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Heritage Library News, Winter 2008 Volume XI Issue 4 Winter 2008 Heritage Library News BIRDIES FOR CHARITY TIME Sign up now! INAUGURAL FESTIVAL WINDS UP WITH A BANG The Library finished its tenth anniversary year with a festival at Historic It’s Birdies For Charity time and Honey Horn in early October celebrating not just our library’s accomplishments we have been invited to take part since its founding in 1997, but more importantly the history of the Island and the again this year. We ask you to diverse cultures and heritage of its residents and visitors. By all accounts it was please use the form included in this greeted with great enthusiasm by those attending the Sunday Afternoon newsletter and pledge One Cent or more for every birdie scored in the festivities under the 2008 Verizon Heritage golf tourna- live oaks and on the ment to be played on The Harbour fields of Historic Town Links April 14th thru 20th. If Honey Horn. you would rather, you may pledge a The audience, fixed amount. modest but enthusi- The Heritage Classic Founda- astic, thrilled to the tion, which runs the tournament, demonstrations of sets aside approximately $100,000 military contingents from tournament distributions to representing the charity and distributes it among the Revolutionary and Birdies for Charity participants ac- Civil War periods in cording to the funds each group our history. They raises. We realized $4,354.64 last cheered on the danc- year.—$3,094.29 pledged by 41 ers and singers from (Continued on page 2) the Hilton Head Sounds of the Civil War—Ten Pound Parrot Gun in Action School for the Arts, the Barbershoppers, and the Step- Inside This Issue ANNUAL MEETING NOTICE pin’ Stones Band. The 2008 Annual Meeting of The Heri- Dr. Tay Goins, CEO of the East- tage Library Foundation, Inc. will be held at ern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois President’s Column Page 2 The Heritage Library and United Tribes of South Carolina About Our Members 3:00 PM WEDNESDAY entertained the crowd with moments And Volunteers Page 3 from the American Indian culture FEBRUARY 20, 2008 with song and story. Festival Photos Page 4 All members and friends of The Heritage Mayor Tom Peeples and his wife Library Foundation are encouraged to at- Annual Meeting Notice tend. Mary Ann were on hand for the and Proxy Page 5 Whether you are planning to attend or opening and stayed to enjoy the not, to help insure a quorum is present please day’s events. Feature Article— complete and return the PROXY form found A sampling of photographs from General David Wooster Page 7 on page 5. the festival appear on page 4. ~~~~~~~~~~ 1 Volume X1 Issue 4 Winter 2008 Heritage Library News Heritage Library Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors Officers E. W. Altstaetter—President G. Norma Harberger—Vice President Nancy M. Burke—Secretary Open—Treasurer Directors Term expiring 2008 E. W. “Bill” Altstaetter Isobel Bitner President’s Column BIRDIES FOR CHARITY TIME Robert P. Smith Iva Roberts Welton By Bill Altstaetter Term expiring 2009 (Continued from page 1) Emory S. Campbell members and friends of the library and G. Norma Harberger At the beginning of the “second $1,260.35 contributed by the Heritage Hunter Montgomery decade” for your Foundation, the Classic Foundation. This is an easy Robert E. H. Peeples year 2008 dawns bright with oppor- fundraiser for all of us to take part in for Term expiring 2010 tunity, opportunities to advance the the library—let’s do even better this Nancy M. Burke Earl S. “Smittie” Cooler level of historical knowledge about year! Feel free to copy the form and Ed Dowaschinski our island home. give it to friends so they may also take Natalie Hefter New information is rapidly com- part. ing to light by virtue of our records Please send your pledges to the ad- Operating Divisions searches at The National Achieves. dress on the form—not to the library. Hilton Head Island History Division Data on island land acquisitions dur- The Rotary Club of Hilton Head Is- Historic Preservation Projects History Research and Studies ing the years of the 1860s previously land—Sunset is the coordinator of the Fort Mitchel buried deep in the Achieves files has program. You will receive a bill after Zion Chapel of Ease Cemetery surfaced and when analyzed, in- the tournament has taken place. Sites Identification and Marking dexed, and cataloged will be ex- Thanks in advance. The Heritage Library tremely valuable to residents and Norma Harberger, Chair History & Family Heritage Library visitors alike in their quest for Books, Periodicals, Microfilm & Heritage Library Birdies For CDs DSL Internet Connection “details of the past.” Charity Committee New projects are in development Heritage Library Press Specialty Book Publishing to engage the youth of the commu- the heritage of our country, we are Newsletter Productions nity in the excitement of searching again reaching the limits of our physi- Book Repair Assistance the past for glimpses of the future. cal plant. Heritage Library Workshops In the coming months you will learn We must find a permanent home, a Genealogy Classes and Workshops of opportunities to participate in, and permanent home we can afford! For History Lectures, Seminars and lead these projects. While the new Conferences some years we have been exploring year dawn is “bright,” there are options for a long term solution at an- “storm clouds” aplenty hovering other island location. But the solution Heritage Library News is a publication around. of The Heritage Library Press, a division remains illusive and at a minimum is of The Heritage Library Foundation, Inc., Storm clouds which must be four or five years in the future. Hilton Head Is., SC 29928-4640 faced with increasing urgency. They Of immediate concern are the next are the twin issues we have been fac- three to five years. Do we stay where ing in recent years, “space” and we are or do we go someplace else? “money.” Which brings us full circle to Views, opinions, and conclusions Space is the first twin. As the “money.” expressed in the feature articles are library collections grow and more “Money,” the other of the twin those of the authors and do not nec- patrons find out how valuable the essarily represent those of the man- storm clouds! Money to pay the agement of The Heritage Library resources of The Heritage Library monthly bills. Money to invest in our News or the Heritage Library Foun- are in their searching for an under- plant and equipment. Money to grow dation. standing of their personal past and (Continued on page 3) 2 Volume XI Issue 4 Winter 2008 Heritage Library News About Our Members and Volunteers from the Membership Desk President’s Column SPECIAL NOTICE By Gwen Altstaetter HERITAGE LIBRARY NEWS (Continued from page 2) MOVES TO ELECTRONIC Happy New Year! the future. 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