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Upcoming Events:
Broken Limbs
Colporteurs-in-Residence Program: Granny Mae Series Fall
Colporteur
October 23-25, 2008
Tom Brown,
an old timey apple collector, will spend the Thursday and Friday at the University of
Georgia speaking to classes and telling stories in the Ethnoecology
lab (Room 105A Baldwin Hall). He will also give a public lecture at Common Ground on Thursday evening.
Come to the 1st Annual FOLK Fall Festival and
Bulb Swap!
1-8PM October 25, 2008
Apples anyone? Come to the first annual FOLK Fall
Festival from 1 until 8 pm on Saturday, October 25, at the
Agrarian
Connections farm, north of Crawford GA in Oglethorpe County.
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Enter the
Margins...the
Colporteurs Program
Named after the bags they carried around their necks and famed for
keeping mystery, romance, religious, and cook books circulating
among the greater masses in 18th and 19th century France,
colporteurs evaded official censorship and evoked adventure and
resistance at the margins of society. Colporteurs were rebels of a joyful
sort and enabled their clients and patrons to see beyond their
present constraints.
Our Inaugural Colporteurs-in-Residence Series:
The Granny Mae Series
Granny Mae Rhoades was a native of backwoods Arkansas. She lived
through hard and joyful times “down on the farm” and in the
 cotton
patches of the American South. She lived her married life in
Oklahoma sharing love and a wealth of knowledge about gardening and
cooking with her family, church, and community.
Until she passed away on November 5, 2007 at the age of
ninety-three her energy and humor infected everyone around her.
The 2008-2009 Colporteurs-in-Residence Series is dedicated in her
honor.
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