Happenings

Here’s what’s happening in West Feliciana:

 

Music at The Mag

Friday, February 20 – Feliciana Band; Friday, February 27 – The Delta Drifters.  Music starts at 7 pm.

 

Mondays at The BirdMan

Each Monday Lynn and her gang serve up supper from 5:30 till 7:30.  Music is provided so you won’t have to sing for your supper!  The Monday night music lineup looks like this:  February 23 – Chris and Dave; March 2 – “Blue Monday”; March 9 – Kevin Johnson.

 

Arts Market

Every 3^rd Saturday, there will be an Arts Market and music by Kevin Johnson at The BirdMan.  If you are an artist who would like to display, contact Lynn at 635-3665.

 

Cooking at Rosedown

The interpretive staff at Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site is celebrating Black History Month with a special historic down-hearth cooking demonstration entitled, “African and Caribbean Influence in Southern Antebellum Cooking.”  On Saturday, February 21, between 11 am and 3 pm, in Rosedown’s Old Kitchen dishes will be prepared that show the strong influence by enslaved African and Caribbean workers throughout the South – influences that are still seen in today’s southern cuisine.  Visitors will also receive a printed brochure containing recipes for several of the selected dishes and their specific African and Caribbean influences.  For more information, call 635-3110.

 

Avondale Antiques

This special antique shop is open only on the third weekend of each month so this is the lucky weekend!  Avondale Antiques is located on Commerce Street and is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

 

Plantation Row Cooking

Audubon State Historic Site will offer this special program on Saturday, February 21 from 10 am until 7 pm.  The staff will demonstrate and discuss the types of food that slaves would have cooked and eaten on a plantation home as well as the origins of slave foods.  For more information, call 635-3739.

 

Friends of the Library Symposium

The 3^rd Annual Celebration of Readers and Writers Symposium will be held on Saturday, February 28 at The OxBow Restaurant.  This event recognizes outstanding regional authors and provides a forum for discussion of their works.  Lunch is included, and books will be available for purchase and signing by the authors.  Tickets are $35 per person and must be purchased in advance.  For more information and a list of the authors, call the West Feliciana Parish Library at 635-3364.

 

Natural Dye and Candle Making Demonstrations

The interpretive staff at Audubon State Historic Site will demonstrate these home crafts that would have been found on a plantation.  It happens on Saturday, February 28 with the natural dye program presented from 10 am until 2 pm, and candle making from 2 pm until 4 pm. These aspects of plantation life allow the visitors to see the processes that were used to provide a home such as Oakley with the materials needed for it to run properly.  For more information call 635-3739.

 

Last but not Least

Mardi Gras is next Tuesday which means that we will have many visitors here, getting away from the city and enjoying the peace and quiet.  The Information Center on Ferdinand Street will be open so if you have guests who need information on anything that’s going on in the parish, we are open from 9 am until 5 pm or give us a call at 635-4224.  If you are going over to New Roads for the parades, remember that there will be lots of others who want to cross the ferry so the wait may be long.  You may want to leave early.  If you are out enjoying the parades, please be careful.

 

Have a great week!