Patrick McMillan's here Thursday night with a Speakers Series lecture entitled Nature On the Move: Reclaiming Our Place In the World. Patrick is host of the ETV series Expeditions with Patrick McMillan, a terrific naturalist, and the director of the Campbell Museum at Clemson University. We hope you'll be able to make it to this event, co-sponsored by the Coastal Conservation League. Thursday October 21st, 7PM. Free.
Mid-day Thursday we'll have the fourth installment of our Wide Angle Lunches as Geoffrey Van Orden, MBE MEP, joins us for a lunchtime lecture. Van Orden is a member of European Parliament, a member of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, a former British Army Brigadier-General, and likely the first Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers to lecture before the Library Society. The View From Europe: Turkey and Its Relationship With the West is this Thursday, 12:15-1:30 PM (lecture starts at 12:30), $10 for members, $14 for non.
And from the hills of Clemson, to the East of England and the Middle East, we move on to one more exotic* locale: Palermo, Sicily. Home to Italy's largest opera house, di Lampeduesa's magnificent The Leopard, and the city from which your loyal blogger's patrilineal predecessors set forth for America.
On November 8th, we'll host a lecture concerning one of Palermo's most notable sons, the Duke Fulco di Verdura. Born in Palermo in 1898, Verdura moved to America as a young man. When he wasn't hanging out with buddies like Cole Porter, he was making exotic jewelry for the likes of Coco Chanel, Greta Garbo, Wallace Simpson. Ward Landrigan of Verdura jewelers will be visiting the Library Society to give a presentation about the Duke and his company that will include rare pieces and original designs from the collection. Verdura and Women of Style is November 8th at 7PM. Admission is free, but please RSVP (843.723.9912 or rsvp@charlestonlibrarysociety.org)
*Okay, the "hills of Clemson" aren't all that exotic. And neither, for that matter, is the East of England. Though the Magic Roundabout is there. And Stephen Fry spent some time in Norfolk growing up. So they've got that going for them.
And once upon a time, this chick was in charge... awesome. [Though I prefer more blue paint and red hair.]
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