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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Animal Adventures
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa\, our Children’s Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Melissa will read When the Library Lights Go Out by Megan McDonald and the craft will be an animal puppet! \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-animal-adventures/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Don't Yuck My Yum
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa\, our Children’s Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Melissa will read Hannah’s Tall Order by Linda Vander Heyden and the craft will be a pizza! \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/dont-yuck-my-yum/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Inside the Life of a Legendary Pirate's Wife
DESCRIPTION:Before he was executed in 1701\, Captain William Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to prowl the seas. But few know that he had an accomplice back home: his wife\, Sarah\, a woman whose life is a lesson in survival\, resilience\, and resourcefulness. There may not be a legendary woman behind every legendary pirate in high seas history\, but Sarah Kidd was a singular force whose moxy and bravery not only enhanced her husband’s reputation but also furthered the narrative of female empowerment within the structures of America’s colonial days. \nOn September 5\, we’ll explore her life and impact with the historian and journalist Dr. Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos\, whose new book\, The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd (Hanover Square Press\, 2022)\, tells Sarah’s story for the first time. \nTickets are $10 for members\, $15 for the public. \nTo purchase\, click here or call 843.792.9913 during Box Office Hours (11:00AM–4:00PM\, Monday through Thursday). \nAbout the Book and Author \nWriting in a lively\, conversational tone and packed with fascinating insights into the Golden Age of Piracy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in colonial America\, The Pirate’s Wife is a fresh and feminist take on a time in history that’s often written around men. Utilizing a trove of original documents\, Dr. Geanacopoulos reconstructs Sarah’s life (1670-1744) in New York – when the colony was a pirate haven – her roles as wife\, mother\, merchant\, and socialite\, and delves into the swashbucklingly nasty politics of the time. She was key to Kidd’s fight for his life against the people who accused him of turning from privateer to pirate\, and was even initially arrested and jailed with him. Sarah went from socialite to fugitive and international outlaw\, and back again\, always managing to find her own agency within the oppressive structures of colonial America. \nDr. Geanacopoulus has spent her career researching pirate history and culture\, and she is dedicated to bringing the stories of women like Sarah Kidd\, who have been forgotten by history\, into the light. For fans of cinematic\, impeccably researched narrative nonfiction like works by David McCullough or Stacy Schiff\, The Pirate’s Wife reads like a novel\, but crackles with the kind of vivid details only an expert scholar could synthesize. \n 
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/inside-the-life-of-historys-most-legendary-pirates-wife/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230906T103000
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SUMMARY:Storytelling Series // Omnivorous Collectors and the Networks of Natural History
DESCRIPTION:More than a dose of AM stimulation\, this morning program offers a rare glimpse behind a trifecta of cultural curtains: the first\, the thrilling research and discovery practices involved in stewarding our archival treasures; the second\, insights and the kind of un-Googleable anecdotes that only experts (and primary source institutions!) can provide; and finally\, how the legacies of omnivorous collectors of the past continue to unite and inspire pivotal cultural conversations today. \nDon’t miss this occasion to hear Dr. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird explore the provenance and history of Sir Hans Sloane’s 1707 A voyage to the islands of Madera\, Barbados\, Nieves\, S. Christophers and Jamaica.  \nTickets are free and open to the public. \nRSVP below to reserve your seat. \nAbout Sir Hans Sloane \nSloane\, whose vast cabinet of curiosities would later become the foundation of The British Museum in 1753\, began his omnivorous collecting habits in 1687 while working as a physician in Jamaica. Recounting this experience\, his sumptuous Voyage to Jamaica blends together personal travel narrative\, observations on the island’s flora and fauna\, medical case notes\, and ethnographic accounts of slave and planter culture. \nContaining more than 200 life-sized engravings of Jamaican botany\, it is no average book. But the Library Society holds no average copy. As this talk will reveal\, the unique CLS copy lays bare the personal connections between Sloane and the Library Society\, and the extensive networks of colonial natural history and botany that were the lifeblood of eighteenth-century libraries. \nAbout Dr. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird \nDr. Ortolja-Baird specializes in the history of early modern collections and museums. Her research has largely focused on the library of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753)\, whose collections became the foundation of The British Museum\, the world’s first national museum. She is especially interested in the relationship between colonialism and collecting\, and her research seeks to shed light on the silenced\, erased\, and forgotten individuals who were central to the collecting process. When she’s not grubbing around in archives\, Alexandra is a Lecturer in Digital History and Culture at the University of Portsmouth\, UK\, a Senior Research Fellow on the AHRC Towards a National Collection project The Sloane Lab: Looking back to build future shared collections\, and a Visiting Researcher at The British Museum.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/omnivorous-collectors-and-the-networks-of-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 - Don't Yuck My Yum
