tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13412534325530872662024-03-18T17:17:13.599-04:00Beaufort District Collection ConnectionsFocusing on local history, Gullah culture, genealogy, natural history,and archaeology of lowcountry South Carolina's historic Beaufort, Hampton and Jasper counties.Kristi Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057554940458253504noreply@blogger.comBlogger1759125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-10892116665103840662024-03-18T17:16:00.002-04:002024-03-18T17:16:21.664-04:00Reminder: History of the Beaufort Jasper Water and Sewer Authority<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6sf-NzymFu2GNvFAT2RIGtOqpYAMqoGYc9y0TA3V96cWJePnLazNf1hU-gr0OZOKcrV9N-e-AWJK7gxKmsYSE5Y0aM5aflosTog2rrzOnXfd0q9B6-8hma6qR9rDFzcRtiBCV9GFiD6OX2VCqAiRjhUmavREHiYyf34OiJYGv5S2VX8ty4ds6DW__j84d/s1280/Slide1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6sf-NzymFu2GNvFAT2RIGtOqpYAMqoGYc9y0TA3V96cWJePnLazNf1hU-gr0OZOKcrV9N-e-AWJK7gxKmsYSE5Y0aM5aflosTog2rrzOnXfd0q9B6-8hma6qR9rDFzcRtiBCV9GFiD6OX2VCqAiRjhUmavREHiYyf34OiJYGv5S2VX8ty4ds6DW__j84d/w400-h225/Slide1.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /> Hope to see you there! <p></p>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-32795157594368220612024-03-10T00:00:00.022-05:002024-03-10T00:00:00.149-05:00March 2024: Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Display <p style="text-align: left;"><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><i>Library Assistant Jalen Lugo is the guest author and selector of the items on display. - Grace Cordial</i></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">March kicks off with the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">beginning of Women’s History Month, with the theme </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">being</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“</span></span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW122016409 BCX0" href="https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/2024-whm-theme/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and Inclusion</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">”</span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">From the well-known Harriet Tubman</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to women lawyers, this month’s display </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">contains</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a plethora of materials that cover the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">accomplishments of women throughout history</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. As such, I have chosen 11 different books to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">showcase</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the stellar examples of this month’s Women’s History Month theme.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Keep reading to find out what makes each of these books an excellent read and an excellent reason to come to the </span></span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW122016409 BCX0" href="https://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/beaufort-district-collection" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW122016409 BCX0" paraeid="{5e7754ef-a25a-4039-8cb5-06aad9deaf06}{226}" paraid="72094000" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4yYHSSjo5PDiXeFa1Lkvak6PkD8gG7mXXlvcj3GuSWfCrTvAh5_luUVpx8SdSM5j6WJHgTnRsbiAEbPCPmZ8Tmq6bKkScGbMYvxeFD16uSm8t80GYwsxhHNSxyUfaEaEbtKaVjYxhyphenhyphen18dBxy9vRHu54jU1JyI31MvG9FFRDCwBXEYTygNsZXgWH9dFJE9/s863/Shelf%201%20March%202024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Our first book</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">by Edda L. Fields-Black<i> </i></span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">(2024). This book entails the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">meticulous planning and cunning that Harriet Tubman played during the </span></span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW122016409 BCX0" href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/harriet-tubman-combahee/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: text;" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #0563c1; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Combahee River Raid</span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. For a little bit of a history lesson, the Combahee River Raid was </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">an operation conducted by the Union during the Civil War where the Union’s gunboats sailed up the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Combahee River</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and raided several rice plantations freeing upwards of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">700 slaves. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I chose this </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">particular book</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> because of Harriet Tubman’s pivotal role that she played in this part of the war. Her efforts to free her people and fight, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">tooth</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and nail, for them perfectly fits into the theme </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of equity and inclusion. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW122016409 BCX0" paraeid="{664b6b1b-ffa5-4b4f-a301-0b74e2d90cfa}{12}" paraid="772426641" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The next book that is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">showcased</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Letters and diary of Laura M. Towne </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">by</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Laura M. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Towne </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">(2019)</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW122016409 BCX0" href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/laura-matilda-towne-1825-1901/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: text;" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #0563c1; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Laura M. Towne</span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> was a devoted and dedicated woman who lived on St. Helena Island for about 40 years. There, sh</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e created one of the first schools for African American people and provided homeopathic care for many </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">African </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Americans found in and around St. Helena Island.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> The school she created was named Penn School.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Thi</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">particular book</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> was chosen because of Towne’s daring and courage to create a school for African American people, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a time period</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> when that was frowned upon, to say the very least. 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Royal in 1862. Here she taught other African Americans and even joined Laura M. Towne in teaching at her school, Penn School. Eventually </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Grimké</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> was forced to move back up north due to her rapidly declining health and died </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">on July 23, 1915. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Grimké’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> persistence and motivation to teach African Americans in a time where they were looked down upon is a perfect example of fighting for equity</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lar to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> our first book</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">but with a strong focus on Harriet Tubman. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I chose this book because it provides a more detailed analysis of Harriet Tubman’s contributions to the </span></span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW122016409 BCX0" href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/harriet-tubman-combahee/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and how she aided in freeing more than 700 s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">laves</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">as a res</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ult of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Harriet Tubman is a shining</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> example of women advocating for inclusion and equity, more so because she did this in a time where women leaders were not t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he norm, and African Americans were treated horribly. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW122016409 BCX0" paraeid="{664b6b1b-ffa5-4b4f-a301-0b74e2d90cfa}{118}" paraid="1459671040" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Right next to </span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The Combahee River Raid</span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> is </span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Described as “the antithesis</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of southern</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> w</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">omanhood</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">”,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Esther Hill Hawks was woman who was a physician, a teacher, a school administrator, a woman’s suf</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">frage advocate, and an abolitionist. 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This book is called </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">She came to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">slay:</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><i> the life and times of Harriet Tubman </i>by</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Dunbar’s story and history of Harriet Tubman shows </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">how Harriet</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Tubman fit this month’s Women’s History Month theme of equity, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">diversity</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and inclusion.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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This book captures the story and history of </span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW122016409 BCX0" href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2011/02/talk-on-kate-gleason-most-influential.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: text;" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #0563c1; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Kate Gleason</span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, a woman who was a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> mechanical engineer, real estate developer, and 19</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun Superscript SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-fontsize="11" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> century industrialist. 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This book captures all of what she </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">accomplished</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, from heartfelt moments, to falling in love, to her achievements she worked so hard for. This book </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">provides</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> an excellent example of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">inclusion </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">for </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Women</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Eliza L</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ucas Pinckney </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">pioneered a large-scale cultivation of </span></span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW122016409 BCX0" href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2008/05/interested-in-industry.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: text;" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #0563c1; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">indigo</span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in South Carolina, and, among other things, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">managed her father’s large-scale plantation holdings. She also took it upon herself to teach the African Americans that worked on her plantation and cared for their well-being. What makes her stand out to me is she</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">accomplished</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> all of this while widowed, in a time where women in power was no popular and during a time </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">where</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> treating the African Americans as anything other than slaves was widely </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">f</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rowned</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">upon</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Eliza Lucas Pinckney is a shining example of diversity and inclusion during </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Women</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’s History Month.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><i>Portia Steps Up to the Bar: The First Women Lawyers of South Carolina </i>by Ruth Williams Cupp</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">(2003)</span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">This book is about a group of women that became the first </span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW122016409 BCX0" href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2013/03/notable-women-of-20th-century-beaufort_25.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: text;" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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This book earned its spot on the display case because it is a stellar example of f</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ighting for inclusion, equity, and diversity in a field that was dominated by men and in a time where women were expected to be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> nothing more than </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a housewife</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122016409 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW122016409 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-34311199471012275842024-03-06T00:00:00.000-05:002024-03-06T00:00:00.248-05:00New (and New to Us) Materials, December 2023 - February 14, 2024<div class="separator"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNbk7oatcpOEI7LBNG2sNJkC2cGYMcDsHmeSpHGcChhSywP0GIfTqKCSIA8zHp3Jx1IWKsLS2hdkSyIoq6raVJLRTuoVHfsoAtwjXrgMH5NAFYC8olwTIoU-INI6B1w9j2Y3lPi25Ls9xpjAjcLMm3YGZUHGwO0bCew8NsdFgu8YEDJg01wZMszh_2FFOa/s320/New%20materials%20Dec%202023%20-%20mid-Feb%202024.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNbk7oatcpOEI7LBNG2sNJkC2cGYMcDsHmeSpHGcChhSywP0GIfTqKCSIA8zHp3Jx1IWKsLS2hdkSyIoq6raVJLRTuoVHfsoAtwjXrgMH5NAFYC8olwTIoU-INI6B1w9j2Y3lPi25Ls9xpjAjcLMm3YGZUHGwO0bCew8NsdFgu8YEDJg01wZMszh_2FFOa/w327-h245/New%20materials%20Dec%202023%20-%20mid-Feb%202024.jpg" width="327" /></a></div>Here's the lowdown on recently cataloged materials for the permanent local history collection. There's a fairly broad range of topics on hand. We have biographies, a memoir, other non-fiction works, and several novels. Time periods covered go from the age of exploration in the 16th century up through the early 21st century. Most were gifts from authors or via the Friends of the Beaufort Library's donations. <p></p><p><i>Men<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">é</span>ndez: Pedro Men<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">é</span>ndez de Avil<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">é</span>s, Captain of the Ocean Sea</i> by Albert C. Manucy (Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, 1992, c1983 is a short biography of one of the <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2020/09/13/spaniards-in-16th-century-beaufort-district/" target="_blank">Spanish founders of Santa Elena</a>. It is written for the general reader. </p><p><i>Gullah Culture in America</i> by Wilbur Cross is the latest revision of what has become a classic. We have the original hardback from Praeger published in 2007; the trade paperback versions published by Blair in 2008 and 2012; and now the 2nd edition with Wilbur Cross and Eric Crawford credited as co-authors from Blair Publishing (2023). <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/gullah-culture/" target="_blank">Gullah culture</a> is so critical to Beaufort District's long and storied history that we had to purchase a copy for the permanent collection. </p><p>Some may wonder why I accepted <i>Carolyn, A Most Remarkable Lady: A Memoir of Carolyn Corley Clark</i> written by her loving husband, Buddy Clark (Beaufort, SC: Old Well Press, 2018). There were several reasons, not the least of which were Mrs. Clark was a resident for more than a decade in Beaufort County, used to give historic tours around town, and the item was locally published which means that the odds of it being found in a public library outside of our own are slim. I do try to acquire copies of locally published works when reasonable to do so. </p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates</i> by Eric Jay Dolin <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, (2018)</span>was a gift. I kept it to provide context for the swashbuckling and violent era because "<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown, and then violently opposed them." If you'd rather watch videos about pirates rather than <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/pirates-of-the-lowcountry/" target="_blank">read about them</a>, then watch <a href="https://youtu.be/m-BSiXMrkFg?si=rrr2nf4CfcGK8u-T" target="_blank">Dr. Rowland's Beaufort History Moment segment. </a></span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpKrME27JX4ZgkOmkSysF9JRCT-CIJcj1sxgiz91gTyJJBHio8U9yIYHbTJtIYopKk2GkAyvEi8GheMul9QuQDuxl2VdtdxEwtX-eeigqHfbudQd12vrkfRO77ZdrKuBrmxH3cAdTMF4Hqs1BdVd3hcaboz-Qd7sW2Y6EXEAjeGvj4hCgzyr30EBXrnZln/s320/left%20hand%20items%20New%20materials%20Dec%202023%20-%20mid-Feb%202024.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpKrME27JX4ZgkOmkSysF9JRCT-CIJcj1sxgiz91gTyJJBHio8U9yIYHbTJtIYopKk2GkAyvEi8GheMul9QuQDuxl2VdtdxEwtX-eeigqHfbudQd12vrkfRO77ZdrKuBrmxH3cAdTMF4Hqs1BdVd3hcaboz-Qd7sW2Y6EXEAjeGvj4hCgzyr30EBXrnZln/s1600/left%20hand%20items%20New%20materials%20Dec%202023%20-%20mid-Feb%202024.jpg" width="240" /></a></p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i>The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina</i> by Jack Bass and W. Scott Poole (<span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Columbia: University </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">of</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">South</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Carolina</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> Press, 2009) was another gift and also kept to provide context. From the catalog blurb: "</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Bass and Poole focus on three central </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">the</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">mes-divisions </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">of</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> race and class, adherence to historical memory, and </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">the</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> interconnected strands </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">of</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> economic, social, and political flux-as </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">the</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">y illustrate how </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">the</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">se threads manifest </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">the</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">mselves time and again across </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">the</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> rich tapestry </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">of</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">the</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">South</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Carolina</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> experience. </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">The</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> authors explore </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">the</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> centrality </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">of</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> race relations, both subtle and direct, in </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">the</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">state's</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> development from </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">the</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> first settlement </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">of</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> Charles Towne to </span><span class="hotspot" style="color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">the</span><span style="color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"> contemporary political and economic landscape."</span> </span><p></p><p><i>The Sea Island's Secret</i> by Susan Diamond Riley (A Delta & Jax Mystery) (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2019) came to us via the Friends of the Beaufort Library's donation bin. The author of this novel for youth is based on Hilton Head Island and uses our local area for its setting. I choose this one for permanent retention as part of the literary history of Beaufort County for the future. </p><p><i>My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss </i>edited by Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021) joins other works by and about the <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/missionary-teachers-to-the-freedmen-3859k4scvdgpj-46/" target="_blank">Missionary Teachers to the Freedmen</a>. She lived at the <a href="https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:126657" target="_blank">Mission House in Beaufort </a>and taught in the town from March - July 1863, went back to Philadelphia via New York City where she saw damage left in the wake of its riots, and returned South to Joe Pope Plantation on Hilton Head for the period November 1863 to August 1864 but left on account of poor health. <i> </i></p><p><i>Growing up on the Combahee River: An American Story</i>
by Charlotte Murray Taylor (Parker, CO: Outskirts Press, 2023) is a very personal memoir of
a Black girl who was raised near the river after her young mother died shortly
after giving birth. Murray Taylor grew up in the upper reaches of rural
Beaufort County on Hobonny and Sugar Hill plantations. She shares reminiscences
of her daily life until she went away to college.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p>We added <i>The Red Bird and the Devil</i> by Robert E. Lanham to the BDC's small novels section. As you may be aware, the author did a <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2023/11/on-road-with-snake-bit-and-lanham.html" target="_blank">presentation about his book in November 2023</a> and is doing a <a href="https://www.calendarwiz.com/calendars/popup.php?op=view&id=167890021&crd=beaufortcountylibrary&PHPSESSID=nuua6vluv1aqr3cappjni38010" target="_blank">reprise of his book talk in April </a>at the St. Helena Branch Library for the Beaufort History Museum/Beaufort County Library local history series. </p><p><i>Home Guard: A Novel of the Civil War </i>by John Warley (Evening Post Books, 2019) is a coming of age story set in Beaufort during the Union occupation. Local resident J<a href="https://www.johnwarley.com/fiction-and-fact-murder-mystery-books" target="_blank">ohn Warley</a> is the author<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> of seven works of fiction, one history of his undergraduate alma mater: </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://sclends.lib.sc.us/eg/opac/record/3227378?locg=1" target="_blank">Stand Forever, Yielding Never, The Citadel in the 21st Century</a> </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">and is currently working on a biography of his seventh great grandfather, <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/john-barnwell-ca-1671-1724/" target="_blank">John Barnwell</a>. John lives in Beaufort and currently serves as vice-president of the Beaufort History Museum. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="color: black;">“Celebrating 150 Years of Education, Leadership and Service” </span><i style="color: black;">Penn Center’s 1862 Circle Gala</i><span style="color: black;"> program for April 28, 2012 is a copy 2 – because I want to make very sure that one survives for 2124. At present we have only one other Penn Center 1862 Circle Gala program (2004) but I am always on the lookout for additional years. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i style="color: black;">A Gullah Psalm: The Musical Life & Work of Luke Peeples</i><span style="color: black;"> by Estella Saussy Nussbaum and Jeanne Saussy Wright (Savannah, GA: LP Collections, 2014) is a collection of spirituals that Luke Peeples arranged from listening to them being sung in the churches and praise houses of Bluffton, SC and the surrounding Lowcountry. He also left behind some original compositions that are included in this loving tribute to a bachelor uncle. Vintage photographs enhance the story of his life and show a Bluffton community forever changed by development over the past decade. (I relocated this title to Jalen’s Black History Month display case.)</span></span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3qOlHRbGK3pclbqt4IqsPTsaSpQ3lud7ok7mYAqGx1SigLygQhR8s9oTgKjklaCvqxOQlK3Ub0A1OoH0cEYH0_f2YeMMJOY_7gcHtNoYAsiS3jIRZRpv1ZTfuqNQjv3iyS_yR_SqFxeKY8vIcEYqbmQ_2yQbyqX87MuZLfF1cghzncGge4dhY-RpGm0xT/s320/right%20side%20New%20materials_Dec%202023-mid-Feb2024.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3qOlHRbGK3pclbqt4IqsPTsaSpQ3lud7ok7mYAqGx1SigLygQhR8s9oTgKjklaCvqxOQlK3Ub0A1OoH0cEYH0_f2YeMMJOY_7gcHtNoYAsiS3jIRZRpv1ZTfuqNQjv3iyS_yR_SqFxeKY8vIcEYqbmQ_2yQbyqX87MuZLfF1cghzncGge4dhY-RpGm0xT/s1600/right%20side%20New%20materials_Dec%202023-mid-Feb2024.jpg" width="240" /></a></p><p></p><p><i>River of Words</i> 2021 joins the series of eight years
we already have of this <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white; color: #43423d; line-height: 107%;">student
publication sponsored by the Beaufort County School District and the Port Royal
Sound Foundation</span>. I’m keeping my eyes open for 2023, 2019, 2014, and
2012.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>The 1895 Segregation Fight in South Carolina</i> by Damon
L. Fordham (History Press, 2022) discusses how stalwart six Black leaders were
in trying to defeat the White Supremacists converging in Columbia in 1895 to
overturn the state’s Reconstruction era Constitution adopted in 1868. Five of
the six were from representatives from Beaufort County: Isaiah Reed, <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2018/12/20/robert-smalls-war-hero-public-servant-and-a-man-of-mark-1839-1915/">Robert
Smalls</a>, <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2017/06/heritage-walking-tour-robert-smalls.html">William
J. Whipper</a>, James Wigg and <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2020/02/thomas-e-miller-reconstruction-era-man.html">Thomas
E. Miller</a>. The author, an adjunct professor at the Citadel, includes texts
of the speeches these men gave before the convention from contemporary
newspaper coverage. The men said what they had to say and <i>en masse</i>
refused to sign the document upon its adoption by the convention. For
additional information about William J. Whipper and Isaiah Reed, I recommend <a href="https://scsl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/bcl/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:249809/one"><i><span style="background: white;">All for Civil Rights: African American Lawyers</span></i></a><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> in South Carolina, 1868- 1878</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> by Lewis Burke (2017). </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">I am not a fan of the "<i>Wicked</i>" series published by History Press but I have no doubt that they sell the beejezus out of the titles. The latest relevant entry is <i>Wicked Hampton County</i> by Michael DeWitt, Jr. (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2023), a <i>Hampton County Guardian</i> journalist, a native son with deep family roots in Hampton County, and a storyteller who finds the complexity of human behavior incredibly interesting. The book is only about 150 pages long and 40 of those are devoted to the trials, tribulations, and unsavory deeds of some members of the Murdaugh family There are plenty of other scoundrels to explore. Copies also circulate from other SCLENDS consortium libraries. If you'd prefer, our Hoopla service offers <a href="https://www.hoopladigital.com/ebook/wicked-hampton-county-michael-dewitt-jr/16138598" target="_blank">the title as an e-book</a>. (While you're on the subject of wicked, Hoopla has an <a href="https://www.hoopladigital.com/ebook/wicked-beaufort-alexia-jones-helsley/11508834" target="_blank">e-book version of <i>Wicked Beaufort</i></a> by Alexia Helsely too. In fact, Hoopla has a lot of the History Press' Wicked series of books.) </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I bought<i> Shrill Hurrahs: Women, Gender, and Racial Violence in South Carolina, 1865 - 1900 </i>by <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Kate Côté Gillin</span> (Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2013) for the author's unique perspective about the tumultuous days of political and social tensions of the post-Civil War period as demonstrated by the assertion of independence by Black women and the role of white women in racial violence during the period. This is more to provide context to what was happening in other parts of the state even as Beaufort County was more progressive during this time.</span></div>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-35416203587468769472024-03-01T00:00:00.100-05:002024-03-01T00:00:00.140-05:00What's Happening in the BDC During March 2024<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJkw5ilJrCWAojpatgjNLSe92PznaGDgbCj4FipeKXPgj390ukdqmZ4c6BcuULZxK7Xvz8u17Fstm-moP4zE2eKbQzHTb5zkSdw8IxCgKOaITpGmcUApBJahOvfJBvzlI2-fjjTjNqSZ5g2onF6oVYHmsz_li7hPgQvuAn06rvZtxWlBF4eTJDX43s2kFx/s406/women-who-advocate.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJkw5ilJrCWAojpatgjNLSe92PznaGDgbCj4FipeKXPgj390ukdqmZ4c6BcuULZxK7Xvz8u17Fstm-moP4zE2eKbQzHTb5zkSdw8IxCgKOaITpGmcUApBJahOvfJBvzlI2-fjjTjNqSZ5g2onF6oVYHmsz_li7hPgQvuAn06rvZtxWlBF4eTJDX43s2kFx/s320/women-who-advocate.jpg" width="315" /></a></div>March is <a href="https://www.womenshistorymonth.gov/" target="_blank">Women's History Month</a> so of course, there will be some emphasis on BDC materials about the distaff. I expect to have some trouble keeping to the 2024 theme, "Women who advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion" from the holdings of the Research Room but I shall indeed try to do so. <p></p><p>On March 6, I'm going to talk with the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians about the process we follow regarding donations of archival materials. </p><p>Our only scheduled local history program this month is "<a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2024/02/next-up-history-of-bjwsa-with-tricia.html" target="_blank">The History of the Beaufort Jasper Water and Sewer Authority" with BJWSA's own Tricia Kilgore</a> on Tuesday, March 19th. We hope that you can join us. </p><p><u>Adjusted BDC Service Model</u></p><p>The BDC Research Room service model is changing <u><i>a bit</i></u> beginning today.</p><p>When COVID-19 struck the world in March 2020, a lot of things changed. Since October 2020, we have operated on an exclusively by appointment only basis due to health concerns and chronic BDC staff shortages. First we did one appointment per day mostly for pandemic reasons; then we offered up to three appointments per day; We're going to continue to offer up to three 2-hour appointments per day for those who contact us in advance of showing up at the BDC Research Room door and extend service to <i>some</i> walk-in customers sometimes starting at 9 AM. </p><p>Beginning March 1, we <i><u>may accept </u></i>walk-in customers some Mondays through Fridays from 9 AM -- 4:30 PM <u>under certain conditions:</u> </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>If there's sufficient staff to guide walk-in customers and monitor use of special collections materials</li><li>If there's sufficient seating for walk-in customers [Reminder: We have a quite small physical public space.]</li><li>If there isn't already an obligation on our service delivery calendar</li></ul><div>In practice, this means that a walk-in <i>might be served</i> if no other customer is in the Research Room and our calendar is open at the moment the walk-in shows up at our door between 9 AM and 4:30 PM most weekdays. But if we have an appointment, local history program, outreach session, meeting, group session, <i>etc. </i>on the BDC's calendar for that day and time, walk-ins will not be accepted. </div><div><br /></div><div>Walk-ins allowed admittance will have access to the BDC's Library Assistant and/or Library Specialist who will guide them to resources that may help walk-in customers answer their own questions about historic houses, local history and family history. </div><div><br /></div><div>I repeat: Walk-in customers <i><u>may</u></i> be admitted but <u>are not guaranteed</u> admittance nor access to the full BDC staff if s/he/they just drop by the Research Room. Researchers with appointments will always get our best, exclusive, and fullest attention during their scheduled time.</div><p></p><p><b>Bottom line: </b><b>For assured personalized service, make an appointment in advance. Contact <a href="mailto:bdc@bcgov.net">bdc@bcgov.net</a> or call 843-255-6468 for details. </b></p><p>Wonder why we set the cut-off time for service at 4:30 PM when the 2nd floor is open until 5 on weekdays? Because it takes time for BDC staff to register a walk-in customer, identify relevant materials, pull those materials, note the materials given for the walk-in customer to use inside our facility through the Sirsi circulation system, for the walk-in customer to review the materials, for the walk-in customer to return the materials by 4:45 PM so that BDC staff can check in the materials, reshelve the materials, lock the Research Room and get down to the time clock by 5:00 PM. Beaufort County Government is firm about no overtime for staff. </p><p>The Library will be closed on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. </p>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-53591543598818895352024-02-21T00:00:00.000-05:002024-02-21T00:00:00.139-05:00Next up: "History of the BJWSA" with Tricia Kilgore<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjMYWVGZJnolcE2KgPbu6K7qa53tFcuA8OeztyjwaAwdtpMhmWbvpwP7zblOfNrjLfet8Wuu-Q-SfUY9KWi1hnfyp4wmrWQI9kvAI1pdAS4tHHa2HlMDrNCyyueqZbZcSyutR1NApWEQumzLFQD2YhVRDWeypqNlerfzDUYNe0tTQgZ6D9FM4TFPNw0-AO/s1280/Tricia%20BJWSA%20History.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjMYWVGZJnolcE2KgPbu6K7qa53tFcuA8OeztyjwaAwdtpMhmWbvpwP7zblOfNrjLfet8Wuu-Q-SfUY9KWi1hnfyp4wmrWQI9kvAI1pdAS4tHHa2HlMDrNCyyueqZbZcSyutR1NApWEQumzLFQD2YhVRDWeypqNlerfzDUYNe0tTQgZ6D9FM4TFPNw0-AO/w400-h225/Tricia%20BJWSA%20History.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ever wonder about the source of our drinking water? Ever wonder about what happens to all that poop and urine we humans make on a daily basis? Ever wonder about when these basic sanitation and health challenges started being dealt with by local governments? If so, do we have a local history program - intentionally close to </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/world-water-day.html" target="_blank">World Water Day</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> - for you. </span></span></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Join us for "The History of the Beaufort Jasper Water & Sewer
Authority, 1954 - " presented by BJWSA's own Director of Technology and
Innovation Tricia Kilgore. Come learn about the circumstances of water and sewage services before 1954, where your water comes from now, why it comes
from there, where it goes when you are done with it, and what it has in common
with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. </span></p></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This Beaufort History Museum/ Beaufort County Library local history program will be held on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 2:00 PM in the St. Helena Branch Library, located at 6355 Jonathan Francis Sr. Road. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: inherit;">Space is limited. First come; first seated. Doors
will open for seating at 1:30 pm.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span>Speaker Biography:</u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tricia H. Kilgore, PE is the Director of Technology and
Innovation at Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Authority in South Carolina.
