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SUMMARY:9th Annual March Forth
DESCRIPTION:Ninth Annual March Forth to Be Held on March 1 & 2 in Port Royal\, Beaufort\, and St. Helena Island \nOur Conroy Center’s ninth annual March Forth will be held on Saturday\, March 1\, and Sunday\, March 2\, with educational programs in Beaufort\, Port Royal\, St. Helena Island\, and online. This special event commemorates the anniversary of Pat Conroy’s passing on March 4\, 2016\, by engaging with major themes of his writing and teaching life\, including social justice\, inclusivity\, conservation\, education\, truth-telling\, and storytelling. \nLearn more and register in advance at Eventbrite \nMarch Forth will include appearances by: \n\nAshley Hope Pérez: YA novelist\, educator\, advocate\, and editor of Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers’ Rights\nKimberly Brock: novelist\, past Georgia Author of the Year\, and author of The Fabled Earth\, a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction\nEdda L. Fields-Black: professor of history and director of the Dietrich College Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University\, author of Combee: Harriet Tubman\, The Combahee River Raid\, and Black Freedom During the Civil War\nKatherine Freeman: National Park Service Ranger with the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park\nJake Zadik: Brays Island naturalist\, nature photographer\, and cofounder of South Carolina Partners of Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (SCPARC)\nJuliana Zadik: naturalist\, educator\, and Beaufort County Long-Range Environmental Planner\nDana Ridenour: retired FBI undercover special agent\, author of the Lexie Montgomery series\nEugene A. Rugala: retired FBI “profiler\,” behavioral science consultant and author\nDAYLO: Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization\n\nThis year\, March Forth is hosted by Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt and nationally recognized youth advocate Julia Garnett. \nMarch Forth is presented in collaboration between the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, Penn Center\, NeverMore Books\, the Port Royal Farmers Market\, the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park\, and DAYLO: Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization. \n~EVENTS FOR SATURDAY MARCH 1~\n9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.: Reconstruction Era National Historic Park ToursExplore the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park locations in Beaufort\, Port Royal\, and St. Helena. Free. See Details Here. \n9:30 a.m. to Noon: Read with a Ranger and Teddy Bear Picnic at the Port Royal Farmers MarketStudent volunteers from DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization) will be reading children’s picture books to young readers and their families\, with light snacks provided. DAYLO students will be joined by National Park Service Ranger Katherine Freeman from the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park for a special read-aloud\, Read with a Ranger. This free event will be held near the gazebo at the Port Royal Farmers Market (1615 Ribaut Rd\, Port Royal). No registration needed. \n10:00 a.m. to Noon: Demythologizing the FBI: What Writers Get Wrong\, Workshop Led by Dana Ridenour and Eugene A. RugalaJoin retired FBI undercover special agent turned novelist Dana Ridenour and retired FBI “profiler” turned consultant Eugene A. Rugala for a workshop for writers (and interested readers) about what FBI work is really like–and what novels and films get wrong. $60/person\, limited to 20 attendees. Held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Register in advance at Eventbrite. \n10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Penn Center’s York W. Bailey Museum ToursExplore Penn Center and the York W. Bailey Museum (16 Penn Center Circle West\, St. Helena Island). Docent-led tours available. $15-$20/person. \nNoon to 4:00 p.m.: Pat Conroy Literary Center ToursThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort) is open for free public tours\, guided by volunteer docents. \n5:00 to 6:00 p.m.: Facebook Live Interview with Ashley Hope Pérez\, Editor of Banned Together\, in Conversation with Jonathan Haupt and Julia Garnett \nAshley Hope Pérez’s 2015 YA novel Out of Darkness won a Printz Honor and the Tomás Rivera Book Award—and it as one of the top ten most banned books of 2021. Pérez will discuss her new anthology Banned Together: The Fight for Reader’s Rights (to be published on March 4) in conversation with Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt and Banned Books Week Honorary Youth Chair Julia Garnett. This free virtual event will be live-streamed to the Conroy Center’s Facebook page and available to watch through Monday\, March 3\, at 6:00 p.m. No registration required. \n~EVENTS FOR SUNDAY MARCH 2~\nAll Sunday events are ticketed (Eventbrite)and held at Penn Center’s Frissell Hall\, 16 Penn Center Circle West\, St. Helena Island. Nature walk: $10/person. Catered lunch + two author presentations: $30. \n\n9:30-10:00 a.m.: Attendee check-in.