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SUMMARY:Raise the Roof Fundraiser with Mayor Tecklenburg
DESCRIPTION:Raise the Roof Fundraiser with Mayor Tecklenburg \nThe old expression Raise the Roof will carry a double meaning on October 16 when Mayor John Tecklenburg generously hosts a fundraiser to help raise money for the major repairs to the roof of Charleston’s iconic Library Society at 164 King Street.  Join us as the Mayor shares stories and displays his virtuosity on our Steinway\, with music from Gershwin\, Uncle Fud and other jazz composers.\nThe special performance will Raise the Roof with lively blues\, rag\, and old piano pop. After the concert\, the Library Society will host a light reception for guests who will be encouraged to mingle with each other and Mayor Tecklenburg. \nTickets are $25. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. 
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SUMMARY:CLS Book Club: Charleston- A Bloomsbury House & Garden
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the return of CLS Book Club! The next book club selection will be Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden by Quentin Bell and Virginia Nicholson. With the Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival quickly approaching this book will give readers a perfect insight on the history of the Bloomsbury House and its legacy. \nAll are welcome and encouraged to bring friends! We suggest you thumb through the book to gain some context for the presentation and discussion\, but if that isn’t your style you’re more than welcome to come into the meeting with no prior knowledge! You will certainly leave eager and interested to learn more! \nSet in the heart of the Sussex Downs\, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury decorative style\, created by the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Quentin Bell\, the younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell\, and his daughter Virginia Nicholson\, tell the story of this unique house\, linking it with some of the leading cultural figures who were invited there\, including Vanessa’s sister Virginia Woolf\, the writer Lytton Strachey\, the economist Maynard Keynes and the art critic Roger Fry. The house and garden are portrayed through Alen MacWeeney’s atmospheric photographs; pictures from Vanessa Bell’s family album convey the flavor of the household in its heyday. \nThis CLS Book Club meeting will be held on Wednesday\, October 18th from 10:00AM to 11:30AM. \nTo RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org.
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Lee Pollock
DESCRIPTION:Winston Churchill and the Civil War: Why an Iconic Statesman Was Fascinated by America’s Greatest Conflict and What He Thought About It \nTo RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nWinston Churchill was one of the greatest statesmen of modern times\, famous for his leadership of Britain in the Second World War and for forging its victorious alliance with the United States. Churchill was also a renowned orator\, writer and historian. Half American himself\, he was fascinated from childhood with our greatest conflict\, the Civil War. During his long life\, he traveled widely\, visiting the War’s battlefields and analyzing its main events and leading personalities\, from Abraham Lincoln to Robert E. Lee. \nChurchill’s understanding of the Civil War deeply influenced his view of the United States and its people and of the nature of war itself. And always interested in the “what might have been” of history\, one of his most intriguing articles was entitled “If Lee Had NOT Won the Battle of Gettysburg.” \nJoin Lee Pollock\, Trustee and Advisor to the Board of The International Churchill Society\, as he explores Churchill’s fascination with the Civil War and what it reveals both about his own view of history and about the War itself. \nLee Pollock is a Chicago-based writer and public speaker on the life and times of Winston\nChurchill. He has served as a Trustee and Advisor to the Board and Executive Director of The\nInternational Churchill Society\, founded in 1968 to preserve Churchill’s legacy for future\ngenerations.\nDuring his tenure with the Society\, Lee spearheaded the development of the National Churchill Library in Washington\, DC\, the leading center for Churchill scholarship in the United States. His responsibilities also included publishing the Journal of Winston Churchill Finest Hour\, organizing the annual International Churchill Conference and supporting work by leading historians. He also initiated the annual Winston Churchill National Leadership Award with the U.S. House of Representatives.\nA native of Montreal\, Lee graduated from McGill University and holds a master’s degree from\nthe University of Chicago. He is a Fellow of the National Churchill Museum and a Director of\nThe Chicago Architecture Foundation. Lee is also a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed contributor on\nWinston Churchill.\nLee has spoken about the life and times of Winston Churchill at museums\, universities\,\ngovernment agencies\, clubs and other organizations throughout the United States\, Canada and Britain.
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SUMMARY:MUSC Health Care Series: Dr. Jimmy McElligott
DESCRIPTION:MUSC Health Series at the Charleston Library Society \nFall series topic: Coopetition in the Health Care Industry: How do competitors work together to improve patient care? \nDr. James T. McElligott\, M.D. MSCR\, Medical Director for MUSC Center for Telehealth and Co-Chair of the SC Telehealth Alliance \nTelehealth Simplified: How one new approach in medicine is disrupting health care delivery nationally. \nTo RSVP\, please call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nTelehealth is a buzz word in the health care industry – and for good reason. We’re all familiar with the impact technology has had on our daily lives\, but how exactly is it being used to connect competitive health providers to patients in our state? \nBorn in Ireland and spending most of his life in the Carolinas\, Dr. McElligott earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at Wake Forest School of Medicine and completed his pediatric residency at MUSC. Dr. McElligott is a practicing pediatrician who led the formation of the SC Telehealth Alliance where he serves as the Co-Chair while he also serves as Medical Director for the MUSC Center for Telehealth. In those roles\, Dr. McElligott worked closely with the SC Board of Medical Examiners to safely bring telehealth to the state\, launched the first school-based telehealth program in SC\, and assisted with the authoring of the SC Telemedicine Act. Dr. McElligott is also active in the national development of telehealth and is President of the Pediatric Special Interest Group for the American Telemedicine Association.  He has authored numerous publications and is currently supported for his research contributions by the Duke Endowment Foundation.
