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SUMMARY:Cocktails with Emma & Julian Fellowes and Virginia & William Nicholson
DESCRIPTION:Charleston Library Society invites you to Cocktails with Emma & Julian  Fellowes and Virginia & William Nicholson \nJanuary 12 | 6:00 in the evening \nAt the Home of Richard H. Jenrette \nThe Roper House \nNo. 9 East Battery \n$175 per person* \nThis evening is graciously supported by CARRIAGE PROPERTIES \nTo purchase tickets\, please click here\nor call 843-723-9912\n___ \n*$100 tax deductible \n**Space is very limited
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/cocktails-with-emma-julian-fellowes-and-virginia-william-nicholson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170124T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170124T180000
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SUMMARY:269th Annual Meeting- SOLD OUT
DESCRIPTION:The 269th Annual Meeting with Walter Edgar is SOLD OUT. \nJanuary 24th at 5:00 PM\, please join of us for the 269th Annual Meeting of the Charleston Library Society with guest speaker\, Walter B. Edgar.  Because of limited seating\, please RSVP to (843) 723-9912 or dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. \nWalter B. Edgar is an American historian and author specializing in Southern history and culture\, particularly for South Carolina. Edgar has authored or edited several books about the state\, including South Carolina: A History and The South Carolina Encyclopedia. He is known for hosting the popular weekly radio show Walter Edgar’s Journal on South Carolina Public Radio on historic and cultural topics\, as well as the daily feature South Carolina A to Z on South Carolina Public Radio. \nClick here to read the Minutes from the 2016 Annual Meeting. The attached minutes will be approved during the 2017 Annual Meeting.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/269th-annual-meeting-sold-out/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170201T100000
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SUMMARY:CLS Book Club: The Noise of Time
DESCRIPTION:The Book Club’s first meeting in 2017! \nCLS Book Club’s success depends on the dedication of our wonderful volunteers and patrons. So\, please RSVP if you are planning on attending. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nThis meeting’s selection is The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes. A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes’s first novel since his best-selling\, Man Booker Prize–winning The Sense of an Ending. \nIn 1936\, Shostakovich\, just thirty\, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin\, hitherto a distant figure\, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now\, certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or\, more likely\, executed on the spot)\, Shostakovich reflects on his predicament\, his personal history\, his parents\, various women and wives\, his children—and all who are still alive themselves hang in the balance of his fate. And though a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming yet another casualty of the Great Terror\, for decades to come he will be held fast under the thumb of despotism: made to represent Soviet values at a cultural conference in New York City\, forced into joining the Party and compelled\, constantly\, to weigh appeasing those in power against the integrity of his music. Barnes elegantly guides us through the trajectory of Shostakovich’s career\, at the same time illuminating the tumultuous evolution of the Soviet Union. The result is both a stunning portrait of a relentlessly fascinating man and a brilliant exploration of the meaning of art and its place in society.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/cls-book-club-the-noise-of-time/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170209T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170209T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Melanie Stiassny
DESCRIPTION:Without our oceans\, which cover almost 72 percent of our planet\, Earth simply could not exist—or humanity survive. Join us as author Melanie Stiassny from the American Museum of Natural History\, takes an epic\, oceanic journey as she talks about her new book Opulent Oceans. \nThe book features fascinating essays\, taken from the museum’s Rare Book Collections\, and expands on the science behind the early histories that shaped the study of oceanography. They take close-up looks at coral\, jellyfish\, sea worms\, whales\, sharks\, squid\, and more\, and provide accounts from legendary explorers and early naturalists. This gorgeously illustrated volume\, which includes 40 frameable prints\, will appeal to every seafaring and natural-science enthusiast. \nThe Natural Histories series introduces today’s readers to lost\, fully illustrated scientific tomes from the American Museum of Natural History Library’s Rare Book Collections. The museum’s top experts provide interesting facts and commentary that enrich the original material and appeal to nature\, science\, and art lovers. \nTo RSVP for this interesting lecture\, please call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-melanie-stiassny/
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library: Baroque to the Future
DESCRIPTION:The Library Society will go back in time to offer a very special evening of Baroque music featuring Yuriy Bekker and friends\, with a special guest appearance by Natalia Khoma. The music of the Baroque era will be followed by a reception\, giving patrons the opportunity to mingle with these gifted musicians. \nTickets are a flat rate of $35 for this special evening. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nPlayers \nYuriy Bekker and Micah Gangwer\, Violins \nJan-Marie Joyce\, Viola \nNorbert Lewandowski and Natalia Khoma\, Cellos \nThomas Bresnick\, Bass \nJulia Harlow\, Harpsichord \nYuriy Bekker\, Conductor
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-baroque-to-the-future/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170221T180000
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SUMMARY:A Evening with David McCullough
