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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.
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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.
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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.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/by-the-book-peg-eastman-richard-donohoe-maurice-thompson-robert-p-stockton/
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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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SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad Paperback Tour
DESCRIPTION:Charleston Library Society presents Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Colson Whitehead at the Charleston Music Hall! \nThe Library Society is excited to host award-winning and best-selling author Colson Whitehead as he celebrates the paperback tour of The Underground Railroad.  \nColson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad\, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review\, as well as The Noble Hustle\, Zone One\, Sag Harbor\, The Intuitionist\, John Henry Days\, Apex Hides the Hurt\, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. He lives in New York City. \nEvery ticket comes with a signed paperback copy of Whitehead’s bestselling The Underground Railroad. \nTickets are ONLY available through the Charleston Music Hall. To purchase tickets\, call 843-853-2252or click here.
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library: Mostly Baroque- A Dramatic Evening
DESCRIPTION:Mostly Baroque- A Dramatic Evening of Music \nThe Baroque period is making its return to the halls of the Library Society. Join us for this special performance featuring Volodymyr Vynytsky\, Natalia Khoma and Yuriy Bekker as they present music from the great classical masters of the Baroque period. Dramatic lighting\, grandeur musical pieces\, and a glass of wine or two will make this evening one not to miss. This evening concert has a specialty price of $35. To purchase tickets call 843-723-9912 or click here.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180405T180000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Barbara L. Bellows Rockefeller
DESCRIPTION:Barbara L. Bellows’ most recent book\, Two Charlestonians at War: The Civil War Odysseys of a Lowcountry Aristocrat and a Black Abolitionist\, has been described as “a Faulknerian saga of two South Carolina men” and also recommended by Dr. Walter Edgar as “required reading for anyone interested in the history of the American South.” \nIn her talk\, Bellows will discuss how she picked up the faint tracks of two native sons born one mile apart—one of the rice planter aristocracy\, the other of the free black artisan elite—to craft a dual biography full of twists and turns that presents new perspective on the familiar story of the Civil War and Reconstruction through their eyes. Their paths crossed only once. In 1864\, Captain Thomas Pinckney of the 4th South Carolina Calvary was captured and imprisoned on Morris Island as one of the “Immortal 600\,” and Sergeant Joseph H. Barquet\, who had left the South and joined the famous Massachusetts 54th regiment of the movie Glory fame\, was one of his guards. Their unexpected interaction\, however\, provides the framework for this poignant allegory of the historically fraught\, yet interdependent\, relationship between the races on the narrow Charleston peninsula. \nTo RSVP\, please call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-barbara-l-bellows-rockefeller/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180407T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180407T140000
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SUMMARY:CLS Family Maker Program: Felting
DESCRIPTION:Every month come try your hand at a new maker activity at the Charleston Library Society! Drop in between 10AM and 2PM to learn a new skill. Kits will be available in the Rabbit Hole for families to use at the Library for the following month. This month we focus on felting! \nNeedle felting is a beautiful and versatile handicraft\, for adults and children alike. Make ornaments\, toys\, pincushions\, purses\, or even repair a sweater in a new and funky way. Needle tools\, batting and multicolored roving are all provided for library use with the registration fee. \n Registration is appreciated. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 and ask for Sarah or email at syoung@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/cls-family-maker-program-felting/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180407T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180408T150000
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SUMMARY:CLS Book Sale
DESCRIPTION:Come visit us the weekend of April 7th 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
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/cls-book-sale/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T193000
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SUMMARY:Lifelong Learning: Hamlet with Nan Morrison – Week 3
