tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84186150098436626642024-02-20T08:44:57.908-05:00Shh!The blog of the Charleston Library SocietyW.G. Hinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646247526330692786noreply@blogger.comBlogger160125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-92228736882138141172014-01-21T14:33:00.000-05:002014-01-21T14:33:55.080-05:00<div class="photoUnit clearfix">
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some examples of the Library's African American and abolitionist
authors...We found in our vault some WONDERFUL, early African American
authors such as; Paul Laurence Dunbar(1872-1906) Mary Weston
Fordham(1844–1905), W.E.B Du Bois(1868-1963), Booker T.
Washington(1856-1915), Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) and James Bal<span class="text_exposed_show">dwin(1924-1987).<br /> <br />
As for abolitionist writings, we found a copy of "The Freedmen's Book"
by Lydia Maria Child(1802-1880) and an 1852 People's Illustrated Edition
of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." by Harriet Beecher Stowe.<br /> </span></span></span></div>
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well known author of journals, domestic guidebooks and fiction. She was
also a friend, advisor and editor to African American author Harriet
Jacobs(1813–1897) whose 1861 publication "Incidents in the Life of a
Slave Girl" made her the first woman author of a slave narrative in the
United States. <br /> </span></span></span></div>
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by William Godber Hinson and is full of 50 illustrations and newspaper
clippings, such as reviews and other articles relating to the book that
Mr. Hinson saw relevant. </span></span></span></div>
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W.G. Hinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646247526330692786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-19407042815332634952013-06-24T15:57:00.002-04:002013-06-24T15:57:12.306-04:00Revolutionary Road<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We're only a week away from the greatest day of the year - Carolina Day! For those of you who aren't familiar with the holiday, Carolina Day is kind of like a Charleston Cinco de Mayo - we remember how a small, half-prepared band of patriots repelled the larger force of a great European military.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One major difference: instead of tequila, we mostly celebrate with bourbon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before the bourbon (well, <i>hopefully</i> before - things start at 10:30 in the morning) there's the Carolina Day Parade. In the Parade, civic and social organizations of all kinds meet at Washington Park, line up in chronological order of founding, and proceed to White Point Gardens. As the oldest cultural organization in the South, the Library is right near the front. We invite all members and friends of the Library to join us in the parade, so we'll see you Friday morning under the big green and gold flag!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>ALSO:</b> a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> quick pop quiz for you: what was the largest battle during the American Revolution? Saratoga? Yorktown?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nope - in terms of the number of combatants, the largest battle was the Great Siege of Gibraltar (begun 234 years ago today). No worries if the Siege of Gibraltar wasn't in your American History textbook back in middle school, for no American forces part of the fight. France and Spain figured Britain had enough on its hands in North America, and united to dislodge the British forces from Gibraltar. The siege lasted three years and seven months - the longest endured by Britain since the English Civil War.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Your loyal blogger mentions this historical highlight a)because it's the anniversary of the siege, and b)to keep the conversation focused on the Revolutionary War during the week of Carolina Day. If you're looking for new topics for your Revolutionary War conversations, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">stop by the Main Reading Room of the Library to see our latest exhibit, "The American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This engaging display will include a range of rarely seen items from the vaults. These include British pamphlets in support of the American cause; notable histories of the war from the 1780s to the 1850s; and excerpts from the Library's records that show the impact of the war on the operation of the Society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: black;">Most importantly, our August 14, 1776 edition of the </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>South Carolina and American General Gazette</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"> will be on display. This priceless treasure features the first printing of the Declaration of Independence in South Carolina. The exhibit is free and open to the public, so we expect to see you there!</span></span></div>
Clifford Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061931367523441263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-86081186830850950872013-04-19T11:20:00.000-04:002013-04-19T11:20:52.723-04:00No One Says "No" to Washington! Unless its Charles Cotesworth Pinckney...<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;">In
a series of four letters written between May, 1791 and July, 1796, President
George Washington attempted to lure General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (who
would later become the Library Society’s president) into national service. Pinckney
was offered the positions of Associate Justice on the United States Supreme
Court, head of the Department of War, and Secretary of State, all of which
Pinckney declined again and again. Undaunted, Washington persisted and was
finally successful in 1796, when Pinckney accepted the post of Minister
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to France.</span><br />
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Washington’s confidence in General Pinckney as a diplomat was well founded.
