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Janice Knight has been a part of the Library’s staff full time since 1981, after having started as a Student Assistant in 1976. She has held many different positions (including mom, nurse, grandma, friend to many) during her tenure and is currently…

Laura Mina, the Library’s Head Librarian since 2015, recounts her childhood in Long Island, NY and the experiences that led her to a career first as an art teacher, then as a librarian. Ms. Mina also discusses her work as Head Librarian at the…

Catherine Jones was born in Orlando in 1938. She has lived in Charleston since she was eleven years old and attended both the Citadel and the College of Charleston. After studying French in France, Mrs. Jones went on to teach French at Ashley Hall…

Garden Frampton was born in Orangeburg in 1942. She has lived in Charleston since she was a small child and worked as a library page as a child when her mother Minnie Pringle Haigh was librarian. She shares her love for the Library during her…

William Jenkins (“Jenks”) Gibbs was born in 1938 in Charleston. He grew up downtown and had a career in banking and shipping. He served in the US Coast Guard and is a descendent of the Ball and Simons families. Mr. Gibbs discusses changes he’s…

Harriet McDougal was born in Washington, D.C. in 1939. Her father was a naval officer, stationed here in Charleston right after World War II. She grew up downtown and, after college in New York, worked in various publishing houses. She started her…

Richard Lilly was born in Birmingham, AL in 1930 but grew up in downtown Charleston. He discusses his colorful childhood in Charleston, including experiencing devastating tornadoes that passed through in the 1930s. Mr. Lilly was in the Navy and had…

Ann Igoe was born in Florence, S.C. in 1935. She grew up in Darlington, S.C. A teacher of modern dance, Ms. Igoe has been in Charleston since 1959. She and her late husband Harold (“Skipper”) Igoe were participants in the poetry group that met at…

Mariano La Via was born in Rome in 1926. La Via was a young man living in Italy during World War II and describes those harrowing times, losing friends, and then arriving in New York by sea, and seeing the Brooklyn Bridge. An immunologist, Dr. La…

Martha Ingram was born in Charleston in 1935. She grew up downtown and went on to study history at Vassar. Mrs. Ingram shares about her family’s visits to the Library as a little girl and she recounts her job as a DJ at her father’s radio station…