Please note: The Beaufort County Library system is closed today in honor of America's birthday. Regular hours resume Thursday, July 5th.
As mentioned before, the Library's Strategic Plan has three priorities: Communications; Facilities; and Collections. Given that the term "Collection" is in our title and is our primary mission, we give a lot of thought about what materials to acquire by purchase or by donation in order to provide a reputable research collection of permanent value that records the history of this area. Here is a list of the books that arrived in our Research Room the past two months:
You may remember our Facebook post marking the day that Debbi Covington gave us a copy of her latest recipe book, Celebrate Beaufort: Sophisticated Cuisine from the South Carolina Lowcountry (2018). (Full disclosure: Debbi catered my daughter’s wedding reception and I loved the Black-Eyed Pea Caviar (p. 28), Broccoli Salad with Berries (p. 27), and pork roast served there.) The Library also shares copies of her Dining under the Carolina Moon (2004) and Celebrate Everything! (2012) through the BDC and local history sections at the Branch Libraries.
As mentioned before, the Library's Strategic Plan has three priorities: Communications; Facilities; and Collections. Given that the term "Collection" is in our title and is our primary mission, we give a lot of thought about what materials to acquire by purchase or by donation in order to provide a reputable research collection of permanent value that records the history of this area. Here is a list of the books that arrived in our Research Room the past two months:
You may remember our Facebook post marking the day that Debbi Covington gave us a copy of her latest recipe book, Celebrate Beaufort: Sophisticated Cuisine from the South Carolina Lowcountry (2018). (Full disclosure: Debbi catered my daughter’s wedding reception and I loved the Black-Eyed Pea Caviar (p. 28), Broccoli Salad with Berries (p. 27), and pork roast served there.) The Library also shares copies of her Dining under the Carolina Moon (2004) and Celebrate Everything! (2012) through the BDC and local history sections at the Branch Libraries.
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| Cordial and Covington Celebrate Beaufort |
And while we’re on the subject of
cookbooks, Pat Branning’s Shrimp Collards
& Grits volume 2 (2016) was a gift to us as well. The Library has
multiple copies of Branning’s volume 1 ([2011]) and Pullin’ Pots (2016) too.
You may recall that the Harmony Lodge no. 22 A.F.M. helped us
celebrate 100 years of library service back in March. Lodge historian Robert
Pinkston recently stopped by to give us a history of the Lodge that he compiled
back in 1983. You will find this treasure only in our Research Room.
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| Time Capsule Re-installation Mar. 2018 |
While I’m on the subject of gifts
and treasures, An Island’s Treasure
by Lula Mitchell Holmes and Roberta Hughes Wright (1997) honors the history and
heritage of St. Helena Island’s Penn School and Penn Center.
We like having first dibs on all self-published family histories provided two or more generations once lived in Beaufort District though we do keep an eye out for appropriate materials. For example, my personal funds secured The Rivers Family From Normandy to Pondtown by Heyward Wilson Sauls (privately printed 1997; reprint 2018) from the Hampton County Historical Society. The Rivers Family helps enhance our genealogical materials relating to Prince William’s Parish settlers and families.
We like having first dibs on all self-published family histories provided two or more generations once lived in Beaufort District though we do keep an eye out for appropriate materials. For example, my personal funds secured The Rivers Family From Normandy to Pondtown by Heyward Wilson Sauls (privately printed 1997; reprint 2018) from the Hampton County Historical Society. The Rivers Family helps enhance our genealogical materials relating to Prince William’s Parish settlers and families.
Speaking of genealogy, Mastering Genealogical Documentation by
Thomas W. Jones (2017) “teaches
genealogists how to cite all kinds of sources clearly, completely, and
accurately—including sources for which no model citation exists … Readers will
learn how to describe and cite their sources with artistry, clarity,
conciseness, completeness, and competence so that their work will meet the
genealogy field's published standards” – and
I would add, in order that others can follow where and how one arrived at conclusions
about the ancestors.
The
Fire-Eaters by Eric Walther (Louisiana State
Press, 1992) discusses nine key advocates of secession including South
Carolinians Laurence M. Keitt, Louis T. Wigfall, William Porcher Miles and
Beaufort’s own Robert Barnwell Rhett.
The Library also has Rhett’s memoir A
Fire-Eater Remembers (2000) and Rhett:
The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater by William C. Davis (2001) in
our holdings.
A re-issued children’s book Freedom Ship of Robert
Smalls by Louise Meriwether (1971, 2018) contains
wonderfully vibrant paintings by Beaufort’s own Jonathan Green about one of the
most important persons in Beaufort’s long and storied past. Lydia Inglett Publishing continues its island hopping series of coffee table books describing in words and images "Where water and sky meet to make a masterpiece" with Bluffton State of Mind: Celebrating Bluffton, the Lowcountry, and Palmetto Bluffton [featuring] the photography of Marge Agin with essays by Emmett McCracken, Lisa Sulka, Courtney Hampson and Amber Kuehn (2018) and Fripp Island: Nature's Masterpiece (2018) with contributions by Sandra King, Page Putnam Miller, Ryan Copeland, and Barbara Robinson. These books join Hilton Head Island: Sand, Sea and Fun (2012) and Hilton Head Island: Discover the Treasures of One of America's Most Cherished Coastal Towns (2017).
The Book of Sarah: Poems by Amy Benson Brown (2011) recounts in verse the unique journey of Sarah and Angelina Grimke from daughters of a prominent Beaufort District slaveholding family into ardent abolitionists.
Occasionally we accept gifts of novels and children's materials written by Beaufort County residents in order to provide a literary history of Beaufort District. Dyneshia Watson's A Gift for Coco (2018) is a children's storybook about the love of a young girl for her dog while Sondra Sykes Meek's Model Marine (2018) is a novel about Molly Monroe, a female Combat Camera Marine whose life is transformed by her experiences in the military.
My
Exaggerated Life Pat Conroy as told to Katherine
Clark (2018) is the result of 200 hours of recorded conversations with the
world acclaimed author during 2014. It is an enlightening candid reflection on
his personal life, career, and demons. The Library has loads of copies of all
of his books and the BDC has loads of books, movies, reference works and
vertical files containing clippings and Conroy ephemera in the Research Room. Drop by the Research Room during our regular hours of operation to see these books and ever so much more.
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