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with David McCullough-  \nAs you’ve never seen or heard him before. \nAccompanied by pianist\, Ed Wise \nTuesday\, February 21st\, 2017 \n6:00PM \nThe Dock Street Theatre – 135 Church Street \nTicket cost- $200 Premium & $100 General \n(Premium tickets ~ $100 tax deductible & General tickets ~ $50 tax deductible) \nTo purchase tickets\, please call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nDavid McCullough has been widely acclaimed as a “master of the art of narrative history\,” and “a matchless writer.”  He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize\, twice winner of the National Book Award\, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom\, the nation’s highest civilian award. \nEd Wise has been a professional musician for over 50 years\, and a piano and music theory teacher for 30 years.  In addition to his many concerts\, Mr. Wise has performed on the Tonight Show\, the Letterman Show. \nThe Program:\nMr. McCullough and Mr. Wise have graciously offered to reprise a special “show” they have performed at the White House\, at the 100th anniversary celebration of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge\, at the New York Historical Society\, and at the Truman Library in Independence\, Missouri.\nIt all began in the 1980s\, when Mr. McCullough learned that the Martha’s Vineyard High School Library was about to lose its accreditation for lack of funds.  He jumped in and decided to present a benefit concert. He asked his friend\, Ed Wise to help him adapt Mornings on Horseback\, about Theodore Roosevelt\, into a stage presentation with music. It was so warmly received and gave them so much personal enjoyment to perform\, that they began presenting it at many of Mr. McCullough’s speaking engagements. \nOn February 21\, 2017\, the two men will reprise their magical evening at the Dock Street Theater\, with stories about American history – punctuated by the music of George Gershwin and Scott Joplin.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-evening-with-david-mccullough/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Christopher Dickey
DESCRIPTION:Our Men in Charleston: A British Secret Agent and the Slave Who Stole the Rebel Codes in the Civil War South \nThursday\, March 2nd ~ 6:00PM \nCome enjoy Christopher Dickey as he discusses his most recent book Our Man in Charleston: Britain’s Secret Agent in the Civil War South\, while also diving deeper and going farther than the book goes with additional stories and lecture topics! \nJoin as we go beyond the book\, which is based on what we know for sure\, to look at what we might surmise about Bunch and his circle in Charleston\, including Robert Smalls\, the slave harbor pilot who stole the CSS Planter and turned it over the blockading fleet. \nThis free event is and open to the public! We do ask that you RSVP\, to do so please call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. \nChristopher Dickey is a war correspondent\, historian\, and thriller writer\, an authority on terrorism\, and a memoirist. He is the Paris-based foreign editor of The Daily Beast\, and is a contributor to NBC/MSNBC News. Chris also has been a frequent commentator on CNN\, the BBC\, and NPR. He was formerly a bureau chief for Newsweek in Paris and Cairo\, and for The Washington Post in Central America and the Middle East. \nChris’s most recent work of non-fiction is Our Man in Charleston: Britain’s Secret Agent in the Civil War South\, published in 2015. It was a New York Times best-seller\, and was published in paperback in July 2016. Pulitzer prize-winning historian James M. McPherson described it as “an engrossing account of diplomatic derring-do\,” and Kirkus\, in a starred review\, called it\, flatly\, “a great book.” The many\, many editorial reviews and the enthusiastic reports by Amazon readers speak for themselves.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170309T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170309T200000
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library: Good Foot Band
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the approach of St. Patrick’s Day with the Good Foot Band\, featuring Karin McQuade\, Susan Conant and Bart Saylor in a lively concert of Celtic music. Good Foot is named after an old Oklahoma expression describing someone who is “feelin’ fine” because “looks like you’re dancin’ on your good foot.” It’s an apt description for the Charleston area Celtic band whose joyful groove makes you want to get up and dance. \nGood Foot offers up a quirky\, fun variety of powerful ballads\, hoppin’ tunes and jazzy improvisations showcasing Karin McQuade’s sparkling voice and fiddle\, Susan Conant’s many flutes and whistles and Bart Saylor’s energetic groove on guitar and bouzouki. \nYou’ll be able to enjoy the mix of fiddle\, flute\, bodhran\, banjo\, guitar and vocal renditions of traditional and original songs for this incredibly fun evening. \nTickets are $20 for members\, $30 for nonmembers. To purchase\, please call 843-723-9912 or click here
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-good-foot-band/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170314T180000
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SUMMARY:Charleston Fashion Week Speaker: Fern Mallis
DESCRIPTION:The JCC WOW Bookfest proudly presents:\nFern Mallis: Creator of New York Fashion Week\, Lead Judge at Charleston Fashion Week & Author of Fashion Lives.\nJoin us as the legendary Fern Mallis\, internationally known fashion consultant\, creator of New York Fashion Week\, lead judge at Charleston Fashion Week and author of Fashion Lives: Icons with Fern Mallis\, discusses her book\, a compilation of interviews with movers and shakers in the fashion industry. \nBooks will be sold and signed by Fern Mallis at the event. \nClick here to purchase your tickets. \nFor more information\, contact Marylyn Haspel at marylynh@charlestonjcc.org or (843) 571-6565. \nThis program is sponsored in part by a generous allocation from the Charleston Jewish Federation.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170316T200000
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SUMMARY:Irish Georgian Society- Abbey Leix: An Irish Home and its Demesne
DESCRIPTION:The Irish Georgian Society requests the pleasure of your company for a lecture and reception with guest speakers Sir David Davies\, IGS President\, and Mr. William Laffan\, author and curator of: \nAbbey Leix: An Irish Home and Its Demesne \nWednesday\, March 15\, 2017 \nPlease contact Michael Kerrigan\, Executive Director\, at 312-961-3860 or email him at info@irishgeorigansociety.com for more information. \nBooks will be available for purchase and to be signed. \nTo RSVP\, please call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nSir David Davies\, the President of the Society\, is a long-time member of the Irish Georgian Society\, and a former board member of the Irish Georgian Foundation. He is active in the charitable field\, and as well as serving as the President of the IGS\, he currently serves as President of the Wexford Festival Opera Trust. In 2003\, Sir David co-commissioned\, with the Department of the Environment\, Heritage and Local Government\, a government report: A future for Irish historic houses?\, authored by Dr. Terence Dooley (NUIM). \nHe was educated at Winchester College\, New College Oxford and Harvard Business School. Sir David’s Irish home is Abbey Leix Estate in Co. Laois\, which he has spent many years extensively restoring to become one of the great stately homes of Ireland. \nWilliam Laffan is an author and curator\, He has written extensively on Irish art and the country house and acted as advisor to the exhibition Ireland 1690-1840: Crossroad of Art and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago (2015). He has served on the board of the Irish Georgian Society and for five years was editor of its journal Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies. Abbey Leix: An Irish Home and Its Demesne\, by William Laffan\, published by Churchill House Press is lavishly illustrated volume exploring the architectural history and landscape of Abbey Leix\, one of the most notable Irish houses.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/irish-georgian-society-abbey-leix-an-irish-home-and-its-demesne/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170330T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170330T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Webb Hubbell
