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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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