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SUMMARY:Zoom Speaker Series: Karen Tumulty in Conversation with John Huey
DESCRIPTION:Join the Charleston Library Society as we virtually welcome political columnist for The Washington Post\, Karen Tumulty as she discusses her new biography\, The Triumph of Nancy Reagan with former Editor-In-Chief of Time\, Inc.\, John Huey. To RSVP to this free event\, fill out the RSVP form at the bottom of this page or call 843-723-9912. \nNOTICE: Zoom event links and passwords are always distributed on the day of the event to the email you RSVP with in the form below. The email that will be sending the link and password will be dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. If you have any questions\, please call 843-723-9912 \nAbout the Book:\nThe definitive biography of the fiercely vigilant and politically astute First Lady who shaped one of the most consequential presidencies of the 20th century: Nancy Reagan. \nThe made-in-Hollywood marriage of Ronald and Nancy Reagan is more than a love story—it’s the partnership that made him president. Of the pair\, Nancy was the one with the sharper instincts about people\, the superior radar for trouble\, and the keen sense of how to secure his place in history. The only person in the world to whom Ronald Reagan felt truly close\, Nancy understood how to foster his strengths and compensate for his weaknesses. Neither timid nor apologetic about wielding her power\, Nancy Reagan made herself a place in history. \nBut that confidence took years to develop. Nancy’s traumatic early childhood instilled in her a lifelong anxiety and a craving for security. Born into a broken marriage\, she spent seven years yearning for the absent mother who abandoned her to pursue an acting career. When she met Ronnie\, who had a difficult upbringing of his own\, the two fractured halves became whole. And as Ronnie turned from acting to politics\, she did too\, helping build the scaffolding of his rise and cultivating the wealthy and powerful figures who would help pave his way. Not only was Nancy crucial in shaping Ronald’s White House team and in softening her husband’s rhetoric\, she became an unseen force pushing her husband toward what she saw as his grandest purpose—to shake his image as a warmonger and leave behind a more peaceful world. \nThis book explores the multifaceted character of Nancy Reagan and reveals new details surrounding the tumultuous presidency. The Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty spent four years interviewing the people who knew this couple best and draws on overlooked archives\, letters\, memoirs\, and White House records\, compiling the most extensive biography of Nancy Reagan yet. From the AIDS epidemic to tensions with the Soviets and the war on drugs\, this book shows how Nancy Reagan became one of the most influential First Ladies of the century. \nTo purchase your copy of Tumulty’s book\, The Triumph of Nancy Reagan\, click here.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/zoom-speaker-series-karen-tumulty-in-conversation-with-john-huey/
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SUMMARY:Zoom Speaker Series: Bob Gillespie & Tommy Braswell
DESCRIPTION:Calling all golfers! CLS welcomes two incredibly experienced sportswriters from the golf world\, Bob Gillespie & Tommy Braswell\, as they discuss their new book\, South Carolina Golf. This well-researched book enlightens us of ins and outs of the history of match play in the Palmetto State. To RSVP\, fill out the RSVP form at the bottom of this page or call 843-723-9912. \nNOTICE: Zoom event links and passwords are always distributed on the day of the event to the email you RSVP with in the form below. The email that will be sending the link and password will be dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. If you have any questions\, please call 843-723-9912 \nTo purchase a signed copy of Gillespie & Braswell’s book\, click here. \nAbout the Book:\nFor nearly three hundred years\, South Carolina has played a vital role in American golf. The first golf clubs in America came from Scotland to Charleston in 1739. Myrtle Beach is sometimes called the “Golf Capital of the World\,” with more than eighty golf courses. The Country Club of Charleston produced World Golf Hall of Fame members Henry Picard and Beth Daniel. The 1991 Ryder Cup matches\, the “War by the Shore\,” took place at Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course\, also the site of the 2012 and 2021 PGA Championships. Hilton Head’s Harbour Town Golf Links has hosted the PGA Tour’s RBC Heritage for more than fifty years. Bob Gillespie and Tommy Braswell detail the history of the game in the Palmetto State. \nAbout the Authors:\nBob Gillespie was a senior sportswriter\, columnist and golf writer for The State newspaper in Columbia\, South Carolina\, from 1979 to 2010. He won The State’s Ambrose E. Gonzales Award for distinguished journalism in 1988\, was Associated Press Sports Editors’ national runner-up in features (2001) and explanatory stories (2009) and was named the Herman Helms Excellence in Media Award winner by the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame in 2019. He and his wife\, Jane\, live in Columbia. \nTommy Braswell has written about golf in North and South Carolina since the mid-1970s\, covering everything from local golf events and personalities to Ryder Cups\, PGA Championships\, the Masters\, the Heritage and numerous LPGA events held in the Palmetto State. In addition to covering golf for the Charleston Post and Courier since 1982\, he also has written for national golf publications\, including Golfweek and Golf World.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/zoom-speaker-series-bob-gillespie-tommy-braswell/
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SUMMARY:Zoom Speaker Series: Garry Trudeau in Conversation with John Avlon
DESCRIPTION:CLS welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and creator of “Doonesbury”\, Garry Trudeau to be in conversation with journalist\, John Avlon to celebrate Dbury@50: The Complete Digital Doonesbury! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Library Society digitally welcomes the most consequential political cartoonist of our time\, Garry Trudeau. Honoring a half century of his renowned comic strip\, Doonesbury\, Trudeau will be in conversation with American journalist and CNN anchor\, John Avlon. The duo will cover all topics to properly celebrate Dbury@50: The Complete Digital Doonesbury\, a limited edition compilation of all Trudeau’s works. \nTickets to the virtual conversation are $5 for CLS members and $10 for nonmembers. All ticket purchasers will receive an email from dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org on the afternoon of the event with the Zoom links and password. If you do not receive an email by 4:00pm\, please call 843-723-9912. \nTo buy your tickets\, click here!\n  \n\n\n\n\nTo buy your copy of Trudeau’s Dbury@50\, click here! \n  \nAbout the Book:\n“Trudeau’s creation has evolved into a sprawling masterwork.” — The New York Times \nThe ultimate Doonesbury package celebrating a half-century of G.B. Trudeau’s celebrated comic strip. This limited-edition deluxe set includes: \n\nA USB flash drive with all 50 years of Doonesbury comics\, including 26 years of Sunday comics available for the first time in digital format. Includes a searchable calendar archive\, character biographies\, and a week-by-week description of the strip’s contents.\nThe Dbury@50 User’s Guide\, a 224-page wire-bound book taking readers through each year of the strip’s storied history\, with historical trivia\, milestone strips\, featured storylines and characters\, and much more.\nA commemorative 16″ x 20″ poster featuring a grid with new sketches of all the strip’s characters.\n\nNote: The USB flash drive is intended for laptop and desktop computers running on MacOS (10.10 or later) and Windows (7 or later) only and is NOT compatible with smartphones\, tablets\, or most Chromebooks.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/zoom-speaker-series-garry-trudeau-in-conversation-with-john-avlon/
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SUMMARY:Zoom Speaker Series: Zibby Owens in Conversation with Paula McLain
DESCRIPTION:Help us virtually welcome award-winning podcaster Zibby Owens of Moms Don’t Have Time To Read Books on a journey filled with food\, exercise\, sex\, books\, and more! Owens will be in conversation with best-selling author and friend\, Paula McLain! The two will cover all topics of Owens’ recent book\, Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology. To RSVP\, to this entertaining conversation\, fill out the RSVP form at the bottom of this page or call 843-723-9912. \nNOTICE: Zoom event links and passwords are always distributed on the day of the event to the email you RSVP with in the form below. The email that will be sending the link and password will be dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. If you have any questions\, please call 843-723-9912 \nTo purchase a copy of Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology\, click here! \nTo purchase a copy of Paula’s most recent best-seller\, When the Stars Go Dark\, click here! \nAbout the Book:\nIt’s impossible to ignore how life has changed since COVID-19 spread across the world. People from all over quarantined and did their best to keep on going during the pandemic. Zibby Owens\, host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books and a mother of four herself\, wanted to do something to help people carry on and to give them something to focus on other than the horrors of their news feeds. So she launched an online magazine called We Found Time. \nAuthors who had been on her podcast wrote original\, brilliant essays for busy readers. Zibby organized these profound pieces into themes inspired by five things