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa\, our Children’s Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Melissa will read Hannah’s Tall Order by Linda Vander Heyden and the craft will be a pizza! \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-dont-yuck-my-yum/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T190000
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SUMMARY:The Public and Private Life of Bunny Mellon
DESCRIPTION:“I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise is like an exquisite string of pearls: the perfect balance of elegance\, style\, design\, and beauty. This book is inspiring\, spirited\, and totally absorbing.” ―Diane von Furstenberg\n\nThe story of Bunny Mellon\, the great landscape and interior designer\, is a revelatory exploration of the aesthetic and aspirational impacts of one of the 20th century’s leading visionaries. Join us for an evening with the author—and Bunny Mellon confidante—Mac Griswold\, as she lifts the veil on the famous tastemaker through personal anecdotes and riveting details pulled from the pages of her new book. \nTickets are $10 for members\, $15 for the public. \nTo purchase\, click here or call 843.792.9913 during Box Office Hours (11:00AM–4:00PM\, Monday through Thursday). \nAbout the Book \nIn I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise\, Griswold―who knew Mellon personally―delves into her subject’s closely guarded personal archives to construct an unrivaled portrait of a woman as complex and multifaceted as the gardens and homes on which she left her mark. Mellon tested the anodyne 1950s model of woman-as-wife-as-mother by getting a divorce\, admitting candidly to her first husband that she wanted a richer one. She imperiously traded old friends for new and ultimately used her reputation\, her connections\, and above all her money to help fund John Edwards’s short-lived presidential campaign. She led an American version of a royal court that\, over the years\, included Jackie Kennedy\, Hubert de Givenchy\, and I. M. Pei. \nHow Mellon’s character\, style\, and taste developed together to produce her greatest accomplishments―private and public―is the real subject of this biography. \nA life marked by astonishing good fortune as well as tragedy and scandal\, hers remains singular as a preeminent figure in the annals of American design. Not only did she have her finger on the pulse of American culture and possessed a rare\, once-in-a-generation sense of style and grace\, but her most celebrated work―the White House Rose Garden\, created during the presidency of John F. Kennedy―demonstrated how formal restraint and the sparing use of color could be deployed to maximal effect. Later\, her understated landscape design for the Kennedy grave site at Arlington National Cemetery changed the face of American public memorials. \nMellon was a famously private person\, and many of her greatest achievements remained concealed from public view. Her rarely seen gardens and domestic interiors at eight different properties on three continents became legends and models. At Oak Spring Farm in Virginia\, the bibliographic riches of her Garden Library were twinned with the expansive flowering gardens lying below the Edward Larrabee Barnes–designed building. At her home on Nantucket\, she pruned back the landscape to reveal the elemental forms of nature. Mellon also ranked as one of the great art collectors of her era\, encouraging her husband Paul to use his family’s vast wealth to acquire hundreds of nineteenth-century French paintings\, many of which were donated to the National Gallery of Art. Her own tastes ranged from Mark Rothko to Richard Diebenkorn―in quantity. \nAbout the Author \nMac Griswold is an acclaimed cultural landscape historian and writer. Rooted in a childhood spent exploring the castles and towers of lush north central New Jersey\, Mac went on to study landscape design at the Radcliffe Seminars and horticulture at the New York Botanical Gardens. After living and writing in New York City for decades and on the East End of Long Island for twenty years\, Mac decamped for Virginia in 2014 where she lived for seven years not far from Bunny Mellon’s library\, archives\, and gardens in Upperville before moving to rural Pennsylvania\, her present home\, where she continues to write and to garden. Her previous books have centered on lives and places of cultural and historic importance. This book\, I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise\, a Life of Bunny Mellon\, her first full biography\, is no exception. \nGriswold currently serves as a member of the stewardship council of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF).
