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07 / 16
(all day)
Start: 05/10/2008 - 12:00
End: 07/19/2008 - 12:59
Barbecue Joints & The Good Folks Who Own Them, a photography exhibit at McKissick Museum runs through July 19. Open 8:30am-5pm weekdays, 11am-3pm Saturdays; on the USC Horseshoe; free.
Start: 5:00 am
End: 5:59 am
On this day in 1862 Ida B. Wells was born. Wells fought for equality of women and African Americans—especially the equality of African American women in the suffragist movement. 71 years before Rosa Parks, Wells refused to give up her seat on a train, and when they made her move, she sued the railway company. She won her case in the local court but lost when the railroad took it to the Tennessee Supreme Court. Her refusal to stand in the back of suffragist parades garnered her more media attention for her causes.
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07 / 17
(all day)
Start: 05/10/2008 - 12:00
End: 07/19/2008 - 12:59
Barbecue Joints & The Good Folks Who Own Them, a photography exhibit at McKissick Museum runs through July 19. Open 8:30am-5pm weekdays, 11am-3pm Saturdays; on the USC Horseshoe; free.
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07 / 18
(all day)
Start: 05/10/2008 - 12:00
End: 07/19/2008 - 12:59
Barbecue Joints & The Good Folks Who Own Them, a photography exhibit at McKissick Museum runs through July 19. Open 8:30am-5pm weekdays, 11am-3pm Saturdays; on the USC Horseshoe; free.
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07 / 19
End: 12:59 pm
Start: 05/10/2008 - 12:00
End: 07/19/2008 - 12:59
Barbecue Joints & The Good Folks Who Own Them, a photography exhibit at McKissick Museum runs through July 19. Open 8:30am-5pm weekdays, 11am-3pm Saturdays; on the USC Horseshoe; free.
Start: 5:00 am
End: 5:59 am
Today is the 160th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention—the first women’s rights convention in the United States.
Start: 9:00 am
End: 9:59 am
Ride the train at the South Carolina Railroad Museum in Winnsboro. Train rides last one hour round trip. For fares and departure times call 803-635-4242 or go to scrm.org.
Start: 9:00 am
End: 9:59 am
Free concert in Finlay Park, the Finesse Band, 7-10pm. Sponsored by the Columbia Action Council, columbiasc.net
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07 / 20
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07 / 21
Start: 9:00 am
End: 9:59 am
Marionnette Monday at the Columbia Marionnette Theatre, with a show at 10am followed by a backstage tour. Tickets are $4, children under 2 free. July’s show is The Bremen Town Musicians. Two performances every Saturday this month too. columbiamarionettetheatre.org
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07 / 22
Start: 9:00 am
End: 9:59 am
Free lunchtime concert by harpist Katie Taylor, noon at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, 900 Calhoun Street in Arsenal Hill. sainttimothyscolumbia.com
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07 / 23
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07 / 24
Start: 5:00 am
End: 5:59 am
Amelia Earhart Day honors the birthday of the woman who took aviation and feminism to new heights.
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07 / 25
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07 / 26
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07 / 27
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07 / 28
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07 / 29
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07 / 30
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07 / 31
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 2:59 pm
skirt! makes this Meg Spencer Day in recognition of our fantastic summer intern. Thanks for the good work and great company, Meg! We hope you have a terrific fall semester at the nation’s happiest university.
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08 / 1
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Maria Mitchell, the first professional female astronomer in the United States, was born on this day in 1818. Mitchell was raised in a Quaker community, which was one of the few groups that felt women should have equal educational opportunities as men. She had the notable discovery that sunspots are “whirling vertical cavities” and not, as thought at the time, clouds.
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08 / 2
Start: 5:00 pm
Start: 08/02/2008 - 17:00
End: 08/03/2008 - 17:59
DIY skirts! Learn how to design and sew the skirt of your dreams at this two-day Columbia Museum of Art workshop. For adults and teens, no experience required. To register, call 803.343.2208 or to go www.columbiamuseum.org
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.” Myrna Loy would have been 103 today. She used her fame in the 1930s-40s to champion the rights of black actors and to give them dignity onscreen, rather than the stereotypes they often played at the time.
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08 / 3
End: 5:59 pm
Start: 08/02/2008 - 17:00
End: 08/03/2008 - 17:59
DIY skirts! Learn how to design and sew the skirt of your dreams at this two-day Columbia Museum of Art workshop. For adults and teens, no experience required. To register, call 803.343.2208 or to go www.columbiamuseum.org
Start: 11:00 am
Start: 08/03/2008 - 11:00
End: 08/05/2008 - 11:59
The
University of South Carolina’s Summer II Chorus will perform Handel’s Judas Maccabeus August 3 & 5 in
Rutledge Chapel on the historic Horseshoe.
