From staff reports
The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and the recently opened special event space Village Social at Habersham will launch a new six-part monthly series of Pat Conroy-themed lectures and panel discussions, beginning on Monday, Aug. 25, at 6 p.m. with “Pat Conroy: An Introduction to a Lowcountry Legend,” presented by Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt.
Conroy (1945-2016) is best remembered as the author of “The Water Is Wide,” “The Great Santini,” “The Lords of Discipline,” and “The Prince of Tides,” each also adapted for film. He has become as synonymous with his adopted Lowcountry as pluff mud or Spanish Moss.
Join the Conroy Center executive director — one of Pat’s many protégés — for an engaging hour of stories, photos, and videos introducing Conroy’s origin story, the beginnings of his writing and teaching life and exploring some of the major themes of his work, and how the nonprofit literary center established in his memory continues his legacy today.
The $25 registration fee includes the presentation, refreshments, and a donation in support of the year-round educational mission of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center. You can register in advance for this event and others in this new series at https://bit.ly/4fBV2VN.
The monthly series will alternate between engaging thematic lectures on Conroy presented by Haupt and lively panel discussions among a rotating cast of contributing local writers to the multi-award-winning anthology “Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy.” Future event panelists include Cassandra King, Tim Conroy, Stephanie Austin Edwards, Brenda McClain, John Warley, and Margaret Shinn Evans.