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next installment of Lifelong Learning! \nThe mysteries of Hamlet have intrigued playgoers for over 400 years and inspired innumerable adaptations in 70 languages. This class will consider those enigmas of reason and action\, love and power by looking at one act of the five-act drama each successive Tuesday night for five weeks beginning March 27th\, from 5:30pm until 7:00pm. \nNan Morrison is a professor emeritus of English at the College of Charleston where she taught Shakespeare and Southern Literature\, wrote articles in those areas\, and held the Maybelle Higgins Howe Chair. \nTuesdays: March 27th\, April 3rd\, April 10th\, April 17th\, April 24th. \nAdmission for this Lifelong Learning class is $150 for members and $200 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, please call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/lifelong-learning-hamlet-with-nan-morrison-week-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T190000
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SUMMARY:The Royal Oak Foundation: Dr. Madge Dresser
DESCRIPTION:Hidden Connections: Slavery and the British Country House \nReception following lecture; $30 members; $40 non-members \nTo register: Please visit www.royal-oak.org/lectures or call 212-480-2889\, ext. 201. Please use the Charleston Library Society’s code 18SCHLIB to receive the discounted co-sponsor price. \nDr. Madge Dresser recently retired as Associate Professor in History at the University of the West of England and remains a Visiting Senior Research Fellow. In 2017 she was appointed as an Honorary Professor at the University of Bristol in the Department of Historical Studies. She researched and taught about slavery at Colonial Williamsburg and Virginia Commonwealth University\, and has made numerous appearances on radio and television worldwide. She has worked closely with the National Trust\, Historic England\, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies among a range of British institutions. She has published widely on the history of slavery and its impact on British society including the recently reprinted Slavery Obscured: The Social History of the Slave Trade in Bristol (2001\, reprinted 2016)\, Slavery and the British Country House (2013) and in scholarly journals. She recently wrote a chapter in the forthcoming ‘The Country House: Past\, Present and Future (Rizzoli\, 2018). She is a Fellow of The Royal History Society\, a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts\, and a trustee of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society \nThe British country house in all its opulence and refinement seems worlds away from the fetid horrors of a slave ship. However the trade in enslaved Africans and slave-produced goods fueled the wealth that funded the creation of many 17th-to-19th-century British stately homes. Slavery-related houses appear throughout the British Isles and are concentrated in the major slaving ports of London\, Bristol and Liverpool. About 10% of elite country houses had associations with slavery\, but other houses had indirect ties and consumed slave-produced goods. Some of Britain’s aristocratic house owners’ money resulted from the slave trade itself—invested in the South Sea Company whose purpose was to sell slaves to the Spanish Colonies. Others married heiresses with ties to plantations such as Baron Thomas Onslow\, who built a Palladian mansion at Clandon Park in Surrey (NT) ‘owing to his judicious marriage to the heiress of a West Indian fortune.’ Even materials used in these treasure houses resulted from slave activities such as ‘Spanish mahogany’ staircases and mahogany furniture which actually derived from Caribbean slave plantations. Profits from slave labor at sugar plantations—whose products appeared on the country house dining table—aided family fortunes and funded stately home remodeling such as at Penryhn Castle (NT) whose Pennant family owned five plantations in Jamaica. These renovations were also linked to the wealth generated in the slave colonies of Virginia and the Carolinas. British family portraits might feature black servants\, often as turbaned young pages at the side of their master or mistress as at Belton House in Lincolnshire (NT). The kneeling black figures adorning Dyrham Park’s (NT) interior are best understood against the longstanding family connections with slavery. Historian and Professor Dr. Madge Dresser will show these houses and explore some of the stories behind their connections with slavery to reflect on what they mean for our understanding of these beautiful buildings.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/the-royal-oak-foundation-dr-madge-dresser/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T200000
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library: Chamber Music Charleston Finale
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2017-2018 Music at the Library Finale with CMC. This program will feature Ravel\, Rota\, and Mozart with music for Flute\, Violin\, Cello\, and Piano. $20 members/$30 nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nProgram \nRavel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales \nRota Trio for Flute\, Violin and Piano \nMozart/Hummel Piano Concerto in C major\, K. 503 arr. for Flute\, Violin\, Cello and Piano \nPerforming Artists \nREGINA HELCHER YOST\nFlute\nFRANCES HSIEH\nViolin\nTIMOTHY O’MALLEY\nBassoon\nGHADI SHAYBAN\nPiano
