Eliza Lucas Pinckney, portrayed as a time traveler from the 18th century by experienced historical interpreter and author Peggy Pickett, gives modern audiences her view of the American Revolution as a woman and the mother of two Continental Army officers. One of those sons, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, left his plantation on Pinckney Island in her care while he was off at the Continental Congresses and fighting for independence from Great Britain.

Margaret Pickett, or Peggy as she prefers to be called, is a graduate of the University of Maryland and a former teacher who spent 20 years working in museum education in Virginia's historic triangle-Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown. In 1999 she became an independent Living History Interpreter researching and developing documented programs based on the lives of prominent 17th and 18th century Virginia women. She has presented programs attired in historical clothing reproductions and in modern clothing for the National Parks Service, at colleges and historical organizations in both Virginia and South Carolina.

After moving to Bluffton in 2010 she has added three 18th century South Carolina women - Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Dorothy Sinkler Richardson, and Rebecca Motte- to her repertoire.

Her published works include The European Struggle to Settle North America (2011) co-authored with her son, Dwayne, and a biography of Rebecca Brewton Motte: American Patriot and Successful Rice Planter, 1737-1815 (2022). She authored the first major biography of Eliza Lucas Pinckney since 1896, Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Colonial Plantation Manager and Mother of American Patriots, 1722-1793 (2016).

This local history program is brought to you by the Beaufort District Collection and the Beaufort County Historical Society and co-sponsored by the Beaufort County 250th Committee. Space is limited. First come, first seated; Doors open at 10:30 AM for seating.