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SUMMARY:Crafternoon- Fresh Floral Embroidery
DESCRIPTION:April showers bring May flower embroidery samplers!  Learn a few new embroidery stitches with this floral-focused class.  These stitches will brighten up any botanical project.  You don’t need to be experienced in embroidery to take this class\, but you should be comfortable threading floss into a needle\, and familiar with a few basic embroidery stitches.  Each student will receive a sampler to embroider\, an embroidery hoop\, and a needle.  All other supplies will be provided for use during the workshop.    Tickets are $45 per person. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 and speak with Anna or email asmith@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/crafternoon-fresh-floral-embroidery/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Ron Rash\, J.C. Sasser\, and Ray McManus
DESCRIPTION:CLS & Buxton Books are excited to host three contributors of the new book “Gather At The River” which features over 25 authors’ stories on fishing. The three authors that will be featured at this special event are Ron Rash\, J.C. Sasser\, and Ray McManus. All with their own accolades\, this event will be interesting and impressive. Anyone with a passion for fishing will walk away with their very own copy of this impressive fishing anthology\, “Gather At The River.”\nTickets are $25 for members and $30 for nonmembers and include a copy of the featured book. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nThe Cherokee have a ceremony of going to water. Once a month on a night governed by the moon\, they go to the river in an act of renewal and reverie. Much like baptism\, it is the belief that there is a healing power to water\, a sentiment shared by every soul thats ever stood waist-deep in a river watching trout rise. Gather At The River isn’t a collection of big fish stories. This is PEN/Faulkner Finalist Ron Rash writing about a 50-year-old fly reel. Its #1 New York Times Bestselling Author CJ Box explaining where he wants his ashes spread when he dies. This is an anthology about friendship\, family\, love and loss\, and everything in between\, because as Henry David Thoreau wrote\, it is not really the fish they are after. \nContributors include New York Times Bestselling Authors Ace Atkins\, Ron Rash\, Jill McCorkle\, Leigh Ann Henion\, Eric Rickstad\, M.O. Walsh\, J.C. Sasser\, Ray McManus and #1 Bestseller C.J. Box.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-ron-rash-j-c-sasser-and-ray-mcmanus/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190520T183000
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library Fundraiser: Tuffus Zimbabwe & Mayor Tecklenburg
DESCRIPTION:A Special Fundraiser for the Jenkins Institute with Tuffus Zimbabwe and Mayor John Tecklenburg \nThursday\, May 30th ~ 6:30 – 9:00PM \nJoin Saturday Night Live pianist Tuffus Zimbabwe and Mayor Tecklenburg for an evening rich in the jazz roots of the Lowcountry. Zimbabwe\, the great-grandson of the Rev. Daniel Joseph Jenkins\, founder of Jenkins Orphanage\, and the world famous Jenkins Orphanage Band will play and tell stories with the Mayor as a special benefit for Jenkins Institute for Children. \nTickets are $50 to support this fundraiser evening. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nTuffus is a pianist and composer from the Roxbury area of Boston. He comes from a rich background of artists and musicians\, most notably the musical genius Edmund Jenkins\, a brilliant composer and performer in the genres of Jazz and Classical music from the early 1900s. He was internationally renowned and is remembered for his significant contributions to the development of jazz in the United States\, via Charleston\, South Carolina. Tuffus\, a versatile composer and master musician in his own right\, started piano lessons at the early age of five. His father\, a teacher\, and his mother\, a visual artist\, both armed with knowledge of their rich musical heritage\, made it a point to provide Tuffus with substantial musical exposure. He began by studying classical piano\, which he did for roughly two decades. At the age of 12 he explored gospel music at a local Roxbury church where he started playing piano with the mens choir. \nIn his early teens\, Tuffus joined Berklee College of Musics City Music Program\, where\nhe began his formal training in jazz. Here is where his skills and talents as a musician\nmatured. The program offered him a laboratory to develop his compositions and a forum\nto perform with his peers. At 18\, Tuffus received the prestigious Walter Beasley Award\,\nwon the song writing competition at Berklees Five Week Summer Program\, and was\nsubsequently awarded the full-tuition City Music Continuing Scholarship to study in\nBerklees undergraduate program (class of 05). Here he dual-majored in Music\nBusiness and Film Scoring while engaging in extensive studies in composition and\nperformance. \nTuffus composition skills landed him a spot on Liz Walkers CBS-TV morning show\nwhere he performed his original African Breeze with the Tuffus Zimbabwe Group. One\nof his original compositions was already being used weekly as the theme for this show.\nTuffus continued his education\, earning his Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies from\nNew York University. \nTuffus currently works as a keyboardist in the Saturday Night Live Band on NBC. He\nalso works in a number of bands such as Ron Rieds Sun Steel band and Jovol Bells\nReality.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-fundraiser-tuffus-zimbabwe-mayor-tecklenburg/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190601T140000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation on Life\, Love\, and Food with Ann Hood & Michael Ruhlman
DESCRIPTION:Ann Hood and Michael Ruhlman both write about love and food and cooking—and each other. They will be in conversation about the writing life\, the marriage of two writers \, and life in and out of the kitchen. They are thrilled to return to Charleston\, one of the most extraordinary food cities in the country and present this afternoon at the Charleston Library Society. Tickets are $35 for members and $40 for nonmembers. All tickets include a copy of Hood’s “Kitchen Yarns”. For tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nFrom her Italian American childhood through singlehood\, raising and feeding a growing family\, divorce\, and a new marriage to food writer Michael Ruhlman\, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up\, she tasted love in her grandmother’s tomato sauce and dreamed of her mother’s special-occasion Fancy Lady Sandwiches. Later\, the kitchen became the heart of Hood’s own home. She cooked pork roast to warm her first apartment\, used two cups of dried basil for her first attempt at making pesto\, taught her children how to make their favorite potatoes\, found hope in her daughter’s omelet after a divorce\, and fell in love again―with both her husband and his foolproof chicken stock. \nHood tracks her lifelong journey in the kitchen with twenty-seven heartfelt essays\, each accompanied by a recipe (or a few). In “Carbonara Quest\,” searching for the perfect spaghetti helped her cope with lonely nights as a flight attendant. In the award-winning essay “The Golden Silver Palate\,” she recounts the history of her fail-safe dinner party recipe for Chicken Marbella―and how it did fail her when she was falling in love. Hood’s simple\, comforting recipes also include her mother’s famous meatballs\, hearty Italian Beef Stew\, classic Indiana Fried Chicken\, the perfect grilled cheese\, and a deliciously summery peach pie. \nWith Hood’s signature humor and tenderness\, Kitchen Yarns spills tales of loss and starting from scratch\, family love and feasts with friends\, and how the perfect meal is one that tastes like home.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-conversation-on-life-love-and-food-with-ann-hood-michael-ruhlman/
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SUMMARY:Piccolo Spoleto Event – Judge Richard Gergel\, Jonathan Green\, and Tom Tisdale
DESCRIPTION:CLS & Buxton Books are excited to host this Piccolo Spoleto event! Join US District Judge Richard Gergel\, renowned artist Jonathan Green\, and Charleston playwright and lawyer Thomas S. Tisdale for a conversation on Judge Gergel’s recent best-selling book Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waites Waring. This event is free and open to the public – No ticket or reservation is needed. For any questions\, please contact the Piccolo Spoleto Festival at (843) 724-7305