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/the-public-and-private-life-of-bunny-mellon/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Grandparents
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Kenna\, our incredible Camps in the Stacks leader. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Kenna will read The Hello\, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster and the craft will be a framed flower! \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-grandparents/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230911T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230911T180000
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SUMMARY:September New Members Mingle
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our New Members Mingle! Every second Monday of the month\, we host our newest members of the CLS family with a fun and informative tour of the facility\, including key information on utilizing Library resources\, an exploration of some of the treasures from the CLS archives\, a visit to the Igoe Shakespeare Library and concluding with a tour of our bindery and information about our conservation efforts. Questions are welcome throughout our time together. \nThe tour starts at 5pm\, and generally ends around 6pm. The tour schedule includes:\n5:00 – 5:10 pm Welcome\n5:10 – 5:20 pm Introduction of staff and an overview of the Main Reading Room and Exhibits\n5:20 – 5:40 pm Tour of key areas of the Library\, including the Melvin P. Seiden Gallery\, the Kellogg Family Map Room\, the Ruth and Bill Baker Conference Room\, the Igoe Shakespeare Library and the Stephen F. Gates Vaults\n5:40 – 6:00 pm  Tour of Dorothy’s Book Bindery and the Jerrold and Ann Mitchell Conservation Lab; Q&A \nPlease RSVP with the form below. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/september-new-members-mingle-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T153000
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - House and Homes
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa\, our Children’s Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Melissa will read Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall and the craft will be a house! \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/house-and-homes/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T190000
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SUMMARY:"How to Become an American" with Daniel Wolff
DESCRIPTION:Beginning with a Jewish family\, Daniel Wolff builds a microcosm of the broader history of immigration and movement of people across the United States. How to Become an American teaches us about the diverse background and migration of the American people and the uphill battle of defining self and home. Touching on themes of loneliness\, immigration\, and family history\, this program is not to miss. \nTickets are $10 for members\, $15 for the public.  \nTo purchase tickets\, click here or call 843-723-9912 during box office hours. \nAbout the Book:\nAn odyssey from pre-Civil War Charleston to post-World War II Minneapolis through Jewish immigrants’ eyes \nThe histories of US immigrants do not always begin and end in Ellis Island and northeastern cities. Many arrived earlier and some migrated south and west\, fanning out into their vast new country. They sought a renewed life\, fresh prospects\, and a safe harbor\, despite a nation that was not always welcoming and not always tolerant. \nHow to Become an American begins with an abandoned diary—and from there author Daniel Wolff examines the sweeping history of immigration into the United States through the experiences of one unnamed\, seemingly unremarkable Jewish family\, and\, in the process\, makes their lives remarkable. It is a deeply human odyssey that journeys from pre-Civil War Charleston\, South Carolina\, to post-World War II Minneapolis\, Minnesota. In some ways\, the family’s journey parallels that of the nation\, as it struggled to define itself through the Industrial Age. A persistent strain of loneliness permeates this story\, and Wolff holds up this theme for contemplation. In a country that prides itself on being “a nation of immigrants\,” where “all men are created equal\,” why do we end up feeling alone in the land we love?
