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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Passover & Easter
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 can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read The Passover Guest by Susan Kusel and Babka Bunny Spreads Kindness by Jennifer Bier and the craft will be Easter eggs! \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/passover-easter/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Henrietta McBurney and The Great Catesby: Illuminating Natural History
DESCRIPTION:Illuminating Natural History is not only the name of renowned art historian and curator Henrietta McBurney’s latest book; it’s also one of her driving missions. Fortunately\, for a night\, she’ll take us all along for the ride. Come explore the life and art of the 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby\, and his pioneering work depicting the flora and fauna of North America\, in vibrant detail with us on Tuesday\, April 4\, at 6pm. \nTickets are $10 for Members\, $15 for Guests.\nTo purchase tickets\, please click here.  \nAbout the Book \nIlluminating Natural History explores the life and work of the celebrated eighteenth-century English naturalist\, explorer\, artist\, and author Mark Catesby (1683–1749). During Catesby’s lifetime\, science was poised to shift from a world of amateur virtuosi to one of professional experts. Working against a backdrop of global travel that incorporated collecting and direct observation of nature\, Catesby spent two prolonged periods in the New World – in Virginia (1712–19) and South Carolina and the Bahamas (1722–6). In his majestic two-volume  Natural History of Carolina\, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1731–43)\, esteemed by his contemporary John Bartram as ‘an ornament for the finest library in the world\,’ he reflected the excitement\, drama and beauty of the natural world. Interweaving elements of art history\, history of science\, natural history illustration\, painting materials\, book history\, paper studies\, garden history and colonial history\, this meticulously researched volume brings together a wealth of unpublished images as well as newly discovered letters by Catesby\, which\, with their first-hand accounts of his collecting and encounters in the wild\, bring the story of this extraordinary pioneer naturalist vividly to life. \nAbout the Author \nHenrietta McBurney\, MVO\, FLS\, FSA\, is an art historian and curator. She worked as Curator of Prints and Drawings in the Royal Library\, Windsor Castle between 1983 and 2002\, and subsequently as Keeper of Fine and Decorative Art at Eton College. Based in Cambridge\, UK\, she now works freelance for Cambridge colleges\, lectures\, and co-teaches courses for the Oak Spring Library Foundation\, VA\, and for the London Rare Books School\, University of London.  \nHenrietta has been interested in the life and art of naturalist artist Mark Catesby (1683-1749) since she looked after his drawings in the Royal Library at Windsor. Her most recent book\, Illuminating Natural History. The Art and Science of Mark Catesby (Paul Mellon Centre/Yale University\, 2021)\, won the ‘Award for Excellence in Biography’ from the Council for Botanical and Horticultural Literature in 2022 \, and the Historians of British Art\, 1600-1800’s book prize this year. It has also been short listed for the Natural History Book Prize (John Thackray medal) of the Society for the History of Natural History. 
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/illuminating-natural-history/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Passover & Easter
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 can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read The Passover Guest by Susan Kusel and Babka Bunny Spreads Kindness by Jennifer Bier and the craft will be Easter eggs! \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/passover-easter-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Music
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 can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read Dark Was the Night by Gary Golio and the craft will be paper plate shakers! \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/music/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Coffee with an Author: Brittany Butler
DESCRIPTION:Brittany Butler didn’t have to look far for inspiration for her new spy novel\, The Syndicate Spy\, which is scheduled for release on March 21. As a former CIA agent\, she had plenty of first-hand experience to draw from when crafting this sharp-edged\, provocative novel about the murky waters of international intelligence agencies. What’s more\, she doesn’t limit her behind-the-scenes point of view to the pages of her book—she’ll also share insights into the world of subterfuge with us over coffee on Wednesday\, April 12\, at 10:30am. \nJoin us to hear more about the book—reportedly the first in a planned series—as well as her real world experience as a woman in the CIA.  \nThis event is free and open to the public\, with RSVP. \nAbout the Book:\nThe future: Earth’s oil reserves are depleted. Nations race against terrorists for control over alternative energy sources\, and the Syndicate—a conglomerate of allied intelligence agencies—must put an end to the global energy war. Syndicate spy\, Juliet Arroway\, and her best friend\, Mariam\, a Saudi princess\, are tasked to hunt down energy terrorists. When the Syndicate begins to suspect that Mariam’s family is somehow involved\, tensions build and the carnage multiplies. Juliet’s long-time boyfriend\, Jean-Marc\, is targeted and killed. In her quest to seek revenge and end the war\, Juliet is paired with Graham—a dashing\, yet arrogant FBI agent with whom she ultimately falls madly in love—to infiltrate Mariam’s family to prevent further attacks. When peace means a stunning betrayal\, Juliet must decide if her mission is worth risking her own life as well as the lives of those she loves. \nAbout the Author: \nBut after 9/11\, her career goals were shaped by the fear that followed. Determined to do her part\, she joined the US intelligence community straight out of college and worked on counterterrorism operations in the Middle East. But what she quickly learned was that as soon as one cadre of extremist leaders was taken out\, a more lethal one waited to take its place. And over the years\, as she witnessed the tremendous personal sacrifice and lives lost\, she started