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SUMMARY:2025 Summerville Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Come one\, come all to the inaugural Summerville Book Festival February 15th!!! The information below will help you plan your day as downtown Summerville becomes THE hub for all things books… \n\n\n\nVISIT OUR SPECIAL BOOK FESTIVAL PAGE HERE!
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/2025-summerville-book-festival/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Third Thursday February: Celebrating Kitty Springs
DESCRIPTION:Join your neighbors in Summerville’s ultimate monthly block party\, this month celebrating the life and legacy of Catherine “Kitty” Springs – a Summerville innovator and an original “hat lady” – don your fascinators and join the FUN! \n\n\n\nShe was a milliner\, a wife\, a business owner\, a land owner\, and a mystery today\, if not in her own time. \n\n\n\nA free person of color\, she married a white man 19 years her elder. They lived openly in Summerville in the mid-1800s\, surely an unusual occurrence according to Dr. Ed West in his presentation on entrepreneurs at Third Thursday at the Summerville Dorchester Museum. \n\n\n\nHer name was Catherine Smith until she married Richard Springs\, but everyone called her Kitty. Born in 1834 in the St. Stephen area\, she was one-half full-blooded Indian on her mother’s side. \n\n\n\nAn ambitious young woman\, Kitty moved to Charleston and opened a clothing and millinery shop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe was very good at what she did\, so good that she moved to Summerville to create another successful clothing business there. According to West\, researchers believe Kitty and Richard worked and lived in the area of Second North and Cedar Streets. \n\n\n\nOver time Kitty bought a considerable amount of land around the current county offices and Hutchinson Square — also unusual for a woman of color in the 1800s. She became a philanthropist in 1880\, when she donated property for a school and chapel to serve disadvantaged children\, particularly American Indian or biracial children. \n\n\n\nBut her most famous and visible contribution to Summerville is the little white church with the red door\, the Church of the Epiphany on Central Avenue\, across from the Timrod Library. \n\n\n\nThe couple is still together\, buried side by side in the Old White Meeting House and Cemetery on Dorchester Road. Her story continues to fascinate and inspire people today just as much as it did then. \n\n\n\nThanks for this contribution from Dr. West\, a historian for Dorchester County as well as the town of Summerville. A member of the museum board\, he is a frequent speaker as part of the museum’s series on local people and historical events. \n\n\n\nThe talks are free and open to the public at 6 p.m. on Third Thursdays at the museum\, which is located at 100 East Doty Avenue next to the railroad tracks.
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