[Scmusenet] Book Signing and Talk at Military Museum on Friday

[Cassidy-Shaiman, Jai]

Meet the author of No Holier Spot of Ground: Confederate Monuments &
Cemeteries of South Carolina, Curator of History Kristina Dunn Johnson,
at a reception, book signing, and talk at the SC Confederate Relic Room
& Military Museum this Friday (May 1).   

 

The reception and book signing begins at 5:30, with the book talk at
7:00.  This program is free but if you are planning to attend please
RSVP, 803-737-8095.  The museum galleries and the new focus exhibit that
accompanies the book will be open for viewing from 5:30 until 8:00.  


 The monuments of South Carolina bear on their weathered faces and
cracked tablets a history of honor and of memory embodied in stone.
Whether revealing the lost graves of southern sons, unveiling the
history of the only national cemetery to inter Confederate soldiers
alongside the Union fallen during wartime or recording the simple
obelisks that reach for heaven throughout the Palmetto State, this
volume is a story of remembrance and of mourning. Dunn Johnson shares
with us the powerful stories of memory and acceptance that are the
legacy of the Confederacy, as varied as those who lie beneath the
southern soil.

Kristina Dunn Johnson was a contributing writer for Forward Together:
South Carolinians in the Great War from The History Press (2007). She
serves as Curator of History at the South Carolina Confederate Relic
Room and Military Museum and has also worked as the Education
Coordinator for the Historic Columbia Foundation. During the summers of
2002 through 2004, she worked as a Historical Interpretation Park Ranger
at Gettysburg National Military Park. She has a B.A. in History from
Emory University and a M.A. in Public History from the University of
South Carolina.

 
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