Cooking observation, storytelling ,reenactment and museum tours (1 PM-5 PM) FREE
Meal donation - General public -$80, students and seniors $50 (only 100 tickets)
Food historian Clarissa Clifton, Chef Cheryl Henry, and Pitmasters John “Bobbie” Robinson and Curtis Clifton will prepare a full meal outdoors over an open pit, as was done during slavery. Guests are welcome to observe the preparation or just come for a few hours. Dinner will be served at 6 PM for those who have purchased tickets. The menu is as follows:
Entrée:
Whole Hog Pit barbecue
Smoked, and curried goat,
Smoked Chicken with kitchen pepper,
Hoppin John with Carolina field peas and smoked pork
Hoppin John with Carolina field peas and salt fish.
Collard greens mixed with mustard or turnip greens V
Candied yams V
Roasted beets with olive oil and rosemary V
Dessert: Assorted Homemade Pies and Cakes. Homemade churned ice cream
Drinks: Lemonade, Tea Coffee and water
V=vegetarian
Special guests include Jamal Toure, Sirdeepy Fraizer, Lilian Grant-Baptiste. The Saltwater players and Gregory Grant
That same day the following exhibits will be open for touring.
“The Waters of Ghana Reach to America.” An exhibit of the maritime history of Coastal Ghana curated and by Dr. Kurt Knoerl Directory of the Museum and Underwater Archeology at Georgia Southern
"Keeping Warm": A History of African American Quilt Making. A Collection of Georgiana Byrd Davis (1867-1953)
“Tragedy at Ebenezer Creek” by Isaac McCaslin
“Many Thousands Gone” - Prepared by Eric Saul and Amy Fisk in cooperation with The Center for Jubilee, Reconciliation and Healing, Inc, Patt Gilliard Gunn, President.
“Beyond Property: Slavery in Coastal Plain Georgia 1650-1865” – Prepared by Georgia Southern Museum and Department of History “Slavery in Bulloch County Georgia”
Your participation in this Fundraiser helps in the preservation of Bulloch County African American History at the Willow Hill Center as well as helping to keep our programs and events, free and open to the public.