DESCRIPTION:Join us as the Library Society welcomes Webb Hubbell as he discusses his recent release A Game of Inches. To RSVP\, please call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nDoes trouble follow Jack or does he come looking for it? In Webb Hubbell’s third legal thriller\, A Game of Inches (Beaufort Books\, June 2016)\, DC attorney Jack Patterson tackles the NFL\, fantasy sports\, and the power of information in our nation’s capitol. \nNFL Rookie of the Year\, Billy ‘Glide’ Hopper\, has been charged with the gruesome murder of a young mystery woman in his locked hotel room at the Mayflower hotel in Washington\, DC. Trouble is\, Billy has no memory of the events of the night. Drawn in by his friend Judge Marshall Fitzgerald’s unshakable belief in Billy\, Jack is determined to establish Billy’s innocence and get to the bottom of the murder. As the mystery deepens\, he calls on old friends and colleagues to help him solve the puzzle. They find themselves at war with a powerful and sinister force\, and both Jack and those closest to him are literally in the line of fire. In A Game of Inches Hubbell illustrates the role big money information\, and influence have on DC politics and how fantasy sports is changing the NFL and the game of football itself. Murder is just the tip of the iceberg. \nHubbell’s first Jack Patterson novel\, When Men Betray is an IndieFab winner\, and the second\, Ginger Snaps\, won the IPPY Gold Medal in the suspense/thriller category. \nWebb Hubbell is an award-winning author\, lecturer\, and consultant. As a former Mayor of Little Rock\, Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court\, and Associate Attorney General of the United States appointed by former President Bill Clinton\, he is well-versed in the intricacies of the U.S. government and our criminal justice system\, and he bring his first-hand experience and unique knowledge to every page. As a former Razorback football star and Chicago Bears draftee\, he brings his special insight into the current state of the game of football.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T190000
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SUMMARY:Rock and Rondo Redux
DESCRIPTION:Rock and Rondo Redux returns – this time with the winds taking over! \nCMC musicians Regina Helcher Yost (flute)\, Kari Kistler (oboe)\, Charles Messersmith (clarinet)\, Sandra Nikolajevs (bassoon)\, Debra Sherrill Ward (horn) and Irina Pevzner (piano) perform an eclectic program including Barber’s “Summer Music” and Freddie Mercury’s “Bohemian Rhapsody\,” along with some Beatles and Francaix thrown in for good measure! \nTickets are $20 for members and $30 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, please call 843-723-9912 or click here.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170408T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170410T150000
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SUMMARY:CLS Book Sale
DESCRIPTION:Come visit us the weekend of April 8th for the CLS Book Sale! Browse a wide selection featuring best-selling fiction\, noteworthy non-fiction\, beautiful coffee table books\, and rare finds. You never know what you’ll go home with! \nSchedule: \nSaturday: 10:00am-2:00pm \nSunday: 12:00pm-3:00pm
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170413T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170413T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kat Imhoff
DESCRIPTION:James Madison\, the Constitution\, and America’s Ongoing Revolution \nA conversation with Montpelier Foundation President and CEO Kat Imhoff about how James Madison framed our country’s conversations about rights and freedom \nHardly a week passes when the U.S. Constitution is not driving headlines\, and yet\, many Americans still don’t know the story of how our nation’s social contract came into existence at a moment that has been described by scholars as a “hinge point” in world history. Montpelier Foundation President and CEO Kat Imhoff will discuss how her team is creating a new kind of historic site at James Madison’s historic 2\,650-acre plantation\, designed to put the past in conversation with the present through a range of place-based experiences. Connecting the stories of the Foundation’s leading work on the interpretation of slavery and its work training Constitutional practitioners at the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution to the dramatic three-year period from 1786-1789 during which Madison created the framework for the U.S. Constitution and drafted the Bill of Rights\, Imhoff will explain Montpelier’s methods of engaging citizens with the nation’s biggest idea: government by the people. Join us for an intriguing and far-reaching journey into the past that cannot help but refresh your view of government\, politics\, and American identity. \nTo RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nKat Imhoff\, Montpelier President and CEO \nAs President and CEO of James Madison’s Montpelier\, Kat Imhoff is among the first generation of women to oversee all aspects of a national historic site. Under her leadership\, Montpelier has become a leader in the research of slavery in the Early Republic and garnered the attention of patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein\, whose $10 million gift in 2014 jumpstarted efforts to reconstruct the landscape of slavery at Montpelier and fully furnish James Madison’s historic home. \nMontpelier also operates The Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution whose mission is to improve the public’s understanding of the founding principles of the United States and inspire civic engagement. Kat’s fresh\, visionary leadership of the Center has repositioned Montpelier as a cultural organization with an innovative instinct for connecting history to present day challenges through its civic education programs for constitutional practitioners. \nPrior to joining Montpelier in January 2013\, Kat enjoyed a five-year tenure as State Director for The Nature Conservancy in Montana\, where she led a successful $90 million effort to conserve an ecologically intact unit of 310\,000 acres of land in the Northern Rockies that serves as an environmentally-protected migratory corridor extending from Wyoming across Montana to Canada. \nBefore her leadership role at The Nature Conservancy\, Kat served as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (TJF) which owns and operates Monticello\, a UNESCO World Heritage site. \nShe has served as the Executive Director of the Preservation Alliance of Virginia\, Vice President for Conservation and Development of the Piedmont Environmental Council\, and the Executive Director of the Commission on Population Growth and Development\, a 33-member legislative study commission established by the Virginia General Assembly to promote growth management legislation.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170417T180000
