• South Carolina’s Irish Patriots of the American Revolution

    Tom Elmore is celebrating this St. Patrick’s Day by honoring the Irish-Americans who fought during the American Revolution. Eleven percent of the veterans who applied for pensions after the war were Irish. Twenty-nine Irish men represented SC throughout the Continental Congresses. Two signers of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were Irish. Bring

  • Lunchbox Learning: Greenville Symphony Composes Story of “Dicey Langston”

    History meets music at this Lunchbox Learning talk spotlighting the Greenville Symphony’s new composition inspired by Revolutionary War heroine Dicey Langston. Go inside the creative process: how commissions begin, how a composer develops themes and structure, and how musicians, historians, and community partners help bring a brand-new work to life. The program also revisits Dicey’s

  • Ink & Quill Writing at Middleton Place

    Ink & quill was the original paper and pen and was widely used during the American Revolution to write patriot correspondence, loyalist letters, and British proclamations promising freedom. Guests are

  • Lunch & Learn: A Meteor Shining Brightly

    Said to be the ugliest man in Britain, Lord Rawdon’s climb to Lieutenant Colonel during the American Revolution may have come as a surprise to many. This Irish lord impressed

  • Moultrie & the Battle of Sullivan’s Island

    June 28, 1776 will forever be Carolina Day in South Carolina, but why? Why do South Carolinians celebrate a day during the American Revolution that no other state focuses on?