to Roosevelt’s White House to the battlefronts of the Pacific. But at its heart The Jersey Brothers is a family story\, written by one of its own in intimate\, novelistic detail. It is a remarkable tale of agony and triumph; of an ordinary young man who shows extraordinary courage as the enemy does everything short of killing him; and of brotherly love tested under the tortures of war. \n“The Jersey Brothers shines in singularity. A blend of history\, family saga and family questions\, Freeman’s book [is] a winning and moving success\, and adds an authoritative entry to the… vast canon of war literature” (Richmond Times Dispatch). \nSally Mott Freeman was a speechwriter and media and public relations executive for twenty-five years. She is currently Board Chair Emerita of The Writer’s Center\, the premier independent literary center in the mid-Atlantic. The Jersey Brothers is her first book.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-sally-mott-freeman/
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SUMMARY:Coastal Conservation Book Launch: J. Henry Fair
DESCRIPTION:The Library Society and the Coastal Conservation League partner to celebrate the release of On The Edge: From Combahee To Winyah by J. Henry Fair\, the revered photographer and environmental activist. Fair uses pictures to tell stories about people and things that affect people; On the Edge\nis the first of his “Coastline” series and will surely delight all lovers of the Lowcountry. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nAbout the Book: On The Edge \nThis series is a portrait of the coasts before the major impacts of climate change and ocean rise take effect.Ironically\, just as these realities council a move of infrastructure away from the ocean\, coastal population density and infrastructure investment on the shore are rapidly increasing. \nSouth Carolina is blessed with a stunning wild and beautiful coastline that goes from wilderness wetlands to world-class beaches. \nIt is a gift that is the result of geography\, history\, and inaccessibility\, but the massive rush of people coming here to enjoy those amenities are overwhelming the existing infrastructure\, and any attempts to preserve this gem. \nFurthermore the combination of historic pollution issues\, and the pressure to explore for petroleum resources combine with the reality of climate-change driven impacts to threaten this fragile coast.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/coastal-conservation-book-launch-j-henry-fair/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190321T190000
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library: The Zephyr Trio
DESCRIPTION:The Zephyr Trio plays a lively set of Celtic music – old and new – to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in style. Three Charleston favorites: Karin McQuade (fiddle and vocals)\, Abigail Kent (award-winning harpist)\, and Susan Conant (flutes\, whistles\, vocals) collaborate for a new venture that showcases each of their distinctive gifts. Tickets are $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, please call 843-723-9912 or click here \nMcQuade and Kent formed a Celtic combo during their SOA years but split to explore different paths through college. Meanwhile\, Conant and McQuade fashioned a musical partnership while playing with local band\, Good Foot. As Zephyr\, the three join together to branch out in new directions. McQuade takes the lead with her stunning Gaelic vocals and unique fiddle style.  Harpist\, Abigail Kent\, a star in her own right\, alternates between providing a harmonic base and crafting brilliant solos. Conant helps knit the group together providing organizational structure while adding colorful accents on flute\, recorders\, whistles and back-up vocals. \nMcQuade explores styles ranging from Celtic music and gutsy contra dance tunes to oldie covers and indie originals with a diverse group of Charleston-based ensembles including Tea and Whiskey\, Contra Force\, Good Foot\, Na Fidlieri and Yr Lad.  She maintains a busy teaching studio and gigs throughout the Southeast. \nHarpist\, Abigail Kent\, is the 2017–19 touring “Concert Artist” of the American Harp Society after winning the prestigious Pan-American solo competition. Currently\, she is presenting solo recitals and teaching masterclasses throughout the US and Canada\, while also having been a featured harp soloist for the 2017 World Harp Congress in Hong Kong\, a Laureate Finalist at the 2017 Classics Alive management search in Los Angeles\, and named the February 2018 “New Artist of the Month” for Musical America International Magazine. Ms. Kent studied for a year at the Royal Academy of Music in London\, and then was selected as the Maryjane Mayhew Barton Fellow at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she graduated with the Landis Award for Excellence in Academics. Currently\, she is a Presidential Scholar studying with Emmanuel Ceysson\, Principal Harpist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra\, in the Masters of Music program at Mannes School of Music in New York City. \nSusan Conant is a seasoned performer and teacher on flutes\, whistles and recorders. As Interim Music Director for the Unitarian Church in Charleston\, Conant conducts the choir and organizes and directs an energetic and diverse music program.  She has played in and for a variety of local ensembles including Brazilian music band\, Porto Seguro\, Duo Dos\, Charleston Pro Musica\, Good Foot\, Na Fidlieiri and the Charleston Symphony Spiritual Choir. Most recently she played recorder for the Charleston Symphony’s Harry Potter concert. She composes chamber music and has recorded two discs of her own compositions
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-the-zephyr-trio/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190328T180000
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SUMMARY:Evening Post Book Launch: John Warley
