Posts by BP46

Crafting Freedom: The Story of John “Quash” Williams, Free Man of Color and Master Carpenter in Eighteenth-Century Charleston with Dr. Tiffany Momon of Sewanee: The University of the South and the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive Thursday March 30 6:00 pm   Join Dr. Tiffany Momon of Sewanee: The University of the South and Founder and Co-Director of the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive for the next installment in the...

Mepkin Abby is one of our area’s underappreciated assets…and we’re offering a chance for DIHS members to learn more about it with a special tour. [Show slideshow] Just north of Daniel Island, tucked away in a wooded expanse along the Cooper River, lies a sacred and historic place known as Mepkin Abbey, a community of Roman Catholic monks established in 1949 on the site of the former Mepkin Plantation. The brothers of...

We had a full house Tuesday night for our program “Girl Power: Celebrating Charleston Women in History!” The three women highlighted had lots of differences but shared grit, dedication and made an impact on the Lowcountry we live in today. The stories of the three women, Septima Poinsette Clark, Martha Daniell Logan and Gertrude Sanford Legendre were presented by two of the stalwart women of DIHS, Beth Bush and Lee Ann...

DIHS board members Lee Ann Bain and Beth Bush have singled out three local historical figures to celebrate for Women’s History Month Tuesday night. How much do you know about their three choices? Septima Poinsette Clark is by far the best known of the three. She was a seminal figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King referred to her as “the Mother of the Movement.” To learn more about Septima Clark...

That’s part of the title of a 2017 Charleston Magazine article on Gertrude Legendre….one of the historical figures that Beth Bush and Lee Ann Bain will showcase in our March 22 DIHS program. The other two women we’ll feature, Septima Clarke and Martha Daniell Logan are both better known and probably much more significant….but neither has quite the glamorous story of Ms Legendre…aka ‘Gertie.’...