Marching into April

FRIDAY – MARCH 30, 2012 MUSIC AT THE MAG – The Delta Drifters will be playing tonight. QUE PASA – Music tonight by Carey Hubbard of United We Jam SATURDAY-MARCH 31, 2012 SPRING GARDEN STROLL AND COMMUNITY ART SHOW Feliciana Master Gardeners presents the 2012 St. Francisville Spring Stroll on Saturday, March 31, 2012 from 9:30 am until 4 pm. The tour provides a wonderful opportunity to visit beautiful and unique private and public gardens in the parish. Master Gardeners will be on hand at all the private gardens to provide information. Tickets are $15 for the day and will be available at the St. Francisville Town Hall the day of the tour beginning at 8:30 am and from the West Feliciana AgCenter office in advance.  For more information call 225-635-3614. From 9:30 until noon four private country gardens will be open for viewing, ranging from formal plantation style to a garden hidden in the deep woods. You might consider a lunch break at one of St. Francisville's many restaurants and then continue on the afternoon tour from 1 pm until 4 pm. The afternoon features 3 town home gardens on historic Royal Street in St. Francisville and a more contemporary home setting in north St. Francisville. Private gardens on the tour include:  David and Marla Floyd, Sunnyside; Madeline and Bill Wright, Green Springs;  Amy and Howard West, The West Dome; Betsy and Irv Daniel, The Oaks; Lynn Leake, White's Cottage; Sharon and Bobby Wilson, Prospect; Julie and Mitch Brashier, Hillcroft; and, Polly and Conville Lemoine. Ticket holders are eligible for admission to other local attractions on the day of the Spring Stroll, including Rosedown, Afton Villa, St. Mary's Church and Audubon State Historical Site (Oakley Plantation). Proceeds from the event go to 4 H scholarships and local school gardens. Sponsors for the event are Feliciana Master Gardeners, Bank of St. Francisville, Landry Team Real Estate and Arts for All.  Community Arts Show Planned by Arts for All Arts for All, which is an arts organization that fosters the arts in West Feliciana Parish, is sponsoring a community art show on the weekend of March 31-April 1.  Anyone 18 years of age or older may enter one piece of visual art, which will be shown that weekend at Market Hall on Royal Street in St. Francisville.  Since that is the weekend of the Garden Club's Spring Stroll, people will be able to view both area gardens and the art of local citizens. According to Lynn Wood, immediate Past President of Arts for All,  "We are excited about this show, primarily because we feel that there are artists out there in our parish who have not yet shown their work here, so it will be like discovering jewels among us!  Please consider exhibiting in this show, whether you are a new artist, a 'closet' artist, or an artist well known to us-- this is truly a community art show."   Anyone who wishes to exhibit a piece of art should bring it by Market Hall on Friday, March 30 between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. or call 225-721-1296 for another time if these times are not convenient. The art show and reception will be from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 31 and noon to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 1. Area artists are encouraged to show a favorite piece of their art—sculpture, ceramics, two-dimensional visual art of all kinds--on this weekend.  Arts for All President Rebecca Landry said, "This show continues a well-honored tradition.  St. Francisville has supported and encouraged artists since John James Audubon's day.  I hope that many area artists will participate in this show." IMAHARA'S BOTANICAL GARDEN Will be open Saturday and Sunday for tours.  On Saturdays the tour times are 10am, 1pm and 3pm Sundays the tour times are 1pm and 3pm. March – Azalea Stroll April -Topiaries & Poodles May -Birds & Butterflies June – Crape Myrtle Magic July – Crape Myrtle Magic Admission fee $10.00 for adults, $8.00 for seniors and 16 and under free. For more information 225 635 6001   SUNDAY-APRIL 8, 2012 HEMINGBOUGH EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE   AUDUBON STATE HISTORIC SITE – Audubon Nature School Day on Friday April 13, 2012 from 9am until 1pm.  Area Schools can experience the wonder of nature, as it exists in the Felicianas.  For more information call 225 635 3739.   Nature Saturday will be held on April 14, 2012 at 10am and noon visitors can participate in an Animal Discovery program which introduces them to a few of the sites creatures.  