DESCRIPTION:Join Evening Post Books as the celebrate John Warley and his most recent book\, The Home Guard. To RSVP to this free event\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nBook Description: \nIn 1861\, a 12-year-old boy and his 80-year-old grandmother flee their elegant home along the Beaufort River to shelter in the wilderness of Cane Island\, South Carolina. They struggle to survive as the Civil War lays waste to the existence they’ve known and loved\, a way of life doomed from its unholy inception. Carter’s mother Anna has fled to Charleston\, along with most of his neighbors; his brother Preston is off fighting for the Confederacy; the family’s former slaves have looted his childhood home; and Union troops have commandeered his hometown. Meanwhile\, Carter’s charming\, cocksure cousin Gabe has asked him to spy for the Confederacy. In this classic coming-of-age story\, Carter Barnwell is thrust into an early manhood as he faces the challenges of living off the land\, caring for his ailing grandmother\, wrestling with his budding sexuality\, and wrangling with his awakening conscience. When he meets an abolitionist missionary from the north – who happens to be a beautiful young girl – Carter begins to see his world through new and critical eyes\, even as he maintains fierce loyalty to the people and homeland he loves. \nJohn Warley is an award-winning writer of fiction\, non-fiction and essays. His 2014 novel\, A Southern Girl\, was the first book published under the University of South Carolina Press’s Story River Books imprint\, Pat Conroy\, editor. His more recently published Stand Forever\, Yielding Never: The Citadel in the Twenty-first Century (Evening Post Books)\, documents the history of his alma mater for the half-century since General Mark Clark\, retired as its president in 1965. In addition to his Citadel degree\, Warley earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School. He is the author of “The Citadel at War\,” a narrative history of the college incorporated into the school’s war memorial on the campus. He lives in Beaufort\, South Carolina.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/evening-post-book-launch-john-warley/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190330T120000
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SUMMARY:Crafternoon: Hand Embroidery 2.0
DESCRIPTION:CRAFTERNOON:\nHAND EMBROIDERY 2.0 \nCrafternoon returns with our Special Collections Librarian\, Anna Smith!\nAnna will lead the class with classic hand embroidery techniques to embellish cocktail napkins with springtime themes. Each participant will receive a set of four cocktail napkins\, an embroidery hoop\, needle and thread. Light refreshments will be served. Space is limited\, so RSVP soon. For questions\, email asmith@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. $45 per person – To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/crafternoon-hand-embroidery-2-0/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190411T140000
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SUMMARY:JCC Bookfest Presents – Judy Goldman
DESCRIPTION:Charleston JCC WOW Bookfest proudly presents: Judy Goldman: Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap \nAdmission: $10 – Tickets can be purchased by clicking here. \nA routine procedure left novelist\, memoirist\, and poet Judy Goldman’s husband paralyzed. Together is her unforgettable account of the struggle to regain their normal life and a nuanced portrait of a marriage tested. \nWhen Judy Goldman’s husband of almost four decades reads a newspaper ad for an injection to alleviate back pain\, an outpatient procedure sounds like the answer to his longtime backaches. But rather than restoring his tennis game\, the procedure leaves him paralyzed from the waist down – a phenomenon none of the doctors the family consults can explain. Overnight\, Goldman’s world is turned upside down. Though she has always thought of herself as the polite\, demure wife opposite her strong\, brave husband\, Goldman finds herself thrown into a new role as his advocate\, navigating byzantine hospital policies\, demanding and refusing treatments\, seeking solutions to help him win back his independence. \nAlong the way\, Goldman flashes back to her memories of their life together. As she tries envision her family’s future\, she discovers a new\, more resilient version of herself. Together is a story of the life we imagine versus the life we lead-an elegant and empathetic meditation on partnership\, aging\, and\, of course\, love. \nFor more information\, contact Marylyn Haspel\, Bookfest Director\, at marylynh@charlestonjcc.org or 843-580-8564 \nThis program sponsored in part by a generous allocation from the Charleston Jewish Federation
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/jcc-bookfest-presents-judy-goldman/
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library- CMC Presents Rock & Rondo Redux V
DESCRIPTION:Rock and Rondo Redux V \nMusicians of CMC once again trade in their formal concert attire for leather and blue jeans for the return of the acclaimed crossover concert that combines classics of Rock and Roll with a masterpiece of the chamber music literature.   Violinists Jenny Wess and Tomas Jakubek\, violist Ben Weiss and cellist Timothy O’Malley perform Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody\,” The Eagles “Hotel California” and Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” along with Beethoven’s glorious String Quartet Op. 18 No. 3. \nFor tickets\, call 843-763-4941 or click here.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-cmc-presents-rock-rondo-redux-v/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T103000
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SUMMARY:CLS Book Club: My Brilliant Friend
DESCRIPTION:Our final book club before the summer break will take place on April 17th\, 2019 from 10:30-12:00 and will focus on friendship.  Though a deep female friendship lies at the heart of the book selected for our next meeting—My Brilliant Friend\, by Elena Ferrante—we will be reading the Wall Street Journal article Friendships for Guys(No Tears) by Jeffrey Zaslow as well.  We will be covering\, comparing\, and contrasting male friendships with female friendships and diving into the subject as a whole and everyone is welcome.  There will be something for everybody. Please RSVP – to do so\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nWe are very excited to introduce our guest curators for this event: Lindy Carter and Pamela Levi. \nLindy Keane Carter is an award-winning journalist recently retired from a 40-year writing career. Her work has been published in airline magazines\, trade periodicals\, and academic medical journals. In 2012 she completed coursework in the Master of Arts Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. In 2014 she published her first novel (southern historical fiction)\, followed by her second in 2018. She is a two-time winner in the South Carolina Fiction Project\, sponsored by the South Carolina Arts Commission. As for her reading tastes\, Lindy likes a good story well told. Born and raised in Georgia\, Lindy has lived primarily in Charleston since 1976. \nPamela Levi is Professor and  Dean Emeritus from the University System of Georgia’s liberal arts university\, Georgia College & State University. She has presented internationally  and nationally on healthcare and education issues. The recipient of awards for  excellence in teaching\, scholarship and innovation. she has a substantive record of service and leadership at the local\, state and national level. A Distinguished Lecturer for Sigma Theta Tau International\, Dr.Levi retired after 32 years of teaching and administrative positions. She returned home to Charleston in 2003.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/cls-book-club-my-brilliant-friend/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190425T200000