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT- Speaker Series: John Avlon
DESCRIPTION:The Library Society is excited to host John Avlon\, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Beast & CNN Political Analyst\, to discuss his Kirkus-starred book Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations.  \nTo RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nGeorge Washington’s Farewell Address was a prophetic letter from a “parting friend” to his fellow citizens about the forces he feared could destroy our democracy: hyper-partisanship\, excessive debt\, and foreign wars. \nOnce celebrated as civic scripture\, more widely reprinted than the Declaration of Independence\, the Farewell Address is now almost forgotten. Its message remains starkly relevant. In Washington’s Farewell\, John Avlon offers a stunning portrait of our first president and his battle to save America from self-destruction. \nAt the end of his second term\, Washington surprised Americans by publishing his Farewell message in a newspaper. The President called for unity among “citizens by birth or choice\,” advocated moderation\, defended religious pluralism\, proposed a foreign policy of independence (not isolation)\, and proposed that education is essential to democracy. He established the precedent for the peaceful transfer of power. \nWashington’s urgent message was adopted by Jefferson after years of opposition and quoted by Lincoln in defense of the Union. Woodrow Wilson invoked it for nation-building; Eisenhower for Cold War; Reagan for religion. Now the Farewell Address may inspire a new generation to re-center our politics and reunite our nation through the lessons rooted in Washington’s experience. \nAs John Avlon describes the perilous state of the new nation that Washington was preparing to leave as its leader\, with enduring wisdom\, he reveals him to be the indispensable Founding Father.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/sold-out-speaker-series-john-avlon/
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SUMMARY:CLS Book Club: The Underground Railroad
DESCRIPTION:CLS Book Club is ready for spring! \nCLS Book Club’s success depends on the dedication of our wonderful volunteers and patrons. So\, please RSVP if you are planning on attending. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nThis meeting’s selection is the 2016 National Book Award Winner\, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. \nCora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves\, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans\, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar\, a recent arrival from Virginia\, tells her about the Underground Railroad\, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north\, they are being hunted.\nIn Whitehead’s ingenious conception\, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina\, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway\, the relentless slave catcher\, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again\, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight\, state by state\, seeking true freedom.\nLike the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels\, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey—hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era\, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering\, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/cls-book-club-the-underground-railroad/
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SUMMARY:Special Family Concert: Mark Mason
DESCRIPTION:Join the Charleston Library Society for a Special Family Concert! \nSaturday\, April 22nd \n2:00PM \nMark Mason\, a folk singer-songwriter from Summerville\, SC\, will perform songs from his album Charleston- Musical Portrait in a concert that is fun for all ages. \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nPublished songwriter and folksinger/performer artist Mark Mason has taken some of the vast history of “The Holy City\,” Charleston\, SC and written 10 original songs that encompass her past as well as her legends and folklore. And with the production of Rick Haynes\, (Gordon Lightfoot’s Bass Player)\, has come up with a unique and beautiful body of work. Mason’s haunting and charming melodies and lyrics are accompanied by Haynes on Bass\, Mike Heffernan\, (another Lightfoot band member) on Keyboards\, Warren “Wiggy” Toll on Guitar\, Dobro and Spoons\, Mark DeCarlo on Flute and Michael DiGiorgio on Banjo bringing each and every one of these songs to life. In sort of a Jimmy Driftwood fashion Mason weaves us back in time learning history’s dates\, places and events in a serious\, yet lighthearted way as a teaching tool for young and old alike! The 8 page booklet comes with History Notes and lyrics making this an “experience” that we used to get when we’d bring home a new album and appreciate everything from the artwork to the adventure of growing with the music.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/special-family-concert-mark-mason/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T133000
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SUMMARY:Wide Angle Lunch: Leah Suarez
DESCRIPTION:Wide Angle Lunches- Season XII: Making Community \n12:30pm – 1:30pm \nIndividual Tickets: $20 members\, $25 nonmembers \nSeason Pass: $75 members\, $95 nonmembers (To purchase Season Pass\, call 843-723-9912) \n Editor’s Note— What is a community without creativity? The arts are thriving in Charleston\, but it would be folly to assume that they will continue to flourish in these uncertain political times. Too often\, whether in word or deed\, the arts are relegated to the fringe of what is considered essential to healthy human communities. Many of us feel in some visceral way that this is backwards\, but how many of us can articulate exactly how\, or why? \nIn Season XII of Wide Angle Lunches\, you will hear from five speakers\, each a champion of creativity and community\, whose lives and work are distinctly dedicated to the making of community through creativity. Whether through music or architecture\, poetry or “artivism”\, they are tackling society’s ills in profoundly inspirational ways. We invite you to join us for one or all lunches\, and promise that you will leave both sated and hungry: armed with examples and a deepened understanding of how the arts are integral to the health and sustainability