She worked as a regulator then an engineering consultant before joining the
utility side in 2008. At BJWSA, Tricia has worked in engineering, capital
projects management, and operations. In her present role, she is focused on
sustainability, reuse, emergency preparedness, regulatory compliance, research,
and innovation. Tricia has engineering degrees from Virginia Tech and Loughborough
University in the UK.<o:p></o:p></p>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-30170571769955226102024-02-20T00:00:00.009-05:002024-02-20T00:00:00.376-05:00Re-cap of Facebook Posts, January 22 - February 15, 2024<span style="font-family: inherit;">Honestly, most of the BDC's Facebook posts during this particular period related to our local history programs: <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2024/01/historically-speaking-53-sea-island.html" target="_blank">Sea Island Cotton</a>; <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2024/01/where-have-all-shrimp-boats-gone-local.html" target="_blank">Shrimping Industry</a>; <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2024/01/yamasee-homelands-with-hannah-hoover.html" target="_blank">Yamasee Indians; the Battle of Beaufort</a>; and my outing as the <a href="https://friendsofthebeaufortlibrary.com/books-sandwiched-in" target="_blank">Books Sandwiched In series </a>speaker on February 5th. [<a href="https://youtu.be/x-Lzbt39uDQ?si=S-U5WYTusJ9XSgOU" target="_blank">The recording is here.</a>] Thus the pickings are pretty slim. I posted a lot of photos of these events taken by Jalen or Cassi or me to the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BDC.BCL" target="_blank">BDC's page.</a> You should be able to see the images of the events even without a Facebook account. </span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjbOp4ROBtgqCf9yQsGN-8u1HcmN4sRrCseqU5q8ekjfE03Noq9nMJPwTLcP6N2np83AhgEqgQgCyE597l0DgCJtwFqZGie4qxrIb20SViowWPjRQ1dqeMqJR0Iw_pUB3-C3XMY3pb4V-ZlsHJ6iXRfFRXlLFpocCBwoabhiZrZE0xLcksCukJfk_4CKJv/s701/Uniquely%20BDC%202023%20Materials%20Monday%20logo.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="691" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjbOp4ROBtgqCf9yQsGN-8u1HcmN4sRrCseqU5q8ekjfE03Noq9nMJPwTLcP6N2np83AhgEqgQgCyE597l0DgCJtwFqZGie4qxrIb20SViowWPjRQ1dqeMqJR0Iw_pUB3-C3XMY3pb4V-ZlsHJ6iXRfFRXlLFpocCBwoabhiZrZE0xLcksCukJfk_4CKJv/w163-h166/Uniquely%20BDC%202023%20Materials%20Monday%20logo.jpg" width="163" /></a></div><u>"Uniquely BDC" posts:</u> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>January 22</b> - <span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Uniquely BDC: Materials Monday:" relates to our cotton program last week. "Port Royal, South Carolina, served as the base of operations for many northern cotton-growing companies. The syndicate for which Edward S. Philbrick was the agent was the largest of these, controlling some 8000 acres of Sea Island cotton land." The quote comes from <i>New Masters: Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction</i> by Lawrence N. Powell (Yale University Press, 1980), p. 15. The </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">only copy of this title in the SCLENDS consortium is found in our Research Room. Make an appointment (843-255-6468 or <a href="mailto:bdc@bcgov.net">bdc@bcgov.net</a>) to come learn more about the Sea Island cotton industry during the Federal occupation, 1861 - 1878.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>January 29</b> - </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Uniquely BDC:" Materials Monday - I put SC PRINT 76 in the pre-program looping slideshow before the start of the local history program about shrimping at Bluffton Branch last week. Can you spot the folks shrimping? (Truth: I hadn't noticed them until Woody Collins pointed them out to me a few years ago.) We are the only library in the SCLENDS consortium who have this item listed in the catalog.</span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9nlH_rsBgXJ4F5GKlP2UQMOMFV0UrL4q0s35sjLGzHzoQKu2TR1jzNPGl3qn_qLY_JYIaV0FfNTC9givCfwqqZ2uSE80FcxNU3ANIAsRiXTgcYQjnlu3ratxnu3UR7XSQb4ahL67CSERhm5EiT09dKTbW4l5M3SdZ5AI_Rkij8hug_g7HBpmFMVO8O2cB/s1218/SC%20PRINT%2076.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="1218" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9nlH_rsBgXJ4F5GKlP2UQMOMFV0UrL4q0s35sjLGzHzoQKu2TR1jzNPGl3qn_qLY_JYIaV0FfNTC9givCfwqqZ2uSE80FcxNU3ANIAsRiXTgcYQjnlu3ratxnu3UR7XSQb4ahL67CSERhm5EiT09dKTbW4l5M3SdZ5AI_Rkij8hug_g7HBpmFMVO8O2cB/s320/SC%20PRINT%2076.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>February 5 </b>- "Uniquely BDC: Materials Monday:" I'll be over at the Friends of the Beaufort Library's Books Sandwiched In at Noon reviewing Caroline Grego's <i>Hurricane Jim Crow</i> (2023). Accordingly, today's highlight is our <a href="https://bit.ly/3HNlOJl" target="_blank">"Beaufort Hurricane of 1893" digital collection</a>.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>February 12</b> - "Uniquely BDC: Materials Monday:" <i><a href="https://bit.ly/3xJMCUx" target="_blank">The Storm Swept Coast of South Carolina </a> </i> pamphlet is one of the key resources for personal accounts about the Hurricane of 1893. The Beaufort County Library is one of the few libraries in the world to have original copies of this rare and uniquely local booklet compiled and published by Rachel Mather of the Mather School in 1894. You can <a href="https://bit.ly/3xJMCUx" target="_blank">read the booklet in its entirety</a> through the BCL's long partnership with the Lowcountry Digital <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>Library. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6WrORb3b6nK5jPU1cWksAnakMEMzpsn5w1xoexTuZE38lqqbSTbXiZwPWXUEeCiqs_BNUuyBbyQpRM7jDO88se4FY4pWQbaQL8VR3x3yPp_AJgi5LWT-Y85V9YOoShmYrFVEhqMPK7i0EDZSPUg2RcyoiMXZint9Ed-s3gUWfXJ7jjeeKwQl2XAfWeOs/s1280/Black%20History%20Note.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6WrORb3b6nK5jPU1cWksAnakMEMzpsn5w1xoexTuZE38lqqbSTbXiZwPWXUEeCiqs_BNUuyBbyQpRM7jDO88se4FY4pWQbaQL8VR3x3yPp_AJgi5LWT-Y85V9YOoShmYrFVEhqMPK7i0EDZSPUg2RcyoiMXZint9Ed-s3gUWfXJ7jjeeKwQl2XAfWeOs/s320/Black%20History%20Note.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><u>"Black History Note" posts:</u></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>January 31</b> - "Black History Note:" Among those fighting in the Battle of Beaufort was a free man of color, Jim Capers. He would stay with the Patriots all the way to Yorktown. Artist Jeff Trexler depicts him playing his drum on the battlefield in his painting "In the Glorious Cause of Liberty." He would drum during the ceremony at which British Gen. Charles O'Hara surrendered in place of Lord Cornwallis. You can read more about him and other <i>African-American Patriots in the Southern <span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Campaign of the American Revolution</i> by Bobby G. Moss and Michael C. Scoggins (2004) in our Research Room. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>February 7</b> - The Library has a Black History Month webpage that includes a lot of BDC "stuff." <a href="https://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/black-history-month" target="_blank">Check it out</a>. </span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>February 13</b> - <span>Jalen changed out the BDC's display case in honor of Black History Month. <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2024/02/black-history-month-2024-research-room.html" target="_blank">Read about what he chose and why he chose the items in <i>Connections</i>.</a> </span></span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>February 14 -</b> <span>"Black History Note Wednesday:" "<a href="https://asalh.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2024-Black-History-Theme-African-Americans-and-the-Arts.pdf" target="_blank">African Americans and the Arts</a>" is the Black History Month theme for 2024. Explore the key influence African Americans have had in the fields of "visual and performing arts, literature, fashion, folklore, language, film, music, architecture, culinary and other forms of cultural expression" this month. I'd like to suggest that you begin by learning more about Jonathan Green. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Jonathan Green's Seeking</i> is a documentary by Charles Allan Smith </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">about how an interest in Green's ancestors influence his art. A complement to the award-winning documentary is <i>Seeking: Poetry and Prose Inspired by the Art of Jonathan Green</i> edited by Kwame Dawes and Marjory Wentworth. Both items are available in our Research Room. Contact us to set up a time to come in: <a href="mailto:bdc@bcgov.net">bdc@bcgov.net</a> ; 843-255-6468 </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">We have plenty more about this native son artist.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><u>Finding Aid Fridays post: </u></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><b>February 9 </b>- Now that Cassi is hard at work in the BDC, you will see periodic posts to the "Finding Aid Fridays" series again. Up first: The records of the oldest historical organization in Beaufort County, the <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2020/10/30/beaufort-county-historical-society-records-1939-2017-finding-aid/" target="_blank">Beaufort County Historical Society</a> which turns 85 years old on Tuesday, 13 February 2024. Give us a call 843-255-6468 or email us <a href="mailto:bdc@bcgov.net">bdc@bcgov.net</a> to make an appointment to review the contents of this archive.</div></div></div>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-37528082789867487432024-02-14T00:00:00.007-05:002024-02-14T00:00:00.254-05:00Susan Wales Journal Digital Project by Laura Lewis<p><i>Since today is Valentine's Day, I wanted to share a "out of love" project by one of the Beloved BDC Docents, Laura Lewis. She describes her work preparing the Susan Wales Journal Digital Project, the <a href="https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/?taxonomy=contributing_institution&term=beaufort-county-library" target="_blank">BCL's 9th digital project</a> with the Lowcountry Digital Library. </i> </p><p>Hi everyone! My name
is Laura Lewis and I have been a docent with the BDC since 2009. For the past three years, I have been working
to transcribe and digitize the Susan M.L. (Makepeace Larkin) Wales Journal. I am proud to announce it is finally
available for viewing through the Lowcountry Digital Library. The direct link is <a href="https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/content/susan-m-l-wales-travel-journal-1887-1895/">https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/content/susan-m-l-wales-travel-journal-1887-1895/</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Susan M.L. Wales is actually a collection of letters
written to her sister, Annie Flagg Wales Stratton, with vivid descriptions of
her travels as well as small drawings and watercolor paintings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather than sticking to single destinations,
she traveled extensively on her trips, which you can track through <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1WuXPFRKZ8JLYcGa8bNOqmB5-QT4_3UZu&usp=sharing target=_blank" target="_blank">this map</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through passport and immigration records we
see that she made many trips across the Atlantic Ocean during her lifetime,
though the journal only records three of those journeys, 1887-1888, 1891, and 1893-1895.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While she was not from Beaufort herself, Miss
Wales was aunt to Katherine (“Nancy”) Wales Stratton, wife of Niels
Christensen, Jr., and great aunt to Anne Christensen Head, local teacher,
author, and Pat Conroy mentor, who graciously donated the journal to the BDC.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdz5RKkFcglfvYBSCBvOZXiZ17DfnAcVedU19rfEcZEqaMeS7maTVTXXryOCNbTSmd6tctQzxJBT2u69RpGFvYzL42wymTeYRj_iN9IT7k8HshaMmovjEiC6MRHX7LXu5wgBdmHl6g4ltskcgkXvCAoffDZzMWNY4hHPClWRhlI6gxjN4v1UECuKdjJP6D/s1650/Susan%20M.L.%20Wales_courtesy%20of%20Nancy%20Thode.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1238" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdz5RKkFcglfvYBSCBvOZXiZ17DfnAcVedU19rfEcZEqaMeS7maTVTXXryOCNbTSmd6tctQzxJBT2u69RpGFvYzL42wymTeYRj_iN9IT7k8HshaMmovjEiC6MRHX7LXu5wgBdmHl6g4ltskcgkXvCAoffDZzMWNY4hHPClWRhlI6gxjN4v1UECuKdjJP6D/s320/Susan%20M.L.%20Wales_courtesy%20of%20Nancy%20Thode.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Susan M.L. Wales (1839-1927) was born in Boston, MA to
Thomas Crane Wales and Mary Rebecca Holmes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her family was quite wealthy, allowing Susan a comfortable life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Family lore states</span> she was involved with a man whom her
family deemed unworthy, and she was sent abroad to travel and get over the
relationship, ultimately spending much of her life traveling, and never
marrying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After her father’s death in
1880, she and her sister Ellen (“Kate”) appear to have bought a house together,
but became sole owner after Kate’s death in 1885.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Passport records show her traveling abroad as
early as 1868, but the travel journal we have begins in 1887, when she was
already a watercolor artist, honing her craft by studying with famous artists
in Europe. [The portrait to the left is courtesy of Nancy Thode, Anne Christensen Head Morse's daughter.]<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Susan Wales was a member from 1892-1916 of the Boston Water
Color Club, founded in 1887 as an art association for women, as they were not
allowed in the male-only Boston Watercolor Society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of her trips to Europe were to study
with great artists of the time, such as B.J. Blommers in Copenhagen and Vicente
Poveda in Rome. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had paintings in the
Boston Water Color Club’s annual exhibition for many years, and one of those
paintings, “<a href="https://collections.mfa.org/objects/689168/monica?ctx=3da3e96f-17e7-42af-95f3-81f4d4c85ccc&idx=2" target="_blank">Monica</a>” is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston,
MA. Through <a href="https://philamuseum.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=51446569" target="_blank">exhibition records</a> from the Philadelphia Museum of
Art, we get a glimpse of some of her other travels, through her paintings of
Greece, Capri, Japan, and India. While
it appears she continued painting, towards the end of the travel journal she
complained about feeling that she had “gone backwards” in her painting. She had
lost interest in painting, feelings that will be familiar to most artists.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Because she was a high society woman, and unmarried at that,
Susan did not travel alone, going with companion Sarah (“Sally”) Gooll Putnam (a
fellow artist, see side note paragraph below) on the first trip of the journal, and Mrs. J.