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library: Kate Kayaian
DESCRIPTION:Kate Kayaian presents The Voice of the Cello: \nAcclaimed cellist Kate Kayaian takes you on a musical journey that explores the expressive range of her beloved instrument.  Hearing works by Bach\, Crumb\, Hovhaness and Gianopoulos\, you will discover how each composer’s cultural\, political\, and personal circumstances helped to shape their music\, and how they each found their own unique voice while writing for the same instrument.  Come and be transported to Germany\, Japan\, Greece\, Armenia and beyond! Tickets are $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers. To purchase\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nCellist Kate Kayaian is known for her stunning artistry and for her passion for communicating through music. She maintains a rigorous schedule balancing her solo and chamber music performances with her teaching and conducting positions and musical exchange projects around the world. Her 2018-2019 schedule includes recitals and concerts in Chicago\, Seattle\, Victoria\, BC\, Palm Beach\, Charleston\, Houston\, Bermuda\, and throughout the New England area.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-kate-kayaian/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190429T180000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Lydia Fitzpatrick
DESCRIPTION:MON. APR 29 | 6:00PM – SPEAKER SERIES: LYDIA FITZPATRICK \nThe dazzling debut author\, Lydia Fitzpatrick\, will discuss her upcoming book Lights All Night Long\, a gripping and deftly plotted narrative of family and belonging. Tickets are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. Every ticket purchased will receive a $5 off coupon for the title book Lights All Night Long useable specifically at this event. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nFifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. The abundance of his new world the Super Walmarts and heated pools and enormous televisions is as hard to fathom as the relentless cheerfulness of his host parents. And Sadie\, their beautiful and enigmatic daughter\, has miraculously taken an interest in him. \nBut all is not right in Ilyas world: he’s consumed by the fate of his older brother Vladimir\, the magnetic rebel to Ilyas dutiful wunderkind\, back in their tiny Russian hometown. The two have always been close\, spending their days dreaming of escaping to America. But when Ilya was tapped for the exchange\, Vladimir disappeared into their towns seedy\, drug-plagued underworld. Just before Ilya left\, the murders of three young women rocked the towns usual calm\, and Vladimir found himself in prison. \nWith the help of Sadie\, who has secrets of her own\, Ilya embarks on a mission to prove Vladimirs innocence. Piecing together the timeline of the murders and Vladimirs descent into addiction\, Ilya discovers the radical lengths to which Vladimir has gone to protect hima truth he could only have learned by leaving him behind. \nA rich tale of belonging and the pull of homes both native and adopted\, Lights All Night Long is a spellbinding story of the fierce bond between brothers determined to find a way back to each other. \nLydia Fitzpatrick’s work has appeared in the The O. Henry Prize Stories\, The Best American Mystery Stories\, One Story\, Glimmer Train\, and elsewhere. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, a fiction fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, and a recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant. She graduated from Princeton University and received an MFA from the University of Michigan. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-lydia-fitzpatrick/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190430T180000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Lydia Fenet
DESCRIPTION:The country’s leading benefit auctioneer\, managing director at Christies and a CLS sell-out lecturer speaks about her first book\, The Most Powerful Woman In The Room Is You. Lydia Fenet will return to CLS to discuss her new book and auction off some incredible packages for the Library Society Membership. Tickets are $35 for members and $40 for nonmembers and include a copy of Fenet’s The Most Powerful Woman in The Room Is You. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here.\n \nLydia Fenet serves as the Managing Director and Global Director of Strategic Partnerships at Christies. In addition to her role within Christies\, she has raised over half a billion dollars for over 400 non-profits worldwide as the leading benefit auctioneer in the country. Ms. Fenet has trained all of Christies benefit auctioneers for the past seven years\, and travels around the country to speak to corporations and groups on The Art of Selling. Lydia’s auctioneering achievements have been featured in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Forbes\, Vogue\, Crains\, Elle\, Vanity Fair\, Forbes\, WWD\, Vogue.com\, and WorkingMother.com. The Most Powerful Woman in the Room is You is her first book and will be published by Touchstone\, an imprint of Simon & Schuster\, in Spring 2019. You can follow her auctions\, antics\, and anecdotes on Instagram: @LydiaFenet. \nIn The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You\, Lydia Fenet takes you on her twenty-year journey from intern to managing director and global head of strategic partnerships at Christies Auction House. Lydia shares the revolutionary sales approach she has