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SUMMARY:Story Time in the Rabbit Hole — Ribbit Ribbit Frog
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Kenna\, a longtime presence in our Children’s Library who is returning for Story Time help and summer camps this season\, for a reading and on-theme craft session. \nFor this Story Time\, Kenna will read Hop\, Jump by Ellen Stoll Walsh\, and lead the littles in crafting their very own standing frogs! \nStory Time repeats every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-ribbit-ribbit-frog-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time in the Rabbit Hole — Ribbit Ribbit Frog
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers will join Kenna\, a longtime presence in our Children’s Library who is returning for Story Time help and summer camps this season\, for a reading and on-theme craft session. \nFor this Story Time\, Kenna will read Hop\, Jump by Ellen Stoll Walsh\, and lead the littles in crafting their very own standing frogs! \nStory Time repeats every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-ribbit-ribbit-frog/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:CAMP in the STACKS: Wild by Nature
DESCRIPTION:JUNE 12th – JUNE 16th \n\nDuring this week\, campers will experience their inner mad scientist as they explore like a naturalist and run experiments all week! \n\n $200 for Members // $225 for Non Members // $25 additional for the Lunch Bunch option\nTo reserve your camper’s spot\, please CLICK HERE. \n  \nCAMP in the STACKS details: \n\n\n\n\nAges 5-8 years old are invited to attend.\nMonday – Friday\, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. Drop-off and pick-up will be outside in front of our marble staircase. Here\, your children will be met by a CLS member who will escort your child into the Rabbit Hole to meet Kenna\, our wonderful teacher. If your child would prefer to be walked in by you\, there are a few “loading” parking spots available across the street that don’t require payment. Otherwise\, there are several parking meter spots on King. Pickup will be at 12:00 pm for Standard Campers and 1:00 pm for our Lunch Bunch Campers.\nWe are offering a “Lunch Bunch” hour option from 12:00-1:00 pm at the end of camp for an additional $25. CLS will not be providing lunch. If you’re choosing this addition\, please send your child’s lunch for a picnic outside in our beautiful garden\, weather permitting!  We have a refrigerator\, if needed. During this additional hour\, our campers will have an opportunity to listen to an audible book and/or have time for Choice Play in the designated stations of the Rabbit Hole once they’re finished with their lunch.\nEach day’s agenda will tentatively look like this: Begin with circle time\, followed by stories and two crafts. Our campers will be able to enjoy choice play with the toys and games available in the Rabbit Hole if they have free time.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/camp-in-the-stacks-wild-by-nature/
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SUMMARY:June New Members Mingle
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our New Members Mingle! Every second Monday of the month\, we look forward to hosting our newest members of the CLS family. Starting our night off with a complimentary glass of wine\, the evening will include an orientation of the Library and informational tour with Q & A about your membership benefits. \nPlease RSVP with the form below. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/june-new-members-mingle/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole – Father’s Day
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read My Dad is Amazing by Sabrina Moyle and the craft will be best Dad medals! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-fathers-day/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Sleeping with the Ancestors
DESCRIPTION:Joseph M. McGill\, Jr.\, started his Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 to draw attention to the oft-obscured and distorted experiences of formerly enslaved people. Since then\, he has hosted overnight stays in what were once slave quarters on properties throughout the South\, North\, and West. \nDuring this upcoming discussion\, Mr. McGill will discuss his recent book on the subject\, Sleeping with the Ancestors\, along with his co-author\, the journalist Herb Frazier. \nJoin us on June 13\, at 6:00PM Tickets are $10 for members\, $15 for guests.  \nTo RSVP\, click here or call 843-579-9922\, to secure your seat.  \nAbout the Book: \nIn this enlightening personal account\, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country—revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America. \nJoseph McGill Jr.\, a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor\, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea that was sparked and first developed in 1999. Since founding the project\, McGill has been touring the country\, spending the night in former slave dwellings—throughout the South\, but also the North and the West\, where people are often surprised to learn that such structures exist. Events and gatherings are arranged around these overnight stays\, and it provides a unique way to understand the often otherwise obscured and distorted history of slavery. The project has inspired difficult conversations about race in communities from South Carolina to Alabama to Texas to Minnesota to New York\, and all over the United States. \nSleeping with the Ancestors focuses on all of the key sites McGill has visited in his ongoing project and digs deeper into the actual history of each location\, using McGill’s own experience and conversations with the community to enhance those original stories. Altogether\, McGill and coauthor Herb Frazier give readers an important unexpected emersion into the history of slavery\, and especially the obscured and ignored aspects of that history.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/speaker-series-sleeping-with-the-ancestors/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole – Father’s Day