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: A Conversation with Michael Guillen
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Guillen\, three-time Emmy Award winner\, best-selling author\, and former Harvard University Instructor\, is best known as the ABC News Science Editor\, will join us for a lunchtime lecture. Guillen will be introduced by Mayor Tecklenburg and joined in conversation with Dr. Barbara Boatwright\, Founder and Director of Life Resources in Mt. Pleasant\, as they discuss his recent novel\, The Null Prophecy\, a science fiction thriller. We invite you to bring a bagged lunch to this afternoon lecture. \nTo RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nDr. Michael Guillen is known and loved by millions as the ABC News Science Editor\, a post he filled for fourteen years (1988-2002).  In that capacity\, he appeared regularly on Good Morning America\, 20/20\, Nightline and World News Tonight. He is host of “Where Did It Come From?\,” a popular\, weekly\, one-hour primetime series for The History Channel that debuted in Fall 2006. \nIn association with Anonymous Content\, Dr. Guillen produced LITTLE RED WAGON\, an award-winning theatrical motion picture written by Patrick Sheane Duncan (MR. HOLLAND’S OPUS)\, directed by David Anspaugh (RUDY\, HOOSIERS)\, and inspired by the true story of young Zach Bonner\, who in 2010 completed his historic March Across America (Jacksonville\, FL to Santa Monica\, CA) on behalf of our nation’s estimated 1.3 million homeless children. \nAmong Dr. Guillen’s past television projects\, he served as writer and host of the PBS special “Wit\, Grit\, and Robot Games\,” the ten-part PBS series “Great Minds of Business” and “Great Minds of Medicine\,” and the ABC special “SeaWorld Mother Earth Celebration” with co-host Mayim Bialik (“Blossom”). Additionally\, he has brought his skills as a consultant and technical advisor to studios such as MGM\, Fox and Buena Vista\, as well as Walt Disney’s Epcot Center. \nAt Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral covering John Glenn’s shuttle launch for ABC News\, 1998 \nOver the years\, Dr. Guillen has written hundreds of articles for many distinguished publications\, from magazines such as Science News and Psychology Today to national newspapers including The New York Timesand The Washington Post.  He is the best-selling author of two critically acclaimed books for the general public about mathematics: Bridges to Infinity: the Human Side of Mathematics and Five Equations that Changed the World: the Power and Poetry of Mathematics.  He is the author of Can a Smart Person Believe in God?\, which tells of his lifelong attempt to reconcile his scientific career with his deeply religious upbringing\, and Amazing Truths: How Science and the Bible Agree\, which looks at ten great truths affirmed by science and the Bible. \nA native of East Los Angeles\, Dr. Guillen earned his B.S. from UCLA and his Ph.D. in physics\, mathematics and astronomy from Cornell University. For eight years thereafter\, he distinguished himself as an award-winning physics instructor at Harvard University. He has received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Maryland and Pepperdine University. A coveted public speaker\, he is a member of the National Association of Science Writers and\, in 2000\, was elected to the renowned Explorers Club\, a century-old professional society. \nDr. Michael Guillen is president of Spectacular Science Productions Inc.\, and Filmanthropy Media Incorporated\, as well as chairman and president of Philanthropy Project. He lives in Nashville with his wife\, son\, horse Jim Dandy\, donkeys Violet and Seymour and sheep Sir Barton and Lady Guinevere. \nDr. Barbara Boatwright is a licensed Clinical Psychologist who graduated with Honors in Psychology from Vanderbilt University prior to receiving her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Memphis. She has maintained a private practice in the Charleston area since 1994.  Barbara currently serves as the Executive Director of Life Resources\, a non-profit emotional and relational wellness center also located in Mount Pleasant. As a scientist- practitioner she has a passion for exploring the relationship between science and faith.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171109T190000
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library: Vynnytsky & Khoma PLUS
DESCRIPTION:Vynnytsky & Khoma PLUS\nThursday\, November 13th\n7:00PM\n$20 members / $30 nonmembers\nRenowned pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky and cellist Natalia Khoma are two of Charleston premiere performers and we couldnt be more excited to have them back. The duo\, whose performances are always spectacular\, will bring a guest third performer to the party.  Join us in our vaulted hall\, as the duo becomes a trio for one evening only. \nTo purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nKiev Trio brings together three virtuosos from a similar background – violinist Nazar Pylatyuk\, cellist Natalia Khoma and pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky. They are all Ukrainian-born and international competition winners. Each has an established and distinguished career as a soloist\, recitalist and chamber musician\, and each has appeared with major orchestras and on premier chamber music series throughout the United States and Europe. Kiev Trio is a stunning and virtuosic musical partnership. \nNazar Pylatyuk is the First Prize winner at Yankelevych International Competition in Russia (2011)\, Laureate of Karl Flesh (2003) and Mykola Lysenko International Competitions (2007) and a Gold medal holder of the Academy of the Arts of Ukraine (2010). \nNazar has been featured as a soloist and chamber musician throughout USA\, Sweden\, Norway\, Germany\, Poland\, Russia\, Czech Republic and Ukraine. \n“His talent – boundless\, his playing astounds .. “ describes  Nazar’s performance newspaper “Eskelstuna Kompiun” (Sweden). \nNazar Pylatyuk was born in 1987 in Ivano-Frankivsk\, Ukraine. Mr. Pylatyuk began violin studies with his father Ihor Pylatiuk going on to receive his Bachelor of Music\, Master of Music and Doctorate degrees from the Lviv State Academy of Music. While a student at the Academy\, Nazar was awarded by Lviv City Council as the “Best Student of the Year”\, he was a Presidential Grant holder. \nFrom 2008-2011 Mr. Pylatyuk was a Concertmaster of Opole Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (Poland).  He was the youngest concertmaster in the history of this orchestra. Nazar Pylatyk is a Merited Artist of Ukraine (the state honorary title of decoration awarded by Ukraine for outstanding achievement in the performing Arts) and a soloist of Organ Hall in Kiev. \n\nNatalia Khoma is an internationally renowned cellist. Since winning the All-Ukrainian competition\, Khoma has won top prizes at the Budapest Pablo Casals International Competition\, Markneukirchen Competition in Germany\, and the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow\, as well as First prize at the Belgrade International Cello Competition. \nA native of Lviv\, Ukraine\, Ms. Khoma studied at Solomia Krushelnytska School for gifted children with Evhen Scpitzer\, at the Moscow Conservatory with Natalia Shakhovskaya and in the United States\, received an Artist Diploma from Boston University under the direction of Leslie Parnas. \nThe first and only Ukrainian cellist to become a laureate of the Tchaikovsky Competition\, Natalia Khoma has since distinguished herself as a recitalist and soloist with orchestras throughout Russia\, as well as the U.S.