Hebron Presbyterian Church (Johns Island, S.C.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hebron St. Francis Center-Johns Island, South Carolina
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1172
Abstract
In 1979, Sisters Bernadine Jax and Irene Kelly of Rochester, Minnesota were invited through the Catholic Diocese of Charleston to serve the Church on Johns Island and to develop a place and presence where community people could gather. For the following three years (1979-1982), the nuns lived on Johns Island visiting islanders and searching for a location to establish a community center. In May 1982, Sisters Jax and Kelly attended an Ecumentical Ministerial Meeting at Holy...
Dates:
1970, 1982-2011, and undated; Majority of material found in 1983-1988
Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1138
Abstract
Esther Kaplan Pivnick (1913-2001), a former patternmaker from New York, retired on Johns Island, South Carolina in the mid-1970s. Along with historian Elizabeth "Betty" Stringfellow, she embarked on an ambitious project to write an inclusive history of Johns Island, (the largest Sea Island in South Carolina, approximately thirty miles south of Charleston), and incorporating the adjoining islands of Edisto, Wadmalaw, Kiawah and Seabrook. Their goal was to write a "peoples'...
Dates:
1663-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1863-1999
Additional filters:
- Subject
- African American cemeteries -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- History -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social life and customs 1
- Edisto Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
- Freed persons -- Education -- South Carolina 1
- Gullahs -- History 1
- Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 1
- Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- History -- 19th century 1
- Kiawah Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Seabrook Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- South Carolina -- History 1
- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
- Spirituals (Songs) 1
- Wadmalaw Island (S.C.) -- History 1 + ∧ less
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