crafted over the years that has not only shaped her career\, but helped her raise more than half a billion dollars for nonprofits around the world. \nThis is an approach that will empower you to sell your way to success in business and in life. For example\, you’ll learn how to create your own Strike Method or signature move to help you feel confident entering any situation. Combining case studies and personal stories\, Lydia also shares tips from some of the most powerful and successful women in business\, fashion\, journalism\, sports\, and the arts. \nThis book will show you how to take your career to the next level\, whether its overcoming your fear of asking for something or bridging a wage gap. Lydia has been there and come back more powerful than ever. Inspiring and encouraging\, Lydia’s hard-won advice will help you walk into any room with the confidence of a leader and motivate others to find their voice as well. Get ready to embrace your natural strengths\, map your career\, and take ownership of your life.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-lydia-fenet/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190503T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190503T190000
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT – Speaker Series: Delia Owens
DESCRIPTION:Join CLS & Buxton Books as we welcome bestselling author Delia Owens as she speaks about her hit novel Where The Crawdads Sing. Owens will be introduced by bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe for this incredible lecture event. Tickets are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. Every ticket purchased will receive a $5 off coupon for the title book Where The Crawdads Sing useable specifically at this event. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \n#1 New York Times Bestseller\nA Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick \n“I cant even express how much I love this book! I didn’t want this story to end!” -Reese Witherspoon \n“Painfully beautiful.” –The New York Times Book Review \n“Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver.” –Bustle \nFor years\, rumors of the Marsh Girl have haunted Barkley Cove\, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969\, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead\, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark\, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent\, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home\, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty\, Kya opens herself to a new life until the unthinkable happens. \nPerfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Karen Russell\, Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world\, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story\, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were\, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps. \nDelia Owens is the co-author of three internationally bestselling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist in AfricaCry of the Kalahari\, The Eye of the Elephant\, and Secrets of the Savanna. She has won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing and has been published in Nature\, The African Journal of Ecology\, and International Wildlife\, among many others. She currently lives in Idaho\, where she continues her support for the people and wildlife of Zambia. Where the Crawdads Sing is her first novel.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/sold-out-speaker-series-delia-owens/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Matt & Ted Lee in Conversation with Julian Van Winkle
DESCRIPTION:Join CLS as we host culinary geniuses\, who just happen to be brothers\, Matt and Ted Lee as they discuss their new book Hotbox. They will delight audiences with stories and tales of their “undercover” work in the cut-throat world of high-end catering while being in conversation with Pappy Van Winkle’s Julian P. Van Winkle III. Tickets for this unique event are $35 for members and $40 for nonmembers. Every ticket includes a copy of the Lee Bros. book\, Hotbox.  To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here \nMatt Lee and Ted Lee take on the competitive\, wild world of high-end catering\, exposing the secrets of a food business few home cooks or restaurant chefs ever experience. \nHotbox reveals the real-life drama behind cavernous event spaces and soaring white tents\, where cooking conditions have more in common with a mobile army hospital than a restaurant. Known for their modern take on Southern cooking\, the Lee brothers steeped themselves in the catering business for four years\, learning the culture from the inside-out. Its a realm where you find eccentric characters\, working in extreme conditions\, who must produce magical events and instantly adapt when\, for instance\, the hosts toast runs a half-hour too long\, a hail storm erupts\, or a rolling rack of hundreds of ice cream desserts goes wheels-up. \nWhether they’re dashing through black-tie fundraisers\, celebrity-spotting at a Hampton’s cookout\, or following a silverware crew at 3:00 a.m. in a warehouse in New Jersey\, the Lee brothers guide you on a romp from the inner circle the elite team of chefs using little more than their wits and Sterno to turn out lamb shanks for eight hundred to the outer reaches of the industries that facilitate the most dazzling galas. You’ll never attend a party or entertain on your own in the same way after reading this book.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-matt-ted-lee-in-conversation-with-julian-van-winkle/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190514T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190514T193000
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SUMMARY:Royal Oak Foundation Presents: David Lough
