Dear colleagues: Thank you for the wide interest in attending the 51st Annual Conference of the Association of Jewish Libraries in Charleston SC. We are excited at the prospect of welcoming you and sharing a great program with you. Many of you, as good librarians, want to learn more about the city and have asked about tours. Thanks.
As a follow-up to my messages concerning the tours, this is what I received from one of the guides (Harlan Greene) for tours of Charleston. To help you make your travel plans, this is a summary (based on what Harlan is suggesting and the conference program) of what we are suggesting: 1. Tours of Charleston, City, Jewish Sites, KKBE (Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim) could be taken on Sunday and Wednesday morning, early - starting at 8:30 am or 9:00 and finishing before noon 2. As part of the conference, we are planning tours of Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston on Monday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon. Each tour can accommodate 40 people. The tour on Wednesday will take place between 1:00 and 3:00 pm. If you are interested, please plan your return flight accordingly. Lisa Silverman ([email protected]) has volunteered to take to make lists of the attendees who would like to take these tours on Wednesday morning. If you prefer to take the tours on Sunday morning, please let me know. All the best, Shoshanah Harlan writes: "We have a great desire to share Charleston Jewish history with you and your group -- there are some considerations to think about -- and some city of Charleston rules to follow. There are regularly scheduled docent tours at Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, the historic downtown synagogue. Special arrangements can be made for large groups such as yours... Anita Rosenberg and Randi Serrins, who are getting copies of this email, can help you with that issue, re scheduling and fees and they are also the experts who open the historic cemetery as well. One question of vital importance -- is the location of your hotel. Charleston can be excessively hot in June and what is walking distance in April may not be walking distance in June... so knowing that can help with scheduling -- i.e. if your group is walking, it might be better to do it early in the day or later -- to avoid the very hot part of the day. The same is true for a walking tour of Charleston. Charleston is an old and beautiful city, as you know, and there are sites of Jewish interest throughout the city. A good walking tour of Charleston, to cover all bases, usually should be about 2 hours -- but again that can vary on depending where the starting point is. The city of Charleston has a law that walking groups, using paid licensed guides, can be twenty people at the largest.... even if someone were to give the tour for free -- I could not recommend more than that number -- just for ease of navigating sidewalks, being heard, etc. One can rent a bus -- but large buses are only allowed in certain neighborhoods, and then one has to use a city guide like Rhetta Mendelsohn; I am licensed as well and am happy to give walking tours. __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