Noyes on the other two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Susan
traveled first class whenever possible, staying in the best accommodations, and
not shying away from complaining about things that didn’t meet her standards, she
also tried to save money where she could, and faced the same problems as modern
travelers – the rooms being different than advertised, bad weather, too many
tourists, illnesses, and homesickness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She had many complaints of the bad manners of others around her, hotels
where the guests were too “common”, and women whose fashion was either too
gaudy or not modern enough, but had almost no complaints about the locations
she visited or the local “peasants”, who she mostly referred to as “quaint” or
“picturesque”, a common attitude of the upper classes at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also rode donkeys where necessary with
little complaint, and walked miles up mountains where it was too steep for the
carriages to have riders inside, which is rather impressive given her age
(48-56) and the clothing and shoes common among society women at the time.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Side note: “Sally” was a skilled oil portrait artist, who
kept journals starting at age 9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Massachusetts Historical Society, in Boston, MA has a <a href="https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0176" target="_blank">collection of her journals</a>, which include many
watercolors, drawings, and photographs, similar to the Susan M.L. Wales
journal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Volume 17 covers the time
period that she was traveling with Susan, and even includes a photograph of
Susan!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, only some of the
journals are available online, and volume 17 is not one of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are ever in Boston, though, you can
stop by and check out the collection, available in the reading room on
microfilm or digital facsimile.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The journal begins in 1887 in Netherlands, though she had already been traveling by the time she started the journal. It is not a complete record of her trips, sometimes missing months at a time. Susan and Sally both spent much time sketching and painting in the small towns and churches they visited in Netherlands, Germany, and Switzerland, and spent the winter in Munich before going home in early 1888.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOyyPQg24B9xThCYwCZsBA8wZ6GE90pMTlvcXMAICpMym5ev5_h_3CSGqj2bsCX0048Bfpq6gorac6h0apnMMWBC1rO1c_ldR7o2dfx1kum_5SJVgH38STDc4x5PY-U4gwpXPatFCjCkfIXtiY6c7kz2quGehRdfIFofRlxjFCzUxzMVmSeTs17RKGSCD9/s768/interior-pages-of-wales-journal.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="768" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOyyPQg24B9xThCYwCZsBA8wZ6GE90pMTlvcXMAICpMym5ev5_h_3CSGqj2bsCX0048Bfpq6gorac6h0apnMMWBC1rO1c_ldR7o2dfx1kum_5SJVgH38STDc4x5PY-U4gwpXPatFCjCkfIXtiY6c7kz2quGehRdfIFofRlxjFCzUxzMVmSeTs17RKGSCD9/s320/interior-pages-of-wales-journal.webp" width="320" /></a></div>The second part of the journal also seems to start in the middle of a journey, this time Algeria, March 1891, before jumping ahead 3 months to Oslo, Norway, though there is a description of their time in Denmark before arriving in Oslo. Susan and Mrs. Noyes (her first name is never mentioned) crossed Norway with a group, taking a series of steamers through the fjords and carriages or wagons across the land between them, finally deciding to go with the rest of the group on a steamer from Bergen to North Cape, rather than going back the same way and meeting the group in Stockholm. As it was July, they
enjoyed seeing the Midnight Sun, often having a celebration on deck of the
steamer in the middle of the night. The
journal skips a few weeks to find them in Helsinki, Finland, before crossing the
Gulf of Finland to St. Petersburg, Russia, visiting palaces and churches there
and in Moscow, and the Fair in Nizhny Novgorod, with plans to sail home from
London via Berlin in the fall of 1891.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The last part of the journal starts in August 1893, in
Italy, describing recent travels in Switzerland, where Susan and Mrs. Noyes met
the Royle brothers, English brothers they wound up traveling beside for a
while, and met with again in Egypt, where one lived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From Italy it was back to Switzerland for
some time hiking in the Alps, then a couple months in Italy, before arriving in
Cairo to spend two months on a steamer on the Nile, visiting ruins, painting,
and visiting friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After another
month in Cairo, they traveled to Jerusalem to see the sights of the Holy Land,
then to Syria, and on to Austria via Rome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They were in Bavaria in September 1894, then the journal skips ahead to
May 1895 in Saxony (she mentioned possibly spending the winter in Dresden), and
they traveled around Germany to many castles and cathedrals before going home
from Hamburg late that summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was
a cholera outbreak in 1894, which changed their plans of visiting Sicily,
Constantinople, and Greece, as she mentioned she was more afraid of the
quarantine than the cholera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also
had to cancel her plans to visit India, China, and Japan due to malaria, which
she caught in Chicago and had a relapse of in Cairo.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The journal, being letters to her sister at home, are a mix
of descriptions of travel, gossip, queries about people at home, paintings, and
memories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Susan often writes of places
that remind her of visiting there with her sister Kate, sometimes bringing on
days of melancholy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She mentions animals
and funny things her young niece, Nancy, might be amused by, and often asks if
the souvenirs she sent made it safely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is a lot of discussion of the important or fancy people she met,
and she had secured introductions to Consuls and Baronesses and Ladies all
over, taking tea with them, as was the custom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She seemed to enjoy traveling, but often talked about being homesick,
and missing everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">According to a newspaper clipping from <i>The Evening Star Sun</i>,
February 19, 1922, she lived abroad for 17 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She died on September 11, 1927, and was
buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery, in Boston, alongside her sister Annie,
Annie’s husband Solomon (“Sol”) Stratton, and some of her other siblings and
their families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 328.1pt;">I hope that you enjoy this journal
as much as I enjoyed working on it!<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 328.1pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><i>Grace's notes: Associated materials in the BDC Research Room include: </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 328.1pt;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">WALES, SUSAN MAKEPEACE LARKIN, 1839 - 1922 vertical file</span></li><li><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">CHRISTENSEN FAMILY vertical file </span></li><li><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">HEAD, ANN (AUTHOR) vertical file</span></li></ul><div><i>One of the main reasons I decided to digitize this collection was to minimize handling of the originals. Watercolors will flake. Thus, we will point you to the digital collection henceforth and keep the journal itself safely in the dark. </i></div><o:p></o:p><p></p>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-11823172616863541872024-02-12T12:51:00.004-05:002024-02-13T11:56:42.556-05:00Black History Month 2024 Research Room Display by Jalen Lugo<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj__FizEeqWDP-LQPMt9dAP4cY20c8RUwn9WVvp51oiy79wFJCACrHQ4wKIK7ZgLvEJDrWZe-vg7T3E07_Siyu5UcpOfvx6zVIRYsKy3x4zouWpopsBkV-N_IgB5vXGu1i3i3hZdWCNZ3Php2crHhekoI8KQnALAkYzEjro7R0nNdoXDcHpb4IObzQHLvLw/s320/Black%20History%20Month%202024%20full%20case.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj__FizEeqWDP-LQPMt9dAP4cY20c8RUwn9WVvp51oiy79wFJCACrHQ4wKIK7ZgLvEJDrWZe-vg7T3E07_Siyu5UcpOfvx6zVIRYsKy3x4zouWpopsBkV-N_IgB5vXGu1i3i3hZdWCNZ3Php2crHhekoI8KQnALAkYzEjro7R0nNdoXDcHpb4IObzQHLvLw/w150-h200/Black%20History%20Month%202024%20full%20case.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><i>As I have mentioned before, I use creation of display cases as a way for new BDC staff to explore certain sections of our holdings in a deeper and more personal way. My goal is that staff will internalize how varied and multifaceted the BDC is - even when it is tied to a certain geographical area - so that they can better assist our customers. T</i><i>he 2024 theme for Black History Month is "<a href="https://asalh.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2024-Black-History-Theme-African-Americans-and-the-Arts.pdf" target="_blank">African Americans and the Arts</a>." </i><i>Thus I assigned Jalen, the BDC's Library assistant the task of highlighting some of the BDC's resources on that theme. He had the liberty to interpret the theme, choose the decorative elements, and then was required to explain to me and to you why he chose what he chose as illustrative of the theme. -- Grace Cordial </i><p></p><p>Black History Month is upon us, and I have the pleasure of adding new items into the BDC lobby display case. This month entails all the culture, religion, and practices of the African American people in the U.S. Here at the BDC we strive to capture the stories of African American history and what makes them unique in our area. Everything found in the display case this month focuses on the Gullah community, which is only found in the southeastern United States, ranging from North Carolina down to Florida. The <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/gullah-culture/" target="_blank">Gullah community </a>contains unique religious practices, music, food, and language not found anywhere else in the world. </p><p><i>Gullah Culture in America</i> by Wilbur Cross (2007, 2008, 2012, 2023) is a book about the Gullah community across the U.S. since its discovery in the mid-1800s. The Gullah community was largely unheard of up until the mid-1800s, when, during the 1860s, a group of missionaries travelled down south to instruct freedmen how to read and write when they noticed that the freedmen spoke partial English combined with idioms, expressions, and such. What I find interesting about this book is how incredibly deep their stories are. The Gullah have their own language, songs, food, religion, and how they represent themselves in the community, all of which stems from their African roots. It is a world I previously never thought of but am now deeply entrenched in learning about.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyd2Orq6DyhWyp1wwXUO99rPOPBhQ61GRBmOC4xlXCqlkgKT89aLCdk96OIIC7UTOZ96vHGXqzYpWjYf_C1Rlg-Tnnh915AquCLLn8VjV27R0jAHS0q4RrLHUJze0P9rESwp6Db3Hjav7qm-uwu8PpvgAlNj5KZ-g2uJTpl8bqaSXWsrgLFEKyE3wWLjOy/s320/Shelf%201%20Black%20History%20Month%202024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyd2Orq6DyhWyp1wwXUO99rPOPBhQ61GRBmOC4xlXCqlkgKT89aLCdk96OIIC7UTOZ96vHGXqzYpWjYf_C1Rlg-Tnnh915AquCLLn8VjV27R0jAHS0q4RrLHUJze0P9rESwp6Db3Hjav7qm-uwu8PpvgAlNj5KZ-g2uJTpl8bqaSXWsrgLFEKyE3wWLjOy/s1600/Shelf%201%20Black%20History%20Month%202024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><i>Africanisms in American Culture</i> edited by Joseph E. Holloway (1990) discusses African-based historical, linguistic, religious, and artistic perspectives that have been absorbed into American traditions. Together the chapter authors provide cultural context for African Americans, helping identify where certain religious, artistic, and linguistic practices are derived from and how the African American people use this to define themselves today. I chose this because it is interesting to discover where a certain ritual or practice was derived from, and how similar it is to the rituals and practices in Africa. This book can also serve as a starting point for those trying to trace down their roots because so many rituals and practices were specific to a certain group of people in Africa.</p><p><i>Shout Because You’re Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia</i> by Art Rosenbaum, Margo Newmark Rosenbaum, and Johann S. Buis (1998) is about the African American Ring Shouting tradition. “<a href="https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/ring-shouts/" target="_blank">Ring Shout</a>” is a form of praise and worship for African Americans that involves a sort of call-and-respond form of singing, with a stick to beat on the floor for a beat, along with handclapping and foot-tapping. It was thought to have completely died out by the 1980s, but a small group was found that still actively performed this kind of practice. I chose this book because it discusses an unique style of singing that enslaved people created with what they have. How this form of praise and worship continues even today is a testament to the perseverance, passion, and soul that the African American community exemplifies.</p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFXTPxRhhz6CVAgCotIGUGvVsT-t_KoFFaJ-IjJG1mKT45WKJHwnUiTODJLjengia5JR9VcirTujaON3pZvnldreLHbTnjPUz_eLuNv_-E0PkD2T4ycTtkyXkifUotyzfmgAF7HVmir1MEa_jR4dwIXnTLqrTHGrGCm0QWmaDgBzyPUnzwggtTppuuDsfX/s320/Shelf%202%20Black%20History%20Month%202024.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFXTPxRhhz6CVAgCotIGUGvVsT-t_KoFFaJ-IjJG1mKT45WKJHwnUiTODJLjengia5JR9VcirTujaON3pZvnldreLHbTnjPUz_eLuNv_-E0PkD2T4ycTtkyXkifUotyzfmgAF7HVmir1MEa_jR4dwIXnTLqrTHGrGCm0QWmaDgBzyPUnzwggtTppuuDsfX/s1600/Shelf%202%20Black%20History%20Month%202024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="font-style: italic;"><i>Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> by Lydia Parrish (1992, 1942) is a book about Lydia Parrish travelling far and wide to locate and document the different songs and style of songs that African Americans created and sang during the antebellum period. Parrish creates a delicate and intricate layer between their songs and their way of life, social customs, language, and culture. Parrish garnered the respect and trust of many African American song writers and was able to record their songs in detail, adding depth and providing context to discover the meaning behind them. I chose this book because of its intricate description of songs from the antebellum period and how she explains why, and how, they stood the test of time. </span></p><p><i style="font-style: italic;">Gullah: Songs of Hope, Faith and Freedom</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> [Audio CD] (1997) by Marlena Smalls and the Hallelujah Singers provides a gateway to a culture that is largely unknown by many people in the U.S.</span><i> According to the summary about this item in the SCLENDS catalog: <span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: white;">Gullah is a people. Gullah is a language. Gullah is music like you've never heard before! Marlena Smalls joins with The Hallelujah Singers to present glorious music from the rich culture of West Africa's children who have inhabited the coastal islands of the southeastern U.S. for hundreds of years. Marlena Smalls, perhaps best known for her role as "Bubba's Mama" in the movie <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/feature-films-made-in-beaufort-county-forrest-gump-1994/" target="_blank">Forrest Gump</a>, and the energetic Hallelujah Singers have appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, and in concert at the Kennedy Center taking the charm and richness of their unique culture to a worldwide audience."</span></span></i></p><p style="font-style: italic;"><i>Ain’t You Got a Right to the Tree of Life</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> by Guy Carawan (1989) is a collection of oral histories about Sea Island life that goes as far back as to the start of the 20th century. It contains the thoughts, emotions, feelings, and overall life of the people of John’s Island as they experienced discrimination and the start of the civil rights movement. I like that the people conveyed their thoughts and emotions themselves. Each entry is a raw look at the day-to-day life of an African American during the 20th century that provides insight and context to who they were then and what shaped them to who they are today.</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiIVfmNczuVWdXKIQZdwpFXKo_e4erWKML0Tyg62pvUt982jsdNNpnV3QDcKqzID0WX77h3kjO806qPDbzea43F0Hc6yNOFt7_geDHRNky1ivL5V_n8WgQTrEin5WvdplJYphoxqC7vvA0_3Ycai-Tmj0yRAvsZRehCskO4p44_ZtPYJ1mLfnAO0IUB4H5/s320/Shelf%203%20Black%20History%20Month%202024.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiIVfmNczuVWdXKIQZdwpFXKo_e4erWKML0Tyg62pvUt982jsdNNpnV3QDcKqzID0WX77h3kjO806qPDbzea43F0Hc6yNOFt7_geDHRNky1ivL5V_n8WgQTrEin5WvdplJYphoxqC7vvA0_3Ycai-Tmj0yRAvsZRehCskO4p44_ZtPYJ1mLfnAO0IUB4H5/s1600/Shelf%203%20Black%20History%20Month%202024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i>Slave Songs of the United States</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (1995, 1867) is a modern reprint of the first book collecting songs sung by enslaved people before, during and after the Civil War. The subject of the songs range from failed dreams and misery to hope and faith of a life beyond what they are in. I chose this book because of the need to remember the past, and to recognize what the enslaved people had to go through. It is a direct link to those who were enslaved. </span><p></p><p><i style="font-style: italic;">Songs uv dee Gullah Pee’puls</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> by the Gullah Kinfolk (2000) is an audio CD that highlights the songs that the Gullah sings. It contains authentic Gullah people who can speak in Gullah and sing their songs the way they were supposed to be sung. I chose this because one can hear how the songs sound and feel their soul. It helped me realize the significant role that these <a href="https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/spirituals/" target="_blank">spirituals</a> played during the antebellum period and during the Civil Rights movement. In my opinion, these songs are what define the Gullah and make them an unique culture. </span><i>The BDC is the only library in the SCLENDS consortium to have this title. </i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></p><p><i style="font-style: italic;">Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom and Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands </i>by Eric Sean Crawford (2021) traces the roots of the Gullah Geechee songs to their beginnings in Africa all the way to their peak in the 20th century as songs that personified the need for social change and the need for equality. Crawford primarily focuses on the “<a href="https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/spirituals/" target="_blank">spirituals</a>” of the Gullah community on St. Helena Island. Spirituals were sung by a group of people during times of unrest and weariness. These spirituals helped rally the African American community to action. Some served as lullabies, in that some songs could ease tensions, soothe the soul, and create a dynamic that helped pull them out of tough times. I chose this book as a prime example of how a small community can rise above and beyond what society expects of them and make a change for the better.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0zEwtjuL87N8suN_FUk4ljC95GLgXxO3TqwQtMkembGaGrYIYpWjgFO9S1hpd5DhOVCtuGHWIxRuD0PQ8EgGyCQDKIob6bBMF6VjJOMG4UycYg04bri6BbODfwwRdS1mpNOkWoJ9SuXNia9Vp9Z_hCymU2cliPgpomJHlhsICJ3PWeJF4M4IwNGpdYPog/s320/Shelf%204%20Black%20History%20Month%202024.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0zEwtjuL87N8suN_FUk4ljC95GLgXxO3TqwQtMkembGaGrYIYpWjgFO9S1hpd5DhOVCtuGHWIxRuD0PQ8EgGyCQDKIob6bBMF6VjJOMG4UycYg04bri6BbODfwwRdS1mpNOkWoJ9SuXNia9Vp9Z_hCymU2cliPgpomJHlhsICJ3PWeJF4M4IwNGpdYPog/s1600/Shelf%204%20Black%20History%20Month%202024.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p><i>Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina</i> by Benjamin Franklin, V (2008) shows how South Carolina played a pivotal role in defining this style of music. It features multiple musicians who played a pivotal role for this genre of music. I chose this because the diversity of the Jazz and Blues style and how people from all walks of life were able to join and play together without thinking about social prejudices. I also happen to love Jazz and Blues music. It is such a classic and melodic style of music. </p><p><i>Something to Shout About: Reflections on the Gullah Spiritual</i> by Sally Plair (1972) is a book about the style of praise and worship in Gullah culture known as “shouting.” Shouting was a communal act within Gullah culture that kept spirits high. The book goes on to reflect on how the Gullah Spirituals allowed them to sing about their grievances, trials, happiness, joy, and their loss. I chose this because this book describes how the Gullah created a culture to sing away their pain and embrace joy and peace of mind.</p><p>If you interested in borrowing materials about Gullah culture, check out the items on this flyer: </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0zUGMY1_wo3vncY_mxTmM4MP1syCKab_OVgYJdRX0fgG_QZcNlc5ieWeMWFS0Sns22D32emFob7gwlnByqWIC0X-8V76D6wTn88m6D9lL185hM0W699jiOk0mQnNmxihvqYb4MoVb4aRei_tMFQOL7wE5_l2XCwyQ5GiNMS361jNsctcfsZ4yyv-LNWTK/s1056/Gullah%20Life%20and%20Culture_2871530.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="816" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0zUGMY1_wo3vncY_mxTmM4MP1syCKab_OVgYJdRX0fgG_QZcNlc5ieWeMWFS0Sns22D32emFob7gwlnByqWIC0X-8V76D6wTn88m6D9lL185hM0W699jiOk0mQnNmxihvqYb4MoVb4aRei_tMFQOL7wE5_l2XCwyQ5GiNMS361jNsctcfsZ4yyv-LNWTK/w309-h400/Gullah%20Life%20and%20Culture_2871530.png" width="309" /></a></div>A heads up: The Library will be closed on Monday, February 19, 2024 for Presidents Day. Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-48102253675953330622024-02-02T14:27:00.004-05:002024-02-02T14:28:59.207-05:00What to Expect in February 2024<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJplwgq8EeZ5ylX0DqSsw4pT0-mwUL9ZPo-BWa1CigAcbx0Q7j35iQT5Vn3gKoULBJLBMYmf67xELKGt6opLBSrYfpByE6Kc83rm2MomapymvnC_KTHSR27JT3_D2M7PVEFyH5dcbqMwlo-Il7GQYqnuN77jCIAVF3381rEmq6nK_mtpILVQSlz1OVygB7/s940/february-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="940" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJplwgq8EeZ5ylX0DqSsw4pT0-mwUL9ZPo-BWa1CigAcbx0Q7j35iQT5Vn3gKoULBJLBMYmf67xELKGt6opLBSrYfpByE6Kc83rm2MomapymvnC_KTHSR27JT3_D2M7PVEFyH5dcbqMwlo-Il7GQYqnuN77jCIAVF3381rEmq6nK_mtpILVQSlz1OVygB7/s320/february-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />February Overview: We show some love for Black History Month. I will highlight some of the many resources we have here in the Research Room. </span><p></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">Officially the BDC has only one program this month - and it's today at Hilton Head Branch Library. We hope that you can make it for Neil Baxley's presentation about the "Battle of Beaufort, 1779." (Brought to you by the BDC, BCHS, and the Beaufort County 250th Committee). [<i>Update 2 February 2024 - We had 47 people attend Baxley's excellent discussion about the first land-based Patriot win in South Carolina's American Revolution. Hip! Hip! Hooray!!]</i> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">I am doing two community outreach activities in this shortest <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>month of the year: </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNRoY2U9-8isJ3zwjnXHRklMEdmZA24e8kkTlB0dj3yiveiE-PWwuaYN4w9SZw5koTj1qIertve70vFV48J0SvUGcXCcvsma89ZWXLYXzleGlCWzvZBFrQ10U75azaSz-XXsisRyHRmfQaZCb13egjtAGM5_gvyb8kpiUX3pQGGWR94dQ4L8tsJSwXwcZy/s1280/Neil%20Pre-Game%20Show_1Feb2024%20no%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNRoY2U9-8isJ3zwjnXHRklMEdmZA24e8kkTlB0dj3yiveiE-PWwuaYN4w9SZw5koTj1qIertve70vFV48J0SvUGcXCcvsma89ZWXLYXzleGlCWzvZBFrQ10U75azaSz-XXsisRyHRmfQaZCb13egjtAGM5_gvyb8kpiUX3pQGGWR94dQ4L8tsJSwXwcZy/s320/Neil%20Pre-Game%20Show_1Feb2024%20no%20.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;">On February 5th I will review "Jim Crow Hurricane" as part of the Books Sandwiched In series and on the last day of the month I'll be over on Hilton Head Island to present "Tide of Death" as an OLLI program. <br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">In between Cassi, Jalen and I will keep on keeping on taking care of collections and customers the other 20 working days in February. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">Please note: The Library will be closed on Monday, February 19th for Presidents Day. <br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiioFiACv0krgijvP9Sz0A3_A8HvYO5faecYCq868tgb5r_ezP5_RAGqPTFLxAfWGtO_GT7TGFhxd9I1in7kLRrH5MK6Q-xH9pKqpg7ZWPVWAFbdXmBGxGx2yOSavADL1zkho1cfeHl4cJ-ZXNp_w8ptmv8RnvGLwIquJkKfJrJjy8vIocXeJ2mu34RzPBz/s1280/Neil%20Pre-Game%20Show_1Feb2024%20no%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiioFiACv0krgijvP9Sz0A3_A8HvYO5faecYCq868tgb5r_ezP5_RAGqPTFLxAfWGtO_GT7TGFhxd9I1in7kLRrH5MK6Q-xH9pKqpg7ZWPVWAFbdXmBGxGx2yOSavADL1zkho1cfeHl4cJ-ZXNp_w8ptmv8RnvGLwIquJkKfJrJjy8vIocXeJ2mu34RzPBz/s320/Neil%20Pre-Game%20Show_1Feb2024%20no%20.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Stay tuned for a somewhat big announcement re: BDC services later in the month.</span></div></div>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-84941934746610240992024-01-25T12:35:00.000-05:002024-01-25T12:35:19.308-05:00On Facebook, December 16, 2023 - January 20, 2024<p><span style="font-family: arial;">I was taking some personal leave over the holidays so the posts on Facebook during this period were slim. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">You can read the <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2024/01/january-2024-overview.html" target="_blank">January outlook post </a> as it's already posted to this blog. </span></span></p><p><u style="font-family: arial;">Uniquely BDC series</u></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_qq6pcupywmJlnmOz8dHzQtCs1yE9vFsskRBHuYwaMRhQLJt9EjfYUOUnoJhYFrXUzOBtoSRH3cKqAJQJ6XZqCEngMr7_V0DFgBYR2M1bmrksCD9gDQP0BzwUUUVoFkcpCNGx4OOKma0mAcEp56YEBSXf_diFdyq7Pal56KkSHBe4bi4KSFzkdXZEr0y-/s701/InkedUniquely%20BDC%202024%20Materials%20Monday%20logo_LI.