moms don’t have time to do: eat\, read\, work out\, breathe\, and have sex. Now compiled as an anthology named Moms Don’t Have Time To\, these beautiful\, original essays by dozens of bestselling and acclaimed authors speak to the ever-increasing demands on our time\, especially during the quarantine\, in a unique\, literary way. \nActress Evangeline Lilly writes about the importance and impact of film. Bestselling author Rene Denfeld focuses on her relationship with food after growing up homeless. Screenwriter and author Lea Carpenter and Suzanne Falter\, author\, speaker\, and podcast host\, focus on loss. New York Times bestselling authors Chris Bohjalian and Gretchen Rubin write about the importance of reading. Others write about working out\, love and sex\, eating and cooking\, and more. Join Zibby on her journey through the winding road of quarantine and perhaps you\, too\, will find time. \nAbout Zibby & Paula:\nZIBBY OWENS is the creator and host of award-winning podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to ReadBooks. Zibby\, named “NYC’s Most Powerful Bookfluencer” by New York Magazine’s Vulture\, conducts warm\, inquisitive conversations with authors as wide-ranging as Alicia Keys and Lena Dunham to Delia Owens and Brit Bennett\, making her show a top literary podcast as selected by Oprah.com two years in a row. \nBefore the pandemic\, Zibby ran a literary salon\, hosted her own book fairs\, and was a frequent bookstore event moderator. During the quarantine\, Zibby hosted a daily Instagram Live author talk show “Z-IGTV\,” a weekly live show with her husband “KZ Time\,” launched an online magazine called We Found Time\, and started Zibby’s Virtual Book Club. \nZibby is a regular contributor to Good MorningAmerica online and the Washington Post\, and has contributed to Real Simple\, Parents\, Marie Claire\, Redbook\, and many other publications. She has appeared on CBS This Morning\, the BBC\, NPR’s AllThings Considered\, Good Day LA\, and local new outlets. \nPAULA MCLAIN is the author of the the New York Times bestselling novels The Paris Wife\, Circling the Sun\, and Love and Ruin. Now she introduces When the Stars Go Dark\, an atmospheric tale of intertwined destinies and heart-wrenching suspense. McLain was born in Fresno\, California in 1965. After being abandoned by both parents\, she and her two sisters became wards of the California Court System\, moving in and out of various foster homes for the next fourteen years. When she aged out of the system\, she supported herself by working as a nurses aid in a convalescent hospital\, a pizza delivery girl\, an auto-plant worker\, a cocktail waitress–before discovering she could (and very much wanted to) write. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan in 1996\, and is the author of two collections of poetry\, a memoir\, Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses\, and the debut novel\, A Ticket to Ride. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, O: the Oprah Magazine\, Good Housekeeping\, Real Simple\, Huffington Post\, the Guardian and elsewhere.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/zoom-speaker-series-zibby-owens-in-conversation-with-paula-mclain/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210519T110000
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SUMMARY:Zoom CLS Book Club: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
DESCRIPTION:Spring has sprung and the CLS Book Club is back! Join us for a lively book discussion on George Saunders’ newest bestselling work\, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain on the afternoon of Wednesday\, May 19th at 11:00am. The selected work brings the reader into the world of writing & short stories and how they relate to our lives and world today. A master writer is the perfect catalyst for dynamic and fun conversations. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading\, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible. To RSVP to this free event\, fill out the RSVP form at the bottom of this page or call 843-723-9912. \nNOTICE: Zoom event links and passwords are always distributed on the day of the event to the email you RSVP with in the form below. The email that will be sending the link and password will be dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. If you have any questions\, please call 843-723-9912 \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nFor the last twenty years\, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain\, he shares a version of that class with us\, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov\, Turgenev\, Tolstoy\, and Gogol\, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. \nIn his introduction\, Saunders writes\, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world\, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely\, to ask the big questions\, questions like\, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth\, anyway\, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly\, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing\, Saunders reminds us\, is a technical craft\, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nGeorge Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten books\, including Lincoln in the Bardo\, which won the Man Booker Prize; Congratulations\, by the way; Tenth of December\, a finalist for the National Book Award; The Braindead Megaphone; and the critically acclaimed short story collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline\, Pastoralia\, and In Persuasion Nation. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/zoom-cls-book-club-a-swim-in-a-pond-in-the-rain/
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT! – Book Launch Celebration & Reception: Italians in the Lowcountry
DESCRIPTION:This event has SOLD OUT! But\, don’t fret! We will be hosting a Zoom presentation on June 3rd that you can RSVP for by clicking here! \nJoin CLS\, Buxton Books\, and the Dante Alighieri Society of Charleston as we celebrate the release of Italians in the Lowcountry. “Sunny Italy’s Charleston Colony.  \nThe evening will include a discussion by Eugene Massamillo about Italy\, Dante Alighieri\, and the continued cultural presented and importance of Italians in Charleston. Author Christina Butler will present a brief illustrated overview of the recently released book\, highlighting the themes covered\, how the book came to be\, and providing a summary of the Italian experience in early Charleston.  The evening will include a viewing of Italian rare prints from the CLS special collections\, live piano performances\, and Italian wine and light snacks. \nThis limited-capacity event will be followed by a Zoom Speaker Series on Thursday\, June 3rd that will go more in-depth into the book and the narratives within. \nAll attendees will be required to wear masks for the entirety of the event excluding when persons are actively drinking or eating. This event has a maximum capacity of 60\, so RSVP ASAP to get to enjoy this celebratory book launch event! \nTo purchase your signed copy of Italians in the Lowcountry\, click here. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nSince its early days\, Charleston\, a 350-year-old port city in South Carolina\, has had an important contingent of Italian residents who made artistic\, cultural\, and economic contributions much larger than their numbers.  Especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century\, the city was home to a small but diverse Italian population who worked hard in their chosen new city\, and some of whom founded and operated integral businesses.  Others toiled in phosphate mines and on farms in Charleston County.  In the city\, Italians worked as tradesmen and laborers\, and operated successful restaurants\, taverns\, wholesale groceries\, and fruit shops.  A lucky few\, like the Sottile and Chicco families\, rose to the upper echelons of Charleston society in the quintessential American dream.  In the twenty first century\, recently arrived Italians continue to enhance the city’s cultural and artistic life. \nItalians in Charleston utilizes historic documentation\, images\, and interviews to add the important and diverse stories and experiences of Charleston’s Italians and Italian Americans to the city’s historical narrative.  It chronicles the Italian experience in from the colonial era to the present\, with biographical sketches of noteworthy Italians\, discussion of ethnic communities and businesses throughout the city’s history\, and the contributions and the current Italian community in the greater Charleston area in the present. A preface from Cristiano Musillo\, Consul General of Italy in Miami\, and a section on the Spoleto Festival featuring interviews from former Mayor Joseph P. Riley and General Director Nigel Redden\, highlight the important cultural contributions that continue today.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/sold-out-book-launch-celebration-reception-italians-in-the-lowcountry/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210601T180000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Speaker Series: Julia Cooke in Conversation with Catherine Grace Katz