DESCRIPTION:The Library Society is excited to host the Royal Oak Foundation as they present David Lough. Lough’s new book\, My Darling Winston: The Letters Between Winston Churchill and His Mother (October 2018)\, explores the unusual—and under-appreciated—relationship between Winston Churchill and his American mother\, Jennie Jerome\, as revealed by the private letters that they exchanged over a period of forty years. Tickets for this event are $35 for members and $45 for nonmembers. To purchase\, call 212-480-2889 or click here. \nMy Darling Winston \nThe Letters Between Winston Churchill and His Mother\n“My pen wanders recklessly\,” wrote Winston Churchill of the sparkling letters he exchanged with his mother\, Jennie Jerome\, over a period of 40 years. David Lough’s lecture\, based on the first-ever edited selection of their correspondence\, sheds new light on Churchill’s early emotional\, intellectual and political development. Spanning from 1881 to1921\, these missives follow Churchill’s life of adventure and political ambition\, covering many milestones: his army service in India\, time as a prisoner of war\, election to Parliament\, resignation after Gallipoli\, and his return to politics in 1917. \nHis mother’s life\, by contrast\, follows a downward spiral: her second marriage founders and she becomes a lonely figure\, moving forlornly around the country homes of her wealthy friends. Their letters disclose an intense relationship between a demanding mother and a difficult son\, both gifted writers who reveal much about themselves and the time period. Churchill’s missives reveal his personality as a young child and a truculent teen\, looking to his mother to fix everything—which she usually did. Jerome’s letters reveal a dynamic woman leveraging limited agency in a sexist society. \nBrimming with gossip\, name-dropping and chutzpah\, and populated by an impressive cast of late Victorian and Edwardian characters\, Mr. Lough’s lecture will enrich our understanding of Britain’s most celebrated statesman. He will offer poignant insights into Churchill’s relationship with the woman whose advice and loving encouragement set him on the path to power. \nThank you to our co-sponsor: International Churchill Society; College of Arms Foundation \nDavid Lough read history at Oxford University\, where he won first class honors. Mr. Lough then had a long and fruitful career in finance\, starting in Asia and investment banking\, before founding a private banking business in 1988. Mr. Lough is a former member of the London Stock Exchange and Fellow of the Chartered Securities Institute. He returned to history in his retirement and coupled it with his experience in finance to write his first book\, the best-seller No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money (2015). His new book\, My Darling Winston: The Letters Between Winston Churchill and His Mother (October 2018)\, explores the unusual—and under-appreciated—relationship between Winston Churchill and his American mother\, Jennie Jerome\, as revealed by the private letters that they exchanged over a period of forty years.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/royal-oak-foundation-presents-david-lough/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190516T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190516T190000
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SUMMARY:Drayton Hall Presents: Chef Kevin Mitchell on a Tale of Two Historic Dinners
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Mitchell\, chef and scholar of southern foodways discusses history as told through his food in two historic meals presented in Charleston. Chef Mitchell will revisit the cooks\, the ingredients and the inspiration for the Nat Fuller and the Drayton Hall Tribute dinners. \nCLS partners with Drayton Hall for Chef Mitchell’s talk on what it was to research and create two historic dinners in tribute to the enslaved cooks of Charleston. A powerful and moving story told by food from hands of a scholar who researched their stories and work. \nA remarkable conversation regarding one chef’s journey with Charleston history is planned. \nChef Mitchell’s discussion is free to all. The reception is for $10 members and $20 non-members. No door admittance can be accommodated\, please  RSVP HERE TO ATTEND. \nThis lecture is made possible by a grant from South Carolina Humanities.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/drayton-hall-presents-chef-kevin-mitchell-on-a-tale-of-two-historic-dinners/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190518T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190518T140000
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SUMMARY:Crafternoon- Fresh Floral Embroidery
DESCRIPTION:April showers bring May flower embroidery samplers!  Learn a few new embroidery stitches with this floral-focused class.  These stitches will brighten up any botanical project.  You don’t need to be experienced in embroidery to take this class\, but you should be comfortable threading floss into a needle\, and familiar with a few basic embroidery stitches.  Each student will receive a sampler to embroider\, an embroidery hoop\, and a needle.  All other supplies will be provided for use during the workshop.    Tickets are $45 per person. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 and speak with Anna or email asmith@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/crafternoon-fresh-floral-embroidery/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190520T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190520T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Ron Rash\, J.C. Sasser\, and Ray McManus
DESCRIPTION:CLS & Buxton Books are excited to host three contributors of the new book “Gather At The River” which features over 25 authors’ stories on fishing. The three authors that will be featured at this special event are Ron Rash\, J.C. Sasser\, and Ray McManus. All with their own accolades\, this event will be interesting and impressive. Anyone with a passion for fishing will walk away with their very own copy of this impressive fishing anthology\, “Gather At The River.”\nTickets are $25 for members and $30 for nonmembers and include a copy of the featured book. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nThe Cherokee have a ceremony of going to water. Once a month on a night governed by the moon\, they go to the river in an act of renewal and reverie. Much like baptism\, it is the belief that there is a healing power to water\, a sentiment shared by every soul thats ever stood waist-deep in a river watching trout rise. Gather At The River isn’t a collection of big fish stories. This is PEN/Faulkner Finalist Ron Rash writing about a 50-year-old fly reel. Its #1 New York Times Bestselling Author CJ Box explaining where he wants his ashes spread when he dies. This is an anthology about friendship\, family\, love and loss\, and everything in between\, because as Henry David Thoreau wrote\, it is not really the fish they are after. \nContributors include New York Times Bestselling Authors Ace Atkins\, Ron Rash\, Jill McCorkle\, Leigh Ann Henion\, Eric Rickstad\, M.O. Walsh\, J.C. Sasser\, Ray McManus and #1 Bestseller C.J. Box.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-ron-rash-j-c-sasser-and-ray-mcmanus/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190520T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190520T210000