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-history-of-movement-and-immigration-with-daniel-wolff/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
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SUMMARY:Lite Lunch // Mark Catesby's Journey as Nature's Messenger
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, September 13\, CLS and Buxton Books presents a mid-day escape into the wild and wonderful world of Mark Catesby. \nDuring this Lite Lunch program\, the acclaimed writer and Catesby chronicler Patrick Dean will share stories from his fascinating new book\, Nature’s Messenger\, as we retrace the pioneering naturalist’s personal and professional path  from his youth as a landed gentleman in rural England through his early work as an emerging wildlife artist and beyond. \nDr. Nic Butler\, a noted historian with the Charleston County Public Library\, will add his own insights to this fresh exploration of Catesby’s life and legacy\, as well as his lasting influence on Charleston. \nTickets are $25 for members\, $35 for guests. \nClick here or call 843.723.9912 during Box Office Hours (11:00am–4:00pm\, Monday through Thursday) to purchase. \nAbout Mark Catesby \nIn 1722\, Mark Catesby stepped ashore in “Charles Town” in the Carolina colony. Over the next four years\, the young naturalist made history as he explored deep into America’s natural wonders\, collecting and drawing plants and animals which had never been seen back in the Old World. Nine years later Catesby produced his magnificent and groundbreaking book\, The Natural History of Carolina\, the first-ever illustrated account of American flora and fauna. Catesby preceded John James Audubon by nearly a century\, and his work had a profound influence on our understanding of American wildlife and naturalist art. \nAbout the Book \nAn adventurer and journeyman with an insatiable curiosity rivaled only by an eye for detail\, Catesby was an artist of unparalleled scope. His careful attention to the knowledge of non-Europeans in America—the enslaved Africans and Native Americans who had their own sources of food and medicine from nature—set him apart from others of his time (although Dean does not shy away from Catesby’s actions and affiliations\, either). Nature’s Messenger takes us from the rice plantations of the Carolina Lowcountry to the bustling coffeehouses of 18th-century England\, from the sun-drenched islands of the Bahamas to the austere meeting-rooms of London’s Royal Society\, then presided over by Isaac Newton. It was a time of discovery\, of intellectual ferment\, and of the rise of the British Empire. And there on history’s leading edge\, recording the extraordinary and often violent mingling of cultures as well as of nature\, was Mark Catesby.  Intensively researched and thrillingly told\, Nature’s Messenger will thrill fans of exploration and early American history as well as appealing to birdwatchers\, botanists\, and anyone fascinated by the natural world.   \nAbout the Author \nPatrick Dean writes on the outdoors and the environment. He has worked as a teacher\, a political media director\, and is presently the executive director of a rail-trail nonprofit. An avid trail-runner\, paddler\, and mountain-biker\, he lives with his wife and dogs on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee\, and is the author of A Window To Heaven\, about the summit of Denali\, also available from Pegasus Books. \nAbout Nic Butler\, Ph.D \nNic is the historian for the Charleston County Public Library. A native of Greenville County\, Dr. Butler has worked for more than twenty years as a public historian specializing in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. As creator and host of the bi-weekly podcast “Charleston Time Machine\,” Dr. Butler draws attention to a wide variety of under-explored aspects of local history and neglected documentary resources.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/lite-lunch-mark-catesbys-journey-as-natures-messenger/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - House and Homes
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa\, our Children’s Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Melissa will read Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall and the craft will be a house! \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-house-and-homes/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230916T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230916T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
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SUMMARY:Saturday Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Cities
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Kenna\, our incredible Camps in the Stacks leader. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Kenna will read Last Stop on Market Street By Matt de la Pena and the craft will be a mini city! \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-cities/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230919T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230919T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
CREATED:20230823T140154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230914T121937Z
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Pets!
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa\, our Children’s Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Melissa will read Gaston by Kelly DiPucchio and the craft will be egg carton pets! \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-pets/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230919T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230919T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
CREATED:20230906T125138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230908T141728Z
UID:10001533-1695146400-1695150000@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
SUMMARY:Interview with an Artist // An Evening with Fletcher Williams
DESCRIPTION:The multimedia\, multidiscplinary creator Fletcher Williams III opens up about everything from art as storytelling\, to his inventive use of materials and embrace of new forms of craftsmanship\, to how and why he creates immersive art installations that are as much experiences as exhibitions. \nTickets are $10 for members\, $15 for the public. \nTo purchase\, click here or call 843.792.9913 during Box Office Hours (11:00AM–4:00PM\, Monday through Thursday).
