[Scmusenet] Hagood Mill's first "Kid Fest" to take place this Saturday March 15

[Allen Coleman]

"Kid Fest"

Saturday March 15 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, March 15 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 the mill site's first "Kid Fest," a free concert, workshop and celebration of kids making music. Kid Fest "leaders" for the day will be musicians, Gregg Barfield, Steve McGaha and Dean Watson. Starting at 11:00 in front of the outdoor stage will be the "Dacusville Dazzlers," a jump-roping troupe from Dacusville Elementary School, led by Coach Carl Joye. At !2:00, youngsters from Holly Springs Elementary's "Young Appalachian Musicians" (Y.A.M.) program will perform. These "Y.A.M." kids are learning to play traditional mountain string-band instruments like fiddle, mandolin, guitar and upright bass at school! Around 12:30, Barfield, McGaha and Watson will begin their old time music concert and workshop, which will be a big-barrel-of-fun (complete with funny hats) geared toward inspiring and teaching visiting kids to learn how to play the washboard and kazoo while "absorbing" a sense of keeping time and humming on pitch together. While there will a limited number of washboards and kazoos available to use, parents are strongly urged to purchase these before-hand and bring them. Bring out your lawn chairs or blankets and have a great 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. 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 that will make great 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, musical instrument building and more! 

 

   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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