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-chamber-music-charleston-finale/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180423T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180423T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch- Stand Forever\, Yielding Never: Citadel in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, April 23rd for the Stand Forever\, Yielding Never official book launch. Author John Warley will be presenting a brief author talk and autographing books\, which will be for sale at the event. This event is free to the public. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nOn March 20\, 1843\, twenty young men from South Carolina assembled on Marion Square in Charleston to begin the educational experiment called The Citadel. In 2018\, over 2300 cadets from all over the world\, of varied race and gender\, gathered to celebrate 175 years of tradition and excellence. This book explores that journey. \nJohn Warley is a graduate of The Citadel (class of 1967) and the University of Virginia School of Law. He is the author of three novels\, the most recent being A Southern Girl. This was the first book published by Story River Books (Pat Conroy editor)\, an imprint of USC Press. He is the author of The Citadel War Memorial’s welcoming inscription and of “The Citadel at War\,” a narrative history etched into the Memorial’s walls. John lives and writes in Beaufort\, South Carolina.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/book-launch-stand-forever-yielding-never-citadel-in-the-21st-century/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180424T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180424T133000
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SUMMARY:Wide Angle Lunches: Dr. Kathleen Brady
DESCRIPTION:Wide Angle Lunch is a thought-provoking lunch hour in the peaceful surroundings of the Charleston Library Society while you fulfill your appetite in every way. \nDr. Kathleen Brady ~ Responding to the Opioid Experience \nIn our opening lunchtime lecture\, Dr. Brady will describe the state of the opioid epidemic in South Carolina and the nation at large.  New\, state-of-the-art treatments for opioid dependence are available\, and Dr. Brady will discuss efforts to make these treatments available throughout South Carolina. Cutting through the sensationalism of the news media to offer a truthful glimpse of the difficulties facing addicts and their families today\, Dr. Brady’s insights are sure to be enlightening in this timely presentation. Boxed lunches will be served. \nDr. Kathleen Brady has spent over thirty years in the field of addictions and psychiatric disorders. Her research focuses on pharmacotherapy of substance use disorders\, post-traumatic stress disorder\, and bipolar disorder\, as well as gender differences and women’s issues in addictions\, and the neurobiologic connections between stress and addictions. \nShe has received numerous federal research grants\, and has published over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles and co-edited 10 books. She has been the Co-Director of MUSC’s NIH-funded Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program\, focused on translational research training in addictions\, for 15 years. She has lead a number of training and research programs focused on translational research in addictions and is  currently the Vice-President for Research at the Medical University of South Carolina. \n$20 members/ $30 nonmembers for individual sessions \nOR \nSeries Pass: $60 members/ $90 nonmembers \nTo purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/wide-angle-lunches-dr-kathleen-brady/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: David N. Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:Dr. David N. Schwartz will discuss his recent biography\, The Last Man Who Knew Everything- The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi\, Father of the Nuclear Age. This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nIn 1942\, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of classical physics and quantum mechanics\, equally at ease with theory and experiment\, Fermi truly was the last man who knew everything–at least about physics. But he was also a complex figure who was a part of both the Italian Fascist Party and the Manhattan Project\, and a less-than-ideal father and husband who nevertheless remained one of history’s greatest mentors. Based on new archival material and exclusive interviews\, The Last Man Who Knew Everything lays bare the enigmatic life of a colossus of twentieth century physics. \nDavid N. Schwartz holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked at the US Department of State\, the Brookings Institution\, and Goldman Sachs in both London and New York. He has published widely on US strategic nuclear weapons policy\, NATO\, and foreign policy. He is the author of the recently published biography of Enrico Fermi\, “The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi\, Father of the Nuclear Age\,” (Basic Books). He lives in New York with his wife Susan. His father\, Melvin Schwartz\, shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the muon neutrino.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-david-n-schwartz/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T133000