At 1:30pm and 2:30pm visitors will have the opportunity to go on a guided nature walk around the park led by one of the sites park rangers.  There they will discover the different plants and habitats found within the park.   WINE TASTING – Friday April 13, 2012 at 6pm The Wine Parlor. Brian Gibbons from Purveyors of Fine Wines will be offering 6 different wine samples from the Duckhorn Winery.  The cost is $20.00 per person; light snacks will be served with the wines.  Reservations are recommended, seating is limited. For more information call 225 635 6502.   ANGOLA PRISON RODEO WEEKEND – APRIL 21 & 22, 2012   Visit the Wildest Show on Earth.  For tickets angolaprisonrodeo.com or call 225 655 4411.   COMMUNITY MARKET – SATURDAY APRIL 21, 2012 in Parker Park Join local entrepreneurs while they sell their craft anything from clothes, jewelry, arrow heads, honey, art, photography and baked goods from 9am until 1pm.  Kevin Johnson will sing from 10am until Noon.    MERLOT & MASTERPIECES – SATURDAY APRIL 21, 2012 Jackson Hall at 7pm, the Women's Service League will be hosting Merlot and Masterpieces.  Guest artist Elizabeth Leake Mackey will instruct you to paint your own Masterpiece.  Art supplies and food will be provided, you bring your own wine.  A Silent Auction will display artwork by local artists.  Tickets are $40.00 per person and can be purchased online at www.womensserviceleague.com     CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE GETTING MARRIED THIS WEEKEND Doug and Abby Richard and Meg Lauren Tanner   Your Subscription: Change your subscription Unsubscribe Powered by Joobi

Pilgrimage This Weekend

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 Friday-March 16, 2012 6pm- Cemetery Tour; Local Citizens Portray Historical Characters from West Feliciana's Past Location: Grace Episcopal Cemetery Audubon Pilgrimage- March 16-18, 2012 Main Streets of Louisiana Book Signing March 16, 2012 at 1:00pm at the Historical Society Museum by local author Anne Butler. www.audubonpilgrimage.info 2012 Pilgrimage Events  Historic Home & Garden Tours - Privately owned: Hillcroft, Highland, Prospect and Woodland Friday – March 16, 2012  9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.  Saturday – March 17, 2012  9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Sunday – March 18, 2012  12:00 noon – 5:00 p.m. Historic Home & Garden Tours - State Historic Sites: Rosedown, Oakley, and Afton Villa Gardens             Friday-March 16, 2012   9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Last tour begins @ 4:30 pm Saturday-March 17, 2012  9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Last tour begins @ 4:30 pm          Sunday-March 18, 2012  9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Last tour begins @ 4:30 pm Rural Homestead- Friday, Saturday and Sunday March 16, 17 and 18, 2012 Corner Hwy. 61 and Hwy. 66       9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.      9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.      9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Antique Show and Sale  Friday, Saturday and Sunday  March 16, 17 and 18, 2012 Masonic Hall and Market Hall      9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.      9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.      11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Maypole Dancers  Saturday March 17, 2012  10-12 am and 1-3 p.m. @ Hillcroft on Royal Street  Sunday March 18, 2012  1-3 p.m. at Hillcroft on Royal Street Sweet Maids  Saturday March 17, 2012    Highland 10 – 11:30 am                                                                              Woodland 12:30 -2 pm     Sunday-March 18, 2012       Afton Villa 1-2 pm      Rosedown 2:45 -3:45 pm Friday March 16, 2012 Methodist Hymn Singing  Royal Street  6:30 p.m.               Wine & Cheese Reception - $15  Jackson Hall – Grace Church Vintage dancers & Period style show     6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.                       Cemetery Tours  Grace Episcopal Graveyard       6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.                       Saturday March 17, 2012    Soiree - $40  Light Up the Night at the Pilgrimage Soiree March 17, 2012 – The popular street dance will be held on Prosperity Street from 7pm-10pm. Live Music, fine food and complimentary beer and wine are included in your $40.00 ticket price.  New this year… A wine tasting featuring wines from Meyer Family Cellars in Napa Valley for $5.00 per person and free babysitting by local youth at SFUMC.  