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we virtually welcome Julia Cooke & Catherine Grace Katz as they converse about Cooke’s new book of narrative history\, Come Fly The World: The Jet Age Story of the Women of Pan Am\, on the remarkable unseen role women flight attendants of the 60s and 70s played on the world stage. The book reveals the largely hidden role played by international airline stewardesses\, as they were then known\, in the Vietnam War\, while positing them as a cross between a diplomat\, an adrenaline junkie\, and a third-wave feminist. The two authors will also cover topics about women performing public diplomacy in unofficial roles across history. To RSVP\, fill out the RSVP form at the bottom of this page or call 843-723-9912. \nNOTICE: Zoom event links and passwords are always distributed on the day of the event to the email you RSVP with in the form below. The email that will be sending the link and password will be dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. If you have any questions\, please call 843-723-9912 \nTo purchase your signed copy of Julia’s Come Fly The World: The Jet Age Story of the Women of Pan Am\, click here. \nTo purchase your signed copy of Catherine’s The Daughters of Yalta\, click here. \nCome Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am. \nIn Mad-Men-era of commercial flight\, Pan Am Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out\, and wanted up. As Kirkus Reviews raved in a starred review\, this “limber\, well-researched … account of Pan Am World Airways in its glory days is smoothly interwoven with the engagingly complex stories of several longtime flight attendants … An entertaining\, insightful look into a gritty and glamorous era in air travel.” \nRequired to have a college education\, speak two languages\, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer\, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be the right height (between 5’3″ and 5’9″)\, the right weight (between 105 and 140 pounds)\, and the right age (under twenty-six years old at the time of hire). Julia Cooke’s intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life stories of a memorable cast of characters\, from small-town girl Lynne Totten\, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her\, to Hazel Bowie\, one of the relatively few Black stewardesses of the era\, as they embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life. Cooke brings to light the story of Pan Am stewardesses’ role in the Vietnam War\, as the airline added runs from Saigon to Hong Kong for planeloads of weary young soldiers straight from the battlefields\, and as it played an astonishing part in Operation Babylift—the dramatic evacuation of two thousand children from Saigon. \nJulia Cooke’s father worked for Pan Am until she was nine\, and her interest in writing this book was further sparked when in recent years\, as she says\, “I met two vibrant ex-stewardesses\, and eventually others\, women in their late seventies who seemed to have lived life elbow deep in adventure.” Cooke wanted to know “How did these sophisticated\, smart women acquire the attitudes that so impressed me\, and why have they been denied credit for their very real contributions to the freedom to roam enjoyed by women of younger generations like me?” These answers and more are all found in Come Fly the World… \nABOUT JULIA & CATHERINE: \nJULIA COOKE is a journalist and travel writer whose features and personal essays have been published in Time\, Smithsonian\, Condé Nast Traveler\, and Saveur. She is the author of The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba. The daughter of a former Pan Am executive\, Cooke grew up in the Pan Am “family\,” a still-strong network across the globe. She lives in Vermont. \nCATHERINE GRACE KATZ is a writer and historian from Chicago. She graduated from Harvard in 2013 with a BA in History and received her MPhil in Modern European History from Christ’s College\, University of Cambridge in 2014\, where she wrote her dissertation on the origins of modern counterintelligence practices. After graduating\, Catherine worked in finance in New York City before a very fortuitous visit to the book store in the lobby of her office in Manhattan led her to return to history and writing. She is currently pursuing her JD at Harvard Law School. The Daughters of Yalta is her first book.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/zoom-speaker-series-julia-cooke-in-conversation-with-catherine-grace-katz/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210603T180000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Speaker Series: Italians in the Lowcountry
DESCRIPTION:Please join author Christina Butler for a virtual book talk on Italians in the Lowcountry: Sunny Italy’s Charleston Colony. The illustrated discussion will include glimpses from chapters in the book\, addressing Italians in the Lowcountry from the colonial era\, through the antebellum period and Reconstruction\, and into the twentieth century and beyond. In addition\, the conversation will highlight the importance of Italian cultural and architectural influence in the city past and present.  Butler will share excerpts from more in-depth book interviews with former mayor Joe Riley\, Spoleto Festival USA Executive Director Nigel Redden\, Italian Americans like the Sottile’s whose ancestors started many thriving businesses\, and Italians who have recently moved to the Lowcountry and continue to enhance the city’s cultural\, academic\, and commercial life today.  Time will also be allotted for discussion and Q and A following the presentation. \nTo RSVP to this virtual event\, fill out the RSVP form at the bottom of this page or call 843-723-9912. \nNOTICE: Zoom event links and passwords are always distributed on the day of the event to the email you RSVP with in the form below. The email that will be sending the link and password will be dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. If you have any questions\, please call 843-723-9912 \nTo purchase your signed copy of Italians in the Lowcountry\, click here. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nSince its early days\, Charleston\, a 350-year-old port city in South Carolina\, has had an important contingent of Italian residents who made artistic\, cultural\, and economic contributions much larger than their numbers.  Especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century\, the city was home to a small but diverse Italian population who worked hard in their chosen new city\, and some of whom founded and operated integral businesses.  Others toiled in phosphate mines and on farms in Charleston County.  In the city\, Italians worked as tradesmen and laborers\, and operated successful restaurants\, taverns\, wholesale groceries\, and fruit shops.  A lucky few\, like the Sottile and Chicco families\, rose to the upper echelons of Charleston society in the quintessential American dream.  In the twenty first century\, recently arrived Italians continue to enhance the city’s cultural and artistic life. \nItalians in Charleston utilizes historic documentation\, images\, and interviews to add the important and diverse stories and experiences of Charleston’s Italians and Italian Americans to the city’s historical narrative.  It chronicles the Italian experience in from the colonial era to the present\, with biographical sketches of noteworthy Italians\, discussion of ethnic communities and businesses throughout the city’s history\, and the contributions and the current Italian community in the greater Charleston area in the present. A preface from Cristiano Musillo\, Consul General of Italy in Miami\, and a section on the Spoleto Festival featuring interviews from former Mayor Joseph P. Riley and General Director Nigel Redden\, highlight the important cultural contributions that continue today.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/zoom-speaker-series-italians-in-the-lowcountry/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210624T160000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Book Launch with Alex Michaelides with Will Cathcart
DESCRIPTION:Join the Charleston Library Society as we virtually welcome Alex Michaelides to celebrate the release of his second novel\, “The Maidens” Tickets to this Zoom conversation are $35 and include a signed copy of THE MAIDENS shipped to you! \nTo purchase tickets\, click here.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Charleston Library Society virtually welcomes best-selling author Alex Michaelides to celebrate the release of his second novel\, The Maidens the week after its release. This Zoom conversation will cover all aspects of Alex’s work process and the excitement behind this highly-anticipated thriller. Alex will be in conversation with Charlestonian journalist & editor\, Will Cathcart during this thrilling event. \nTickets are $35 for a signed book package with Zoom access. All ticket purchasers will receive an email from dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org on the afternoon of the event with the Zoom links and password. If you do not receive an email by 3:00pm\, please call 843-723-9912. \n  \nAbout THE MAIDENS:\nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense\, weaving together Greek mythology\, murder\, and obsession\, that further cements “Michaelides as a major player in the field” (Publishers Weekly). \nEdward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University\, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike—particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. \nMariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member\, a friend of Mariana’s niece Zoe\, is found murdered in Cambridge. \nMariana\, who was once herself a student at the university\, quickly suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets\, and beneath the ancient traditions\, lies something sinister. And she becomes convinced that\, despite his alibi\, Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder. But why would the professor target one of his students? And why does he keep returning to the rites of Persephone\, the maiden\, and her journey to the underworld? \nWhen another body is found\, Mariana’s obsession with proving Fosca’s guilt spirals out of control\, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her closest relationships. But Mariana is determined to stop this killer\, even if it costs her everything—including her own life. \nABOUT ALEX:\nAlex Michaelides was born and raised in Cyprus. He has a MA in English Literature from Trinity College\, Cambridge University\, and a MA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. The Silent Patient was his first novel. It spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and sold in a record-breaking 49 countries. He lives in London. \nABOUT WILL:\nWill Cathcart is a journalist and editor based in Tbilisi\, Georgia\, covering geopolitics and culture for The Daily Beast\, CNN\, Foreign Policy\, Garden & Gun\, Literary Hub\, and others. He is a former media advisor to the president of Georgia. Will was a production consultant for Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown\, a local producer for National Geographic’s Drugs\, Inc.\, and a local producer for ITV’s On Assignment. His work has been featured in POLITICO’s Playbook\, Quartz Weekend Brief “Five things that made us smarter\,” and The Intelligencer: Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies. Will was born in Charleston\, SC.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/zoom-book-launch-with-alex-michaelides-with-will-cathcart/