to question whether this was a war we could win\, and even if we could\, at what cost? \nBecoming a mother further humbled that perspective. And after ten years of working on counterterrorism operations in the Middle East\, she decided that the greatest impact she could have would be at home with her three sons. While cleaning up destroyed LEGO ships and breaking up light saber battles came with its own unique set of challenges\, she kept coming back to the war that had been part of her life for so long. \nIn 2016\, she volunteered for a human rights organization that promoted women’s rights in the Middle East\, and finally obtained the answer she had sought for so many years. There\, she met courageous Arab women who put their lives on the line to promote peace\, inclusion\, and modernization. They taught her that she could have the greatest impact by empowering those resilient women whose voices had been silenced by the extremist narrative. Through their marginalized perspective\, she came to understand that this was not a war that could be simply won with more drones or bombs\, it was a war of ideas. Today\, Brittany volunteers within her local community to help Afghan refugees resettle and thrive. \nAnd so\, the idea behind  The Syndicate Spy was conceived\, inspired by brave female spies and courageous Arab women\, still working together today to take a stand against marginalization. Theirs is a story that is seldom heard and yet has a profound impact on how our world will be shaped in the coming years.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/coffee-with-an-author-brittany-butler/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Music
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 can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read Dark Was the Night by Gary Golio and the craft will be paper plate shakers! \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/music-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Monticello Through the Lens of Thomas Jefferson's Personal Library
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Jefferson housed one of the most incredible personal libraries in the early Republic\, and often wrote about the important role education must play in building a free and democratic society. His personal library at Monticello would go on to be the seed that bloomed into the new Library of Congress. \nThe Jefferson Research Library is part of Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies\, and is where the Fiske and Marie Kimball Librarian\, Endrina Tay\, spends her days. During this program\, which coincides with what would have been the Founding Father’s 280th Birthday\, Ms. Tay will discuss Jefferson’s passion for literature\, as well as her ongoing research into his collections. \nJoin us on April 13\, 2023\, at 6PM\, for this can’t-miss program. \nThis event is free and open to the public with RSVP. To register\, call 843-723-9912 or fill out the form below. \nAbout Endrina Tay: \nEndrina Tay is the Fiske and Marie Kimball Librarian at the Jefferson Library at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello in Charlottesville\, Virginia. \nSince 2004\, her research has focused on Thomas Jefferson’s libraries and on reconstructing and understanding Jefferson’s reading universe. In 2008\, she discovered (with Jeremy Dibbell) a previously unidentified Jefferson booklist that documented for the first time the library George Wythe bequeathed to Jefferson in 1806 while Jefferson was president of the United States. In 2011\, together with Ann Lucas Birle\, she located over 80 previously unknown extant volumes from Thomas Jefferson’s library at Washington University in St. Louis. \nHer publications include “Enlightened Networks: Thomas Jefferson’s System For Working From Home\,” in The Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Press\, 2022); and “Forming the Body of a Library Upon the “Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind:” Books for the University of Virginia\,” in The Founding of Thomas Jefferson’s University\, ed. John Ragosta\, Andrew O’Shaughnessy and Peter Onuf (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press\, 2019).
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-glimpse-into-the-life-of-a-monticello-librarian-with-endrina-tay/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Flowers
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, click here. \nPlease join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers can join Kenna\, who led our CAMPS in the STACKS this summer. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Kenna will read The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle and the craft will be a paper handprint bouquet! \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/flowers/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Earth Day
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 can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read Our Earth by Anne Rockwell and the craft will be planting a seed! \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/earth-day-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sally Bedell Smith on the Marriage that Saved the Monarchy
DESCRIPTION:Join us in welcoming Sally Bedell Smith to discuss her recently published royal biography\, George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage that Saved the Monarchy. With permission from Queen Elizabeth II\, Smith combed through the Royal Archives to bring the late-regent’s parents\, George VI and Elizabeth\, and their love story to life on the page.  \nTickets are $40.  \nTo purchase tickets\, please click here or call 212-480-2889 ext. 200. \nAbout the Author: \nSally Bedell Smith is the author of bestselling biographies of Queen Elizabeth II; William S. Paley; Pamela Harriman; Diana\, Princess of Wales; John and Jacqueline Kennedy; and Bill and Hillary Clinton. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair since 1996\, she previously worked at Time and The New York Times\, where she was a cultural news reporter. In 2012\, Smith was the recipient of the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence. She is the mother of three children and lives in Washington\, D.C.