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read My Dad is Amazing by Sabrina Moyle and the craft will be best Dad medals! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-fathers-day-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole – Feelings and Emotions
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read Ruby Finds a Worry by Tom Percival and the craft will be paper plate emojis! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-feelings-and-emotions/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole – Feelings and Emotions
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read Ruby Finds a Worry by Tom Percival and the craft will be paper plate emojis! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-feelings-and-emotions-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Speaker Series: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded
DESCRIPTION:A brutal murder\, a nefarious plot\, a coded letter. After five hundred years\, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved.  \nOn June 22\, at 6:00 PM\, we are thrilled to host the esteemed scholar and author\, Marcello Simonetta\, to discuss how he unraveled a centuries-old conspiracy to reveal the man and machinations behind the drama. \nTickets are $10 for members\, $15 for guests. Click here\, or call 843.579.9922\, to reserve your seats today. \nBox office hours close at 3PM on the day of the event\, but you may also purchase tickets at the door if/while they are available. \nSpecial thanks to our friends at the Dante Alighieri Society for their collaboration on this incredible program. \nAbout the Book \nThe Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art\, with papal politics and infighting among Italy’s many city-states providing the grist for Machiavelli’s classic work on take-no-prisoners politics\, The Prince. The attempted assassination of the Medici brothers in the Duomo in Florence in 1478 is one of the best-known examples of the machinations endemic to the age. While the assailants were the Medici’s rivals\, the Pazzi family\, questions have always lingered about who really orchestrated the attack. \nMore than five hundred years later\, while working in a private archive in Italy\, the Renaissance scholar Marcello Simonetta stumbled upon a coded letter written by Federico da Montefeltro\, the Duke of Urbino\, to Pope Sixtus IV. Using a codebook written by his own ancestor to crack the letter’s secrets\, Mr. Simonetta unearthed proof of an all-out power grab by papal authorities for control of Florence. Montefeltro\, long believed to be a close friend of Lorenzo de Medici\, was in fact conspiring with the Pope to unseat the Medici and put the more malleable Pazzi in their place. \n\nIn The Montefeltro Conspiracy\, Simonetta unravels this plot\, showing not only how the plot came together but how its failure—only one of the Medici brothers\, Giuliano\, was killed; Lorenzo survived—changed the course of Italian and papal history for generations. In the course of his gripping narrative\, we encounter the period’s most colorful characters\, relive its tumultuous politics\, and discover that two famous paintings\, including one in the Sistine Chapel\, contain the Medici’s astounding revenge. \nAbout the Author \nMarcello Simonetta earned his laurea at Sapienza in Rome and his Ph.D. at Yale University. He has authored several books\, including his Medici trilogy: The Montefeltro Conspiracy (Doubleday\, New York: 2007\, translated in ten languages); Volpi e Leoni\, I Medici\, Machiavelli e la rovina d’Italia (Bompiani\, Milan: 2014\, translated in 4 languages); and Caterina de’ Medici. Storia segreta di una faida famigliare (Rizzoli\, Milan: 2018\, translated in four languages). Mr. Simonetta is currently a Senior Scholar at The Medici Archive Project in Florence\, and also teaches at New York University and Syracuse–Florence.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-renaissance-mystery-revealed/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole – Outer Space
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read Penguinaut! by Marcie Colleen and the craft will be rocket ships! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-outer-space/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time In The Rabbit Hole – Outer Space
DESCRIPTION:Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time\, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society\, please click here. \nJoin us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long\, kid-friendly program\, children and their parents/caregivers can join Zora\, our incredible Childrens’ Library Coordinator. She will be reading in the Rabbit Hole and making an on-theme craft to bring home. \nFor this Story Time\, Zora will read Penguinaut! by Marcie Colleen and the craft will be rocket ships! \nStory Time will repeat every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 pm–we hope to see you there! \nTo RSVP to this free event\, please fill out the form below.
