Thursday, March 1, 2012

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.

 


 

 
 

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