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SUMMARY:Wide Angle Lunches: Sharon Richardson
DESCRIPTION:Wide Angle Lunch is a thought-provoking lunch hour in the peaceful surroundings of the Charleston Library Society while you fulfill your appetite in every way. \nSharon Richardson ~ Audubon Year of the Bird \nBirds have a peculiar power to connect us to each other\, as well as to places and policy. Sharon Richardson\, the Executive Director of South Carolina Audubon\, will discuss Audubon’s original vision that today inspires restoration of habitat to create safe places for birds and people\, now and into the future. South Carolina Audubon owns 22\,000 acres across the state and helps identify firsthand how birds inspire people and bring wonder to all our lives. \nSharon Richardson\, Executive Director of South Carolina Audubon\, has helped protect over 30\,000 acres of land (including 18\,000 in the state of South Carolina)\, and has raised more than $8 million to aid conservation efforts. With her team she has leveraged more than $50 million in land projects. Ms. Richardson has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from University of Vermont and a BA in Psychology from Middlebury College. \n$20 members/ $30 nonmembers for individual sessions \nOR \nSeries Pass: $60 members/ $90 nonmembers \nTo purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/wide-angle-lunches-sharon-richardson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Cinelle Barnes
DESCRIPTION:Local author Cinelle Barnes will be joined in conversation with Jeanette Guinn\, the Host of SC Public Radio(Arts Daily) to discuss her incredible memoir\, Monsoon Mansion. To RSVP\, please call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nTold with a lyrical\, almost-dreamlike voice as intoxicating as the moonflowers and orchids that inhabit this world\, Monsoon Mansion is a harrowing yet triumphant coming-of-age memoir exploring the dark\, troubled waters of a family’s rise and fall from grace in the Philippines. It would take a young warrior to survive it. \nCinelle Barnes was barely three years old when her family moved into Mansion Royale\, a stately ten-bedroom home in the Philippines. Filled with her mother’s opulent social aspirations and the gloriously excessive evidence of her father’s self-made success\, it was a girl’s storybook playland. But when a monsoon hits\, her father leaves\, and her mother’s terrible lover takes the reins\, Cinelle’s fantastical childhood turns toward tyranny she could never have imagined. Formerly a home worthy of magazines and lavish parties\, Mansion Royale becomes a dangerous shell of the splendid palace it had once been. \nIn this remarkable ode to survival\, Cinelle creates something magical out of her truth—underscored by her complicated relationship with her mother. Through a tangle of tragedy and betrayal emerges a revelatory journey of perseverance and strength\, of grit and beauty\, and of coming to terms with the price of family—and what it takes to grow up. \nCinelle Barnes is an essayist\, memoirist\, and educator with a BA in media studies in journalism from Hunter College and a master of fine arts in creative writing from Converse College. She is a fellow of the Kundiman Creative Nonfiction Intensive at Fordham University and the Voices of the Nations Arts at the University of Pennsylvania\, a founding member of the C.D. Wright Women Writers Conference\, and a presenter-member for the Creative Writing Studies Organization. Her writing has appeared in Literary Hub\, Skirt\, Hub City Press’s online anthology\, and TAYO Literary Magazine\, among others. Books have been the one constant in her life—through her tumultuous childhood in the Philippines\, her years living as an undocumented immigrant in New York City\, her time as a new bride living in the American South\, and as she completed her MFA program and began writing about her secrets. She lives between two states with her husband and daughter: New York\, where she is always inspired to write\, and South Carolina\, where she can be close to the ocean. Find her online at www.cinellebarnes.com\, and follow her on Instagram @cinellebarnesbooks.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180503T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180503T133000
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SUMMARY:Wide Angle Lunches: Armand Derfner
