Tour the Big House at Hardman Farm
Hardman Farm currently does not have regular business hours but we hope to expand our availability in the near future. Please call for group tours, weddings and special events.
The Hardman family transferred the estate to the state of Georgia in 2002.
The property is managed as a satellite site of the nearby Smithgall Woods State Park. For information, please call 706-878-3087.
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Holiday Tours at Hardman
Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays 9 AM - 5 PM – Nov 28, 2014 until Dec 14, 2014
Tour the Big House at Hardman Farm, gently dressed with simple holiday decor from the natural world. Tours are available at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.
An additional 5:00 p.m. tour will provide an opportunity to see the candle-lit house at twilight. $8 Adults $7 Seniors 62 and over $5 Children 6-17 $3 Children 5 and under.
706-878-1077 ext. friday saturday.
The property is managed as a satellite site of the nearby Smithgall Woods State Park. For information, please call 706-878-3087.
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Levi Mitchel Taylor 1869-1953, Baptist Minister
Story told by 101 year old Exie Coldiron in 2014.Lived 1869-1953, Levi was Exie Coldiron's father. Birth 1869 10 Aug
Yellville, Searcy, Arkansas, USA. 1870-age 1 lived in Tomahawk AR. Age in 1870: 1. Living w/ WILLIAM F Taylor 33y & ELIZA J.(JANE) 30y. Brothers/Sisters William H 10y, Charlotte R. 5h, Amos R 3y, Rufus M 4 month, Martha Reaves 18m. Residence
1880 16 Jun — Age: 10
Water Creek, Marion, Arkansas, United States
LEVI 11y living w/ parents William 45y & Jane 41y. Other children are Rebecca 15y, Russel 12y, Rufus 10y, Joseph 9y, John 6y, Nancey 5y, David 2y, & Ruben 1y. Servant is Emaline Mury 19y & Saray Mury 1y. Farming. Marriage to LILLEY BELLE ADAMS
1890 18 Sep — Age: 21
Bruno, Marion, Arkansas, United States
LM TAYLOR 21y, b1869, residence: Tomahawk, Marion, Arkansas. Marrying LB ADAMS 16y. Marriage license date 17Sept1890. Marriage Date: 18Sep1890. Land Issue Date
1897 11 Jun — Age: 27
Marion, Arkansas, United States
5th PM Marion, Arkansas; 17-N, 17-W, sec, 24. Original May 20, 1862; Homestead Engry Original (12 Stat. 392), Issue Date 11 Jun 1897. Residence
1900 19 Jun — Age: 30
Hampton, Marion, Arkansas
LEVI 29y B Arkansas, F/M BP AL/Tenn married to (LI;;IE) BELLE 25y B Arkansas, F/M BP Ill/Tenn, Married in 1890 for 10 years. Childres Osker 7y, Ulous 4y, Stella 3y. Kids BP Arkansas. Own Farm. Residence
1900 19 Jun — Age: 30
Hampton, Marion, Arkansas
LEVI 29y B Arkansas, F/M BP AL/Tenn married to (LI;;IE) BELLE 25y B Arkansas, F/M BP Ill/Tenn, Married in 1890 for 10 years. Childres Osker 7y, Ulous 4y, Stella 3y. Kids BP Arkansas. Own Farm. Residence
1907 — Age: 38
Pauls Valley, Garvin, Oklahoma, USA
Came to Oklahoma in 1907, settling on a farm near Pauls Valley (Ref: Death Announcement). Residence
1910 15 Apr — Age: 40
Elmore, Garvin, Oklahoma
LEVI M 40y BP Arkansas F/M BP AL/Tenn, married living with LILLIE B (BELLE) 35y BP Arkansas F/M BP IL/KY. Living w/ children Oscar W. 17y, Ulus C. 14y, Stella I 12y, Claudie C 9y, Edna W 4y, and Jessie V. 5 months. Rent Farm. Ordination
1914 — Age: 45
Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma, USA
Ordained a Baptist minister in 1914 (Ref: Death Announcement). Residence
1920 6 Jan — Age: 50
Bentley, Atoka, Oklahoma
LEVI M 50y b Arkansas F/M AL/Tenn, married to LILLEY B(BELLE) 43y b Arkansas M/F bp IL/Tenn. Living with children Claudie C 18y b Arkansas, Edna W 13y b Arkansas, IDA EXIE 6y b OK, Edith A 8 months b OK. Rent Farm. Address
1928 — Age: 59
Purcell, McClain, Oklahoma, USA
Daughter Exie stated they moved to Purcell where Uncle Melvin helped him find and rent a farm that was only 1/2 mile from their farm. Residence
1930 10 May — Age: 60
Colbert, Mcclain, Oklahoma
Not a Veteran. LEVIE M b 1869 AK M/F BP AL/Tenn, married to LILLIE B(BELLE) b1875 Arkansas M/F BP IL/Tenn. Living w/ child Alpha L (Lee) 12y. Farming. Residence
1933 — Age: 64
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA
Retired and moved to Oklahoma City in 1933 (Ref: Death Announcement). Residence
