Lindsay Schakenbach Regele with Kim Cliett Long - Flowers, Guns, and Money
Sat, Nov 15 at 9am
CHARLESTON READS
Historian Lindsay Schakenbach Regele’s book, Flowers, Guns, and Money, investigates the life of botanist and trader Joel Roberts Poinsett. A confidant of Andrew Jackson and former member of South Carolina Legislature, Joel Roberts Poinsett introduced poinsettias to America, and fought surreptitiously in Chile’s War for Independence. In her book, Schakenbach Regele reveals an America defined by opportunity and violence, freedom and slavery, nationalism and self-interest. In conversation with Dr. Kim Cliett Long, academic, educator and Project Administrator of Jonathan Green’s Maritime Cultural Center at the University of South Carolina Beaufort.
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