Pinckney distinguished himself by his poise in handling his rejection by the
Directory and expulsion from France by French foreign minister Talleyrand in
January, 1797. Although his attempt to negotiate with the French Republic for a
second time as head of a three-man commission, including John Marshall and Elbridge
Gerry in September, 1797, was futile, he represented the United States with
cool reserve. During what became known as “The XYZ Affair,” French
representatives demanded money from the U.S. in an attempt to gain support
against Britain. General Pinckney was quoted as replying, “No, no, not a
sixpence.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pinckney and his fellow envoys were recalled to the United States in May, 1798,
by President Adams, after strained negotiations with the French Republic came
to an impasse. Although his tenure as Minister to France might appear
unsuccessful, Pinckney’s strength in refusing to be manipulated by the French
demonstrated his considerable talents as a diplomat. He returned to the United
States a hero. His role as a much admired South Carolinian on the international
stage is a fascinating subject for study. I encourage you to seek out books in
our library for further reading on the subject.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was president of the Charleston Library Society from 1792-1796 and from
1798-1806. S</span></span><span class="A4"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">ince the Pinckney/Washington letters were originally
conserved in the 1970s, conservation methods have changed. Many of the valuable
letters were mounted on Japanese Paper for stabilization by use of some form of
paste (sometimes </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;">called
laminating). Methods today are far more conservative. Thanks to the Cornwell’s
grant, the Washington letters were sent to conservators at Joel Oppenheimer,
Inc., where they were chemically removed from the paper on which they were
mounted, glue residue was removed, paper tears were repaired, and the papers
were cleaned and de-acidified.</span></div>
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sincere thanks to the Pinckney family for their generous donations of Pinckney
documents throughout the years. Additionally, we owe a great deal of thanks to
Bernard and Judy Cornwell, beloved friends of the Library Society, who
generously paid for “re-conservation” of many of the letters exchanged between
General Pinckney and President Washington. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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W.G. Hinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646247526330692786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-47235351967489737072013-04-12T13:13:00.001-04:002013-04-12T13:13:59.610-04:00Found it in the Archives: War and Fairy Tales<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The thought of compiling a book of fairy tales from the Allied powers in 1916 </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">as a political statement may seem a bit strange to us in today's increasingly globalized world. However, in a thinly veiled piece of propaganda, </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">English critic Edmond Gosse put together fairy tales from eleven different nations, all allies during</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">World
War I. A limited print edition was bound in full royal blue morocco by
J.W. Zaehnsdort and has beautiful gilt titles. Inside, English
illustrator Arthur Rackham provided 12 beautiful color plates.</span></span><br />
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collection of fairy tales by stating that “All we need say more is that
it has amused us to bring together forgotten specimens of the folklore
of the fighting friends of humanity.” Gosse’s introduction suggests</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> that the book was put together in “amusement,” for "friends" and nothing more. In fact, he touted that </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">the stories were gathered</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">for
“amusement,” and the collection was even on a suggested list of
children's books for Christmas by librarian Ruth Abbott in 1919. Closer scrutiny reveals</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> a collection that is deadly serious in its intent. Both “Jack the Giant-Killer” and “The Last Adventure of Ulenspiegel” exemplify how an old</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">fairy tale can subtly take on<span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">political significance </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">during historical circumstances, in this case World War I.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The presentation of the stories is distinctively nationalistic, illustrating </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">a pride in nation, a pride that has brought forth “forgotten specimens of folklore.” Dawn Heerspink, in her article, <i>No Man’s Land”: Fairy Tales, Gender, Socialization, Satire, and Trauma During the First and Second World Wars</i>,
speaks to fairy tales' intriguing duality and how they were used during
wartime for adult-produced propaganda aimed at both children <i>AND</i>
adults. Gosse is conscientious of this,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> and by defining these stories as “forgotten,” his introduction implies<span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">that the collection is recovering a part of each nation’s historical</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">tradition. Reminding readers of a forgotten past during a tumultuous present, Gosse also illustrates the coalition of Allied parties by binding up the collection of children's stories from different nations. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The first tale,</span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“Jack the Giant-Killer,” presents the familiar</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> English story of</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Jack, a </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“right valiant Cornish man" and</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">knightly protector who could</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> save citizens</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">from giants intent on devouring them. The tale is set</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">during King Arthur's reign, when medieval </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">crusaders fought</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> against evil. It does not seem to be a c</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">oincidence that England, a major ally during</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> World War I, would be presented by<span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Jack, a hero in war. </span></span><br />
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describes them as “always young, strong, and beautiful, since love and
the spirit of Flanders never grow old.” From the very beginning,
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Belgium.” Although Spain is</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> the story's</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">aggressor, the line could equally apply to Germany in the wartime context of 1916.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Charleston Library Society</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04694848168212737269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-53858274457164685002013-03-18T13:28:00.000-04:002013-03-18T13:28:11.718-04:00Women's History and Conservation: Harriot Horry Ravenel<br />
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Charles Van Dyke portrait of Harriott Horry (Rutledge) Ravenel that was
previously housed at the <a href="http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/" target="_blank">Gibbes Museum</a>.
