Artist Alice Smith subject of large format book
Evening Post Books and Middleton Place Foundation are launching a new large-format illustrated book about Charleston’s Renaissance artist Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, available on March 1. “Alice” is available in hardcover for $ 60 at the Museum Shop in Middleton Place, Middleton Place Online Store (https://shop.middletonplace.org) and wherever books are sold. Net revenue benefits the Middleton Place Foundation’s mission.
The launch of a virtual book on Facebook is scheduled for 18h on March 1st. Go to www.facebook.com/MiddletonPlaceNHL. The event will be attended by the President and CEO of Middleton Place, Tracey Todd; artist Jonathan Green; and the authors, Dwight McInvaill, Caroline Palmer and Anne Tinker.
Smith’s artwork is on display at Middleton Place and Edmondston-Alston House from March 1 to January. 10, 2022. She was adept at capturing the beauty of Lowcountry in watercolor and helped make the region an important destination for cultural tourism.
“Alice” is an account of the artist’s life and work based on unpublished articles, letters and interviews. It is enriched by more than 200 illustrations of paintings, prints, sketches and photographs, many shared for the first time.
Bill Thompson’s travels recorded in new volume
Bill Thompson, a former Post and Courier reporter and reviewer who is now a freelance writer and editor, produced a volume of group essays entitled “Why travel? A way of being, a way of seeing.”
Why book more than an instruction guide, “Why travel?” explores one subject as a way to cover many others. Thompson organizes 40 years of travel experience to provide readers with valuable direction, a renewed sense of wonder and inspiration for their own explorations.
Thompson wrote extensively on all aspects of travel, from urban adventures to the basics of wildlife. His travels span six continents, including 48 of the 50 U.S. states, and have resulted in more than 70 published articles. Follow him online at the travel site www.sojournerartoftravel.com.
Lowcountry author writes autobiographical novel
Larry R. Wiles, a resident of Goose Creek, published “Jack Madison: The Shaping of His Life”, an autobiographical novel now available in a $ 19.95 brochure or a $ 9.99 ebook at https: // larryrwiles. com / jack-madison-book /.
Jack Madison is a typical teenager who grew up in the 1950s in a small midwestern town. His passion is baseball. His trainer is Fred Jenkins, a black man from Mississippi. Fred was part of the segregated Negro League and is now the first African American to manage the city’s baseball activities.
Together, Jack and Fred are challenged by intolerance, racism, prejudice and emotional trauma during a tumultuous decade. The lessons he learns will shape Jack’s life and lead him to success.
Wiles retired from a business career in 2013 and wrote “Jack Madison” to share his experiences and examine how Jack’s life lessons can be applied to anyone in the world today. He is currently working on a sequel.
For more information, visit www.larryrwiles.com.
Golf in South Carolina, subject of new book
Authors and former sports writers for newspapers Bob Gillespie and Tommy Braswell wrote “South Carolina Golf”, a new volume produced by Mount Pleasant’s Arcadia Publishing, available from March 8 as a $ 21.99 brochure.
Today, Myrtle Beach is sometimes called the “Golf Capital of the World”, but the first courses were established nearly 300 years ago in Charleston. The Charleston Country Club produced members of the World Golf Hall of Fame Henry Picard and Beth Daniel. The 1991 Ryder Cup matches, the “War for the Coast”, took place on the Ocean Course on Kiawah Island, also the site of the upcoming 2012 and 2021 PGA Championships. Hilton Head Harbor Town Golf Links has been hosting the RBC Heritage on the PGA Tour for over 50 years. Gillespie and Braswell detail the history of the game in the state of Palmetto.
Gillespie was a senior sports writer, columnist and golf writer for The State in Columbia from 1979 to 2010. Braswell has been writing about golf in North and South Carolina since the mid-1970s for the Post and Courier and other publications, covering local events, Ryder Cups, PGA Championships, the Masters, Heritage and numerous LPGA.
—Adam Parker