[Scmusenet] An Old Time Country Christmas, THIS SATURDAY December 16 at the Hagood Mill

[Allen Coleman]

"Old Time Country Christmas" at Hagood Mill

 

The Pickens County Cultural Commission invites you to a special, and free, day of milling, music and memories at the Hagood Mill Historic Site & Folklife Center Hagood Mill. The Mill will be operating, rain or shine, on Saturday, December 16th from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. This 1845 gristmill, with its' 20 ft. overshot wooden waterwheel, is one of the oldest mills still producing grain products in S.C.

 

Join the friends of the Pickens County Museum as "Music in the Mountains 2006" concludes with the Hagood Mill playing host for a free, "Old Time Country Christmas" in the Visitor Building from 12:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Hosted again this year by musician, Ed Harrison, the program will consist of Appalachia Irish and Scottish musical traditions and will include Bill Landrum - story teller, Daniel Hendrix - uillean pipes, Melissa Hendrix - vocal &  key board, Rebbeca Hendrix  - vocal & tin whistle, David Hendrix  - tin whistle, Bill & Connie Lowe - vocal, guitar & banjo, Ed Harrison - uilleann pipes, Kathy Shapiro - hammer dulcimer, and outdoors, Matt Icard - Great Highland bagpipe and Scottish small pipes. Don't miss this wonderful program! Hagood Mill does record the "3rd Saturday" music for the archives of the Pickens County Museum of Art & History.

 

Hagood Mill operates just as it has for the last century-and-a-half. In the old mill, fresh stone-ground corn meal, grits and wheat flour will be available, as well as Hagood Mill cookbooks and a variety of other mill related items for those last minute Christmas gifts! 

 

The Hagood Mill hosts a variety of folklife and traditional arts demonstrations each month, including blacksmithing, bowl-digging, flintknapping, moonshining, quilting, spinning, weaving, woodcarving, open-hearth cooking and more.

 

Join the fun for the day, enjoy a plate of barbeque or a hot dog and experience a day at the Mill and a great time at this traditional Christmas holiday celebration. Show your support for the Mill and the Pickens County Museum by joining them at this monthly Third Saturday event. The Hagood Mill operates, rain or shine, the third Saturday of every month and is located just 3 miles north of Pickens or 5 ½ miles south of Cherokee Foothills Scenic Hwy 11 off SC Hwy 178 at 138 Hagood Mill Road. Hagood Mill is now open Wednesday through Saturday from 10:00 until 4:00, to tour the buildings and grounds and to visit the Mill Site Gift Shop.

 

"Music in the Mountains 2006" is sponsored in part by a private benefactor and a donation from the Duke Power Company. The Pickens County Museum of Art & History is funded in part by Pickens County, members and friends of the museum and a grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

For additional information please contact the Hagood Mill Historic Site & Folklife Center at (864) 898-2936 or the Pickens County Museum at (864) 898-5963.

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