Cooking, observation, storytelling, reenactment and museum tours 1 PM-5PM - FREE

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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 goat

curried goat

Smoked Chicken with kitchen pepper

FRIED CHICKEN

SIDES:

Hoppin John with Carolina field peas and smoked pork

Hoppin John with Carolina field peas and salt fish

Collard greens mixed with mustard/turnip greens 🌿

Candied yams 🌿

Okra with corn and tomatoes 🌿

Roasted beets with olive oil and rosemary 🌿

Dessert: 

Assorted Homemade Pies and Cakes. Homemade churned ice cream

Drinks:

Lemonade, Tea, Coffee and water

🌿=vegetarian

The following exhibits will be open for touring.

• The Waters of Ghana Meet America. An exhibit of the maritime history of Coastal Ghana curated by Dr. Kurt Knoerl Director 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