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/piccolo-spoleto-event-judge-richard-gergel-jonathan-green-and-tom-tisdale/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: David Stewart
DESCRIPTION:Best-selling writer\, David O. Stewart\, will discuss his book\, The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution\, the story of delegates closeted through a sultry summer to create a government charter that embodied the best of Americas dreams\, and the worst of Americas realities. The Constitution will come alive in this lecture\, and your feelings about how the nation emerged will never be the same. Tickets are $5 members\, $10 guests — to purchase call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nThe Summer of 1787 traces the struggle at the Philadelphia Convention to create the world’s first constitutional democracy. Using the delegates’ fiery rhetoric\, the book explores the conflicts and hard bargaining that invented a government to meet the crises of the not-quite-united states – huge debts\, hostile neighbors\, armed rebellion\, and the very real prospect of dissolving into three nations or more. \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nThe successful creation of the Constitution is a suspense story. The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation — then and now. \nGeorge Washington presided\, James Madison kept the notes\, Benjamin Franklin offered wisdom and humor at crucial times. The Summer of 1787 traces the struggles within the Philadelphia Convention as the delegates hammered out the charter for the world’s first constitutional democracy. Relying on the words of the delegates themselves to explore the Convention’s sharp conflicts and hard bargaining\, David O. Stewart lays out the passions and contradictions of the often painful process of writing the Constitution. \nIt was a desperate balancing act. Revolutionary principles required that the people have power\, but could the people be trusted? Would a stronger central government leave room for the states? Would the small states accept a Congress in which seats were alloted according to population rather than to each sovereign state? And what of slavery? The supercharged debates over America’s original sin led to the most creative and most disappointing political deals of the Convention. \nThe room was crowded with colorful and passionate characters\, some known — Alexander Hamilton\, Gouverneur Morris\, Edmund Randolph — and others largely forgotten. At different points during that sultry summer\, more than half of the delegates threatened to walk out\, and some actually did\, but Washington’s quiet leadership and the delegates’ inspired compromises held the Convention together. \nIn a country continually arguing over the document’s original intent\, it is fascinating to watch these powerful characters struggle toward consensus — often reluctantly — to write a flawed but living and breathing document that could evolve with the nation.\nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nAfter many years as a trial and appellate lawyer\, David O. Stewart became a bestselling writer of history and historical fiction. His histories have explored the writing of the Constitution\, the gifts of James Madison\, the outrageous western expedition and treason trial of the mysterious Aaron Burr\, and the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. His histories have won the Washington Writing Award for best book of the year\, the History Prize of the Society of the Cincinnati\, and the William H. Prescott Award of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. \nHis first novel\, The Lincoln Deception\, about the John Wilkes Booth Conspiracy\, was called the best historical novel of 2013 by Bloomberg View. Sequels include The Wilson Deception\, set at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919\, and The Babe Ruth Deception\, which follows the Babes first two years with the Yankees.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-david-stewart/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190923T103000
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SUMMARY:Coffee with an Author: Ruth Miller & Alec Cooley
DESCRIPTION:Local authors\, Ruth Miller & Alec Cooley\, discusses their walking tour guidebook to African-American history in Charleston\, Slavery to Civil Rights: A Walking Tour of African-American Charleston in this new event format. The book details individuals and events that have shaped African-American history in Charleston from the 1600’s to the present. Attendees with enjoy coffee & donuts as they listen to the the lecture with the authors. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nSlavery to Civil Rights: A Walking Tour of African-American Charleston is the most complete and well-researched walking tour guidebook to African-American history in Charleston\, SC. Illustrated with over 45 photographs and pictures\, the book details the significant individuals and events that have shaped African-American history in the city from the 1600’s to the present day. \nThe guidebook begins with an introduction to Charleston’s central role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade to North America. The volume continues with colorful stories and biographies that reveal a seldom told side of Charleston’s history spanning the colonial\, federal\, and antebellum eras\, followed by Reconstruction\, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement. With sections organized geographically along two separate routes\, the guidebook can be read as a traditional book or used as a companion to visit actual historic locations in downtown Charleston.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/coffee-with-an-author-ruth-miller-alec-cooley/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191003T180000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kate Quinn & Laura Kamoie
DESCRIPTION:Authors Kate Quinn & Laura Kamoie discuss their book\, Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolutions Women.Describing women who stood up for themselves\, Ribbons of Scarlet illuminates the hopes\, desires\, and destinies of princesses\, peasant\, harlots\, wives\, and philosophers during the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. While the novel takes place over 200 years ago\, it resonates with todays women. Tickets for this event are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nImagine a nation of women who stop waiting for justice and take it into their own hands\, flooding into the streets to demand freedom\, seize equality\, and mold political change like never before. Their story is ours…yet these women rose up over two hundred years ago. The story of how women fought for freedom in the French Revolution has never been more timely.\nFrances war for independence is remembered for its guillotines\, for its Reign of Terror\, for Let them eat cake and Off with his head. What is forgotten is that it was a movement begun by women. From the royal salons to the streets of Paris they rose up and became a force to be reckoned with. They donned tricolor rosettes instead of pink hats\, they took to the streets with pikes instead of signs\, they raised their voices in womens-only political clubs instead of Facebook groups–and they realized how strong they were.\nFrance would never be the same. Neither would the world.\nSix of the leading female authors of historical womens fiction bring you the story of the French Revolution\, told for the first time from the voices and words of the women who shaped it\, and who worked to resist it. The call for feminist storytelling has never been stronger\, and that begins with history–when we see how women of the past\, of various political stripes\, spoke up for their beliefs\, female rights\, racial rights\, and voting rights\, yet were faced with the same misogyny\, slut-shaming\, and go back to the kitchen mentality that women face today. Hear their stories\, set among the mirrors of Versailles and the stones of the Bastille\, and hear your own. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nLAURA KAMOIE is a New York Times\, Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. Shes always been fascinated by the people\, stories\, and physical presence of the past\, which led her to a lifetime of historical and archaeological study and training. She holds a doctoral degree in early American history from The College of William and Mary\, published two non-fiction books on early America\, and most recently held the position of Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Naval Academy before transitioning to a full-time career writing genre fiction. She is the author of AMERICA’S FIRST DAUGHTER and MY DEAR HAMILTON\, co-authored with Stephanie Dray\, allowing her the exciting opportunity to combine her love of history with her passion for storytelling. Laura lives among the colonial charm of Annapolis\, Maryland with her husband and two daughters. \nKATE QUINN is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network. She attended Boston University\, where she earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Classical Voice. A lifelong history buff\, she has written seven historical novels\, including the bestselling “The Alice Network\,” the Empress of Rome Saga\, and the Borgia Chronicle. All have been translated into multiple languages. Kate and her husband now live in San Diego.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-kate-quinn-laura-kamoie/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Dr. Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessey
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy VP of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation\, Saunders Director of International Center for Jefferson Studies\, and Professor at the University of Virginia will be in town for the American Revolution Symposium and treats us to a lecture about his book\, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership\, the American Revolution\, and the Fate of the Empire. Tickets for this event are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nThe loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame\, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war\, historian Andrew OShaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. \nIn interlinked biographical chapters\, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III\, Prime Minister Lord North\, military leaders including General Burgoyne\, the Earl of Sandwich\, and others who\, for the most part\, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent\, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home\, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans\, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown\, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish\, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-dr-andrew-jackson-oshaughnessey/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191008T103000
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SUMMARY:CLS Book Club: The Furious Hours & To Kill a Mockingbird
DESCRIPTION:CLS Book Club: The Furious Hours & To Kill A Mockingbird \nCLS Book Club features two books this upcoming session; Furious Hours: Murder\, Fraud\, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep and To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This duo reconnects a modern classic with the mysterious pursuit of its enigmatic author. This Book Club session will be led by Jeanne Slabaugh & Lindsey Melville. Free with RSVP – to RSVP call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/cls-book-club-the-furious-hours-to-kill-a-mockingbird/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191015T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191015T113000
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SUMMARY:Coffee with An Author: Carol Bass
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, Coffee with an Author featuring Carol Bass has had to be cancelled. \nLocal author & poet\, Carol Bass discusses her book\, Ripple Effect. The book of art and poetry is a plea to S.C. not to squander and sell its rivers but to protect and respect its natural resources. Attendees will enjoy coffee & donuts as they listen to the lecture. Free with RSVP- to RSVP call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nFROM THE EDITOR: “Our rivers-our waters-are our lifelines. This book of art and poetry began as a plea to the state of South Carolina to create laws protecting its many rivers. A plea to not squander and sell its rivers on Wall Street but to protect and respect its God-given resources.”
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/coffee-with-an-author-carol-bass/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T200000
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library: Laura Ball & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Music at the Library: Laura Ball & Friends\nIt seems like only Yesterday…Beatles and Bach returns for an evening of British Rock and Baroque hits Laura Ball & friends! Don’t miss this special homecoming chamber concert with your favorite UNED!TED Rock and Bach Stars. Tickets for this concert are $25 for members & $35 for nonmembers. To purchase\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. This spectacular evening is generously supported by the Martello Family.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-laura-ball-friends/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T160000
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SUMMARY:A Pre-Publication Book Launch with Karen White
DESCRIPTION:Charleston Library Society and Buxton Books host best-selling author Karen White for the launch of her newest novel The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street.\nThis pre-publication book launch will take place two days before the book’s official publication date\, so all who attend will get to experience the magic of White’s discussion while getting exclusive access to this upcoming release! Tickets for this event are $30 for CLS members and $35 for nonmembers. All tickets purchased include a signed copy of White’s new novel\, The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street and a $5 coupon for purchasing additional copies\, valid ONLY at this event. Tickets can be purchased by calling 843-723-9912 or clicking here. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nThe Christmas spirit is overtaking Tradd Street with a vengeance in this festive new novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Karen White.\nMelanie Trenholm should be anticipating Christmas with nothing but joy after all\, it’s only the second Christmas she and her husband\, Jack\, will celebrate with their twin toddlers. But the ongoing excavation of the centuries-old cistern in the garden of her historic Tradd Street home has been a huge millstone\, both financially and aesthetically. Local students are thrilled by the possibility of unearthing more Colonial-era artifacts at the cistern\, but Melanie is concerned by the ghosts connected to it that have suddenly invaded her life and her house and at least one of them is definitely not filled with holiday cheer.\nAnd these relics aren’t the only precious artifacts for which people are searching. A past adversary is convinced there is a long-lost Revolutionary War treasure buried somewhere on the property Melanie inherited untold riches rumored to have been brought over from France by the Marquis de Lafayette himself and intended to help the Colonial war effort. It’s a treasure literally fit for a king\, and there have been whispers throughout history that many have already killed and died for it. And now someone will stop at nothing to possess it even if it means destroying everything Melanie and Jack hold dear. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nKaren White is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels\, including the Tradd Street series\, Dreams of Falling\, The Night the Lights Went Out\, Flight Patterns\, The Sound of Glass\, A Long Time Gone\, and The Time Between. She is the coauthor of The Forgotten Room and The Glass Ocean with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband and two children near Atlanta\, Georgia. \nFor any questions\, please feel free to contact the Charleston Library Society at 843-723-9912.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-pre-publication-book-launch-with-karen-white/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Lary Bloom