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novelist, biographer, and historian. With a sterling pedigree, she was born in
1832 to Edward Cotesworth Rutledge (1798-1860) and Rebecca Motte Lowndes
(1810-1893). Perhaps even more renowned,
her maternal great-great grandparents were Eliza Lucas Pinkney (1722-1793) and
Charles Pinckney (ca.1699-1738). In 1851,
she married Dr. St. Julien Ravenel, a prominent Charleston physician. In
addition to her busy life as a wife and mother, Mrs. Ravenel pursued her love
of literature. She wrote a biography
about her great-great grandmother, <i><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=rJVTFGM66K0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times: Eliza Pinkney</a></i> in 1896, followed by a
novelette focused on southern history and manners called “<i>The Days That Are Not</i>.” She
also wrote numerous memoirs, poetry, and essays, finishing her writing career
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been estimated to be $7,000 and board member Susan Friberg has generously offered
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04694848168212737269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-28544917723318913762013-03-13T10:43:00.000-04:002013-03-13T10:43:05.180-04:00A Supreme Court Justice and The Fundamental Constitution of Carolina<br />
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John Locke's <i>The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina</i> was a document designed to provide a governing structure for the Carolina colonies written while he was<span style="background: white;"> Secretary to the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_Proprietor" title="Lords Proprietor"><span style="background: white; color: black; text-decoration: none;">Lords Proprietor of Carolina</span></a><span style="background: white;">. Al</span>though there are remnants of England's feudal structure represented in <i>The Fundamental</i> <i>Constitutions of Carolina</i>,
his progressive ideals for government liberally gave men more rights
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a visit to Charleston several years ago, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
expressed a desire to have a reproduction to read. Her interest
motivated the Library Society to investigate creating a facsimile, to
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leading collector of art, books, and autographs. Gilmor was a Harvard
graduate who traveled to Charleston in the winter of 1807. He met and
married Sarah Ladson, daughter of Major James Ladson of Charleston, in
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In
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the mission "to collect documents which would illustrate the history
either of South Carolina or the United States," Robert Gilmor gave his
"precious autograph of the profound Locke," to that collection. Now, 342
years after its creation and thanks to Justice O'Connor, the Library
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Published in May of 1833, just eight years after Simms made his editorial debut as part of the "Society of Young Gentlemen," The Cosmopolitan is a 2 volume publication that includes an introduction and four short stories in the first volume and a brief introduction and six short stories in the second volume. It is believed that most of the short stories in the second volume are entirely by Simms. Diverging themselves from their gentlemanly obligations, the two volumes represent a small literary coterie participating in "the outpouring of a gentleman's leisure" with whimsical, thoughtful, and sometimes surreal story telling of everything from Revolutionary War tales to fairies.<br />
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Originally, the Cosmopolitan was published anonymously, by "Three Bachelors," and just who deserves credit for contributing has been a subject of some debate. According to John C. Guilds, Jr., Simms published the Cosmopolitan with the Carroll brothers from Charleston and it was the second time he had used this type of "club mechanism" , the first being eight years before when he was just coming into the publishing business.<br />
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The <a href="http://simms.library.sc.edu/" target="_blank">William Gilmore Simms Initiative</a> based out of the University of South Carolina, is making massive headway into digitizing all things William Gilmore Simms, and making them accessible for researchers and educators.<i> The Cosmopolitan </i>has now made its way to this largest single author online archive and can be viewed <a href="http://simms.library.sc.edu/view_item.php?item=140750" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04694848168212737269noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-22799424463468196462012-08-22T17:04:00.000-04:002012-08-22T17:04:54.878-04:00Getting Pinteresting...<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Today is August 22nd, the birthday of novelists Annie Proulx and Kate Chopin. Your loyal blogger has distinct memories of reading both as assigned authors for summer reading back in middle and high school. Chopin has a very special place in the memory, in fact, as her novel </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Awakening</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> was the first book I remember forcing myself to finish... in fact, by the time ol' Edna decided to her long walk into the Gulf of Mexico, I was cheering for the waves. Like I said, a special memory, not a happy one.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Assigned reading doesn't have to be that bad, and usually isn't. It's a great way to introduce us to literature that we'd never otherwise read. Your loyal blogger has much better memories of a middle-school reading list that included </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anne of Green Gables</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> (a book I'd have never read if not threatened with a test on it upon returning to classes), and really falling in love with it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's still brand new, and not everyone has started posting, but we're working on it. We hope you'll follow us, check out our personal boards, and see if you can find some new favourites of your own! And unlike your loyal blogger </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Awakening</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. there won't be a test on what you've read. Promise.</span></div>