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="690" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_qq6pcupywmJlnmOz8dHzQtCs1yE9vFsskRBHuYwaMRhQLJt9EjfYUOUnoJhYFrXUzOBtoSRH3cKqAJQJ6XZqCEngMr7_V0DFgBYR2M1bmrksCD9gDQP0BzwUUUVoFkcpCNGx4OOKma0mAcEp56YEBSXf_diFdyq7Pal56KkSHBe4bi4KSFzkdXZEr0y-/w237-h241/InkedUniquely%20BDC%202024%20Materials%20Monday%20logo_LI.jpg" width="237" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>December 18</b> - <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Uniquely BDC: Materials Monday:" <i><a href="https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:126730" target="_blank">Yuletide on Hilton Head:</a> A Heritage of Island Flavors</i> grew out of a <i>Island Packet</i> newspaper recipe contest in the mid-1990s. There's a whole section on my favorite holiday flavor: cranberry! The book offers up 14 menus for entertaining ..."complete with timely holiday libations." I'll skip the libations but bring on the Berries-in-the-snow. </span></span><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Berries-in-the-Snow</b></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">6 premium white chocolate baking squares</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">3/4 cup dried cranberries</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Unwrap baking squares and place in a microwavable bowl. Microwave on High for 2 to 2 1/2 minutes. Stir half-way through heating time. The squares will retain some of their original shapes; remove from microwave and stir until smooth. If not completely smooth return to microwave for 10 seconds, one or more times. When smooth stir in dried cranberries. With two teaspoons, scoop mixture onto a sheet of wax paper, making clusters about the size of a half dollar. When set, store in covered container. Yield: 12 to 14 clusters</span></div></div></blockquote><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Research Room has the only copy of this book in the SCLENDS Consortium. Call number is SC 641.568 YUL</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>January 8</b> - "Uniquely BDC: Materials Monday:" In honor of our upcoming local history program about cotton, I share an illustration about the product by W.T. Crane who worked as a “special artist” for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. This is Print BDC 90B in the Research Room.</span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #050505; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtMAKNjGLtUBgNd3WVNYTM5KJh9VM0ltHyeqhsn2b-0z6gIJ8-KiMHEedYcJqZgblsqWJFP0yP63AmCH7m2vh_MsCuXu_gBAsRZ7JeZDZ2QUYsc4zYeplvGxjfXKidV8XpTCB7npXhFbHOUIMRJfCBjHQ8BI4QJsHGfTcbmrUULGdBp78JbGBOfl7DJbnF/s3607/BDC%20Print%2090B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2116" data-original-width="3607" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtMAKNjGLtUBgNd3WVNYTM5KJh9VM0ltHyeqhsn2b-0z6gIJ8-KiMHEedYcJqZgblsqWJFP0yP63AmCH7m2vh_MsCuXu_gBAsRZ7JeZDZ2QUYsc4zYeplvGxjfXKidV8XpTCB7npXhFbHOUIMRJfCBjHQ8BI4QJsHGfTcbmrUULGdBp78JbGBOfl7DJbnF/s320/BDC%20Print%2090B.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #050505; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">I made a special post about <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2017/01/martin-luther-king-jr-rested-and-wrote.html">Martin Luther King, Jr.'s connection to Penn Center </a>on January 15, viz. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p style="color: black; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: arial; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="color: #050505; font-family: arial;">Although the Library is closed today, you are not cut off from library materials about Martin Luther King, Jr. Hoopla, our digital service, has a suggested list of 21,915 ebooks, movies, and audiobooks about him with materials for kids, teens, and grown-ups. Hoopla is always open 24/7/365. Or you can read a <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2017/01/martin-luther-king-jr-rested-and-wrote.html" target="_blank">recently updated <i>Connections</i> blogpost </a>about his ties to Penn Center to help celebrate the life and achievements of this honored man.</span></blockquote><p></p></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Black History Notes series</u></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiALggJq5uusNEz_Fy6eNaSIDm4zMWpYOofNDN1twoW2X1Fc89PBEBNJCs8RhaPE8H-rcPaSdZoQm0KXOBjdLrxZ_nwlx2s9iiSXhUfXUrvrLeNYs96kokSbsd9kq7jtZvUtw1yRYzPySmw9NtaB8vYfmm3AOFTsxEfOGUOzkTWlllr0Yeqbaz285-wYTMJ/s1280/Black%20History%20Note.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiALggJq5uusNEz_Fy6eNaSIDm4zMWpYOofNDN1twoW2X1Fc89PBEBNJCs8RhaPE8H-rcPaSdZoQm0KXOBjdLrxZ_nwlx2s9iiSXhUfXUrvrLeNYs96kokSbsd9kq7jtZvUtw1yRYzPySmw9NtaB8vYfmm3AOFTsxEfOGUOzkTWlllr0Yeqbaz285-wYTMJ/s320/Black%20History%20Note.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>December 20</b> - My last "Black History Note" post of the year is about <i>As We Remember: A History of the Woman's Relief Corps in Beaufort, SC</i> (Guntersville, AL: Fresh Ink Group, 2023). Because of Beaufort District’s unique Civil War history, it had three Grand Army of the Republic posts for Union veterans and one official auxiliary for women. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Woman’s Relief Corps (WRC) provided critical support for veterans, their families, and organized the annual Decoration Day festivities from its <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>founding to well into the early 20th century. The Beaufort WRC was one of the few African-American units in the country. The local WRC re-organized as the Fred Washington, Sr. Woman's Relief Corps No. 1 on July 26, 1998. The group, though small in number, still contributes to local veterans related activities and community events. Professor Thomas crafts an impressive story from oral tradition and supporting documentation to provide a unique and very local history of a woman’s group long committed to service to others. By the way, this could also be an "Uniquely BDC" entry.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>January 10 </b>- "Black History Note:" World Heavyweight Champion and Olympian boxer Joe Frazier (1944 - 2011) was born in Beaufort County on January 12, 1944. Learn more about <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2018/09/28/joe-smokin-joe-frazier-1944-2011-a-selective-list-of-links-materials/" target="_blank">his life and career in the BDCBCL: LINKS, LISTS, AND FINDING AIDS blog</a> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>January 17</b> - <span>"Black History Note:" When the Union occupied this area during the Civil War, they discovered a lot of enslaved people left behind - and with a war to fund and cotton fields aplenty, contrabands were put to work during the occupation. This <a href="https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:126730" target="_blank">Hubbard & Mix photograph of contrabands working in one of the cotton fields on Retreat Plantation</a> </span><span>comes from our Civil War and Reconstruction Era Stereoscope </span><span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span>Photographs of the Port Royal Region collection. We added this collection to the Lowcountry Digital Library in 2018 to provide better access to the images while simultaneously protecting the 150 years+ old stereoscope cards from excess handling. </span></span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">Come learn more about recent efforts to save sea island cotton in our local history program tomorrow. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Local History Programs Posts</u>: </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I posted local history programs reminders on January 9, 11, 16, 17, 18 and 19. Two are now done and dusted <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2024/01/yamasee-homelands-with-hannah-hoover.html" target="_blank">with two more on the agenda</a>. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; white-space-collapse: collapse;">I posted Library holidays hours on 17 December, 21 December, 22 December and January 12. </span></span></div></div>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-7765872866009874152024-01-25T00:00:00.041-05:002024-01-25T00:00:00.132-05:00"Yamasee Homelands" with Hannah Hoover & "Battle of Beaufort, 1779" with Neil Baxley<p>We are delighted to have Hannah Hoover share her research about the Yamasee Indians on January 31, 2024 beginning at 2 PM in a <i>BDC@ </i>Beaufort Branch Local History program. We are also delighted that the Hilton Head Chapter of the Archaeological Society of South Carolina has agreed to co-sponsor her lecture.</p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmC3ZePuLVWSL7WW59QZQoQ6ANt49gQeHJz85zNSh0artuRRTbaWyRnpdCWRCMTKDWahrg9zVUfEFNQCS1c-8djxQQ_ExosVbkmisDoLhNvtSQR1STxXx-U42e_Y7pEr88RRFUmPuloAEdD6nx6qPBRB7XUcdk_K2a4DHwn84lbUqFzCQ-F1Me1RjnB7pb/s737/picture.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="545" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmC3ZePuLVWSL7WW59QZQoQ6ANt49gQeHJz85zNSh0artuRRTbaWyRnpdCWRCMTKDWahrg9zVUfEFNQCS1c-8djxQQ_ExosVbkmisDoLhNvtSQR1STxXx-U42e_Y7pEr88RRFUmPuloAEdD6nx6qPBRB7XUcdk_K2a4DHwn84lbUqFzCQ-F1Me1RjnB7pb/s320/picture.png" width="237" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Hannah Hoover is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Michigan and holds a research affiliation with the South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, she received a BA in Anthropology and Classical Studies from Tulane University in 2018 and an MA from the University of Michigan in 2021. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Her dissertation research explores community formation in colonial contexts, specifically the emergence of new Tribal Nations amidst the demographic and economic changes of the 17th-century Southeast. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">For the past two years, Hoover has lived in Beaufort while working on her dissertation, tentatively titled “Small-Scale Processes of Native Nation-Building: Archaeological Investigations of early 18<sup>th</sup> century Yamasee Towns in the South Carolina Lowcountry.” She has conducted three seasons of archaeological fieldwork at the Yamasee primary town of Pocotaligo, located today on the Mackay Point Plantation, with the assistance of over 50 community and student volunteers, <i>including our own former BDC assistant, Olivia Santos.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Her work has been funded by several granting agencies including the National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Beinecke Scholarship, the Southeastern Archaeology Conference, and the Archaeological Society of South Carolina.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;"> </span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Colonial surveyors created stunning maps of the natural landscapes of the Carolinas during the 17th and 18th centuries. They also frequently recorded cultural features, including Native American towns, homesteads, mounds, roads, bridges, and fields that dotted the Southeast. The common appearance of such markers on regional maps, property plats, and town memorials affirms that Europeans encountered rich and intricately constructed Native worlds.</span></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The documentary record created by early surveyors and property transactions provide a valuable means for reconstructing Native homelands in the early Carolina colony. When considered alongside archaeology and study of modern place names, we may begin to disentangle local processes of Native erasure and better realize the deep-time connections Indigenous communities continue to hold to their ancestral homelands in South Carolina.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In this presentation, Hoover will focus on Yamasee homelands in the Port Royal Sound of South Carolina. Yamasees were a broadly diverse Native community who settled in the Port Royal Sound in 1685. They formed a strong alliance with the Carolina colony by prominently participating in the regional fur and Indian slave trades. Yamasees are most well known in local and popular history for their 1715 instigation of the Yamasee War against the colony which vastly reconfigured North American geopolitics in its wake. While the causes of war have long been debated, settler encroachment and abasement of Yamasee women and lands certainly played an outsized role in souring their political relationship. Through several case studies, she will explore how some of the earliest settlers of Beaufort County sought out Yamasee homelands in the years after the Yamasee War and ultimately engaged with, erased, and in some cases rewrote Yamasee histories in the process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong style="text-align: left;">Wednesday, January 31, 2024</strong><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;">– "Reconstructing and Reconnecting 18th Century Yamasee Homelands in the Port Royal Sound, South Carolina" with Hannah Hoover. | <em>BDC@</em> Beaufort Branch Library, 311 Scott, 2 PM. | No registration process: First come; first seated. Door opens 30 minutes ahead of the program start time. | </b><b style="text-align: left;"><span>Co-sponsored by the Hilton Head Chapter, Archaeological Society of
South Carolina.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hoover credits the resources of the Charleston County Register of Deeds office and the Behan Papers here in the Beaufort District Collection and her ongoing collaboration with Dr. Denise Bossy, Associate Professor of History at the University of North Florida </span>for making this presentation possible. </div><div><br /></div><div>Don't forget that there's another local history program the very next day! On February 1, 2024, we host Neil Baxley for a reprise of "<a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2020/02/battle-of-port-royal-island-grays-hill.html" target="_blank">Battle of Beaufort, 1779</a>" at the Hilton Head Branch Library. His lecture is co-sponsored by the BDC, Beaufort County Historical Society, and the Beaufort County 250th Committee. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguA1WpHwdJddpka9UxbRvFJFdBFWiUfLcuVbvre5mwslhTErktl7c4t4y7J5-AXV_vfYzde3L9NSNswC7e8AoBWQrAZv8BmvdQqzD8tvevTaJyQUkYxRPCIZgGfFKqyum6iszHKZcNu0a3PLDOe5fnuPiSpmFZQKqUpMeRp72Zbk3qkbRwSQ-f5EUAAHD8/s1056/Neil_Battle%20of%20Beaufort%201779%20at%20HHI.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1056" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguA1WpHwdJddpka9UxbRvFJFdBFWiUfLcuVbvre5mwslhTErktl7c4t4y7J5-AXV_vfYzde3L9NSNswC7e8AoBWQrAZv8BmvdQqzD8tvevTaJyQUkYxRPCIZgGfFKqyum6iszHKZcNu0a3PLDOe5fnuPiSpmFZQKqUpMeRp72Zbk3qkbRwSQ-f5EUAAHD8/w400-h309/Neil_Battle%20of%20Beaufort%201779%20at%20HHI.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Though the British Winter Campaign, 1778-1779 in the Palmetto State had mostly gone in Britain’s favor, South Carolina's first land based engagement between professional British, militia, and Continental forces resulted in a Patriot victory - and it was here in Beaufort County! Come learn about the strategy, tactics and significance of this American Revolution battle fought near the MCAS Air Station 245 years ago. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">A native of North Carolina, Neil Baxley spent 4 years in the Marine Corps before joining the Beaufort County Sheriff's Department more than 35 years ago. In 2013, Col. Baxley was put in charge of Beaufort County's Emergency Management Division. In his spare time, he studies and writes history. He's given presentations at the South Carolina Archives and at area museums and libraries. He's authored two Confederate regimental history books, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><i>Walk in the Light: The Journey of the 10th and 19th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry</i></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> (2013) and </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><i>No Prouder Fate: The Story of the 11th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry</i></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> (2009) and the foreword to </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><i>Confederate General Stephen Elliott: Beaufort Legend, Charleston Hero</i></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> by D. Michael Thomas (2020). </span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>We hope that you will be able to join us for one - or both! programs. </div></div>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-87304734655538814852024-01-19T00:00:00.001-05:002024-01-19T00:00:00.132-05:00"Where Have All The Shrimp Boats Gone?" Local History Program<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Raconteur and former
shrimp boat captain, Woody Collins, has added local author to his list of
accomplishments. Though local residents have been catching and eating
shrimp off the coast of the Carolinas for centuries, the area’s commercial shrimp
industry began about a century ago. From a peak of about 1500 working boats in
the 1980s, Beaufort’s fleet is no more.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH_2e1U7ri5pu6nRrFj-eT1HldwvDAsFiBjv0q1wshqBlXVEDDYr97GAkUoWItIIKohbVZuaeq3trRZIyR3up-Xc5pU5e7MLw0PgnLJiDmgC8I4O97HQUFUJoOIBTecV6id2kn7QRs6u9BXnLvjD7XfUXESKYI4zqy_I9y41M9DYfUUNqE2VZAS8FRGtVR/s1264/tri-photos%20Woody.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="1264" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH_2e1U7ri5pu6nRrFj-eT1HldwvDAsFiBjv0q1wshqBlXVEDDYr97GAkUoWItIIKohbVZuaeq3trRZIyR3up-Xc5pU5e7MLw0PgnLJiDmgC8I4O97HQUFUJoOIBTecV6id2kn7QRs6u9BXnLvjD7XfUXESKYI4zqy_I9y41M9DYfUUNqE2VZAS8FRGtVR/w400-h126/tri-photos%20Woody.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">There’s no one who
can explain the factors in the rise and all of the shrimp industry better than Woody
Collins who spent 40 years trawling area waters. His self-published book, </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Where
Have All the Shrimp Boats Gone?</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> has sold out and the author has no
intentions of authorizing a third printing. Collins drew extensively from a
series of oral histories collected by Laura Von Harten during the 1990s and his
long work and personal relationships with other shrimpers to flesh out the challenges
and triumphs of a life-style based on the ebbs and flows of tidal creeks and
local waters.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The BDC is privileged
to have been gifted copies #1 and #5 of the limited printing directly from
Captain Woody who very graciously inscribed them for posterity. Lavishly
illustrated with more than 300 images (some from the BDC’s collections), this
book is a substantive history but nevertheless fun to read.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please join us at the Bluffton Branch Library on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 for Capt. Woody's Author Book Talk about </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Where Have All the Shrimp Boats Gone?. </i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Doors open at 12:30 pm for first come seating. </span></p>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-42868420269512322412024-01-09T13:50:00.002-05:002024-01-10T16:21:35.467-05:00Historically Speaking 5.3: Sea Island Cotton and Tom Austin<p style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5DoeUYxVnnq1Y5dw-uY8c9nL7haRNgqeyqxPqcsnEA_EQyAD5my_huOH1GTiqlGQiZxwQcf3JL-WLj7lVAYhVj_xmVbfUJ9L0SoF8aOmxRO1Y2qPq0Qe3IhwSCJbdfUbvvha_Boq7-sgYuyt17Ww5btmCAJvDxC_JlkH8e1uKyETjYDzWs4dZzyy5kMfr/s1096/Sea%20Island%20Cotton%202019%20collage.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="1096" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5DoeUYxVnnq1Y5dw-uY8c9nL7haRNgqeyqxPqcsnEA_EQyAD5my_huOH1GTiqlGQiZxwQcf3JL-WLj7lVAYhVj_xmVbfUJ9L0SoF8aOmxRO1Y2qPq0Qe3IhwSCJbdfUbvvha_Boq7-sgYuyt17Ww5btmCAJvDxC_JlkH8e1uKyETjYDzWs4dZzyy5kMfr/s320/Sea%20Island%20Cotton%202019%20collage.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt;">The "Historically Speaking" series returns on January 18, 2024 with a lecture about one of agricultural products that brought early 19th century prosperity to this area.</span><p></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt;">Akin to vegetarian silk Sea Island </span><a href="https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/cotton/" style="font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">Cotton</a><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt;"> commanded a price over twice as high as the coarser "short staple cotton" grown inland. In tandem with Carolina Gold Rice, Sea Island Cotton made pre-Civil War Beaufort the "Newport of the South", but its unique features demanded enslaved labor for its tending. Thought to be extinct, Tom Austin tells the story of this crop and his ongoing project to preserve a small patch for Low Country posterity.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt;">Tom Austin
is a professional conservationist working as the <a href="https://edisto.org/" target="_blank">Edisto Island Open Land Trust</a>'s (EIOLT) Land Protection Specialist, an independent researcher, and an
avid naturalist from the ACE Basin of South Carolina. Through EIOLT's
<a href="https://edisto.org/history/" target="_blank">Hutchinson House project </a>on Edisto Island, a reconstruction era freedman home
which is being restored and developed into a public greenspace, Tom has found
himself amidst an effort to study, interpret, and re-introduce one of the
State's most influential cash crops, Sea Island Cotton.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7QapTE7_UCSV9sfWwjCFcfS8wGR-SC3V8ou-n9vu5Oh7kUgLnPEqlLJvs9v80Z6pmFsi9ETQXdclRJfrzzBcBfHrI88rtANBA7Tf57GKH06q0BjvelX3Hd1qMi2huTAvCgXGIeSkkA4SPeQ5zfmEsbAyP6GYJ2LM1guwkLIDs3Nw-qv5h9EMRTGfyT2jW/s1056/revTom%20Austin%20Cotton.%20Historically%20Speaking%205.3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1056" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7QapTE7_UCSV9sfWwjCFcfS8wGR-SC3V8ou-n9vu5Oh7kUgLnPEqlLJvs9v80Z6pmFsi9ETQXdclRJfrzzBcBfHrI88rtANBA7Tf57GKH06q0BjvelX3Hd1qMi2huTAvCgXGIeSkkA4SPeQ5zfmEsbAyP6GYJ2LM1guwkLIDs3Nw-qv5h9EMRTGfyT2jW/w640-h494/revTom%20Austin%20Cotton.%20Historically%20Speaking%205.3.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">This lecture is brought to you by the Beaufort County Historical Society and the Beaufort District Collection. We hope that you can join us! Registration is open until capacity is reached: </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.eventbrite.com/e/tom-austin-lazarus-the-resurrection-of-sea-island-cotton-from-extinction-tickets-792647368617?aff=oddtdtcreator__;!!H5U1HoZiDaw1SX31!EmCYmIKnakT066oKVHx-d0-ajwgEMOwKgmpiOMVDQepjablGpSQ7xmKwrAsymFuqB62-28hxVqs1K5UwkOU$" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tom-austin-lazarus-the-resurrection-of-sea-island-cotton-from-extinction-tickets-792647368617?aff=oddtdtcreator</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Just a reminder: The Library system will be closed on Monday, January 15, 2024 for Martin Luther King, Jr. day.</div><p></p>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-89627728494812840662024-01-07T00:00:00.030-05:002024-01-07T00:00:00.135-05:00BDC's "Best Book of 2023" Selection : As We Remember<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy1bnxxojApM97B6nAIvjWjI-OjC4mybNp0OlDRIE4Penay0Tpi1TnfpeJOjM92ralpOqCNy0aJQOHQ0u_dT6W3LrRDupSXpUh-OeGxOvcoPSf4rn_zjGDzuOmUIt_JAsIitOBhidC0yNdEF3SiYh5WhE2rBAEPo9ISyxq129uE6MTzFmCCki3mXD9apRR/s595/As%20We%20Remember_Beaufort%20WRC%20book%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="460" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy1bnxxojApM97B6nAIvjWjI-OjC4mybNp0OlDRIE4Penay0Tpi1TnfpeJOjM92ralpOqCNy0aJQOHQ0u_dT6W3LrRDupSXpUh-OeGxOvcoPSf4rn_zjGDzuOmUIt_JAsIitOBhidC0yNdEF3SiYh5WhE2rBAEPo9ISyxq129uE6MTzFmCCki3mXD9apRR/s320/As%20We%20Remember_Beaufort%20WRC%20book%20cover.jpg" width="247" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Library's Marketing unit has asked staff to select a "Best Book of the Year" again. As you can tell from the "New (and New to Us) Materials" posts, we tend to get more older titles than those published in this calendar year. Last year, I chose a </span><a href="https://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/best-books-of-2022" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">coffee table book full of wonderful nature-based photographs of Hunting Island</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. This year, I am choosing an 83 pages, small press published history book about an enduring small, but mighty, local African-American woman's group as the BDC's "Best Book of 2023" selection. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Every war has its veterans; and every veterans group tends to have its auxiliaries. The Civil War period is no exception. <a href="https://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/confederate-veterans-associations.htm" target="_blank">Confederate veterans </a>had several such associations and as the veterans died off, their descendants became eligible for membership in similar associations. The Union too had its Grand Army of the Republic posts from 1866 to 1956 when its last member, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson" target="_blank">Albert Woolson</a>, died. Civil War veterans saw their respective associations as "crucial networks of moral support and fellowship for veterans after a traumatic war experience, and eventually as significant sources of political power." (1) </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Because of Beaufort District’s unique Civil War history as a rallying point for inducting Black men into the Union Army, there were enough former Federal soldiers (and sailors) living in the area to have three Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) posts for Union veterans: Post #9 Major General David Hunter in Beaufort; Post #12 Abraham Lincoln on Hilton Head; and Post #19 William McKinley in Bluffton founded in the late 19th century. The national GAR established an official auxiliary called the Woman's Relief Corps in 1883. The Beaufort post has had a Woman's Relief Corps (WRC) since at least 1892. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">So often, small local women's groups are ignored in the historical record and in the general public's consciousness. Dr. Najmah Thomas undertook the task to remedy this for the Beaufort Woman's Relief Corps, a local African-American woman's group tied to a national </span><span style="color: black;">auxiliary</span><span style="color: black;"> led by white women in support of a Civil War Union veterans organization. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Because historically the national Woman's Relief Corps was led by white women and units were segregated by race in the South, Beaufort's unit was run by African-American women mostly on behalf of Black Union veterans. It was one of the few African-American units in the country. </span></span><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222;">As We Remember: A History of the Woman's Relief
