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Honoring the literary legacy of South Carolina's only Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Gamechanger: The Life and Writing of Julia Mood Peterkin is a free public program presented by poet Ann-Chadwell Humphries on behalf of the South Carolina Humanities Speakers Bureau.
Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt & Beaufort High School junior Millie Bennett will discuss Conroy’s lifelong love of books and libraries—focusing on the roles public libraries, school libraries, and Pat's own personal library played in his writing life.
In honor of National Poetry Month, join Jonathan Haupt and Beaufort High School students Holland Perryman, Alisha Arora, and Millie Bennett as they explore Pat Conroy’s lifelong relationship with poetry as a reader, as a self-described “failed poet,” and as a writer who found a creative outlet for his Great Love of poetry in his lyrical and descriptive prose.
Beginning National Library Week, the Beaufort Human Library will be held as a free public event on Sunday, April 3, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., hosted by the Beaufort County Library (311 Scott St.) in partnership with the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort High School's Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization, and community volunteers.
The Pat Conroy Literary Center, in partnership with the Beaufort District Collection of the Beaufort County Library System, will host a discussion by educator Jim Alberto, author of the newly published memoir Daufuskie Daze: Living, Learning, and...
Writer Ann Head, the pen name of Anne Wales Christensen Head Morse (1915–1968), was the granddaughter of AbbieHolmes Christensen, who came to Beaufort during the Civil War to educate the recently freed enslaved populations of the sea islands...
The Pat Conroy Literary Center, in partnership with the Beaufort County Library System, presents CAROLINA ON MY MIND, a five-book Let’s Talk about It discussion series supported by a grant from South Carolina Humanities. Each free public event will feature a different visiting scholar or discussion leader presenting on book representative of the South Carolina experience. Copies of all five books featured in this series will be available for circulation through Beaufort County Library’s main branch, thanks in part to the South Carolina State Library. BOOK 3: Padgett Powell's Edisto: A Novel Discussion leader: Ellen Malphrus
The Pat Conroy Literary Center, in partnership with the Beaufort County Library System, presents CAROLINA ON MY MIND, a five-book Let’s Talk about It discussion series supported by a grant from South Carolina Humanities. Each free public event will feature a different visiting scholar or discussion leader presenting on book representative of the South Carolina experience. Copies of all five books featured in this series will be available for circulation through Beaufort County Library’s main branch, thanks in part to the South Carolina State Library. BOOK 5: Rebecca T. Godwin's Keeper of the House Discussion leader: author Rebecca T. Godwin
The Pat Conroy Literary Center's Visiting Writers Series welcomes Nicole Seitz, author and artist of The Cage-maker, an illustrated and epistolary historic mystery set in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans. Nicole will appear in conversation with freelance writer and former Charleston Post and Courier books editor Bill Thompson.
The Pat Conroy Literary Center, in partnership with the Beaufort County Library System, presents CAROLINA ON MY MIND, a five-book Let’s Talk about It discussion series supported by a grant from South Carolina Humanities. Each free public event will feature a different visiting scholar or discussion leader presenting on book representative of the South Carolina experience. Copies of all five books featured in this series will be available for circulation through Beaufort County Library’s main branch, thanks in part to the South Carolina State Library. BOOK 4: Walter Edgar's Partisans and Redcoats: The Southern Conflict that Turned the Tide of the American Revolution Discussion leader: David Preston
(Canceled - This Event to Be Rescheduled) The Pat Conroy Literary Center, in partnership with the Beaufort County Library System, presents CAROLINA ON MY MIND, a five-book Let’s Talk about It discussion series supported by a grant from South Carolina Humanities. Each free public event will feature a different visiting scholar or discussion leader presenting on book representative of the South Carolina experience. Copies of all five books featured in this series will be available for circulation through Beaufort County Library’s main branch, thanks in part to the South Carolina State Library. BOOK 3: Padgett Powell's Edisto: A Novel Discussion leader: Daniel Cross Turner
The Pat Conroy Literary Center, in partnership with the Beaufort County Library System, presents CAROLINA ON MY MIND, a five-book Let’s Talk about It discussion series supported by a grant from South Carolina Humanities. Each free public event will feature a different visiting scholar or discussion leader presenting on book representative of the South Carolina experience. Copies of all five books featured in this series will be available for circulation through Beaufort County Library’s main branch, thanks in part to the South Carolina State Library. BOOK 2: David Robertson's Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It Discussion leader: Bernard Powers
Join us for this free two-part program presented in partnership with the Beaufort County Library System--a prologue to our second annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival, October 19-22, celebrating our theme of the Transformative Power of Education.
The Pat Conroy Literary Center, in partnership with the Beaufort County Library System, presents CAROLINA ON MY MIND, a five-book Let’s Talk about It discussion series supported by a grant from South Carolina Humanities. Each free public event will feature a different visiting scholar or discussion leader presenting on book representative of the South Carolina experience. Copies of all five books featured in this series will be available for circulation through Beaufort County Library’s main branch, thanks in part to the South Carolina State Library. BOOK 1: Pat Conroy's The Water Is Wide Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Robin