\, Canada\, South America\, Germany\, Norway\, Belgium\, Italy\, France\, Spain\, Switzerland\, Eastern Europe\, South Africa and the Middle and Far East. \nNatalia Khoma has been hailed around the world as “technically dazzling”\, “intense\, brilliant\, and with perfect structure”. She also has been praised for “the precision of her executions\, Slavic Zen\, full warm cello tone….and\, what a drive!” Natalia made her first public appearance on TV at age ten and performed her first concerto with orchestra at age thirteen. \nIn addition to her performing activities\, Natalia is an Associate Professor of Cello at the College of Charleston in Charleston\, SC and Director of the Charleston Music Fest. Natalia serves as organizer of the Children and Music Foundation\, which provides musical training\, instruments and financial aid to young\, gifted Ukrainian students in need. \n\n  Internationally renowned pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky is laureate of the Margueritte Long-Jacques Thibaud International Piano Competition in Paris. Vynnytsky has performed with leading orchestras and appeared in solo recitals in many prestigious concert halls\, including Carnegie Hall\, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall\, Merkin Concert Hall\, Steinway Hall\, the Phillips Gallery in Washington D.C.\, the Great (Bolshoi) Hall at the Moscow Conservatory\, the Theatre Champs d’Elysees\, Amphitheatre Richelieu de la Sorbonne\, Salons de Boffrand de la Presidence du Senat in Paris\, St. John’s Smith Square in London\, Philharmonic Big Hall of Columns (Kyiv)\, Odessa Philharmonic Theatre in Ukraine\, Tsai Performance Center (Boston)\, Teatro de Santa Isabel in Recife\, Brazil\,  Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg and Baxter Theatre Centre Concert Hall in Cape Town\, South Africa among many others. \nDescribed by critics as possessing “incredible technique and deep musical understanding”\, “The pianist is simply superb!” (American Record Guide)\, Volodymyr’s recent performance in Charleston\, South Carolina earned him a glowing review in The Post and Courier\, titled\, “Ukrainian pianist delivers excellence”\, in which his playing is hailed as “a grand display of skill and precision that was breathtaking”. \nBorn in Lviv\, Ukraine\, Volodymyr Vynnytsky studied at the Lviv Music School for Gifted Children and later at the Moscow Conservatory. After earning his doctorate from the Moscow Conservatory under the direction of Yevgeny Malinin\, he taught at the Kyiv Conservatory and concertized extensively throughout Ukraine\, the other republics of the former Soviet Union\, Europe\, the USA\, Canada\, Central and South America and South Africa. Volodymyr Vynnytsky has been a visiting member of the piano faculty in SUNY at Purchase\, NY and at the University of Connecticut.  In 2003 he was appointed Music Director of the Music and Art Center of Greene County\, New York. Vynnytsky is an Honorary Professor of Lviv State Academy of Music\, Odesa State Music Academy and Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kiev Conservatory). In October 2012 and 2015 Volodymyr served as a Chairman of the Jury of the Emil Gilels International Piano Competition in Odesa\, Ukraine. Volodymyr Vynnytsky is a Director of Chamber Music at the College of Charleston\, Charleston\, SC.
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SUMMARY:Behind the Bullets: CLS and MUSC Event
DESCRIPTION:Behind the Bullets: The Epidemiological Data of Gun Violence \nWith Dr. Ashley Hink and Dr. Robert Ball \nTo RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nAshley Hink\, MD\, MPH is a chief general surgery resident at the Medical University of South Carolina. She attended Emory University for her Master’s in Public Health (MPH) and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University for medical school. She has an extensive background in the fields of family violence and firearm violence through community volunteerism\, program development and research.  She is currently a member of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Injury Prevention Committee and has worked extensively with them to improve violence prevention and intervention efforts in trauma centers. She will be completing a trauma and surgical critical care fellowship at Harborview Medical Center at the University of Washington in Seattle after completing her residency at MUSC in 2018. \nDr. Robert Ball is a 7th generation Charleston physician specializing in Public Health and Infectious Diseases.  After diagnosing SC’s 1st case of AIDS in 1982\, he went broke in private practice and moved to Columbia where he obtained his MPH at USC while serving on faculty for the Schools of Medicine and Public Health and working for DHEC as I.D. Consultant and a Medical Director there and later back in Charleston. After nearly 3 decades\, he “retired” to become an Adjunct Professor in Public Health and I.D. at MUSC and Professor in Residence at the CofC.  He also serves on the Charleston County Medical Society Executive Board & Public Health Committee\, the MUSC Waring Historic Library Board of Directors\, and several other community organizations.
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Howard Kittell with an Introduction by Martha Rivers Ingram
DESCRIPTION:Join us as Howard Kittell\, President & CEO of the Andrew Jackson Foundation\, looks back on Jackson’s legacy and influence on today’s political climate with a special introduction by Martha Rivers Ingram. \nTo RSVP\, please call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nJackson at 250 – March 15\, 2016 marked Andrew Jackson’s 250th birthday. Born in South Carolina\, the son of Scots-Irish immigrants\, Jackson was a Revolutionary War veteran and orphan while still a teenager. He went on to be a Tennessee pioneer\, frontier lawyer\, military hero\, and statesman. As the 7th President of the United States\, he embodied a new era in American history that became the “Age of Jackson.” He redefined office of president\, established new national policies\, inspired future presidents\, and was responsible for ensuring our nation survived. Jackson was a tremendously controversial figure in his time and today. In the 21st century Jackson is often remembered for the Indian Removal Act and its consequences\, for slave ownership\, and the president who’s portrait new graces the Oval Office. Despite all of this\, Jackson remains a pivotal figure in our nation’s history and its survival to the world power it is today. Why is Jackson relevant to us today? \nHoward Kittell’s career has centered on organizational management\, historic preservation\, and land conservation. Kittell is the President & CEO of the Andrew Jackson Foundation that owns and operates Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage\, Home of the People’s President\, in Nashville\, TN. He has held this position since November\, 2008. The Hermitage opened as a museum in 1889\, making it the second-oldest presidential home museum in the nation. \nFor 10 years prior to The Hermitage\, Kittell was the Executive Director of the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation in Virginia. The foundation is the manager of the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District\, a congressionally-designated National Heritage Area. \nKittell’s career in historic preservation and history began in the late 1980s when he became the assistant director of the Providence (RI) Preservation Society. Subsequently he was the executive director of the Preservation Coalition of Greater Philadelphia and then executive director of the Chestnut Hill Conservancy\, also in Philadelphia. \nA Michigan native\, Kittell holds a degree in urban planning from Michigan State University; his graduate studies were in architectural history and historic preservation at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171120T180000
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH! The Charleston Library Society’s Favorite Fifty
DESCRIPTION:BOOK LAUNCH! A Celebration of the Charleston Library Society’s Favorite Fifty\nMonday\, November 20th\n6PM – 8PM \nCome celebrate the release of CLS’ very first self- published book\, Rare\, Prized\, and Valuable – The Charleston Library Society’s Fifty Favorites From the Collections. Curated by staff\, the book highlights 50 treasures from our various collections housed within our building. \nThis event will be a perfect opportunity for anyone who wants to peek into the vaults for a rich view of historical treasures. Books will be available night of the event\, but if you can’t wait to get your copy come stop by 164 King Street and purchase one today. \nTickets to this cocktail party event will be $10 for members and $20 for nonmembers. To purchase\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. 
