Upcoming Events

Wednesday Jul 15th, 2026

6:00 PM-7:00 PMIn-Store Event Buxton Books, 160 King Street, Charleston, SC 29401

Buxton Books is thrilled to welcome English Hurteau and William P. Baldwin to the bookstore to celebrate Southern Places, their beautiful new coffee table book, featuring photography by Hurteau and commentary by Baldwin. Please join us to raise a toast!

Doors open at 5:30 pm. Program begins at 6:00 pm.

About Southern Places:

Beautiful Photography by English Purcell Hurteau with commentary by Billy Baldwin.

"An Absolute Treasure of A Book", Josephine Humphries.

"The making of this book was a collective effort, one that actually involved dozens of people, and the descriptive notes at the end are intended to reflect this process. But also I wanted to give some notion of what it means to be Southern...We just want you smiling." W.P. Baldwin

About English Hurteau:

English Purcell Hurteau describes herself as a photographer of everything. During her last seven years at SC Ports she was their staff photographer -- her wildlife and nature photographs are on exhibit at the Port headquarter building in Mt. Pleasant and elsewhere. She is drawn to light and color in her photography and is not bashful about the post-production process. Her goal is to dazzle AND instruct.

English has always been a tad obsessed with history, especially Charleston and the low country. She attended the University of South Carolina and started out as a business major. A few months in she called her mom and told her she wanted to change her major to archaeology. Her mom said that would be fine, but before doing so, wanted her to spend a summer volunteering at a dig, where she couldn’t obsessively wash her hands, take two showers a day, and would be sweaty and dirty all the time. Needless to say she kept her business major but stayed obsessed with history. As of October 2025, she is Chairman of the Charleston County Historic Preservation Commission, Chairman of the McClellanville Arts Council, Secretary of the Cape Romain Lighthouse Preservation Society, serves as Web Coordinator for the Santee Delta Project and was previously Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Charleston Museum. She retired from SC Ports after 31 years in January 2025.

About William P. Baldwin:

A lifelong resident of the Carolina Low Country, William P. Baldwin is an award-winning novelist, poet, photographer, biographer, and historian. He graduated from Clemson with a BA in History and an MA in English. He ran a shrimp boat for nine years and then built houses, but the principle occupation of his life has been writing. His works include the popular oral histories Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden and, with Genevieve "Sis-ter" Peterkin, Heaven is a Beautiful Place. For its depiction of Southern race relations his first novel The Hard to Catch Mercy won the Lillian Smith Award. He wrote three more.

He collaborated with architectural photographer N. Jane Iseley on Charleston, Charleston Impressions, Daytrips from Charleston, Plantations of the Low Country, and Low Country Plantations Today, and the recently released The Preservation of Charleston. With photographer V. Elizabeth Turk he did Mantelpieces of the Old South, a study of the HABS photographers. He edited three collections of HABS photography: Beaufort, Sacred Places of the Low Country, and Carolina Plantation and Vennie Deas Moore's Home: Portraits from the Carolina Coast. He wrote My Guide to a Holy City and was a contributing essayist to Picturing the South. Most recently, CLASS Publishing brought out Carolina Rambling, a Visual and Poetical Tour, a beautiful book featuring Selden Hill’s color photography. And next also with CLASS came Frances Benjamin Johnston’s CAROLINA. Every morning he at least attempts to write a poem and afterwards walks or kayaks in the surrounding wilderness.