Free Author Monthly Events sponsored by Libraries for Kids, Int’l
Location: The Roasting Room, 1297 May River Rd, Bluffton, SC (2nd floor above Corner Perk)
Time: 10:30-11:30 AM, followed by an optional Dutch Treat lunch with the author.
Libraries for Kids Int’l sponsors the free talks, but there is a suggested donation of $5 to the sponsor. Books will be available for sale and signing.
Reservations are required because seating is limited. Call or text Tamela Maxim at 843-683-4100 or email at tamela.maxim@libraries4kids.org to reserve a spot or with any questions.
April 21, 2025, Author Tom Poland will discuss his book South Carolina Reflections: A Photographic Journey, Photographs by Robert C. Clark, Text by Tom Poland, Foreword by Mary Alice Monroe.
Tom Poland is the author of fourteen books and more than 2,000 magazine features and columns. He writes about the South, its people, culture, land, natural wealth, and beautiful detritus—ruins and abandoned places. He travels back roads looking for forgotten places, captivating people, and vestiges of bygone times. Much of that work finds its way into books, columns, essays, and features. The television episode By The River by Tom Poland & Robert Clark won a Bronze Telly Award in the Television – Nature/Wildlife category.
Governor Henry McMaster awarded Tom Poland the prestigious South Carolina Order of the Palmetto in 2018. He has written fourteen books, covering topics related to Southern culture, history, and landscapes.
2025, March South Carolina Reflections: A Photographic Journey, photographs by Robert C. Clark, Text by Tom Poland, foreword by Mary Alice Monroe
2020, November The Last Sunday Drive: Vanishing Traditions in Georgia and the Carolinas
2018, April South Carolina Country Roads: Of Train Depots, Filling Stations & Other Vanishing Charms
2015, November Georgialina: A Southland as We Knew It
2014, December Reflections of South Carolina, Volume 2
2014, August Classic Carolina Road Trips from Columbia: Historic Destinations & Natural Wonders
2013, Transforming South Carolina’s Destiny, SC Technical College System
2013, State of the Heart, an anthology with the contribution “For The Birds,” USC Press
2012, August Save the Last Dance for Me: A Love Story of the Shag and the Society of Stranders
2007, March Forbidden Island: An Island Called Sapelo
1999, October Reflections of South Carolina, Volume 1
1994 South Carolina, A Timeless Journey, Foreword by William W. Starr, USC Press
1989 South Carolina, The Natural Heritage, Foreword by James Dickey, USC Press