News Flash: Just added to our program schedule!
Beaufort is visually stunning with lots of antebellum homes because the Union occupied this town and established lots of hospitals during the Civil War. Thank goodness for the need to help the wounded. It helped save a lot of structures from physical damage and destruction. We're hosting a program based on medical history to illuminate the period for our customers on August 29th.
The beloved novel Gone with the Wind has a lot of characters - and a fair portion of them get sick or wounded. Living historian Dave Smoot has created a new program to share his deep knowledge of mid-19th medical treatments and practices based upon the medical manuals of the time. (The BDC connection?: Some students of Margaret Mitchell's work claim that at least some of the
inspiration for the life and times of the Old South came from her childhood visits to
Beaufort.)
- Scarlett's first husband, Charles Hamilton, contracts measles; what would have been the treatment?
- Scarlett's mother, Ellen Robillard O'Hara, contracts typhoid fever; how would it have been treated?
- Mr. O'Hara's beloved Tara falls on hard times after the Southern defeat and he becomes addle-headed; what would have happened to him?
- Both Scarlett O'Hara Hamilton Kennedy Rhett and Melanie Hamilton Wilkes give birth; what special circumstances would have been present?
- A cast of thousands are lying wounded on an Atlanta street. One screams, "Don't cut, don't cut", on the operating table. What happened to the Civil War wounded?
- The book and the movie are different. There are characters in the book that are not featured in the movie? Some get sick. What happens to them?
Come to this free "first come, first seated" BDC local history program to find out!
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