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library Fundraiser: Tuffus Zimbabwe & Mayor Tecklenburg
DESCRIPTION:A Special Fundraiser for the Jenkins Institute with Tuffus Zimbabwe and Mayor John Tecklenburg \nThursday\, May 30th ~ 6:30 – 9:00PM \nJoin Saturday Night Live pianist Tuffus Zimbabwe and Mayor Tecklenburg for an evening rich in the jazz roots of the Lowcountry. Zimbabwe\, the great-grandson of the Rev. Daniel Joseph Jenkins\, founder of Jenkins Orphanage\, and the world famous Jenkins Orphanage Band will play and tell stories with the Mayor as a special benefit for Jenkins Institute for Children. \nTickets are $50 to support this fundraiser evening. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nTuffus is a pianist and composer from the Roxbury area of Boston. He comes from a rich background of artists and musicians\, most notably the musical genius Edmund Jenkins\, a brilliant composer and performer in the genres of Jazz and Classical music from the early 1900s. He was internationally renowned and is remembered for his significant contributions to the development of jazz in the United States\, via Charleston\, South Carolina. Tuffus\, a versatile composer and master musician in his own right\, started piano lessons at the early age of five. His father\, a teacher\, and his mother\, a visual artist\, both armed with knowledge of their rich musical heritage\, made it a point to provide Tuffus with substantial musical exposure. He began by studying classical piano\, which he did for roughly two decades. At the age of 12 he explored gospel music at a local Roxbury church where he started playing piano with the mens choir. \nIn his early teens\, Tuffus joined Berklee College of Musics City Music Program\, where\nhe began his formal training in jazz. Here is where his skills and talents as a musician\nmatured. The program offered him a laboratory to develop his compositions and a forum\nto perform with his peers. At 18\, Tuffus received the prestigious Walter Beasley Award\,\nwon the song writing competition at Berklees Five Week Summer Program\, and was\nsubsequently awarded the full-tuition City Music Continuing Scholarship to study in\nBerklees undergraduate program (class of 05). Here he dual-majored in Music\nBusiness and Film Scoring while engaging in extensive studies in composition and\nperformance. \nTuffus composition skills landed him a spot on Liz Walkers CBS-TV morning show\nwhere he performed his original African Breeze with the Tuffus Zimbabwe Group. One\nof his original compositions was already being used weekly as the theme for this show.\nTuffus continued his education\, earning his Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies from\nNew York University. \nTuffus currently works as a keyboardist in the Saturday Night Live Band on NBC. He\nalso works in a number of bands such as Ron Rieds Sun Steel band and Jovol Bells\nReality.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-fundraiser-tuffus-zimbabwe-mayor-tecklenburg/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190601T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190601T150000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation on Life\, Love\, and Food with Ann Hood & Michael Ruhlman
DESCRIPTION:Ann Hood and Michael Ruhlman both write about love and food and cooking—and each other. They will be in conversation about the writing life\, the marriage of two writers \, and life in and out of the kitchen. They are thrilled to return to Charleston\, one of the most extraordinary food cities in the country and present this afternoon at the Charleston Library Society. Tickets are $35 for members and $40 for nonmembers. All tickets include a copy of Hood’s “Kitchen Yarns”. For tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nFrom her Italian American childhood through singlehood\, raising and feeding a growing family\, divorce\, and a new marriage to food writer Michael Ruhlman\, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up\, she tasted love in her grandmother’s tomato sauce and dreamed of her mother’s special-occasion Fancy Lady Sandwiches. Later\, the kitchen became the heart of Hood’s own home. She cooked pork roast to warm her first apartment\, used two cups of dried basil for her first attempt at making pesto\, taught her children how to make their favorite potatoes\, found hope in her daughter’s omelet after a divorce\, and fell in love again―with both her husband and his foolproof chicken stock. \nHood tracks her lifelong journey in the kitchen with twenty-seven heartfelt essays\, each accompanied by a recipe (or a few). In “Carbonara Quest\,” searching for the perfect spaghetti helped her cope with lonely nights as a flight attendant. In the award-winning essay “The Golden Silver Palate\,” she recounts the history of her fail-safe dinner party recipe for Chicken Marbella―and how it did fail her when she was falling in love. Hood’s simple\, comforting recipes also include her mother’s famous meatballs\, hearty Italian Beef Stew\, classic Indiana Fried Chicken\, the perfect grilled cheese\, and a deliciously summery peach pie. \nWith Hood’s signature humor and tenderness\, Kitchen Yarns spills tales of loss and starting from scratch\, family love and feasts with friends\, and how the perfect meal is one that tastes like home.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-conversation-on-life-love-and-food-with-ann-hood-michael-ruhlman/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190608T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190608T150000
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SUMMARY:Piccolo Spoleto Event – Judge Richard Gergel\, Jonathan Green\, and Tom Tisdale
DESCRIPTION:CLS & Buxton Books are excited to host this Piccolo Spoleto event! Join US District Judge Richard Gergel\, renowned artist Jonathan Green\, and Charleston playwright and lawyer Thomas S. Tisdale for a conversation on Judge Gergel’s recent best-selling book Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waites Waring. This event is free and open to the public – No ticket or reservation is needed. For any questions\, please contact the Piccolo Spoleto Festival at (843) 724-7305