\, with her husband\, Stephen G. Smith. \nAbout the Book:\nThis deeply researched and revealing book shows how a loving and devoted marriage helped the King and Queen meet the challenges of World War II\, lead a nation\, solidify the public’s faith in the monarchy\, and raise their daughters\, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. \nWith single-minded determination\, the future King George VI of Britain (known as Bertie) courted the Scottish Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon for more than two years\, and proposed three times\, before she finally accepted his hand. Little did they know that their relationship and family would be catapulted on to the global stage after the abdication of King Edward VIII. Shy\, sensitive\, and afflicted with a stutter\, George VI had never imagined that he would become King. However\, with his outgoing and confident wife’s support and love\, the King became an exceptional leader. He navigated the country through World War II\, established a strong relationship with Winston Churchill\, and inspired the British people with his courage and compassion during the blitz. Biographer Sally Bedell Smith was granted unprecedented access by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to her parents’ letters and diaries\, as well those of close friends and family. In her talk Sally will bring their love story to life and provide an inside view into the hopes\, struggles\, and triumphs of the royal couple. She will reveal how their marriage helped the new King and Queen meet the challenges and dangers Britain faced during World War II and led the nation back from the brink of destruction. She will also show how the King and Queen solidified the public’s faith in the monarchy and trained their daughter Princess Elizabeth from an early age to be a highly successful monarch who would reign for an unprecedented 70 years.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/the-marriage-that-saved-the-monarchy/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Earth Day
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 can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read Our Earth by Anne Rockwell and the craft will be planting a seed! \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/earth-day-3/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T203000
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SUMMARY:2023 Founders Award: Honoring David M. Rubenstein
DESCRIPTION:The Founders Award was established by the Trustees of the Charleston Library Society to recognize a person who exemplifies the values of the 19 young men who collaborated in 1748 to found what remains one of America’s earliest and enduring cultural and intellectual centers. This award also prizes leadership and philanthropy undertaken in pursuit of those values\, and reflects a demonstrated desire to appreciate our past and understand its relationship to the future. \nThis year\, we are thrilled to honor our 2023 award recipient\, David M. Rubenstein\, who not only embodies our 1748 Founding Members’ goal of promoting knowledge and shared learning\, but who is also a visionary leader with a deep and proven commitment to civic engagement and lifelong scholarship. \nJoin us on April 20\, from 7:00pm – 8:30pm\, as we celebrate David M. Rubenstein. There will be toasts\, tributes\, and a lively conversation led by CNN Senior Political Analyst and Anchor John Avlon. \nThis evening will be made possible through the generous support of our Sponsors* \nPresenting Sponsors: \nBeemok Hospitality \nKen and Anne Tidwell \nEvent Sponsors: \nAnne and Will Cleveland \nComerica Bank & Trust \nMr. and Mrs. John M. Dunnan \nFarther Ventures \nFirst Capital Bank \nSean W. Holleran and Lucas J. Murley \nMartha Rivers Ingram \nTickets are $75 for Members\, $100 for Guests. To purchase\, click here. \nFor more information on sponsorship opportunities\, click here\, or call 843.723.9912. \nAbout David Rubenstein: \nDavid Rubenstein is a former government official\, a lawyer\, and a co-founder / co-chairman of The Carlyle Group\, a global private equity investment company based in Washington\, D.C. He currently serves as chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts\, the National Gallery of Art\, the Council on Foreign Relations\, and The Economic Club of Washington\, D.C.\, and is a former chairman of the Duke University Board of Trustees and the Smithsonian Institution. In 2022\, he became chair of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees. \n\nIn addition to his business success and acumen\, Mr. Rubenstein is also an extraordinarily generous and thoughtful philanthropist. In December 2007\, he purchased the last privately owned copy of the Magna Carta to loan to the National Archives in Washington\, D.C. In 2011\, he gave $13.5 million to the National Archives for a new gallery and visitors center\, and the next year donated $7.5 million towards the repair of the Washington Monument. The list of beneficiaries of his generosity goes on. \nMost remarkably he was an early signer of the Giving Pledge\, the campaign started by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage wealthy individuals to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes. \nAbout Charleston Library Society Founders:  \nIn 1748\, 19 young men who had embraced Enlightenment ideals but did not have enough wealth to assemble their own private libraries decided to pool their resources to create a membership library. (For perspective\, Thomas Jefferson was only five years old at this time.) To accomplish their goals\, the members decided to avail themselves of the latest publications from Great Britain\, and they contracted with London booksellers to purchase and build a respectable inventory. The Library Society quickly became “the center of intellectual life of the city.” It served as an intellectual and civic forum\, a promoter of both formal and informal meetings and discussion. George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette were early members\, as were four signers of the Declaration of Independence. \n\nThe members hosted social and political events as well as scientific\, natural history\, and astronomical observations and experiments. There was constant discussion about founding a college and enhancing the cultural aspects of the city\, which was accomplished in 1770. Three years later\, the Library Society founded the first museum in America on January 12\, 1773\, using the British Museum as a model. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney served as the institution’s first curator\, pulling from the Library’s core collection of materials assembled over the previous 51 years. The Society held regular dinners\, welcomed people with a desire to improve their minds\, and passionately developed the Library’s collection by purchasing books of history\, science and technology\, classical and modern literature\, as well as manuscripts on other topics. \n\nThe Library Society is recognized as the second-oldest circulating library in America and the oldest cultural institution in the South. In January 2023\, the Society began its celebration of its 275th anniversary.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/2023-founders-award-honoring-david-rubenstein/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Earth Day
