Who Owns America? October 16-17, 2020

Friday, October 16, 2020
7:30 PM EDT

Crowne Plaza Charleston
4831 Tanger Outlet Blvd.
Charleston, SC 29418

TOPIC: “WHO OWNS AMERICA?”

The classic manifesto I’ll Take My Stand by Twelve Southerners is 90 years old this year, 2020. When the book was published in 1930 the Depression raged, and American discourse was a combat between corporate capitalism and socialism. For the Southern Agrarians, these alternatives were merely two sides of the same coin—both implying inhuman mass working and living, fallacies of endless progress and bigger is better, and the loss of real culture. The Agrarians proposed a different and better way for Americans. Although their message did not triumph, I’ll Take My Stand has never gone out of print and is still cherished by thoughtful people

In 1936 the Twelve joined with Northern and British writers to elaborate their message with specifics in Who Owns America?: A New Declaration of Independence. Given the near-authoritarian and conflicted condition of the imperial United States in 2020, and the remoteness of our present prevailing ideas from the vision of earlier Americans, the Abbeville Institute believes that the Agrarian, Jeffersonian message is still extremely relevant. We will explore such prophetic relevance in economics, government, culture, and meaningful life.

SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS:

Brad Green (

John Devanny (History, Christendom College)

Thomas Fleming (President, Fleming Foundation)

Philip Leigh (Author and Historian)

Donald Livingston (Philosophy, Emory University, Retired)

Carey Roberts (History, Liberty University)

Joe Stromberg (Author and Historian)

Jack Trotter (Literature, Trident State Technical College)

Bill Wilson (Literature, University of Virginia, Retired)

Clyde Wilson (History, University of South Carolina, Distinguished Emeritus)

PLACE AND COST:

Crowne Plaza Charleston, 4831 Tanger Outlet Blvd, (843) 744 4422. Participants should make their own reservations. Mention Abbeville Institute for rate of $139 per night, includes breakfast. Conference fee is $100, includes tuition and dinner Saturday evening. Fee must be paid in advance with registration. Register online by clicking the button above or to pay by mail, make check to Abbeville Institute, P.O. Box 10, McClellanville, SC 29458. For questions call 843 323 0690.

FRIDAY,  Oct. 16      

7:30-9:00                     “The Jeffersonian Conservative Tradition,” Panel Discussion: 

       Carey Roberts, Lee Cheek, Clyde Wilson (All events in Middleton/Magnolia Room)

SATURDAY, Oct. 17

8:00-9:00                     Breakfast     

9:00-10:00                   “I’ll Take My Stand, Farming, Poetry, and Resistance.” Bill Wilson

10:00-11:00                 “Who Owns America? Populism, Political Economy, and Corporate Personality,” Jack Trotter

11:00-11:30                 BREAK

11:30-12:30                 “Agrarianism, Republicanism, and Laissez Faire,” Joe Stromberg

2:00-3:00                     “The Postbellum South as An Exploited Colony,” Philip Leigh

3:00-4:00                     “Who Owns America Now?” John Devanny

4:00-5:00                     Panel Discussion

5:30-6:30                     Cash Bar

6:30-8:00                     Supper

8:00-9:00                     “Fiddling While Rome Burns: The Household Community,” Thomas Fleming

 

MASK REQUIREMENTS FOR NORTH CHARLESTON

If you do not have one, please see a front desk agent

 

Mayor Keith Summey signed emergency proclamation requiring face coverings in public places beginning Friday, July 3, 2020 at noon. Requirements, exemptions, enforcement, expiration and effective date can be found below.

Section 1. Required Face Coverings. All persons who are present within the incorporated areas of the City of North Charleston are required to wear an appropriate face covering any time they are in contact with other persons who are not household members in indoor public places and indoor businesses where it is not possible to maintain a six-foot distance from others or where social distancing is not or cannot be being practiced. This includes the following:

1. While entering or inside any retail, restaurant, office or other business location;
2. While entering or inside any City or County Government building or facility;

All business and organizations within the City of North Charleston are required to comply with this Ordinance, which is applicable to patrons and employees.

Section 2. Exemptions. Face Coverings shall not be required:

1. in outdoor or unenclosed areas where six-foot social distancing can be maintained;
2. for those who cannot wear a face covering for medical reasons;
3. for children under five years old, provided that adults accompanying children age two to five shall use reasonable efforts to cause those children to wear Face Coverings where six-foot social distancing is not possible or observed;
4. for patrons of restaurants or similar locations while seated and dining or drinking, or while standing and maintaining a six-foot social distance;
5. in private offices;
6. in settings where it is not practical or feasible to use a face covering;
7. for public safety employees when it is not practical to wear a face covering.

Section 3. Enforcement.

1) A Uniform Ordinance Summons for violations of this Proclamation shall be written only to businesses or organizations that fail to attempt to enforce the Face Covering requirements. Operators of businesses and organizations are entitled to rely on their customers or patrons statements about whether they are exempted from the Face Covering requirements, and businesses and organizations do not violate this Ordinance if they rely on such statements.

2. This Face Covering Ordinance may not be enforced criminally against individual persons, but if a worker, customer, or patron of a business or organization fails and refuses, without good cause or good excuse, to leave immediately upon being ordered or requested to do so by the person in possession of the property or his agent or representative, such person may be charged with a violation of S.C. Code § 16-11-620 (‘Entering premises after warning or refusing to leave on request”).

Section 4. Expiration of Ordinance. This Proclamation shall remain in effect until such time as the Governor or Mayor rescind the general declaration of emergency related to Covid-19, unless sooner specifically terminated by City Council.

Section 5. Effective Date.  Noon, July 3, 2020.

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