Corps in Beaufort, SC </span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">by Najmah Thomas and Fred
Washington, Sr. and the Woman's Relief Corps, No. 1 of South Carolina (Guntersville, AL: </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222;">Fresh Ink Group, 2023) is a short history of that woman's group and its enduring relationship with the David Hunter Post. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Professor Thomas crafts an impressive story from oral tradition and supporting documentation to provide a unique and very local history of a woman’s group long committed to service to others. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span></span></div><p><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Researching this topic had its challenges due to paucity of written records. The author states: </span></p><p><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Much of the record of the early Beaufort WRC was passed on through the oral history tradition....With deep respect and appreciation to the oral tradition, this historical documentation is an effort to formally preserve and present a shared understanding of the Beaufort WRC's work conducted in service of the national corps' fraternity, loyalty and charity mission. It is written from the lived experiences and perspectives of past and present Corps members, with some supporting historical context provided." (2) </span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222;">According to the author, "the WRC provided critical support to veterans in the form of nursing services, raising funds for much needed material goods for wounded and impoverished veterans and their families, an the intangible but impactful service of inspiring the patriotic cause after the war." (3) In Beaufort, the WRC planned and organized the annual Decoration Day festivities up to 1976</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222;"><span>. "The WRC distinguishes itself as the only patriotic group in the country founded on the basis of loyalty rather than kinship to members of the GAR. (4) </span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">The "Historical Summary of the Beaufort Woman's Relief Corps, 1889-1996" provides historical context to the unit's origins based on Civil War era activities of Black women who taught, nursed, fed and led during this period in Beaufort District's local history. She provides biographical summaries of the experiences of </span><a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/harriet-tubman-combahee/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Harriet Tubman</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/charlotte-forten-1837-1914/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Charlotte Forten Grimke</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> and</span><a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/search?q=Susie+King+Taylor" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"> Susie King Taylor</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> to help set the stage for the founding of the local group. Indeed, Susie King Taylor may have been an organizer of the Beaufort WRC. The group was one of only a few WRC's in the South in the 1890s. The BWRC submitted reports, dues, and hosted regular meetings as was required by the national organization. It operated under its original charter until 1951 when it disbanded for a time. National WRC Convention records indicate that the group was operating again by 1960 though there is only cursory documentation of its activities over the next 30 years. </span></p><p>The WRC was chartered by the United States government in 1962. Its aims are: </p><p></p><blockquote><p>1) To especially perpetuate the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic and its heroic dead. </p><p>2) To assist such Veterans of all wars of the United States of America as need our help and protection, to extend needful aid to their widows and orphans, and to assure them of sympathy and friends. To cherish and emulate the deeds of all loyal women who rendered loving service to our country in her hour of peril and</p><p>3) To maintain true allegiance to the United States of America; to inculcate lessons of patriotism and love of country among our children and in the communities in which we live; and encourage the spread of universal liberty and equal rights to all. (5) </p></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">During the early 1980s and 1990s, there was a revival of Black-led community organizations - and in Beaufort, the physical structure, the Grand Army Hall, helped gel interest in saving the historic building and revitalizing the local GAR and WRC groups. The Grand Army Hall Historic Preservation Foundation chaired by Fred Washington, Sr.. He was a local man who was a Montford Point Marine, entering military service during World War II and who retired in 1970 with the rank of Master Gunnery Sergeant. He sought funding to restore the building in honor of the 200th birthday of the United States Constitution in 1987. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">The WRC honored his commitment to the building, the building's role in the local Black community, and his own role in Beaufort County by </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">re-organizing itself as the Fred Washington, Sr. Woman's Relief Corps No. 1 on July 26, 1998. The Fred Washington Sr. Woman's Relief Corps No. 1 is in continuous partnership and collaborates with well-established Black congregations at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, Tabernacle Baptist Church, First African Baptist Church, Grace African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Central Baptist Church as well as local units of Daughters of Union Civil War Veterans and the Sons of Union Civil War Veterans. Together the Grand Army Hall Committee, upon which representatives of the WRC serve, helps provide management and preservation of the GAR Hall building and its small museum dedicated to the history and memory of Black military personnel. </span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">The penultimate section provides background information and photographs relating to members of the local WRC post, information from interviews conducted by the author over the summer of 2019, and some of the organization's activities up to 2022. The author makes a compelling case for the need to continue the WRC to encourage productive discourse about the meaning of patriotism and democracy today and some veterans continue to experience difficulties adjusting to civilian life. </span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">I recommend that you <a href="https://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/beaufort-district-collection" target="_blank">make an appointment</a> to come to the Research Room to read Dr. Thomas' gem of a book; review the contents of the GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC vertical file; read <i>Inside the G.A.R. in South Carolina</i> by Wendell Smith (2006) and learn about genealogy research from the<i> Guide to Tracing Your African Ameripean Civil War Ancestor </i>by Jeanette Braxton-Secret (1997). </span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: inherit;">Notes: </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">(1) </span><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;">As We Remember: A History of the Woman's Relief Corps in Beaufort, SC </span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;">by Najmah Thomas and Fred Washington, Sr. and the Woman's Relief Corps, No. 1 of South Carolina (Guntersville, AL: Fresh Ink Group, 2023), p. 1. Hereafter <i>As We Remember. </i></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;">(2) </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;"><i>As We Remember, </i>p. 2.</span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(3) <i style="color: #222222;">As We Remember,</i><span style="color: #222222;"> p. 1.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">(4) </span><i style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">As We Remember,</i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;"> p. 1; <a href="https://womansreliefcorps.org/membership-application/" target="_blank">Woman's Relief Corps membership application</a> accessed 8 December 2023</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">(5) <a href="https://womansreliefcorps.org/constitution/" target="_blank">Woman's Relief Corps Constitution</a> accessed 8 December 2023</span></span></p>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-62247737055471000392024-01-01T00:30:00.008-05:002024-01-01T00:30:00.147-05:00January 2024 Overview<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNxPaSGVE7FITfowc0Oh814runAHd-PaX3leP4GGW2OsmwHdSQEazEaznzCV9EcQFh16g31cYMVrjBPLKVGZjKaAb_VMFdSzub8EEPV7Xo6Hq3wXjtx7u5dlQlYVoOSid1LEGwY_gbrKEVMD9fuY1Qa3UerNps8XjQZLw4VQZglxMbeokSi-gn1Y35xqt8/s1024/Happy%20New%20Year.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNxPaSGVE7FITfowc0Oh814runAHd-PaX3leP4GGW2OsmwHdSQEazEaznzCV9EcQFh16g31cYMVrjBPLKVGZjKaAb_VMFdSzub8EEPV7Xo6Hq3wXjtx7u5dlQlYVoOSid1LEGwY_gbrKEVMD9fuY1Qa3UerNps8XjQZLw4VQZglxMbeokSi-gn1Y35xqt8/s320/Happy%20New%20Year.png" width="320" /></a>Happy <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2018/12/watching-for-jubilee.html" target="_blank">Jubilee Day</a> ... and so another year begins. May we all be happy, healthy, and prosperous in 2024 - in spite of the upcoming Presidential election cycle. </p><p>The BDC hits the ground running in 2024. We expect a new employee on January 8th - <i>but I am not one to count my chickens before they hatch.</i> Once the person is duly employed, I will share more information with you. </p><p>Because I've decided to stay a bit longer toiling away in the Research Room, I've also decided to continue the <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2023/01/materials-monday-2023-uniquely-bdc.html" target="_blank">"Uniquely BDC"</a> Materials Monday series until further notice. I could probably run it another 4 to 5 years easy-peasy if I were so inclined (<i>but I am not so inclined to work that long</i>). As before, though, I won't make Materials Monday or Black History Note Wednesday posts when the Library is closed or when I am on leave. </p><p>We offer you three opportunities to attend a local history program this month: </p><div><strong>Thursday, January 18, 2023 </strong>-- Historically Speaking 5.3 "Tom Austin, Lazarus, and the Resurrection of Sea Island Cotton from Extinction" with Tom Austin. First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall, 1201 North Street, 11 AM. First come; first seated. Door opens 30 minutes ahead of the program start time. </div><div><div><br /></div><div><div><strong>Wednesday, January 24, 2024</strong> -- "<em>Where Have All the Shrimp Boats Gone</em>" Author Book Talk with Woody Collins. <em>BDC@</em> Bluffton Branch Library, 120 Palmetto Way, 1 PM. First come; first seated. Door opens 30 minutes ahead of the program start time.</div><div><br /></div><div><strong>Wednesday, January 31, 2024</strong> -- "Yamasee Homelands" with Hannah Hoover. <em>BDC@</em> Beaufort Branch Library, 311 Scott Street, 2 PM. First come; first seated. Door opens 30 minutes ahead of the program start time.</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>The Library system is closed today, Monday, January 1, 2024. It will also be closed on Monday, January 15, 2024 in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. </div><p>I hope to soon be able to make a public announcement re: our latest project with the Lowcountry Digital Library. </p>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-89178408659967895662023-12-18T14:36:00.002-05:002023-12-18T14:36:12.771-05:00On Facebook, Nov. 16 - Dec. 15, 2023<p><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Hu6wGdOilWaL-ICm_gILXUnQdOzHTpiZg30mnyyT6MeFJJL3Heb36fK-xDpW69ByOEqu_ZFwuLGdQoluTkoMBC6mfwk7nC4HFE-G1YUzMFWtQ-51BMLEL2yPL5iZH28fTiH2AKQ7QHg5O9HsXsgRy0VVltOuJestsZ8gnd9sKKa9qBH6DOaoPU3yYEG0/s256/facebook-logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="256" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Hu6wGdOilWaL-ICm_gILXUnQdOzHTpiZg30mnyyT6MeFJJL3Heb36fK-xDpW69ByOEqu_ZFwuLGdQoluTkoMBC6mfwk7nC4HFE-G1YUzMFWtQ-51BMLEL2yPL5iZH28fTiH2AKQ7QHg5O9HsXsgRy0VVltOuJestsZ8gnd9sKKa9qBH6DOaoPU3yYEG0/w116-h116/facebook-logo.png" width="116" /></a></span></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>Here's the mid-month to mid-month recap of the BDC's Facebook page posts:</i></span><i style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </i><p></p><p><u style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Uniquely BDC: Materials Monday</span></u></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><b style="font-family: inherit;">November 20</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">: "Uniquely BDC: Materials Monday:" Clarence B. Moore (1852-1936) was a wealthy amateur archaeologist from Philadelphia who crisscrossed the rivers of the southeast each year in his steam-powered paddleboat, the </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Gopher,</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> excavating sites near the shores in states ranging from Alabama to Tennessee. He was in Beaufort District in 1897 and 1898 exploring archaeological sites and uncovering artifacts of Native American culture. His original notebooks and personal papers are housed </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">at Cornell University. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The BDC has a first edition of Moore's <i>Certain Aboriginal Mounds of the Coast of South Carolina</i> (1898) and a first edition of the <i>Journal of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia</i> volume 11 (1897) courtesy of the Beaufort Township Library. Volume 11 contains Moore's work about his discoveries in Georgia, South Carolina, along the Savannah and Altamaha rivers, Alabama, and in Florida along with articles by Marquis de Nadaillac, Edward D. Cope, Henry C. Mercer, and Dr. R. W. Shufeldt (1897). Though if asked, I would bring the volumes from our storage stacks out to a researcher, their condition is not great as the paper has become quite brittle and shattered. Therefore, even inside the Research Room I would insist that customers access the digital copies of these items through the <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044081030843 " target="_blank">HathiTrust website </a>at and through the <a href="https://archive.org/embed/journalofacad2111897acad" target="_blank">Internet Archive.</a> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can also borrow copies of <i>The Georgia and South Carolina Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore </i>(1998) from other parts of the SCLENDS consortium.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>November 27</b>: "Uniquely BDC:" Take a break from all your online shopping to explore the <a href="https://bit.ly/1Vn48nu" target="_blank">BDC's list of links and materials about Native Americans of the Lowcountry</a>. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>December 4:</b> "Uniquely BDC" Materials Monday: In honor of our next local history program, I want to highlight the "Men and Women of Beaufort during World War II" scrapbooks we have in our archives. These two scrapbooks contain materials from an album originally started in 1945 by former Beaufort Township Librarians Mabel Runnette and Isabelle Clift. Lee Stevenson, a library volunteer, rediscovered, reformatted and enhanced the original album with additional donations from the community <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>from 1993 to 1995. The clippings are dated between 1941 and 1993, with most of the clippings dating between 1942 and 1945. Volume 2 contains photocopied clippings from the <i>Beaufort Gazette, Beaufort News, Beaufort Times,</i> and <i>Penn School Annual Report of 1942-1943</i>. The Finding Aid is <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2021/07/30/men-and-women-in-world-war-ii-scrapbooks-1995-finding-aid/" target="_blank">posted online</a>. </span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">Local History Program Related Posts: </span></u></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg15YRcagIpus_vFr8O0ihIqKHmUFSYOK_YcbT7CfVkNNs8Rf0neK6aXfX3iOlwfm-FA_mPlw355AXysp6Ig6SsMFxMp_LIGqQNyypauG3e-WyruW6SPjQDfgqYV2fYfFjAHenVa8gKHnug5nAj0pFLvkM0NusoMOGAqbNXp60C8I7Fah4_kjCagv4iJ8FW/s1280/cropped%20Bush%20brothers.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="1280" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg15YRcagIpus_vFr8O0ihIqKHmUFSYOK_YcbT7CfVkNNs8Rf0neK6aXfX3iOlwfm-FA_mPlw355AXysp6Ig6SsMFxMp_LIGqQNyypauG3e-WyruW6SPjQDfgqYV2fYfFjAHenVa8gKHnug5nAj0pFLvkM0NusoMOGAqbNXp60C8I7Fah4_kjCagv4iJ8FW/s320/cropped%20Bush%20brothers.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>November 21:</b> 16 days to our next local history program.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>December 5: </b>The <a href="https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america/introduction" target="_blank"><i>Chronicling America</i> website of historic American newspapers</a> is changing. Check out the guide to its latest iteration. Might I suggest that given our upcoming local history program "The Bush Brothers at Pearl Harbor ... and Beyond" with Mary Dorsey that one might search on "Pearl Harbor" in the weeks following December 7, 1941 to see the contemporary coverage of that "day that will live in infamy."</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>December 6: </b>[Black History Note Wednesday] Post 207 of the American Legion is named in memory of a local Black sailor killed during the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Come learn about the Bush Family with Mary Dorsey tomorrow afternoon at Beaufort Branch Library. It's free; No registration required.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>December 11:</b> <span>"Uniquely BDC: Materials Monday": World War II is still on my mind because of the "Bush Brothers" local history program last week. We are the only part of the SCLENDS consortium to hold <i>Artie M. Heape: A Lowcountry Man and His Life</i> by Arlene Heape Hull (2011). Ours came directly from the author. Heape was born in Early Branch, Hampton County but moved to Beaufort at age 12 in 1907. He fought in three wars. He saw action in France and in Russia before being discharged for </span><span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span>the first time from the Army. He would serve again reaching the rank of Lt. Colonel in World War II. From 1946 - 1948, he was the Chief of Police for the city of Beaufort. In 1948 he rejoined the Army for the third time serving in the Philippines, the Korean War, and Texas. He resigned from the Army in 1955 and returned to Beaufort where he lived out the rest of his 95 years. We'd be happy to let you read it in our Research Room. Contact us <a href="mailto:bdc@bcgov.net">bdc@bcgov.net</a> or 843-255-6468 to make the arrangements.</span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><b>December 7 & 8</b> - I posted photos from the "Bush Brothers" program. </span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">Black History Note Wednesdays: </span></u></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>November 22:</b> "Black History Note:" <i>The Gullah Connection Trail: A Proposal for the US National Park Service </i>was a James Madison University Honors Program project led by Prof. Joseph Opala. Their goal was that the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Resource Study would simply be a starting point to explore their historical concept that the Gullah people of the Carolinas and Georgia were the center of a great chain of migration stretching back to West Africa and then forward to Florida, the <span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Bahamas, Oklahoma, Texas and Mexico. Under their proposal, three sites would be hubs to explore their concept: The Charles Pinckney National Historic Site near Charleston; The Penn Center on St. Helena Island; and The Seminole National Museum of Wewoka, OK where new exhibits could illuminate the Black Seminole diaspora. If accepted as proposed the Gullah Connection Trail would consist of 37 Gullah-related sties in 6 states and 6 foreign countries. Their plan was modeled on the Underground Railroad Network across the US and Canada. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This title also happens to be an "Uniquely BDC" offering within the SCLENDS consortium. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reminder: When the BDC closes tonight, staff won't return until Monday, November 27th. Other units of the Library will re-open for business on Saturday, November 25th.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>November 29: </b><span>"Black History Note:" <i>The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670 - 1717</i> by Alan Gallay (Yale University Press, 2002) won the Bancroft Prize in American History. He examines enslavement as practiced in the Southeast: first using Native Americans, and after the Yamasee War, Africans. For the first 50 years in South Carolina's colonial history, enslaved Native Americans were the labor base. This changed around the time of the Indian </span><span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span>uprising known as the Yamasee War. Africans became the preferred labor force in South Carolina. </span></span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He writes how "The specter of Native Americans uniting with African Americans against Europeans haunted South Carolina and Louisiana colonials. The elite of both colonies worked strenuously to keep Indians and Africans apart and mutually hostile, and to do so, they sought to impose their racial ideology on them .... In spite of these and other actions taken by British and French leaders to prevent positive interactions among Indians and Africans, the blacks had numerous occasions to forge relationships outside of those proscribed by the Europeans." (p. 345) </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's a fascinating book - and supplemental readings about the period and the practices of enslavement can be found on this flyer of materials about Dr. Henry Woodward and the Proprietary Era in South Carolina.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>December 13:</b> <span>Ready or not, here they come -- the dreaded (or perhaps long awaited) annual Christmas letter from your relatives and friends. I am sure that those who were on Ervena Faulkner's Christmas list enjoyed receiving her <i>Christmas Letters: An African American Story, 1968 - 2003</i>. Check a copy out from the Local History section at your BCL branch library.</span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><u><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Just Because </i>posts<i>: </i></span></u></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>November 20: </b>Dr. James Shinn brought members of his upper level history classes to the Research Room for a behind-the-scenes tour on Monday, November 6th. [We posted over 40 images of the class visit.]</span></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>November 28:</b> <span>The US Mint is asking for input about commemorative coins for our nation's Semiquincentennial in 2026. I'm a little disappointed that the DeSaussure Gold Eagle isn't among the choices, but there are indeed some interesting numismatic designs among the options. <a href="https://catalog.usmint.gov/semiq/ " target="_blank">Participate</a>. </span><span> Note: The survey closes on December 3, 2023. </span></span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two DeSaussure brothers, Henry and Daniel built up Coosawhatchie as a trading post in the 1740s. Their father, Henri, was <span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>the Huguenot immigrant via Switzerland to America, who owned a 312-acre plantation on Hilton Head Island by 1730. Henri's grandson William Henry DeSaussure was a significant political figure in South Carolina. His house in Beaufort, now gone, became the fabled Gold Eagle Tavern in the 1930s in homage to his directorship of the US Mint.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By the way, the correct mispronunciation of the family name in South Carolina is either DES-suh-soe or DES-suh-SOHR.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>November 30: </b><span>A sobering report that I found cited in the American Association for State and Local History weekly e-newsletter: "<a href="https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/state-of-local-news/2023/" target="_blank">Does Anyone Notice Local History When There is No Local News</a>?" As the local history librarian and archivist, I tend to take a longer range view of things as I appreciate how local newspapers serve as a vital resources for future historians and genealogists. It's why we provide as many Beaufort County based local newspapers in the Research Room for customers to </span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a><span>use as is practical given preservation issues, digital access through other sources, microfilm equipment and formats and collecting and boxing up some currently published newspapers.</span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><b>December 1:</b> </span><span>December Overview: Things usually quiet down for the BDC between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day - and I tend to take off some personal leave over the course of the period. This year seems to be no exception. Accordingly, you will see less Monday and Wednesday posts later this month. </span></span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The only program on our agenda is about a local man who was killed at Pearl Harbor - to be held, appropriately I think, Thursday, December 7th. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We've recommended a person for the Library <span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Specialist position. We're waiting on the County's employment process to play out before we make a formal announcement of whom will be joining Jalen and me here in the Research Room.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please note: The Library's holiday schedule will impact Research Room appointment availability. Contact us for details. As a reminder: we are unable to take same-day or walk-in appointments at this time.