DESCRIPTION:Wide Angle Lunch is a thought-provoking lunch hour in the peaceful surroundings of the Charleston Library Society while you fulfill your appetite in every way. \nArmand Derfner ~ Welcome Mat or No Trespassing Sign? Immigration in America \nArmand Derfner is no stranger to America’s immigration issues. Born in France to Polish Jews who had already fled their homeland in Hitler’s early days\, his family was forced to flee again as Nazis invaded France and the Vichy government proved incapable of protecting its more vulnerable citizens. This time\, their adopted homeland would be United States\, immigrating at a time when the Statue of Liberty’s welcome mat often seemed far more like a No Trespassing sign. \nIn his talk\, Mr. Derfner\, a longtime human rights lawyer\, will discuss the tumultuous and very mixed history of immigration in the United States\, from the mostly open doors of the early days to years of Isolationism to today’s refugee crises\, border walls\, and growing xenophobia. Boxed lunches will be served. \nArmand Derfner has been practicing civil rights law for over 54 years. His focus on voting rights began with representing voters in Greenwood\, Mississippi\, in August of 1965 on the first day of the Voting Rights Act. He helped shape the Voting Rights Act through his numerous Supreme Court arguments and his work with Congress. \nFor more than 20 years\, Mr. Defner worked on two long-running suits to desegregate and end racial inequality in the higher education systems in Alabama and Mississippi. In addition he has been involved in numerous other civil rights and public interest cases\, including representing civil rights demonstrators\, death row inmates\, victims of employment discrimination\, targets of free speech. In 2009\, the American Bar Association named his firm Public Interest Lawyers of the Year. \n$20 members/ $30 nonmembers for individual sessions \nOR \nSeries Pass: $60 members/ $90 nonmembers \nTo purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180503T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180503T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Heather Lyn Mann
DESCRIPTION:Join the Charleston Library Society and the Sophia Institute in experiencing one woman’s death-defying\, life-affirming journey on the open ocean. Local author Heather Lyn Mann will share personal stories from Ocean of Insight: A Sailor’s Voyage from Despair to Hope. This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \n“Irma’s eye went right over top of us on September 6th.  I was alone on the oceanfront property during the entire time—reading Ocean of Insight. It was the scariest time of my life and your book put me in a perspective which allowed for a bit of solace…. Each time another gust would pound my doors\, I would just get deeper and deeper into your readings.” \nWilliam Matthews\, Virgin Gorda\, BVI \nHeather Lyn Mann was a battle-weary environmental advocate in Madison\, Wisconsin\, struggling over what to do about climate change when she and her husband decided to explore the Atlantic on a small sloop. This memoir of six years living afloat is a chronological unfolding of disasters and discoveries—life–threatening storms\, the boredom of isolation\, societies on the brink of extinction\, sinking ships\, colorful Caribbean characters\, near collisions\, a pirate scare\, and more. Throughout\, the ocean becomes Mann’s teacher\, transforming her with uncompromising lessons on how to harmonize with natural order\, the exact moments and ways to let in fearlessness\, resilience\, happiness\, impermanence\, balance\, compassion\, skillful action\, and beginner’s mind. \nHer suspenseful\, sometimes hilarious\, and always heart–warming journey of body and mind\, shaped by ancient Buddhist teachings\, entertains as it charts reality’s depths and danger zones so arm–chair adventurers\, spiritual seekers\, and the climate concerned can navigate tumultuous waters and arrive together on the shore of planetary well–being. \nSpiritual Ecologist Heather Lyn Mann is a practitioner of Buddhism\, sailing\, and mindful advocacy. Mann founded and led the not-for-profit Center for Resilient Cities—an organization mobilizing inner–city residents to restore natural beauty and function in damaged neighborhood landscapes. She also co–edits Touching the Earth: A Newsletter of Earth Holding Actions in the Plum Village Tradition.  In 2007\, together with her husband and cat\, Mann set sail on a 15\,000–nautical–mile\, six–year voyage.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180508T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180508T133000
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SUMMARY:Wide Angle Lunches: Femi Oyediran & Miles White
DESCRIPTION:Wide Angle Lunch is a thought-provoking lunch hour in the peaceful surroundings of the Charleston Library Society while you fulfill your appetite in every way. \nFemi Oyediran & Miles White ~ Wine As We See It \nNo matter where in the world you are\, wine has a magical\, mystical power to bring people together. Whether it’s showing up at a dinner party with a beautiful bottle of Cabernet\, or sipping Chardonnay on the patio all summer long\, wine is featured in so many of life’s finer moments. \nFemi Oyediran and Miles White are two young Charleston-based Sommeliers and the co-owners of Graft Wine Shop. Together\, the two friends will share their personal stories and explain why they think wine is an accessory that tightens connections between friends and strangers. With Mr. Oyediran