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/story-time-in-the-rabbit-hole-outer-space-2/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Tour Exclusive: A Celebration of First Ladies
DESCRIPTION:Join CLS and Buxton Books on Thursday\, June 29\, for a publication week author talk with Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray on their new book\, The First Ladies!  \nAfter the success of their first title together\, The Personal Librarian\, we could not be more excited for this new release. \nThe evening will begin at 6:00 pm as the duo discusses the writing of the book\, the often unrecognized contributions of women throughout history\, and the partnership between Eleanor Roosevelt and one of the most notable historical figures to come out of South Carolina – namely Mary McLeod Bethune. After the event\, Marie and Victoria will hang around to answer your questions and sign and personalize books! \nTickets are available for 1 Person\, 1 Book or as a 2 People\, 1 Book package. Both ticket options include a signed hardcover copy of The First Ladies.  \nFind out more and purchase tickets here! \nAbout The First Ladies: \nA novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world\, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. \nThe daughter of formerly enslaved parents\, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist and an educator\, and as her reputation grows she becomes a celebrity\, revered by titans of business and recognized by U.S. Presidents. Eleanor Roosevelt herself is awestruck and eager to make her acquaintance. Initially drawn together because of their shared belief in women’s rights and the power of education\, Mary and Eleanor become fast friends confiding their secrets\, hopes and dreams—and holding each other’s hands through personal and professional strife. \nWhen Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president\, the two women begin to collaborate more closely\, particularly as Eleanor moves toward her own agenda separate from FDR\, a consequence of the devastating discovery of her husband’s secret love affair. Eleanor becomes a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness\, particularly on civil rights. And when she receives threats because of her strong ties to Mary\, it only fuels the women’s desire to fight together for justice and equality. \nThis is the story of two different\, yet equally formidable\, passionate\, and committed women\, and the way in which their singular friendship helped form the foundation for the modern civil rights movement. \nAbout Marie Benedict: \nMarie Benedict is a lawyer with more than ten years’ experience as a litigator at two of the country’s premier law firms\, who found her calling unearthing the hidden historical stories of women. Her mission is to excavate from the past the most important\, complex and fascinating women of history and bring them into the light of present-day where we can finally perceive the breadth of their contributions as well as the insights they bring to modern day issues. She embarked on a new\, thematically connected series of historical novels with The Other Einstein\, which tells the tale of Albert Einstein’s first wife\, a physicist herself\, and the role she might have played in his theories. The next novel in this series is the USA Today bestselling Carnegie’s Maid — which released in January of 2018 — and the book that followed is the New York Times bestseller and Barnes & Noble Book Club Pick The Only Woman in the Room\, the story of the brilliant inventor Hedy Lamarr\, which published in January of 2019. In January of 2020\, Lady Clementine\, the story of the incredible Clementine Churchill\, was released\, and became an international bestseller. Her next novel\, the Instant NYTimes and USAToday bestselling The Mystery of Mrs. Christie\, was published on December 29\, 2020\, and her first co-written book with the talented Victoria Christopher Murray\, the instant NYTimes bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club Pick The Personal Liberian\, was released on June 29\, 2021. Her latest novel\, Her Hidden Genius\, about the brilliant British scientist Rosalind Franklin who discovered the structure of DNA but whose research was used without her permission by Crick and Watson to win the Nobel Prize. And\, in January of 2023\, she will release The Mitford Affair\, which explores the role that history’s most notorious sisters — the beautiful\, brilliant\, eccentric Mitfords — played in the rise of World War II\, both for and against the Nazis. Writing as Heather Terrell\, Marie also published the historical novels The Chrysalis\, The Map Thief\, and Brigid of Kildare. Marie’s novels have been translated into twenty-nine languages. \nAbout Victoria Christopher Murray: \nA native of Queens\, Victoria earned a B.A. in Communication Disorders from Hampton University and an MBA from New York University.  Victoria spent ten years in Corporate America before launching her entrepreneurial venture\, a Financial Services Agency for Aegon\, USA where she managed the number one division for nine consecutive years. \nDubbed a Christian Fiction writer because no one else was writing about religious topics\, Victoria trailblazed the literary scene penning more than 30 novels\, co-writing with other authors\, and ghostwriting for top talent across the country. \nVictoria lives in Washington\, D.C. She is a jogger\, doting grandmother\, and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority\, Inc. \nThis is a ticketed event. To purchase your tickets\, please click here!
URL:https://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/event/a-celebration-of-first-ladies/
LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
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