Mable Owens Clarke discusses history of SoapStone Church in Project CommUNITY Conversation
Clarke helped save the historic church Share Updated: 6:19 PM EST Mar 5, 2021 Jane Robelot
Clarke helped save the historic church Share Updated: 6:19 PM EST Mar 5, 2021
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Show Transcript IT HAPPENED. THERE’S A SMALL CHURCH IN LIBERIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, IT HAS A SPECTACULAR VIEW OF THE MOUNTAINS IN PICKENS COUNTY . SOAPSTONE CHURCH IS FAMOUS FOR IT’S MONTHLY FISH FRY’S WITH CHEF MABLE, BUT IN TODAY’S COMMUNITY CONVERSATION, SOAPSTONE’S CHEF AND MATRIARCH MABLE OWENS CLARKE TELLS US HOW THIS HISTORIC CHURCH IS PLAYING A ROLE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION. SAVING AND PRESERVING SOAPSTONE CHURCH IS VERY PERSONAL FOR MABLE OWENS CLARKE, IT’S A PROMISE SHE MADE TO HER MOTHER. HER GREAT GRANDFATHER, A FREED SLAVE, HELPED ESTABLISH THE CHURCH IN THE LATE 1800’S. YOU HAVE NOW BEEN ABLE TO LOOK TO THE FUTURE. WHAT IS THE FUTURE O
By Andrew Albanese | Feb 26, 2021 In a blog post this week, OverDrive CEO Steve Potash said he was proud of some of the “incremental gains” made in the library e-book market in 2020, but insisted that the work of establishing “fair, flexible, and reasonable terms” for libraries and schools to acquire and lend digital content is far from over.
“What began as a single model for e-books 20 years ago is constantly evolving,” Potash writes, adding that OverDrive’s ongoing advocacy efforts on behalf of libraries “are even more critical now given how the pandemic is impacting schools and public libraries. “Last year we saw meaningful progress with dozens of publishers enabling more affordable options for acquiring rights to their collection,” Potash writes. “But we are still searching for the Holy Grail access model.”