For tickets call 635-6330 or email st@audubonpilgrimage.info. Sandy Fabre & Carl Fontenot on Horseback                        Rosedown 11:00 am – 1:00 pm   Carriage Rides                   Ferdinand & Royal Sts  10:00 am – 4:00 pm           Sunday-March 18, 2012- Birdman – 2pm – 4pm Reception for Lana Toniolo and her wonderful artwork inspired by live music. St. Francisville Spring Stroll and Art Show March 31, 2012   Experience unique local gardens at this self-guided garden tour in historic St. Francisville.  Tour Tickets ($15) may be purchased prior to the tour at the West Feliciana Parish Extension Office, from participating members of the Feliciana Master Gardeners, or on the day of the tour at tour headquarters.  The gardens are hosted by the owners and Feliciana master Gardeners of the LSU AgCenter.  All proceeds of the tour go to local charities.  .  For more information please call Andre Brock 225 635 3614  Community Art Show sponsored by Arts for All over the weekend of March 31-April 1, 2012.  Anyone 18 years of age or older may enter one piece of visual art, which will be shown this weekend at Old Market Hall on Royal Street.  This art show will be in conjunction with the Spring Stroll, people will be able to view both area gardens and the art of our local citizens.    For more information please contact Lynn Wood 225 635 3665. Imahara's Botanical Garden- 5341 Mahoney Rd.  Every Saturday tours are available at 10am, 1pm and 3pm on Sundays 1pm and 3pm.  March  is the Azalea Stroll April is Topiaries and Poodles May is Birds and Butterflies June and July are Crape Myrtle Magic How does your garden?  Monthly Garden Lectures starting at 10am, cost $25.00 includes garden tour. March 24, 2012 All things Azalea: selection, preparation, installation and maintenance; Landscape Architect Wanda Chase.   Your Subscription: Change your subscription Unsubscribe Powered by Joobi

Mar - Apr 2012 - St. Francisville, La.

If you have trouble viewing the newsletter below, go to http://www.stfrancisville.us/info-sources/friends-of-st-francisville     Spring blooms beckon Audubon Pilgrims to St. Francisville, LA by Anne Butler The forty-first annual Audubon Pilgrimage March 16, 17 and 18, 2012, celebrates a southern spring in St. Francisville, the glorious garden spot of Louisiana's English Plantation Country. For over four decades the sponsoring West Feliciana Historical Society has thrown open the doors of significant historic structures to commemorate artist-naturalist John James Audubon's stay as he painted a number of his famous bird folios, and 2012, being the 200th anniversary of Louisiana statehood, promises to be a spectacular tour. Full Story... APPROACH TO NEW AUDUBON BRIDGE BETWEEN ST. FRANCISVILLE AND NEW ROADS SALUTES TWO GENERALS by Anne Butler The historic little towns of St. Francisville and New Roads have been separated over the years by many factors: cultural and linguistic differences, landscape and crop differences, and even by the mighty Mississippi River. New Roads was French, flat, sugarcane fields. St. Francisville was traditionally Anglo, hilly, with cotton the main cash crop of the 19th century. And yet, over the years, the two communities have been inextricably bound together as well, beginning in the late 1800s when Capuchin monks from flood-prone Catholic Pointe Coupee had to cross the river to the high bluffs of St. Francisville to bury their dead. Now a beautiful new bridge, the country's longest cable-stayed structure, Full Story... Previous Articles by Anne Butler... PLANTATION COUNTRY ROMANCE:FEBRUARY IN ST. FRANCISVILLE, LOVERS   Full Articile EARLY TRAVELS TO ST. FRANCISVILLE, LA, TO SOME LURI DDESCRIPTION   Full Articile ST. FRANCISVILLE'S CHRISTMAS IN THE COUNTRY, by Anne Butler   Full Articile SMITHSONIAN SHOW IN ST. FRANCISVILLE, by Anne Butler    Full Article FALL IS WELCOMED WITH OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES IN ST. FRANCISVILLE, LA by Anne Butler Full Articile UNIQUE WILDLIFE REFUGE IN ST. FRANCISVILLE AREA by Anne Butler Full Article ST. FRANCISVILLE AREA'S FABULOUS HISTORIC FURNISHINGS BEING INVENTORIED by Anne Butler Full Article ST. FRANCISVILLE NOTED FOR ITS UNIQUE CULINARY HISTORY by Anne Butler Full Article Above articles are available for press/promotional use only. High resolution photographs to accompany these articles are available by request. Contact Patrick Walsh by EMAIL or calling (800) 488-6502 Blue Goose Media

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Spring Forward