of peaceful and prosperous communities\, and eager to go out into your community and make it stronger through your own creativity. ~Ceara Donnelley \nLeah Suárez \nSacred Ground: The Call of Humanity and Art of Bearing Witness \nTo purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \n Almost two years ago\, Charleston musician Leah Suárez found herself in Hundisburg\, Germany\, at the bucolic new home of Wide Angle founder Caroline von Nathusius. The timing of her visit was fortuitous; the tragic shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston had just occurred\, and what began as a bit of respite turned into the genesis of her deeply personal and creative witness bearing to commemorate the lives of the Emanuel Nine. One year later\, in May 2016\, Suárez returned to Germany\, joined by collaborating composer/musician\, Alex Collier\, for the world premiere of the first phase of Sacred Ground. It was held in the Schinkel double-church at the dedication of an outdoor structure\, Charleston Place\, which was built by students of the American College of the Building Arts and named in solidarity with the Holy City. \nThis year\, Sacred Ground makes its Charleston debut at the Circular Church on 6 May 2017. Two days before what promises to be a moving concert\, Wide Anglers have the privilege of hearing directly from Suárez on the story of how the piece came to be\, and the role and responsibility of the artist and citizen to bear witness. As an accomplished musician (multilingual singer\, valve trombonist\, composer and bandleader blazing her own cool alloy genre that’s jazz tempered with a range of other roots traditions)\, arts entrepreneur (founder of arts production company De La Luz\, co-founder and former executive director of Jazz Artists of Charleston and co-producer of the Charleston Jazz Orchestra)\, and recent seeker of her own Mexican roots and heritage\, few are poised to speak as powerfully to the intersection of creativity and community\, both in Charleston and around the world. \n*Photo provided by Alice Keerey
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/wide-angle-lunch-leah-suarez/
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Tessa Tennant
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Tessa Tennant; an evening filled with stimulating conversations about a wide variety of topics. For her entire career Tessa Tennant has worked to ‘green’ the financial services industry.  She co-founded the United Kingdom’s first green investment fund\, the Jupiter Ecology Fund in 1988 and is on the board of the country’s Green Investment Bank.  She has been centrally involved in developing the industry in the UK and overseas especially in Asia.  In recognition of her work she has won several awards and was the first non-US citizen to be given the Joan Bavaria Award in 2012.  She thinks and ‘does’ global\, while also acting very local with her husband\, running an upland farm and property enterprise in the Scottish Borders. \nTessa will be interviewed by a special guest of the Library Society and will answer interesting questions in a conversation format. \nTo RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-conversation-with-tessa-tennant/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170511T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170511T133000
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SUMMARY:Wide Angle Lunch: Marcus Amaker
DESCRIPTION:Wide Angle Lunches- Season XII: Making Community \n12:30pm – 1:30pm \nIndividual Tickets: $20 members\, $25 nonmembers \nSeason Pass: $75 members\, $95 nonmembers (To purchase Season Pass\, call 843-723-9912) \n Editor’s Note— What is a community without creativity? The arts are thriving in Charleston\, but it would be folly to assume that they will continue to flourish in these uncertain political times. Too often\, whether in word or deed\, the arts are relegated to the fringe of what is considered essential to healthy human communities. Many of us feel in some visceral way that this is backwards\, but how many of us can articulate exactly how\, or why? \nIn Season XII of Wide Angle Lunches\, you will hear from five speakers\, each a champion of creativity and community\, whose lives and work are distinctly dedicated to the making of community through creativity. Whether through music or architecture\, poetry or “artivism”\, they are tackling society’s ills in profoundly inspirational ways. We invite you to join us for one or all lunches\, and promise that you will leave both sated and hungry: armed with examples and a deepened understanding of how the arts are integral to the health and sustainability of peaceful and prosperous communities\, and eager to go out into your community and make it stronger through your own creativity. ~Ceara Donnelley \nMarcus Amaker \nPoetry and Passion \nTo buy tickets please call 843-723-9912 or click here. \n Charleston’s first Poet Laureate Marcus Amaker is as close as it comes to 21st century Renaissance man: on a given day\, he may write a poem\, compose a piece of music\, design a logo or a website\, write a book\, or create an app. He is equally adept at all of these pursuits\, and within five minutes of talking to him\, one gets the sense that he has achieved the elusive feat of living a cohesive life\, rich in complexity and diversity of endeavors and yet unified by a common purpose — which is to live a creative life that makes the world better. In his Wide Angle debut\, Amaker will explore his vision for Charleston’s first Poetry Festival\, and explore how poetry has the power to transform people and the communities they create together. \nAmaker’s poetry has been featured on TEDx\, the PBS Newshour\, A&E\, the Huffington Post\, several journals and poetry collections. His latest book\, Mantra\, is also an app for iPhone and Android devices. He’s also a well-known graphic/web designer and videographer\, producing award-winning work for many nonprofits and organizations. He’s also the lead graphic designer for a national music magazine. This year\, he was named one of Charleston’s 50 Most Influential people by Charleston Business Magazine. Marcus has released more than twenty albums of music since 1986. \n*Photo provided by Reese Moore
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SUMMARY:A Royal Oak Foundation Event: Sally Bedell Smith