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/book-launch-the-charleston-library-societys-favorite-fifty/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171201T180000
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SUMMARY:A Forum on Writing with Will Belford
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Will Belford as he reads excerpts from his upcoming release\, A Place for us to Holiday. Set in the Georgia low country and Salzburg\, “A Place for Us to Holiday” is an epistolary narrative of an Austrian P.O.W. who returns to the United States forty years after the Second World War to reunite with the woman with whom he fathered a son during his confinement\, the wife of the prison camp commandant. Divided into three sections\, the book chronicles the protagonist’s affair during his captivity in the U.S.\, his repatriation to Austria in the aftermath of the war\, and his return to America forty years later on a humanitarian visa. \nTo RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nDr. William Lee Belford\, Jr. lives with his wife in his hometown of Savannah\, Georgia\, where he writes fiction and serves on the faculty of Armstrong State University as Lecturer of English\, teaching creative writing\, literature\, and composition. He earned his Ph.D. in English – Creative Writing at Florida State University in Tallahassee; his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa; and his Bachelor of Arts in English at Sewanee: The University of the South in Sewanee\, Tennessee. Belford has published his work in The Minus Times and The Virginia Quarterly Review and is revising his novel manuscript. \n“Belford is an eccentric voice and mind—he summons echoes of Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy in his storytelling style. I trust that through his first published book he will become a powerful new writer to add to the southern literary canon.” -Winslow Hastie\, Chief Preservation Officer\, Historic Charleston Foundation
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-forum-on-writing-with-will-belford/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Ron Powers
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we host\, Pulitzer Prize and Emmy award winner\, Ron Powers as he presents Locking Away Our Mentally Ill–It’s a Crime while discussing his most recent book\, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America. Tickets are $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers. \nTo buy tickets call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nRon Powers is an award winning critic\, journalist\, writer\, and novelist. While working at the Chicago Sun-Times\, he became the first television critic to win a Pulitzer Prize and a little over a decade later he won an Emmy for his commentaries on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt. Some of Powers’ works include the 2000 #1 bestseller Flags of Our Fathers\, Mark Twain: A Life\, and most recently\, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America\, which chronicles his sons’ schizophrenia\, and the family’s experience of dealing with the American mental health system. Powers’ lecture\, Locking Away Our Mentally Ill–It’s a Crime\, will cover topics found his recent book.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-ron-powers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171206T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171206T171500
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SUMMARY:After-School Program: Session 1
DESCRIPTION:CLS After-School Programming \nBooks\, Imagination\, and Creativity \nWednesdays – October 11th through December 6th \n3:30pm – 5:15pm \nAfter-school Maker Programs at the Charleston Library Society \nJoin us in the Rabbit Hole on Wednesday afternoons from 3:30-5:15pm for after-school programming featuring books and maker projects that foster imagination and creativity.  Children ages 5K -3rd grade will make origami lanterns\, light up and illustrate a favorite poem with paper circuits\, explore new cultures\, experiment with engineering and building techniques\, and try exciting approaches to storytelling. This session is perfect for the pre-Cotillion set! \nMember pricing: $100 for full session (All 8 programs) or $20 per program. \nNonmember pricing: $150 for full session (All 8 programs and a family membership to CLS) or $25 per program. \nRegistration must be made at least 24 hours in advance. Each class accommodates a maximum of 10 children. \nTo purchase individual programs or have questions\, please call 843-723-9912 or contact Sarah Young at syoung@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \n1. Cardboard Inventors-Wednesday\, Oct 11th: With selected readings to stimulate creativity and imagination\, students will use cardboard and Makedo connectors to create their own robots\, rockets\, wagons\, forts and more. \n2. Origami Lanterns-Wednesday\, Oct 18th: After exploring the library’s collection of multicultural stories\, students will use water\, oil and paint to create a folded paper lantern to take home. Please dress for mess or bring a smock! \n3. Light Up Poetry-Wednesday\, Oct 25th: Students will select a favorite poem from our children’s poetry collection to decorate and light using Chibitronics’ LED paper circuits. \n4. Japanese Storytelling-Wednesday\, Nov 1st: Reading books that celebrate Asian arts and cultures\, students will try their hand at storytelling by building and illustrating a Kamishibai theatre. \n 5. Maker Machines-Wednesday\, Nov 8th: We will read some fun books about wild machines and try our hands at designing and building a Rube Goldberg machine. \n6. Skyscraper Challenge-Wednesday\, Nov 15th: With stories about famous buildings and their architects\, students will form teams to compete in building challenges with Legos and our giant bin of Kapla blocks. \n7. Bridge Builders-Wednesday\, Nov 29th: Learn about some of America’s most historic and iconic bridges! Students will build their own sturdy bridge and weight test it for strength and durability. \n8. Holiday Magic-Wednesday\, December 6th: We will read some fun books to get us into the spirit of making and giving. Students will make needle-felted ornaments to give as presents for loved ones and friends 
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/after-school-program-session-1/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171213T200000
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library: CSO Holiday Strings
DESCRIPTION:The holidays are a time to enjoy the classics mixed with the traditional. Join us as the Charleston Symphony Orchestra gets us in the spirit of the season. While the holiday tunes are being played patrons will enjoy the beautiful sights of our 9th Annual Christmas Book Tree. \nTickets for this holiday spectacular are available for sale through the Charleston Symphony Orchestra at 843-723-7528 or by clicking here \nTickets are $25 for adults and $10 for students.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-cso-holiday-strings-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171215T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171215T200000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Walter Isaacson
DESCRIPTION:The Library Society is extremely excited to host An Evening with Walter Isaacson to celebrate to release of his newest biography\, Leonardo Da Vinci. Isaacson will be joined in conversation with former Editor-In-Chief of Time Inc.\, John Huey. The two will discuss topics ranging from the life of Da Vinci\, to creativity\, to the importance of thinking different. \nTicket Packages: \nPackage 1 – 1 ticket with 1 book and signed bookplate: $55 \nPackage 2 – 2 tickets with 1 book and signed bookplate: $85 \nPackage 3 – 2 tickets with 2 books and signed bookplates: $100 \nTo purchase tickets please call 1-800-838-3006 or click here. \nWalter Isaacson\, the CEO of the Aspen Institute\, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers\, Geniuses\, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography\, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. His most recent biography\, Leonardo Da Vinci will be released this fall.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/an-evening-with-walter-isaacson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180113T210000
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SUMMARY:Fools and Mortals at Play: 2018 Gala Event
