DUE TO THE COVID-19 AND OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION, WE HAVE DECIDED TO CANCEL THE 2020 SUMMER SCHOOL   ABBEVILLE INSTITUTE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL SUMMER SCHOOL “Recovering What is Valuable in the Southern Tradition” St. Christopher Conference Center, Seabrook Island, South Carolina June 21-26, 2020  TOPIC. The South was once  an independent country. Though conquered, it retained a distinctive identity and was known as “a nation within a nation.” But the American nation that contained it is being hollowed…