DESCRIPTION:Sol LeWitt\, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century\, upended traditional practices of how art is made and marketed. A key figure in minimalism and conceptualism\, he proclaimed that the work of the mind is much more important than that of the hand. Lary Blooms biography\, Sol LeWitt: A Life of Ideas is an absorbing chronicle that brings understanding to this important artist and his iconic work. Tickets are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nSol LeWitt (1928-2007)\, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century\, upended traditional practices of how art is made and marketed. A key figure in minimalism and conceptualism\, he proclaimed that the work of the mind is much more important than that of the hand. For his site-specific workwall drawings and sculpture in dozens of countrieshe created the idea and basic plan and then hired young artists to install the pieces. Though typically enormous and intricate\, the physical works held no value. The worth was in the pieces of paper that certified and described them. LeWitt championed and financially supported colleagues\, including women artists brushed aside by the bullies of a male-dominated profession. Yet the man himself has remained an enigma\, as he refused to participate in the culture of celebrity. Lary Bloom’s book draws on personal recollections of LeWitt\, whom he knew in the last years of the artist’s life\, as well as LeWitt’s letters and papers and over one hundred original interviews with his friends and colleagues\, including Chuck Close\, Ingrid Sischy\, Philip Glass\, Adrian Piper\, Jan Dibbets\, and Carl Andre. This absorbing chronicle brings new information to our understanding of this important artist\, linking the extraordinary arc of his life to his iconic work. Includes 28 illustrations. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nLARY BLOOM has authored or co-authored ten books including The Writer Within\, The Test of Our Times\, with Tom Ridge\, and Letters from Nuremberg\, with Christopher Dodd. He has taught writing at Yale University\, Fairfield University\, Trinity College\, and Wesleyan University. He lives in New Haven\, Connecticut.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-lary-bloom/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T180000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Patricia Schultz
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Schultz curates the world. When she published the original 1\,000 Places to See Before You Die\, she created not only a new kind of travel book\, but also a new way of thinking about our experiences and interests. Her new book\, 1\,000 Places to See Before You Die: The World as You’ve Never Seen It Before\, takes us on a visual journey of the best the world has to offer. Join Schultz for this profound lecture transforming how we can see a world filled with beauty and wonder. Tickets for this lecture are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nNow Schultz captivates our hearts in the same compelling way her original book spoke to our minds. Moving from eloquent word to breathtaking image\, she takes us on a visual journey of the best the world has to offer\, and as we turn the pages and pore over these images\, we feel it all: joy\, curiosity\, awe\, passion\, nostalgia (if we’ve been there)\, inspiration (because we want to go)\, and a profound and transforming sense of how lucky we are to live in a world filled with such beauty and wonder to see tributaries of mist curling over the Great Wall\, elephants grazing on the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater\, the sun setting on the wild coast of Donegal\, masked whirling dancers at a festival in Bhutan. \nThe book itself is a thing of beauty\, an oversize feast of more than 1\,000 all-new photographs and 544 pages\, every spread and page designed to showcase these mesmerizing photographs and hold just enough of Schultz’s lively text that we know why it is were looking at them. It is a perfect gift for every traveler\, every fan of the original\, every dreamer whose Instagram feed is filled with pictures of places near and far.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-patricia-schultz/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T193000
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SUMMARY:Royal Oak Foundation Presents: Sonia Purnell
DESCRIPTION:Best-selling author\, Sonia Purnell will reveal the captivating story of WWII spy Virginia Hall\, one of the greatest spies in American and English history\, whose story remains untold while discussing her recent book\, A Woman of No Importance. At a time when sending female secret agents into enemy territory was strictly forbidden\, Hall coordinated a spy network to report on German troop movements\, arranged equipment parachute drops\, and recruited and trained guerrilla units to ambush the enemy. Tickets for this lecture are $35 for members and $45 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 212-480-2889 ext. 201 or click here. CLS Member Code: CLS19 \nIn 1942\, the Gestapo sent out an urgent command: “She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.” This spy was Virginia Hall\, a young socialite from Baltimore\, who\, after being rejected from the Foreign Service because of her gender and prosthetic leg\, talked her way into the SOE\, the WWII British spy organization dubbed Churchill’s “ministry of ungentlemanly warfare.” Hall\, known as the “Madonna of the Resistance\,” was one of the greatest spies in American and English history\, yet her full story remains untold. \nAt a time when sending female secret agents into enemy territory was still strictly forbidden\, Hall coordinated a network of spies to report on German troop movements\, arranged equipment parachute drops for Resistance fighters\, and recruited and trained guerrilla units to ambush enemy convoys and blow up bridges and railroads. Even as her face covered WANTED posters throughout Europe\, she refused orders to evacuate. She finally escaped in a death-defying climb over of the Pyrenees into Spain\, her cover blown\, and her associates imprisoned or executed. But\, she plunged back into the field with the American OSS secret service\, directing partisan armies to back up the Allied forces landing at Normandy. King George VI awarded her the OBE in 1943 and she received the Distinguished Service Cross from the US in 1946\, the only American woman to receive this honor. \nBest-selling author\, Sonia Purnell will reveal the captivating story of a formidable\, yet shockingly overlooked\, heroine whose fierce persistence helped win a world war. Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to the Purnell’s meticulously researched upcoming book A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II (April 2019) and has attached actress Daisy Ridley to star as Virginia Hall.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/royal-oak-foundation-presents-sonia-purnell/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191104T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191104T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Heath Hardage Lee
DESCRIPTION:In a page-turning work of narrative non-fiction\, Heath Hardage Lee tells the true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington and Hanoi to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. Lees The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home is certain to intrigue everyone. Tickets for this lecture are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. To purchase\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nThe true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington and Hanoi to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. \nOn February 12\, 1973\, one hundred and sixteen men who\, just six years earlier\, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots\, shuffled\, limped\, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture\, kept shackled and starving in solitary confinement\, in rat-infested\, mosquito-laden prisons\, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton. \nMonths later\, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers were their wives\, a group of women that included Jane Denton\, Sybil Stockdale\, Louise Mulligan\, Andrea Rander\, Phyllis Galanti\, and Helene Knapp. These women\, who formed The National League of Families\, would never have called themselves feminists\, but they had become the POW and MIAs most fervent advocates\, going to extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands freedom and to account for missing military men by relentlessly lobbying government leaders\, conducting a savvy media campaign\, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists\, and most astonishingly\, helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands. \nIn a page-turning work of narrative non-fiction\, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time. The League of Wives is certain to be on everyones must-read list.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-heath-hardage-lee/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191105T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191105T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Lynn Vincent\, Sara Vladic\, & James Scott