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>December 12:</b> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9NgweKByVuspuZjpFXWb9JSFla0k9ev1316J-qAg06P7WMwF3nTGxFKDr5OOnFvIigyfjmRHYi7ukF5iAZSZa9XchfH4VMd35kiaMnSd-EBLIkAsP72uVtpG2W9coNJvICmfIILxwQFXOFRReVPq9x9-CtQDQjoJRONXgH1LgNVFkER4DA8rE6j-e7XJX/s1056/Very-brief-Railroad-history-2772308.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="816" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9NgweKByVuspuZjpFXWb9JSFla0k9ev1316J-qAg06P7WMwF3nTGxFKDr5OOnFvIigyfjmRHYi7ukF5iAZSZa9XchfH4VMd35kiaMnSd-EBLIkAsP72uVtpG2W9coNJvICmfIILxwQFXOFRReVPq9x9-CtQDQjoJRONXgH1LgNVFkER4DA8rE6j-e7XJX/w309-h400/Very-brief-Railroad-history-2772308.png" width="309" /></a></div>I am so excited that I can bring one of my grandchildren to see the model trains at Beaufort Branch later this week! He lives far, far away and is coming to visit me for Christmas.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"><b style="font-family: inherit;">December 14: </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">In honor of perennially popular Beaufort Branch's Model Train exhibit, here's a "Very Brief History of Railroads in Beaufort District" that I wrote a few years ago. Those Bitly links take you </span><a href="http://bit.ly/2P5X3M5" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">to more information</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and </span><a href=" http://bit.ly/2Rlew7I" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">to photographs of the Yemassee Depot circa 1900 - 1910</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. (The Beaufort Railroaders have done this display for the Beaufort Branch Library for a very impressive 30 years now - so long that I'd bet that some of those who came in the earliest years just might be </span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">bringing their own children - or grandchildren! - now.)</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><u style="color: black; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: collapse;">Holidays:</u><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: collapse;"> </span></div><div dir="auto"><b style="color: black; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: collapse;">November 16:</b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: collapse;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;">Wonder if <a href="https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:1844" target="_blank">these fowl</a> are getting nervous that Thanksgiving Day is only a week away? This images is from the BCL's Donner Collection.</span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW4ZpU88HG69qrSRK1fNXlLyd7yjcRDWnNEcgoAeiBLoZJgMYh1FJOMQU82Gs6M-TtRj2UBthCyMOWKrJSo8elaS9Rl3yVHRgqEO6wm8CrGe5gRgpx3z3rBxpiSt5EtUAN5nWVGBQNUUWTn-Abvy-eaMgMjTWkJzz2mWaEjIRCnj63m7zGgbT63WJYj2LV/s536/Holiday%20closings%20Dec%202023.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="417" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW4ZpU88HG69qrSRK1fNXlLyd7yjcRDWnNEcgoAeiBLoZJgMYh1FJOMQU82Gs6M-TtRj2UBthCyMOWKrJSo8elaS9Rl3yVHRgqEO6wm8CrGe5gRgpx3z3rBxpiSt5EtUAN5nWVGBQNUUWTn-Abvy-eaMgMjTWkJzz2mWaEjIRCnj63m7zGgbT63WJYj2LV/s320/Holiday%20closings%20Dec%202023.JPG" width="249" /></a></div><p style="color: black; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>November 23:</b> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We are so thankful for our customers, our docents, our colleagues, our donors, our program co-sponsors, the Friends of the Beaufort Library and our Library Board of Trustees. Enjoy your holidays. Jalen and I will!</span></p><p style="color: black; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>December 10:</b> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">There's still some time for you to set up a Research Appointment before we break for the holidays. Contact us: <a href="mailto:bdc@bcgov.net">bdc@bcgov.net</a> or 843-255-6468 to make the necessary arrangements. (PSST: Don't forget to drop by to see the model trains downstairs in the Beaufort Branch, Tuesday through Saturday.)</span></p><p style="color: black; white-space-collapse: collapse;">A notice: <span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I am taking some personal leave this holiday season. Jalen will be in the Research Room Mondays - Fridays except for scheduled holidays to assist those interested in coming to the Research Room or those who have scheduled appointments. Please contact him at 843-255-6468 or email </span><a href="mailto:bdc@bcgov.net" style="font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">bdc@bcgov.net</a><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> to request help or an appointment. </span></p></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jalen and I wish you all the best of the holiday season! </span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-85147580331698915702023-12-06T00:00:00.020-05:002023-12-07T17:19:31.034-05:00New (and New to Us) Materials Received May - November 2023<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLw1_Aq6fZUNk3LHApYITQkoSO6w_LReed51mgYvyf5zd5EGQDOlKkYtGzWcrznfkJW9vBdWGhjlNkH56sKw1mjIlCQdELeMoIRDa5SGLaxfEj6WBLZnQjARQ1wVT6KCDmrsoUz2PRZ7fO5J6nkjPnBcdC8qpIcq1mLajBRbF7T8oUQAk7PsAJqnglwssL/s3736/New%20and%20New%20to%20us%20materials_late2023_IMG_20231130_144542957.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="3736" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLw1_Aq6fZUNk3LHApYITQkoSO6w_LReed51mgYvyf5zd5EGQDOlKkYtGzWcrznfkJW9vBdWGhjlNkH56sKw1mjIlCQdELeMoIRDa5SGLaxfEj6WBLZnQjARQ1wVT6KCDmrsoUz2PRZ7fO5J6nkjPnBcdC8qpIcq1mLajBRbF7T8oUQAk7PsAJqnglwssL/s320/New%20and%20New%20to%20us%20materials_late2023_IMG_20231130_144542957.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Because it's time to make a change in featured new and new to us items, here's a brief run-down of materials that have arrived in the BDC Research Room since May 1st. As per usual, it's a mixture of purchased and gifted items. The BDC has always been fortunate to have supporters and advocates who assist us by giving us first dibs on some of their books and family possessions. <div><br /></div><div>We are grateful to Anne Christensen Pollitzer for donating us a copy of her "Great-Grandmother Abbie M. Holmes Christensen's Family Photo Album" that she compiled. It is quite charming and supplements other Christensen Family related materials here in the Research Room. In fact, we have a bibliography of materials about <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/abbie-holmes-christensen-1852-1938/" target="_blank">Abbie Holmes Christensen in our BDCBCL: Lists, Links, and Finding Aids Blog</a> in case you'd like to learn more about this quite untraditional 19th Century woman and her influential family. </div><div><br /></div><div>Hollis Phillips brought us a copy of a genealogical study of the Priester, Peeples, Cope, Mixon, Robinson, and Tuten families at the behest of the family of author Jane Priester Hawkins. <i>Lives and Legends</i> (1987, 1991) joins other genealogies for these families previously in our holdings. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitsQd2ZiF-oDdBemaMUnoy8SXE-pPqgDKYl-dVJXV_YMwJ3ZPjHVgAXB9w8jjQetZkMEPkPo_oqnssokaTn0E5uNoHHeD0icw_jyFdc2ol9MAUe4Sa6j6ih70PLSNoBiwl9fYs5bwU7kgy0sl9pXXcQgFBItVxQ9xIEQITa6OtBkNsQ_eW0UvAphlADJE3/s595/As%20We%20Remember_Beaufort%20WRC%20book%20cover.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="460" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitsQd2ZiF-oDdBemaMUnoy8SXE-pPqgDKYl-dVJXV_YMwJ3ZPjHVgAXB9w8jjQetZkMEPkPo_oqnssokaTn0E5uNoHHeD0icw_jyFdc2ol9MAUe4Sa6j6ih70PLSNoBiwl9fYs5bwU7kgy0sl9pXXcQgFBItVxQ9xIEQITa6OtBkNsQ_eW0UvAphlADJE3/w228-h295/As%20We%20Remember_Beaufort%20WRC%20book%20cover.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><div>We were delighted to receive a copy of <i>As We Remember: A History of the Woman's Relief Corps in Beaufort, SC </i>by Najmah Thomas and Fred Washington, Sr. and the Woman's Relief Corps, No. 1 of South Carolina (2023) from the authors. The group is a national organization established as an official auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, an Union Civil War veterans organization. The WRC provided critical support for veterans and their families particularly during the late 19th century. The Beaufort WRC was founded on April 22, 1889 and re-organized as the Fred Washington, Sr. Woman's Relief Corps No. 1 on July 26, 1998. </div><div><br /></div><div>Novelist Nancy Ritter gave us a copy of her book, <i>Slack Tide </i>(2023), to add to our small fiction section. </div><div><br /></div><div>Beaufort Branch gave us their copy of the <i>South Carolina Legislative Manual</i> for 2023 after the State House closed its session in June. As you may recall, the <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2021/04/state-legislative-manuals-in-research.html" target="_blank">BDC has a rather good collection of the manuals</a>. We also received more posters to add to our vertical files or growing poster collection. </div><div><br /></div><div>From the ever generous Friends of the Beaufort Library we accessioned <i>A Field Guide to Sea Island </i>[sic] by H.E. Taylor Schoettle, illustrated by Carol Johnson (1987) about the natural coastal flora, fauna, and environment; The <i>2016-2017</i> and <i>2017-2018 Bluffton Middle School </i>yearbooks to add to our <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2020/09/school-annuals-in-research-room.html" target="_blank">growing collection of school annuals</a>; and an <i>Accountants' Report</i> for Hilton Head's Broad Creek Public Service District (1984). </div><div><br /></div><div>I purchased <i>Charleston and Savannah: The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of Two Rival Cities</i> by Thomas D. Wilson (2023) to provide context for Beaufort's situation between these much larger competitors for economic and political power through the years. We also have author's <i>The Oglethorpe Plan: Enlightenment Design in Savannah and Beyond</i> (2012) and <i>The Ashley Cooper Plan: The Founding of Carolina and the Origins of Southern Political Culture</i> (2016). </div><div><br /></div><div>Because <i>Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders</i> by John Glatt (2023) included more than 20 pages worth of material about the boat accident that killed Mallory Beach, I bought it. I think that the most important thing Glatt wrote was how to correctly pronounce Alex Murdaugh's name - "Ellick Murdock" - in the prologue on page 3. One of my pet peeves is when non-natives try to "correct" our <i><a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2008/05/correct-mispronunciations-of-some-south.html" target="_blank">Correct Mispronunications</a></i>! Otherwise, I couldn't be less personally interested in the ins-and-outs and twists-and-turns in the Murdaugh saga. The murders happened in Colleton County and therefore fall outside the BDC's collection development policy. The law office was started after Hampton County was formed from the western side of the Charleston and Savannah Railroad tracks in 1878 -- before the Murdaugh Family began its climb to prominence. Again, therefore the topic falls outside the BDC's collection development policy. That said, though, we do have several vertical files in which one or more of the Murdaugh family members appear: Distilling, Illicit; Murdaugh Family; Murders - Murdaugh Family (2021). These are intended to give customers a general time frame for a particular Murdaugh family member or Murdaugh related event as a guide to start looking for additional resources elsewhere. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz33dhVOMxCyUoMdH2KxDlkPHxDjl0926FlNUK3ktH8ajhLmRH_aUCg-0h_lf1mGqhmDhmJy38iOcF_NdR38QrlEeSXMAEvFP5bW27e568Ry9ja873NL_g8INqp8_SLgeKJzD_8o_Z0QBizdQAitPiRmbtwPGvmvXLtfPdW6iWaJZuCA_bqFDi0AK5XHFT/s400/Medicine%20Science%20and%20the%20Making%20of%20Race%20book%20cover.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="264" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz33dhVOMxCyUoMdH2KxDlkPHxDjl0926FlNUK3ktH8ajhLmRH_aUCg-0h_lf1mGqhmDhmJy38iOcF_NdR38QrlEeSXMAEvFP5bW27e568Ry9ja873NL_g8INqp8_SLgeKJzD_8o_Z0QBizdQAitPiRmbtwPGvmvXLtfPdW6iWaJZuCA_bqFDi0AK5XHFT/w154-h233/Medicine%20Science%20and%20the%20Making%20of%20Race%20book%20cover.jpg" width="154" /></a></div><div><i>Medicine, Science & Making Race in Civil War America</i> by Leslie A. Schwalm (2023) provides compelling evidence that the construction of racism within the medical and health care systems before, during and after the Civil War was intentional. White Northerners, the Sanitary Commission, and the United States Army's medical personnel promoted ideas about Black inferiority, often mistreated their ailments, and conducted experiments on living humans. It is a damning indictment. Because Beaufort was a Union hospital town, we have a <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2018/08/28/mid-19th-century-medicine-a-selective-list-of-links-and-materials/" target="_blank">number of Civil War medical histories</a> in the Research Room. We also have the author's <i>A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina</i> (1997). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons</i> by Syvliane A Diouf (2014) got cited so often in other books and articles about formerly enslaved African and African Americans who "freed" themselves and formed societies in Southern wild places, such as the swamps of Beaufort District, that I had to buy a copy for permanent retention. It joins Timothy Lockley's <span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span>Maroon Communities in South Carolina: A Documentary Record</span> </i>(2009) on the BDC's shelves. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">We also received some more posters from the Beaufort Branch's bulletin boards of local events.</span></div>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-91611502519589681502023-12-01T00:00:00.046-05:002023-12-05T17:20:21.908-05:00December 2023 Overview<p><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2b33; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyPHwQ8Dwa3wLb-Whf5wZuCuZNBSdLS-LhFwyrAh0xSyMdar68esHntv8X0Mh2tqdRnoPf9XtwDBA_RRYj03d4V84MqGiXmvUCSnV-k2_xvHNBcn4If72E3FcCA_NTSq1ix9736gfoRddtLokm8qqm0uvu6xsndHjI1wy6tA7v7Fz_rbCWlJhKnO8bJWOW/s800/kisspng-clip-art-december-microsoft-word-gif-december-png-transparent-picture-png-mart-5b6f193691c551.6168423315340076065971.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="800" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyPHwQ8Dwa3wLb-Whf5wZuCuZNBSdLS-LhFwyrAh0xSyMdar68esHntv8X0Mh2tqdRnoPf9XtwDBA_RRYj03d4V84MqGiXmvUCSnV-k2_xvHNBcn4If72E3FcCA_NTSq1ix9736gfoRddtLokm8qqm0uvu6xsndHjI1wy6tA7v7Fz_rbCWlJhKnO8bJWOW/s320/kisspng-clip-art-december-microsoft-word-gif-december-png-transparent-picture-png-mart-5b6f193691c551.6168423315340076065971.png" width="320" /></a><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2b33; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></div><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2b33; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br />December Overview: Things usually quiet down for the BDC between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day - and I tend to take off some personal leave to spend with family over the course of the period. This year seems to be no exception. Accordingly, you will see less social media posts later this month. </span></span><p></p><p></p><div data-block="true" data-editor="f2l8m" data-offset-key="2lhp5-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c2b33; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2lhp5-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The only program on our agenda is about a local man who was killed at Pearl Harbor - to be held, appropriately I think, Thursday, December 7th. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the fog of war sometimes mistakes are made. Shortly after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on the "day that will live in infamy" 82 years ago, the Beaufort Gazette reported that two of Beaufort County's own died in the attack. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2017/12/kia-pearl-harbor.html">Read more</a> about these sailors, </span>World War II materials, and how the BDC can help you uncover an ancestor’s military history. </div></div><p>Beaufort's American Legion Post 207 is named for a local man who was killed aboard the <em>USS California</em> when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. But who was he - and what happened to his brother, Leon, who was also reported in the local area press as killed in action on that date? Mary Dorsey, a member and officer of Post 207 was determined to find out. Come hear about her quest that uncovered surprising facts, a story of brotherly love, irony, unexpected emotions, a parallel in her personal life, and a friendship with the Bush family. We hope to have you join us for "The Bush Brothers at Pearl Harbor ... and Beyond" on Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 2 PM in the Beaufort Branch meeting room. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxFCyYcYwSwkfZKkju_gflXOhnl3wIMMyWyTKy_RMkb9rNxbHPsUPUE82Ow1iATb5x7ccwsCFJ_42fIxZbHMxQCRUCJdwC1Z4b41q7XrqxHZnzdqFprdzNO75vpPfTe4pi6pnGCnwKVsBo5ljo7YUlf0ThrPuLfzSX01hTJYyz-dk4l2Rq_SBivRhyphenhyphen7Odw/w640-h360/Slide15.JPG" width="640" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;">"The Bush Brothers at Pearl Harbor and Beyond" with Mary Dorsey | Thursday, December 7, 2023 | Beaufort Branch Library, 311 Scott Street | 2 PM | No registration: First Come; First Seated | Note: Seating begins at 1:30 PM </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">* Note: We then take a break with local history programs until after the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div>We have worked hard to try to find the BDC's Library Specialist to help with at least some of the many behind-the-scenes tasks and activities necessary to serve our special collections and archives customers. We have recommended someone to Human Resources for hire. <span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2b33; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We're waiting on the County's employment process to play out before we make a formal announcement of who will be joining Jalen and me here in the Research Room.</span> I assure all that once the person arrives for work in the BDC, I shall proclaim who it is and what were some of the reasons why s/he was determined to be the "best person" for the position at this time. <div><br /><div><div data-block="true" data-editor="f2l8m" data-offset-key="2bo28-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c2b33; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2bo28-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2bo28-0-0"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrbhOSeZHsvowQC2sdEyVAS5KSd1SFfu8zfU8vVrhcYHQNf-jMt1qtiw9EhCPB42W3EW-bCOWzT2iEnyBaR7rTKF-6-3fvBYZDpoFTAECYG5mQH64eFiTBF2GKjLe_qj4JTvnb6mHNYoovzuGqtHAqgSCQ1WECXCX9E50A6RfWKGGMrjL3NUWwH-qP3FdD/s536/Holiday%20closings%20Dec%202023.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="417" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrbhOSeZHsvowQC2sdEyVAS5KSd1SFfu8zfU8vVrhcYHQNf-jMt1qtiw9EhCPB42W3EW-bCOWzT2iEnyBaR7rTKF-6-3fvBYZDpoFTAECYG5mQH64eFiTBF2GKjLe_qj4JTvnb6mHNYoovzuGqtHAqgSCQ1WECXCX9E50A6RfWKGGMrjL3NUWwH-qP3FdD/s320/Holiday%20closings%20Dec%202023.JPG" width="249" /></a></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2bo28-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">There's a lot of behind-the-scenes work that the (unfortunate?) Library Specialist must help me get done - and the list grows longer each day. In fact, I've just rediscovered that there's a serial cataloging challenge and space allocation puzzle to ponder - as an unexpected result of a rather simple customer request. That, though, is why I still like this job: the thrill of the twists and turns. Just when I think that I have everything more or less under control, a new situation unfolds to give me food for thought about how to make the BDC even better before I go away for good. Plus there's the Local History section selection process for the Port Royal Branch Library to do ... and the vertical file integration project to continue ... and potentially another welcome-but-long-in-coming-announcement to make before the New Year's Eve. </div></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="f2l8m" data-offset-key="66j7s-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c2b33; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="66j7s-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="66j7s-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="f2l8m" data-offset-key="8ni19-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c2b33; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8ni19-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8ni19-0-0">Please note: The Library's holiday schedule will impact Research Room appointment availability. Contact us for details. As a reminder: we are unable to take same-day or walk-in appointments at this time.</span></div></div><p></p><p>The Library system will be closed Friday, December 22 - Tuesday, December 26, 2023 for the Christmas holidays. County employees do not get paid leave for New Year's Eve - and this year, New Year's Eve happens to fall on a Sunday, so the Library will only be closed on Monday, January 1, 2024 for New Year's Day. </p></div></div>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-41940993830438970512023-11-28T14:35:00.001-05:002023-11-28T14:35:57.451-05:00Highlights of Native American Heritage in the BDC Display Case<p><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI_EmbeddedFont", "Segoe UI_MSFontService", sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHWPEd0mDN8YcTAazlRavd3Ue3a-FujuUMOLd5tX35qB24xeryon6L4z3O067v79vtN-k1T1frq8vRGZp97KO-ONUgaoXFmyi5HAylSUMa2kRfh8koobIizGXUi0KQZQJiEN92a23kyVoEBM27LRgC2OEmjLwkGw8KQVsv2_kkroOcV7Jhhu2q7-ISJSrb/s4000/IMG_20231113_171608771.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHWPEd0mDN8YcTAazlRavd3Ue3a-FujuUMOLd5tX35qB24xeryon6L4z3O067v79vtN-k1T1frq8vRGZp97KO-ONUgaoXFmyi5HAylSUMa2kRfh8koobIizGXUi0KQZQJiEN92a23kyVoEBM27LRgC2OEmjLwkGw8KQVsv2_kkroOcV7Jhhu2q7-ISJSrb/s320/IMG_20231113_171608771.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I assign BDC staff to create displays for a number of reasons: 1) to get acquainted with the scope of BDC holdings yet 2) explore BDC resources more deeply re: a particular topic or theme 3) to ascertain their creativity 4) learn their writing style; and 5) assess how their brain works. But there's also the dividend to me that I can do other tasks instead of thinking about how to stock the display case on a recurrent basis. While it is true that I too re-discover materials to highlight when I choose a "new" topic to cover, it's good for other staff to explore our holdings. Sometimes my staff "see" connections that I do not. </i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When Jalen arrived, he was assigned the November 2023 display case on the topic of Native Americans</i>. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Below is Jalen Lugo's first entry for the </i>Connections<i> blog, edited of course, by me. -- Grace Cordial</i><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"b6a86f38-14ec-4266-a1a3-4b3fc2e359cb|243","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[469775450,"x_s2",201340122,"1",134233614,"true",469778129,"xs2",335572020,"1",469778324,"Default Paragraph Font"]}" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">My first two months working at the BDC have been quite eventful</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I knew about the size of the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">collection,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> but I did not begin to comprehend the sheer amount of information </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">it presented. Every day I find, at the very least, 5 items or topics that I never heard about, or had little knowledge </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">regarding</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Whether it be through an event</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> by Grace </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">informing me</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, or through my own research I find that the BDC contains </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a wealth of knowledge that few seem to know of and fewer still take advantage of it. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Most customers who come to the BDC do not visit for the purpose of researching a historical topic such as the Catawba or “</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Tuscarora</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">” Barnwell, but instead come to research the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">genealogical side of things. Surprisingly, or at least to me, the BDC contains fantastic sources of information regarding genealogy </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">as well as containing records and historical items from Beaufort District's history.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Below, for the Indigenous Peoples month during November, are 11 items that I found the most interesting </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and were proper for the display case.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559685":0,"335559731":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW28581872 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW28581872 BCX0" paraeid="{560859da-59d3-4749-bfe4-ccc2370dcf1f}{192}" paraid="712508757" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">T</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he Catawba Indian Nation of the Carolinas</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">by Thomas J. Blumer attempts to restore </span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the legacy </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the Catawba Indi</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ans</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Catawba</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">are</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> referred to under different names, many times being used in tandem with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Chicora</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. W</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hat made this stand out over other items was that the Catawba ar</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the only</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> federally recognized </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">found in South Carolina. There are</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> nine </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">state</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> recognized </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">N</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Lowcountry SC Ethnohistory: A Guide to Indian and Afro-American Sources</span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> by Alexander Moore<strike> </strike></span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is a guide to finding sources and items that may help on someone’s journey to discovering the roots of their past. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It contains a decent </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">amount</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> of sources that one may use to discover their past, something that is difficult because of the deconstruction of Native American </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">culture and identity and the slave trade. Because of European colonization</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, the Native Americans were forced to move out of their original homes and areas or face extinction. Those</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">tha</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t were brought to the “new world” through enslavement have also lost their cultural identities because of the way Europeans kept track of their enslaved peoples. Most</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> documents, if any, that contain any information on enslaved people is just an inventory because they were considered property, so the most you will discover on these documents is a first name and who their prev</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ious masters were.</span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW28581872 BCX0" paraeid="{560859da-59d3-4749-bfe4-ccc2370dcf1f}{192}" paraid="712508757" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW28581872 BCX0" paraeid="{560859da-59d3-4749-bfe4-ccc2370dcf1f}{192}" paraid="712508757" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Yamassee</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Indians</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> from Florida to South Carolina</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">edited </span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">by Denise I. Bossy</span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">contains information regarding the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Yamassee</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Lore can be defined in different ways, one being tall tales that are passed down from generation to generation, and another</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Bierer uses the term “lore” </span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to describe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">cultural </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">identity of the Native Americans, and what made them so important. 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US">Sea Island </span><span class="TextRun Strikethrough SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Secrets, a </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US">Journey Through Time: 4000 years of history uncovered in the South Carolina Lowcountry </span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US">is a DVD. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This documentary features shell middens, essentially garbage heaps left by Native Americans. Shell middens are found all through the lowcou</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ntry</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. Famed archaeologist Dr. Chester DePratter and others describe what they discovered while examining the coast and shorelines of South Carolina and Georgia.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #00b050; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I chose this item to represent the variety of materials formats housed in the Research Room. </span></span></span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW28581872 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US">I opened</span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The Catawba Indians</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the People of the River</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> by Douglas Summers </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Brown to the page that has</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">an image of the Catawba Indians attending a Christian church</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span>I don’t understand why the <span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Catawba, or any Indian people, would want to go to the church of the people that stole their land and killed them.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Why I find this so </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">surprising</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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The Spanish tried to convert the Indians into the Catholic Religion but because of their resolve and the idea tha</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t someone else chose this for them, they decided that they would rather fight back and die rather than lose their identity to a people who enslaved them and took their resources.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW28581872 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></div><div><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 48px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-indent: 48px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Indian Arrowheads and Spearheads in the Carolinas</span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> by Bert W. Bierer</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">is a</span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">field guide </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="x_p3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: url("data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBQAEAPEDAABVzDNVzDNV/wAAACH5BAUAAAMALAAAAAAFAAQAAAIInC2QchYKQgEAOw=="); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="x_p3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">i</span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nformation ranging from Clovis Points (9000 to 17000 years</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ago</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">) to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Nodena</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Points (400 to 600 years</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: url("data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBQAEAPEDAABVzDNVzDNV/wAAACH5BAUAAAMALAAAAAAFAAQAAAIInC2QchYKQgEAOw=="); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">am</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">fascinated </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that archaeologists were not only able to find these </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">artifacts but</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> be able to identify them. One would think that with all the time that has passed, these small items would deteriorate into an unidentifiable rock. I am glad that they have not. </span></span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="x_s2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW28581872 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-family: arial; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 48px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></div></div>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-2162400207881799712023-11-20T15:47:00.001-05:002023-11-20T15:47:50.559-05:00BDC Posts to Facebook, October 16 - November 15, 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheAcg7-0E7Vhgj6L27IRyOqwhi2gK7pvbTb-cixXawuPtTyUJosTeWtNsnXxYxsz8CYoMmWpYJC-Uf7_FbRPiDwdmRX5j4d_tVZzHCIvZtIl2y6gbu9qDKclQTQohUGxWPA4ZiPB9xJv1i6x_VrKmveepj2Z3XR5v4C-97zhu37DseQwXKGIn8vPcJnHIp/s720/facebook-770688_960_720.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheAcg7-0E7Vhgj6L27IRyOqwhi2gK7pvbTb-cixXawuPtTyUJosTeWtNsnXxYxsz8CYoMmWpYJC-Uf7_FbRPiDwdmRX5j4d_tVZzHCIvZtIl2y6gbu9qDKclQTQohUGxWPA4ZiPB9xJv1i6x_VrKmveepj2Z3XR5v4C-97zhu37DseQwXKGIn8vPcJnHIp/w116-h116/facebook-770688_960_720.webp" width="116" /></i></a></div><i>As you are likely aware, we celebrate a lot of themes during October and in November we honor Native American Heritage Month. Accordingly, you'll see references in our Facebook posts to National Archives Month, Family History Month, Gullah Geechee Heritage Month, and program reminders. </i><p></p><p><i>Here's what I wrote for Facebook from mid-October to mid-November: </i></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>October 16:</b> </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Uniquely BDC:" Materials Monday in Archives Month - Archives by their very nature are unique collections of materials created or compiled by an individual or an organization for a particular purpose. The BDC Research Room has about 200 such collections ranging in size from the contents of one folder to about 150,000 items in many archival boxes. We have posted <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/?s=Finding+Aid" target="_blank">some Finding Aids online</a>; we have those Finding Aids and more in a binder in the Research Room; and we continue to </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">work from the inventory list to arrange and describe what remains unarranged and described. Unfortunately, the BDC's archival collections are not listed with other BDC materials in the joint SCLends catalog. So ... if you have a question about our holdings, when it comes to Archives, it's best to contact us directly and ask: <a href="mailto:bdc@bcgov.net">bdc@bcgov.net</a> or 843-255-6468.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBQBlfSRaWQX0OxrjvMUtaKMiiy0yRo9JTqdyz9VUEz64KrOYNf51O0KHc3Nj4uEpdvkpzNLHKSPKnqxkR99xteaBFeiwaO4BRYLtwu4ozuDZKoGucFUxHH7qTsEo6XR1NgCwuNRBQqkk54K3_UTzxS68XmnXLNIhWWnyNNtcL8toCZz1_oqoP3O0W0r4t/s701/Uniquely%20BDC%202023%20Materials%20Monday%20logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="691" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBQBlfSRaWQX0OxrjvMUtaKMiiy0yRo9JTqdyz9VUEz64KrOYNf51O0KHc3Nj4uEpdvkpzNLHKSPKnqxkR99xteaBFeiwaO4BRYLtwu4ozuDZKoGucFUxHH7qTsEo6XR1NgCwuNRBQqkk54K3_UTzxS68XmnXLNIhWWnyNNtcL8toCZz1_oqoP3O0W0r4t/w197-h200/Uniquely%20BDC%202023%20Materials%20Monday%20logo.jpg" width="197" /></a></div><p></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>October 23:</b> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Uniquely BDC: Materials Monday": Plantations are still on my mind after Kayleigh Vaughn's enlightening presentations earlier this week. So I went in search of uniquely BDC plantation related materials - and found one to highlight for you today. </span></span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The BDC Research Room is the only place within the SCLENDS consortium that you can find this "Rough Map of Eustis Plantation on Ladies Island SC" originally drawn by George Gage in 1876 and filed at the Beaufort County register of <span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>deeds in 1879 but copied here by F.H. Swain on 22 January [19]08. It certainly looks like the reason for the map was to separate the plantation into lots for sale. In 1876 $10 an acre seems to be the going price. Even with calculating for the 1876 value of a dollar into 2023 dollars ($10 = $287. 65), just you try buying a 22+ Acre waterfront lot on Lady's Island for $6328.30 today! Make an appointment and Jalen and I will be happy to bring Map #276 to the public area of the Research Room for you to see up close and personal.</span></div></div><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another factor to note for Archives Month: This map was laminated probably long before I came to work in 1999. Once thought to help preserve and protect important documents, lamination as a preservation practice was stopped by the early 1980s as we learned how dangerous and destructive the fusing of plastics into historic documents was. Though the service is still available through many vendors for personal use, archivists definitely don't apply the process to any materials within our safekeeping and do not recommend that anyone else does so either. The saddest fact is that lamination, like light damage, cannot be undone. (If you'd like to geek out: <a href="https://psap.library.illinois.edu/collection-id-guide/laminationencapsulation" target="_blank">Lamination vs. Encapsulation </a> is a good summary of the difference between encapsulation - which the BDC does now -- and lamination - which no reputable special collections does any longer.)</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>October 30:</b> <span>"Uniquely BDC: Materials Monday:" Another specific to the BDC map about plantations concerns those on Daufuskie Island. Historian Rebecca Starr shared a map of "Former Plantation Boundaries (Pre-Civil War)" that shows the location of 10 plantations: Fripp; Martinangel; Benji's Point; Maryfield; Web; Cooper River; Haig Point; Melrose; Oakridge; and Blood Point on the 5000 acre sea island. Most of the names sound quite familiar to current Beaufort County residents. It's map </span><span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span>4-1 of the Daufuskie Island Plan 1984 draft document appearing on pages 66-67. We also have the map separately encapsulated with call number BDC Map 484 for our Research Room customers to use. </span></span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The "Daufuskie Island Plan 1984" was put together by the Beaufort County Joint Planning Committee in reaction to applications by the Daufuskie Island Land Trust, Inc. and the Maryfield Subdivision for development permission for individual homes. At that time the JPC reckoned that the population on Daufuskie Island would reach just over 10,000 by 2020. Man, oh man! was that an over-projection. The US Census Bureau only counted 557 people on Daufuskie in 2020. Some of the plantations were indeed developed - and some went bust - and some land is tied up with heirs property issues - and some areas remain largely undeveloped.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>November 6:</b> "Uniquely BCL:" <i>Sea Island Secrets, A Journey Through Time</i>, an official 2011 selection for the Beaufort International Film Festival, is a documentary that illuminates 4000 years of history layered in the marshes of Beaufort District. Mike Hudson, Gibbes McDowell and archaeologist Dr. Chester DePratter examined our changing shoreline and discovered artifacts of Native American habitation in the marshlands from at least 2000 years before the common era. Only the BDC and <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>BCL's local history sections have DVDs of the film to share.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span><b>November 13: </b></span><span>"Uniquely BDC:" <i>The Search for Altamaha : the Archaeology and Ethnohistory of an Early 18th Century Yamasee Indian Town </i>by William Green (1992) ultimately resulted in the creation of one of Beaufort County's Passive Parks. Learn more about the <a href="https://youtu.be/rdahnRMAjGA" target="_blank">Altamaha Town Heritage Preserve</a>. </span></div></div></div></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMoj28vEAEfkUbfEDLm7wW6Vob1ZSzY6wk65x0wlj3UiWeJvWoTl5vjkHd8mxD-cOpFHad6qw7gVqYOjB3m822JPeIgn4bqTT_yF-rqGdBwAjAueOa76A9pMJ7BBT-wknrwFosT5Qr7P2o0NEM4BttNtN0yKKYMIbgbiWQSQ8Y_Ce9SKSc64HObsjS599N/s1001/BDC%20is%20on%20the%20road.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="1001" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMoj28vEAEfkUbfEDLm7wW6Vob1ZSzY6wk65x0wlj3UiWeJvWoTl5vjkHd8mxD-cOpFHad6qw7gVqYOjB3m822JPeIgn4bqTT_yF-rqGdBwAjAueOa76A9pMJ7BBT-wknrwFosT5Qr7P2o0NEM4BttNtN0yKKYMIbgbiWQSQ8Y_Ce9SKSc64HObsjS599N/s320/BDC%20is%20on%20the%20road.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>October 17: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The BDC is on the road ... again. This time to St. Helena Branch Library for the Beaufort County Library premiere of "Plantation Profiles" with Kayleigh Vaughn of the Morris Center for Lowcountry History. Come learn about a bit of local history about plantations such as Auldbrass; Belfair; Frogmore; Rose Hill; Tomotley; Honey Horn; Hobonny; Newport; Twickenham; Haig Point; and Oldfield. We'll open the doors at 1:30 for first come seating. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">If this afternoon is not good for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">you, make plans to head South of the Broad River to Bluffton Branch for the reprise on Thursday morning, October 19th. Doors open for the Bluffton Branch session's first come, first seated lecture at 10:30 AM. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Both sessions are tri-sponsored by the BDC, Beaufort History Museum and the Beaufort County Historical Society.</span></div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>October 18:</b> <span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Session #1 of "Plantation Profiles" was a success! The assembled enjoyed Kayleigh Vaughn's talk about some of the area's best known plantations, their respective histories, and the people who owned and/or lived on them before the 20th century. We're doing it again tomorrow morning at the Bluffton Branch Library. Hope to see you there: doors open at 10:30 AM; Program starts at 11.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>October 18:</b> </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">More photos from session #1. We hope to see all y'all South of the Broad folks at Bluffton Branch in the morning for Session 2 of "Plantation Profiles" with Kayleigh Vaughn.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>October 19:</b> <span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This morning is your last chance to hear Kayleigh Vaughn's history of some of the best known plantations in Beaufort District: Auldbrass, Belfair, Frogmore, Rose Hill, Tomotley, Honey Horn, Hobonny, Newport, Twickenham, Haig Point, and Oldfield. Doors open for seating at 10:30 AM at the Bluffton Branch Library, 120 Palmetto Way. This local history program is co-sponsored by the BDC, Beaufort County Historical Society and the Beaufort History Museum. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Check out the "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.640713188146510&type=3" target="_blank">Plantation Profiles" album</a>!</span></p><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>October 20:</b> </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Our next local history program - on Friday, November 3rd - is about a Civil War Union unit, the 79th New York Highlanders. Feel free to join us beginning at 1:30 PM for Tom Vaselopulos' lecture "Kilted Warriors." This time the BDC and BHM will be at the Beaufort Branch.</span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>November 3:</b> Jalen, the Beaufort History Museum folks, and I hope to see you in the Beaufort Branch Meeting Room this afternoon for "Kilted Warriors" with Tom Vaselopulos.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>November 4:</b> It's a busy Saturday today. Meet us at the Arsenal. Head to the Waterfront Park for the Friends of the Beaufort Library Book Sale either before or after you visit the BHM's Civil War Encampment.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>November 4: </b>All set up for our day in the '60s - the 1860's that is!</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><b>November 9:</b> <span>We hope to see you later this morning at the Hilton Head Branch Library for "Snake Bit" with Robert Lanham.</span></div></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7Yi_3TCwgRubDFzZNIBlvji7uFLDmZD9ZVMiBWEIuJZHJ3_9siHDDL9-crY0ie1CHkvHYQBRMbAzIRbGIp_6YPMoH78SgSXr0w5A0hzRbONh9kJVpAjNm2Zh5OEMhcpReCOpJg9lQ72J1OXU84d2lWIZ_ESjwsNxw8ixWTrPdmqL1_sCI7sMBBD2UI9I/s1280/Black%20History%20Note.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7Yi_3TCwgRubDFzZNIBlvji7uFLDmZD9ZVMiBWEIuJZHJ3_9siHDDL9-crY0ie1CHkvHYQBRMbAzIRbGIp_6YPMoH78SgSXr0w5A0hzRbONh9kJVpAjNm2Zh5OEMhcpReCOpJg9lQ72J1OXU84d2lWIZ_ESjwsNxw8ixWTrPdmqL1_sCI7sMBBD2UI9I/s320/Black%20History%20Note.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><p><b style="font-family: inherit;">October 18:</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Black History Note" in "Gullah Geechee Heritage Month: "The term <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/gullah-culture/ " target="_blank">“Gullah” or “Geechee” describes a unique group of African Americans descended from enslaved Africans who have had a profound and enduring impact on Beaufort County’s local history and way of life</a>. </span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">October 25:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> "Black History Note" in Gullah Geechee Heritage Month: </span><a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2018/08/13/praise-houses-in-gullah-religion-and-social-practices/" style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">Praise houses</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> were once common on the Sea Island where spontaneous local meetings during the week supplemented Sunday services as well as a location where grievances could be aired and mediated. Learn more about </span><a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2018/08/13/praise-houses-in-gullah-religion-and-social-practices/" style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">this important feature in Gullah culture</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> in our WordPress blog. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">November 1: </b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">"Black History Note:" Given that language development reflects historical development, South Carolina experienced a diverse influx of cultures and languages from the onset. SC's language patterns and choice of words was influenced by Native Americans, enslaved African Americans, and a plethora of European peoples—Scots-Irish, English, Jewish, German, and Huguenots chief among them. Nichols tells the richly complex story of language contact from groups representing three </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">continents and myriad cultures. In examining how South Carolinians spoke in public and private during the grim years of settlement, we glean much about how they developed a common culture while still honoring as best they could the heritages and tongues of their ancestors. Nichols pays particular attention to the development of the Gullah language among the coastal African American peoples and the ways in which this language—and others of South Carolina's early inhabitants—continues to influence the communication and culture of the state's current populations.</span></div><p></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can set up an appointment to come read our copy [of <i>Voices of Our Ancestors: Language Contact in Early South Carolina</i> by Patricia Causey Nichols (2009) ] in the Research Room or you can borrow one from the SCLENDS consortium.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">November 8: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Black History Note:" </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">South Carolina’s Blacks and Native Americans, 1776 - 1976</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> by Marianna W. Davis and the Bicentennial Project Editorial Board (1976) was an overview of the contributions made by African Americans and Native peoples upon the state's political, religious, educational, artistic, occupational, sports and community history to honor of the nation's 200th birthday. Raymond H. Williams of Beaufort was on the State Human Affairs Commission led by James E. Clyburn </span><a style="background-color: white; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; white-space-collapse: preserve;" tabindex="-1"></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">at the time the book was published. You can check out a copy from one of our partners in the SCLENDS consortium or you can set up an appointment to visit the Research Room to read this book: 843-255-6468 or </span><a href="mailto:bdc@bcgov.net" style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;">bdc@bcgov.net</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>November 15</b>: <span>"Black History Note:" The archaeological study <i>Cultural Resources Investigations at Penn Center 2010</i> by Carl Steen and his Diachronic Research Foundation (2011) begins as almost all of the archaeological studies in the Research Room begin - with the pre-historic Native American peoples who left behind remains of their culture and lives under the sandy soil of the area. The purpose of the study was to explore the history of the proposed sites for a health center and a branch </span><span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span>of the Beaufort County Library on St. Helena Island. The document contains lots of color photographs of the dig and artifacts found. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">BTW: This is another item that could also be an "Uniquely BDC" selection this month.</span></div></div><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>October 19:</b> </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It's Great Southeast Shakeout, earthquake preparedness day! Most folks are unaware of the fact that South Carolina quivers rather often. As far as historical seismic events go, the two Palmetto State earthquakes to know are Charleston (1886) and Union (1913). By far, the <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2022/08/red-letter-day-1886-earthquake-felt-in.html" target="_blank">Earthquake of 1886</a> had more impact on Beaufort County. Read <i><a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2022/08/red-letter-day-1886-earthquake-felt-in.html" target="_blank">Connections </a></i>to learn more. </span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">October 24</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">: It's Family History Month - and there's never a wrong time to find and share compelling stories from your family history. Perhaps you'll find "</span><a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2021/08/how-to-write-family-history-or-memoir.