The Dillon County Theatre with support from the South Carolina Humanities will present Thursdays at the Theatre starting on March 3, 2022 at 7 p.m.
Doors will open at 6:30 and is free to the public.
The first program will be Jonathan Haupt the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the founding director of the Pat Conroy Literary Festival. As the former director of the University of South Carolina Press, Haupt created, with the late Pat Conroy, the Story River Books original fiction imprint, named by Garden & Gun magazine as “one of the top ten things to love about the South.” Haupt’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post & Courier, the Beaufort Lowcountry Weekly, and the Pat Conroy Literary Center’s blog Porch Talk.
He serves on the boards of the South Carolina Academy of Authors and the Friends of South Carolina Libraries. He has moderated panels and presented on topics of small press and university press publishing, literary arts partnerships, and the writing life of Pat Conroy at writers conferences, library conferences, book festivals, libraries, and schools.
With novelist Nicole Seitz, Haupt is coeditor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy. Haupt’s presentation for the evening will be “Why I was born to be in a Library.”
Also, on this evening, the Theatre Board will be honoring the late Yolanda McCormick, Dillon County Head Librarian, who passed away earlier this year. If you are a Pat Conroy fan you will not want to miss this program.
On March 10, DCT will welcome Tom Poland who will be present “The Vanishing Southland.” Tom writes about the South, its people, land, culture, and nature.
The author of six books about South Carolina, he travels back roads looking for forgotten places, captivating people, and vestiges of bygone times, many of which appear in his columns and features. Much of that work finds its way into books. A Georgian and University of Georgia alumnus, he lives in Columbia where he writes about Georgialina, the region he calls his native land. In all, he’s written ten books and has three others underway. The Order of the Palmetto was conferred upon him on October 26, 2018 by Governor Henry McMaster. If you love stories about the south, you will want to join us.
The mission of South Carolina Humanities is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of all South Carolinians. This not-for-profit organization presents and/or supports literary initiatives, lectures, exhibits, festivals, publications, oral history projects, videos and other humanities-based experiences that reach more than 250,000 citizens annually. South Carolina Humanities receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as corporate, foundation and individual donors.
It is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of community leaders from throughout the state.