1940 1 Apr — Age: 70
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States
LEVI M 70y BP Arkansas married to LILLIE 65y BP Arkansas. Not a farm. No job, at home, Unemployed/retired. Residence
1951 — Age: 82
Choctaw County, Oklahoma, USA
For the past two years he lived on route 1, Choctaw (Ref: Death Announcement). Death
1953 2 Nov — Age: 84
Del City, Oklahoma, USA, SunnyLane Cemetery
Age: 84. Burial
1953 4 Nov
Del City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA
OK news-Wed,Nov04, 1953. Rites for Levi Mitchell Taylor, 84, early-day farmer and Baptist minister who died Monday in Capitol Hill General Hospital, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Capitol Hill funeral chapel w/ burial in Sunny Lane cemetery.1st OK church.
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Reverend James Kelley 4/28/1988
Pocket Bio's E47: Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)
Robert Edward Lee was an American general known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865. Lee was a military engineer in the United States Army for 32 years. During this time, he served throughout the United States, distinguished himself during the Mexican–American War, and served as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy.
Tennessee Mountain View: Exploring an Abandoned Chairlift in Gatlinburg
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Another Summary: In searching to discover what lies at the top of the mountain where an abandoned chairlift ends, I learned that the real story is down at ground level. What began as a hike to the peak ended up resulting in so much more. Tennessee Mountain View documents an important part of the history of Gatlinburg.
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North Carolina | Wikipedia audio article
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North Carolina
00:01:15 1 History
00:10:56 1.1 Native Americans, lost colonies, and permanent settlement
00:15:04 1.2 Colonial period and Revolutionary War
00:21:04 1.3 Antebellum period
00:24:39 1.4 American Civil War
00:28:14 2 Geography
00:31:02 2.1 Flora and fauna
00:31:10 2.2 Climate
00:33:14 3 Demographics
00:33:57 3.1 Ethnicity
00:34:48 3.2 Languages
00:35:52 3.3 Religion
00:38:29 3.4 Most populous counties
00:38:54 3.5 Major cities
00:39:21 3.6 Largest combined statistical areas
00:40:10 4 Economy
00:43:15 5 Transportation
00:44:09 6 Government and politics
00:46:53 7 Education
00:47:02 7.1 Primary and secondary education
00:48:16 7.2 Colleges and universities
00:50:09 8 Media
00:50:17 9 Sports
00:53:27 10 Tourism
00:56:11 11 Recreation
00:57:51 12 Arts and culture
00:59:04 12.1 Music
01:02:48 12.2 Shopping
01:03:48 12.3 Cuisine and agriculture
01:08:05 12.4 Ships named for the state
01:08:43 12.5 State parks
01:09:02 12.6 State symbols
01:11:23 12.7 Armed forces installations
01:12:34 13 See also
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North Carolina ( (listen)) is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U.S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties. The capital is Raleigh, which along with Durham and Chapel Hill is home to the largest research park in the United States (Research Triangle Park). The most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City.The state has a wide range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to 6,684 feet (2,037 m) at Mount Mitchell, the highest point in North America east of the Mississippi River. The climate of the coastal plains is strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the state falls in the humid subtropical climate zone. More than 300 miles (500 km) from the coast, the western, mountainous part of the state has a subtropical highland climate.
In 2018, North Carolina was ranked number one on Forbes' Best States for Business ranking for a second year in a row.
Alan Wilson Historian - The Hidden History of Britain
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Alan Wilson is a British historian specialising in the origins and ancient history of the British and the history of the ancient British kings including two real King Arthurs.