Clifford Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061931367523441263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-35750008148411624802012-08-13T16:38:00.003-04:002012-08-13T16:38:16.212-04:00Yes. "Juliabilia" is a real word.<div style="text-align: justify;">
Your loyal blogger is not really much of one for the Food Network. There's something about watching people prepare food on television that I find deeply unsatisfying. There's no smell... the sound of the cooking is usually hidden under the host's chatter... you never taste food... it's a form of sensory deprivation. And with increasing frequency - especially now that so many cable cooking shows are now about competitive cooking - there is no intent for the home viewer to ever recreate what is being made in front of their eyes. If there was some sort of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test">Miller Test</a> for this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_porn">stuff</a>, most of today's TV cooking would fail.</div>
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These comments could never be made, though, about the late, great Julia Child. Your loyal blogger has vivid memories of watching Julia (usually with Jacques Pepin alongside) cook many a meal on the local SCETV station. There were no snazzy visuals, no silly "fun" names for food (unless you find some inherent humor in French), no underlying gimmick... just an imposingly-sized woman cooking like a fiend, spilling, cutting, grabbing, sweating, wheezing, but creating: totally immersed with the experience of cooking. It was great television, and Mrs. Child was wildly compelling.</div>
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That's one of the reasons why your loyal blogger is so excited about this Wednesday's [now <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">sold out</span>] lecture at the Library Society, "I Remember Julia". The other reason is the speaker: Robert Dickson, the legendary proprietor of Robert's of Charleston. Dickson became a legend not just for his food, but for providing a unique dining experience, including singing for his guests. And the third reason is because there's going to be some great material shown in the presentation... Mr. Dickson was a personal acquaintance, and will be showing some of his own Juliabilia.</div>
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There is a fourth reason your loyal blogger is excited to have a big Julia Child celebration at the CLS - when my now-fiancee and I were first dating, and she found out I was a librarian, she asked me to pick out "something she'd like". I loaned her my copy of Julia's <i>My Life In France</i>. She loved it, (and tolerated me)... and the rest is history. All I know its it's why I'm <i>personally</i> thankful for Mrs. Child and her work!</div>
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<b>ALSO THIS WEEK:</b> Angie LeClercq's<i> Grand Tour of Gardens</i> lecture is this Thursday at 6PM. 843.723.9912 to RSVP!</div>
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It's July 25th, the death day of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Coleridge is most famous for penning "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", an epic romantic poem most notable for the fact you can sing it's words to the tune of the "Gilligan's Island" theme. </div>
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The poem's most enduring image, of course, is the albatross, the dead bird hanging about the neck of the accursed mariner. The Library Society was all about <b>live</b> birds this week, as Jim Elliott of the <a href="http://www.thecenterforbirdsofprey.org/">Avian Conservation Center</a> delivered a great lecture at the dedication of the James B. Lasley Ornithology Collection. This collection of hundreds of books on birds and birdwatching represents a major addition to the Library's natural history collection.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In this 1802 letter to Pinckney (from the Library Society's manuscript collection), a dejected Hamilton reflects on life outside of politics, stating "A garden, as you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician" before He then asks Pinckney to send him some melon seeds from his Charleston plantation to start a crop at his new country house. Hamilton could never stand to be outside politics for long, though, and about two paragraphs after discussing melon farming, he begins to give his opinions on American expansion into the West. Within two years from the writing of this letter, the political and personal fight between Hamilton and Burr would culminate in the famous duel that killed him. (Though, on a happier note, it <i>is</i> the direct inspiration for today's blog post.)</span></div>Clifford Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061931367523441263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-14117567229797551292012-07-03T16:43:00.001-04:002012-07-03T16:43:29.001-04:00Awk-ward ramblings<div style="text-align: justify;">
A brief bird story for July 3rd, the 168th anniversary of the death of the last Great Auk (<i>pinguinus impennis</i>). The Great Auk was like a giant puffin, about two-and-a-half feet in height and ten pounds or so in weight. With a range that spanned the North Atlantic from Newfoundland to Scandinavia to the south Atlantic coast of France, the Great Auk was given the double curse of being both tasty and covered in an exceptionally soft down.</div>
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This led to many auks becoming pillows, or auk burgers, or even just used as fishing bait. By the late 18th century, the Auk was dying off. In a move of environmental protection the US Fish & Wildlife Service could only dream of, a 1775 statute in St. John's, Newfoundland allowed for the public flogging of those caught taking the eggs or feathers of the Great Auk.</div>