DESCRIPTION:Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic will discuss their book\, Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man\, with James Scott. Vincent is a U.S. Navy veteran and New York Times best-selling author; Vladic is and award-winning documentary filmmaker and expert on the U.S.S. Indianapolis; Scott is a local best-selling author and historian. Tickets for this event are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nJust after midnight on July 30\, 1945\, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the Philippine Sea when she is sunk by two Japanese torpedoes. For the next five nights and four days\, almost three hundred miles from the nearest land\, nearly nine hundred men battle injuries\, sharks\, dehydration\, insanity\, and eventually each other. Only 316 will survive. \nFor the first time Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic tell the complete story of the ship\, her crew\, and their final mission to save one of their own in a wonderful book that features grievous mistakes\, extraordinary courage\, unimaginable horror\, and a cover-upas complete an account of this tragic tale as we are likely to have (The Christian Science Monitor). It begins in 1932\, when Indianapolis is christened and continues through World War II\, when the ship embarks on her final world-changing mission: delivering the core of the atomic bomb to the Pacific for the strike on Hiroshima. \nSimply outstandingIndianapolis is a must-read a tour de force of true human drama (Booklist\, starred review) that goes beyond the mens rescue to chronicle the survivors fifty-year fight for justice on behalf of their skipper\, Captain Charles McVay III\, who is wrongly court-martialed for the sinking. EnthrallingA gripping study of the greatest sea disaster in the history of the US Navy and its aftermath (Kirkus Reviews\, starred review)\, Indianapolis stands as both groundbreaking naval history and spellbinding narrative and brings the ship and her heroic crew back to full\, vivid\, unforgettable life. Vincent and Vladic have delivered an account that stands out through its crisp writing and superb researchIndianapolis is sure to hold its own for a long time (USA TODAY).
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-lynn-vincent-sara-vladic-james-scott/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T190000
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SUMMARY:Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:Charleston to Charleston combines one of England’s premiere literary scene with the history and elegance of Charleston\, South Carolina. This new transatlantic festival was conceived by the Charleston Library Society and The Charleston Trust in England and will take place November 7th – 10th\, 2019. While Charleston to Charleston operates as an independent\, self-sustaining 501(c)(3) organization\, the founding organizations continue to provide advice and support for the festival. For all ticket sales\, please visit charlestontocharleston.com. For event inquiries and general questions\, please contact Leah Rhyne at 843-619-3000.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/charleston-to-charleston-literary-festival/2019-11-07/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T170000
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SUMMARY:Greystar Business & Leadership Series: Stephen A. Schwarzman
DESCRIPTION:The Library Society is honored to host Stephen A. Schwarzman as part of the Greystar Business & Leadership Series\, to speak about his recent best-seller\, What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence. The discussion will be moderated by Bob Faith\, Chairman\, Founder and CEO of Greystar. Schwarzman will share some lessons he learned during his rise as a financial leader. Dedication to excellence has been the driving force in his work and life and it has been a key to his impact on philanthropy\, finance and politics. Whether you are a student\, entrepreneur\, philanthropist\, executive\, or a person looking for ways to maximize your potential\, Schwarzman’s reflections will help provide the answers. Wes Fuller\, Executive Managing Director of Investment Management at Greystar will introduce the series and Steve and Bob to the stage to get the evening started.\nTickets for this event are $60 and include a copy of Schwarzman’s What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence with a signed bookplate. To purchase tickets\, click here or call 843-723-9912 \nABOUT THE BOOK: People know who Stephen Schwarzman is at least they think they do. He’s the man who took $400\,000 and co-founded Blackstone\, the investment firm that manages over $500 billion (as of January 2019). He’s the CEO whose views are sought by heads of state. He’s the billionaire philanthropist who founded Schwarzman Scholars\, this century’s version of the Rhodes Scholarship\, in China. But behind these achievements is a man who has spent his life learning and reflecting on what it takes to achieve excellence\, make an impact\, and live a life of consequence. \nFolding handkerchiefs in his fathers linen shop\, Schwarzman dreamed of a larger life\, filled with purpose and adventure. His grades and athleticism got him into Yale. After starting his career in finance with a short stint at a financial firm called DLJ\, Schwarzman began working at Lehman Brothers where he ascended to run the mergers and acquisitions practice. He eventually partnered with his mentor and friend Pete Peterson to found Blackstone\, vowing to create a new and different kind of financial institution. \nBuilding Blackstone into the leading global financial institution it is today didn’t come easy. Schwarzman focused intensely on culture\, hiring great talent\, and establishing processes that allow the firm to systematically analyze and evaluate risk. Schwarzman’s simple mantra don’t lose money has helped Blackstone become a leading private equity and real estate investor\, and manager of alternative assets for institutional investors globally. Both he and the firm are known for the rigor of their investment process\, their innovative approach to deal making\, the diversification of their business lines\, and a conviction to be the best at everything they do. \nSchwarzman is also an active philanthropist\, having given away more than a billion dollars. In philanthropy\, as in business\, he is drawn to situations where his capital and energy can be applied to drive transformative solutions and change paradigms\, notably in education. He uses the skills learned over a lifetime in finance to design\, establish\, and support impactful and innovative organizations and initiatives. His gifts have ranged from creating a new College of Computing at MIT for the study of artificial intelligence\, to establishing a first-of-its-kind student and performing arts center at Yale\, to enabling the renovation of the iconic New York Public Library\, to founding the Schwarzman Scholars fellowship program at Tsinghua University in Beijing the single largest philanthropic effort in Chinas history from international donors. \nSchwarzman’s story is an empowering\, entertaining\, and informative guide for anyone striving for greater personal impact. From deal making to investing\, leadership to entrepreneurship\, philanthropy to diplomacy\, Schwarzman has lessons for how to think about ambition and scale\, risk and opportunities\, and how to achieve success through the relentless pursuit of excellence. Schwarzman not only offers readers a thoughtful reflection on all his own experiences\, but in doing so provides a practical blueprint for success. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Stephen A. Schwarzman is Chairman\, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone\, one of the worlds leading investment firms. Mr. Schwarzman is an active philanthropist with a history of supporting education\, culture\, and the arts\, among other areas. Mr. Schwarzman holds a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He lives in New York City with his wife and three dogs.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/greystar-business-leadership-series-stephen-a-schwarzman/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Roxana Robinson