Arthurian research:
In 1976, after a chance meeting with historical researcher, Anthony Thomas 'Baram' Blackett, at the public library in Newcastle upon Tyne, the two men decided to put up many thousands of pounds of their own money to fund full-time research into the origins of King Arthur. The Arthurian stories, so popular today, came out of South-Eastern Wales into France, via the Normans, in the 12th century and this encouraged them to start their search in the same place. The search soon moved beyond Wales to include the English Midlands which had been dominated by the old Welsh Kingdoms for centuries.
To date, Wilson and Blackett have published seven books that provide information based upon Old Welsh records that date to the 12th Century. They believe that these provide a final solution to the King Arthur story and have clearly identified the true sites of the battles of Badon (Mynydd Baedan) and Camlann.
In 1983, Wilson and Blackett discovered what they believe to be King Arthur's memorial stone at the small ruined church of St Peter-super-Montem on Mynydd-y-Gaer in Mid-Glamorgan, which they subsequently purchased. The stone was offered to the National Museum of Wales (Amguedda Werin Cymru) for analysis, but the offer was not taken up. Subsequently it went on public display in various venues for some time. Following this, they employed the services of two archaeologists, (Professor Eric Talbot and Alan Wishart) in 1990, to lead a dig at the same place. During the excavations, which were authorised by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, several artefacts were discovered including an ancient axe, a knife and a small cross weighing two and a half pounds, that reads Pro Anima Artorius (For The Soul Of Arthur). The cross was subsequently tested by an independent metallurgical house, Bodycote PLC, and found to be made of electrum, and so certified. The cross was offered up to the National Museum of Wales for public testing, but this also was declined.Wilson and Blackett had already identified the church as an ancient historical site possibly originally dating from the first century A.D. Other major Welsh kings are buried locally.
More recently, Wilson and Blackett began a search for what was known as 'The Greatest Work of the Cymru' - Cyfrangon. This is allegedly a massive, hollow, man-made hill concealed somewhere in Wales (similar to Silbury Hill). Treasure hunters in Wales have long sought this fabled hill in which, it is believed, lie several objects of tremendous historical and archaeological value, many of which may be covered in gold or copper.
The use of deep ground probing metal detection and analysis equipment revealed non ferrous metal artefacts some fifteen feet below the surface of the hill at Twyn y Glog, near Ynysybwl in mid Glamorgan. Further investigation by collaborators proved that the original height of the hill lies some 30 or more metres below the Ordnance Survey height, and that the hill is therefore an artificial construct. (Berkly, G., 2007).
No further tests have been made to date (10 September 2007).
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Alan Wilson and his colleague lectured extensively in the United Kingdom, including Manchester and Jesus College at the University of Oxford, and Alan Wilson gave the prestigious Bemis Lecture in Boston in 1993. Research into claims that the Welsh settled in mid-western America in antiquity led to Wilson and his colleague, Baram Blackett, accepting invitations from American supporters to visit US sites of historical significance in 1994. The visit led to several television appearances and the deciphering of alphabetic inscriptions claimed to be in the old 'Coelbren' alphabet. Wilson also concluded that the many snake mounds in the American Mid-west were of ancient Khumric-British construction. Whilst in America, the two men were also commissioned to produce a detailed genealogy for the Bush family (friends and supporters of President George H. W. Bush).
Published works:
Arthur, King of Glamorgan and Gwent (with Baram Blackett, MT Byrd Partnership, 1980)
Arthur and Charter of the Kings (with Baram Blackett, MT Byrd Partnership, 1981)
Arthur The War King (with Baram Blackett, MT Byrd Partnership, 1982-3)
Artorius Rex Discovered (with Baram Blackett, MT Byrd Partnership, 1986)
The Holy Kingdom (with Adrian Gilbert and Baram Blackett, Bantam, 1998)
King Arthur Conspiracy (with Grant Berkley and Baram Blackett, Trafford, 2005)
Moses in the Hieroglyphs (with Grant Berkley and Baram Blackett, Trafford, 2006)
The Discovery of the Ark of the Covenant (with Grant Berkley and Baram Blackett, Trafford, 2007)
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ROBERT E. LEE - WikiVidi Documentary
Robert Edward Lee was an American and Confederate soldier, best known as a top army commander of the Confederate States of America. He commanded the Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865. A son of Revolutionary War officer Henry Light Horse Harry Lee III, Lee was a top graduate of the United States Military Academy and an exceptional officer and military engineer in the United States Army for 32 years. During this time, he served throughout the United States, distinguished himself during the Mexican–American War, and served as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy. When Virginia declared its secession from the Union in April 1861, Lee chose to follow his home state, despite his desire for the country to remain intact and an offer of a senior Union command. During the first year of the Civil War, Lee served as a senior military adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Once he took command of the main field ...