DESCRIPTION:Join us as the Charleston Library Society and Bernard Cornwell present Fools and Mortals at Play: A Charleston Library Society Gala Event. This impressive and unique evening will serve as the Library Society’s annual fundraiser to support and further its mission. \nReleased just a few days earlier\, come celebrate the US publication of Bernard Cornwell’s most recent work\, Fools and Mortals. The novel tells the story of the first production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream taking place somewhere around February 19th\, 1595. This midwinter night will be narrated by Cornwell while he highlights the play\, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the beginnings of the professional purpose-built theatres. The event will be interspersed with scenes from Dream and Romeo and Juliet performed by a group of Broadway Actors who bring their expertise and talent to this spectacular evening. \nIn addition to the story-telling and acting guests will be entertained by a very special musical guest.  \nThe evening will be held at the Dock Street Theatre being one of Charleston’s most historic venues. Built on the site of America’s first purpose-built theatre from 1736\, this is the perfect venue for an evening of this caliber. Anyone with interest in literature\, Shakespeare and the dramatic arts will be blown away with this spectacular event. \nAfter the performance at the Dock Street Theatre there will be a lively cocktail reception held in the courtyard of the theatre. Attendees of this reception will enjoy drinks and hors d’oeuvres created by\, James Beard Award Winner\, Mike Lata of FIG.  \n\nFools and Mortals at Play: Gala Performance and Cocktail Reception – $250 \nThis ticket price is for a very limited amount of patrons interested in the Gala performance at the Dock Street Theatre and the cocktail reception featuring a menu put together by Mike Lata of FIG. \nFools and Mortals at Play: Gala Performance – $150 \nThis ticket allows entrance to the Gala performance at the Dock Street Theatre. \nTo purchase tickets\, click here
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/fools-and-mortals-at-play-2018-gala-event/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180118T200000
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SUMMARY:By the Book: Joan Juliet Buck
DESCRIPTION:The Jewish Community Center presents acclaimed author and editor Joan Juliet Buck as she discusses her fascinating memoir\, The Price of Illusion\, a very honest account of her storied life as a former editor of French Vogue and four decades in the creative heart of London\, New York\, Los Angeles and Paris. \nTickets are $10. To purchase\, visit www.charlestonjcc.org or call 703-927-8665.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/by-the-book-joan-juliet-buck/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180119T133000
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SUMMARY:Writing Workshop with Miles Tager: Writing for Change
DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED: \nAward-winning author Miles Tager will facilitate a writing workshop with a focus on affecting change\, whether personal\, professional\, spiritual\, or practical. This workshop will address how to use the written word in both responding to\, and creating\, change in your life and the lives of others. \nTo sign-up please call 843-723-9912. Tickets are $50 for members and $75 for nonmembers.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/writing-workshop-with-miles-tager-writing-for-change/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180123T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180123T180000
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SUMMARY:Save the Date: The 270th Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Announcing the 2018 Annual Meeting- Please save the date of Tuesday\, January 23rd for the 270th Annual Meeting. More information will be available shortly. This is a members only event.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/save-the-date-the-270th-annual-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180214T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180214T113000
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SUMMARY:CLS Book Club: The Orphan Master’s Son
DESCRIPTION:The CLS Book Club returns in 2018 with The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson. To RSVP\, email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org or call 843-723-9912. \nThe Pulitzer Prize–winning\, New York Times bestselling novel of North Korea is an epic journey into the heart of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship. \nPak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs a work camp for orphans. Superiors in the North Korean state soon recognize the boy’s loyalty and keen instincts. Considering himself “a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world\,” Jun Do rises in the ranks. He becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules\, arbitrary violence\, and baffling demands of his overlords in order to stay alive. Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure\, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to save the woman he loves\, Sun Moon\, a legendary actress “so pure\, she didn’t know what starving people looked like.” \nPart breathless thriller\, part story of innocence lost\, part story of romantic love\, The Orphan Master’s Sonis also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger\, corruption\, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie\, stolen moments of beauty\, and love. \nAdam Johnson is the author of Fortune Smiles\, winner of the National Book Award and the Story Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and The Orphan Master’s Son\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize\, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, and the California Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Johnson’s other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a Stegner Fellowship; he was also a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. His previous books are Emporium\, a short story collection\, and the novel Parasites Like Us. Johnson teaches creative writing at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco with his wife and children.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/cls-book-club-the-orphan-masters-son/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180214T200000
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library: Affairs of the Harp with Abigail Kent
DESCRIPTION:Share a romantic evening with the delightful Abigail Kent as she plays her harp and plucks at your heartstrings. This special Valentine’s Day concert is the perfect gift. Kent is a national prize-winning harpist who has played across the U.S. and abroad\, and just so happens to be a native of our lovely city. \nTickets are $20 for members and $30 for nonmembers. To purchase\, click here or call 843-723-9912.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-affairs-of-the-harp-with-abigail-kent/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180215T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180215T190000
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SUMMARY:By the Book: Ceara Donnelley
DESCRIPTION:With an introduction by Executive Director Emeritus of SC Coastal Conservation League Dana Beach\, Ceara Donnelley will present a reading\, discussion\, and Q&A from her late father’s newly published book Frog Pond Philosophy\, a highly anticipated collection of essays by the Center for Humans and Nature’s founder and first president. \nTo RSVP\, please call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nStrachan Donnelley (1942–2008) was a philosopher\, philanthropist\, and conservationist who studied the relationship between humans and nature. Using the term “democratic ecological citizenship\,” Donnelley argued that “our citizenship must be seen as embedded in nature\, or dependent on nature.” He is the author or editor of several works\, including The Brave New World of Animal Biotechnology and Wolves and Human Communities: Biology\, Politics\, and Ethics. In addition\, his daughter\, Ceara Donnelley\, and Bruce Jennings have prepared for publication a book he was working on at the time of his death\, Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays on the Relationship Between Humans and Nature\, which has just been released. \nDonnelley graduated from Yale University in 1964 with a bachelor’s degree in English literature. He then went on to study philosophy at Oxford University before receiving his master’s and doctoral degrees in philosophy from the New School for Social Research. For many years\, he was affiliated with the Hastings Center\, first as Director of Education and later as President. \nDonnelley’s father\, Gaylord\, was chairman and president of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.