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Celebrate Día

Article Date
April 18, 2024

El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day), commonly known as Día, is a celebration of children, families, and reading that culminates yearly on April 30. Día emphasizes the importance of literacy for all children of all...

Cash and Credit in South Carolina before the U.S. Dollar

Article Date
April 12, 2024

Have you ever wondered how South Carolinians paid for goods and services before the advent of the U.S. dollar? The pound sterling formed the basis of their accounts until the 1790s, but the economic realities of frontier life obliged early...

Oregon Trail at the Library

Article Date
April 3, 2024

Can you successfully travel the Oregon Trail? In this live action version of the classic game for teens in grade 6-12, you'll have to cross wild rivers, find food and evade illness. You'll also learn basic budgeting skills so that you won't run out...

Celebrate National Library Week with CCPL

Article Date
April 2, 2024

Ready, set, library! The Charleston County Public Library (CCPL) encourages the community to visit the library during National Library Week to explore all the resources the library has to offer. National Library Week is April 7 - 13, 2024.

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Phebe Fletcher: A ‘Magdalene’ in Revolutionary Charleston

Article Date
March 29, 2024

Phebe Fletcher was an intriguing woman of eighteenth-century Charleston whose unconventional lifestyle earned both derision and respect from her neighbors. Born to a respectable family of unknown origin, she was “seduced” from the bounds of...

"Payne-ful Business" with Margaret Seidler

Article Date
March 15, 2024

Join author Margaret Seidler, CCPL Multimedia Coordinator Julian Gooding, and CCPL Historian Nic Butler for conversations about Seidler's work "Payne-ful Business." See full schedule below.

“Payne-ful” Business: Charleston's Journey to Truth follows...

Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish Patriot, in Charleston

Article Date
March 15, 2024

Thomas Francis Meagher (1823–1867) was a famous Irish patriot of the mid-nineteenth century whose agitation for independence from Britain led to his exile from the Emerald Isle. After settling in New York in 1852, Meagher visited Charleston several...