African American storytelling program at Aiken Library
The Aiken County Public Library hosts Elaine Nichols presenting Storytelling in the African American Tradition at 1 p.m. Saturday for all ages. The free program, sponsored by the South Carolina Humanities Council, invites audience participation and family stories.
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Aiken County Public Library
Elaine Nichols
South Carolina State Museum
Columbia
South Carolina Humanities Council
Joi Jones
Nichols
Jones
Aiken County
Redcliffe Plantation offers slave quarters tour for Black History Month
Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site hosts a 10 a.m. Saturday tour of its newly excavated slave quarters with a lesson on enslaved and servant life at nearby estates such as Redcliffe Silver Bluff Cowden and Cathwood. The 45 minute outdoor then indoor program, priced 6 for adults 5 25 for seniors and 4 for students, runs at Beech Island off SC 278.
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Redcliffe Plantation
Redcliffe
Silver Bluff
Cowden
Cathwood
S.C. Highway 278
Beech Island
South Carolina
Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site
Suzanne Stone
Special ed teacher pushes testing changes in D. C.
Aiken educator Carmen Downs, honored at a Washington panel on accommodations, urges federal officials to rethink No Child Left Behind shifts. She and colleague Pat Silva fear off grade level PACT testing for mildly disabled students will require grade level exams, risking unrewarded scores and loss of real progress.
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Carmen Downs
Aiken
Washington, D.C
Downs
South Carolina
Washington
Pat Silva
Aiken County
Silva
S.C
Jody Courtney
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