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Such radical environmentalism was not enough to save the bird: in the early 19th century, as more scientists and museums realized the bird was rapidly disappearing, they launched a struggle to secure specimens for their collections with a drive and intensity not unlike some parents' holiday bloodlust to secure a Tickle-Me-Elmo for their pleading progeny. </div>
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The last Great Auk in Britain was found on a tiny island off the Scottish coast in 1840. Locals caught it, tied it up, then beat it to death shortly thereafter. [In their defence, they were convinced the bird was a witch.] The last known breeding pair of Great Auks were captured in the act of incubating an egg and effortlessly strangled in 1844, their bodies stuffed to be entered into a private collection.</div>
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Your loyal blogger hopes your love of birds leads you to <i>not</i> kill them. In fact, we hope it leads you to celebrate them, and there's no better way to do that than to join us at the Library Society on July 24th at 5PM for a reception welcoming the Lasley Ornithology Collection to the Library.</div>
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Center will speak, with a reception to follow. As always, call 843.723.9912 or email us at<a href="mailto:rsvp@charlestonlibrarysociety.org"> rsvp@charlestonlibrarysociety</a> to reserve your spot at the event.</div>
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Thanks to a generous grant from MeadWestvaco and the Harold C. Schott Foundation, our incomparable archivist, Trisha Kometer, was able to locate a volume presumed missing for over two hundred years.
This volume, "Dissertation on Parties", was part of the personal library of John Mackenzie, a planter and diplomat from Goose Creek. Mackenzie wished for his library to go to the newly-founded College of Charleston, but upon his passing in 1770, The College did not have the physical space to house the collection. It was turned over to the Library Society for temporary safekeeping, which worked well until a 1778 fire gutted the Library, presumably destroying the Mackenzie collection.<br />
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Fast forward about two hundred years: one of our librarians found a book in the vault with "J. Mackenzie" stamped across the back. She thought the name familiar, started investigating, and found the story about the collection. An inventory search was made, and all the rediscovered books were returned to The College.<br />
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One, however, escaped detection... until Trisha came along! "Dissertation On Parties" was found, The College contacted, and, as of last Thursday returned home to George Street right where Mr. Mackenzie wanted it so long ago.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Your loyal blogger wishes you a very, very happy St. George's Day! Amongst your rose-wearing, <i>Jerusalem</i>-singing, and dragon-slaying today, why not consider some ticket-buying? Today marks the 448th birthday of William Shakespeare, and to celebrate, the Library Society is hosting a big birthday party for the bard on this Thursday. The Charleston Renaissance Ensemble - Piccolo Spoleto favourites and the premiere Early Music group in the area - will be singing tunes from Shakespeare's time. And as a very, <b>very</b> special guest, bestselling author, sometimes actor, and perpetual raconteur Bernard Cornwell will be joining in, favouring us with dramatic readings from Shakespeare.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Get them online <a href="http://www.showclix.com/event/224013">here</a>, by calling 1.888.718.4253, or at the front desk of the Library Society.</span></div>Clifford Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061931367523441263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-14211068796807284742012-04-18T17:14:00.000-04:002012-04-18T17:14:21.466-04:00How you know a Wide Angle is great: the speaker's so interesting I didn't even talk about the food.Your loyal blogger loves his job. Truly, madly, deeply loves his job. Being able to share our collections and events with our patrons and guests is too much fun.<br />
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When someone's got a job title as cool as "Chairman of Vibe", I've got to admit... I get a little jealous. And this Friday, that's just who's coming. Our Wide Angle Lunches are back for Series IV, and Robert Hicks kicks off the season. </div>
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Hicks is the "Chairman of Vibe" for BB King's blues clubs, which sounds like the coolest job ever. [Even if that was just the fancy name for the guy who scrubs the plates, it would almost be worth it, just for the business cards...] He got there by being a major country and alt-rock music manager and publisher. In addition to that, he's a major collector of Southern and outsider art, and has been named one of <i>Art & Antiques</i> Top 100 Collectors in the US. And in addition to that, he's the chair of Tennessee's Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, the driving force behind the preservation of Franklin battlefield, and (yet another awesome title), 2005's "Tennesseean of the Year".</div>
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Oh, he also happens to be a <i>New York Times</i> bestselling novelist, the topic he'll be discussing at Friday's Wide Angle Lunch. Come join us at 12:30PM here at the Library for Hicks on "The Power of Fiction in Preserving History". Get your tix now <a href="http://through Showclix.">through Showclix</a>.</div>Clifford Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061931367523441263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-61098011651424711472012-04-16T12:33:00.000-04:002012-04-16T12:33:38.621-04:00Yes, this is a Carolina Day post, two months early...<div style="text-align: justify;">