\, which is a large commercial printer founded in 1864 by Strachan’s great-grandfather. Donnelley chaired the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation from 1992–2003\, which during his tenure granted more than $50 million. He also served on several other boards\, including the University of Chicago\, the New School University (New School for Social Research)\, the National Humanities Center\, Yale University’s Institute for Biospheric Studies\, and the American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. \nIn 2003\, Donnelley founded and became the first president of the Center for Humans and Nature. As a self-described “fly-fishing philosopher\,” Donnelley founded the organization because he saw a clear need for a group dedicated to exploring the moral dimensions of human-nature relationships. Inspired by his early years of trout fishing and duck hunting\, he spent his life working to understand the different ways humans relate to the world around them. \nGiving himself to a lifelong career in philosophy and bioethics\, Donnelley was convinced the world was in danger of being consumed by “reductionistic\, silo thinking.” To solve the socio-ecological challenges in the face of rapid\, unsustainable human development and expansion\, he felt passionately that a holistic vision needed to be pulled from all corners of the thinking world—biology\, ecology\, economics\, engineering\, poetry\, the arts\, and philosophy\, among others. This interdisciplinary approach continues to serve as the backbone of the Center for Humans and Nature\, which works to bring deep and diverse thinkers together to think critically about human responsibilities to each other and the rest of the natural world.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/by-the-book-ceara-donnelley/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T133000
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SUMMARY:Henry V: A Film & Discussion Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The Library Society and the Royal Society of St. George\, Carolinian Chapter will host John Scott Cowan and John Shannon for a mid-day film and discussion seminar. Before and after a showing of the 1989 Kenneth Branagh classic\, Henry V\, discussions will offer insights on “Myths & Myth Breaking about the 100 Years’ War” and “Heraldry of the 100 Years’ War in Film.” Tickets are $20 for members (CLS & RSSG) and $30 for nonmembers. A boxed lunch is included in ticket price. \nTo purchase tickets\, please call 843-723-9912. \nIn this gritty screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s play about the heroic and ruthless king\, Henry V of England (Kenneth Branagh) determines to lay claim to the kingdom of France. Henry’s self-doubt and the diminished morale of his army stand in the way of a victory that would unite the two countries and provide Henry with a queen (Emma Thompson). However\, his sheer determination and his impassioned speeches ready his men for the bloodiest of battles — Agincourt.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/henry-v-a-film-discussion-seminar/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T190000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Charlotte Caldwell & Brys Stephens
DESCRIPTION:Please join the conversation between restaurant critic\, now restaurateur\, Brys Stephens (The New Southern Table) and author and photographer Charlotte Caldwell\, as Brys delves into her fifth and newest book\, The Faces of Local Food: Celebrating the People Who Feed Us.   \nTo RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nUsing her photography as a springboard for storytelling\, The Faces of Local Food provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of people who contribute to a vibrant local food system. Step into the world of fishermen\, farmers\, and ranchers joining them on their boats and in the fields; into the kitchens of innovative chefs; into the warehouse of a local food hub; and meet with other meaningful contributors and visionaries to hear their stories—their histories\, motivations\, experiences\, challenges\, and insights. Through The Faces of Local Food our perceptions about our daily food choices are reframed and we are inspired to become more mindful consumers and purchase locally produced-sustainably grown food. The Faces of Local Food will debut at the Library Society on February 27th in conjunction with the Charleston Wine + Food Festival’s opening the next day. \nCaveat – Be prepared- you may metamorphose into a locavore. \nA native of Lookout Mountain\, Tennessee\, Charlotte Caldwell is a graduate of Middlebury College and holds master’s degrees in environmental studies and education\, both of which continue to inform her perspectives about the world\, the environment and ways to share those insights with others. Charlotte and her husband\, Jeffrey Schutz\, divide their time between their home in historic Charleston\, South Carolina and their ranch in Montana. Her previous books\, Visions and Voices: Montana’s One-Room Schoolhouses\, Kirby’s Journal: Backyard Butterfly Magic\, The Cow’s Boy:The Making of a Real Cowboy\, and The Cow’s Girl:The Making of a Real Cowgirl can be found at your local booksellers or online. \nBrys Stephens is a Charleston\, SC based cookbook author (The New Southern Table)\, and restaurateur (The Hub 30a\, Little Jack’s Tavern\, Melfi’s). Before opening restaurants\, Brys reviewed them as a restaurant critic for the Charleston City Paper\, and also wrote for Food and Wine\, Bon Appetit\, and Garden and Gun. He has also tested and co-written a handful of cookbooks. Brys serves on the board of Growfood Carolina\, a pioneering Charleston-based food hub.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-conversation-with-charlotte-caldwell-brys-stephens/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180228T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180228T190000
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SUMMARY:By the Book: Peg Eastman\, Richard Donohoe\, Maurice Thompson & Robert P. Stockton
DESCRIPTION:Join the authors of the new title The Huguenot Church in Charleston as they discuss the church’s history including the immigrants who helped create the congregation. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nThe Huguenot heritage in the United States cannot be overstated. In the latter part of the sixteenth century\, France was plunged into a series of religious wars. In 1589\, Henry of Navarre became Henry IV of France\, but peace was not achieved until he issued the Edict of Nantes in 1598\, which recognized the Huguenots’ right to worship in the towns they controlled. While Henry IV lived\, the financial and military security of the country was ensured. After his assassination in 1610\, it ceased. Religious persecution resumed\, and in 1685\, Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes\, and many French Protestants fled. Of the estimated 180\,000 Huguenot refugees\, approximately 3\,000 crossed the Atlantic. This book is about their descendants and their influence on the development of the American republic and the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. The Huguenot Church in Charleston\, a national landmark\, is the last Huguenot church in America. \nMargaret (Peg) Middleton Rivers Eastman is a Huguenot descendant. Her books have been published by McGraw Hill and The History Press. She writes for the Charleston Mercury and the South Carolina Historical Society magazine. She has lectured on various topics related to Charleston’s rich history and serves on the City of Charleston History Commission. \nRichard Powell Donohoe practiced architecture in New York and Connecticut before retiring\, first to Maine and then to Charleston. His Calvinist roots go back to Puritans of early New England. He is an associate member of the Huguenot Church\, where he serves as an elder. Volunteer activities include leadership roles in conservation organizations in New England. \nMaurice (Molly) Eugenie Horne Thompson\, a Huguenot descendant\, is active in the Preservation Society and the Historic Charleston Foundation and serves on the board of the development council for the School of Health\, Education and Human Performance at the College of Charleston. She is a board member for the Catesby Commemorative Trust and Capers Preparatory Christian Academy as well. \nRobert P. Stockton\, author of The Great Shock\, has written articles for magazines and the web and the News and Courier column entitled “Do You Know Your Charleston.” He teaches the history of Charleston architecture and other related topics at the College of Charleston and has served on the Charleston Board of Architectural Review.