DESCRIPTION:In Dawson’s Fall\, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinsons great-grandparents\, we see America at its most fragile time. Set in 1889\, in Charleston\, S.C.\, Robinsons tale covers her family’s journals and letters with a novelists narrative grace\, and spans the life of her tragic hero\, Frank Dawson\, editor of the Charleston News and Courier\, as he attempts to navigate the country’s new political and moral landscape. Tickets for this event are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. To purchase\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nA cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoning \nIn Dawson’s Fall\, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinsons great-grandparents\, we see America at its most fragile\, fraught\, and malleable. Set in 1889\, in Charleston\, South Carolina\, Robinsons tale weaves her family’s journal entries and letters with a novelists narrative grace\, and spans the life of her tragic hero\, Frank Dawson\, as he attempts to navigate the country’s new political\, social\, and moral landscape. \nDawson\, a man of fierce opinions\, came to this country as a young Englishman to fight for the Confederacy in a war he understood as a conflict over states rights. He later became the editor of the Charleston News and Courier\, finding a platform of real influence in the editorial column and emerging as a voice of the New South. With his wife and two children\, he tried to lead a life that adhered to his staunch principles: equal rights\, rule of law\, and nonviolence\, unswayed by the caprices of popular opinion. But he couldn’t control the political whims of his readers. As he wrangled diligently in his columns with questions of citizenship\, equality\, justice\, and slavery\, his newspaper rapidly lost readership\, and he was plagued by financial worries. Nor could Dawson control the whims of the heart: his Swiss governess became embroiled in a tense affair with a drunkard doctor\, which threatened to stain his family’s reputation. In the end\, Dawson\, a man in many ways representative of the country at this time\, was felled by the very violence he vehemently opposed.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-roxana-robinson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T113000
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SUMMARY:Coffee with An Author: Leigh Jones Handal
DESCRIPTION:Local author & tour guide\, Leigh Jones Handal discusses her book\, Lost Charleston. The book of art and photography explores the history of lost pieces of our beautiful city\, Charleston. Attendees will enjoy coffee & donuts as they listen to the lecture. Free with RSVP- to RSVP call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nABOUT THE BOOK: The miracle of Charleston is that despite the very worst that man and nature has thrown at it–from earthquakes to hurricanes\, great fires to Civil War bombardment–so much of the city has been preserved. Lost Charleston shows what else could have been on display for tourists to visit had events been otherwise. Using classic archive images\, Charleston’s greatest architectural and cultural losses are documented in chronological order from 1861 through to 2018. \nApart from the grand buildings there are also elements of Charleston life precious to Charlestonians that have disappeared over time\, many of which will still resonate with the local community. These include beloved local restaurants\, annual festivals\, the fishing fleet that DuBose Heyward wrote about in his novel Porgy\, a famed local football team\, trolley cars\, and the Piggly Wiggly store. Plus there’s the Jenkins Orphanage Band whose dance moves gave the city its most famous export: The Charleston! \nA native South Carolinian\, Leigh Jones Handal has been an avid student of Low Country history since she was a Brownie Scout. She is co-editor of the City of Charleston’s official Tour Guide Training Manual and organized Historic Charleston Foundation’s annual spring house-and-garden tours for 13 years\, as well as the Preservation Society of Charleston’s Fall home tours. A graduate of the College of Charleston\, Leigh has been a licensed tour guide for more than 20 years. She appears regularly to talk about local history on television network\, Lowcountry Live.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/coffee-with-an-author-leigh-jones-handal/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T193000
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SUMMARY:Royal Oak Foundation Presents: Angus Haldane
DESCRIPTION:Art consultant and popular Royal Oak speaker Angus Haldane will illustrate the lives of notorious 17th-century mistresses\, faithful wives\, and creative figures who set the English court aflame with their intrigue\, brazen manipulation and talent. He will discuss the stories\, vanities\, gossip and political maneuvers behind their portraits and examine how the depictions of them as seductresses and sirens should be viewed through the filter of their roles and achievements. Tickets for this event are $35 for members and $45 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, please call 212-480-2889 ext. 201 or click here. CLS Member Code: CLS19 \nHarlot or Housewife? \n17th-Century Women at the English Royal Court\nPowerful women have been regarded with fear and perceived as skilful manipulators ever since Pandora opened her box\, Eve persuaded Adam to sample some fruit\, and Cleopatra rolled out of a carpet at the feet of Caesar. English playwright and poet John Dryden may have hoped in 1661 for a world in which “every father govern’d as a King\,” but reality for 17th century Restoration England women of the royal household was not easy. The court was hedonistic and dangerous. Cleavage and a quick wit were weapons to be employed for advancement and royal mistresses were often capable strategists\, who invisibly influenced society. They were portrayed in portraits as either virtuous or lascivious—extreme ends of the moral spectrum. \nOne of the most strategically astute mistresses and the favourite of Charles II was Barbara Villiers\, Countess of Castlemaine\, who was infamous for performing a sex act on a 14th-century mummified corpse of a bishop. Despite being deemed a “harlot”\, she is rarely depicted in portraits as a seductress\, but rather as a humble shepherdess or a religious figure. Frances Teresa Stuart\, later Duchess of Richmond and Lennox\, who seemed to have achieved the impossible in resisting the sexual advances of the King\, is depicted as Diana the virgin huntress. Nell Gwynne\, who worked as a scantily clad orange seller to theatre audiences before crescendoing to a royal mistress\, is frequently depicted with fully exposed breasts. The court of Charles II was extravagant\, sensuous and treacherous\, but it was also a place where ambitious female poets\, artists\, preachers (who sometimes preached naked) and actors\, among others could excel. \nArt consultant and popular Royal Oak speaker Angus Haldane will illustrate the lives of notorious mistresses\, faithful wives\, and creative figures who set the court aflame with their intrigue\, brazen manipulation and talent. Mr. Haldane will discuss the stories\, vanities\, gossip and political manoeuvres behind their portraits and examine how the depictions of them as seductresses and sirens should be viewed through the filter of their roles and achievements.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/royal-oak-foundation-presents-angus-haldane/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Evan Thomas Sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co.