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00:04:26: Early life and career
00:09:17: Military engineer career
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00:19:50: Late 1850s: Arlington plantation and the Custis slaves
00:21:56: The Norris case
00:27:51: Lee's views on race and slavery
00:33:33: Harpers Ferry and Texas, 1859–61
00:33:53: Harpers Ferry
00:34:54: Texas
00:36:24: Civil War
00:39:08: Early role
00:42:08: Commander, Army of Northern Virginia (June 1862-June 1863)
00:47:42: Battle of Gettysburg
00:50:53: Ulysses S. Grant and the Union offensive
00:52:26: General-in-chief
00:54:21: Summaries of Lee's Civil War battles
00:54:34: Postbellum life
00:58:42: President Johnson's amnesty pardons
00:59:47: Postwar politics
01:05:18: Illness and death
01:06:40: Legacy
01:11:27: Monuments, memorials and commemorations
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History of women in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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This is a piece on history of women in the United States since 1776, and of the Thirteen Colonies before that. The study of women's history has been a major scholarly and popular field, with many scholarly books and articles, museum exhibits, and courses in schools and universities. The roles of women were long ignored in textbooks and popular histories. By the 1960s, women were being presented as successful as male roles. An early feminist approach underscored their victimization and inferior status at the hands of men. In the 21st century writers have emphasized the distinctive strengths displayed inside the community of women, with special concern for minorities among women.
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Robert E. Lee in the Post-War Years (Lecture)
Gettysburg National Military Park Ranger Matt Atkinson examines the post-war life of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Subjects discussed include Lee's tenure at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), his role in reconciliation, and the general's famous refusal to discuss the events of the American Civil War.
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Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed its adoption. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War.
Slavery had been tacitly protected in the original Constitution through clauses such as the Three-Fifths Compromise, by which three-fifths of the slave population was counted for representation in the United States House of Representatives. Though many slaves had been declared free by Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, their post-war status was uncertain. On April 8, 1864, the Senate passed an amendment to abolish slavery. After one unsuccessful vote and extensive legislative maneuvering by the Lincoln administration, the House followed suit on January 31, 1865. The measure was swiftly ratified by nearly all Northern states, along with a sufficient number of border and reconstructed Southern states, to cause it to be adopted before the end of the year.
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Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:18 1 Text
00:02:45 2 Slavery in the United States
00:06:43 3 Proposal and ratification
00:06:53 3.1 Crafting the amendment
00:09:26 3.2 Passage by Congress
00:15:07 3.3 Ratification by the states
00:21:04 4 Effects
00:22:55 4.1 Political and economic change in the South
00:25:43 5 Congressional and executive enforcement
00:27:28 5.1 Peonage law
00:29:42 6 Penal labor exemption
00:32:42 7 Judicial interpretation
00:33:15 7.1 Black slaves and their descendants
00:42:21 7.1.1 iJones/i and beyond
00:44:51 7.2 Other cases of involuntary servitude
00:46:35 8 Prior proposed Thirteenth Amendments
00:47:40 9 See also
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The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. The amendment was ratified by the required number of states on December 6, 1865. On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed its adoption. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War.
Since the American Revolution, states had divided into states that allowed or states that prohibited slavery. Slavery was implicitly permitted in the original Constitution through provisions such as Article I, Section 2, Clause 3, commonly known as the Three-Fifths Compromise, which detailed how each slave state's enslaved population would be factored into its total population count for the purposes of apportioning seats in the United States House of Representatives and direct taxes among the states. Though many slaves had been declared free by President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, their post-war status was uncertain. On April 8, 1864, the Senate passed an amendment to abolish slavery. After one unsuccessful vote and extensive legislative maneuvering by the Lincoln administration, the House followed suit on January 31, 1865. The measure was swiftly ratified by nearly all Northern states, along with a sufficient number of border states up to the death of Lincoln, but approval came with President Andrew Johnson, who encouraged the reconstructed Southern states of Alabama, North Carolina and Georgia to agree, which brought the count to 27 states, and caused it to be adopted before the end of 1865.
