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• BHM Board Meeting

  • Start
    Friday, January 10, 2025
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  • End
    Friday, December 12, 2025
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  • Schedule
    12 sessions
  • Location
    Beaufort History Museum

  
  

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• Lecture Series 9.1 - Local History - "Gen. Isaac Stevens and the 79th Highlanders" with Tom Vaselopulos

  • When
    Friday, October 31, 2025
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    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Beaufort Branch Library - District Collection, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, SC 29902

  SAVE THE DATE!

  BHM/BCL 9.1 - Local History - "Gen. Isaac Stevens and the 79th Highlanders" with Tom Vaselopulos.

   

  Veteran re-enactor and historian Tom Vaselopulos will discuss Union General Isaac Stevens' innovative and inspiring leadership during the Civil War. Stevens conducted many of the operations and day to day activities of the 79th New York Highlanders while posted in Port Royal.  This lecture will provide context for and enhancement of your experience of the Civil War Encampment at the Arsenal on November 1, 2025. 
  
  

  This lecture opens Season 9 of the joint Beaufort History Museum-Beaufort County Library series coordinated by the Beaufort District Collection.

  About the Speaker:
  Tom Vaselopulos is a repeat presenter for the BHM-BCL series on the topic of the 79th Highlanders Civil War unit. He is the only native New Yorker in a New York reenacting unit and has been reenacting for over 15 years as part of H Company, 79th NY Volunteer Infantry. Currently serving as a Captain, he is the Aide-de-Camp to the commander, and is also the recruiting officer and the Provost Marshal for the unit. Retired from a 20-year career as a US Air Force / Air National Guard Security Police Supervisor and served in the First Gulf War. He also worked as a security contractor to the US Dept. of Energy for Safeguards, Security and Emergency Services issues, working at several national security sites before retiring at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, TN. The highlight of his career was teaching a security course for his Russian counterparts at the Karchatov Institute in Moscow.

  
  

   

  
  

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• Lecture Series 9.2 - "The American Revolution in Beaufort District" with Neil Baxley

  • When
    Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Beaufort Branch Library - District Collection, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, SC 29902

  SAVE THE DATE!

  BHM/BCL 9.2 - Local History - "The American Revolution in Beaufort District" with Neil Baxley

    Historian Neil Baxley will provide an overview of military actions taken by the British, Loyalist and American forces in Beaufort District during the Revolutionary War. Learn about the battles of Port Royal, Coosawhatchie and Fort Balfour. Understand why the American Revolution is sometimes called "Beaufort District's First Civil War." 
  
  

  This program is lecture 2 of Season 9 of the joint Beaufort History Museum-Beaufort County Library series that is coordinated by the Beaufort District Collection.

  
  

  About the Speaker: 
  Neil Baxley is a repeat presenter for the Library on the topics of military and law enforcement history and ways to prepare for hurricanes, tornados, flooding, etc. A native of North Carolina, Neil Baxley spent 4 years in the Marine Corps before joining the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office more than 40 years ago.  In 2013, Col. Baxley was put in charge of Beaufort County's Emergency Management Division.  In his spare time, he studies and writes history. He's given presentations at the South Carolina Archives and at area museums and libraries. He's authored two Confederate regimental history books, Walk in the Light: The Journey of the 10th and 19th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (2013) and No Prouder Fate: The Story of the 11th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (2009) and the foreword to Confederate General Stephen Elliott: Beaufort Legend, Charleston Hero by D. Michael Thomas (2020). 

  
  

   

  
  

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