As some of our New England friends might know, today is Patriots' Day. Not to be confused with Patriot Day, which is September 11th, or Patriotes Day, the national holiday of Quebec, Patriots' Day occurs every third day in April and commemorates the Revolutionary War battles of Lexington and Concord. In Massachusetts, Maine, and (for some reason) Wisconsin, it's an official holiday.</div>
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I mention this because it's a good segue into mentioning South Carolina's own Revolutionary War holiday, Carolina Day. Celebrated on the 28th of June, Carolina Day marks the 1776 defeat of a British invasion force at the Battle of Sullivans Island. Today it's the day when all of Charleston's venerable cultural institutions meet at Washington Park and march down Meeting Street to the Battery for a wreath laying and some speechifying at the base of Sergeant Jasper's statue.</div>
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Carolina Day is also when all the venerable members of said institutions don their seersucker and turn Meeting Street into a river of blue-and-white pinstripes. This is, of course, done solely for participants own comfort, though it does seem to turn into a spectacle for the tourists. The important thing is this: make sure you're ready to march with the Library Society (the oldest and most venerable cultural institution in the South) by picking up your official Ben Silver <a href="http://charlestonlibrarysociety.org/LibraryStuff.html">Library Society tie</a>.</div>
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Lest you think this is a bit early for your loyal blogger to be discussing June events, I promise that one of our patrons was in last Friday encouraging the writing of this post. In a good year, we might have about a dozen folks march with the Library in the parade. Said encouraging patron is not settling for anything less than fifty this year. Good for him: I know I'll be there.</div>
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And that golden hope brings me back to Patriots Day... our friends in Massachusetts have figured out a great way to boost the popularity of their Revolutionary parade: not only do the schools and government offices close; not only do the Sox play an early home game; but it's also the day the Boston Marathon is always held. And don't feel bad that their patriotic fete gets 25,000 attendants, while our Carolina Day struggles for a few hundred... unlike our Northern friends, we aren't all trying to finish the parade as quickly as possible!</div>Clifford Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061931367523441263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-10764679632513187692012-03-22T13:07:00.000-05:002012-03-22T13:07:57.587-05:00Y, oh y...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">March 22 - the birthday of Holy Roman Emperor Maxilimilian I, the Pentium processor, and the poet Billy Collins. Things are as busy as can be around the library today in preparation for Volodymyr Vynnytsky's piano concert here tonight (a few tickets still available!)... tables to be moved, seats to be placed, wine to be chilled, all that sort of stuff. As always, a big thanks to our Music Committee for their help, and a double thanks to Cowan Holdings, Ltd., for sponsoring the event. Volodymyr is such an impressive pianist... your loyal blogger can't wait!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Also upcoming... tomorrow is the first evening for our Sunshine Readers programme! The CofC Tri-Delts will host a fun children's story hour starting at 6:30 PM tomorrow here at the Library Society. Parents, grandparents, and babysitters are encouraged to bring their wee ones, three and up, to this exciting adventure in reading. Kids are encouraged to bring a pillow or stuffed bear, and come dressed in their jammies for this pre-bedtime event.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Parents... wearing <i>your</i> jammies is allowed, too. Just... use your best judgement.</span>Clifford Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061931367523441263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-85675484728863084632012-03-12T12:08:00.001-05:002012-03-12T12:08:41.065-05:00Hits, parades.March 12! Birthday of the Girl Scouts, Jack Kerouac, and the anniversary of the start of the Williamite War in Ireland. Which reminds me, St. Patrick's Day falls on a Saturday this year... so remember, King Street will be closed for the Ancient Order of Hibernians parade sometime between 10-11AM. If you're looking to drive to the Library, you'll have to come before or after the festivities. Also, the Hibernians (the <i>other</i> Hibernians) have their parade up Broad Street starting at 11AM, so be mindful of that, too, if you're headed this way.<br />
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Another great reason to head this way this week: <i>Unedited</i> is back for <i>Unedited</i>: Musical Madness. Enjoy a night of drama, intrigue, and Broadway hits with Laura Ball, starting at 7PM this Thursday night Tickets are $15, and available <a href="http://www.showclix.com/event/57707">by clicking here</a>.Clifford Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061931367523441263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-40838761376017386302012-02-27T13:26:00.002-05:002012-02-27T13:26:48.651-05:00Marching into March...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Don't forget, our March events calendar starts off with a great event, right from day one... on March 1st, St. David's Day, this Thursday, the Library Society will host author Caroline Alexander for an exciting and informative lecture and reception. Ms. Alexander will discuss her book <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War. </i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The event starts at 7PM, and tickets are $15. Get them at the front desk of the Library, by calling 1.888.718.4253, or by <a href="http://www.showclix.com/event/221370">clicking here</a>.</span></span></span>Clifford Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061931367523441263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-25764792672850098992012-02-23T17:16:00.000-05:002012-02-23T17:16:20.022-05:00"Lisa, I am familiar with the work of Pablo Neruda."