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, click here. \nPlease join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers can join Kenna\, who led our CAMPS in the STACKS this summer. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Kenna will read If You Come to Earth by Sophie Blackall and the craft will be Earth! \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/earth-day/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230425T163000
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Meal Time
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 can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read How do Dinosaurs Eat their Food by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague and the craft will be decorating cups! \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/meal-time/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230425T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230425T190000
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SUMMARY:A Garden Well Placed – Landscape & Garden Design with Lady Tollemache
DESCRIPTION:Join us and the Horticultural Society for an evening with the award-winning landscape and garden designer Lady Tollemache. The British native will walk us through her Spring 2022 release\, A Garden Well Placed\, and the love story between her and the gardens she oversees as Lady of Helmingham Hall. \nTickets are $125 and include a copy of the book. \nTo purchase tickets\, please click here or call 843-579-9922. \nAbout the Author:\nLady Tollemache started her gardening life when she first moved to Helmingham Hall in 1975.  She spent the next 20 years learning how to garden which ultimately prepared her for starting her own garden design company. While she admittedly has not taken a class in landscape architecture or even started a course in garden design\, what she lacks in professional knowledge she gains a sense of a no boundaries approach to her garden designs. \nAbout the Book:\nA Garden Well Placed leads us down the garden path of the Helmingham Hall estate\, through the walled gardens of the English countryside of Suffolk to the Chelsea Garden Show. This book chronicles her career as a garden designer where she works her magic on gardens large\, small\, formal and informal. Lady Tollemache has a flair for putting herself in the “place” of her gardens and landscapes which always results in sophisticated\, multi-dimensional and considerate designs. \n  \n 
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-garden-well-placed-landscape-garden-design-with-xa-tollemache/
LOCATION:SC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T163000
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Meal Time
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 can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read How do Dinosaurs Eat their Food by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague and the craft will be decorating cups! \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/meal-time-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194305
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SUMMARY:New Work from Charleston's First Poet Laureate
DESCRIPTION:Marcus Amaker\, Charleston’s first-ever Poet Laureate\, will return to CLS for an exclusive reading from his new book\, Hold What Makes You Whole—a 200-page\, full-color compilation of 70 poems released on April 4. After the reading\, the author will discuss the inspiration and process behind this recent collection\, followed by a book signing during which copies will be available for purchase and personalization. \nOpening for Marcus is Alexandra Peters\, a rising star poet in her own right. Together\, this lineup makes for an evening of unparalleled\, can’t-miss creativity and culture. \nTickets are $10 for members and $15 for guests. \nTo purchase before they sell out\, click here or call 843.723.9912. \nAbout Marcus Amaker\nMarcus Amaker (he/him) takes daily naps and is a husband\, a dad\, a son\, a musician\, an opera librettist\, and a Star Wars obsessive. He served as the first Poet Laureate of Charleston\, South Carolina\, from 2016—22. In 2021\, he became an Academy of American Poets fellow. He’s also a prolific performer\, the award-winning graphic designer of a roots music journal (No Depression)\, a musician\, an opera librettist\, the creator of a poetry festival\, a teaching artist\, and an advocate for youth poets. \nHis work has been recognized by The Washington Post\, The Kennedy Center\, American Poets Magazine\, Chicago Opera Theater\, The Portland Opera\, Button Poetry\, NPR\, The Chicago Tribune\, Edutopia\, Town & Country\, PBS NewsHour\, South Carolina Public Radio\, Charleston Magazine\, Charleston City Paper\, Post & Courier\, and more. In 2019\, he received a Governor’s Arts award in South Carolina and was named the artist-in-residence of the Gaillard Center\, a world-renowned performance and education venue. \nHis poetry was used by the Washington National Opera for its Presidential Inauguration Day Concert in 2021\, and has been studied in classrooms around the country. \nIn addition to more than 35 electronic music albums\, Marcus has recorded three albums with Grammy Award–winning drummer and producer Quentin E. Baxter. His poem “The Rain” is on two Grammy-nominated recordings. \nMarcus also created a publishing company to release poetry books and host events for poets in his community. June 3\, 2021\, was named “Marcus Amaker Day” by John Tecklenburg\, mayor of Charleston. \nHe lives in North Charleston\, SC\, with his wife\, their daughter\, and a cat named after Wu-Tang Clan. Marcus is currently writing an opera with Gillian Rae Perry as part of Chicago Opera Theater’s Vanguard Initiative. His tenth book\, Hold What Makes You Whole\, was released on April 4. \nAbout Alexandra Peters\nA self-taught poet with roots in both Miami\, Florida\, and Charleston\, Alexandra displayed a passion for poetry at a very young age—a spark ignited after she read Dr. Seuss books and discovered words can rhyme. As she grew\, poetry became one of her favorite creative outlets to express and work through her feelings\, thoughts\, and viewpoints on herself\, life\, history\, and current events. This passion led her to become part of the University of Central Florida‘s first spoken Word club in 2013: Project S.P.I.T. (Student Poetry Initiating Thought). She went on to become Vice President in 2017. Since graduating\, she has found comfort and opportunities to grow in Charleston‘s poetry community\, most notably placing third in the inaugural Free Verse Poetry Festival Slam and being a feature poet in one of the 2022 events: Collective Truths. When she isn’t writing\, she enjoys collecting vinyl records\, playing her saxophone\, writing songs\, and supporting live\, local bands.