USCB Bluffton Camp – Bluffton, SC

This course will examine a pivotal decade in American history through the lens of politics and social movements, but also the cultural measures of change, including music, literature, and visual arts.

Frye Gaillard will share stories and insights from his award-winning book, A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost, and will talk about lessons and warnings the ‘60s might hold for today.

Presented on June 5, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., at the USCB Bluffton campus, this five-hour course is offered in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at USCB. OLLI summer classes are free for members and open to non-members for $10 per class. Registration will begin on May 13 at 9 am at https://olli.uscb.edu

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About our instructor:

Frye Gaillard is the writer in residence at the University of South Alabama, and former Southern editor at the Charlotte Observer. He is the author of more than 25 works of non-fiction, including Watermelon Wine: The Spirit of Country Music; The Books That Mattered: A Readers Memoir; and Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America.

This program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which, as always, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.