Meet Me Where I Am: An Uplifting Collection of Creative Expressions edited by Lynne Cope Hummell (2015) is illustrated with images supplied by the Camera Club of Hilton Head Island and with artwork created by persons with dementia and Alzheimer's Disease served by Memory Matters. The book was published to help support the award-winning nationally recognized, community, based non-profit organization which has a chapter operating on Hilton Head Island.
Still Standing: The Beauty of Southern Trees by Gary Mullane (2018) is a visually striking book of photographs of oak, cedar, sycamore and other trees published by Hilton Head based Lydia Inglett's Starbooks. A number of the trees pictured are located in Beaufort County.
Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy includes essays about his influence by those many writers whom he nurtured. Among them are Alexia Helsley, David Lauderdale, Bernie Schein, Scott Graber, Valerie Sayers, Sallie Ann Robinson, Larry Rowland, Margaret Evans, Ellen Malphrus, and Debbi Covington who have works in the BDC.
(As an aside, don't forget to attend Sallie Ann and Jenny Hersch's talk for the BDC about their book Daufuskie Island on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at Hilton Head Branch Library, 11 Beach City Road at 11 AM. The program is free and we can seat 100 people at that location so there's no need to register.)
A History of South Carolina Lighthouses by John Hairr supplements what we already have on the topic of lighthouses in this area. Yamasee Indians: From Florida to South Carolina is an anthology of articles by archaeologists and historians addressing elusive questions about who these Native Americans were, how they lived, and what happened to them. It joins a host of other materials that we have on the Native Americans of this area and about the Yamasee War, 1715-1717.
South Carolina Genealogy Research is a cheat sheet about how to get started doing family research work in this state.
Beach Race Champion is a children's picture book told from the perspective of Molly, the real marsh tacky horse who won the 2011 race on Hilton Head Island.
We added considerably to our already considerable collection of Gullah related material by purchasing all of Queen Quet's titles that we did not previously have here in the BDC. Those titles include books and some music CDs:
We Be Gullah/Geechee
Tinkin bout Famlee
Seekin' Purpose
The Right to Self-Determination
Preparing for Purpose Filled Prosperity
Cum 'Een
From Civil Rights to Human Rights and Self-Determination?
Love's Sea Island Song
Gullah/Geechee: Africa's Seeds in the Winds of the Diaspora, 365-366 lists important dates with a synopsis of why that date is significant to Gullah/Geechee history and culture arranged by month. For example, "A protest is held in Charleston, SC at Zion Church to demand equal rights and a repeal of the Black Codes" from November 20 - 25, 1865.
A Place fa We: Black Townships on the Coast of the Gullah/Geechee
We have also received a number of donated items over the past several months. It is always a treat to get first refusal of local history materials. As always, my goal is to acquire items of permanent research value about the people, places, events, and themes relevant to the history and culture of Beaufort, Jasper, and Hampton counties.
Anne Pollitzer donated a photograph of the Beaufort Bicycle Club of 1893.
We were very pleased to get 13 years worth of Beaufort Academy Yearbooks - K-12 years, 1986 - 1998 from Sharon Sanders.
Molly Gray donated a wonderful archive of her ancestor Ellen Champion Crofut's diaries covering the years 1874 - 1905.
The 5 volume set of the Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives gifted to Rep. Harriet Keyserling was donated to the BDC by her son, Paul Keyserling. Although we have had a set in the BDC, ours was quite worn from use. I switched out ours for the pristine copies that Keyserling offered us and have given our original set to the Beaufort Friends of the Library for re-sale.
Mindy Weaver of the Beaufort Sail and Power Squadron dropped by on 14 November with three more albums of materials about the BSPS that members had in their possession. We have added these to the Beaufort Sail and Power Squadron archive.
The BDC has a limited collection of novels written by local residents of ten or more years of residency who have used Beaufort District as their setting or Beaufort people as their characters. Driftwood Unmasked most definitely was inspired by a Beaufort based character. Read David Lauderdale's column about the author Gibbs McDowell and his quest to identify the real local character "Driftwood" to learn more. It is often surprising about how much one can find out by using the Library's access to Ancestry Library Edition.
Small private press titles are often hard to secure through customary Library material vendors. Blood and Thunder at Bloody Point and Wick's and Jake's Daufuskie Island were gifts from Karen Traub of our Lobeco Branch Library.
Reminder: All units of the Library will close at 5 pm on Wednesday, November 21 for the Thanksgiving holidays. Regular hours will resume on Saturday, November 24, 2018. The BDC Research Room will be closed on Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23. We will re-open on Monday, November 26 at 9 AM.
May you and yours have a safe and enjoyable holiday with family and friends!
Looking even further ahead: The BDC Research Room will have shortened hours on Tuesday, November 27 due to an anticipated staff shortage. Visit the Research Room 9 AM to Noon, grab a bit of lunch from Noon to 1 PM, and return to finish your research 1 PM to 5 PM that day.
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