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/new-work-from-charlestons-first-poet-laureate/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lite Lunch: Zibby Owens & Friends Author Panel
DESCRIPTION:Buxton Books and CLS are excited to welcome back media powerhouse Zibby Owens for a Lite Lunch—and this time she’s bringing friends! \nJoin us on Friday\, April 28\, at Noon for a special author panel\, featuring a stellar lineup that includes Zibby\, Megan Tady (Super Bloom)\, Joanna Rakoff (My Salinger Year)\, and Amanda Eyre Ward (The Jetsetters). \nTickets are $48.50 each. Ticket price includes entry into The Charleston Library Society for an author talk with Amanda Eyre Ward\, Joanna Rakoff\, Megan Tady\, and Zibby Owens; a signed copy of Megan Tady’s new book\, Super Bloom; and a boxed lunch! \nTo purchase tickets\, please click here. \nAbout the Authors \nMegan Tady is a writer and editor running the company Word-Lift. Her writing has appeared in The Huffington Post and Ms. Magazine\, and she was a finalist for the 2021 Penguin Random House Student Fiction Award. Super Bloom\, her sparkling and heartwarming debut novel\, will be published on May 2nd by Zibby Books. \nAmanda Eyre Ward is the New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters (a Reese’s Book Club pick!) and The Lifeguards. Her novels have been featured in People Magazine\, The New York Times\, and more. Amanda’s work has been optioned for film and television and translated into fifteen languages.  \nJoanna Rakoff is the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the bestselling novel A Fortunate Age\, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction and the Elle Readers’ Prize. Rakoff’s books have been translated into twenty languages\, and the film adaptation of My Salinger Year opened in theaters worldwide in 2021 and is now streaming. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, O: The Oprah Magazine\, Vogue\, Elle\, Porter\, and elsewhere\, and her new memoir\, The Fifth Passenger\, is forthcoming from Little\, Brown in 2024. \nZibby Owens is an author\, award-winning podcaster\, entrepreneur\, and CEO. Owens founded Zibby Media\, a privately-held media company\, in 2018\, with her award-winning podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books. The company has since grown to include the publishing house Zibby Books\, the magazine Zibby Mag\, the podcast network Zibby Audio\, the education platform Zibby Classes\, and community events like retreats\, a book club\, and a writing community. She was celebrated as “New York’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer” by New York Magazine. Owens is a regular contributor to “Good Morning America” and other broadcast outlets. She is the author of the memoir Bookends: A Memoir of Love\, Loss\, and Literature\, the children’s book\, Princess Charming\, and the editor of two anthologies. Owens is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School. She lives in New York with her husband\, Kyle Owens of Morning Moon Productions\, and her four children. Follow her on Instagram @zibbyowens.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/lite-lunch-zibby-owens-friends-author-panel/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230428T213000
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SUMMARY:Chamber Music with CSO: Brahms Horn Trio with Wendy Chen
DESCRIPTION:Join the Charleston Symphony for an elevated Chamber Music experience this season! Enjoy an intimate evening of ensemble music at the beloved Charleston Library Society that will showcase the brilliant talent of your CSO musicians. Performances will offer an exciting range of chamber music literature\, robust programming\, and a newly added wine reception at intermission. \nWe are excited to feature renowned pianist Wendy Chen on our 2022-23 series finale. No stranger to Charleston\, Wendy participated in the Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music Series for 15 years under the leadership of Charles Wadsworth. At the age of fifteen\, Wendy Chen debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under conductor André Previn. In 1990 she became the youngest winner ever of the National Chopin Competition\, was one of the inaugural recipients of the Irving S. Gilmore Young Artists Award and was named a Presidential Scholar by the National Foundation for the Arts. Since then\, her career has flourished\, adding Young Concert Artists International Auditions and Washington International Competition to her numerous awards. \nJohannes Brahms\, a horn player during his youth\, composed the Trio in E Flat Major for Horn\, Violin and Piano\, Op. 40 in 1865. This work commemorates the death of Brahms’s mother\, Christiane\, earlier that year. This piece was originally written for natural horn\, rather than the valve horn that we commonly see today. And despite his special affection for the horn\, Brahms wrote only one chamber music composition with the instrument. \nWhile spending time in the Black Forest in the springtime reflecting on fond memories of his mother\, listeners will hear rich themes and deep lyricism throughout the work. Brahms reflects not only on this difficult milestone in his life\, but of the happy memories and recovery at the end of mourning during the lively tempo of the final movement. \nThis program will also feature works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor\, Eric Ewazen\, and Francis Poulenc. \nTickets are $50.\nTo purchase tickets\, click here or call the CSO at 843-723-7528. 
