OCT 8: Join Walter B. Curry, Jr., Ed.D at Main Library for an Author Talk about the Thompson Family! Learn about Lavinia Thompson, who was born into slavery in 1844 and later received a pension for her service as a cook in the Confederate Army. For full details visit: https://bit.ly/3Cbi8jS
OCT 8: Join Walter B. Curry, Jr., Ed.D at Main Library for an Author Talk about the Thompson Family! Learn about Lavinia Thompson, who was born into slavery in 1844 and later received a pension for her service as a cook in the Confederate Army. For full details visit: https://bit.ly/3Cbi8jS
Please join us to learn from South Carolina genealogist and author Dr. Walter Curry, Jr. who will present on Writing Family History: The Narrative History Approach. Narrative history is the practice of writing history in a story-based form. It tends to entail writing based on reconstructing a series of short-term events about individuals or specific […]
Join the Center and Dr. Curry as we explore the first volume in a narrative history about the descendants of two families that share a common ancestor, Martha Kitchings Seawright Ellison. The book documents the beginnings of the family saga through Martha’s life during slavery, The Civil War, The Reconstruction Era, and family life in […]