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">How to Write a Family History or Memoir</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">" helpful. I wrote </span><a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2021/08/how-to-write-family-history-or-memoir.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">this <i>Connections</i> post</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> a few years ago in response to a customer inquiry.</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>October 25:</b> It is with sadness that we learned of the death of Douglas W. Bostick, historian, author, raconteur, and Executive Director of the the South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust. We enjoyed his trips down to Beaufort to talk about Carolina Day and South Carolina's Revolutionary War history and the occasional lunch through the years. May he rest in peace.</span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>October 26:</b> In honor of <a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2021/07/14/pat-conroy-1945-2016-a-list-of-links-materials/" target="_blank">Pat Conroy</a>. </span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>October 31:</b> Happy Halloween from Jalen and me! Check out the <a href=" https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/?s=ghost " target="_blank">Ghost stories we have posted</a> on the BDCBCL blog. <a href=" https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/?s=ghost " target="_blank">Read about </a>Gauche the Huguenot Ghost; "The Roast Ghost"; Library Gremlins; Hags; Land's End Light and a Haunting on Ribaut Road.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>November 1</b>: <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2023/11/november-2023-overview.html" target="_blank">Overview</a></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><b style="font-family: inherit;">November 2:</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Perhaps your commemoration of All Souls Day today, aka the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, can include a visit to one or more of </span><a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/beaufort-district-area-cemeteries/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Beaufort District's many cemeteries</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. We have a list of some of those cemeteries to help you on our Links, Lists & Finding Aids blog.</span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><b style="font-family: inherit;">November 2:</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Beloved BDC docent Kathy Mitchell just finished </span><a href="https://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/ooi" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">adding 1283 more souls to the BCL's obituary index </a><span style="font-family: inherit;">that she found published in the </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Beaufort Gazette </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">and </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Island Packet</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> newspapers of 1995.</span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>November 5:</b> <span>"This Week in the BDC" is a bit unusual. We're open regular hours Monday, Nov. 6th; Tuesday, Nov. 7th and Wednesday, Nov. 8th. We are accepting appointments for Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 7th - though do go do your civic duty as an American citizen and South Carolina resident first - and for Wednesday, Nov. 8th. </span></span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We host author Robert Lanham for "Snake Bit" on Thursday, Nov. 9th at Hilton Head Branch. Jalen and I hope that you'll be able to join us if you live South of <span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>the Broad River.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please note: The Library is closed for two days this Veterans Day holiday. County policy says that when a holiday falls on a Saturday, the holiday is observed on Friday, November 10th - which is good for most of the County's employees but not for those who might work weekend and night time hours. Therefore, the Library Board of Trustees has agreed to also let library staff have Saturday, November 11th off for traditional Veterans Day this year. When the Libraries shutdown at their regular time on Thursday, staff won't return until Monday, November 13th. (Election Day tally by Jernej Furman).</span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><b>November 10</b>: </span><span>Reminder: The Library is closed today and tomorrow to observe Veterans Day 2023.</span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqfJ0LnKLsV2jblfa_hDsBVRi-LjF-sR8XVyHBOCFaaRiXtPoygYIwzwuBz8pCZOscTvgNMHsBpr3OgyNE7sNBGjTQZ23PGaAwxANzfXAQqHJFlhVtKu4-5ZgQpukV1us8imibQodXnNdjVfu6BMTRNiiDqkgBnN95OCUFV2tBMuWUXjblnJ9rgkcahJM/s1280/Slide33.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqfJ0LnKLsV2jblfa_hDsBVRi-LjF-sR8XVyHBOCFaaRiXtPoygYIwzwuBz8pCZOscTvgNMHsBpr3OgyNE7sNBGjTQZ23PGaAwxANzfXAQqHJFlhVtKu4-5ZgQpukV1us8imibQodXnNdjVfu6BMTRNiiDqkgBnN95OCUFV2tBMuWUXjblnJ9rgkcahJM/s320/Slide33.JPG" width="320" /></a></div></div></div></div></div>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-83646750303601711752023-11-09T17:00:00.000-05:002023-11-09T17:00:00.143-05:00Family Tree Magazine's "5 Clues You May Have Native American Ancestry"<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkJW4JeCLUpmFuLm9Nfnc5RiGXcue1OXjNVju-MTiF5CFr5gvVftz6NiZCEVRau5apZxmWpieiPcodmsW8yFRtEBPzJITpG8sUmQS-AJR_cy2UQVMZh_TZe72Y4He0ydiBqfOz_mrACsCqcS93O7s6e1JAa2ufxjBLQe-NfRPM-j4xFhEvhs0UreJ3hX24/s600/2020%20Native%20American%20Heritage%20Month%20image.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="600" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkJW4JeCLUpmFuLm9Nfnc5RiGXcue1OXjNVju-MTiF5CFr5gvVftz6NiZCEVRau5apZxmWpieiPcodmsW8yFRtEBPzJITpG8sUmQS-AJR_cy2UQVMZh_TZe72Y4He0ydiBqfOz_mrACsCqcS93O7s6e1JAa2ufxjBLQe-NfRPM-j4xFhEvhs0UreJ3hX24/s320/2020%20Native%20American%20Heritage%20Month%20image.png" width="320" /></a></div><i>In honor of Native American Heritage Month, I'd like to share a bit about the challenges of proving Native American ancestry. </i><p></p><p><i>I cannot count the number of times that I have had a person call on the phone or show up in person to ask if the BDC staff could help them prove that there was a Cherokee brave or chief or princess in their family tree charts. The usual statement is something along the lines of "Grandma said that there was one," so of course it had to be true. Well, maybe it is true but a statement made by an elder or in a printed family history is not a proven fact backed up by genealogical evidence. It's not that Grandma is a liar. She's just relaying information that was probably relayed to her across the dining room table or perhaps at a family reunion picnic at some point in the past. Genealogical research, however, requires proof. </i></p><p><i>Technically, meeting the <a href="https://bcgcertification.org/ethics-standards/" target="_blank">Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS) </a>requires that a researcher gathers and weighs the evidence for his/her statement based upon: </i></p><h2 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" data-fontsize="26" data-lineheight="39px" style="--fontsize: 26; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--h2_typography-color); font-weight: var(--h2_typography-font-weight); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--h2_typography-margin-bottom); margin-top: var(--h2_typography-margin-top);"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><i></i></span></h2>1. Reasonably exhaustive research.<br />2. Complete and accurate source citations.<br />3. Thorough analysis and correlation.<br />4. Resolution of conflicting evidence.<br />5. Soundly written conclusion based on the strongest evidence.<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i></i></span></p><p>Diane Haddad offered this advice about how to check out family lore regarding Native American ancestors in your family tree in an article I received by email back in July 2023. She offers these <a href="https://familytreemagazine.com/heritage/native-american/5-clues-you-may-have-american-indian-ancestry/" target="_blank">"5 Clues [that] You May Have Native American Ancestry</a>:"</p><p>1. An <i>I</i> or<i> In</i> designation appears in the "race" columns for an ancestor in the 1860 - 1950 Federal United States censuses. </p><p>2. A proven blood relative is named on an Indian reservation census or a tribal enrollment. <i>Ancestry.com has a <a href="https://www.ancestrycdn.com/aainstcommons/2027/researchAids/american-indian-research-guide.pdf" target="_blank">Native American Research guide posted online</a> to point you to databases that may help you. FamilySearch.org offers a <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Native_American" target="_blank">Native American wiki article </a>with plenty of links out to potential sources as well. Although the free <a href="https://accessgenealogy.com/native/free-us-indian-census-rolls.htm" target="_blank">US Indian Census Rolls, 1885 - 1940</a> on <a href="https://accessgenealogy.com/" target="_blank">Access Genealogy</a> are not indexed, you can read and scroll through a lot of agency and tribal lists. </i></p><p><i>3. A genetic genealogy test indicates you have <a href="https://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/2017/11/musings-on-dna-genetic-genealogy.html" target="_blank">DNA markers</a> associated with American Indian ancestry - though it is important to remember that only half of your parent's genes make it to you and through the generations the likelihood that a particular string of genes or individual gene will endure becomes less and less. She also makes the point that DNA alone will not make a tribal government recognize you as a member. Since the predominant ancestor I get told about is purportedly a Cherokee, here's what the <a href="https://familytreemagazine.com/heritage/native-american/applying-cherokee-nation-citizenship/" target="_blank">Cherokee Nation requires of its applicants</a> for tribal membership (2018). </i></p><p>4. Family stories and newspapers tell of Native ancestry, and your ancestors lived in areas where they would have come into contact with Native Americans should be treated as <u>clues for further research</u>. <i><u>[</u>The underline is mine for emphasis since so many family historians tend to jump to the conclusion that this "proves" their Native American ancestry. It does not meet the criteria of the Genealogical Proof Standard alone.<u>]</u></i></p><p>5. An ancestor lived in Indian Territory (a.k.a. the state of Oklahoma) by the year 1900. <br /></p><p><i>Let me conclude that because the Cherokee were more of an upstate tribe, they fall outside the BDC's geographical imperative. We have a few sources related to the coastal Indian groups, more specifically about the Yamasee, but other Native American groups in what is now the Southeastern part of the United States falls outside our collection scope. BDC staff will always share the resources we have in the Research Room with our in-facility customers who make an appointment: bdc@bcgov.net ; 843-255-6468 and will do our best to guide you to sources at other locations or on the open internet to assist you with your research. We do not however have the resources to do this type of in depth research on your behalf. </i></p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZaCND9kkdiA8h4HBRKFDdMmgyxuxO5VuG1FNf_gID-Fe_f952Xib7JUkwm47FqQ2sfHu2CDdeIGl52fc8mPURFZWoZ6NuLMshFAAAjXHTIjgRRiC7S0Zx7mXjAkBPVPnj_RTLFlCKpBACkZPCOvW6ONarDhj2Zl52XiyOvKpLeJIyLixXgWcYDRqjpye/s960/Slide15.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZaCND9kkdiA8h4HBRKFDdMmgyxuxO5VuG1FNf_gID-Fe_f952Xib7JUkwm47FqQ2sfHu2CDdeIGl52fc8mPURFZWoZ6NuLMshFAAAjXHTIjgRRiC7S0Zx7mXjAkBPVPnj_RTLFlCKpBACkZPCOvW6ONarDhj2Zl52XiyOvKpLeJIyLixXgWcYDRqjpye/s320/Slide15.JPG" width="320" /></a></i></div><i>Reminder: The Library is closed on Friday, November 10 and Saturday, November 11 for the Veterans Day holiday. Regular hours will resume on Monday, November 13, 2023.<br /></i><p></p>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-77281497953317239042023-11-04T17:00:00.047-04:002023-11-06T16:31:42.541-05:00On the Road with "Snakebit" and Lanham <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Don't forget! The BDC is on the road again with </span><i style="text-align: left;">Snakebit </i><span style="text-align: left;">- an examination of surviving sources of information about one of the state's most fascinating Englishmen of the colonial period by </span><i style="text-align: left;">The Red Bird and the Devil</i><span style="text-align: left;"> author, Robert E. Lanham.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNozJ6is-XSv-2JXvuzNQ_q5YTloQIrXC-WxVJ_so1ukU_j8_a49HfrpztUcHgWV9AcTn8L8YwDjRxlsVjyIYuqTunx6vWIy9KGnp3YiyxRz9wFKLVsGU6NZA4gLV5GAbCAE6HmdtHO13SUj9iTsPqBIUnAmV-b621Le2sC67ITzQ8y86ToIdb9N9uVfBl/s1056/Snakebit_Robert%20Lanham_bdc-HHI.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="816" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNozJ6is-XSv-2JXvuzNQ_q5YTloQIrXC-WxVJ_so1ukU_j8_a49HfrpztUcHgWV9AcTn8L8YwDjRxlsVjyIYuqTunx6vWIy9KGnp3YiyxRz9wFKLVsGU6NZA4gLV5GAbCAE6HmdtHO13SUj9iTsPqBIUnAmV-b621Le2sC67ITzQ8y86ToIdb9N9uVfBl/s320/Snakebit_Robert%20Lanham_bdc-HHI.png" width="247" /></a><span style="text-align: left;">The title of the lecture comes from an extract of a letter that Henry Woodward wrote to John Locke dated 12 November 1675 in which Woodward shares some of the Native American's beliefs. Port Royall Indians worship the Sun but the Westos worship the Devil and have his figure carved in wood. He shared that some Indians purport to "have power over the ratle snakes soe farr as to send one over severall over rivers and brooks to bite a particular Indian which has bin don since our being here." </span></div><div><div><br /></div><div><i>The Red Bird and the Devil</i> is Lanham's historical novel about Henry Woodward's life. It's a novel because so much of the man's personal history is a matter of piecing together bits and pieces from a variety of rather scanty source documents. Because the BDC doesn't "do novel" programs, the main focus of Lanham's presentation is how he discovered and made use of historical documents to flesh out the personality and activities of the Palmetto State's first permanent English settler, trying to separate what was "fact" from what is commonly held "fiction." <p>Robert Lanham is a retired family law attorney and former geologist residing in the South Carolina Lowcountry where Henry Woodward, the protagonist of his book, <i>The Red Bird and the Devil </i>lived 350 years earlier. Lanham moved here from Colorado and fell in love with the Lowcountry and its history. His distant grandfather came to the southern colonies as an indentured servant in the late 1600s, the same time as Henry Woodward, sparking his interest in early colonial history. Using skills developed during 40 years of research, writing, and teaching in science and law, Robert published <i>The Red Bird and the Devil,</i> a fresh look at the origin and first decades of Carolina Colony from the perspective of Henry Woodward. </p><p>No need to register. This is a first come, first seated opportunity to learn more about the depth and scope of Beaufort District's history, its people, environment, and events. </p><p><b>"Snakebit: Henry Woodward, South Carolina's First English Settler" with author Robert Lanham | Thursday, November 9, 2023 | 11 AM | BDC@ Hilton Head Branch Library, 11 Beach City Road | Doors open for seating at 10:30 AM</b></p><p>Please join us at the Hilton Head Branch Library! </p></div></div>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-66806005966415057622023-11-01T00:00:00.007-04:002023-11-01T00:00:00.144-04:00November 2023 Overview<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhajfWatQRfwPFjB8mth0bKZvO-lyz8a6W7UTuYNnibaTqSrmNJLtHbdClY_VgmwzXyAWP5EMC3eklRB_FtQnLGTd7XMcG-aWB2vDc-Vnh76Gzv8YwGxmb9_uJV6joh5ISWg20SwxiboHrJs3-XsdwMyfbpUxIJ1k2utL_Yvaeqdej4DoIGUWhttmwFd46C/s2000/hand-drawn%20art%20by%20freepik%20November.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhajfWatQRfwPFjB8mth0bKZvO-lyz8a6W7UTuYNnibaTqSrmNJLtHbdClY_VgmwzXyAWP5EMC3eklRB_FtQnLGTd7XMcG-aWB2vDc-Vnh76Gzv8YwGxmb9_uJV6joh5ISWg20SwxiboHrJs3-XsdwMyfbpUxIJ1k2utL_Yvaeqdej4DoIGUWhttmwFd46C/w132-h132/hand-drawn%20art%20by%20freepik%20November.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We have a busy 11th month with programs, a community outreach event, holidays, and reviewing applications for the BDC's Library Specialist position. </span></span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">On Friday, Nov. 3rd we host a <a href="https://www.calendarwiz.com/calendars/popup.php?op=view&id=168634664&crd=beaufortcountylibrary&PHPSESSID=ptiata22kivvcaqdbmr5p2o8v0" target="_blank">talk about the 79th New York "Kilted <br />Warriors"</a> who were stationed in Beaufort District for a part of the Civil War. The next day Jalen and I will be outside the Arsenal for the Living History Encampment on Saturday, Nov. 4th. Both the lecture and the Encampment are sponsored by <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>the Beaufort History Museum. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Friends of the Beaufort Library are having their big <a href="https://friendsofthebeaufortlibrary.givecloud.co/book-sale" target="_blank">Fall Book Sale in Waterfront Park,</a> Nov. 3, 4, and 5. That group helped fund the BDC's compact shelving array for which I will be eternally thankful. Great deals are to be had there. Please support them as they help support the northern Beaufort County Library branches and units.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday, November 9th we're on the road to Hilton Head Branch to hear Robert Lanham discuss one of South Carolina's first settlers, <a href="https://www.calendarwiz.com/calendars/popup.php?op=view&id=166800221&crd=beaufortcountylibrary&PHPSESSID=ptiata22kivvcaqdbmr5p2o8v0" target="_blank">Henry Woodward, and his interactions with area Native Americans</a>.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Holidays-wise: The Library is closed on November 10 and 11th for Veterans Day. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanksgiving holidays began at 5 pm on Wed., November 22nd. All units of the Library will be closed on Thursday, November 23 and Friday, November 24. Library units normally open on Saturdays will be open on Saturday, November 25th. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">JSKY: The "Yamasee Homelands" program is postponed until January.</span></div></div>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-7516966910337619312023-10-29T12:00:00.001-04:002023-10-29T12:00:00.135-04:00Kilted Warriors and Encampment <p>Just a reminder that the Civil War is on our mind: </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbAq2DzuY-eaA8G8bONRqS64SppaArSgwE1X2Dnd59zk0eZLkxQfgmeSgkONXtrEs70IVuB3DAhyrw1eGJZiXzTEwpEPde0NXuLxVzeonyFI-LbxIPzOvFO5E9sI-3dut_gYe3Kh7YudNmFwFhJruog6jXJ5xec2n65Z5IDL91NY4gbMFIndbQV_GLE4Fz/s1056/1st%20come_Kilted%20Warriors_5382117.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1056" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbAq2DzuY-eaA8G8bONRqS64SppaArSgwE1X2Dnd59zk0eZLkxQfgmeSgkONXtrEs70IVuB3DAhyrw1eGJZiXzTEwpEPde0NXuLxVzeonyFI-LbxIPzOvFO5E9sI-3dut_gYe3Kh7YudNmFwFhJruog6jXJ5xec2n65Z5IDL91NY4gbMFIndbQV_GLE4Fz/w640-h494/1st%20come_Kilted%20Warriors_5382117.png" width="640" /></a></div>You can see the entire re-enactment group doing their daily life during the Civil War activities during the <a href="https://beauforthistorymuseum.wildapricot.org/event-5066255" target="_blank">event at the Arsenal</a> on Saturday. Drop by to say "Hello" to Jalen and me from 10 AM - 2 PM on Saturday. We'll be set up at a table promoting BDC and Library resources outside the Arsenal. Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1341253432553087266.post-48398224579612715622023-10-20T00:00:00.175-04:002023-10-20T00:00:00.137-04:00Program Topics in November 2023<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Port Royal Harbor and its surrounding islands were among one of the first areas to be occupied by Union forces after the Civil War broke out. Among those troops of occupation were the members of the 79th New York. Re-enactor Tom Vaselopulos will share a brief history of the Highlanders with a lecture </span>"Kilted Warriors" on Friday, November 3rd <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> at </span></span>2 PM in the Beaufort Branch Library's Meeting Room. First come; first seated: Doors will open for seating at 1:30 PM. People will be admitted until we run out of chairs and/or reach Beaufort Branch's Meeting Room capacity <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">is part of the <a href="https://beauforthistorymuseum.wildapricot.org/event-5066255" target="_blank">Beaufort History Museum's Civil War Encampment</a>. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The lecture will set you up to better enjoy the <a href="https://beauforthistorymuseum.wildapricot.org/event-5066255" target="_blank">Civil War Encampment </a>hosted by the Beaufort History Museum in the Arsenal on Saturday, November 4th from 10 AM - 4:30 PM. Jalen and I will be on hand outside the Arsenal with flyers about the BDC's Civil War related materials to distribute. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbAq2DzuY-eaA8G8bONRqS64SppaArSgwE1X2Dnd59zk0eZLkxQfgmeSgkONXtrEs70IVuB3DAhyrw1eGJZiXzTEwpEPde0NXuLxVzeonyFI-LbxIPzOvFO5E9sI-3dut_gYe3Kh7YudNmFwFhJruog6jXJ5xec2n65Z5IDL91NY4gbMFIndbQV_GLE4Fz/s1056/1st%20come_Kilted%20Warriors_5382117.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1056" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbAq2DzuY-eaA8G8bONRqS64SppaArSgwE1X2Dnd59zk0eZLkxQfgmeSgkONXtrEs70IVuB3DAhyrw1eGJZiXzTEwpEPde0NXuLxVzeonyFI-LbxIPzOvFO5E9sI-3dut_gYe3Kh7YudNmFwFhJruog6jXJ5xec2n65Z5IDL91NY4gbMFIndbQV_GLE4Fz/w400-h309/1st%20come_Kilted%20Warriors_5382117.png" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">A few days later, we turn to the colonial period for a program about the man who stayed behind in the 1660s to live with the Native Americans in order to stake stronger English claims to this area. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><a href="https://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/henry-woodward-ca-1646-ca-1686/" target="_blank">Henry Woodward</a> was one of early Carolina Colony’s most remarkable citizens. In 1666, four years before Charles Town, he lived with the Native Americans in present-day Port Royal—the only Englishman in four hundred miles. His stay was interrupted when he was held prisoner by the Spanish in St. Augustine. Freed by an English privateer, he served as a surgeon on a buccaneer ship in the Caribbean, and after being shipwrecked in a hurricane, miraculously ended up back in Carolina Colony as one of the Colony’s first settlers. Relying on his rapport with the Native Americans, he traded for food, helping the colonists avoid starvation. Surviving political intrigue, personal loss, and physical hardship, he became one of the Colony’s most important figures.<br /><br />Separating fact from fiction about this enigmatic figure is challenging. The records from 17th-century Carolina Colony are sparse. We know he was the Colony’s earliest explorer and Indian trader but his legacy is tangled. Was he America's first frontiersman or an unlucky pawn of the English Lords Proprietors who owned the colony? Was he a friend or a foe of the Native Americans, or both? The speaker, Robert Lanham, spent five years investigating Woodward’s role in the Colony’s earliest years. In 2022, he published <i>The Red Bird and the Devil</i>, answering these questions while setting forth the fascinating story of one of Colonial America’s forgotten figures.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioKprd-VxN972Ev6hN6O_Bct3N6fvmeQ3k4Zd_dt23QCMp0eloLq2MY3jtrkjW2Vf2PWYCtSNLXVn8YdgZsIoHPpR85Cgl-De3mmg60ce_zWTpbNSCfkq4pWZY8gqnOjdC1pA1Mt_5dFkAYEZvjZczzt6I_0kjvKIOPnCOrWnUPpMP9pGF8Bssx6zjkX41/s363/Bob%20Lanham_Woodward-head%20shot.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="361" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioKprd-VxN972Ev6hN6O_Bct3N6fvmeQ3k4Zd_dt23QCMp0eloLq2MY3jtrkjW2Vf2PWYCtSNLXVn8YdgZsIoHPpR85Cgl-De3mmg60ce_zWTpbNSCfkq4pWZY8gqnOjdC1pA1Mt_5dFkAYEZvjZczzt6I_0kjvKIOPnCOrWnUPpMP9pGF8Bssx6zjkX41/w193-h194/Bob%20Lanham_Woodward-head%20shot.JPG" width="193" /></span><div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.5pt; border: none; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Robert Lanham is a retired family law attorney and former geologist residing in the South Carolina Lowcountry where Henry Woodward, the protagonist of his book, <i>The Red Bird and the Devil </i>lived 350 years earlier. Robert moved here from Colorado and fell in love with the Lowcountry and its history. His distant grandfather came to the southern colonies as an indentured servant in the late 1600s, the same time as Henry Woodward, sparking his interest in early colonial history. Using skills developed during 40 years of research, writing, and teaching in science and law, Robert published <i>The Red Bird and the Devil,</i> a fresh look at the origin and first decades of Carolina Colony from the perspective of Henry Woodward. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.5pt; border: none; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">We are holding two sessions of "Snakebit" over the course of Fiscal Year 2024:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />1) The premiere will be on <b>Thursday, November 9, 2023 at the Hilton Head Branch Library, 11 Beach City Road, at 11 AM. We will open the doors at 10:30 AM for first come seating. We will admit folks until we reach the Fire Marshal's limit for the room. Free parking, too! </b><br /><br />2) The reprise will be held in the Spring as part of the Beaufort History Museum/Beaufort County Library local history series.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On December 7, 2023 we have Mary Dorsey of the Samuel J. Bush Post 217, American Legion coming to Beaufort Branch to tell us about the Bush Brothers at Pearl Harbor and what happened to them at and after the "day that will live in infamy." <br /><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After this jammed packed Fall series, the BDC will take a break from coordinating local history programs for the arts-and-crafts programmers to do their thing over the holiday season. Be sure to keep up with any additions, subtractions, or re-scheduling via the <a href="https://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/calendar" target="_blank">Library's calendar of events</a>. </span></div>Grace Cordialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10373723420690651987noreply@blogger.com0