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SUMMARY:Zoom Speaker Series: Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
DESCRIPTION:CLS & Buxton Books virtually welcome best-selling authors Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray to discuss the release of their new historical fiction\, The Personal Librarian. This novel tells the remarkable story of J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian\, Belle da Costa Greene\, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but requires an RSVP. To RSVP\, fill out the form at the bottom of this page. \nNOTICE: Zoom event links and passwords are always distributed on the day of the event to the email you RSVP with in the form below. The email that will be sending the link and password will be dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. If you have any questions\, please call 843-723-9912 \nTo purchase your signed copy of The Personal Librarian\, click here.  \nAbout the Book:\nIn her twenties\, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts\, books\, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world\, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class collection. \nBut Belle has a secret\, one she must protect at all costs. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener\, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. Belle’s complexion isn’t dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white–her complexion is dark because she is African American.\n\nThe Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman\, famous for her intellect\, style\, and wit\, and shares the lengths to which she must go–for the protection of her family and her legacy–to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives. \nAbout the Authors:\nMarie Benedict is a lawyer with more than ten years’ experience as a litigator. A graduate of Boston College and the Boston University School of Law\, she is the New York Times and USAToday bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room\, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie\, Carnegie’s Maid\, The Other Einstein\, and Lady Clementine. All have been translated into multiple languages. She lives in Pittsburgh with her family. \n\nVictoria Christopher Murray is an acclaimed author with more than one million books in print. She has written more than twenty novels\, including Stand Your Ground\, a NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Fiction and a Library Journal Best Book of the Year. She holds an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/zoom-speaker-series-marie-benedict-victoria-christopher-murray/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210804T123000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Speaker Series: Martin Walker
DESCRIPTION:The Charleston Library Society and Buxton Books are thrilled to virtually host best-selling author Martin Walker to celebrate The Coldest Case\, the latest release in his hit detective series\, Bruno\, Chief of Police. Walker will be zooming in from France to tell us all about this thrilling new addition to the beloved series. This Zoom is free and open to the public\, but requires an RSVP to attend. To RSVP\, fill out the form at the bottom of this page. \n  \nNOTICE: Zoom event links and passwords are always distributed on the day of the event to the email you RSVP with in the form below. The email that will be sending the link and password will be dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. If you have any questions\, please call 843-723-9912 \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nAn anonymous skull\, an unsolved murder\, sinister rumors from the Cold War era of espionage–Bruno’s investigation into a long-standing cold case finds him caught between an enigmatic winegrower and a menacing Communist organization from the past. \nAfter attending an exhibit on the facial reconstruction of ancient skulls\, Bruno wonders if this technology might provide an invaluable clue to a thirty-year-old cold case. But learning the identity of the murder victim is only the beginning. \nThe investigation quickly turns thorny and leads Bruno to a reclusive vintner\, Henri Bazaine\, whose education at a vocational school in a formerly Communist region has raised some eyebrows. An inquiry into the defunct school turns up shadowy reports of possible connections and funding from the Stasi\, the repressive police agency of the former East Germany. The scrutiny on Henri intensifies once Bruno discovers that he was declared dead thirty years ago and has been living under an assumed name ever since. \nThe strange case is further complicated as Parisian bureaucrats get involved\, hinting that essential diplomatic relations might be at stake. And to make matters even worse\, the Dordogne is suffering from an intense summer drought that is sparking fires across the region. But as always\, Bruno will keep a cool head through it all–and\, bien sûr\, takes time to enjoy a sumptuous Périgordian meal! \nAbout the Martin: \nMARTIN WALKER\, after a long career of working in international journalism and for think tanks\, now gardens\, cooks\, explores vineyards\, writes\, travels\, and has never been more busy. He divides his time between Washington\, D.C.\, and the Dordogne.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/zoom-speaker-series-martin-walker/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210804T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210804T170000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Speaker Series: E. Vernon F. Glenn
DESCRIPTION:The Charleston Library Society will host E. Vernon F. Glenn to talk about his most recent colorful and suspenseful novel\, You Have Your Way. This exciting Zoom lecture is free and open to the public but requires an RSVP. To RSVP\, fill out the form at the bottom of this page. \nNOTICE: Zoom event links and passwords are always distributed on the day of the event to the email you RSVP with in the form below. The email that will be sending the link and password will be dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. If you have any questions\, please call 843-723-9912 \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nThe adventures of trial lawyer Eddie Terrell continue. His professional life is prospering. His personal life is a dumpster fire. Usually racing to the prize fight\, Eddie comes to the realization that he needs to beat a hasty retreat from the enticing flames and recalibrate on his own impulsive and subjective terms. \nWishing to expand his professional interests by accomplishing something on the darker side\, Eddie decides to head an investment scheme with a promising payoff. Of course\, there are risks that must be navigated\, risks that might require dangerously effective actions. \nSet in the early 2000s\, Eddie is\, as always\, fascinated by women and they by him. Out West while resting his addled mind\, he finds a new friend who is beautiful\, bold\, and game. She matches him wit for wit as he takes the paths less traveled and begins to make it up on the fly with trusted partners from the less than high-end zip codes. Even Eddie’s oft-imperious\, oft-skeptical mother is intrigued. \nCrawling out of his personal funk\, Eddie reorganizes his life through unusual means\, jumping the rails and going awry plenty\, but always yanking himself back on course. And his newfound stimuli further ramp up his always tenacious trial skills. He welcomes orderly disorder\, the playing of chess on four levels. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nE. Vernon F. Glenn had no idea he would become a lawyer\, much less a trial lawyer when he wandered out the doors of his beloved University in Chapel Hill way back when. His love of sports\, gambling\, and trying cases before both judges and juries has immersed and marinated his mind in the sharp-eyed calculations of strategy and tactics\, strengths and weaknesses\, human nature and chance. He went to work digging ditches in 1961 at the age of eleven for sixty cents an hour and knows that the sweat of work along with a good dose of brains is the curative dose. In 2019 he released his first novel\, Friday Calls\, a work of fiction based on true events\, which Kirkus Reviews called a lyrical Southern tale of rippling effects. Vernon hangs his hat in the beautiful Lowcountry of South Carolina and in the re-emergent phoenix of his hometown of Winston-Salem\, North Carolina.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/zoom-speaker-series-e-vernon-f-glenn/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210826T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210826T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Gervais Hagerty
