 | Invite your friends to St. Francisville this weekend and every other weekend after into April. We are so lucky to have such a variety of events coming up. Thanks to all who work so hard to bring us these great events.
Music at The Mag
February 17, Fugitive Poets
February 24, Delta Drifters
Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site
Month of February, 10 am-4 pm. In celebration of Black History Month, Rosedown will mount a display in the gift shop conference room honoring the lives and accomplishments of African-Americans. The exhibit will feature pictures, brief biographies and music of African-Americans who had an influence on history.
Lost Arts Saturdays: African and Caribbean Influence in Southern Antebellum Cooking: February 18, 2012,
· 11 am – 2 pm. In recognition/celebration of Black History Month, State Parks Staff will discuss and demonstrate the tremendous influence of African and Caribbean peoples to the cooking heritage of the Antebellum South. Visitors will receive printed menus and recipes of all dishes prepared during this demonstration, highlighting the specific African and Caribbean influences in each recipe
For more information, call 225-635-3110 in the St. Francisville area, or visit the
Office of State Parks web site at www.lastateparks.com
Journey Stories
February 12, - March 19, 2012
St. Francisville is now making preparations to host the travelling Smithsonian Institution exhibit called Journey Stories, which opens the first week in February in the West Feliciana Historical Society's museum/visitor center on Ferdinand Street right in the heart of St. Francisville's National Register Historic District.
This fascinating exhibition has been designed to encourage small towns across the country to examine in depth just who we are and how we got here, revealing nationwide migration patterns as early pioneers braved the perils of travel in the days of dangerous ocean shipwrecks and riverboat sinkings, runaway teams and overturned wagons on rude rutted dirt tracks, plus pirates and outlaws, wild animals and wild Indians.
As compelling as these national records are, the localized ones are even more so. St. Francisville certainly had some unique settlement routes, from the Mississippi River bringing early Anglo pioneers to an area that reminded them of the rolling hills of the Old Country, to the sunken traces worn deep into the loessial soils by horse-drawn coaches and covered wagons, to the country's earliest standard-gauge railroad line.
Anytime throughout the 6 weeks Journey Stories will be in St.Francisville a Drive Through History (CD Driving Tour) will be available at the Museum; 11757 Ferdinand St. For more information please call Helen Williams at 225-635-6330
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @10am
Feliciana Filmmakers: Student Oral History Projects at the West Feliciana Historical Society Museum
Saturday, February 25, 2012 @10am
Feliciana Filmmakers: Student Oral History Projects at the West Feliciana Historical Society Museum
Saturday, February 25, 2012 @2pm
Presentation: Louisiana's Native Americans by Margo Soule at Old Market Hall on Royal St.
Sunday, February 26, 2012 @2pm
Dr. Irene S. DiMaio Gerstacker's Louisiana: Fiction and Travel Sketches from Antebellum Times through Reconstruction. Reception hosted by St. Francisville United Methodist Church at Old Market Hall on Royal St.
Saturday – March 3, 2012
11am to 1:30pm Gospel Music Fest
Choirs representing Local Churches will be performing in Parker Park . Sponsored by the Rotary Club
Sunday March 4, 2012
2pm- Presentation: West Feliciana Railroad
David Floyd- Director of LSU Rural Life Museum will speak in the Old Court Room at the West Feliciana Parish Courthouse. Sponsored by Grace Episcopal Church.
Monday-February 20, 2012
Open Mic Night at the Birdman and supper.
6th Annual Celebration of Writers and Readers
Saturday February 25, 2012 from 8:30am until 2:30pm at Hemingbough Conference Center.
This year's authors will be:
Valerie Martin, Orange Prize for Literature for Property, other works are The Confessions of Edward Day and Mary Reilly. (made into a movie starring Julia Roberts).
Rodger Kamanetz, poet and non-fiction writer and author of 10 books, internationally acclaimed for The Jew in Lotus; other works are Burnt Books and The History of Last Nights Dream, Terra Infima plus five books of poetry.
Mona Lisa Savoy, PhD, poet, collected poems in Red Beans and Ricely Yours.
Tom Aswell, journalist and music historian, Louisiana Rocks: The True Genesis of Rock and Roll.
Feliciana Green Festival
The "Feliciana Green Festival" will be held on Saturday, February 25, 2012 at the West Feliciana Sports Park from 12 Noon until 7pm.
The mustard greens cook off is the 'highlight' for the event but will also be a family style bike ride, food and beverages, an auction, a bunge jump, rock wall,, an inflatable space walk and face painting.
The local 4H Club will be holding its annual pig,goat and chicken sale the same day at noon.
This event is sponsored by the St. Francisville Rotary Club and all proceeds will go to a local charity including the food bank.
Schedule
Noon - 2 pm - lunch and 4-H Pig & Goat Sale
4-H Barn
Gathering of the BRASS (Baton Rouge Area Safe Streets) family bike ride - Sport Park Pavilion Leave the park, go first to Imahara's Botancal Garden and then on through the historic district of town.
2 pm - Sports Park Pavilion Angola Band
Food and Entertainment
Kids activities - rock wall climb, bungee jump, etc
School projects- Bains Elementary and Middle School
Green energy booths, Keep Louisiana Beautiful Booth, Recycle Booth
4 pm - Mustard Green Cook-off contest
with judges & bribing Fugitive Poets
5 pm - auction of items
6 pm - Mustard Green Queen contest - rules to be decided, bribes included for sure.
Winners announced for Mustard Green Cook-off
For more information, contact Z. David DeLoach at 225-933-9585 or email atzdave@deloachmarine.com.
Looking into March brings
Journey Stories until March 18, 2012
Listening Room Concert March 3, 2012 at the Birdman with Burke Ingraffia and Patrick Sylvest at 7:00p,.
St. Francisville Symphony Chamber III March 9, 2012
Main Streets of Louisiana Book Signing March 16, 2012 at 1:00pm at the Historical Society Museum by local author Anne Butler.
Audubon Pilgrimage March 16, 17 & 18, 2012, will post full schedule next week, for more details please visit:
www.audubonpilgrimage.info
St. Francisville Spring Stroll and Art Show March 31, 2012 will post full details next week. For more information please call Andre Brock 225 635 3614
Arts for All Drawing Lessons – March 4, 2012 for six weeks from 2pm-5pm on Sunday afternoons. Join Barry Galloway a local potter and artist, for more information call Lynn Wood at 635-3665
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