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SUMMARY:An Evening with T. M. Brown\, author of The Last Laird of Sapelo\, in conversation with Bren McClain
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday September 12\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \n“A heart-wrenching and beautiful story of a man and his family brought to its knees by the Civil War. . . . historical fiction at its finest.”–Patti Callahan Henry\, New York Times Best-Selling Author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with novelist T.M. Brown\, author of The Last Laird of Sapelo\, in conversation with Willie Morris Award-winning novelist Bren McClain. This free event will be held on Tuesday\, September 12\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.). Books will be available for sale and signing. Please register in advance at 843-379-7025. \nAbout The Last Laird of Sapelo\nThe Last Laird of Sapelo is based on the tragic story of Randolph Spalding\, the youngest son of Georgia’s most well-known antebellum-era coastal planter and influential political figure\, Thomas Spalding. Following his father’s death in 1851\, Randolph parlays his father’s fame and gifted landholdings on Sapelo Island\, hobnobbing from Charleston to Savannah to Milledgeville and ultimately failing to thwart Georgia’s decision to follow South Carolina into secession by early 1861. \nWithin weeks after the assault on Fort Sumter\, Lincoln’s naval blockade threatens the entire southern coast. Colonel Randolph Spalding\, now a reluctant commander of militia\, faces a storm of life-altering events in the months that follow\, imperiling his family’s legacy\, livelihood\, and lands. He ultimately must decide between supposed justice and saving the life of a slave who exacted revenge for the murder and rape of two children on Sapelo Island. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nAuthor T. M. Brown went back to school after a thirty-year sales and marketing career; his lifelong love for history\, teaching\, and coaching landed him in the classroom until he retired in 2014. He took up writing novels and has published four award-winning Southern novels. \nHe is a member of the Atlanta Writers Club\, Southeastern Writers Association\, Broadleaf Writers Association\, American Christian Fiction Writers\, and founding president of Hometown Novel Writers Association\, Inc.\, in Newnan\, Georgia. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-t-m-brown/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tuesday Talk: Patrick Dean\, Author of Nature's Messenger
DESCRIPTION:Register: Click the “Book a Program button on the Port Royal Sound Foundation website \nTuesday\, September 12\, 3:00-4:00 p.m. EDT\nCost: $10\nVenue: Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center | 310 Okatie Hwy\, Okatie\, SC \nAs part of their Tuesday Talks series\, the Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center\, in partnership with the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, will host an afternoon lecture by Patrick Dean\, author of the recently published book Nature’s Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World. The program will be held at the Maritime Center’s education classroom\, 310 Okatie Hwy\, Okatie\, on Tuesday\, September 12\, at 3:00 p.m. $10/person. Books will be available for sale and signing. \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout Nature’s Messenger\n“In this enlightening biography\, nature writer Dean traces the life of British naturalist Mark Catesby (1683–1749)\, whose The Natural History of Carolina\, Florida\, and the Bahama Islands was among the first European accounts of the flora and fauna of the Americas and influenced John James Audubon. An informative account of an important if lesser-known naturalist.” — Publishers Weekly \nIn 1722\, Mark Catesby stepped ashore in Charles Town in the Carolina colony. Over the next four years\, this young naturalist made history as he explored deep into America’s natural wonders\, collecting and drawing plants and animals which had never been seen back in the Old World. Nine years later Catesby produced his magnificent and groundbreaking book\, The Natural History of Carolina\, the first-ever illustrated account of American flora and fauna. \nIn Nature’s Messenger\, acclaimed writer Patrick Dean follows Catesby from his youth as a landed gentleman in rural England to his early work as a naturalist and his adventurous travels. A pioneer in many ways\, Catesby’s careful attention to the knowledge of non-Europeans in America—the enslaved Africans and Native Americans who had their own sources of food and medicine from nature—set him apart from others of his time. \nNature’s Messenger takes us from the rice plantations of the Carolina Lowcountry to the bustling coffeehouses of 18th-century England\, from the sun-drenched islands of the Bahamas to the austere meeting-rooms of London’s Royal Society\, then presided over by Isaac Newton. It was a time of discovery\, of intellectual ferment\, and of the rise of the British Empire. And there on history’s leading edge\, recording the extraordinary and often violent mingling of cultures as well as of nature\, was Mark Catesby. \nIntensively researched and thrillingly told\, Nature’s Messenger will thrill fans of exploration and early American history as well as appealing to birdwatchers\, botanists\, and anyone fascinated by the natural world. \nAbout the author: \nPatrick Dean writes on the outdoors and the environment. He has worked as a teacher\, a political media director\, and is presently the executive director of a rail-trail nonprofit. \nAn avid trail-runner\, paddler\, and mountain-biker\, he lives with his wife and dogs on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee\, and is the author of A Window to Heaven\, about the summit of Denali. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/tuesday-talk-patrick-dean-author-of-natures-messenger/
LOCATION:Port Royal Sound Maritime Center\, 310 Okatie Hwy\, Okatie\, SC\, 29909\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks and Lectures
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: The Prince of Tides
