Amsterdam, 21 January 2025 – On 27 January 2025, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it will be eighty years since Soviet forces liberated the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Otto Frank, Anne’s father, was one of approximately 8,000 mostly gravely ill prisoners freed on 27 January 1945. In a 1979 interview,Continue Reading
Dr. Thomas S. Mullikin was elected to the historic board in August By W. Thomas Smith Jr. Dr. Tom Mullikin, an attorney, university professor, and renowned global expedition leader has been elected to the board of the South Carolina Civil Rights Museum (SCCRM). Mullikin will serve a three-year term followingContinue Reading
The South Carolina State Museum has received its fourth Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), securing $250,000 to further its digitization efforts. The grant will fund the photographing and 3-D scanning of 5,000 fossils from the museum’s extensive Natural History collection, which includesContinue Reading
A Lexington-Richland School District Five teacher and student have received honors from the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust (SCCH). Dr. Monica Hadwin was named the 2024 Holocaust Educator of Excellence by the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust during a surprise announcement at Chapin Intermediate School. Sixth-grade student SahasraContinue Reading
The Chapin Garden Club is delighted to extend an open invitation to the public for a captivating event on February 28, 2024. Renowned author Tom Poland will take the audience on an extraordinary visual journey, sharing stories and photographs from his experiences riding the back roads of South Carolina. RSVPContinue Reading
The South Carolina State Museum is set to celebrate summer with new and returning shows and events. MARS 1001 takes viewers away from planet Earth, into space, and across the solar system to Mars. Debuting May 27, the planetarium experience follows the fictional story of the Mars IRIS 1 mission,Continue Reading