[Scmusenet] "A Yuletide Celebration" at Hagood Mill to Feature Celtic music from Ed Harrison & Friends - Dec. 19

[Allen Coleman]

Ed Harrison's Celtic Christmas featured at "A Yuletide Celebration"

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

 

     Come join the friends of the Pickens County Museum as "Music in the Mountains 2009" winds up for the year with the Hagood Mill playing host for a free day of fun and a variety of great, uplifting music Saturday, December 19. From 12:00 to 3:00 in the Visitor Building will be some of the mill site's best musician friends performing a "Celtic Christmas" show. Hosted by musician, Ed Harrison, the program will include Ed and Daniel Hendrix on Uilleane pipes; Sandy, Rebecca & Melissa Hendrix on vocals, tin whistle and keyboard; Kathy Shapiro on hammered dulcimer; storyteller, Bill Landrum and husband & wife duo, Lucy Allen & Marshall Goers. Lucy and Marshall will include some songs in German and Spanish. The site itself will be open from 10:00 until 4:00 with the old gristmill running and a variety of folklife demonstrations. Come experience a wonderful seasonal program in an intimate setting with some great musicians! Seating is limited and first-come, first-served.

 

     Other activities for the day for kids will include making old-time Christmas decorations for the mill site Christmas tree with Carolyn Peloza and Jeanette Moody on the Murphree-Hollingsworth Cabin porch and, from 12:00 till' 2:00, a "shuck & shell" session with Roger Lindsay, next to the mill, letting kids experience the "fun" farm chore of shucking and shelling corn, like farm kids used to have to do in preparation of "going to the mill." The corn is generously provided by Jesse Robertson of Robertson Farms.

 

     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, chair-caning, moonshining, broom-making, quilting, spinning, knitting, weaving, woodcarving, open-hearth cooking, and more! See Hagood Mill's 1890 Cotton Gin and get a last look (for a while) of the mill site's petroglyphs, before a protective covering goes over them.

 

     There promises to be lots to do and lots of fun! So, head on out, have a hot dog or a plate of 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 2009" 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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