DESCRIPTION:The Royal Oak Foundation presents \nSally Bedell Smith ~ Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life \nTo purchase tickets click here or call 800-913-6565\, x. 201 \nIf you a member of the Charleston Library Society\, use the co-sponsor code to get the discounted member price. The code is 17SCHLIB \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. She is the mother of three children and lives in Washington\, D.C.\, with her husband\, Stephen G. Smith. \nPrince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life \nDrawing on her extensive access to the Royal Family’s inner circle\, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith presents the first major biography of Prince Charles in more than two decades. \nIn this illustrated lecture\, based on her new book Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life (April\, 2017)\, Ms. Smith will give unprecedented insights into Prince Charles\, a man who possesses a fiercely independent spirit\, and yet has spent his life in waiting for the ultimate role of monarch. \nBeginning with his childhood\, Smith will detail his intellectual quests\, his entrepreneurial pursuits\, and his love affairs—from the tragedy of his marriage to Diana to his eventual reunion with Camilla. \nShe will also describe his relationship with the next generation of royals\, including William\, Katherine\, Harry\, and his beloved grandchildren. Ms. Smith captures a man who has been described as an 18th-century gentleman with a 21st-century mission—a life filled with contradictions and convictions. \nThis is a lecture not just about a man who would be king\, but also about the duties that come with privilege.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-royal-oak-foundation-event-sally-bedell-smith/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170516T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170516T170000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Speaker Series: Candice Shy Hooper
DESCRIPTION:Come enjoy this special afternoon Speaker Series lecture by Candice Shy Hooper about her book\, Lincoln’s Generals’ Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War – For Better and for Worse \nTo RSVP\, please call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nThe story of the American Civil War is not complete without examining the extraordinary lives of Jessie Frémont\, Nelly McClellan\, Ellen Sherman\, and Julia Grant\, wives of Abraham Lincoln’s top generals. They were their husbands’ closest confidantes and had a profound impact on the generals. Once shots were fired on Fort Sumter\, their relationships with their husbands and their personal opinions of Abraham Lincoln had national and historical consequences. Relying on letters and memoirs —and\, for the first time\, mapping the women’s wartime travels—Hooper explores the very different ways in which these remarkable women responded to the unique challenges of being Lincoln’s generals’ wives. \nCandice Shy Hooper was born on Guam to a U. S. Navy Hospital Corpsman and his intrepid Hoosier wife. With an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Illinois and a law degree from Georgetown University\, it was only after a career on Capitol Hill as aide to the late Congressman Charlie Wilson (“Charlie Wilson’s War”) and as a lobbyist with her husband that she “discovered” her true intellectual passion.  In 2008\, she earned an MA in history\, with a concentration in military history\, from George Washington University. \nHooper’s work has appeared in the New York Times\, The Journal of Military History\, and The Michigan War Studies Review\, and she has lectured at the U. S. Naval Academy. \nCandice is a Member of the Board of Directors of President Lincoln’s Cottage at the National Soldiers’ Home in Washington\, DC.  She is also a member of the Ulysses S. and Julia D. Grant Historical Home Advisory Board in Detroit\, Michigan.  Hooper is currently president of the Johann Fust Library Foundation in Boca Grande\, Florida\, where she spends half the year with her husband Lindsay.  The rest is divided between Arlington\, Virginia\, and Wilson\, Wyoming.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/afternoon-speaker-series-candice-shy-hooper/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170518T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170518T133000
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SUMMARY:Wide Angle Lunch: Ruby Lerner & KJ Kearney
DESCRIPTION:Wide Angle Lunches- Season XII: Making Community \n12:30pm-1:30pm \nIndividual Tickets: $20 members\, $25 nonmembers \nSeason Pass: $75 members\, $95 nonmembers ( To purchase season pass\, call 843-723-9912) \nEditor’s Note: What is a community without creativity? The arts are thriving in Charleston\, but it would be folly to assume that they will continue to flourish in these uncertain political times. Too often\, whether in word or deed\, the arts are relegated to the fringe of what is considered essential to healthy human communities. Many of us feel in some visceral way that this is backwards\, but how many of us can articulate exactly how\, or why? \nIn Season XII of Wide Angle Lunches\, you will hear from five speakers\, each a champion of creativity and community\, whose lives and work are distinctly dedicated to the making of community through creativity. Whether through music or architecture\, poetry or “artivism”\, they are tackling society’s ills in profoundly inspirational ways. We invite you to join us for one or all lunches\, and promise that you will leave both sated and hungry: armed with examples and a deepened understanding of how the arts are integral to the health and sustainability of peaceful and prosperous communities\, and eager to go out into your community and make it stronger through your own creativity. -Ceara Donnelley \nRuby Lerner and KJ Kearney \nArtists Collide With the World: Both Thrive \nTo buy tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \n For many Charlestonians\, the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about community and creativity is Enough Pie\, the organization dedicated to using creativity to connect and empower the community of Charleston’s Upper Peninsula – or its visionary founder\, Kate Nevin. In this Wide Angle first\, Nevin will moderate a conversation with two people whose ideas about creativity and community promise to spark a lively exploration about how art intersects with urban planning\, politics and social justice\, or\, in Nevin’s own words\, “artivism.” \n Ruby Lerner and KJ Kearney are both visionaries and practitioners in the art of creative community-making. Lerner is the founding Executive Director of Creative Capital\, an innovative arts foundation that adapts venture capital concepts to support individual artists. Under her leadership\, Creative Capital committed $40 million in financial and advisory support to 511 projects representing 642 artists. She stepped down from the organization in June 2016 to pursue consulting work and independent research\, and beginning in January 2017 she will be the inaugural Herberger Institute Policy Fellow at Arizona State University and Senior Advisor to the Patty Disney Center for Life and Work at CalArts. \nYou may have read KJ Kearney’s name in the byline of his former column for Charleston City Paper\, or in the news when he ran for South Carolina House District 15. A native of North Charleston\, Kearney is committed to keeping Charleston conscious of its complicated cultural heritage and often-precarious present. He recently launched Charleston Sticks Together\, in the words of the City Paper a “platform for reminding the city of its imperfections” – it sells pins that remind us all of the ugliness that lurks beneath and within the beauty of Charleston\, urging us to take off our “Rainbow Row-colored glasses” and confront the challenges that bedevil true unity in this community. \nPhotos provided by Ruby Lerner & Elizabeth Ervin