<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This morning's obits carried the news of the death of Barney Rosset, publisher, editor and founder of Grove Press. The only mention of Rosset your loyal blogger remembers getting in school was an aside from my constitutional law professor while discussing an obscenity case... "You know the same guy who imported this film [the banned <i>I Am Curious (Yellow)</i>] also published<i> Lady Chatterley's Lover</i> and <i>Waiting For Godot</i>. And I doubt any of you know what those are, so I'll move on."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well, your loyal blogger knew all about them - one was dirty, and one was weird and French. (What else was there to know?) So I made a small mental note that there was a guy who spent his time importing and publishing this sort of stuff into an Eisenhower-era America. And growing up in an internet-era America, where it's an accepted fact that the First Amendment protects <i>almost</i> any sort of content imaginable... the thought that alternative presses had to fight major legal battles to publish the ramblings of Beat poets is just such an ungraspable concept.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And it wasn't just naughty films and books that Rosset championed - it was Malcolm X, Jack Kerouac, Camus, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz... all in all, he published five Nobel Prize winners, and some of the most important political and literary figures of the 20th century. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">[Also, as for the Library Society and smutty books - we've long kept ours hidden, uncatalogued, in the Ross Room.]</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Like it says at the top... shh...!</span>Clifford Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061931367523441263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-4323848454579690912012-02-22T17:17:00.000-05:002012-02-22T17:17:50.986-05:00Wrapping on a warm winter...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">SEWE has come and gone, what little winter we've had is almost behind us, and spring is <i>just</i> around the corner here in Charleston. This, the last full week of February is sunny and in the seventies. A little sailing was even on the table for your loyal blogger this week, though he forwent the cruise to help out at the Century Club Tea here at the Library Society on Monday.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Also, if you're not familiar with the Century Club... it was organized in 1895 as the Woman's Reading Club to host discussions of cultural and political affairs. Early members included Louisa Poppenheim, one of the first Southern women to attend Vassar and a major figure in women's activism in Charleston. The Century Club survives to this day, hosting lectures, discussions, and similar intellectual events. Your loyal blogger's much expanded knowledge about about Environmentalism in Jordan and the Middle East after attending Monday's tea than I ever did before). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">According to one member, their 1895 founding makes them the oldest women's intellectual society in continuous operation on the East Coast. All I know for sure is they are as kind as they are interesting, and the Library Society was too happy to host them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Until next time... watch for tourists, and enjoy this warm weather!</span>Clifford Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061931367523441263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-24841096612246730902012-01-27T17:06:00.000-05:002012-01-27T17:06:43.881-05:002012!2012 has officially started here at the Library Society, as this week saw our big January kick off the (264th) Annual Meeting. As the Library becomes increasingly modern (we've got an iPad now, it must be true), it is more and more interesting to think about the world this institution was created in.<br />
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In 1748, Charleston would have been less than eighty years old, with a population well under 10,000. Altogether elsewhere... Adam Smith was delivering his first lectures in Edinburgh, which would attract the attention of David Hume and kick off the Scottish Enlightenment. The War of Austrian Succession ended with Prussia the rising star on the European stage. Leonhard Euler wrote the most important math textbook of the modern era; Montesquieu published <i>The Spirit of the Laws </i>and invented political sociology; and in a lonely English prison cell, John Cleland penned <i>Fanny Hill</i>, the English language's first er... "adult" novel.<br />
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It was, in many ways, a very modern world, and at the far edge of the English-speaking part of it, nineteen young men created a very modern institution. Pooling their resources to increase their access to knowledge and learning, and to promote that learning among future generations, the mission of the Library is as important now as it's ever been. It's a mission we're fully embracing in 2012, and your loyal blogger can't wait to share the manifold ways we're pursuing it in this new year.<br />