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/interview-with-an-artist-an-evening-with-fletcher-williams/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
CREATED:20230823T140330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230914T121854Z
UID:10001524-1695223800-1695227400@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Pets!
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa\, our Children’s Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Melissa will read Gaston by Kelly DiPucchio and the craft will be egg carton pets! \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-pets-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
CREATED:20230828T171814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230920T181442Z
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SUMMARY:A PBS Masterpiece Presentation // Watch World on Fire Season 2 Before It Airs
DESCRIPTION:Join members of the ETV Endowment for an advance screening of this epic World War II drama’s Season 2 debut\, weeks before it airs on SCETV/PBS (October 15\, 9:00PM). The hit series\, which premiered in 2020\, tells the story of battle through the eyes of ordinary people whose lives have been thrown into chaos. This season\, World on Fire takes viewers from the streets of Britain into occupied France\, Nazi Germany\, and the North African desert\, where British troops struggle alongside Indian Sappers and Australian Diggers to adapt to a very different kind of combat. Space is limited so register early. \nTickets are free with RSVP. Register via the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-pbs-masterpiece-presentation-watch-world-on-fire-season-2-before-it-airs/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
CREATED:20230907T175533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230919T181829Z
UID:10001534-1695378600-1695387600@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
SUMMARY:A CLS x Buxton Books Exclusive // Local Authors Showcase: Breakfast\, Books\, and a Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of our 275th Anniversary Year\, and with generous support from SC Humanities\, we are thrilled to host this special literary showcase with our friends at Buxton Books. The morning begins with lite bites and an author meet and greet\, followed by a panel discussion on the importance of storytellers in our community\, and a book signing.  Panelists will include\, Yvette Murray\, George Brewington\, Lydia Fitzpatrick\, Matt Lee\, Kristen Ness\, Victoria Benton Frank\, and Julian Buxton.  As a bonus\, the first 50 people to arrive will also receive a surprise title from a local author. \nThis event is free with RSVP. Simply fill out the form below to secure your spot.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-cls-x-buxton-books-exclusive-local-authors-showcase-breakfast-books-and-a-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
CREATED:20230802T175158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230914T122341Z
UID:10001506-1695463200-1695466800@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
SUMMARY:Saturday Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Welcome Fall!
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Kenna\, our incredible Camps in the Stacks leader. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Kenna will read Bella’s Fall Coat by Lynn Plourde and the craft will be a leaf wreath! \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-welcome-fall/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
CREATED:20230823T140506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230914T122024Z
UID:10001525-1695742200-1695745800@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Neighbors
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa\, our Children’s Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Melissa will read Maybe Something Beautiful by Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell and the craft will be a suncatcher! \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-neighbors/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
CREATED:20230823T141104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230914T121806Z
UID:10001526-1695828600-1695832200@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Neighbors
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa\, our Children’s Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Melissa will read Maybe Something Beautiful by Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell and the craft will be a suncatcher! \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-neighbors-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
CREATED:20230717T201209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230823T201020Z
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SUMMARY:Documentary Series // 'Prisoner of Her Past'
DESCRIPTION:Prisoner of Her Past is a 2010 documentary film adapted from Howard Reich’s book by the same name and the latest installment in the Library Society’s Documentary Screening series. The film grapples with the lives and experiences of those impacted by World War II\, confronting the past and unraveling a family history. \nThis program is supported by South Carolina Humanities\, a not-for-profit organization; inspiring\, engaging and enriching South Carolinians with programs on literature\, history\, culture and heritage. SC Humanities receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy Demands Wisdom. \nTickets are $10 for members\, $15 for the public.