You can watch Vicki Mix and Marilyn Harcharick of the Friends of the Beaufort Library discuss the upcoming BSI series on the County Channel:
A few of the books have a connection to local history in some manner.
This is the 33rd season for Books Sandwiched In and although all of the books are interesting, of particular note are:
Monday, February 3, 2020
The Tubman Command by Elizabeth Cobbs has gotten great reviews. I heard Dr. Cobbs speak about the book in 2019 when she presented at Tabernacle Baptist Church. Roland Gardner and former Superintendent of Education Herman Gaither will review the book. You can learn more about Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid, 1862 on the BDC's WordPress blog. Available in print, as audio book, and on Hoopla
Monday, February 17, 2020
Minnow presented and written by James McTeer draws upon McTeer's deep lowcountry roots - in more ways than one. (The High Sheriff of the Lowcountry was his grandfather and his parents are well known in the community.) The book won the South Carolina First Novel Prize in 2015. Available in print and on Hoopla.
Book Breaks at the Hilton Head Branch Library have been held for a number of years as well. On that schedule, the items with a local history connection are:
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne will be reviewed by Maria Benac, the St. Helena Branch Manager. Towne came to the lowcountry to help the newly freed enslaved and spent the rest of her life tending to them and running Penn School. You can read more about her on the BDC's WordPress blog. Available in print, Hathitrust and Internet Archive.
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
2019 was a banner year for memoirs of local interest. Daughter of the Dawn by Avary Hack Doubleday will be reviewed by Coastal Discovery Museum's Vice President of Programs/Exhibits Natalie Hefter. Doubleday recounts her life as a white child living on Hilton Head Island in the 1950s before Sea Pines Plantation was transformed into a resort housing community. Available in print.
As the Chairwoman of the Beaufort County Library Board of Trustees, Dr. Anna Maria Tabernik, noted in her letter "Library Friends & Foundation Help the Library Grow" last month, each of the three Friends of the Library groups (Beaufort, Bluffton, and Hilton Head Island) and the Public Library Foundation of Beaufort County are "all-volunteer groups dedicated to supporting the work and supplementing the resources of the Library system." Supporting one or more of these groups helps support Beaufort County Library - and if not for them (and the Clover Club), the BDC would not have the new microfilm reader/printer.
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