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Edward Pattillo presents Carolina Planters on  the Alabama Frontier

The Spencer-Robeson-McKenzie Family Letters

Edward Pattillo is a historian and has produced a large book filled with letters written by persons from Chesterfield District, mostly descendents of Col. Calvin Spencer, whose children began a migration to the Great Southwest, then the Mississippi Territory, which included what became Alabama in 1811. Each of them left, according to strong tradition, with a "bucket full of gold" from the family matriarch, Rebecca Ford Spencer Powe, and most of the earlier letters are to her. The letters are vivid and the range in date are from the mid-eighteenth century to the post-Reconstruction era, ending in the 1880's. The book is fully illustrated, many of them being of South Carolina portraits and houses.

Mr. Pattillo will be at the Matheson Library in Cheraw on February 23rd for a brown bag lunch and book signing. Please call the library at 843.537.3571 for further information and to register.

"Carolina on My Mind" Book Club

McBee and Jefferson branches of the Chesterfield County Library System is proud to host "Carolina on My Mind" book club, funded in part by a grant from the Let's Talk About It program provided by The Humanities Council of South Carolina.  The book club is scheduled to meet five times.  A local humanities scholar is scheduled to present at each of the meetings and opening the books up for discussion. 

The "Carolina on My Mind" book club is scheduled to run from February to June of 2012.  The first of the meetings is scheduled for February 23, 2012 with the book titled Denmark Vesey by David Robertson at the McBee Depot Library.  The remaining four meetings are:

• March 22, 2012 at Jefferson.  Edisto by Padgett Powell, presented by Elizabeth Dutton. 

• April 26, 2012 at McBee Depot Library. Partisans and Redcoats by Walter Edgar, presented by Matthew Schaffer.

• May 24, 2012 at Jefferson. The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy, presented by Frank White

• June 28, 2012 at McBee Depot Libary.  The Keeper of the House by Rebecca Godwin, presented by Dr. Margaret Reid.

For more information, please contact the Fannie D. Lowry Memorial Library at 843-658-3966 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 12-6 pm, or the McBee Depot Library at 843-335-7515 on Tuesday and Thursday from 10 am-6 pm

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