Rogow Community Room, Transylvania County Library

Join us for this month's Cookbook Club! Each month we look at cookbooks, do a little cooking, and meet to talk about our experiences. For June's meeting, we'll cook from Motherland: A Jamaican Cookbook by Melissa Thompson. This takes us on a journey to this Caribbean jewel through 80 recipes and more than 500 years […]

Hear her story in her own words. A prominent early Patriot supporter, Rebecca Motte’s wild adventures during the British siege of Charleston included her later escape upriver to help destroy the British headquarters in her occupied home! Even though reared in a wealthy family, she suffered the death of her brother in a shipwreck, the […]

The Noontime Notions series continues. The program will begin at noon in the Rogow Room at the Transylvania County Library. Noontime Notions programs feature authors, performers, and presenters providing engaging notions for consideration, enjoyment, and discovery. The program is made possible by the Friends of the Library and will last approximately one hour. I found […]

Hear his story in his own words. Born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1898, Paul Robeson was the son of a Presbyterian pastor. His mother died in a fire when he was only six years old, and as a result community members pitched in to help Reverend Robeson raise Paul, the youngest of five children. […]

Hear her story in her own words. “I belong to a class of people that all down through the ages have been robbed, murdered, maligned, crucified, deluded and because I belong to that class, I think it is my duty to stop these crimes.” The fiery words of Mary Harris Jones resonated with workers in […]

Hear his story in his own words. Henry Felder arrived in South Carolina from Zurich, Switzerland in 1735 at age 10. His parents soon died and as orphan he had 300 acres to care with the help of a kindly neighbor. By the time the Revolutionary War began, he had seven sons, over 3,000 acres […]