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/piccolo-spoleto-event-judge-richard-gergel-jonathan-green-and-tom-tisdale/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190920T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190920T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: David Stewart
DESCRIPTION:Best-selling writer\, David O. Stewart\, will discuss his book\, The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution\, the story of delegates closeted through a sultry summer to create a government charter that embodied the best of Americas dreams\, and the worst of Americas realities. The Constitution will come alive in this lecture\, and your feelings about how the nation emerged will never be the same. Tickets are $5 members\, $10 guests — to purchase call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nThe Summer of 1787 traces the struggle at the Philadelphia Convention to create the world’s first constitutional democracy. Using the delegates’ fiery rhetoric\, the book explores the conflicts and hard bargaining that invented a government to meet the crises of the not-quite-united states – huge debts\, hostile neighbors\, armed rebellion\, and the very real prospect of dissolving into three nations or more. \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nThe successful creation of the Constitution is a suspense story. The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation — then and now. \nGeorge Washington presided\, James Madison kept the notes\, Benjamin Franklin offered wisdom and humor at crucial times. The Summer of 1787 traces the struggles within the Philadelphia Convention as the delegates hammered out the charter for the world’s first constitutional democracy. Relying on the words of the delegates themselves to explore the Convention’s sharp conflicts and hard bargaining\, David O. Stewart lays out the passions and contradictions of the often painful process of writing the Constitution. \nIt was a desperate balancing act. Revolutionary principles required that the people have power\, but could the people be trusted? Would a stronger central government leave room for the states? Would the small states accept a Congress in which seats were alloted according to population rather than to each sovereign state? And what of slavery? The supercharged debates over America’s original sin led to the most creative and most disappointing political deals of the Convention. \nThe room was crowded with colorful and passionate characters\, some known — Alexander Hamilton\, Gouverneur Morris\, Edmund Randolph — and others largely forgotten. At different points during that sultry summer\, more than half of the delegates threatened to walk out\, and some actually did\, but Washington’s quiet leadership and the delegates’ inspired compromises held the Convention together. \nIn a country continually arguing over the document’s original intent\, it is fascinating to watch these powerful characters struggle toward consensus — often reluctantly — to write a flawed but living and breathing document that could evolve with the nation.\nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nAfter many years as a trial and appellate lawyer\, David O. Stewart became a bestselling writer of history and historical fiction. His histories have explored the writing of the Constitution\, the gifts of James Madison\, the outrageous western expedition and treason trial of the mysterious Aaron Burr\, and the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. His histories have won the Washington Writing Award for best book of the year\, the History Prize of the Society of the Cincinnati\, and the William H. Prescott Award of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. \nHis first novel\, The Lincoln Deception\, about the John Wilkes Booth Conspiracy\, was called the best historical novel of 2013 by Bloomberg View. Sequels include The Wilson Deception\, set at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919\, and The Babe Ruth Deception\, which follows the Babes first two years with the Yankees.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-david-stewart/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190923T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190923T113000
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SUMMARY:Coffee with an Author: Ruth Miller & Alec Cooley
DESCRIPTION:Local authors\, Ruth Miller & Alec Cooley\, discusses their walking tour guidebook to African-American history in Charleston\, Slavery to Civil Rights: A Walking Tour of African-American Charleston in this new event format. The book details individuals and events that have shaped African-American history in Charleston from the 1600’s to the present. Attendees with enjoy coffee & donuts as they listen to the the lecture with the authors. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nSlavery to Civil Rights: A Walking Tour of African-American Charleston is the most complete and well-researched walking tour guidebook to African-American history in Charleston\, SC. Illustrated with over 45 photographs and pictures\, the book details the significant individuals and events that have shaped African-American history in the city from the 1600’s to the present day. \nThe guidebook begins with an introduction to Charleston’s central role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade to North America. The volume continues with colorful stories and biographies that reveal a seldom told side of Charleston’s history spanning the colonial\, federal\, and antebellum eras\, followed by Reconstruction\, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement. With sections organized geographically along two separate routes\, the guidebook can be read as a traditional book or used as a companion to visit actual historic locations in downtown Charleston.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/coffee-with-an-author-ruth-miller-alec-cooley/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191003T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191003T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kate Quinn & Laura Kamoie
