Month: January 2013

For a long time, I’ve been a fan of John Petrey‘s creations, like these at Kentuck a few years ago:

At the Birmingham Museum of Art, they have joined with B’ham Fashion Week to show the works of Alabama students, grades 6-12, one of which will be shown on the runway for B’ham Fashion Week 2013. The exhibit goes through February 10:

This weekend, there will be an estate sale at the 1850 Greek Revival Oak Square in Port Gibson.  Miss Lum is still with us, but the contents are being sold by her son, who Av knows and called tonight to check on things. They are just downsizing and those who go to the sale will be able to bring home full- and half- tester beds, a rosewood Chickering square grand piano, some pretty balloon-back chairs (all three things on my top-ten furnishings wish-list of all time).

To be sure, there is…well, junk. There are antiques that aren’t as nice as you want them to be.  And I don’t think I saw any John Henry Belter (my favorite) for instance.  But there *are* pieces by Alexander Roux, Charles A. Baudoine, and Meeks.

A listing of items here.

Story in the C-L here.

And I can’t believe for all the times we’ve been in Port Gibson that I’ve never taken a picture of it, but Google Maps to the rescue:

The James Beard Foundation has put the recipe for Pimento Cheese Fritters with Green Tomato Jam by Daniel Doyle of Poogan’s Porch in Charleston on their site.

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Does Austin need a Folk Art museum? Or maybe some board that will put together exhibits at hotels and other public venues? It’s up for discussion.

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There will be a Sacred Harp singing on February 1 at Burritt on the Mountain in Huntsville.

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Auburn’s Rural Studio has a new website (nice).

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Eat Drink Delta the new book by Susan Puckett with photographs (including of course Lusco’s pompano) by Langdon Clay.

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The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum and the Southern Literary Trail present ‘Canvases‘ a multi-day event celebrating the works of Scott and Zelda, including an exhibit of Zelda’s artwork (and pieces inspired by her work) at Stonehenge Gallery in Montgomery. A variety of exhibits, films, etc February 27, 28, and March 3.

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And…it snowed last week at our home! Yay!!

Last spring I went to my first D.A.R. meeting. It’s at a pretty club here in town, and everyone was so nice.

In fact, the speaker that day was related to a soldier who was in my PawPaw Captain Charles Polk Sr.’s Company in the Revolutionary War. I have a few other grandfathers who served too, including Andrew McLarty, Thomas Shelby, Henry Hastings, George Kiker, James Morrison, Thomas Hawkins, Andrew Hudlow (all these from the non-Jewish side of my family) and William Littlefield II who is buried at the cemetery at Bethany Baptist Church in Reece City, Alabama. If you’re also related to any of these gentlemen, I’d love to hear from you!

He was given a more modern monument (his original is the full-length stacked stone one just behind), with the medallion:

There were a few other interesting monuments there, including the one you see top-right, here, that says ‘These grave lots are all dedicated to my future generations’:

And just across Highway 11 from the church and cemetery we found this:

Late last year on my latest trip to Huntsville to see Wade Wharton, I took these pics:

‘Hot house’ plants (made from stove coils)

The Huntsville Botanical Gardens will be putting on a large exhibit of his sculptures throughout the garden later this spring.  I’ll post more information closer to the date.