Books Sandwiched In series continues at USCB Center For The Arts

From staff reports

The 2024 Books Sandwiched In Series, presented by Friends of the Beaufort Library, continues Monday, Feb. 5 from noon to 1 p.m. at the at the USC Beaufort Center for the Arts. The series runs through Wednesday, March 11.

Each week a community leader will discuss a book that has had an impact on them, followed by a rich discussion and a question-and-answer session about the book.

Here is the remaining schedule:

February 5 – Grace Cordial, responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Beaufort District Collection, the special collections library and archives unit of the Beaufort County Library presents Hurricane Jim Crow by Dr. Caroline Grego. This narrative history of the deadly natural disaster of 1893 uncovers how Black workers and politicians, white landowners and former enslavers, northern interlocutors and humanitarians all met on the flooded ground of the coast and fought to realize very different visions for the region’s future.
February 12 – Kristin Williams, Executive Director at the Open Land Trust and previously Executive Director of Friends of the Environment, a conservation organization situated in Abaco, Bahamas where she is from, presents Wind From The Carolinas by Robert Wilder. This is a novel of an aristocratic Tory clan who fled the South in the wake of the American Revolution to rebuild their baronial plantations and recapture their lost fortune in the turbulent, windswept Bahamas Islands.
February 19 – Barney Forsythe, Ph.D., Brig. Gen., U.S. Army (retired), with extensive experience in leadership development and education, presents Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule. In a unique blend of history and reflection, Seidule deconstructs the truth about the Confederacy and challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy.
February 26 – Marie Gibbs, Ph.D., a retired educator who has spent more than 34 years teaching the children of St. Helena Island and Beaufort County and manager of the Penn Center Museum, presents Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco. A first for Books Sandwiched In, this children’s book is a real-life, classic story of a dyslexic girl and the teacher who would not let her fail.
March 4 – Brian Canada, Ph.D., Professor of Computational Science and Chair of the Department of Computer Science & Mathematics at USCB, presents 88 Names by Matt Ruff. This novel is a thrilling and immersive virtual reality epic – part cyberthriller, part twisted romantic comedy – that transports you to a world where identity is fluid and nothing can be taken at face value.
March 11 – Bill Love, Executive Director of Beaufort County Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (DSN) and previous Deputy Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections presents Until We Reckon by Danielle Sered. Critically, Sered argues that the reckoning owed is not only on the part of those who have committed violence, but also by our nation’s over-reliance on incarceration to produce safety – at great cost to communities, survivors, racial equity, and the very fabric of our democracy.