by McCormick County Library | Jun 7, 2013 | News, Speakers
Astrophysicist Kevin Manning will be at the McCormick Library on Tuesday, June 18th starting at 7pm to share his passion for astronomy. His program is entitled Astronomy for Everyone: The Size & Scale of the Universe. It includes exciting video footage that is...
by McCormick County Library | May 24, 2013 | Meeting Room, News, Speakers
The recent rains have been welcome, and the drought is officially over for all South Carolina counties according to the S.C. Drought Response Committee. But, South Carolina has experienced drought conditions during eight of the last ten years. Oftentimes, a month’s...
by McCormick County Library | May 2, 2013 | Meeting Room, News, Speakers
On Thursday, May 16th at 6:30 pm, SLV resident Jo Graziano will present the history of sign language and share some of her experiences teaching the deaf and hearing impaired in both public and private residential schools. Jo has been working with the deaf and hearing...
by McCormick County Library | Apr 18, 2013 | Meeting Room, News, Speakers
On Sunday April 28th the McCormick County Library will host a Chautauqua presentation of Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring. Nationally acclaimed historical interpreter Caroline McIntyre will portray Carson just after the publication of Silent Spring in 1962....
by McCormick County Library | Mar 5, 2013 | Meeting Room, News, Speakers
In 1912, just prior to the start of WWI, the German General Paul von Hindenburg told an interviewer that he never read poetry because, “It might soften me.” A kinder, gentler von Hindenburg might have done the world more good than harm. With this in mind,...
by McCormick County Library | Oct 18, 2012 | Friends of the Library, News, Speakers
All aboard! That was the call in the 1930s when a dam was put in and the Dorn Bridge was completed on the Savannah River. There is still a road in McCormick County called Chamberlain’s Ferry Road. It is now a dead end. Dr. Steve Luking, whose grandfather ran the...