\n10:00-11:30 a.m.: Birding and nature walk of Penn Center led by husband and wife naturalists Jake and Juliana Zadik. Approximately 1 mile. $10/person; limited to 40 participants.\n11:30 to Noon. Catered lunch by Magnolia’s Cafe. Included in $30/person registration.\nNoon to 1:00 p.m.: Presentation by Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black\, professor of history and director of the Dietrich College Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University\, author of Combee: Harriet Tubman\, The Combahee River Raid\, and Black Freedom During the Civil War. Included in $30/person registration.\n1:00 to 1:30 p.m.: Book signing break with NeverMore Books.\n1:30 to 2:30 p.m.: Conversation with Kimberly Brock: novelist\, past Georgia Author of the Year\, and author of The Fabled Earth\, a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction–interviewed by Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt and Banned Books Week Honorary Youth Chair Julia Garnett. Included in $30/person registration.\n2:30-3:00 p.m.: Book signing break with NeverMore Books.\n3:00 p.m.: Closing remarks
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CATEGORIES:March Forth,Talks and Lectures
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy: An Introduction to a Lowcountry Legend
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 27\, 2025 – 6:00-7:00 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nVenue: Charleston County Public Library (68 Calhoun St. Charleston\, SC) \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nOn Thursday\, February 27\, at 6:00-7:00 p.m. the Charleston County Public Library will host Pat Conroy: An Introduction to a Lowcountry Legend. Presented by Jonathan Haupt\, executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, this free literary program will be held at the Main Library at 68 Calhoun St. in historic downtown Charleston. \nInternationally acclaimed writer Pat Conroy (1945-2016) is best remembered as the author of The Water Is Wide\, The Great Santini\, The Lords of Discipline\, and The Prince of Tides\, each also adapted for film. Conroy has become as synonymous with his adopted lowcountry as pluff mud or Spanish Moss. \nJoin the Conroy Center executive director—and one of Pat’s many protégés—for an engaging hour of stories\, photos\, and videos introducing Conroy’s writing and teaching life and exploring some of the major themes of his work\, as well as how the nonprofit literary center established in his memory now continues his legacy. \nAbout the Presenter \nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, the past director of the University of South Carolina Press\, and co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, winner of 17 book awards. \nHe is a frequent guest book reviewer for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Charleston Post and Courier. In 2020\, he was honored with the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award\, a lifetime achievement recognition presented by the Pulpwood Queens\, the largest read-and-meet book club in the U.S. Under Jonathan’s leadership\, the Conroy Center has been recognized as an American Library Association Literary Landmark\, an affiliate of the American Writers Museum\, and winner of the Civitas Award for Tourism Leadership. \nWith Claire Bennett\, Jonathan also serves as co-mentor to the student leaders of DAYLO: Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization\, who in turn have been recognized with a national commendation from the American Association of School Librarians\, the South Carolina Education Association’s Richard W. Riley Award for Human and Civil Rights\, and an honorable mention for the South Carolina Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Award. \n  \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/pat-conroy-an-introduction-to-a-lowcountry-legend/
LOCATION:Charleston County Public Library\, 68 Calhoun Street\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks and Lectures
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SUMMARY:Hilton Head Poetry Trail presented by poet Elizabeth Robin
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 14\, 2024 – 2:00-4:00 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 \nLet’s talk about the Hilton Head Poetry Trail \nHave you heard? Hilton Head Island has a poetry trail! Want to visit but can’t get there now? Know what’s in store before you go? Learn how to create a trail in your own town? Join us for a special presentation by award-winning poet Elizabeth Robin\, all about the Hilton Head Poetry Trail. \nA marriage of technology\, creative writing\, public art\, and arts-minded businesses\, the Hilton Head Poetry Trail offers a new way to see Hilton Head Island: through the eyes of the poets who live there. Grabbing extra copies of Local Life Magazine? Scan the sign placed inside the front door