Concert time is 4pm on Sunday and 7:30 pm on Tuesday. Both concerts are free and open to the public. For more information, call 803.777.5369 or go to music.sc.edu
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Martha Stewart’s birthday is today. Bake a cake entirely out of the flour you hand-milled from your personal wheat crop and decorate it with homemade buttercream frosting and fruit from your organic orchard to celebrate.
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08 / 4
(all day)
Start: 08/03/2008 - 11:00
End: 08/05/2008 - 11:59
The
University of South Carolina’s Summer II Chorus will perform Handel’s Judas Maccabeus August 3 & 5 in
Rutledge Chapel on the historic Horseshoe.
Concert time is 4pm on Sunday and 7:30 pm on Tuesday. Both concerts are free and open to the public. For more information, call 803.777.5369 or go to music.sc.edu
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Today is the 52nd birthday of Meg Whitman, former President and CEO of eBay. Since resigning from eBay in March 2008, she is considering a run for Governor of California in 2010.
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08 / 5
End: 11:59 am
Start: 08/03/2008 - 11:00
End: 08/05/2008 - 11:59
The
University of South Carolina’s Summer II Chorus will perform Handel’s Judas Maccabeus August 3 & 5 in
Rutledge Chapel on the historic Horseshoe.
Concert time is 4pm on Sunday and 7:30 pm on Tuesday. Both concerts are free and open to the public. For more information, call 803.777.5369 or go to music.sc.edu
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Dame Miriam Rothschild, a leading entomologist and zoologist, was born on this day in 1908. Scientifically, she was a foremost expert on fleas and was the first person to figure out the biology of how fleas jump. Socially, she campaigned for the legalization of homosexuality in the U.K. in the 1960s and was a vegetarian—she refused to wear any form of leather or fur.
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08 / 6
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Lucille Ball’s birthday is today…she clashed with CBS execs after they tried not to let her have a pregnancy storyline in her show. They finally caved, but still wouldn’t allow her to say “pregnant.” Throughout the episode, they had to refer to her as “expecting” instead.
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Grandma Moses was born 148 years ago today. She started painting in her 70s after arthritis made it difficult for her to continue her art of embroidery. She went on to become one of America’s most popular folk artists and lived to the age of 101.
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08 / 7
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08 / 8
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 5:59 pm
Mark the date: 08/08/08 with Gallery 80808. Vista Studios artists present a new exhibition from 8:08am to 8:08pm. Details at www.gallery80808vistastudios.com.
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08 / 9
Start: 9:00 am
Start: 08/09/2008 - 09:00
End: 03/14/2009 - 09:59
McKissick Museum presents This Far by Faith: Carolina Camp Meetings, an African American Tradition. Blacks and whites in the antebellum South traveled great distances to attend religious gatherings held at campgrounds and led by circuit preachers. Many of these camps are still active today. Free; 8:30am-5pm, Monday-Friday; 11am-3pm, Saturday.
Start: 11:00 am
End: 11:59 am
Australian Wedding Gown designer Leeanne Collova will debut her 2009 collection at Bella Vista Bridal on Gervais Street. Call 803.251.3336 to make an appointment for the show.
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 5:59 pm
Shop local, eat fresh at the All-Local Farmer’s Market, 8am-noon at Gervais & Vine in The Vista. Be sure to say hello to Donna Mills of Floral & Hardy, one of the women we profile this month!
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 5:59 pm
Join the Pet Paloosa at Earth Fare all day, with a dog wash, dog-themed crafts, and a hot dog stand. Five percent of your checkout total will be donated to The Humane Society. www.humanesc.org
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Janie Porter Barrett was born on this day in 1865. She founded the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, a rehabilitation center for troubled girls which was centered on self-reliance and self-discipline. It became a model for other similar schools and was extremely successful—the majority of students found jobs and had families after leaving the facility. It became integrated in 1965 and still exists today under the name of the Barrett Learning Center.
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08 / 10
(all day)
Start: 08/09/2008 - 09:00
End: 03/14/2009 - 09:59
McKissick Museum presents This Far by Faith: Carolina Camp Meetings, an African American Tradition. Blacks and whites in the antebellum South traveled great distances to attend religious gatherings held at campgrounds and led by circuit preachers. Many of these camps are still active today. Free; 8:30am-5pm, Monday-Friday; 11am-3pm, Saturday.
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Mary Gove Nichols was born 198 years ago, today. She traveled the country speaking about women’s health and anatomy, but was scorned by many of her time for her belief in “free love” instead of marriage, which Nichols considered to be the “annihilation of women.” She believed that health, freedom and sexual liberation were all linked was an outspoken advocate for all three.
