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Committee details Lafayette bicentennial schedule, community activities for mid-March
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Summary
Members reviewed an extensive slate of Lafayette bicentennial events — including traveling exhibition panels, lectures, a living-history parade on March 18, and school-engagement activities — and noted ticketed lectures/dances and volunteer needs.
Committee members presented a detailed schedule of Lafayette bicentennial events and community activities centering on a day of public events and living-history programming in mid-March.
The schedule includes traveling history panels that will appear first in City Hall and then move to the University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) lobby and the local history museum. Programming begins with a lecture and dinner featuring historian Bill Davies and continues with family and children’s activities. The committee highlighted a March 17 appearance by Mark Schneider (a Lafayette impersonator), with a program at Saint Helena parish house, and an extensive March 18 schedule that will include a 13-gun salute, Marine Corps color guard, a torch-lined parade along Bay Street, and living-history demonstrations. The committee said Beaufort County schools plan to bus about 200 fifth graders to line the parade route with paper torches to recreate the historical nighttime arrival tradition.
Other planned elements include a Lafayette marker unveiling at the John Mark Badier House, living-history demonstrations on Scott Street, ballroom-dance demonstrations and a “Dancing with Lafayette” evening event in the Arsenal Courtyard (ticketed). Committee members said most parade and living-history events will be free; some lectures and the evening dance have modest ticket prices (committee referenced $30 for certain lectures and $40 for the dance).
Members said 65 volunteers and 19 key sponsors were already listed for the program and that proclamations had been issued by the city and state recognizing Lafayette’s bicentennial month. The committee asked for volunteer help with set-up and organization and said they would circulate posters and program details to members.