Don't forget to Spring Forward this weekend for Daylight Savings Time.       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   Sunday-March 11, 2012 2pm –"Whole Lotta History Goin On" Presentation by Lieutenant Governor John Leigh "Jay" Dardenne, Jr.  Reception sponsored by Julius Freyhan Foundation. Location: Old Court Room at the West Feliciana Parish Court House Friday-March 16, 2012 6pm- Cemetery Tour; Local Citizens Portray Historical Characters from West Feliciana's Past Location: Grace Episcopal Cemetery Audubon Pilgrimage- March 16-18, 2012 See complete schedule below.   Thursday-March 8, 2012  Birdman Pot Luck dinner and Arts For All meeting at 5:30pm   St. Francisville Symphony Chamber III March 9, 2012 Tickets are on sale for the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players Music lovers can purchase tickets to the final concert of the 2011-12 Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra's Chamber Concert Series at the Bank of St. Francisville or the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra (225.383.0500).  The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra's Chamber Players' concert is on Friday, March 9 at 8:00 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church in St. Francisville. String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10" by Claude Debussy and String Quartet in F Major by Maurice Ravel will be performed.  Lin He and Aaron Farrell will play the violin, Jennifer Cassin will play the viola, and Daniel Cassin will play the violoncello. "I hope that everyone has bought their tickets for this performance, as it promises to be a wonderful concert.  The Baton Rouge Symphony musicians are always exceptional," said Ann Slater, Vice-President of the St. Francisville Symphony Organization. Tickets are $20, and children under 18 get in free with an adult.  Please contact Olivia Pass at 225.302.3524 if you have any questions about this concert. Monday-March 12, 2012 – Blue Monday at the Birdman.   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 2012 Pilgrimage Events  Historic Home & Garden Tours - Privately owned: Hillcroft, Highland, Prospect and Woodland Friday – March 16, 2012  9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.  Last tour begins @ 4:30 pm          Saturday – March 17, 2012  9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Last tour begins @ 4:30 pm          Sunday – March 18, 2012  12:00 noon – 5:00 p.m. Last tour begins @ 4:30 pm Historic Home & Garden Tours - State Historic Sites: Rosedown, Oakley, and Afton Villa Gardens             Friday-March 16, 2012   9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Last tour begins @ 4:30 pm Saturday-March 17, 2012  9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Last tour begins @ 4:30 pm          Sunday-March 18, 2012  9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Last tour begins @ 4:30 pm Rural Homestead- Friday, Saturday and Sunday March 16, 17 and 18, 2012 Corner Hwy. 61 and Hwy. 66       9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.      9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.      9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Antique Show and Sale  Friday, Saturday and Sunday  March 16, 17 and 18, 2012 Masonic Hall and Market Hall      9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.      9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.      9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Maypole Dancers                                 Saturday March 17, 2012  10-12 am and 1-3 p.m. @ Hillcroft on Royal Street          Sunday March 18, 2012  1-3 p.m. at Hillcroft on Royal Street Sweet Maids                                 Saturday March 17, 2012    Highland 10 – 11:30 am                                                                               Woodland 12:30 -2 pm     Sunday-March 18, 2012       Afton Villa 1-2 pm       Rosedown 2:45 -3:45 pm   Friday March 16, 2012 Methodist Hymn Singing  Royal Street  6:30 p.m.                               Wine & Cheese Reception - $15  Jackson Hall – Grace Church Vintage dancers & Period style show     6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.                       Cemetery Tours  Grace Episcopal Graveyard       6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.                       Saturday March 17, 2012    Soiree - $40  Light Up the Night at the Pilgrimage Soiree March 17, 2012 – The popular street dance will be held on Prosperity Street from 7pm-10pm. Live Music, fine food and complimentary beer and wine are included in your $40.00 ticket price.  