and read a Pop-up Poets collaboration. Contemplating the landscape as you rest on Toni Morrison’s bench at Mitchelville Freedom Park? Read James Mallory’s poem “The Beautiful Couple.” Confused\, asking “What is it?” as you stare at Caracol in Shelter Cove Park? Scan the trail sign and Jacque Markham gives you one interpretation. \nIt’s the kind of collaboration that makes the arts an experience. A unique approach to a public arts project\, this trail brings poetry into public spaces in a permanent-yet-flexible medium. Because it uses QR codes\, the trail can track its visits and regularly switch out trail content to include more poets and poems at each site. Monthly visits have averaged over 300 readings from 20-plus states and 4 or more foreign countries in its first year. Some poems have been read over 1\,000 times! \nThe project is a partnership between the town of Hilton Head Island’s Office of Cultural Affairs and the Island Writers Network. The technology guru and idea man on the project is Bill Schmitt\, who developed the logo\, the sign design and Facebook page. Natalie Harvey\, the Director of Cultural Affairs\, oversees the sculptures approved for the project and the affixing of signs near the public art and park installations. Poet Elizabeth Robin recruited the poets and the businesses that are participating\, and pairs poems to locations. \nAbout the Presenter \nElizabeth Robin\, retired teacher and award-winning poet\, is the author of three collections of poems published by Finishing Line Press: To My Dreamcatcher (2022)\, Where Green Meets Blue (2018) and Silk Purses and Lemonade (2017). \nShe partnered with the Office of Cultural Affairs to establish the Hilton Head Poetry Trail\, a 25-station route of local poets. A Piccolo Spoleto Sundown Poet (2023)\, she won the 2021 Carrie McCray Nickens Fellowship\, was an Island Writers Network open mic emcee for eight years\, and creates literary programs on Hilton Head Island. Recent work appears in Tall Women\, The Jasper Project: Poetry of the People\, Poetry Society (SC) Yearbook\, Catfish Stew\, Ukweli\, Drunk Monkeys and others. \n  \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/hilton-head-poetry-trail-presented-by-poet-elizabeth-robin/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Talks and Lectures
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SUMMARY:8th Annual March Forth
DESCRIPTION:Eighth Annual March Forth to Be Held on March 2 & 3 in Port Royal\, Beaufort\, and St. Helena Island \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center’s eighth annual March Forth will be held on Saturday\, March 2\, and Sunday\, March 3. This special event commemorates the anniversary of Pat Conroy’s passing on March 4\, 2016\, with programs on major themes of his writing and teaching life\, including social justice\, inclusivity\, conservation\, education\, and storytelling. \nLearn more and register in advance at Eventbrite \nMarch Forth will include appearances by novelist Jeffrey Dale Lofton\, author of Red Clay Suzie (Longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize); novelist\, musician\, and educator Brendan Slocumb\, author of Symphony of Secrets and The Violin Conspiracy (A Good Morning America Book Club Selection); naturalist and biographer Patrick Dean\, author of Nature’s Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World; award-winning nature photographer Kelley Luikey; Spring Island Trust executive director Andy Jones; National Park Service Ranger Katherine Freeman; and the students of DAYLO. \nMarch Forth is hosted this year by Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt\, Conroy Center board member Ginger Olszewski\, and Lowcountry Weekly publisher and columnist Margaret Evans. \nFree events will be held at the Port Royal Farmers Market and the Conroy Center on Saturday\, March 2. A ticketed all-day event (including a catered lunch by award-winning caterer and cookbook author Debbi Covington) will be held at Penn Center on St. Helena Island on Sunday\, March 3. Books by presenting authors will be available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books. \nMarch Forth is presented in collaboration between the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and Penn Center\, NeverMore Books\, Lowcountry Pride\, the Port Royal Farmers Market\, the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park\, the Rhett House Inn\, MarshSong Cottage\, Catering by Debbi Covington\, and DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization)\, and sponsored in part by the Pulpwood Queens Book Club. \n~SCHEDULE OF EVENTS~\nTEDDY BEAR PICNIC READ-ALOUD and READ WITH A RANGER at the PORT ROYAL FARMERS MARKET on SATURDAY\, MARCH 2\n9:30-Noon. Student volunteers from local chapters of DAYLO will be reading children’s picture books to young readers and their families\, with light snacks provided. DAYLO students will be joined by National Park Service Ranger Katherine Freeman from the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park