Instructor: Sally Farris is a retired librarian, history buff and avid reader. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (BA English), University of Delaware (MA History) and University of SC (MLS Library and Information Sciences). She has lived in Aiken since 1977. Description: This course will focus on the book Martha Schofield and the Re-education of the South 1839-1916 by Katherine Smedley, the scholar who cataloged the six boxes of Martha’s papers her family donated to the Friends Historical Library in 1980. Martha Schofield, educator, reformer, activist, came to SC in 1865 to teach freedmen on St. Helena. She moved to Aiken in 1868 and founded what became the Schofield Normal and Industrial School, which continued after her death in 1916 until 1952, when the high school was absorbed into the public school system.