About us
This group is Sierra Club outreach to the community. Our mission is "To explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth". We get you out there. We hike. We bike. We canoe. We kayak. AND We lobby. For our outings, we suggest that participants donate $5/person. This is a voluntary contribution not a requirement for participation. The funds go to the general treasury of the Robert Lunz Group, not to the Trip Leader. Contributions are for the outings and not Membership Meetings.You can sign up for our monthly electronic newsletter on the group website at https://www.sierraclub.org/south-carolina/robert-lunz
Land Acknowledgement
We want to acknowledge that we, the Robert Lunz Group of the Sierra Club (Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton and Dorchester Counties), work and live on lands once belonging to more than a dozen distinct groups of Native Americans whose existence is now evident in the familiar place names including: Ashepoo, Awendaw/Sewee, Bohicket, Catawba, Combahee, Coosa, Edisto, Etiwan, Kiawah, PeeDee, Shem (named by Sewee Tribe), Stono, Wando, Wappoo, Wassamasaw and Winyah. Disease, warfare and displacement led to the extinction of most of these groups by the middle of the eighteenth century. Shell mound evidence indicates that Native Americans were present in the lowcountry as long as 4,000 years ago. Their presence has continued to the present day including the Catawba, PeeDee, Wassamasaw, Edisto and Winyah tribes. The Wassamasaw have applied for Federal recognition. The Catawba Nation is the only Federally recognized tribe in South Carolina. A Native American Ceremonial Center is located in the Charles Towne Landing State Historic Park.
Sources
https://native-land.ca/.
https://www.sciway.net/hist/indians/geo.html
https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/first-people-south-carolina-lowcountry
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Sierra Club & Piccolo Spoleto: Andy Goldsworthy Leaning into the Wind
CofC School of Sciences and Math Auditorium, 202 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC, USThursday, June 4, 7 pm
Sierra Club & Piccolo Spoleto film screening: Andy Goldsworthy Leaning into the Wind
College of Charleston School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Room 129 Auditorium, 202 Calhoun Street, NW corner of Coming Street, Charleston, SC 29403. Free and open to the public.
Directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer 2017 1h 37mThis documentary film about Scottish landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy explores the ecology, design, and beauty of natural elements. Leaning into the Wind follows Goldsworthy on his exploration of the world and himself through ephemeral and permanent workings on the landscape, cities and with his own body. Goldsworthy is a self-described land artist so enraptured by nature that he manipulates found materials such as stones, branches, fallen trees, leaves, clay, rocks, vines and icicles in ways that honor their origins. Many works are intentionally ephemeral, destined to briefly exist before dissolving back into the flora and fauna from whence they came.
Sierra Club is the oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization in the US. The Lunz Group has over 2,000 members in Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, and Dorchester counties in South Carolina. Piccolo Spoleto Festival is produced by the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs to offer unique experiences in the arts, culture, and history.
https://leaningintothewind.com/
https://www.sierraclub.org/south-carolina/robert-lunz
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