\nTo purchase tickets\, click here or call 843-723-9912 during box office hours. \nAbout the Film:\nOn the night of Feb. 15\, 2001\, 69-year-old Holocaust survivor Sonia Reich ran out of her house in Skokie\, Illinois\, telling police she feared someone was going to “put a bullet in my head.” It took Howard\, her son\, a year to find a doctor who came up with a specific diagnosis: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In effect\, Sonia was reliving her unspoken childhood as a Jew running for her life from Nazis. Sixty years later\, Howard traveled the world to discover her untold story. He learned that of the 12\,000 Jews in Sonia’s small town of Dubno\, Poland\, less than 100 escaped machine-gun executions; his mother was one. Prisoner of Her Past (originally published as The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich) illuminates the demons that haunt Howard’s mother to this day. \nAbout SC Humanities:\nThe mission of South Carolina Humanities is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of all South Carolinians. This not-for-profit organization presents and/or supports literary initiatives\, lectures\, exhibits\, festivals\, publications\, oral history projects\, videos and other humanities-based experiences that reach more than 250\,000 citizens annually. South Carolina Humanities receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as corporate\, foundation and individual donors. It is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of community leaders from throughout the state.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/documentary-series-prisoner-of-her-past/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
CREATED:20230906T125211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T194558Z
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SUMMARY:A Sense of Place // Inside the International African American Museum
DESCRIPTION:The highly-anticipated International African American Museum opened its doors over the summer\, marking an incredible achievement for all involved and a valuable addition to Charleston’s cultural core. Many are aware of the commitment it took to create this seminal institution\, and of the importance of its physical location on Gadsden’s Wharf—a once-prolific port where scores of enslaved people passed through—but the museum’s full origin story is a little less well-known. To offer insight\, SCETV’s Thelisha Eaddy will host IAAM’s President and CEO\, Dr. Tonya Matthews\, Wilbur E. Johnson and Robert Macdonald for a discussion on the carefully planning and thoughtful intent that brought the museum to life at last. \nTickets are $10 for members\, $15 for the public. \nTo purchase\, click here or call 843.792.9913 during Box Office Hours (11:00AM–4:00PM\, Monday through Thursday). \nAbout the Panelists: \nDr. Tonya Matthews: \nA non-profit executive veteran\, Dr. Matthews is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of the International African American Museum (IAAM) located in Charleston\, SC. Under Dr. Matthews’ leadership\, IAAM has become a champion of authentic\, empathetic storytelling of African American history and thus is one of the nation’s newest platforms for the disruption of institutionalized racism.  Dr. Matthews’ storied career includes her role as Associate Provost for Inclusive Workforce Development & Director of the STEM Innovation Learning Center at Wayne State University and\, prior to that\, as the President & CEO of the Michigan Science Center.  Dr. Matthews’ dedication to community and accomplishments are widely recognized. She has been noted as one of the Charleston’s Most Influential by Charleston Business Magazine twice and honored as Trailblazer by Career Mastered Magazine (2017). She is a former member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Science Education and was appointed by both Democratic and Republican administrations to the National Assessment Governing Board. Dr. Matthews received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and her B.S.E. in biomedical and electrical engineering from Duke University\, alongside a certificate in African/African American Studies. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority\, Inc. and The Links\, Inc. Dr. Matthews is a native of Washington\, D.C. and – in each community she has settled – is known for planting roots on the side of town best for keeping an eye on progress. \nWilbur E. Johnson: \nWilbur E. Johnson is an attorney and has served as Managing Partner of Young Clement Rivers\, LLP\, a law firm based in Charleston\, South Carolina. Mr. Johnson is affiliated with various professional organizations.  He is a past member of the SC Bar House of Delegates and the SC Bar Nominating Committee.  He is also a permanent member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference and holds memberships in the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel\, the International Association of Defense Counsel and the American Bar Foundation.  He is listed in the “Best Lawyers in America” publication.  He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the Charleston School of Law. Mr. Johnson is actively involved in civic and charitable affairs in the community.  Currently\, he serves as a Board member of several organizations\, including the Historic Charleston Foundation\, the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce\, Chair Emeritus of the New Morning Foundation and the International African American Museum Board of Trustees.  