Though the amendment formally abolished slavery throughout the United States, factors such as Black Codes, white supremacist violence, and selective enforcement of statutes continued to subject some black Americans to involuntary labor, particularly in the South. In contrast to the other Reconstruction Amendments, the Thirteenth Amendment was rarely cited in later case law, but has been used to strike down peonage and some race-based discrimination as badges and incidents of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment applies to the actions of private citizens, while the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments apply only to state actors. The Thirteenth Amendment also enables Congress to pass laws against sex trafficking and other modern forms of slavery.
Southern United States | Wikipedia audio article
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The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America. It is located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Western United States, with the Midwestern United States and Northeastern United States to its north and the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to its south.
The South does not fully match the geographic south of the United States but is commonly defined as including the states that fought for the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. The Deep South is fully located in the southeastern corner. Arizona and New Mexico, which are geographically in the southern part of the country, are rarely considered part, while West Virginia, which separated from Virginia in 1863, commonly is. Some scholars have proposed definitions of the South that do not coincide neatly with state boundaries. While the states of Delaware and Maryland, as well as the District of Columbia, permitted slavery prior to the start of the Civil War, they remained with the Union. Since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, they became more culturally, economically, and politically aligned with the industrial Northern states, and are often identified as part of the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast by many residents, businesses, public institutions, and private organizations,but the United States Census Bureau puts them in the South.
Usually, the South is defined as including the southeastern and south-central United States. The region is known for its culture and history, having developed its own customs, musical styles, and cuisines, which have distinguished it in some ways from the rest of the United States. The Southern ethnic heritage is diverse and includes strong European (mostly English, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, Irish, German, French, and Spanish American), African, and some Native American components.Some other aspects of the historical and cultural development of the South have been influenced by the institution of slave labor on plantations in the Deep South to an extent seen nowhere else in the United States; the presence of a large proportion of African Americans in the population; support for the doctrine of states' rights, and the legacy of racial tension magnified by the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, as seen in thousands of lynchings (mostly from 1880 to 1930), the segregated system of separate schools and public facilities known as Jim Crow laws, that lasted until the 1960s, and the widespread use of poll taxes and other methods to frequently deny black people of the right to vote or hold office until the 1960s. Since the late 1960s, black people have held many offices in Southern states, especially in the coastal states of Virginia and South Carolina. Many black people have also been elected or appointed as mayors and police chiefs in the metropolises of Charlotte, Birmingham, Richmond, Columbia, Memphis, Houston, Atlanta, Jacksonville, and New Orleans, and serve in both the U.S. Congress and state legislatures.Historically, the South relied heavily on agriculture, and was highly rural until after 1945. It has since become more industrialized and urban and has attracted national and international migrants. The American South is now among the fastest-growing areas in the United States. Houston is the largest city in the Southern United States. Sociological research indicates that Southern collective identity stems from political, demographic, and cultural distinctiveness from the rest of the United States. The region contains almost all of the Bible Belt, an area of high Protestant church attendance (especially evangelical churches such as the Southern Baptist Convention) and predominantly conservative, religion-influenced politics. Indeed, studies have shown that Southerners are more conservative than non-Southerners in several areas, including religion, morality, international relations, and race relations. This is ...
Undergraduate Commencement 2018
The 231st undergraduate commencement will be held on Thursday, May 24, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. on the Front Lawn of the main campus.
Washington and Lee University Undergraduate Commencement 2018
The 231st undergraduate commencement was held on Thursday, May 24, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. on the Front Lawn of the main campus.
Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South
Featuring Marcie Cohen Ferris - Associate Professor, American Studies and Coordinator of Southern studies, UNC Chapel Hill. In a rich mix of oral history, archival resources, and recipes, Dr. Marcie Cohen Ferris examines the expressive power of food throughout southern Jewish History. Sponsored by the Religious Studies Department and the Center for Jewish Studies at UNC Asheville.
Precious Memories: Our Vanishing Rural Churches
Precious Memories: Our Vanishing Rural Churches takes a look back at the small country churches around the state of Arkansas. These church homes are historic and detail a way of life and heritage threatened by extinction in today's society.