Hello Safranim, It seems that the news of AJL's upcoming appearance in Charleston has spread! Docents from the Dorchester Museum in the lovely town of Summerville, 30 minutes from Charleston, want us to visit them so they can share their interesting Jewish heritage. Therefore, we have organized a fabulous tour for those who may be staying an extra day or two in the Charleston area.
For those of you who have never heard of Summerville, it is the "Birthplace of Sweet Tea" and looks like a delightfully charming Southern town. http://visitsummerville.com There were a number of Jewish merchants in the town but one that left a legacy was Saul Alexander, an unassuming Russian-Jewish immigrant, who opened a dry goods store in Summerville in 1920 as a young man, and became quite wealthy, but without anyone knowing how rich he actually was. He remained a bachelor all his life, and was highly respected, and upon his death in 1952, the town businesses closed their doors in mourning for him. However, the town found out that he left close to a million dollars to various individuals and to the Saul Alexander Foundation, which will "forever support Jewish and other charitable causes in Summerville and greater Charleston." (The town of Summerville still receives 15% of the income annually!) He is buried in the Charleston Huguenin Jewish Cemetery. For those staying an extra day in Charleston, please consider joining our all-inclusive tour on Thursday June 23, as follows: Board a van at 10 am at the Coming Street Jewish Cemetery. (We already have a tour of the cemetery from 9 - 10 am offered on the tour schedule.) You will be driven to the Summerville Dorchester Museum and briefly tour the Museum, have a talk and sweet tea in the Pump Room, and have a walking tour of the Jewish Heritage sites in Summerville including the Saul Alexander Garden House, the former Seymour's, Barshay's, Kramer's Drugs, and Saul Alexander Dry Goods Stores, and a few other sites in the historic town Square. Then you will board the Summerville Trolley to continue to several historic houses including where Saul Alexander and other notable Jewish merchants lived and see the Saul Alexander Playground. Ride the Trolley back to the Town Square where you can lunch at Cuppa Manna (not kosher), where Saul Alexander's store once stood. After lunch (approximately 2 pm), participants board the van to return to the conference hotel in Charleston and arrive back around 2:45 pm. Because they are getting underwriters to help with the expenses, the cost for this entire tour is $30 per person, transportation included! If you are interested, please email me. Lisa [cid:image001.jpg@01D1A77E.1CC9F350] Lisa Silverman Library Director, Sinai Temple Blumenthal Library 10400 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES, CA 90024 310-481-3215 (direct) 310-481-3218 (main) library.sinaitemple.org<http://library.sinaitemple.org/>
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