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SUMMARY:By the Book: Linda Lear
DESCRIPTION:In 1962\, Rachel Carson the acclaimed author of prize-winning books on the sea\, touched off a national debate on the proper use of pesticides with the publication of Silent Spring. Her message was extremely controversial.  In 2018\, her conviction that human behavior can impact the whole biota adversely\, and her challenge to scientific\, corporate and government responsibility are central to the our national debate on the future of all life. \nJoin the Library Society as we host author and academic\, Linda Lear\, as she dives into the impact of Rachel Carson and her works. This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nLinda Lear\, biographer and historian\, is a graduate of Connecticut College\,\nreceived her MA from Columbia University and holds a Ph.D. in History from George\nWashington University. She was Research Professor of Environmental History at\nGeorge Washington University and Senior Research Scholar in History at the University\nof Maryland\, Baltimore County. She has been writing biography full time for almost 20\nyears. She is the author of the acclaimed biography of Rachel Carson\, Rachel Carson:\nWitness for Nature\, and numerous academic and popular articles on Carson\, as well as\nthe introductions to all of Carson’s published works\, including the centennial edition of\nSilent Spring. Lear’s biography of Carson was awarded the prize for the best book on\n“Women in Science” by the History of Science Society. It was also a New York Times\nBook of the Year. Her biography has been translated into eight languages. Lear was\nthe recipient of a Beinecke Fellowship at Yale University and served as a Smithsonian\nInstitution Senior Fellow in Washington for eight years. \nDr Lear’s biography of the famous artist and children’s writer\, Beatrix Potter: A\nLife in Nature\, was published jointly in 2007 by Allen Lane for Penguin Inc. UK and St.\nMartin’s Press in the US. It was chosen as “Book of the Week” by BBC4 Radio and\nread during Christmas week 2006. It was awarded the Lakeland Book of the Year prize\nfor 2007 and the Bookends Prize for Biography. Delta Kappa Gamma\, the national\nwomen’s sorority\, awarded Linda their literary prize and achievement award in 2008.\nIn 2008\, Lear was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters by\nChatham University – Rachel Carson’s alma mater – for her work on women and the\nenvironment. She served as a Trustee at her alma mater\, Connecticut College\, from\n2004 to 2012\, and in 2008 she established The Linda Lear Center for Special\nCollections and Archives where her papers on Carson and Potter are open for research.\nShe serves on the Board of the Freedom to Write Fund\, and reviews for the Washington\nIndependent Review of Books\, and the Rachel Carson Council. \nLinda lives in Bethesda\, Maryland and Charleston\, South Carolina with her\nhusband and three Norfolk terriers\, and is active in animal rescue and conservation\norganizations\, and the Catesby Commemorative Trust.
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: A.J. Finn
DESCRIPTION:The Library Society is beyond lucky to host the author A.J. Finn as he tours promoting his best-selling debut novel The Woman in the Window. Tickets are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nIntricate\, atmospheric\, and utterly spellbinding\, THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW is one of the most eagerly anticipated literary debuts of the decade—a Rear Window expertly and thrillingly re-imagined for our time\, with comparisons being drawn to major publishing events like Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. \nThe most widely acquired novel of all time prior to publication\, THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (William Morrow; January 2\, 2018) has been sold in 38 territories around the world\, and Fox 2000\, the makers of Life of Pi and Hidden Figures\, preempted the film rights\, with Oscar winner Scott Rudin producing and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts writing the script. \nWhat’s behind all the excitement?  A gripping psychological thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she has witnessed a horrible crime in a neighboring house\, combined with one of the most appealing and intelligent heroines in recent fiction\, laced with stunning turnarounds\, and brimming with allusions to classic suspense films.  And who’s the writer behind it?  A top young book editor who studied mystery and suspense fiction at Oxford University\, who now publishes the work of Agatha Christie\, and whose own writing is crafted in homage to the classics from Hitchcock and Highsmith. \nAt its heart\, THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW is a compulsively readable thriller that will captivate a vast audience.  Served up in 100 bite-sized chapters\, its propulsive narrative is spring-loaded with startling twists and red herrings.  Designed to adjust the reader to the rhythms of a life spent in a stringently controlled environment\, it then explosively disrupts that life before drawing to its shocking\, unsettling\, and profoundly satisfying conclusion. \nYet Finn’s first book also offers the reader a richer and more complex experience than most suspense fiction\, as one might expect from a writer immersed in mystery books since childhood—who also happens to have focused on suspense fiction as both a scholar and a publishing professional.  Finn’s story is informed as well by personal experience battling incorrectly diagnosed bipolar disorder for more than fifteen years. \nAbout A.J. Finn: \nA. J. Finn is the author of The Woman in the Window\, the most widely acquired debut novel of all time\, with rights sold in 38 languages around the world. On its publication in January 2018\, the book became the first debut novel in twelve years — and only the third ever — to debut at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list\, where it remained for an entire month. The novel is currently in its eighth week on the list. \nThe film adaptation of The Woman in the Window is currently in development at Fox\, which bought the rights in a seven-figure deal. The movie will be produced by Oscar winner Scott Rudin\, of The Social Network and The Grand Budapest Hotel\, and written by Tracy Letts\, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of August: Osage County. \nA. J. delivered the valedictory address at his graduation from Duke\, and then enrolled at Oxford\, where he spent five years in the Master’s and PhD programs in literature. For a decade he was a book editor and publisher in London and New York\, working with authors including J. K. Rowling\, Tina Fey\, Nelson DeMille\, Rafael Nadal\, and Patricia Cornwell\, as well as the Agatha Christie estate. \nHe lives in New York City and is currently at work on his second novel.
