Two South Carolina State University faculty members have helped bring to fruition a collaborative project with the Mepkin Abbey Trappist Monastery in Moncks Corner. Historic Mepkin Abbey Trappist Monastery’s Truth & Reconciliation Meditation Garden at Monck’s Corner. The SC State faculty members helped devise the concept for the Truth & Reconciliation Meditation Garden associated with a compelling installation of bronze sculpture at the Mepkin site.
Drs. Frank Martin and Alison Mc Letchie Dr. Alison Mc Letchie of the Department of Social Sciences and Dr.
Frank Martin of the Department of Visual & Performing Arts collaborated with a team of contributors, led by Father Superior Joseph Tedesco to support Mepkin Abbey in creating a meditative space. “Thy Father’s Hand” by Garland Weeks The Truth & Reconciliation Meditation Garden is near the historic cemetery on the grounds of the former Laurens Family Plantation. Local news has never been this personal.
Free to download. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access. Along with Mc Letchie and Martin, the committee included Kathleen Merrit, director of black catholic ministries in the Diocese of Charleston; Pastor Eleanor Brown, representing the Office of Faith-Based Communities Outreach for the International African American Museum; and Dr.
Larry M. Deschaine, permanent deacon for Native American ministries of the Diocese of Charleston. Corey Meggett and Breanna Calhoun, recent graduates of SC State's ROTC program, discuss their .