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/chamber-music-with-cso-brahms-horn-trio-with-wendy-chen/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Birds
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, click here. \nPlease join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers can join Kenna\, who led our CAMPS in the STACKS this summer. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Kenna will read Hello My Name is Ruby by Phillip C. Stead and the craft will be rocking paper birds! \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/birds/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230429T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230429T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194305
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SUMMARY:Chamber Music with CSO: Brahms Horn Trio with Wendy Chen
DESCRIPTION:Join the Charleston Symphony for an elevated Chamber Music experience this season! Enjoy an intimate evening of ensemble music at the beloved Charleston Library Society that will showcase the brilliant talent of your CSO musicians. Performances will offer an exciting range of chamber music literature\, robust programming\, and a newly added wine reception at intermission. \nWe are excited to feature renowned pianist Wendy Chen on our 2022-23 series finale. No stranger to Charleston\, Wendy participated in the Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music Series for 15 years under the leadership of Charles Wadsworth. At the age of fifteen\, Wendy Chen debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under conductor André Previn. In 1990 she became the youngest winner ever of the National Chopin Competition\, was one of the inaugural recipients of the Irving S. Gilmore Young Artists Award and was named a Presidential Scholar by the National Foundation for the Arts. Since then\, her career has flourished\, adding Young Concert Artists International Auditions and Washington International Competition to her numerous awards. \nJohannes Brahms\, a horn player during his youth\, composed the Trio in E Flat Major for Horn\, Violin and Piano\, Op. 40 in 1865. This work commemorates the death of Brahms’s mother\, Christiane\, earlier that year. This piece was originally written for natural horn\, rather than the valve horn that we commonly see today. And despite his special affection for the horn\, Brahms wrote only one chamber music composition with the instrument. \nWhile spending time in the Black Forest in the springtime reflecting on fond memories of his mother\, listeners will hear rich themes and deep lyricism throughout the work. Brahms reflects not only on this difficult milestone in his life\, but of the happy memories and recovery at the end of mourning during the lively tempo of the final movement. \nThis program will also feature works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor\, Eric Ewazen\, and Francis Poulenc. \nTickets are $50.\nTo purchase tickets\, click here or call the CSO at 843-723-7528. 
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/chamber-music-with-cso-brahms-horn-trio-with-wendy-chen-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230502T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230502T113000
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SUMMARY:Coffee with an Author: Patti Callahan Henry
DESCRIPTION:Join Buxton Books and the Charleston Library Society (located 164 King Street) on Tuesday\, May 2 as we celebrate the publication of Patti Callahan Henry’s new title – THE SECRET BOOK OF FLORA LEA (Simon & Schuster\, on sale May 2) – WITH the ladies of Friends & Fiction! Patti’s pals and co-hosts on the popular web show and podcast Friends & Fiction — the New York Times–bestselling authors Mary Kay Andrews\, Kristin Harmel\, and Kristy Woodson Harvey—will all be signing and personalizing their own books during the event\, as well. Feel free to stay for the duration of the morning to mingle or just stop in to have your books signed! \nChoose between a General Admission ticket and A Book is Your Ticket option. The General Admission ticket covers entrance into the event and a free cup of coffee! A Book is Your Ticket covers entrance into the event\, free coffee\, and includes a hardcover copy of The Secret Book of Flora Lea (valued at $28.99 before tax). We will also have backlist titles from all four authors available for purchase if you need to stock up on signed copies for your own library or as gifts! \nIt’s always a good time when this group of authors – and friends – get together\, especially when it’s for such a celebratory occasion! We hope to see you there for books\, coffee\, and literary fun! \nTo purchase tickets\, click here.  \nNOTE: Tickets to this event are non-refundable. If you choose the “A Book is Your Ticket” option\, your signed and personalized hardcover copy of The Secret Book of Flora Lea will be shipped to you (or be available for pick up at Buxton Books) the day following the event. \nAbout The Secret Book of Flora Lea\n“Not very long ago and not very far away\, there once was and still is an invisible place right here with us. And if you are born knowing\, you will find your way through the woodlands to the shimmering doors that lead to the land made just and exactly for you.” —HAZEL MERSEY LINDEN\, 1939. \nFourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated from their London home to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son\, Harry\, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames\, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister\, including one that she creates for her sister and her sister alone— a fairy tale about a magical land\, a secret place they can escape to that is all their own. \nBut the unthinkable happens when young Flora suddenly vanishes while playing near the banks of the river. Shattered\, Hazel blames herself for her sister’s disappearance\, and she carries that guilt into adulthood as a private burden she feels she deserves. \nTwenty years later\, Hazel is in London\, ready to move on from her job at a cozy rare bookstore to a career at Sotheby’s. With a charming boyfriend and her elegantly dilapidated Bloomsbury flat\, Hazel’s future seems determined. But her tidy life is turned upside down when she unwraps a package containing an illustrated book called Whisperwood and the River of Stars. Hazel never told a soul about the imaginary world she created just for Flora. Could this book hold the secrets to Flora’s disappearance? Could it be a sign that her beloved sister is still alive after all these years? \nAs Hazel embarks on a feverish quest\, revisiting long-dormant relationships and bravely opening wounds from her past\, her career and future hang in the balance. An astonishing twist ultimately reveals the truth in this transporting and refreshingly original novel about the bond between sisters\, the complications of conflicted love\, and the enduring magic of storytelling. \nAbout Patti Callahan Henry\nPatti Callahan Henry is a New York Times\, Globe and Mail\, and USA Today bestselling author of sixteen 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. \nShe 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. \nAdditional Events\nOn Monday\, May 1st\, The Charleston Place & Buxton Books Literary Series will kick off the celebration with an exclusive pre-publication broadcast of Friends & Fiction LIVE at the Riviera Theater. \nDuring the evening\, the “Fab Four” will also speak about their other books (and all sorts of other topics!)