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170525T123000
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SUMMARY:Wide Angle Lunch: Barry Svigals
DESCRIPTION:Wide Angle Lunches- Season XII: Making Community \n12:30pm – 1:30pm \nIndividual Tickets: $20 members\, $25 nonmembers \nSeason Pass: $75 members\, $95 nonmembers (To purchase season passes\, please call 843-723-9912) \nEditor’s Note: What is a community without creativity? The arts are thriving in Charleston\, but it would be folly to assume that they will continue to flourish in these uncertain political times. Too often\, whether in word or deed\, the arts are relegated to the fringe of what is considered essential to healthy human communities. Many of us feel in some visceral way that this is backwards\, but how many of us can articulate exactly how\, or why? \nIn Season XII of Wide Angle Lunches\, you will hear from five speakers\, each a champion of creativity and community\, whose lives and work are distinctly dedicated to the making of community through creativity. Whether through music or architecture\, poetry or “artivism”\, they are tackling society’s ills in profoundly inspirational ways. We invite you to join us for one or all lunches\, and promise that you will leave both sated and hungry: armed with examples and a deepened understanding of how the arts are integral to the health and sustainability of peaceful and prosperous communities\, and eager to go out into your community and make it stronger through your own creativity. -Ceara Donnelley \nBarry Svigals \nRe-Membering Community: Inspiring a Process of Creative Participation \nTo purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \n Artist\, architect\, writer and public speaker\, Barry Svigals is the founder of Svigals+Partners\, an architecture and art firm whose mission is to nurture and inspire prosperous\, compassionate communities. He believes we are all creative and that capacity needs to find expression in how we live and work together. Awakening creativity\, we can participate in bringing to life our communities and more fully contribute to the world we inhabit. It can remind us that our struggles\, our joys and sorrows\, are shared. They are what bind us as a community. \nTrained as an architect at the Yale School of Architecture\, Svigals also studied sculpture at the Ecole Nationale Superiere in Paris. Encompassing a wide range of clients\, his firm’s architectural designs include projects for Yale University\, Boston College and the University of Connecticut\, as well as numerous public schools\, including most recently\, the new elementary school for Sandy Hook in Newtown\, Connecticut. \nOver the last 35 years\, Svigals has taught and lectured at a number of academic institutions including the Yale School of Architecture\, the Harvard School of Business\, and Stanford University. His love of sculpture and figurative art led to its integration into the architecture of his firm\, bringing back an historical tradition and providing a dimension which could give it deeper meaning. For this contribution to the practice of architecture\, he was awarded the Fellowship to the American Institute of Architects.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170612T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170612T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Eva Dillon
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to host Eva Dillon to discuss her new\, Kirkus starred review memoir\, Spies in the Family. This event is free for CLS members and $5 for nonmembers. To RSVP or purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nSpies in the Family is a true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer.  At the height of Cold War tensions between the US and the USSR\, the Americans had a secret weapon—a Soviet double agent who rose to the rank of general and passed intelligence which most likely averted a nuclear showdown. And yet this crucial historical chapter has remained hidden in the shadows…until now.  Reporting from the inside\, Eva Dillon breaks the incredible story of her CIA officer father\, his GRU asset\, and their remarkable relationship in SPIES IN THE FAMILY: An American Spymaster\, His Russian Crown Jewel\, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War. Dillon delivers a riveting account that is part nail-biting spy thriller\, part intimate family memoir.  With concerns about Vladimir Putin’s intentions and aggressions making headlines daily\, this stunning page-turner brims with chilling contemporary relevance. \nEva Dillon spent twenty-five years in the magazine publishing business\, including stints at Vogue\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Glamour\, The New Yorker\, and as president of Reader’s Digest\, U.S.  Dillon and her six siblings grew up moving around the world for her father’s CIA assignments from Berlin to Mexico City to Rome to New Delhi. A transplanted New Yorker now living in Charleston\, she holds a bachelor’s in Music from Virginia Commonwealth University.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-eva-dillon/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170614T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170614T160000
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SUMMARY:Andrew Carroll- The Million Letters Campaign
DESCRIPTION:Historian Andrew Carroll’s Million Letters Campaign Comes to Charleston Library Society \nTo RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. \n On June 14\, 2017\, at 2:00 p.m.\, Chapman University Historian Andrew Carroll will bring his Million Letters Campaign to the Charleston Library Society. On a multi-state tour throughout the country\, Carroll seeks to collect and preserve at least one million war-related correspondences from every conflict in U.S. History\, from handwritten missives penned during the American Revolution to emails sent from Iraq and Afghanistan. Local officials such as Mayor John Tecklenberg will be on hand to read from Carroll’s collection of letters\, sharing the poignant words of soldiers\, sailors and loved ones throughout American history. Staff will also be available to collect donated letters. Letters pertaining to the Lowcountry or South Carolina as a whole may be donated to the Charleston Library Society\, with content to be shared with the Million Letters Campaign. Any other letters can be donated directly to the campaign. Donors are encouraged to copy any letters they wish to save ahead of time; copies will also be accepted by the Million Letters Campaign. A light reception will follow Carroll’s presentation. \nFor questions about donating or scanning letters and correspondences\, call 843-723-9912 or email Leah Rhyne at lrhyne@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. \nAndrew Carroll is the founding director of the Center for American War Letters (CAWL) at Chapman University in California. He’s made it his life’s mission to raise public awareness about the need to find and preserve war letters and similar writings to honor and remember veterans\, troops\, and their families. The Million Letters Campaign began in April 2017 and will travel to libraries\, schools\, historical societies\, veterans organizations\, etc. to spread the word about why these writings are so important and to encourage people to donate their correspondences to CAWL so they will be preserved forever.  For more information\, watch Carroll discuss his campaign on ABC News.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/andrew-carroll-the-million-letters-campaign/
