Let Freedom Read Day at Witness Tree Park

Name: Let Freedom Read Day at Witness Tree Park
Start: 2025-10-11T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-11T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States, South Carolina 29902

Schedule

Sat Oct 11 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States, South Carolina 29902 | Beaufort, SC

“Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.”—Pat Conroy, My Reading Life
On Let Freedom Read Day, Saturday, October 11, the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, the South Carolina chapter of Authors Against Book Bans, and the DAYLO student book club will host a reading at Witness Tree Park from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Honoring the final day of Banned Books Week, this special event will feature brief readings by local writers and students from frequently challenged and banned books as well as works about pro-literacy advocacy, and original works responding to censorship and erasures. Scheduled to appear: novelist Rebecca Dwight Bruff, poet Tim Conroy, essayist Jonathan Haupt, poet Miho Kinnas, memoirist Carol Lucas, poet Susan Madison, poet Jacquelyn Markham, novelist Valerie Sayers, and DAYLO.
Witness Tree Park is located across King Street from the Conroy Center’s location at 601 Bladen Street in Beaufort. The Center and DAYLO will also host the monthly Silent Book Club Beaufort meet-up that same afternoon, afterwards from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.