By Delayna Earley
The Island News
A Community Book Giveaway was held Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, at Penn Center on St. Helena Island.
Girl Scout Troop 4105 held the community event to bring awareness to the importance of books and reading.
“The girls wanted to do something with books because of everything going on in the county with book banning,” said Barbara Hunter, the troop recruiter and event organizer.
Hunter said the day was themed around a quote from Horace Mann, “A house without books is like a room without windows.”
Books were offered free of charge for all ages, elementary through high school.
Delayna Earley lives in Beaufort with her husband, two children and Jack Russell. She formerly worked as a photojournalist for The Island Packet/The Beaufort Gazette, as well as newspapers in Indiana and Virginia. She joined The Island News in 2022. She can be reached at delayna.theislandnews@gmail.com.