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It's going to be a great 2012!Clifford Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061931367523441263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-65970193169161849112011-12-07T16:02:00.002-05:002011-12-07T16:04:00.356-05:00La vieille garde dans les Carolines<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Futura, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">December 7th: the anniversary of the death of Marshal Ney. Ney was Napoleon's saviour at Eylau, the heroic commander of the French rear guard during the retreat from Russia, and a man who had <i>five</i> horses shot out from under him during Waterloo.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Futura, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Futura, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Unless, of course, it isn't the anniversary of the death of Marshal Ney. One of your loyal blogger's favourite Southern legends contends that Ney was not executed by firing squad in Paris on December 7, 1815, but instead faked his death, and, with the help of his Freemason brothers, successfully fled France for America.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Futura, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Futura, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In this version of the story, the supposedly "dead" Ney arrived in Charleston late in December of 1815, and lived here clandestinely until 1819. After being spotted by French agents in Charleston, the Masons again were forced smuggle him away. He moved around the Carolinas -Georgetown, Columbia, Brownsville- before eventually settling near Salisbury, North Carolina (today about an hour's drive north of Charlotte).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Futura, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Futura, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So Marshal of France Michel Ney, the man who took Madgeburg and trapped the Austrians at Elchingen, lived a quiet life in small-town central North Carolina as Peter Stuart Ney, schoolteacher. Neighbors and pupils left accounts of a man who matched the Marshall's description, down to matching scars; spoke perfect French; and was all too happy to draw richly detailed maps or share vivid stories from Napoleon's campaigns. Peter Ney died quietly, far from Paris, late in 1846. Those who were around him attested he claimed to be the Marshall with his final words.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Futura, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">True or not, it's a fantastic piece of regional folklore. And what's <i>absolutely</i> true is that while the Library's events calendar is almost dead and gone for 2011, it will have another life in the coming year! The last <a href="http://www.showclix.com/event/75370">Wide Angle Lunch</a> and the final <a href="http://www.showclix.com/event/57717">concert</a> of the year take will take place tomorrow. Our last Backgammon Night of the year is next Tuesday... but we're working on the Annual Meeting cards right now... it's been a great 2011, but we can't wait for all that's in store in 2012!</span></div>Clifford Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061931367523441263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8418615009843662664.post-5071978193841048062011-11-22T16:58:00.003-05:002011-11-22T17:08:03.124-05:00Desperately seeking stuffing...<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well, dear readers, it's that time again. The ginkgo trees are starting their annual transformation from deep verdant green to a resplendent gold. Our "Welcome, Fall" flag (featuring Snoopy the beagle!) is waving in front of the library. Your loyal blogger is on half-rations to better prepare himself for Thursday's turkey-and-stuffing induced food coma...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's a wonderful time of the year, and the Library Society wishes a happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. We will be closed as of tomorrow, Wednesday the 23rd, and will remain closed through the weekend. Normal hours resume Monday the 28th.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">[We'll hit the ground running when we get back, too... Wide Angle Lunch with Tara FitzGerald will be on December the 1st, and our Parade Party and Unedited: Bluegrass Christmas will be the 4th! Get your tickets now...]</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Also, as a service to you: your loyal blogger does not want to leave you without something to read for the four days the Library will be closed. So, if you've never seen it before, take some time to visit <a href="http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml"><i>Book-a-Minute Classics</i></a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you're unfamiliar with the site, Book-a-Minute classics extracts the Western canon to their quintessence, usually in hilarious fashion. I'll leave you with just a few examples:</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was in Europe after the war. We were depressed. We drank a lot. We were still depressed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Abigail Williams, you and your friends are in trouble, unless you can shift the blame to someone else.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">Abigail Williams:</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">She did it! He did it! They did it! Everybody but us did it!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;">Judge Danforth:</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Ah, now we are getting somewhere.</span></span><br />
<em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(Everybody gets hanged, which just goes to show how evil McCarthyism is.)</span></em><br />
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</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And to finish, your loyal blogger's favourite novel:</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Great Gatsby-</span></i></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gatsby:</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Daisy, I made all this money for you, because I love you.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I cannot reciprocate, because I represent the American Dream.</span><br />
<b style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gatsby:</span></b><br />
<center style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now I must die, because I also represent the American Dream.</span></center><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(Gatsby DIES.)</span></em><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I hate New Yorkers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Futura Lt', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Enjoy the site, and enjoy your break! We'll see you at the Library next week.</span><br />
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