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
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
Elizabeth Timothy and her daughter-in-law, Ann Donovan Timothy quite literally printed their mark on American history while running the South Carolina Gazette during the birth of our country. Bring your lunch and join former journalist, Pat McNeely in an enlightening look at these two women’s lives which have long been overshadowed by their husbands’ deeds.
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? National Park Volunteer for Fort Moultrie, Norm Rickeman wants all to know about the miraculous victory that occurred against the mighty British Navy and a