Great Outdoors Month: Mark Catesby

Great Outdoors Month first started as a Great Outdoors Week in 1998. The main aim was to increase jobs and the GDP of the country by getting people to enjoy nature and appreciate it. This display features Volume 2 of Catesby’s Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. Mark Catesby, an avid outdoorsman, was an English naturalist who studied the flora and fauna of the New World and helped educate the world about the great outdoors through his works.

Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands in our display case.

Upcoming Event

Author photo of Patricia Brandon and the cover of Rise of the Pale Moon.

Author Patricia Brandon and "Rise of the Pale Moon"

May 7, 2026, 5:30 PM

Join us at the next installment of the Speaker at the Center with Author Patricia Brandon where she will discuss her historical fiction novel, "Rise of the Pale Moon." Set against the backdrop of the Revolutionary War era in coastal South Carolina, Rise of the Pale Moon weaves a compelling tale of three young women from distinct backgrounds: an indentured servant from London, a chattel slave raised on the Montague Hall plantation, and a Catawba Indian captured by the Cherokee and traded into slavery.

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