and Mr. White\, it’s always about the wine! Boxed lunches will be served. \nFemi Oyediran: Femi is the co-owner of Graft Wine Shop. Working under the tutelage of Sommelier Rick Rubel of Charleston Place Hotel\,  he made the rare achievement of passing the first three levels of the Court of Master Sommeliers within two years\, including gaining the Walter Clore Scholarship for achieving the highest score on his certified exam. He is one of 7 Advanced Sommeliers in the state of South Carolina. He is also a two-time national finalist for the Chaine des Rotisseurs Best Young Sommelier in America competition\, and the winner of the 2017 Top Somm Blind Tasting Competition of the Charleston Wine + Food Festival. He was featured as one of Zagat’s Charleston 30 Under 30 in the food and beverage industry and was listed as one of the “The Next Big Names in American Wine” by Tasting Table magazine. \nMiles White: Miles is the co-owner of Graft Wine Shop. Born in Charleston\, Miles started his hospitality career under his mother\, caterer Callie White and sister\, Carrie Morey of Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit. He attended Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration\, while also attending hotel school at Cesar Ritz Hotel School in Brig\, Switzerland. He received his sommelier certification through the Court of Master Sommeliers after graduating in the top of his class in the wine and beverage program at The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in Napa Valley. Afterwards\, he was hired as a harvest intern at Antica Terra\, a cult winery in the Willamette Valley. After 3 years of traveling and winemaking in Oregon and Australia\, he returned to Charleston to work at lauded FIG Restaurant and to open Graft. \n$20 members/ $30 nonmembers for individual sessions \nOR \nSeries Pass: $60 members/ $90 nonmembers \nTo purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/wide-angle-lunches-femi-oyediran-miles-white/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Johanna Neuman
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Johnna Neuman in conversation as she discusses her most recent book Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right To Vote. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. \nGilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right To Vote\, tells the fascinating story of more than two hundred New York social figures — Astors\, Belmonts\, Harrimans\, Vanderbilts and their circle — who joined the women’s suffrage movement in the 1910s. Chronicled by a vibrant newspaper industry for their extravagant lifestyles\, they became the media darlings of their day. And when these glamorous socialites embraced the suffrage campaign\, they became the first celebrities to endorse a political cause in the twentieth century. Gilded Suffragists excavates their identities – until now hidden behind the label of Mrs. Somebody Else – and describes their rivalries for power within the suffrage movement\, the debate over chivalry that complicated their mission after the sinking of the Titanic and their political conflicts during the First World War. \nJohanna Neuman is a writer\, historian and scholar in residence at American University in Washington\, D.C. An award-winning journalist and former Nieman Fellow at Harvard\, she covered the White House\, the State Department and Congress for the Los Angeles Times and USA Today.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-johanna-neuman/
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SUMMARY:CLS Book Club: Prairie Fires
DESCRIPTION:CLS Book Club is back! This time we will discuss Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser. Please RSVP to this free event. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nThe first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder\, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books \nMillions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls―the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains\, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told. Now\, drawing on unpublished manuscripts\, letters\, diaries\, and land and financial records\, Caroline Fraser―the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series―masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder’s biography. Revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life\, she also chronicles Wilder’s tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter\, Rose Wilder Lane\, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books. \nThe Little House books\, for all the hardships they describe\, are paeans to the pioneer spirit\, portraying it as triumphant against all odds. But Wilder’s real life was harder and grittier than that\, a story of relentless struggle\, rootlessness\, and poverty. It was only in her sixties\, after losing nearly everything in the Great Depression\, that she turned to children’s books\, recasting her hardscrabble childhood as a celebratory vision of homesteading―and achieving fame and fortune in the process\, in one of the most astonishing rags-to-riches episodes in American letters. \nSpanning nearly a century of epochal change\, from the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl\, Wilder’s dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. With fresh insights and new discoveries\, Prairie Fires reveals the complex woman whose classic stories grip us to this day.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/cls-book-club-prairie-fires/