DESCRIPTION:New York Times best-selling author Evan Thomas shares glimpses into his intimate and inspiring biography\, First: Sandra Day O’Connor\, on America’s first female Supreme Court justice drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O’Connor’s archives. Package A is $30 and includes 1 ticket and a copy of “First” and Package B is $45 and includes 2 tickets and a copy of “First”. To purchase\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. This incredible event is generously sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co. \nThis incredible event is generously sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nShe’s a hero for our time\, and this is the biography for our time.Walter Isaacson \nShe was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers\, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her law school class in 1952\, no firm would even interview her. But Sandra Day O’Connors story is that of a woman who repeatedly shattered glass ceilings doing so with a blend of grace\, wisdom\, humor\, understatement\, and cowgirl toughness. \nShe became the first ever female majority leader of a state senate. As a judge on the Arizona Court of Appeals\, she stood up to corrupt lawyers and humanized the law. When she arrived at the United States Supreme Court\, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981\, she began a quarter-century tenure on the Court\, hearing cases that ultimately shaped American law. Diagnosed with cancer at fifty-eight\, and caring for a husband with Alzheimers\, O’Connor endured every difficulty with grit and poise. \nWomen and men who want to be leaders and be first in their own lives who want to learn when to walk away and when to stand their ground will be inspired by O’Connors example. This is a remarkably vivid and personal portrait of a woman who loved her family\, who believed in serving her country\, and who\, when she became the most powerful woman in America\, built a bridge forward for all women. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nEvan Thomas is the author of ten books\, including the New York Times bestsellers John Paul Jones\, Sea of Thunder\, and Being Nixon. Thomas was a writer\, correspondent\, and editor for thirty-three years at Time and Newsweek\, including ten years as Washington bureau chief at Newsweek\, where\, at the time of his retirement in 2010\, he was editor at large. He wrote more than one hundred cover stories and in 1999 won a National Magazine Award. He wrote Newsweeks election specials in 1996\, 2000\, 2004 (winner for Newsweek of the National Magazine Award)\, and 2008. He appears on many TV and radio talk shows\, including Meet the Press and Morning Joe. Thomas has taught writing and journalism at Harvard and Princeton\, where\, from 2007 to 2014\, he was Ferris Professor of Journalism.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-evan-thomas-sponsored-by-jpmorgan-chase-co/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T203000
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SUMMARY:Music at the Library: CSO Chamber Music – Holiday Strings
DESCRIPTION:The Library Society is excited to partner with Charleston Symphony Orchestra to host their Chamber Music Series. This December\, CSO will play at 7:30PM on both Friday\, December 6th and Saturday\, December 7th. For tickets\, call 843-723-7528 or click here. \nCHAMBER MUSIC – HOLIDAY STRINGS \nThe Charleston Symphony’s festive celebration of the season returns! Join us for the beautiful holiday music performed in the most appropriate of settings. Nothing says “Christmas in Charleston” like Holiday Strings at the Library Society. An annual tradition of Holiday works by Tchaikovsky\, Bach\, Vivaldi\, Corelli\, and others. \nARTISTS \nYuriy Bekker and Micah Gangwer\, Violin \nJan-Marie Joyce\, Viola \nNorbert Lewandowski\, Violoncello
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/music-at-the-library-cso-chamber-music-holiday-strings/2019-12-06/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191208T190000
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Kent Alexander & Kevin Salwen
DESCRIPTION:Join Kent Alexander & Kevin Salwen as the discuss their new book\, The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing\, the FBI\, the Media\, and Richard Jewell\, the Man Caught in the Middle. The book is a masterful true-crime account of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing that captured the world’s attention\, and the heroic security guard-turned-suspect at the heart of it all. \nWith a Clint Eastwood film about this story being released the same week\, take the opportunity to hear from the contributing sources to the Warner Bros.’ film\, Richard Jewell starring Sam Rockwell\, Kathy Bates\, Jon Hamm\, Olivia Wilde and Paul Walter Hauser right here at the Charleston Library Society! \nTickets for this event are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. to purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here.\n\nAbout the Book:\nOn July 27\, 1996\, a hapless former cop turned hyper-vigilant security guard named Richard Jewell spotted a suspicious bag in Atlantas Centennial Olympic Park\, the town square of the 1996 Summer Games. Inside was a bomb\, the largest of its kind in FBI and ATF history. Minutes later\, the bomb detonated amid a crowd of fifty thousand people. But thanks to Jewell\, it only wounded 111 and killed two\, not the untold scores who would have otherwise died. With the eyes of the world on Atlanta\, the Games continued. But the pressure to find the bomber was intense. Within seventy-two hours\, Jewell went from the hero to the FBI’s main suspect. The news leaked and the intense focus on the guard forever changed his life. The worst part: It let the true bomber roam free to strike again. \nWhat really happened that evening during the Olympic Games? The attack left a mark on American history\, but most of what we remember is wrong. In a triumph of reporting and access in the tradition of the best investigative journalism\, former U.S. Attorney Kent Alexander and former Wall Street Journal reporter Kevin Salwen reconstruct all the events leading up to\, during\, and after the Olympic bombing from mountains of law enforcement evidence and the extensive personal records of key players\, including Richard himself. \nThe Suspect\, the culmination of more than five years of reporting\, is a gripping story of the rise of domestic terrorism in America\, the advent of the 24/7 news cycle\, and an innocent mans fight to clear his name. \nAbout the Authors:\nKent Alexander was the US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia at the time of the 1996 Olympics. He spent hundreds of hours in meetings with the FBI about the bombing\, and ultimately\, he wrote and hand-delivered Jewell’s clearance letter. \nJournalist Kevin Salwen is a former Wall Street Journal columnist and an editor who ran southeastern coverage for the paper during the Olympic Games.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-kent-alexander-kevin-salwen/