Mr. Johnson is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve\, Richmond Bank Board of Directors. \nRobert Macdonald: \nRobert R. Macdonald\, Director Emeritus\, Museum of the City of New York\, Vice Chair Emeritus\, South Carolina Aquarium. Forty-six years experience as a museum director in Pennsylvania\, Connecticut\, Louisianan\, and New York. Macdonald began his career at the National Museum of American History\, Smithsonian Institution. He attained undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from Notre Dame and a graduate degree in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an Associate Fellow at Berkeley College\, Yale University\, a past President\, American Alliance of Museums; Chevalier de L’Order des Arts et des Letters; Cruz de Caballero de la Order de Isabel la Catolica; Award of Distinction\, American Association of Museums. Macdonald is a consultant to museums in the United States and abroad\, including Charleston’s International African American Museum. Bob and his wife Cathy moved to Mt. Pleasant in 2002. They have three adult children and three grandchildren. \nThelisha Eaddy: \nThelisha Eaddy is the local host of South Carolina Public Radio’s Morning Edition\, a national news program produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). Eaddy was recently featured as the first African-American woman to serve in that position. \nEaddy joined SC Public Radio’s team of reporters in 2015 to cover the long- term recovery of the historic flood in Columbia. Since that time\, she has continued covering top news stories for the network. In addition to her on-air reporting\, Eaddy can be seen on other South Carolina ETV programming\, reporting live coverage of elections and providing analysis during Governor Inaugurations\, moderating debates\, and hosting the program Palmetto Perspectives. In 2019\, Eaddy also produced The Road We Trod\, a one-hour special on South Carolina's Historically Black Colleges and Universities and their impact on history and the economy. A native of the South Carolina Lowcountry\, Eaddy’s first broadcast job was in her hometown of Saint Stephen. She studied at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and learned valuable behind-the-scenes radio and TV broadcasting skills at Trident Technical College in Charleston. Eaddy is an award-winning\, multimedia journalist\, receiving the 2009 South Carolina Broadcasters Association Radio Reporter of the Year award and several Radio Television Digital.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/sense-of-place/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
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SUMMARY:Saturday Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Bears
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Kenna\, our incredible Camps in the Stacks leader. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Kenna will read Leaves by David Ezra Stein and the craft will be pasta bears! \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-bears/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
CREATED:20230915T135738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T135620Z
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - The Night Sky
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa\, our Children’s Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Melissa will read When Moon Fell Down by Linda Smith and the craft will be a night sky mobile! \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-the-night-sky/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
CREATED:20230717T204329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230921T185049Z
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SUMMARY:Martyrdom and the History of Christianity
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, October 3\, CLS and Buxton Books presents an evening for lovers of history and theology. \nIn Cult of the Dead\, Kyle Smith dives into the origins of Christianity and its history of memoralizing the legacies of martyrs. Smith’s sweeping historical account adopts a fascinating approach to the evolution of religion and the phenomena of death and martyrdom.  Smith will be joined in conversation by the Reverend Dr. Adam J Shoemaker \nTickets are $10 for members\, $15 for the public.  \nTo purchase tickets\, click here or call 843-723-9912 during box office hours. \nAbout the Book:\nA cultural history of how Christianity was born from its martyrs. \nThough it promises eternal life\, Christianity was forged in death. Christianity is built upon the legacies of the apostles and martyrs who chose to die rather than renounce the name of their lord. In this innovative cultural history\, Kyle Smith shows how a devotion to death has shaped Christianity for two thousand years. \nFor centuries\, Christians have cared for their saints\, curating their deaths as examples of holiness. Martyrs’ stories\, lurid legends of torture\, have been told and retold\, translated and rewritten. Martyrs’ bones are alive in the world\, relics pulsing with wonder. Martyrs’ shrines are still visited by pilgrims\, many in search of a miracle. Martyrs have even shaped the Christian conception of time\, with each day of the year celebrating the death of a saint. From Roman antiquity to the present\, by way of medieval England and the Protestant Reformation\, Cult of the Dead tells the fascinating story of how the world’s most widespread religion is steeped in the memory of its martyrs. \nAbout Kyle Smith: Kyle Smith is Associate Professor and Director of the History of Religions Program at the University of Toronto. An award-winning teacher\, he is the author or co-author of five books about Christian saints and martyrs. \nAbout Reverend Dr. Adam J. Shoemaker: Adam received a bachelor’s degree from Boston University\, a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School\, a Diploma in Anglican Studies from the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church\, and has completed the Doctor of Ministry program at Duke Divinity School. His dissertation addresses a pivotal moment in the unique history of St. Stephen’s. The title of his dissertation is “Building Community Across Walls: A History of an Integrated Church amid a Gentrifying Neighborhood in Charleston\, South Carolina.”
