Beaufort County Historical Society's President Pamela Ovens recently released the organization's fall schedule.

Sept. 16th at Noon -- Dave Smoot, Parris Island Museum, will discuss military medical practices during the Civil War. Beaufort Yacht & Sailing Club 30 Yacht Club Drive. (An optional light lunch catered by Debbi Covington will be served at 11:30 for $10. RSVP please to Nancy Gilley 843-524-7969.)

Nov. 11th -- Speaker Kristina Dunn Johnson to discuss the history of the Beaufort US National CemeteryRead More...

Staff from our Hilton Head Branch Library offered 5 suggestions for summer reading at the beach, including these two book by former HHI resident, Todd Ballantine. While the BDC Research Room is closed, I am borrowing freely from the work of others to keep Connections of interest to our readers.Read More...

The "Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer is a novel that takes place after the horrible events of World War II have taken their toll on the British.Read More...

As noted a few days ago, the Beaufort District Collection is a hybrid entity in the cultural heritage field. The term "special library" is usually applied to a collection of library and archival materials housed within a cultural heritage institution. In the course of this entry, I'll use the term in the sense that the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), defines it.Read More...