for a special read-aloud\, Read with a Ranger. This free event will be held near the gazebo at the Port Royal Farmers Market (1615 Ribaut Rd\, Port Royal). No registration needed. \nAN AFTERNOON WITH JEFFREY DALE LOFTON\, AUTHOR OF RED CLAY SUZIE\, at the CONROY CENTER on SATURDAY\, MARCH 2\n2:00-3:30 p.m. Award-winning writer Jeffrey Dale Lofton will discuss his debut novel Red Clay Suzie (Longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize) at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort)\, presented in collaboration with Lowcountry Pride. Books will be available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books. Seating is limited for this free event; please register in advance at 843-379-7025. \nTICKETED MARCH FORTH EVENTS at PENN CENTER on SUNDAY\, MARCH 3\n9:30-10:00 a.m. Attendee check-in.\n10:00-11:30 a.m. Birding and nature walk of Penn Center led by naturalist and Spring Island Trust and Lowcountry Institute executive director Andy Jones.\n11:30 to Noon. Catered lunch by Debbi Covington. (Register in advance by February 26 for lunch. Day-of registrations may be possible without lunch.)\nNoon to 1:00 p.m. Novelist\, musician\, and educator Brendan Slocumb\, author of Symphony of Secrets and The Violin Conspiracy (A Good Morning America Book Club Selection) in conversation with Conroy Center Executive Director Jonathan Haupt\, presented with the generous support of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club.\n1:00 to 1:20 p.m. Book signing break with NeverMore Books.\n1:20 to 2:20 p.m. Naturalist and biographer Patrick Dean\, author of Nature’s Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World\, in conversation with Lowcountry Weekly publisher and columnist Margaret Evans.\n2:20-2:40 p.m. Book signing break with NeverMore Books.\n2:40-3:40 p.m. A special slideshow presentation by award-winning nature photographer\, naturalist\, and educator Kelley Luikey.\n3:40-4:00 p.m. Closing remarks. \n~ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS~\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. An avid trail-runner\, paddler\, and mountain-biker\, he lives with his wife and dogs on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Dean is the author of A Window to Heaven\, about the summit of Denali\, and Nature’s Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World. \n  \nDr. Andy Jones\, executive director of the Spring Island Trust and Lowcountry Institute\, is a lifelong naturalist\, with a passion for the biodiversity of the Southeast. He studied biological sciences at the University of Tennessee\, and completed his PhD on the evolutionary history of Philippine birds at the University of Minnesota. From 2006 until early 2022\, he served curator of ornithology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He has also served as a board member and on the research committee of Black Swamp Bird Observatory\, as a board member of Winous Point Marsh Conservancy\, and as Secretary of the American Ornithological Society. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society for his contributions to ornithology. \nJeffrey Dale Lofton is a senior advisor at the Library of Congress in Washington\, D.C. A veteran stage actor turned debut novelist\, he is the author of Red Clay Suzie\, written through his personal lens growing up an outsider figuring out life and love in a conservative family and community in the Deep South. The novel was Longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize). \n  \nKelley Luikey is an award-winning photographer\, educator\, and Master Naturalist. Her photography consistently ranks in the Top 100 Images for national and international competitions such as the National Audobon Society and North American Nature Photographers Association. Her work hangs in private homes and offices across the country\, has appeared in numerous publications–including National Audubon Society magazine and the cover of Garden and Gun magazine. Through her work\, she hopes to inspire others to appreciate and preserve the beauty of the Lowcountry. Luikey resides in Port Royal with her husband and two children. She currently exhibits at Pluff Mudd Art in Bluffton and MacDonald Marketplace in Beaufort. \nBrendan Slocumb is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in music education\, concentrations on Violin and Viola. For the past two decades\, he has been a public and private school music educator from kindergarten through twelfth grade\, teaching general music\, orchestra\, and guitar ensembles. His students were often chosen for district and regional orchestras. In 2005\, Brendan was named Teacher of the Year for Robert E. Lee High School; he has been named to Who’s Who of American teachers\, and is a Nobel Teacher of distinction. Brendan also serves as an educational consultant for the Kennedy Center in Washington\, D.C. He is the author of two novels: The Violin Conspiracy (a selection of the Good Morning America Book Club) and the recently released Symphony of Secrets.
