[Scla-list] Speaker at the Center Spring Line Up of Authors Announced

[Curtis Rogers]

Speaker at the Center Spring Line Up of Authors Announced


Columbia, S.C. - The South Carolina State Library's Center for the Book
is pleased to announce its spring author line up.  The Speaker @ the
Center program will hold free lunchtime author talks on the following
dates:

Tuesday, January 12*

Kristina Dunn Johnson 

No Holier Spot of Ground: Confederate Monuments and Cemeteries of South
Carolina

The monuments of South Carolina bear on their weathered faces and
cracked tablets a history of honor and of memory embodied in stone.
Whether revealing the lost graves of southern sons, unveiling the
history of the only national cemetery to inter Confederate soldiers
alongside the Union fallen during wartime or recording the simple
obelisks that reach for heaven throughout the Palmetto State, this
volume is a story of remembrance and of mourning.

 

Wednesday, January 27

Thomas J. Brown 

City of the Silent: The Charlestonians of Magnolia Cemetery

A guide to more than two hundred of the most famous, infamous, and
influential individuals now interred in one of Charleston's most iconic
landmarks. 

 

Thursday, February 19

Carl Naylor

The Day the Johnboat Went Up the Mountain: Stories from My Twenty Years
in South Carolina Maritime Archaeology 

True tales of underwater adventures and discoveries in the Palmetto
State's maritime history.

 

Thursday, March 25

Robert J. Kapsch

Historic Canals and Waterways of South Carolina 

The first history of the canal boom that revolutionized transportation
in the Palmetto State.

 

Thursday, April 15

Worthy Evans

Green Revolver

Winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize

 

Thursday, May 27

Susanna Ashton 

I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives

Rare firsthand accounts of slavery from across the Palmetto State
collected together for the first time. 

 

Books will be available for purchase and autographing. All programs will
take place from noon to 1pm in Room 309 of the Administration Building
at the SC State Library located at 1430 Senate St., Columbia. Speaker @
the Center is FREE and open to the public. Bag lunches are encouraged. 

The South Carolina Center for the Book is the South Carolina Affiliate
of the Library of Congress Center for the Book and is a cooperative
project of the South Carolina State Library, the University of South
Carolina School of Library and Information Science, and The Humanities
CouncilSC.

 

*This session will be held in the SC Center for the Book/Talking Book
Services Reading Room of the Administration Building at the SC State
Library located at 1430 Senate St., Columbia.

 

 

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About the S.C. State Library

The South Carolina State Library is the primary administrator of federal
and state support for the state's libraries. The Library is a national
model for innovation, collaboration, leadership and effectiveness.  The
Library's mission is to optimize South Carolina's investment in library
and information services. In 1969, as the result of action by the
General Assembly, the State Library Board was redesignated as the South
Carolina State Library and assumed responsibility for public library
development, library service for state institutions, service for the
blind and physically handicapped, and library service to state
government agencies. Headquartered in Columbia, S.C., the Library is
funded by the state of South Carolina, by the federal government through
the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and other sources.  For
more information, visit www.statelibrary.sc.gov
<http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov>  or call 803-734-8666.

 

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