In the American
Revolution, Francis Marion stepped forward with little but his passion
for liberty and strength of Intellect.
He led a force of patriots that set the stage
for the British defeat at Yorktown.
Loved by his followers, respected by his enemies,
he is one of the foremost heroes of our
War for Independence. Known as the
Swamp Fox for taking refuge in the forests and
swamps, he is considered one of the
fathers of modern guerilla warfare and
credited in the lineage of the United States Army Rangers.
A miniature of the 2nd SC, Marion Crest from the leather helmet is the newer lapel pin.
Character Word for August: Respect
Aug-Sept Farmers Market, Manning: open 10 AM every Saturday: 435-8429
Aug 26, 1920 Woman Suffrage
Aug 30 CNA classes begin (prior registration required) @ 5 pm @ FEDCC: Clarendon Adult Edu: 803-473-2531
September, 2010
Character Word for September: Responsibility
Sept 1, 1939 World War II Began
Sept 2, 1945 Remember V-J Day
Sept 2 USC Football vs So. Miss.
Sept 2-5 8th Annual Bluegrass & Country Music Festival, Lone Star BBQ, Santee: Free (803) 854-2000
Sept 3 Clar. Home HS football @ MHS: 7:30 PM
Sept 6 Enjoy Labor Day
SOON: "Call for Auditions" for children to perform in the Nutcracker:
Sept 6-17 Mourning dove hunts (Cuddo Unit) - (No hunting Sun.) Santee NW Refuge: 803-478-2217
Sept 7 Ocean Conservancy's 38th Anniversary
Sept 8 International Literacy Day
Sept 8 Jewish New Year (Year 5771) - Rosh Hashanah at sundown
Sept 9 Summerton Rotary Literacy night: Summerton Early Childhood Center: 6 PM
Sept. 9 WorkKeys testing: register prior Clar. Adult Ed.9 AM @ FEDCC: 803-473-2531
Sept 10 Clar. Home HS football @ MHS: 7:30 PM
Sept 11 Remember 9-11-01 Patriot Day
Sept 11 Animal Shelter Golf Tournament at Wyboo Course: 7:30 AM; Register: 803-435-4405
Sept 11 Clemson Football vs Presby.
Sept 11 Screen On The Green: "Old Dogs": Turbeville at dark on Town Sq, Bring your chairs: 843-659-2781
Sept 11 USC Football vs GA
Sept 12 31th National Grandparents Day - Hug a grandparent
Sept 12-18 Constitution Week & Sept 18 Citizenship & Constitution, 1787 Adopted Day
Sept 13-17 National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week
Sept 13 Digi-Cam-Scan Technology Community Computer Course: @ 4:30 pm @ FE DuBose/CCTC: 803-473-2531
Sept 14 ESL classes begin @ 5:30 pm @ FE DuBose/CCTC: 803-473-2531
Sept 14, 1814 Star-Spangled Banner Written
Sept 16 Clar. Historical Society: Program: Dr.John Hilton, Jr: "Cane Savannah" @ First Baptist Church Hall, 7:30 PM: 435-0328
Sept 17 POW/MIA Recognition Day + Citizenship Day
Sept 17-18 SC Hunter Safety Class @ Santee NW Refuge: 803-478-2217: Must PRE-REGISTER:
http://www.dnr.sc.gov/education/huntinstructor.html and go to Find a Hunter Education Course Near You
Sept 18, 1947 US Air Force Birthday
Sept 18 Alzheimer's Motorcycle Poker Run: 11:30AM: MHS Parking Lot: 803-478-4820
Sept 18 Clemson Football at Auburn
Sept 18 25th Annual International Coastal Cleanup /River Sweep: Goat Isl. Boat Club & Clar. Conservation Youth Board: Taw Caw Park: 9:30 AM: 803-435-2612, ext 3
Sept 18 Swamp Sweep, Old Santee Canal Park, Moncks Corner: 843-899-5200
Sept 18 USC football at home vs Furman
Sept 21 World Alzheimer's Day & International Day of Peace
Sept 23 First day of Fall - Autumnal Equinox
Sept 25 Manning Memory Walk for Alzheimer's: 800-860-1444, 803-478- 6636 or Cameron: cameron.renwick@alz.org
Sept 25 USC football at Auburn
Sept 24-25 Lottery Deer Hunts (Bluff Unit) Santee NW Refuge: 803-478-2217
Sept 25 3rd Annual Kids Day: 10 AM - 1 PM: Manning High Stadium: K - 5th grade & parents: Clarendon Character Development : Todd Heldreth: 803-435-8141/361-8456
Sept 25 Francis Marion Symposium Early Bird Registration Deadline: 803-478-2645, gcsummers@ftc-i.net
Sept 25-26 National Catfish Championship Tournament, Lake Marion: Randolph's Landing: 803-478-2152, 1-800-BIG-CATS
Sept 25 National Hunting & Fishing Day 803-734-3886
Sept 25 17th Annual National Public Lands Day
Sept 24-26 Darlington Historic Racing Festival: 843-395-8802
Sept 26 "Call for Auditions" for children to perform in the Nutcracker: MJHS
Sept 26 East Coast Drag Boat Assoc. Race: JC Land Landing: 843-495-3468
Sept 30 Practice GED testing @ 8 am @ FE DuBose/CCTC: 803-473-2531
from Francis Marion Advocates: Pushing back the frontier of ignorance.