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/martyrdom-and-the-history-of-christianity/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
CREATED:20230915T135839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T135522Z
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - The Night Sky
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa\, our Children’s Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Melissa will read When Moon Fell Down by Linda Smith and the craft will be a night sky mobile! \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-the-night-sky/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T104128
CREATED:20230801T164243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T193017Z
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SUMMARY:Storytelling Series // Fashioning Narratives with Judith Thurman\, Harold Koda\, and Caroline Rennolds Milbank
DESCRIPTION:What does a dress\, or how we dress\, have to tell us? Few people better demonstrate the worlds that can be discerned from fashion than Judith Thurman and Harold Koda. In Judith Thurman’s work\, literature and fashion can be co-dependent—a mention of a dress of rare lace leads to Alice B. Toklas and Anita Loos\, and a Charles James seam smoothes easily to Virginia Woolf’s letter to Vita Sackville-West. That Thurman discerns this thread of communication is evident in her description of Alexander McQueen’s fashion as a “form of confessional poetry.” Besides her recently published collection of essays\, A Left-Handed Woman\, she is the author of award-winning biographies of the pivotal cultural figures Colette and Isak Dinesen (for which she won a National Book Award)\, and has also worked as a producer on the film about Dinesen’s life\, Out of Africa. \nHarold Koda led the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s legendary Costume Institute for nearly two decades\, curating such brilliant fashion exhibitions as “Dangerous Liaisons\,” which animated the 18th-century epistolary novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses in a series of sometimes risqué vignettes of mannequins carrying on amongst the fine French furniture and objects d’art of the Wrightsman Galleries. Imaginative in concept\, breathtaking in the look and array of garments\, Koda’s exhibitions and writings have definitively moved the fashion exhibition needle from gazing at the past to brilliantly illuminating the present. \nJoin us on Thursday\, October 5\, from 6:00PM to 7:00PM\, for their perspectives on the unlikely power of genre-spanning storytelling in a conversation moderated by the fashion historian and returning CLS program host\, Caroline Rennolds Milbank. \nTickets are $10 for members\, $15 for the public. \nTo purchase\, click here or call 843.723.9912 during Box Office Hours (11:00AM–4:00PM\, Monday through Thursday).
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/storytelling-series-fashioning-narratives-with-judith-thurman-and-harold-koda/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Story Time In The Rabbit Hole - Ghosts
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Kenna\, our incredible Camps in the Stacks leader. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Kenna will read Ghosts in the House by Kazuno Kohara and the craft will be a puffy ghost! \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-ghosts/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:October New Members Mingle
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our New Members Mingle! Every second Monday of the month\, we host our newest members of the CLS family with a fun and informative tour of the facility\, including key information on utilizing Library resources\, an exploration of some of the treasures from the CLS archives\, a visit to the Igoe Shakespeare Library and concluding with a tour of our bindery and information about our conservation efforts. Questions are welcome throughout our time together. \nThe tour starts at 5pm\, and generally ends around 6pm. The tour schedule includes:\n5:00 – 5:10 pm Welcome\n5:10 – 5:20 pm Introduction of staff and an overview of the Main Reading Room and Exhibits\n5:20 – 5:40 pm Tour of key areas of the Library\, including the Melvin P. Seiden Gallery\, the Kellogg Family Map Room\, the Ruth and Bill Baker Conference Room\, the Igoe Shakespeare Library and the Stephen F. Gates Vaults\n5:40 – 6:00 pm  Tour of Dorothy’s Book Bindery and the Jerrold and Ann Mitchell Conservation Lab; Q&A \nPlease RSVP with the form below. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/october-new-members-mingle-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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