\, answer live questions from the audience\, sign and personalize books\, mingle\, and take photographs with attendees. As anyone who has tuned into their live web show and podcast can attest\, spending time with this group of women feels like being at a party with friends. A good time and lots of laughs are guaranteed. \nAdditionally\, a VIP ticket add-on option is available for those who want to attend a cocktail reception before the event (plus other perks outlined in the ticket description!). The VIP cocktail hour will run from 5:30 – 6:30 pm on the gorgeous terrace at the Riviera Theater. Space is limited\, so act quickly. \nTickets for the May 1 events are available here. \nCall Buxton Books at 843-723-1670 for additional information or questions about booking.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/6661/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole – Zoo Animals
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 can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read My Heart is Like a Zoo by Michael Hall and the craft will be zoo animals! \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/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-zoo-animals/
LOCATION:SC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230503T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T194305
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SUMMARY:Lite Lunch with Renowned Musician Tuffus Zimbabwe
DESCRIPTION:The Charleston Library Society is pleased to present a rare audience with Tuffus Zimbabwe. Not only is the renowned musician a fellow Charlestonian\, but he’s also the keyboardist for Saturday Night Live and the great-nephew of Edmund Thornton Jenkins\, an American composer during the Harlem Renaissance who spent most of his life abroad studying at the Royal Academy of Music after arriving in England by way of playing/directing the band of his father’s Jenkins Orphanage. \nMr. Zimbabwe’s appearance at CLS comes on the eve of the 2023 Colour of Music Festival\, which kicks off on May 4th and and features the debut of three pieces by his great-uncle. During these back-to-back appearances\, the artist will offer an insider’s view of how Mr. Jenkins came to known as the “Father of Lowcountry Black Classic Music\,” as well as some background on the quintet compositions that he has created in homage to his roots\, plus further insights on the cultural and historical relevance of his family’s imprint on classical music via Charlestonia\, perhaps one of the greatest musical tributes to Charleston ever composed. \nTickets are $25 for members and $35 for guests\, and include a boxed lunch.  \nClick here\, or call 843.723.9912\, to purchase. \nAbout Tuffus Zimbabwe\nTuffus Zimbabwe is a pianist\, composer\, and educator originally from the Roxbury area of Boston. His completed his Bachelors’ degree at Berklee College of Music and received a Master of Music degree from New York University.  \nMr. Zimbabwe is currently keyboardist in the Saturday Night Live house band\, pianist\, and assistant musical director for Trilogy: an Opera Company. Music has been a part Tuffus’ family as his grandmother Mildred Jenkins was a professional vocalist in the Operatic and Spiritual styles. She studied music at the Sorbonne in Paris and the New England Conservatory. \nMildred was also the sister of Edmund Thornton Jenkins (1894-1926)\, a composer\, arranger\, and multi-instrumentalist (violinist\, pianist\, and primarily a clarinetist and saxophonist). \nFrom early on Edmund received private training and got his professional start playing\, directing\, and arranging music in his father’s Orphanage Band and Church.  He furthered his studies at Avery Institute\, Morehouse College\, and the Royal Academy in London. \nMildred would later inherit his music manuscripts\, then passed down to her son\, Jomo Zimbabwe. Tuffus Zimbabwe restored\, edited\, and arranged Edmund’s music from handwritten manuscripts into printed score. \nMildred and Edmund Thornton Jenkins’ parents were Rev. Daniel Joseph Jenkins and Lena James\, who founded the Jenkins Orphanage in 1891 in Charleston\, SC.  To help fund the orphanage as it grew\, Rev. Daniel Jenkins would soon create the Jenkins Orphanage Band. \nAt its height\, there were multiple Jenkins bands performing nationally\, including a residency on Broadway for DuBose Heyward’s original play Porgy debuting in 1927 (which preceded and influenced Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess which debuted in 1935)\, and in Europe\, most notably performing for the Queen of England.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/lite-lunch-with-renowned-musician-tuffus-zimbabwe/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole – Zoo Animals
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 can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read My Heart is Like a Zoo by Michael Hall and the craft will be zoo animals! \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/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-zoo-animals-2/
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SUMMARY:John Lennon’s Lawyer on the Man\, the Mafia\, and the Biggest Trial You’ve Never Heard About
