[Scmusenet] An Afternoon with Alda & Norma Smith, this Saturday April 19 at Hagood Mill

[Allen Coleman]

 "An Afternoon with Alda & Norma Smith"

Saturday April 19 at the Hagood Mill Historic Site & Folklife Center

 

 

   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. The Mill will be operating, rain or shine, on Saturday, April 19 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.

 

   Come join the friends of the Pickens County Museum as "Music in the Mountains 2008" continues with the Hagood Mill playing host for "An Afternoon with Alda & Norma Smith," featuring Alda's group, the Side Track Band and the Marshall Primary Chorus, an elementary school chorus directed by teachers, Norma Hughes-Smith and Mrs. Charis Murphy. The concert will be on the outdoor stage from 12:00 until 2:30. Bring out your lawn chairs or blankets and have a great time! Alda & Norma are known across the state as advocates for traditional arts and music documentation. Both are South Carolina Arts Commission "Community Scholars" and Alda is a Jean Laney Harris SC Folk Heritage Award winner for his advocacy of traditional country music. Work he did in putting together the recordings of his father, Ralph D. Smith, a WWII soldier who entertained troops with his guitar as he marched across Europe, became a traveling exhibit ("A Soldier's Legacy") for the McKissick Museum. The Smiths love to make music...come ready for a toe-tapping good time! The Hagood Mill does record the "Third Saturday" music for the archives of the Pickens County Museum of Art & History. One and all are also invited to join in the jam(s) at the site. 

 

   Come see the mill site's newly restored Daniel Pratt cotton gin, which will run several times throughout the day. This rare 1890's gin, which last operated in 1937, has been restored over the last two years by Hagood Mill volunteers. If you remember "cotton" or ever worked in the textile industry, make sure to come out and see this great old piece of local 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.

 

   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, musical instrument building and more! 

 

   If you're visiting the Pickens Azalea Festival on Saturday, make sure to check out the Hagood Mill Historic Site & Folklife Center too! And, if you're a mill "regular," don't forget about the Azalea Festival with entertainment Friday evening, Saturday and Saturday evening!

 

   There promises to be lots to do and lots of fun! So, head on out, grab a plate of Kannarney's Barbeque and enjoy a day at the Mill. 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 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 2008" is sponsored by a private benefactor. 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 at (864) 898-2936 or the Pickens County Museum at (864) 898-5963. 

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