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Stephen Kurkjian
DESCRIPTION:The Charleston Library Society welcomes Stephen Kurkjian\, critically-acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter\, as he speaks about his recent art heist thriller\, Master Thieves. \nTickets are $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, please call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nThe story of the biggest theft in art history– Master Thieves\nIt is a case defined by superlatives – the largest art theft in history\, carrying the world’s largest reward offer\, longer on the FBI’s list of biggest unsolved art crimes than any other save one. Two men disguised as Boston Police officers trick their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum after midnight\, tie up the two night watchmen and make off with an estimated half billion dollars worth of artwork including three works by Rembrandt and a Vermeer masterpiece. \nNow 25 years after the theft\, Stephen Kurkjian who was the principal reporter on the case for The Boston Globe for years\, has written a gripping account of the still-unsolved heist of a quarter century ago. In Master Thieves Kurkjian reveals how the two criminal gangs battling for control of the Boston under-world knew of the museum’s poor security and that one had a motive to pull off the theft – to fashion an exchange that would result in the release of its leader from federal prison. \n\nA Boston native\, Stephen Kurkjian spent nearly 40 years as an editor and reporter for The Boston Globe before retiring in 2007. During his career\, he shared in three Pulitzer Prizes and won more than 20 regional and national reporting awards. \nEducated in the Boston public schools\, Kurkjian graduated from Boston Latin School in 1962. He majored in English Literature at Boston University and earned his law degree from Suffolk University Law School in 1970. \nKurkjian was a founding member of The Globe’s investigative Spotlight Team\, and its editor for 1979-1986. In 1986\, he was named chief of The Globe’s Washington Bureau and for six years oversaw the work of the paper’s 10 reporters in Washington. In addition\, while at the bureau he covered the Supreme Court\, the Justice Department and the Bush White House during the first war in Iraq. \nReturning to Boston in the early 1990s\, he completed numerous investigative projects from The Globe newsroom including the clergy abuse scandal inside the Boston Archdiocese; the devastating fire at a Rhode Island nightclub that took the lives of 100 people and the recovery of a Cezanne still life that was stolen from a Berkshires home in 1978 and later auctioned for $29 million. \nHis 2005 article of the theft of 13 pieces of artwork from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is regarded as the most complete account of the still-unsolved crime. His book\, Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off The World’s Greatest Art Heist\, was published to critical acclaim in 2015.
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: David Rawle
DESCRIPTION:David Rawle makes you think. And he inspires you to listen. From a life well lived\, well traveled\, well read\, David has distilled to complex and the complicated question of “What Matters” into a thought-provoking and delightful talk with observations that are at once personal and universal. You will recognize and relate to what he will share with us\, and perhaps like me\, you will wonder why you didn’t say it as well as he. \nKnown to so many Charlestonians\, David Rawle has contributed to the economic and social well-being of our great city for almost four decades. He is a man of endless curiosity who revels in the joy of discovery. With clarity and compassion\, he will share his considerable wisdom with us as only a full-on participant in life can do. \nTo RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nDavid Rawle is the retired founder and chairman of Rawle Murdy\, a marketing/communications firm that served national and international clients under his leadership.  As a long-time friend and advisor to former Mayor Joe Riley\, he was closely involved in numerous Charleston challenges and initiatives including Downtown Revitalization\, Hurricane Hugo Relief\, Base Closure\, and the successful effort to remove the Confederate flag from atop the State House.  He was responsible for the positioning and marketing of Spoleto Festival USA\, Kiawah Island\, Daniel Island and the South Carolina Aquarium.  He represented the State Development Board and the State Ports Authority.  His in-state board service included the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce\, Spoleto Festival USA\, the Medical University of South Carolina Foundation\, the College of Charleston Foundation\, and WINGS for Kids.  Charleston Magazine named him one of ’10 Icons of Life in the Lowcountry.’ A graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Business School\, he has written two books: What Matters and Places.
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SUMMARY:JCC WOW: Pauline Sokol Nakios- Pivots
DESCRIPTION:The Charleston Jewish Community Center Without Walls (JCC WOW) is hosting\, “Pauline Sokol Nakios\, Pivots” as part of its 2018 season roster of programs in coordination with the new Lexus Charleston Fashion Week off-site community events throughout the city. \nDesigner and well-known former Charlestonian\, Pauline Sokol Nakios will discuss the\n“pivots” in her life: balancing a fast-paced fashion career\, home\, husband and children. Andrea Serrano\, Charleston’s fashion blogger and stylist\, will moderate. \nAdmission to attend this event is $10. To purchase tickets visit: www.charlestonjcc.org/paulinenakios. For questions or more information\, contact Marylyn Haspel via email at: marylynh@charlestonjcc.org or telephone (703) 927-8665. \nPauline Sokol Nakios is known for her collection Lilla P\, which is sold across North America and the UK. Her second brand\, Leo & Sage is a modern collection of highly curated knits and ready-to- wear with a strong emphasis on luxury fabrications and architectural silhouettes. Nakios is back for a second year to judge the Charleston Fashion Week ® Emerging Designer Competition and mentor top designers while managing her day-\nto-day responsibilities.\nAndrea Serrano is a freelance wardrobe stylist and producer on fashion and commercial productions. Her style blog\, Charleston Shop Curator\, launched in March 2013\, and focuses on local designers and boutiques.
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Larrie D. Ferreiro
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we host Pulitzer Prize finalist\, Larrie D. Ferreiro as he discusses his most recent book\, Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It. This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. \n Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History – Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution 2016 Book of the Year Award \nThe remarkable untold story of how the American Revolution’s success depended on substantial military assistance provided by France and Spain\, and places the Revolution in the context of the global strategic interests of those nations in their fight against England. \nIn this groundbreaking\, revisionist history\, Larrie Ferreiro shows that at the time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the colonists had little chance\, if any\, of militarily defeating the British. The nascent American nation had no navy\, little in the way of artillery\, and a militia bereft even of gunpowder. In his detailed accounts Ferreiro shows that without the extensive military and financial support of the French and Spanish\, the American cause would never have succeeded. France and Spain provided close to the equivalent of $30 billion and 90 percent of all guns used by the Americans\, and they sent soldiers and sailors by the thousands to fight and die alongside the Americans\, as well as around the world. \nFerreiro adds to the historical records the names of French and Spanish diplomats\, merchants\, soldiers\, and sailors whose contribution is at last given recognition. Instead of viewing the American Revolution in isolation\, Brothers at Arms reveals the birth of the American nation as the centerpiece of an international coalition fighting against a common enemy.
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