“Growing Up Southern—Then and Now”

The Kershaw County Historical Society invites you to our Society Program on Sunday afternoon, June 5, 2022, 3 p.m. at Liberty Hall, Revolutionary War Visitor Center, 212 Broad Street, Camden, SC (beside Historic Camden).

Come early. A great place and date to be hosting our program! Nearby:

• Observe the Bonds Conway House, moved to Historic Camden. Anticipate evolving Living History displays in the house where we’ll keep an office.
• Catch the final hours of SC Ag-Art artisans and farm at Historic Camden.
• Enjoy the Revolutionary War Visitor Center’s great features, some new.

Tom Poland, Guest Speaker, at 3 p.m.
“Growing Up Southern—Then and Now”

“I prefer forgotten backroads and places where the pace crawls, where old mansions crumble, and orchards go untended,” says Tom Poland. Long a Columbia, S.C., resident, the Georgia native calls himself “a blue-collar historian” and writes about “memories, special places, and unforgettable characters” in the South he knows best, calling his area “Georgialina.”

Author of a dozen books and a thousand-plus articles and columns, journalist-professor Poland is a former editor of SC Wildlife. His widely distributed column appears regularly in the local Chronicle-Independent.

A lively, popular speaker, he is a recipient of the Order of the Palmetto.