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with Arthur Ravenel\, Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Join us as Arthur Ravenel\, Jr. speaks about his new release\, Pastor Stat. Pastor Stat chronicles the journey of Vedder Oberstat\, a Huguenot pastor en route to Charleston ready to take his place at the pulpit—but nobody said it was going to be easy. Set at the start of the Civil War\, the colorful cast of characters is taken on a death-defying ride as the budding tensions between North and South manifest. A thrilling story of determination and an insightful glimpse into the plight of war\, this debut novel by Arthur Ravenel\, Jr. is an instant classic. Books will be for sale and Ravenel\, Jr. will be signing after the event. \nTo RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/book-signing-with-arthur-ravenel-jr/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170624T170000
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SUMMARY:Friends of Coastal SC Benefit with Patrick McMillan
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 24th from 5pm to 7pm: \nThe work of human hands:  Shaping our landscape past\, present and future.  \nFriends of Coastal South Carolina hosts a thought provoking evening with Patrick McMillan.  Renowned naturalists and host of the award winning PBS series\, Expeditions\, Patrick McMillan brings a unique perspective to the challenges of conservation in our time and imparts an equally unique understanding of how we shape our world.  The evening is a benefit to support loggerhead sea turtle conservation efforts on Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge. Cape Romain is the most important breeding ground for loggerhead sea turtles north of Florida.  The nest protection work this benefit supports results in hundreds of thousands of hatchling turtles\, who would not otherwise survive\, making it to the sea. \nLecture\, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres with Patrick McMillan.  $50 per person.  \nTo Purchase Tickets Click Here  \nSunday June 25: \nTour Bulls Island in Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge with Patrick McMillan. \n$40 per person.  Trips sponsored by Coastal Expeditions with departures at 10:00 am and 11:15 am. To Purchase Tickets Click on One of the Links Below: \n10:00 am departure \n11:15 am departure   \nPatrick McMillan is the host\, co-creator and writer of the popular\, Emmy Award-winning ETV nature program Expeditions with Patrick McMillan. For over 25 years\, Patrick has worked as a professional naturalist\, biologist and educator. Patrick is the Glenn and Heather Hilliard Professor of Environmental Sustainability at Clemson University\, where he is also a faculty member in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation.  He is the director of the South Carolina Botanical Garden\, the Bob Campbell Geology Museum and the Clemson Experimental Forest.  He has also been inducted as an honorary member of the legendary Class of ’39 at Clemson.  Patrick is a dynamic speaker with a passion for engaging the general public and youth in conservation issues and science.  This is evidenced by the fact that\, in addition to filming Expeditions and his responsibilities at Clemson\, he has done over 400 invited presentations since 2008. \nFor more detailswww.sccoastalfriends.org 843-697-7535. 
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/friends-of-coastal-sc-benefit-with-patrick-mcmillan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170908T093000
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SUMMARY:Lowcountry Freedom Reigns Festival
DESCRIPTION:he Charleston Library Society is excited to host three symposiums for the Lowcountry Freedom Reigns Festival. For more information\, please visit http://freedomreignsfestival.com/  \nDiscussions of Challenges in a Highly Publicized Trial for a Fair Jury Trial \nFriday\, September 8th: 9:30am-12:30pm \nJoin Honorable Costa Pleicones\, Chief Justice\, SC Supreme Court (Retired) to discuss the challenges in a highly publicized trial for a fair jury trial.  You will also hear from a panel including Hon. William Howard\, SC Court of Appeals (Retired)\, Andy Savage\, Wallace Lightsey and Jay Richardson. CLE certification (pending) will be available. To register\, please click here. \nThe Trial of Lt. Gov. Tillman; Murder or Self Defense \nFriday\, September 8th: 1:30pm-5:30pm \nJoin Honorable Joseph F. Anderson\, U.S. District Judge\, to discuss the challenges in a highly publicized trial for a fair jury trial.  You will also hear from a panel including: Debbie Barbier\, Ron Stanley\, Dawes Cooke\, Ronnie Crosby\, Morgan Martin\, Jack Swerling and Johnny Linton. Reception to follow. To register\, please \nReflections of the Life of Pat Conroy \nSaturday\, September 9th: 10:00am-10:45am \nJohn Warley\, Esq.\, Author of A Southern Girl and Pat Conroy’s closest friend will lead this symposium through reflection. To register\, click here.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/lowcountry-freedom-reigns-festival/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170921T180000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: James Rosebush
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to host James Rosebush for insightful and dynamic lecture on his book\, True Reagan.  \nWhat Was Ronald Reagan Really Like? \nPeeling back layers of Reagan to explore his outsized values and character\, Rosebush relies on what Reagan revealed to him personally\, and observations while working and traveling the world with him. True Reagan shows readers the roots of Reagan’s leadership and astounding communication skills\, so that we might apply them to global challenges confronting our world today. \nJAMES ROSEBUSH – Senior Advisor to Ronald Reagan and Chief of Staff to Nancy Reagan\, James Rosebush had unique access to the 40th President. Now he shares his observations to reveal the heart of the man–the thinking\, beliefs\, and character many have declared “mysterious and unknowable.” \nTickets are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-james-rosebush/
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