New this year… A wine tasting featuring wines from Meyer Family Cellars in Napa Valley for $5.00 per person and free babysitting by local youth at SFUMC.  For tickets call 635-6330 or email st@audubonpilgrimage.info. Sandy Fabre & Carl Fontenot on Horseback                        Rosedown 11:00 am – 1:00 pm   Carriage Rides                   Ferdinand & Royal Sts  10:00 am – 4:00 pm           Sunday-March 18, 2012- Birdman – 2pm – 4pm Reception for Lana Toniolo and her wonderful artwork inspired by live music.   St. Francisville Spring Stroll and Art Show March 31, 2012   Experience unique local gardens at this self-guided garden tour in historic St. Francisville.  Tour Tickets ($15) may be purchased prior to the tour at the West Feliciana Parish Extension Office, from participating members of the Feliciana Master Gardeners, or on the day of the tour at tour headquarters.  The gardens are hosted by the owners and Feliciana master Gardeners of the LSU AgCenter.  All proceeds of the tour go to local charities.  .  For more information please call Andre Brock 225 635 3614   Community Art Show sponsored by Arts for All over the weekend of March 31-April 1, 2012.  Anyone 18 years of age or older may enter one piece of visual art, which will be shown this weekend at Old Market Hall on Royal Street.  This art show will be in conjunction with the Spring Stroll, people will be able to view both area gardens and the art of our local citizens.    For more information please contact Lynn Wood 225 635 3665.   Imahara's Botanical Garden- 5341 Mahoney Rd.  Every Saturday tours are available at 10am, 1pm and 3pm on Sundays 1pm and 3pm.  March  is the Azalea Stroll April is Topiaries and Poodles May is Birds and Butterflies June and July are Crape Myrtle Magic   How does your garden?  Monthly Garden Lectures starting at 10am, cost $25.00 includes garden tour. March 24, 2012 All things Azalea: selection, preparation, installation and maintenance; Landscape Architect Wanda Chase.   West Florida Republic Park Alfortish Monument Company delivered the granite benches for the park.  The three benches and live oak trees are named after Fulwar Skipwirth, the Republic Head of State, Philemon Thomas, the General of the Army and Melissa Johnson the designer of the flag.   Your Subscription: Change your subscription Unsubscribe Powered by Joobi

Spring is Sprung

Spring has Sprung, Flowers are blooming and we are gearing up for an Eventful Month of March.      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 – 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 2 pm- Presentations: 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. Sunday-March 11, 2012 2pm –"Whole Lotta History Goin On" Presentation by Lieutenant Governor John Leigh "Jay" Dardenne, Jr.  Reception sponsored by Julius Freyhan Foundation. Location: Old Court Room at the West Feliciana Parish Court House Friday-March 16, 2012 6pm- Cemetery Tour; Local Citizens Portray Historical Characters from West Feliciana's Past Location: Grace Episcopal Cemetery Audubon Pilgrimage- March 16-18, 2012 See complete schedule below.   Listening Room Concert March 3, 2012 at the Birdman with Burke Ingraffia and Patrick Sylvest at 7:00pm.   St. Francisville Symphony Chamber III March 9, 2012 Tickets are on sale for the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players Music lovers can purchase tickets to the final concert of the 2011-12 Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra's Chamber Concert Series at the Bank of St. Francisville or the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra (225.383.0500).  The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra's Chamber Players' concert is on Friday, March 9 at 8:00 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church in St. Francisville. String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10" by Claude Debussy and String Quartet in F Major by Maurice Ravel will be performed.  Lin He and Aaron Farrell will play the violin, Jennifer Cassin will play the viola, and Daniel Cassin will play the violoncello. "I hope that everyone has bought their tickets for this performance, as it promises to be a wonderful concert.  The Baton Rouge Symphony musicians are always exceptional," said Ann Slater, Vice-President of the St. Francisville Symphony Organization. Tickets are $20, and children under 18 get in free with an adult.  Please contact Olivia Pass at 225.302.3524 if you have any questions about this concert. 