DESCRIPTION:Thursday August 24\, 2023 – 6:30-7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: $10\nRegistration: Register at Eventbrite | Limited to 20 participants\nVenue: The Rhett House Inn | 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and the award-winning Rhett House Inn will host a monthly book club discussion of Pat Conroy’s dozen books in order of publication\, moderated by Charlene Spearen and Jonathan Haupt. Book discussions will be held on fourth Thursdays beginning at 6:30 p.m. Limited to 20 participants each month. $10/person. Advance registration required. Participants are expected to read the books and to come prepared to discuss them. \nDiscussions will be held at The Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nSCHEDULE \n\nAugust 24: The Prince of Tides (1986)\nSeptember 28: Beach Music (1995)\nOctober 26 (Pat Conroy’s birthday): My Losing Season (2002)\nNovember 30 (5th Thursday due to Thanksgiving): The Pat Conroy Cookbook (2004)\n\nRegister at Eventbrite \nABOUT OUR DISCUSSION LEADERS \nDr. Charlene Monahan Spearen received her MFA degree in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of South Carolina. She is currently serving as the Public Relations and Special Projects Coordinator for Penn Center after a successful career in academia at Allen University. She served as the Program Coordinator for the University of South Carolina’s Arts Institute and was the Assistant Director for the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In addition to her work throughout the Carolinas\, Spearen has been a featured reader and Creative Writing instructor and scholar in County Monaghan and County Mayo\, Ireland. She has published a full-length collection of poems titled A Book of Exquisite Disasters. Her poems have appeared in journals and publications throughout the United States. \nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Conroy Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press\, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy\, named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of “the top ten things to love about the South.” Haupt’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier\, Lowcountry Weekly\, Beaufort Lifestyle\, Savannah Morning News’ Beacon magazine\, Southern Review of Books\, and Southern Writers Magazine’s Suite T blog. He is co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, the recipient of seventeen book awards. He serves on the boards of the Friends of South Carolina Libraries and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. In 2020\, Haupt was recognized with the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award presented by the Pulpwood Queens\, the largest book club in the U.S. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/pat-conroy-book-club-the-prince-of-tides/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Amy Paige Condon
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday August 22\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with Amy Paige Condon\, author of A Nervous Man Shouldn’t Be Here in the First Place: The Life of Bill Baggs\, newly released in paperback. This free event will be held on Tuesday\, August 22\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout A Nervous Man Shouldn’t Be Here in the First Place\n“This is not a simple life\, my friend\, and there are no simple answers.” The late editor of the late Miami News\, Bill Baggs\, stamped these words on plain white postcards and sent them to readers who sent him hate mail―a frequent occurrence\, as Baggs\, a white editor of a prominent southern newspaper\, championed unpopular ideas in his front-page columns\, such as protecting the environment\, desegregating public schools\, and peace in Vietnam. \nUnder his leadership\, the Miami News earned three Pulitzer Prizes. For his stances\, Baggs earned a bullet hole through his office window\, police officers stationed outside his home\, and a used Mercedes outfitted with a remote starter so that if it had been rigged with a bomb\, it would blow up before he opened the door. Despite his causes and accomplishments\, when Baggs died of pneumonia in 1969 at the age of forty-five\, his story nearly died with him\, and that would have been a travesty because Baggs still has so much to teach us about how to find the answers to those not-so-simple questions\, like how to live in peace with one another? \nIn this first biography of this influential editor\, Amy Paige Condon retraces how an orphaned boy from rural Colquitt\, Georgia\, bore witness and impacted some of the twentieth century’s most earth-shifting events: World War II\, the civil rights movement\, the Cuban Missile Crisis\, and the Vietnam War. With keen intellect and sparkling wit\, Baggs seemed to be in the right place at the right time. From bombardier to reporter then accidental diplomat\, Baggs used his daily column as a bully pulpit for social justice and wielded his pen like a scalpel to reveal the truth. \n“The marquee proclaiming the most celebrated journalists of the twentieth century probably wouldn’t include Bill Baggs. But ask everyone listed on the marquee who’s missing. By unanimous consent\, they’d say Bill Baggs\, the daring\, fearless\, ‘rapscallion’ editor of the Miami News. Why? Because as Amy Paige Condon so masterfully reveals\, Baggs led them on race\, Vietnam\, the environment\, historic preservation\, land conservation\, and the liberal conversation we’re still having today. This is a necessary resurrection of a departed journalist worth celebrating.”–Hank Klibanoff\, Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of The Race Beat: The Press\, the Civil Rights Struggle\, and the Awakening of a Nation \n“When a book keeps you riveted into the wee hours of the morning\, and then brings tears to your eyes when it ends\, you can be pretty sure it’s a winner.”–Carol McCabe Booker\, editor of Alone Atop the Hill \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nAmy Paige Condon is the founder of the Refinery Writing Studio and the associate editor of Beacon\, a quarterly news magazine published by the Savannah Morning News. She is the coauthor of Wiley’s Championship BBQ Cookbook and The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-amy-paige-condon/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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