Local History Programs in January 2020

We had over 600 people attend our Summer and Fall season local history programs and we are so grateful for all the support. In January 2020, you have even more opportunities to show your love of the local.

We're barely in 2020 before the Something about Film lecture on January 7th. Speakers are Ron and Rebecca Tucker, founders of the Beaufort Film Society and the Beaufort International Film Festival. Because this free lecture is part of the Beaufort History Museum/Beaufort County Library series, registration is required. Just so you know: BHM/BCL series lectures tend to fill up rather quickly. Be sure to register at https://beauforthistorymuseum.wildapricot.org/event-3559398 sooner rather than later.

Please note: 1) Reservations for this lecture cease when capacity is reached.

                    2) The location for this lecture is First Presbyterian Church of Beaufort's Fellowship  Hall, 1201 North Street. 

We will have author, Ron Roth, discuss his long-awaited new book, The Civil War in the South Carolina Lowcountry: How a Confederate Artillery Battery and a Black Union Regiment Defined the War at both the Beaufort and Bluffton Branch Libraries. Come learn to see the war through the experiences of two radically different military units - the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery (CSA) and the 1st South Carolina (USA) - the first Union Black regiment to fight in the Civil War. Ironically, both units were organized and outfitted in the heart of the Lowcountry in Beaufort. This free program will be first come, first seated at both locations.

The new "Historically Speaking" series offered in cooperation with the Beaufort County Historical Society continues on Thursday, January 23rd with "The New Face of African American Public History in Charleston: The Center for the Study of Slavery and the International African American Museum"presented by Dr. Bernard Powers, Professor Emeritus of History, College of Charleston.  

The focus of Dr. Powers' talk is on the roles the College of Charleston's Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston and the soon-to-open International African American Museum will play as public history institutions which will expand our understanding of the black experience in South Carolina, the nation and the larger Atlantic world.

The lecture is free and open to the public on a first come, first seated basis. Doors to the Beaufort Branch Meeting Room will open at 11:30 AM.

Reminder: All units of the Library will be closing at 5 pm on Tuesday, December 31, 2019 and will remain closed on New Year's Day, January 1, 2020. Regular hours resume on Thursday, January 2, 2020 barring anything unforeseen. Occasionally the Research Room has to close unexpectedly due to an unanticipated staff shortage.

Happy New Year's! May we all have a healthy, happy, prosperous 2020.