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 2012 Pilgrimage Events  Historic Home & Garden Tours - Privately owned: Hillcroft, Highland, Prospect and Woodland Friday – March 16, 2012  9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.  Last tour begins @ 4:30 pm          Saturday – March 17, 2012  9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Last tour begins @ 4:30 pm          Sunday – March 18, 2012  12:00 noon – 5:00 p.m. Last tour begins @ 4:30 pm Historic Home & Garden Tours - State Historic Sites: Rosedown, Oakley, and Afton Villa Gardens             Friday-March 16, 2012   9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Last tour begins @ 4:30 pm Saturday-March 17, 2012  9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Last tour begins @ 4:30 pm          Sunday-March 18, 2012  9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Last tour begins @ 4:30 pm Rural Homestead- Friday, Saturday and Sunday March 16, 17 and 18, 2012 Corner Hwy. 61 and Hwy. 66       9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.      9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.      9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Antique Show and Sale  Friday, Saturday and Sunday  March 16, 17 and 18, 2012 Masonic Hall and Market Hall      9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.      9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.      9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Maypole Dancers                                 Saturday March 17, 2012  10-12 am and 1-3 p.m. @ Hillcroft on Royal Street          Sunday March 18, 2012  1-3 p.m. at Hillcroft on Royal Street Sweet Maids                                 Saturday March 17, 2012    Highland 10 – 11:30 am                                                                               Woodland 12:30 -2 pm     Sunday-March 18, 2012       Afton Villa 1-2 pm       Rosedown 2:45 -3:45 pm   Friday March 16, 2012 Methodist Hymn Singing  Royal Street  6:30 p.m.                               Wine & Cheese Reception - $15  Jackson Hall – Grace Church Vintage dancers & Period style show     6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.                       Cemetery Tours  Grace Episcopal Graveyard       6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.                       Saturday March 17, 2012    Soiree - $40  Light Up the Night at the Pilgrimage Soiree March 17, 2012 – The popular street dance will be held on Prosperity Street from 7pm-10pm. Live Music, fine food and complimentary beer and wine are included in your $40.00 ticket price.  New this year… A wine tasting featuring wines from Meyer Family Cellars in Napa Valley for $5.00 per person and free babysitting by local youth at SFUMC.  For tickets call 635-6330 or email st@audubonpilgrimage.info. Sandy Fabre & Carl Fontenot on Horseback                        Rosedown 11:00 am – 1:00 pm   Carriage Rides                   Ferdinand & Royal Sts  10:00 am – 4:00 pm              St. Francisville Spring Stroll and Art Show March 31, 2012   Experience unique local gardens at this self-guided garden tour in historic St. Francisville.  Tour Tickets ($15) may be purchased prior to the tour at the West Feliciana Parish Extension Office, from participating members of the Feliciana Master Gardeners, or on the day of the tour at tour headquarters.  The gardens are hosted by the owners and Feliciana master Gardeners of the LSU AgCenter.  All proceeds of the tour go to local charities.  .  For more information please call Andre Brock 225 635 3614 Community Art Show sponsored by Arts for All over the weekend of March 31-April 1, 2012.  Anyone 18 years of age or older may enter one piece of visual art, which will be shown this weekend at Old Market Hall on Royal Street.  This art show will be in conjunction with the Spring Stroll, people will be able to view both area gardens and the art of our local citizens.    For more information please contact Lynn Wood 225 635 3665.   Imahara's Botanical Garden- 5341 Mahoney Rd.  Every Saturday tours are available at 10am, 1pm and 3pm on Sundays 1pm and 3pm.  March is the Azalea Stroll April is Topiaries and Poodles May is Birds and Butterflies June and July are Crape Myrtle Magic   How does your garden?  Monthly Garden Lectures starting at 10am, cost $25.00 includes garden tour. March 24, 2012  All things Azalea: selection, preparation, installation and maintenance; Landscape Architect Wanda Chase.       Your Subscription: Change your subscription Unsubscribe Powered by Joobi