Author Night: Cherishing Bluffton’s Past- “HISTORY ALIVE”

5:30pm hors d’oeuvres, 6:00pm showtime
Rotary Community Center at Oscar Frazier Park
11 Recreation Court Bluffton SC 29910

Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and beverages provided by Southern Spice Catering and Events at 5:30PM; 6:00PM Showtime with Michael Reynolds emceeing the following panel of historians/authors:
Andrea Martin recently published a book about the Martin family, which dates back to Bluffton in the early 1800s. Caroline Martin was a free black woman who purchased a lot on Calhoun Street in 1858 and the Martin family still owns it today. The Martin Family Park in old town is named for the Martin family.
Jeff Fulgham wrote the book “The Bluffton Expedition”, which is about the Burning of Bluffton. Jeff is a sought after speaker who rarely does so. As such we are blessed that he has agreed to speak about the Burning of Bluffton.
Roberts Vaux, a legendary Bluffton attorney who has inside knowledge through litigation he personally handled about attempts to industrialize Victoria Bluff. There have been five attempts to do that starting in 1890 and had any of them happened Bluffton and Hilton Head today would be a polluted industrial center and not the beautiful town and countryside it is today.
Judy Hutson wrote a book about the history of Palmetto Bluff and is a wealth of knowledge of our area.

Reservations required HERE.

Rotary Community Center at Oscar Frazier Park (11 Recreation Court Bluffton SC 29910). Cost: $15.00; additional donations accepted; proceeds to the Waddell Mariculture Center.