The Swamp Fox Murals show scenes
from life as it was about 230 years ago.Prints (11" x 14") of the 2 panels of the
The Patriot and The Redcoat murals are NOW available.
Prints (17" x 11") of the 3 panels of the
Battle of Wyboo Swamp murals are NOW available.
"The Burning of Mouzon's Home by Tarleton Started Other Burnings Including Along the Black River" murals are NOW available.
These books bring to you the Revolutionary War as fought in South Carolina,
bring to life Francis Marion and make great gifts.
Call or email your request: 803-478-2645 or gcsummers@ftc-i.net
These Revolutionary War history books
are available:
Dr. Christine Swager:
"Black Crows & White Cockades"
"If Ever Your Country Needs You"
"Come to the Cow Pens"
"The Valiant Died, The Battle of Eutaw Springs, September 8, 1781"
New & now Available:
"Heroes of Kettle Creek, 1779-1782"
Kate Salley Palmer:
“Francis Marion and the Legend of The Swamp Fox”
“Palmetto - Symbol of Courage”
Patrick O'Kelley:
"Nothing but Blood & Slaughter, The Revolutionary War in the Carolinas:"
"Vol. 1: 1771-1779",
"Vol. 2: 1780", "Vol. 3: 1781",
"Vol. 4: 1782”
Now
available: "Unwaried
Patience and Fortitude" Francis Marion's Orderly
Book, 1775-1782
Now Available: Wm. Dobiein James: "A Sketch of the Life of Brig.
Gen. Francis Marion and a History of His Brigade", 1821
and Williamsburg Township, SC 1731-1885 by James M. Burgess
Now Available: "A Narrative of the Campaign of 1780 by Col. Otho Holland Williams,
Appendix B, To Sketches of the Life and Correspondence of Nathanael Greene
by William Johnson", 1822
Now Available: Mrs. Peggy McGill has created this painting of
General Francis Marion in a South Carolina swamp.
This print, which includes the patron seal, benefits the Francis Marion Trail Commission.
Loved by his followers, respected by his enemies,
Marion is one of the foremost heroes of our War for Independence.
The Santee Cooper Project"
Leslie 'Nicki' Sackrison: "Awesome Women,
Some Famous... Others Infamous... and Those Who Were Lost in History"
Robert Pelton: Period Cook Book Series: “Revolutionary War Period Cookery”
"Historical Thanksgiving Cookery"
"Historical Christmas Cookery"
"Baking Recipes from the Wives & Mothers of our Founding Fathers"
Call or email your request: 803-478-2645 or gcsummers@ftc-i.net for prices and shipping costs.
or order your own silver crescent.
Send check to: Swamp Fox Murals Trail Society c/o C. Hester
PO Box 667, Manning, SC 29102
S&H will be added:
Francis Marion lapel pin $6
Marion Crest lapel pin $6
Battle of Wyboo Swamp Mural Prints -
- Set of 3 scenes (17" x 11" each): $50
The Patriot and The Redcoat Mural Prints -
- Set of 2 scenes (11" x 14" each): $32
The Burning of Mouzon's Mural Prints -
- Set of 4 scenes (11" x 14" each): $50
Christine Swager: Black Crows and White Cockades $13
If Ever Your Country Needs You $13 Come to the Cow Pens $13 The Valiant Died $24
New & now Available: C Swager: "Heroes of Kettle Creek" $13
Kate Palmer: Francis Marion $14 Palmetto $11
O'Kelly Vol. 1 $25 O'Kelly Vol. 2 $25
O'Kelly Vol. 3 $25 O'Kelly Vol. 4 $20
O'Kelly Francis Marion's Orderly Book $30
William
Dobiein James: Marion $25
New & now Available:
General Francis Marion print, New
James M. Burgess: Chronicles
of St. Mark's Parish
$15
New William Johnson: Appendix B, To Sketches of the Life and Correspondence of Nathanael Greene $10
New William Johnson: Appendix B, To Sketches of the Life and Correspondence of Nathanael Greene $10
to benefit the Francis Marion Trail Commission: $110
New & now Available: D Bostick: "Sunken Plantations" $20
N. Sackrison: Awesome Women $25
R. Pelton: $21 Bake with Founding Fathers $14 Rev Cookery
$16 Historic Christmas Cookery $16 Historic Thanksgiving Cookery
Golf Shirt with Crest, size M-XL: $18
Chasing Swamp Fox SCETV VHS $35
Chasing Swamp Fox SCETV DVD $40
Flag Liberty $20
Copies old Maps $10
Jacob's Ladder $6
Liberty Tree Medal $10
Get your post cards or bookmarks of the historic murals.
Bookmarks for Manning, Paxville, Summerton & Turbeville
and postcards of each of 12 murals.
These are inexpensive gifts showing scenes of history with Francis Marion.
Hand-Made Pipes, Hand-Made Shawls, Decorated hawks, Decorated Powder Horns, Hand-Painted Rev. Soldiers.
#5 (2007) and #6 (2008) Videos: $15 each or 2 for $25
Video photographers are working on this year's:
October 15-16, 2010 8th Francis Marion/Swamp Fox Symposium
Mail to: c/o C. Hester
PO Box 667Manning, SC 29102
Thanks to Nell & the
Clarendon Heart-in-Hand Quilting Club:
Betty, Thomasyne, Evelyn, Cathy, Debbie, Monika & Carolyn; here's the beautiful Murals Society quilt in Meadow Morning pattern.
Donald Hardy won this treasure 4-28-07.
Thanks for all the support.