DESCRIPTION:While John Lennon retreated into private life in 1975\, he also fought a major legal battle that flew under the public radar. Mafia-connected Morris Levy\, owner of Roulette Records\, released Roots\, an unauthorized version of a rock ’n’ roll oldies album John had been producing. Levy claimed the former Beatle had verbally agreed to market Roots via TV. The quick release of John Lennon Rock ’n’ Roll\, the official album\, resulted in two Levy lawsuits against John—and John’s counterclaims against Levy. \nThe ensuing high-stakes drama—both in and out of the courtroom—spanned the better part of two years and is the subject of Lennon attorney Jay Bergen’s upcoming discussion on May 4. Drawing from stories shared in his 2022 book\, Lennon\, the Mobster & the Lawyer—The Untold Story\, as well as archival documents and multimedia materials\, Bergen will tell the intimate story of how he worked closely with John to rebut Levy’s specious claims\, and what it was like getting to know the man behind the myth. Bergen will also recount how John explained his recording process in poetic\, exacting terms for a judge who knew little about The Beatles or John’s solo career.  \nA Q&A session will follow the presentation. \nTickets are $10 for members\, and $15 for guests.\nTo purchase tickets\, please click here or call 843-723-9912. \nAbout the Book:\nLennon\, the Mobster & the Lawyer catches the high drama of the courtroom skirmishes in this previously untold story. It also paints a detailed personal portrait of John and his world from 1975 to 1977\, when he would soon welcome a new son and go into happy seclusion as a father and husband. \nAbout Jay Bergen:\nJay Bergen was a trial lawyer in New York City for forty-five years. He has handled antitrust\, securities\, entertainment\, and copyright/trademark cases. While Jay presented as a buttoned-down NYC trial lawyer\, deep down he was a rock ’n’ roller from his high school days. He and John Lennon hit it off right from the day they first met\, February 3\, 1975. While Jay was awed to become John’s trusted advisor in the Morris Levy litigation\, he was able to treat John Lennon as “just another client” – and that’s the way Jay worked with him preparing for the January 1976 trial. The two became friends and that relationship opened Jay to living his life the way he wanted to\, rather than the way others wanted. Through more than 40 years and five home moves\, Jay preserved the entire trial transcript\, exhibits\, and related documents in six bankers boxes. The legal records were an integral part of his memories and John and Jay’s friendship\, and will serve alongside other contemporaneous artifacts as context for Jay’s presentation. 
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/john-lennons-lawyer-on-the-man-the-mafia-and-the-biggest-trial-youve-never-heard-about/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Story Time In The Rabbit Hole – Boats\, Tugboats\, and Ships
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, click here. \nPlease join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers can join Kenna\, who led our CAMPS in the STACKS this summer. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Kenna will read Toy Boat by Randell de Seve and the craft will be a boat! \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-boats-tugboats-and-ships/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230508T170000
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SUMMARY:May New Members Mingle
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our New Members Mingle! Every second Monday of the month\, we look forward to hosting our newest members of the CLS family. Starting our night off with a complimentary glass of wine\, the evening will include an orientation of the Library and informational tour with Q & A about your membership benefits. \nPlease RSVP with the form below. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/may-new-members-mingle/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole – Mother's Day
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 can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera and the craft will be Mother’s Day cards! \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/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-mothers-day/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T103000
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SUMMARY:Coffee with an Author: Marjorie Hudson
DESCRIPTION:“When people finish reading Indigo Field\, I hope they feel their hearts crack open to joy\, surprise\, and a deeper understanding of this world.” \nMarjorie Hudson’s summation of her new book is as aching and elegant and beautiful as the novel itself. She needn’t worry\, though—Indigo Field resonates in all of the desired ways\, with an impact that reverberates from page to page. \nJoin us for coffee on Wednesday\, May 10\, at 10:30AM\, when the author will share more insights on the book. \nAbout the Book \nIn the rural South\, a retired colonel in an upscale retirement community grieves the sudden death of his wife on the tennis court. On the other side of the highway\, an elderly Black woman grieves the murder of her niece by a white man. Between them lies an abandoned field where three centuries of crimes are hidden\, and only she knows the explosive secrets buried there. When the colonel runs into her car\, causing a surprising amount of damage\, it sparks a feud that sets loose the spirits in the Field\, both benevolent and vengeful.  In prose that’s been called “dazzling” and “mesmerizing\,” in the animated voices of trees and birds and people\, in Southern-voiced storytelling as deeply layered as that of Pat Conroy\, Marjorie Hudson lays out the boundaries of a field that contains the soul of the South and leads us to a day of reckoning \nAbout the Author \nMarjorie Hudson was born in a small town in Illinois and raised in Washington\, D.C.\, where she graduated from American University with a degree in Journalism and Women’s Studies. After serving as features editor of National Parks Magazine\, she moved to rural North Carolina\, working as a freelance writer with a column interviewing nature photographers and publishing articles in Garden & Gun\, American Land Forum\, Wildlife in North Carolina\, Our State Magazine\, and North Carolina Literary Review. As copyediting chief for Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill\, she encountered the work of contemporary Southern writers such as Jill McCorkle\, Kaye Gibbons\, and Clyde Edgerton for the first time. Inspired\, she turned her hand to fiction writing\, and her first story won a statewide award judged by Shannon Ravenel. She earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She lives with her husband\, Sam\, and feisty small terrier DJ\, on a century farm in North Carolina\, where she mentors writers and reads poetry to trees
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/coffee-with-an-author-marjorie-hudson/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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