DESCRIPTION:The Charleston Library Society is thrilled to host local writer Gervais Hagerty to celebrate her debut novel\, IN POLITE COMPANY. The story takes a captivating look inside the private lives of Charleston aristocracy\, where a former debutante learns that sometimes good behavior leads to bad decisions. New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe will make a special introduction to kick-off the evening. \nThe book will be available for purchase (before the publishing date!) at the event or through Buxton Books at 843-723-1670. After her conversation\, Gervais will be signing and personalizing copies of her book. \nTickets for this event are $5 a person and include a wine reception. To purchase your tickets\, click here. \nTo purchase a copy of In Polite Company\, click here!  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nTourists think they see the real Charleston\, but Simons Smythe knows there’s more to her hometown than sweet tea and Southern hospitality. Behind the walled gardens\, inside the fabled historic homes\, live Charleston’s elite. Simons was born into this powerful aristocracy that has quietly ruled the city for centuries. \nSimons’s family has a banner year ahead; Her older sister will give birth to her second child\, and her younger sister will make her debut—a series of cocktail parties and balls to introduce her to society. And in one year\, Simons plans to marry Trip. She hopes that’s enough time to fall back in love. \nSimons produces the news at a local TV station\, a job that increasingly tests her loyalty to her family and friends. On her days off\, Simons surfs the waves of Folly Beach\, crabs the salty rivers of Edisto Island\, and follows her wayward heart to King Street bars. The one touchstone in this confusing time is her elegant and secretive grandmother\, Laudie\, who—repeatedly and mysteriously—urges Simons to “be brave”. \nIn this sparkling novel\, Simons unlocks riddles from the past\, flirts with a new future\, and discovers that some rules are made to be broken. \n \n“This terrific debut lifts the veil on the charming old city of Charleston and a prominent Lowcountry family to deliver an entertaining story about becoming yourself without totally rejecting your past. Plus: debutante balls! I love this novel.” —Lauren Weisberger\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-gervais-hagerty/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210909T180000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Speaker Series: Harriet Welty Rochefort
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a break in your daily routine & join us for a mid-day Zoom lecture! The Library Society is thrilled to virtually host author Harriet Welty Rochefort\, ‘zooming in’ all the way from France\, to discuss her recent novel\, “Final Transgression”. This Zoom lecture is free & open to the public but requires an RSVP. To RSVP\, fill out the form at the bottom of this page. \nNOTICE: Zoom event links and passwords are always distributed on the day of the event to the email you RSVP with in the form below. The email that will be sending the link and password will be dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. If you have any questions\, please call 843-723-9912 \nTo purchase your copy of Final Transgression\, click here. \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nTwo sisters\, two lives. In Final Transgression\, 85-year-old Caroline Aubry tells the tale of the tragic wartime destiny of her beloved younger sister\, Severine. From their humble beginnings in a hamlet in the southwest of France to a castle where Severine becomes the protegée of the. beautiful countess who employs their parents\, their trajectories differ. After the family moves to Paris\, the pragmatic Caroline becomes a successful designer and the high-spirited Severine marries a rich jeweler. When WW2 breaks out and her collaborationist husband betrays her\, the headstrong Severine flees to the castle and the countess –– in spite of warnings about the risks of traveling to an area that is a fierce battleground for rival groups of resisters\, Nazis and collaborators. Severine is beautiful and intelligent but obstinate and unaware\, two traits that in wartime will ultimately seal her fate. The end of the war in France was a time for settling scores. Severine\, an ordinary woman living in extraordinary times\, unwittingly hands the hangman’s noose to her enemies in one egregious act––her final transgression. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nHarriet Welty Rochefort grew up in Iowa\, traveled to France after graduating from college\, and never left. She is the author of three nonfiction books about the French: French Toast\, French Fried and Joie de Vivre\, all published by St. Martin’s Press. Final Transgression is her first work of fiction. Harrietlives with her French husband\, Philippe\, in Paris.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/zoom-speaker-series-harriet-welty-rochefort/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210913T180000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Speaker Series: Kevin Mitchell & David Shields
DESCRIPTION:Foodways are some of the most complex & fascinating cultural aspects of the South. If you want to learn more about Southern gastronomy\, specifically South Carolina’s traditions\, please join the Library Society as we virtually welcome Kevin Mitchell and David S. Shields for what is sure to be an enthralling conversation regarding their new book\, “Taste The State”. \nThis Zoom lecture is free & open to the public but requires an RSVP. To RSVP\, fill out the form at the bottom of this page. \nNOTICE: Zoom event links and passwords are always distributed on the day of the event to the email you RSVP with in the form below. The email that will be sending the link and password will be dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. If you have any questions\, please call 843-723-9912 \nTo purchase your copy of Taste The State\, click here. \nAbout the Book: \nFrom the influence of 1920s fashion on asparagus growers to an heirloom watermelon lost and found\, Taste the State abounds with surprising stories from South Carolina’s singularly rich food tradition. Here\, Kevin Mitchell and David S. Shields present engaging profiles of eighty-two of the state’s most distinctive ingredients\, such as Carolina Gold rice\, Sea Island White Flint corn\, and the cone-shaped Charleston Wakefield cabbage\, and signature dishes\, such as shrimp and grits\, chicken bog\, okra soup\, Frogmore stew\, and crab rice. These portraits\, illustrated with original photographs and historical drawings\, provide origin stories and tales of kitchen creativity and agricultural innovation. Historical “receipts” and modern recipes\, including Chef Mitchell’s distillation of traditions in Hoppin’ John fritters\, okra and crab stew\, are also provided. \nBecause Carolina cookery combines ingredients and cooking techniques of three greatly divergent cultural traditions\, there is more than a little novelty and variety in the food. In Taste the State Mitchell and Shields celebrate the contributions of Native Americans (hominy grits\, squashes\, beans)\, the Gullah Geechee (field peas\, okra\, guinea squash\, rice\, sorghum)\, and European settlers (garden vegetables\, grains\, pigs\, cattle) in the mixture of ingredients and techniques that would become Carolina cooking. They also explore the specialties of every region—the famous rice and seafood dishes of the Lowcountry; the Pee Dee’s catfish and pinebark stews; the smothered cabbage\, pumpkin chips\, and mustard-based barbecue of the Dutch Fork and Orangeburg; the red chicken stew of the midlands; and the chestnuts\, chinquapins\, and corn bread recipes of the mountainous Upstate. \nTaste the State presents the cultural histories of native ingredients and showcases the evolution of the dishes and the variety of preparations that have emerged. This is true Carolina cooking in all of its cultural depth\, historical vividness\, and sumptuous splendor—from the simple home cooking of sweet potato pone to Lady Baltimore cake worthy of a Charleston society banquet. \nAbout the Authors: \nKevin Mitchell is the first African American chef instructor at the Culinary Institute of Charleston inSouth Carolina. He has culinary arts degrees in occupational studies and management from the Culinary Institute of America and a master’s degree in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi\, where he studied Southern foodways\, the preservation of Southern ingredients\, and the history of African Americans in the culinary arts. In 2020 Mitchell was named a South Carolina Chef Ambassador. \nDavid S. Shields is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of the English Language and Literature Department at the University of South Carolina and the chair of the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation. He is the author of numerous books\, including Southern Provisions: The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine and The Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining\, and the recipient of the Southern Foodways Alliance’s Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Flame Award.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/zoom-speaker-series-kevin-mitchell-david-shields/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210923T180000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Speaker Series: Julia Sweig