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SUMMARY:Coffee with an Author: Nathalie Dupree
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate\, the Queen of Southern Cuisine\, Nathalie Dupree as she discusses her journey in the culinary world with stories from her most recent cookbook\, Nathalie Dupree’s Favorite Stories and Recipes. To RSVP\, call 843-723-9912 or email dreutter@charlestonlibrarysociety.org \nNathalie Dupree is a storyteller\, and in celebration of her 80th birthday in December 2019\, she shares her favorite culinary stories\, which trace her journey from a budding cook for her college friends\, though her years as a restaurant cook and cooking instructor. Her activist spirit\, humor\, feisty personality\, and authoritative knowledge of cooking make this a must-have cookbook for everyone who has watched her on TV\, read her articles in magazines and newspapers\, or invoked her name in a conversation about Southern food. \nABOUT NATHALIE: South Carolinian Nathalie Dupree is a best-selling author with over 15 best-selling cookbooks and more than 300 television shows for The Food Network\, PBS\, and The Learning Channel. She has been prominently featured in the New York Times\, Washington post\, Los Angeles Times\, Chicago Tribune as well as Bon Appétit\, Food and Wine\, Southern Living\, Coastal Living\, Better Homes and Garden\, Redbook\, Cosmopolitan\, and Good Housekeeping. \nThe Founding Chairman of the Charleston Food and Wine Festival\, she also was a founder of Southern Foodways\, the Atlanta and Charleston Chapters of Les Dames d’ Escoffier\, the American Institute of Wine and Food and the International Association of Culinary Professionals\, of which she was two time President. \nShe was awarded the prestigious “Grand Dame” of Les Dames d’Escoffier\, an international organization of top women in the culinary field\, as well as 2013 Woman of the Year by a prestigious organization of French Chefs in America. \nShe writes for the Charleston Post and Courier and does short videos for them\, as well as occasionally for Charleston Magazine and The Local Palate.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/coffee-with-an-author-nathalie-dupree/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Wayne Clough
DESCRIPTION:Hear from the Former Secretary of The Smithsonian Institution\, Wayne Clough\, as he talks about his book\, Things New and Strange: A Southerners Journey through the Smithsonian Collections at the south’s oldest cultural institution. The book uncovers the tapestry of treasures held by the Smithsonian collections that originate from the South and highlight the region’s history. \nTickets for this event are $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nAbout the Book:\nThings New and Strange chronicles a research quest undertaken by G. Wayne Clough\, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution born in the South. Soon after retiring from the Smithsonian\, Clough decided to see what the Smithsonian collections could tell him about South Georgia\, where he had spent most of his childhood in the 1940s and 1950s. The investigations that followed\, which began as something of a quixotic scavenger hunt\, expanded as Clough discovered that the collections had many more objects and documents from South Georgia than he had imagined. These objects illustrate important aspects of southern culture and history and also inspire reflections about how South Georgia has changed over time. \nAbout the Author:\nG. WAYNE CLOUGH is secretary emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution. Clough\, who currently lives in Atlanta\, directed the Smithsonian from 2008-2014\, and was president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1994-2008. He is the author of Seeing the Universe from Here: Field Notes from My Smithsonian Travels
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-wayne-clough/
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SUMMARY:Holiday Movie Night: Love Actually
DESCRIPTION:It’s movie night at the Library Society! Come enjoy some snacks and a signature cocktail as we screen the holiday classic\, Love Actually. The beloved film is about nine intertwined stories that examine the complexities of the one emotion that connects us all: love. With the festive decorations up and the Christmas Tree in place\, the Library Society’s Main Reading Room is the perfect place to enjoy this heart-warming film. \nTickets for this screening are $5 a person. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/holiday-movie-night-love-actually/
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Pre-Publication Book Launch with Marie Benedict
DESCRIPTION:CLS and Buxton Books host Marie Benedict for the launch of her new book Lady Clementine. The best-selling author returns to the Library Society to celebrate the release of her newest novel\, Lady Clementine\, that focuses on one of the people who had the most influence during World War I and World War II: Clementine Churchill. Tickets are $30 and include a copy of Benedict’s Lady Clementine with a signed bookplate. To purchase tickets\, call 843-723-9912 or click here. \nPlease join us following the event for an author’s reception with Marie Benedict hosted by ELYSIAN Magazine at the historic King Charles Inn from 7-9pm. Wine\, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served. \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nIn 1909\, Clementine steps off a train with her new husband\, Winston. An angry woman emerges from the crowd to attack\, shoving him in the direction of an oncoming train. Just before he stumbles\, Clementine grabs him by his suit jacket. This will not be the last time Clementine Churchill will save her husband. \n“Lady Clementine” is the ferocious story of the ambitious woman beside Winston Churchill\, the story of a partner who did not flinch through the sweeping darkness of war\, and who would not surrender either to expectations or to enemies. \nMarie Benedict is the author of The Other Einstein\, Carnegie’s Maid\, The Only Woman in the Room\, and Lady Clementine. She is a lawyer with more than ten years’ experience as a litigator at two of the country’s premier law firms and for Fortune 500 companies. Visit her online at authormariebenedict.com.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-pre-publication-book-launch-with-marie-benedict/
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