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Jon Meacham
DESCRIPTION:NY Times Bestselling author Jon Meacham will visit The Charleston Library Society to discuss his latest book\, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels with former Time\, Inc. Editor in Chief\, John Huey. \nIn this timely look at tumultuous periods when Presidents and ordinary citizens came together to defeat the forces of fear and hate\, Meacham offers a fresh take on immigration in the United States and the critical times in our history when hope has overcome hatred. Our current climate of partisan division is not new\, and by exploring past dark moments in American history Meacham shows us how our “better angels” have again and again won the day. \nMeacham will be in conversation with former Time\, Inc.\, Editor in Chief John Huey. Together they will explore the partisan divide in contemporary America and compare it with past periods of conflict and despair\, offering hope in what may not be one of our contentious hours. \nTickets are $30 per person and include a copy of The Soul of America. A special package is available at $40 for two tickets and a copy of The Soul of America. This event is sure to sell out quickly. To reserve tickets\, please call 843.723.9912 or click here.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-conversation-with-jon-meacham/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Dorothea Benton Frank
DESCRIPTION:NY Times Bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank dishes the latest Lowcountry dirt on her newest novel\, By Invitation Only\, at the Charleston Library Society\, and despite the title\, this ticketed event is open to the public! \nBy Invitation Only tells the tale of two families from two very different worlds: the affluence of a Chicago high society high-rise\, and the working-class roots of a Johns Island peach farm. When a daughter of privilege plans to marry a Southern country boy\, both families are forced to face what it really means to be a Have or a Have Not. Will family secrets and parents from opposing cultures get in the way of marital bliss\, or will they all be invited to bridge the gap and find a way forward? \nYou’ll have to read the book to know how it all comes together in the end. One thing is for certain\, though: this evening with Dorothea Benton Frank is sure to delight all who attend. \nTickets are $30 per person and include a copy of By Invitation Only. A special package is available at $40 for two tickets and a copy of By Invitation Only. This event is sure to sell out quickly. To reserve tickets\, please call 843.723.9912 or click here. \nDorothea Benton Frank is the New York Times bestselling author of Bulls Island\, The Christmas Pearl\, The Land of Mango Sunsets\, and many other books. She has appeared on the Today show and Parker Ladd’s Book Talk and is a frequent speaker on creative writing and the creative process for students of all ages and in private venues\, such as the National Arts Club\, the Junior League of New York\, Friends of the Library\, and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Before she began her writing career\, Ms. Frank was involved extensively in the arts and education and in raising awareness and funding for various nonprofits in New Jersey and New York. Born and raised on Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina\, she currently divides her time between New Jersey and South Carolina.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-dorothea-benton-frank/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Patricia Moore-Pastides
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we host USC First Lady and author Patricia Moore-Pastides to discuss her new book\, At Home in the Heart of the Horseshoe: Life in the University of South Carolina’s President’s House \nAt Home in the Heart of the Horseshoe is the first book to feature the workings of the President’s House and gardens. A pictorial tour through all the public rooms calls attention to the provenance of special antiques and works of art. Presidential events are described and illustrated in charming photographs\, and delectable recipes and novel flower-arrangement ideas are shared. \nPerhaps most compelling are the stories from family members who have lived in the President’s House. Through interviews with wives and children – and in one case a grandchild – of former university presidents\, readers are privy to their most vivid memories of life in the house and recollections of campus happenings. Experiencing the house as her home\, Moore-Pastides shares highlights of her years as First Lady\, including the most poignant times as well as the lighter moments.” \nTo RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-patricia-moore-pastides/
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