The South Carolina State Library's Center for the Book is pleased to announce its spring author line up. The Speaker @ the Center program will hold free lunchtime author talks on the following dates:
Tuesday, January 12*
Kristina Dunn Johnson
No Holier Spot of Ground: Confederate Monuments and Cemeteries of South Carolina
The monuments of South Carolina bear on their weathered faces and cracked tablets a history of honor and of memory embodied in stone. Whether revealing the lost graves of southern sons, unveiling the history of the only national cemetery to inter Confederate soldiers alongside the Union fallen during wartime or recording the simple obelisks that reach for heaven throughout the Palmetto State, this volume is a story of remembrance and of mourning.
Wednesday, January 27
Thomas J. Brown
City of the Silent: The Charlestonians of Magnolia Cemetery
A guide to more than two hundred of the most famous, infamous, and influential individuals now interred in one of Charleston's most iconic landmarks.
Thursday, February 18
Carl Naylor
The Day the Johnboat Went Up the Mountain: Stories from My Twenty Years in South Carolina Maritime Archaeology
True tales of underwater adventures and discoveries in the Palmetto State's maritime history.
Thursday, March 25
Robert J. Kapsch
Historic Canals and Waterways of South Carolina
The first history of the canal boom that revolutionized transportation in the Palmetto State.
Thursday, April 15
James E. Kibler
Selected Poems of William Gilmore Simms
A revised and expanded edition of powms by the renowned nineteenth-century Charleston writer and historian.
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Worthy Evans
Green Revolver
Winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize
Thursday, May 27
Susanna Ashton
I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives
Rare firsthand accounts of slavery from across the Palmetto State collected together for the first time.
Books will be available for purchase and autographing. All programs will take place from noon to 1pm in Room 309 of the Administration Building at the SC State Library located at 1430 Senate St., Columbia. Speaker @ the Center is FREE and open to the public. Bag lunches are encouraged.
The South Carolina Center for the Book is the South Carolina Affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book and is a cooperative project of the South Carolina State Library, the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science, and The Humanities CouncilSC.
*This session will be held in the SC Center for the Book/Talking Book Services Reading Room of the Administration Building at the SC State Library located at 1430 Senate St., Columbia.
