During this visit\, Charles will discuss t he inspiration behind his new book and share his writing process.
\nBooks will be available for purchase (cash only). All proceeds from book s ales go to Charles's late son's guitar scholarship at Young Appalachian Mu sicians.
\nBook Summary:
\nPickens County has never lacked for stories&mdash\;only for someone to gather them before they slipped away. A sheriff's badge in a desk drawer\, a rail bed turned bike trail\, a cott on mill whistle nobody's heard in decades\, a recipe card in a grandmother 's hand. \;Pickens Portraits: Volume Two \;rescues another armful of them from the edge of forgetting.
\nLike its predecessor\, this i s not a textbook. It's a collection of stories&mdash\;vivid\, deeply resea rched\, and written for anyone who believes that local history deserves th e same narrative craft as any bestseller.
\nInside\, you'll discover :
\nC. David Stone\, South Carolina's marathon sheriff\, who wore th
e badge for 44 years&mdash\;and once recognized a fugitive he hadn't seen
in more than two decades from across a nursing-home lobby
The Doodle:
the Pickens Railroad that ran for over a century\, from 1898 to 2013\, an
d the beloved rail-trail it became
Ben Robertson Jr.\, the Clemson-bo
rn journalist whose \;Red Hills and Cotton \;gave the Upcountry it
s truest voice&mdash\;and whose life ended in a wartime plane crash at its
height
The Pickens Centennial \;of 1968\, with its Brothers of t
he Brush\, its Centennial Belles\, and a whole town playing dress-up with
its own past
Mill Hill: life inside the Pickens Cotton Mill village\,
where the whistle set the rhythm of every day
Rocky Bottom\, the mou
ntain community tucked high in the county's northern reaches
A walkin
g tour among the stones of Pickens' cemeteries\, and the remarkable lives
resting beneath them
Pickens County's experience of \;World War I
I\, told through the men who left and the town that waited
A \;hi
story of the historians&mdash\;the keepers and tellers who preserved this
county's memory before us
And a \;century of recipes\, the dishes
that fed Pickens through boom\, bust\, and everything between
Dra wn from archival scrapbooks\, original documents\, family interviews\, and sources that have never appeared in print\, this book is local history wi th the texture and momentum of narrative nonfiction. Whether your people h ave been in Pickens County for seven generations or you just moved to the Upstate last year\, these stories belong to you.
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This event will take place in the meeting room.
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