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McCelvey Programming

The McCelvey Center sets the stage for an incredible season of programs year after year:

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Fri., March 19, 2010; 7-9 p.m.
"All for Liberty" movie screening

2009 Revolutionary War action-adventure film, was shot at 14 historic sites throughout Georgia and the Carolinas, including Historic Brattonsville. It features a professional cast as well as local volunteer re-enactors. “All for Liberty” has won eight international awards and audience acclaim. Costumed local re-enactors and other actors from the movie will attend the reception.

Cost: $10 for the movie only; $8 for CHM members. Movie plus 6 p.m. reception with beer, wine & heavy hors d’oeuvres and coffee & dessert following the show, $30; $25 for CHM Member

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Sun., March 28, 2010; 3 p.m.
Southern Film Series: Key Largo

Humphrey Bogart heads an all-star cast that includes Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson and Lionel Barrymore in KEY LARGO (1948). Bogart plays Frank McCloud, a World War II hero who visits a hotel in the Florida Keys owned by the beautiful wife (Bacall) and crippled father (Barrymore) of his best friend, who was killed in the war. The trio soon become the prisoners of a mob of gangsters led by Johnny Rocco (Robinson) who hole up in the hotel to await the passing of a hurricane. Initially reluctant to confront the gangsters, the war-weary McCloud is finally forced to act when the ruthless actions of Rocco and his men result in the deaths of a deputy sheriff and some innocent Seminole Indians who seek shelter at the hotel.

Cost: $5 non-members; $3 CHM Members

Funded in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission which received support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the CHM Leadership Circle:

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