DESCRIPTION:Authors Kate Quinn & Laura Kamoie discuss their book\, Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolutions Women.Describing women who stood up for themselves\, Ribbons of Scarlet illuminates the hopes\, desires\, and destinies of princesses\, peasant\, harlots\, wives\, and philosophers during the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. While the novel takes place over 200 years ago\, it resonates with todays women. Tickets for this event are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nImagine a nation of women who stop waiting for justice and take it into their own hands\, flooding into the streets to demand freedom\, seize equality\, and mold political change like never before. Their story is ours…yet these women rose up over two hundred years ago. The story of how women fought for freedom in the French Revolution has never been more timely.\nFrances war for independence is remembered for its guillotines\, for its Reign of Terror\, for Let them eat cake and Off with his head. What is forgotten is that it was a movement begun by women. From the royal salons to the streets of Paris they rose up and became a force to be reckoned with. They donned tricolor rosettes instead of pink hats\, they took to the streets with pikes instead of signs\, they raised their voices in womens-only political clubs instead of Facebook groups–and they realized how strong they were.\nFrance would never be the same. Neither would the world.\nSix of the leading female authors of historical womens fiction bring you the story of the French Revolution\, told for the first time from the voices and words of the women who shaped it\, and who worked to resist it. The call for feminist storytelling has never been stronger\, and that begins with history–when we see how women of the past\, of various political stripes\, spoke up for their beliefs\, female rights\, racial rights\, and voting rights\, yet were faced with the same misogyny\, slut-shaming\, and go back to the kitchen mentality that women face today. Hear their stories\, set among the mirrors of Versailles and the stones of the Bastille\, and hear your own. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nLAURA KAMOIE is a New York Times\, Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. Shes always been fascinated by the people\, stories\, and physical presence of the past\, which led her to a lifetime of historical and archaeological study and training. She holds a doctoral degree in early American history from The College of William and Mary\, published two non-fiction books on early America\, and most recently held the position of Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Naval Academy before transitioning to a full-time career writing genre fiction. She is the author of AMERICA’S FIRST DAUGHTER and MY DEAR HAMILTON\, co-authored with Stephanie Dray\, allowing her the exciting opportunity to combine her love of history with her passion for storytelling. Laura lives among the colonial charm of Annapolis\, Maryland with her husband and two daughters. \nKATE QUINN is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network. She attended Boston University\, where she earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Classical Voice. A lifelong history buff\, she has written seven historical novels\, including the bestselling “The Alice Network\,” the Empress of Rome Saga\, and the Borgia Chronicle. All have been translated into multiple languages. Kate and her husband now live in San Diego.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-kate-quinn-laura-kamoie/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Dr. Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessey
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy VP of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation\, Saunders Director of International Center for Jefferson Studies\, and Professor at the University of Virginia will be in town for the American Revolution Symposium and treats us to a lecture about his book\, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership\, the American Revolution\, and the Fate of the Empire. Tickets for this event are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nThe loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame\, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war\, historian Andrew OShaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. \nIn interlinked biographical chapters\, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III\, Prime Minister Lord North\, military leaders including General Burgoyne\, the Earl of Sandwich\, and others who\, for the most part\, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent\, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home\, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans\, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown\, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish\, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-dr-andrew-jackson-oshaughnessey/
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SUMMARY:CLS Book Club: The Furious Hours & To Kill a Mockingbird
DESCRIPTION:CLS Book Club: The Furious Hours & To Kill A Mockingbird \nCLS Book Club features two books this upcoming session; Furious Hours: Murder\, Fraud\, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep and To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This duo reconnects a modern classic with the mysterious pursuit of its enigmatic author. This Book Club session will be led by Jeanne Slabaugh & Lindsey Melville. Free with RSVP – to RSVP call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/cls-book-club-the-furious-hours-to-kill-a-mockingbird/
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SUMMARY:Coffee with An Author: Carol Bass
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, Coffee with an Author featuring Carol Bass has had to be cancelled. \nLocal author & poet\, Carol Bass discusses her book\, Ripple Effect. The book of art and poetry is a plea to S.C. not to squander and sell its rivers but to protect and respect its natural resources. Attendees will enjoy coffee & donuts as they listen to the lecture. Free with RSVP- to RSVP call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nFROM THE EDITOR: “Our rivers-our waters-are our lifelines. This book of art and poetry began as a plea to the state of South Carolina to create laws protecting its many rivers. A plea to not squander and sell its rivers on Wall Street but to protect and respect its God-given resources.”
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/coffee-with-an-author-carol-bass/
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