Book clubs offered at HH Library

Several book clubs are being offered by and held at the Hilton Head Branch Library, 11 Beach City Road.

The newest is Heritage Book Club, starting at 11 a.m. March 1. This is a new, nonfiction book club for those who enjoy history. This group is a joint program with the Heritage Library, the local nonprofit, private library geared towards the research of local history and genealogy.

The first meeting will discuss “A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina – the Civil War Journals of William Francis Allen,” edited by James Robert Hester.

The club hopes to meet quarterly to discuss a selected book on local and localized historic topics. All are welcome.

Classics Book Club will meet at 2 p.m. March 7 at the library. Join us for a dis-

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• Michel Dion, retired Canadian ice hockey goal tender (WHA and NHL) who played for Indianapolis Racers, Cincinnati Stingers, Quebec Nordiques, Winnipeg Jets, and Pittsburgh Penguins.

Proceeds from the event will benefit Libraries for Kids International, a local 501(c) (3) nonprofit established in 2018 by Bluffton resident Roy Austin, who saw terrific needs of children while on a trip to Kenya.

The mission Libraries for Kids International is to help rural schools with limited or no access to the internet or electricity establish libraries.

The organization is currently focused on schools in rural Kenya, and there is a waiting list for other countries.

Rural schools only receive $5.50 per student per year from the Kenyan government. Villagers must fund and build their cussion of “The Stone Angel” by Margaret Laurence. own school buildings. Textbooks are usually shared – about five books for 40-50 learners. Reference materials are not provided at all.

Tea, Talk & Tales will be held at 2 p.m. March 21, to discuss “Afterlives” by Abdulrazak Gurnah.

Enjoy hot tea and warm discussions on each month’s selected reading and its tangents. No sign up required and books will be made available.

Novel Choice Book Club is offered at 4 p.m. March 27. The fiction choice for March is “Killers of the Flower Moon” by David Grann.

To attend virtually, email emma.maines@bcgov.net to receive an invite to join in on the Microsoft Teams app. For more information about any of these clubs, contact the reference desk at 843-255-6525.

The $5.50 is for all expenses, including desks, pens, chalk, blackboard, building maintenance, and for a school cook and watchman.

The organization has created libraries in more than 3,000 schools in Kenya, impacting around a half-million children in less than four years.

But this is just the start. Each new shipping container will create libraries in 250 additional schools and make a positive impact on the lives of approximately 56,000 more students.

Tickets for the gala are $150 each, which includes drinks, dinner and dancing, and are available on EventBrite.

Specialty cocktails are provided by Tito’s Homemade Vodka.

For more information, visit libraries4kids. org. To make a donation by check, make it payable to Libraries for Kids and mail to P.O. Box 1013, Bluffton, SC 29910.

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