Redcliffe Plantation Hosts Living History Christmas Show
Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site presented Christmas in the Quarters, a living history look at how slaves celebrated the holidays. Interpreters and volunteers stressed the personal element of slavery and the role of Christmas as respite and tension between master and enslaved people.
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Beech Island
Redcliffe Plantation
Tramp
Kitty Wilson-Evans
Kessie
Wison-Evans
Brattonsville
Alderman
Ben Baughliss
Redclife Plantation State Historic Site
Trampas Alderman
Aiken Council Considers Impact Fee and Annex Plans
The Aiken City Council schedules first readings on an ordinance to absorb impact fees for grant assisted affordable homes and on annexing land north of Toolbeck Road. A second reading and public hearing cover annexing 16.83 acres on the USC Aiken campus for multistory dormitory zoning and rezoning 307 Charleston St from general business to single family residential.
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Aiken City
Toolbeck Road
Usc ‘Aiken
Agenda
Charleston St
Let’s Talk About It series ends with The Secret Life of Bees
The final Let’s Talk About It discussion features Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Aiken County Public Library. Kidd, a Georgia native, rose to fame with the 2002 novel about Lily and her housekeeper in 1964 South Carolina. The library holds 30 copies for discussion, and advance reservations are requested. Call 642-2020 for details.
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Carolina
Sue Monk Kidd
Aiken County
Georgia
Kidd
Anderson
S.C Waits
Lily
South Carolina
New York Times
Britain
Charleston
Phoebe Pember House
University of South Carolina Aiken English Department
State Library
Columbia
Aiken County Public Library
Suzanne Stone
Sstone
Aikenstandard.com
Aiken Career Center earns Point of Light award
The Aiken County Career and Technology Center is named one of five Point of Light award winners by Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence. Director Kathy Mixson accepted the honor at a conference in North Charleston, with fellow winners from South Carolina and Massachusetts. The center showcases programs from automotive to welding and the STEP program for non diploma tracks, highlighting student focus, culture, leadership, and community partnerships.
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Aiken County
Georgetown
Joshua Eaton
Reading
Mass
Mid- Carolina Middle School
Prosperity
Newberry County Career Center
Blue Ribbon Schools of
U.S. Department of Education
Mixson
Volunteers to be recognized in Aiken events schedule
RSVP and Foster Grandparent volunteers will be honored on Tuesday December 12 at 10 am at H Odell Weeks Activities Center. Aiken Performing Arts Academy hosts a Christmas program December 13 at 6 pm at Aiken Center for the Arts Laurens Street. First Steps Healthcare Committee meets December 13 at 10 30 am at 208 D The Alley contact Keisha Lloyd Kennedy Ivy Wolf Karen Pringle for details.
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H. Odell Weeks
Aiken Performing Arts ‘Academy
Aiken Center For the Arts
Laurens Street
Aiken
Keisha Lloyd-Kennedy
Ivy Wolf
Aiken County First ‘Steps
Aiken County First Steps
Newberry Street
Karen C. Pringle
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Wilson-Evans
Council
RSVP
Rata
Tatererah
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