DESCRIPTION:Behind every successful man\, there is a strong woman. The story of Lady Bird Johnson\, wife of LBJ\, proves this phrase to be quite true. Please virtually join CLS in welcoming author Julia Sweig for a discussion on her newest book\, “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight”. This Zoom event is free & open to the public\, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP\, fill out the form at the bottom of this page.  \nNOTICE: Zoom event links and passwords are always distributed on the day of the event to the email you provide when purchasing your tickets. The email that will be sending the link and password will be dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. If you have any questions\, please call 843-723-9912 \nTo purchase your copy of Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding In Plain Sight\, click here. \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nJust months after moving into the White House under the worst of circumstances—following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy—LBJ had to decide whether to run to win the presidency in his own right. He turned to his most reliable\, trusted political strategist: his wife\, Lady Bird Johnson. The strategy memo she produced for him\, emblematic of her own political acumen and largely overlooked by biographers\, is just one revealing example of how their marriage was truly a decades-long political partnership. Julia Sweig is the first to draw substantially on Lady Bird’s own voice in her White House diaries to place Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson center stage and to reveal a woman ahead of her time—and an accomplished politician in her own right. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nJulia Sweig is an award-winning author of books on Cuba\, Latin America\, and American foreign policy. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the Atlantic\, the Washington Post\, Financial Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Foreign Affairs\, the Nation\, the National Interest\, and in Brazil’s Folha de São Paulo\, among other outlets. Her book Inside the Cuban Revolution won the American Historical Association’s 2003 Herbert Feis Award. She served as senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations for fifteen years and concurrently led the Aspen Institute’s congressional seminar on Latin America for ten years. She holds a doctorate and master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. She is a non-resident senior research fellow at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin and the host creator\, host and executive producer of the podcast In Plain Sight\, a co-production of Best Case Studios and ABC Audio. She lives with her family outside of Washington\, D.C.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/zoom-speaker-series-julia-sweig/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T190000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Speaker Series: Laura Morelli
DESCRIPTION:The Library Society welcomes author Laura Morelli for a virtual discussion on her newest novel\, The Stolen Lady. From the acclaimed author of The Night Portrait comes a stunning historical novel about two women\, separated by five hundred years\, who each hide Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa—with unintended consequences. This Zoom event is free & open to the public\, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP\, fill out the form at the bottom of this page.  \nNOTICE: Zoom event links and passwords are always distributed on the day of the event to the email you use to purchase your tickets. The email that will be sending the link and password will be dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org. If you have any questions\, please call 843-723-9912 \nTo purchase your copy of The Stolen Lady\, click here.  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nTwo women\, separated by five hundred years\, hide Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa—with unintended consequences. \nFrom the USA Today bestselling author of The Night Portrait comes a stunning historical novel that will forever change the way you look at the Mona Lisa. \nFlorence\, 1479: House servant Bellina Sardi’s future seems fixed when she accompanies her newly married mistress\, Lisa Gherardini\, to her home across the Arno. But when Lisa’s husband asks Master Leonardo da Vinci to paint a portrait of Lisa\, Bellina finds herself tasked with hiding an impossible secret. \nFrance\, 1939: As the Nazis close in on Paris at the dawn of World War II\, a young archivist helps the frantic Louvre staff spirit away the Mona Lisa and other priceless works of art to hiding places in the French countryside. But as the dangerous game of cat and mouse comes to a head\, Anne realizes her own family may hold the secret to returning the Louvre’s collection to safety. \nAbout the Author: \nLaura Morelli is an American art historian and the USA Today bestselling author of travel guides and historical fiction. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from Yale University and is the author of fiction and nonfiction inspired by the history of art. She has taught college students in the U.S. and Italy\, and has developed lessons for TED-Ed. Her flagship shopping guidebook\, Made In Italy\, has led travelers off the beaten track for more than two decades. Her award-winning historical novels include The Painter’s Apprentice\, The Gondola Maker\, and The Night Portrait. 
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/zoom-speaker-series-laura-morelli/
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SUMMARY:Music Series: Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera (HALO) – Opera For Y’all
DESCRIPTION:Everyone should have the opportunity to access and appreciate live theatre. Think opera isn’t for you? You might be delightfully surprised! Join CLS for an evening of beautiful (& approachable!) opera with HALO. \nThe evening will include a lecture and preview performance of our upcoming production of Verdi’s “La traviata”. Opera. For y’all. It’s what Verdi and HALO have in common. Whether you’ve seen 100 operas or this is your first one\, this lecture offers the inside scoop on: \n• How our production–set in 1986–tells the same story Verdi set to music in 1853 \n• What to listen for in Verdi’s music that makes it so sublime \n• How to get the most out of Charleston’s cultural event of the season!\nPlease Note: We are continuing to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and greatly value the safety of our patrons. All events require masks for entry and are subject to change from in-person to Zoom format if safety protocols need to be amended. To stay up to date on this event’s details\, we recommend you check this page regularly. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is ticketed – To purchase your tickets\, click here.  \nAbout HALO: HALO provides a comprehensive approach to exploring the world of opera\, with the goal of inviting everyone to experience opera in the way that is most comfortable for them. Whether you’re an artist or an audience member\, an opera novice or aficionado\, there is a place for you at our event with HALO. They are not just an opera company\, but a multi-faceted nonprofit arts organization that exists to serve the community.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-series-holy-city-arts-lyric-opera-halo-opera-for-yall/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211014T180000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Dr. Jim Downs & Dr. Jacob Steere-Williams
DESCRIPTION:Join CLS for an evening of fascinating academic discussion with two incredible historians\, Dr. Jim Downs and Dr. Jacob Steere-Williams\, regarding Downs’ newest book\, Maladies of Empire. The book covers a sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery\, colonialism\, and war propelled the development of modern medicine. \nThis event is in-person and ticketed – to purchase your tickets\, click here. \nPlease Note: We are continuing to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and greatly value the safety of our patrons. All events require masks for entry and are subject to change from in-person to Zoom format if safety protocols need to be amended. To stay up to date on this event’s details\, we recommend you check this page regularly. All ticket sales are final. \nAbout the Book: \nMost stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London’s 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump\, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale’s contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War revolutionized medical hygiene\, transforming hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge\, especially when it comes to the science of infectious disease. Reexamining the foundations of modern medicine\, Jim Downs shows that the study of infectious disease depended crucially on the unrecognized contributions of non-consenting subjects—conscripted soldiers\, enslaved people\, and subjects of empire. Plantations\, slave ships\, and battlefields were the laboratories in which physicians came to understand the spread of disease. Military doctors learned about the importance of air quality by monitoring Africans confined to the bottom of slave ships. Statisticians charted cholera outbreaks by surveilling Muslims in British-dominated territories returning from their annual pilgrimage. The field hospitals of the Crimean War and the US Civil War were carefully observed experiments in disease transmission. The scientific knowledge derived from discarding and exploiting human life is now the basis of our ability to protect humanity from epidemics. Boldly argued and eye-opening\, Maladies of Empire gives a full account of the true price of medical progress. \nAbout Dr. Jim Downs: \n\n\n\n\nDr. Downs is Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College. He is the editor of Civil War History and author and editor of six other books\, including Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Dr. Jacob Steere-Williams \nDr. Steere-Williams is an Associate Professor & the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of History at the College of Charleston. He also is the Associate Editor for the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences\, and author of The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England. 