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08 / 11
(all day)
Start: 08/09/2008 - 09:00
End: 03/14/2009 - 09:59
McKissick Museum presents This Far by Faith: Carolina Camp Meetings, an African American Tradition. Blacks and whites in the antebellum South traveled great distances to attend religious gatherings held at campgrounds and led by circuit preachers. Many of these camps are still active today. Free; 8:30am-5pm, Monday-Friday; 11am-3pm, Saturday.
Start: 5:00 pm
Start: 08/11/2008 - 17:00
End: 08/16/2008 - 17:59
Let the games begin: Edventure children’s museum celebrates the Olympics with EdLympics, including a torch lighting ceremony and a parade of flags. Find the week’s schedule at www.edventure.org.
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08 / 12
(all day)
Start: 08/09/2008 - 09:00
End: 03/14/2009 - 09:59
McKissick Museum presents This Far by Faith: Carolina Camp Meetings, an African American Tradition. Blacks and whites in the antebellum South traveled great distances to attend religious gatherings held at campgrounds and led by circuit preachers. Many of these camps are still active today. Free; 8:30am-5pm, Monday-Friday; 11am-3pm, Saturday.
(all day)
Start: 08/11/2008 - 17:00
End: 08/16/2008 - 17:59
Let the games begin: Edventure children’s museum celebrates the Olympics with EdLympics, including a torch lighting ceremony and a parade of flags. Find the week’s schedule at www.edventure.org.
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Today would have been the 91st birthday of Gladys Bentley, a Harlem Renaissance blues singer. Openly lesbian during her early career (she dressed in tuxedos and top hats with a drag queen chorus line singing back-up and flirted with female patrons), during the McCarthy era, she put on dresses, married a man and claimed that taking female hormones had “cured” her, in order to avoid being put on trial.
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08 / 13
(all day)
Start: 08/09/2008 - 09:00
End: 03/14/2009 - 09:59
McKissick Museum presents This Far by Faith: Carolina Camp Meetings, an African American Tradition. Blacks and whites in the antebellum South traveled great distances to attend religious gatherings held at campgrounds and led by circuit preachers. Many of these camps are still active today. Free; 8:30am-5pm, Monday-Friday; 11am-3pm, Saturday.
(all day)
Start: 08/11/2008 - 17:00
End: 08/16/2008 - 17:59
Let the games begin: Edventure children’s museum celebrates the Olympics with EdLympics, including a torch lighting ceremony and a parade of flags. Find the week’s schedule at www.edventure.org.
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Left-hander’s Day is today. Approximately 7-10% of the population is left-handed, and left-handed females are rarer than males. Joan of Arc, Queen Victoria, Eudora Welty, Greta Garbo and Ruth Bader Ginsberg are some of these unique, southpawed females.
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08 / 14
(all day)
Start: 08/09/2008 - 09:00
End: 03/14/2009 - 09:59
McKissick Museum presents This Far by Faith: Carolina Camp Meetings, an African American Tradition. Blacks and whites in the antebellum South traveled great distances to attend religious gatherings held at campgrounds and led by circuit preachers. Many of these camps are still active today. Free; 8:30am-5pm, Monday-Friday; 11am-3pm, Saturday.
(all day)
Start: 08/11/2008 - 17:00
End: 08/16/2008 - 17:59
Let the games begin: Edventure children’s museum celebrates the Olympics with EdLympics, including a torch lighting ceremony and a parade of flags. Find the week’s schedule at www.edventure.org.
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (often known as L.E.L.), a poet, was born on this day in 1802. While her poetry has not withstood the test of time, she was respected by her contemporaries for paving the way for other female writers. Christina G. Rossetti and Elizabeth Barrett Browning were just a few of her literary admirers who wrote tributes to her.
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08 / 15
(all day)
Start: 08/09/2008 - 09:00
End: 03/14/2009 - 09:59
McKissick Museum presents This Far by Faith: Carolina Camp Meetings, an African American Tradition. Blacks and whites in the antebellum South traveled great distances to attend religious gatherings held at campgrounds and led by circuit preachers. Many of these camps are still active today. Free; 8:30am-5pm, Monday-Friday; 11am-3pm, Saturday.
(all day)
Start: 08/11/2008 - 17:00
End: 08/16/2008 - 17:59
Let the games begin: Edventure children’s museum celebrates the Olympics with EdLympics, including a torch lighting ceremony and a parade of flags. Find the week’s schedule at www.edventure.org.
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Julia Child, former assistant in the OSS’s Secret Intelligence division and celebrity chef and author, would have been 96 today. Her legendary persona and accessible recipes made her a pop culture icon.
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