URL:https://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/8th-annual-march-forth/
LOCATION:Penn Center\, 16 Penn Center Circle West\, St. Helena Island\, SC\, 29920\, United States
CATEGORIES:March Forth,Talks and Lectures
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - All Night\, All Day: Life\, Death & Angels
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 21\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nFree Registration: 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 a panel discussion and book signing for the anthology All Night\, All Day: Life\, Death & Angels on Thursday\, September 21\, at 5:00 p.m. Free and open to the public\, this event will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance.\nThe panel discussion will include editor Susan Cushman and contributing writers Cassandra King\, Wendy Reed\, and Nancy Dorman-Hickson. \nAbout All Night\, All Day: Life\, Death & Angels\n“All Night\, All Day is an inspirational collection of personal essays\, stories\, and poems by outstanding women authors who write about the appearance of the divine in their lives. Some of these angels come to save a life or change a flat tire. Some appear to warn people\, tell them what to do\, suggest more vegetables and maybe better shoes… In this stunning anthology which explores so many heartwarming brushes with celestial beings\, all these angels are messengers come to assure us we are not alone\, and we are loved.”—Margaret McMullan\, award-winning author of Where the Angels Lived \nThere is something mystical about holding the hand of a person who is “crossing over.” It can be heartbreaking\, of course\, but also very holy and beautiful. Some of the pieces in this collection share the experience of personal loss when a loved one dies. Often the presence of an angel or another mystical experience is shared. But not only in death—there are also stories here of the way the mystical world interacts with us in daily life. And not only angels\, but also mothers\, fathers\, sisters\, grandfathers\, friends\, and even a homeless man and a dog. \nABOUT THE EDITOR AND AUTHORS\nThis is Susan Cushman’s fourth anthology to edit. She is also the author of two novels\, two memoirs\, and a short story collection. Pat Conroy and Cassandra King are her two favorite authors and inspired her to write. Enough said. \n  \n  \nCassandra King (Conroy) is the author of five best-selling novels and two nonfiction books. Her latest book\, Tell Me a Story\, a memoir about life with her late husband Pat Conroy\, was named SIBA’s 2020 non-fiction Book of the Year. A conversation with Cassandra at her home in 2018 about angels—and particularly about the one that visited Pat as he was dying—was the inspiration for this book. \n  \nWendy Reed is an Emmy-winning writer and producer\, whose work include documentaries and the long-running series Bookmark with Don Noble and Discovering Alabama. She is the author of An Accidental Memoir: How I Killed Someone and Other Stories and the co-editor of All Out of Faith and Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality. \n  \nAfter almost twenty years as a features editor at Southern Living magazine\, Nancy Dorman-Hickson now freelances in Birmingham\, Alabama. She co-authored Diplomacy and Diamonds\, the best-selling memoir of Joanne King Herring who was portrayed by Julia Roberts in the movie Charlie Wilson’s War. She is working on a memoir which draws from her rural childhood in the 1960s and 1970s in Mississippi. \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/panel-discussion-all-night-all-day-life-death-angels/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Talks and Lectures
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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://new.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:Haiku Night Featuring Natasha Akery and Miho Kinnas
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWhen: TUESDAY\, JULY 25\, 2023 AT 7 PM – 8 PM EDT\nCost: Free | Advance registration by July 23 is required to receive the Zoom link and attend. \nThis highly interactive virtual session will feature Natasha Akery’s new book of haiku\, in [the name]\, and other haiku. Akery has published her work on social media for years\, and also uses haiku in her classrooms as a teaching tool. Aided by fellow poet Miho Kinnas\, Akery will discuss various topics on haiku and welcome questions from the audience. Both poets will also be reading from their work. This free virtual event will be hosted on Zoom. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThis free virtual event will be hosted on Zoom. Details for joining the video call will be provided to all participants after registering. \nAbout our authors: \nNatasha Akery is a language arts teacher and poet from Charleston\, South Carolina. She graduated from the College of Charleston with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies\, specializing in biblical literature and esoteric traditions. For three years\, she was an editor and a writer for 1:1000\, an online literary journal that published flash fiction paired with photographs. \nShe now devotes her writing practice to haiku with themes of heritage\, motherhood\, and spirituality. You can find her poems on Instagram (@writethreelines)\, on Ello (@writethreelines) and in I Am a Furious Wish: Anthology of Lowcountry Poets\, Vol. 1 published by Free Verse Press. Her first chapbook\, in [the name]\, is a collection of haiku inspired by the desert and biblical stories. It is available through Bottlecap Press. \nOne of the founding instructors for Camp Conroy: Build A Book summer camp\, Miho Kinnas is a Japanese poet and translator. The author of two poetry collections\, Today\, Fish Only and Move Over\, Bird (Math Paper Press)\, she holds an MFA in creative writing from the City University of Hong Kong. \nHer book reviews\, essays\, translations\, and poems in journals and anthologies in Asia and the U.S\, including Best American Poetry 2023\, Quixotica: Poems East of La Mancha (Chameleon Press)\, Tokyo Poetry Magazine\, The Petigru Review (2023 Pushcart Nomination)\, andThe Belletrist Magazine (2019 Pushcart Nomination). She teaches haiku/tanka-based poetry workshops locally and virtually. We Eclipse Into the Other Side (Pinyon Publishing)\, written with E. Ethelbert Miller\, is forthcoming. \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/haiku-night-featuring-natasha-akery-and-miho-kinnas/
LOCATION:Online – ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Online Event,Reading,Talks and Lectures
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