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-dr-jim-downs-dr-jacob-steere-williams/
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SUMMARY:The Bach Society of Charleston Presents: The North Carolina Baroque Chamber Players
DESCRIPTION:CLS is delighted to host The Bach Society of Charleston as they present the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra Chamber Players. The players will be performing works by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704) that demonstrate the technique of scordatura. Baroque violinist David Wilson will retune his instrument for each sonata to created varied sonic effects. Barbara Krumdieck\, baroque cello\, and Barbara Weiss\, harpsichord\, will accompany him in this emotionally powerful performance of the Rosary Sonatas from The Glorious Mysteries. \nThis event is in-person and ticketed – to purchase tickets\, click here. \nPlease Note: We are continuing to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and greatly value the safety of our patrons. All events require masks for entry and are subject to change from in-person to Zoom format if safety protocols need to be amended. To stay up to date on this event’s details\, we recommend you check this page regularly. All ticket sales are final. \nAbout the Bach Society of Charleston: The mission of the Bach Society of Charleston is to enrich the Charleston community through presentation of exceptionally high-quality\, historically informed performances of the finest classical music in the repertoire\, with special emphasis on oratorio and choral works\, world class-visiting artists\, the use of period instruments and the sacred and secular music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries from the Baroque and Early Classical periods.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/the-bach-society-of-charleston-presents-the-north-carolina-baroque-chamber-players/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Jonas Pate
DESCRIPTION:Calling all OBX fans! CLS is very excited to welcome one of the creators of the hit TV series Outer Banks\, Jonas Pate\, for a special talk on what it was like to film in Charleston\, having a career as a filmmaker\, and the creative process that goes into creating a show like OBX. \nThis event is in-person and ticketed – To purchase your tickets\, click here. \nPlease Note: We are continuing to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and greatly value the safety of our patrons. All events require masks for entry and are subject to change from in-person to Zoom format if safety protocols need to be amended. To stay up to date on this event’s details\, we recommend you check this page regularly. All ticket sales are final.\n\n\n\nAbout the Outer Banks:\n\n\nCreated by brothers Josh & Jonas Pate and Shannon Burke\, Outer Banks is set in a coastal town along the Outer Banks of North Carolina (but actually filmed in Charleston!)\, where there is a stark social divide between wealthy seasonal residents and working-class locals (who have the nicknames “Kooks” and “Pogues”\, respectively). The show follows a group of ‘Pogue’ teenagers who live at The Cut\, and are determined to find out what happened to the missing father of the group’s ringleader\, John B. Along the way\, they discover a legendary treasure that is tied to John B’s father. Chased by the law and a wealthy group of Kooks from Figure Eight\, the Pogues seek to overcome obstacles such as drugs\, love\, fighting\, friendship\, money\, and the disenfranchisement of being an American teen. \nAbout Jonas Pate: \nJonas Michael Pate is an American screenwriter\, director and producer. He wrote and directed The Grave\, Deceiver\, The Take\, and directed Shrink. Pate also co-created Good vs Evil\, Surface and Outer Banks.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-jonas-pate/
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SUMMARY:Buxton Books Presents: Patti Callahan
DESCRIPTION:Buxton Books is very excited to be hosting the publication event for Patti Callahan’s newest novel\, Once Upon A Wardrobe. Join us in the beautiful Main Reading Room of Charleston Library Society to hear Patti speak on the creative journey of writing a novel about C.S. Lewis’ life and writing. Tickets include a signed copy of the novel\, a wine reception\, and a special surprise gift from Patti to you! This will be a masked event\, regardless of vaccination status. \nThis event is in person and ticketed – to purchase tickets\, click here.  \nPlease Note: We are continuing to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and greatly value the safety of our patrons. All events require masks for entry and are subject to change from in-person to Zoom format if safety protocols need to be amended. To stay up to date on this event’s details\, we recommend you check this page regularly. All ticket sales are final. \nAbout the Book: \nMegs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations\, on a scholarship at Oxford\, and dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics. She prefers the dependability of facts—except for one: the younger brother she loves with all her heart doesn’t have long to live. When George becomes captivated by a brand-new book called The Lion\, the Witch and the Wardrobe and begs her to find out where Narnia came from\, there’s no way she can refuse. Despite her timidity about approaching the famous author\, Megs soon finds herself taking tea with the Oxford don and his own brother\, imploring them for answers. What she receives instead are more stories . . . stories of Jack Lewis’s life\, which she takes home to George. Why won’t Mr. Lewis just tell her plainly what George wants to know? The answer will reveal to Meg many truths that science and math cannot\, and the gift she thought she was giving to her brother—the story behind Narnia—turns out to be his gift to her\, instead: hope. \nAbout the Author: \nPatti Callahan Henry is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of sixteen novels and podcast host. She is the recipient of The Christy Award — A 2019 Winner “Book of the Year”; The Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year for 2020 and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year for 2019. She is the co-host and co-creator of the popular weekly online Friends and Fiction live web show and podcast. Patti is also a contributor to the weekly life lesson essay column for Parade Magazine. A full-time author and mother of three children\, she now resides in both Mountain Brook\, Alabama\, and Bluffton\, South Carolina with her husband.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/buxton-books-presents-patti-callahan/
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SUMMARY:Ambassador R. L. Walker International Relations & Diplomacy Series: Admiral Bill Ellis
DESCRIPTION:More information to come!
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/ambassador-r-l-walker-international-relations-diplomacy-series-admiral-bill-ellis/
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SUMMARY:CLS Book Club: Gertrude Bell
DESCRIPTION:More information to come!
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/cls-book-club-gertrude-bell/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211028T190000
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SUMMARY:Performance Series: Dacre Stoker
DESCRIPTION:More information to come!
