BDC Reaches Out with Program and Events

We are getting off to a slower start than usual in 2019. Not to worry, though, because we have 3 community outreach events and 2 library based programs between January 31 and February 28 for you to attend. Some are free while some require advance registration and payment of a fee to our partners. We cover onomatology, African American history, genealogy, archaeology and lots of disasters in these offerings:

Correct Mispronunciations of Some South Carolina Names with Grace Cordial | Thurs., January 31, 2019 | BDC@ Coastal Discovery Museum, 70 Honey Horn Drive, Hilton Head Island | 3 PM | $ Registration and fee required by CDM https://www.coastaldiscovery.org/event-registration/?ee=12625 The session will be closed when capacity is reached.

Freedmen's Bureau Records with Toni Carrier, Executive Director, Center for Family History, International African American Museum | Sat., February 2, 2019 | BDC@ St. Helena Branch Library, 6355 Jonathan Francis Senior Road | 1 PM - 3 PM. To register for the workshop: https://www.gullahgeecheecorridor.org/calendar/ or telephone: (843) 818-4587 email: info@gullahgeecheecorridor.org


In 2019, BCHS and BHM are celebrating 80 years of preserving history in Beaufort County. The lecture will be held in the Tabernacle Baptist Church with a reception and book sale in the Tabernacle Baptist Church Fellowship Hall. The Beaufort District Collection will project a slideshow of items from its holdings about William J Whipper, Jonathan Jasper Wright, the Beaufort County Historical Society and the Beaufort Museum during the reception. 

Professor Burke

 
W. J. Whipper and J. J. Wright: Beaufort's and South Carolina's First Civil Rights Lawyers presented by Prof. W. Lewis Burke in cooperation with the Beaufort County Historical Society, Beaufort History Museum & Tabernacle Baptist Church | Thurs., February 7, 2019 | BDC@ Tabernacle Baptist Church, 901 Craven Street, Beaufort | 6:00 - 7:30 PM | $ Registration is required: https://beauforthistorymuseum.wildapricot.org/event-3119022



Shell Middens of the Lowcountry with Jeff Sherard, Archaeologist, Brockington & Associates | Wed., February 20, 2019 | BDC@ Beaufort Branch Library, First Floor, 311 Scott Street | 2 PM
First come; first seated; No registration

Hurricanes in Beaufort District's Past with Grace Cordial | Wed., February 27, 2019 | BDC@ Palmetto Bluff Conservancy Classroom, 659 Old Moreland Road, Bluffton | Noon to 1 PM
Free and open to the general public

The Library system will be closed on Monday, January 21, 2019 to observe Martin Luther King, Jr. day. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, January 22, 2019.