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/performance-series-dacre-stoker/2021-10-28/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Patrice Derrington
DESCRIPTION:What do a confidant of Shakespeare\, a trio of financially savvy sisters\, and a traitor to the court of Charles II have in common? They were all instrumental in the development of the real estate industry. Please join us for a fascinating evening lecture with Patrice Derrington\, Holliday Associate Professor of Real Estate\, Director of the M.Sc. in Real Estate Development (MSRED) Program\, in the Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning & Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University. \nThis event is in-person and ticketed – To purchase your tickets\, click here. \nPlease Note: We are continuing to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and greatly value the safety of our patrons. All events require masks for entry and are subject to change from in-person to Zoom format if safety protocols need to be amended. To stay up to date on this event’s details\, we recommend you check this page regularly. All ticket sales are final. \nAbout the Book:  \n\nBuilt Up uncovers the roots of the global real estate industry in the machinations of a patron of Shakespeare\, the merged lineages of business savvy women and men\, startlingly innovative collaborations with the first English architect\, and the radical explorations of other denizens of early modern London – and what those colorful origins mean for the practice of property development today. Uniting insights from the author’s career as an internationally recognized developer with meticulous archival research\, this resource for scholars and professionals synthesizes economic history and the latest planning and finance literature. The result is an unprecedented effort to codify the principles and activities of real estate development as a foundation for future academic research and practical innovation. By tracing the evolution of property development to its earliest days\, Built Up establishes the theoretical groundwork for the next phase in the transformation of the urban environment. \nAbout the Author: \n\n\nWith over fifteen years of real estate experience\, Patrice Derrington is currently the Holliday Associate Professor and Director of the Real Estate Development program at Columbia University. Patrice’s academic credentials include a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley\, Harvard MBA\, and B. Arch\, University of Queensland\, in addition to teaching awards\, publications\, and notable contributions to research. In their industry experience on Wall Street\, they worked as an investment banker\, advisor\, and fund manager to major individual and institutional clients such as David Rockefeller\, Keybank\, and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. They are also a registered architect and have led numerous urban development projects in the USA and Australia.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-patrice-derrington/
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SUMMARY:Lunch Speaker Series: Bea Wray
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lunchtime lecture with author Bea Wray and learn and how to unleash your hidden leadership skills with this powerful\, heartfelt guide\, What an MBA Taught Me…But My Kids Made Me Learn. Great business schools know that connection\, more than curriculum\, shapes great leaders. Every aspect of the experience intentionally maximizes relationship building. What an MBA Taught Me…But My Kids Made Me Learn is a sometimes hilarious\, other times harrowing journey through Harvard Business School\, twenty years of business experience\, and the most important academy of all: parenting. In this book\, dozens of essential executive leadership lessons are carefully wrapped in humorous and heartfelt stories to inspire and encourage you. \nThis event is in-person and ticketed – to purchase tickets click here. \nPlease Note: We are continuing to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and greatly value the safety of our patrons. All events require masks for entry and are subject to change from in-person to Zoom format if safety protocols need to be amended. To stay up to date on this event’s details\, we recommend you check this page regularly. All ticket sales are final. \nAbout the Author: \nBea Wray is an entrepreneur\, investor\, and mentor who has helped over three hundred companies across twenty-six countries. She was chair for the ForbesBooks Entrepreneurship Practice Group and executive director of The Creative Coast. Bea hosted The Front Porch podcast\, Savannah’s Engage SGTV\, TEDx\, Geekend Innovation conference\, and numerous themed and budget birthday parties. Bea is a graduate of Harvard Business School\, Emory University\, and Cedar Drive. She is a Fellow of the Aspen Institute\, Riley Institute’s Diversity Leaders Initiative\, and South Carolina’s Liberty Fellowship. More meaningfully\, she is a fellow mother\, neighbor\, and friend.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/lunch-speaker-series-bea-wray/
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SUMMARY:Music Series: Admiral Radio
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of live music with duo/couple Coty Hoover & Becca Smith\, who make up incredible folk/americana duo Admiral Radio. They pride themselves on creating music that people can “gather ‘round to”. \nThis event is in-person and ticketed – to purchase your tickets\, click here. \nPlease Note: We are continuing to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and greatly value the safety of our patrons. All events require masks for entry and are subject to change from in-person to Zoom format if safety protocols need to be amended. To stay up to date on this event’s details\, we recommend you check this page regularly. All ticket sales are final. \nAbout Admiral Radio: \nIn early 2018\, Becca was on the hunt for a vintage radio. After a little digging\, she found one tucked away in the back of a dusty antique store in Columbia\, SC.  As she and her dad loaded it up into the back of his pickup truck\, he noticed something.  It was an Admiral Radio. It didn’t mean much to her at the time\, but it turns out that she had a family connection. “My dad used to work for Admiral\,” her dad said.  It was serendipitous.  She immediately felt a connection to the radio and began doing some research on it. Founded in 1934\, Admiral Corp. and was once one of America’s top producers of radios\, TVs\, and phonographs.  At the height of World War II\, Admiral was the weekly sponsor for CBS Radio Network’s Sunday evening program\,World News Today. But as cheaper\, foreign imports made their way into the American economy\, Admiral began to crumble. They would be bought and sold to a long list of buyers\, eventually fading from the U.S. market. As fate would have it\, Becca’s late grandfather was actually a salesman for Admiral.  In fact\, he was awarded “Top Salesman of the Year” for the state of South Carolina and even won a trip to Rio with his wife through the company\, pictured above.  The award you see in the picture to the right sits atop of Becca and Coty’s very own Admiral radio today.  How’s that for divine intervention?  Although her grandfather passed away many years before she was born\, Becca and Coty are proud to help him continue the Admiral legacy. \n\n\nFor Becca and Coty\, the name Admiral Radio has acquired new significance.  In today’s fast-paced world\, it’s easy to get lost in the noise.  When they think of their ’41 Admiral radio\, they picture the folks of that era gathered around their radios at night\, listening to the evening news.  They think of the times those people shared as they huddled ’round together. They imagine a different place and time. And as a band\, this duo has created a timeless style and classic sound that speaks for itself.  In an age where adding mechanized bells and whistles are the norm\, Admiral Radio opts for a more natural feel by getting back to the basics of good songwriting and music with heart.  Their favorite venues are the quiet coffee shops and intimate spaces\, where listeners can be still and do what they do best – listen.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-series-admiral-radio/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kreis Bell
DESCRIPTION:CLS welcomes Kreis Beall\, owner of Blackberry Farms\, for a discussion of her journey in owning and operating this beautiful farm. Beall was 23 years old and had one child and another on the way in 1976 when she and her husband Sandy purchased Blackberry Farm as their family home. Inspired by her grandmother’s work ethic and love for food and her mother’s sense of beauty and style\, Kreis fell in love with the art of entertaining and wanted Blackberry to be an extension of her own home. Her life has always represented the same sense of southern hospitality. Kreis transformed the original nine-bedroom farmhouse into a Relais & Chateaux estate and restaurant. After retiring from the inn in 1999\, she opened a photography studio and returned to Blackberry to lead various design projects. Kreis is currently working on several creative projects. \nThis event is in-person and ticketed – ticket prices TBA.  \nPlease Note: We are continuing to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and greatly value the safety of our patrons. All events require masks for entry and are subject to change from in-person to Zoom format if safety protocols need to be amended. To stay up to date on this event’s details\, we recommend you check this page regularly. All ticket sales are final.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-kreis-bell/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211119T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211119T190000
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SUMMARY:German Art Exhibit & Speaker
DESCRIPTION:More information to come!
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/german-art-exhibit-speaker/
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