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Sucarnochee Folklife Festival 2008 |
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Monday, April 14 |
Kathryn Tucker Windham storytelling
event |
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10:00 a.m. |
11-12 grades (lesson plans available for
teachers) |
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Bibb Graves Aud. |
Book signing to follow |
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Wednesday, April 16 |
Blackbelt Symposium speaker, Tony Grooms |
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Noon |
Author of Bombing ham (luncheon $5 for
non UWA Students) |
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Bell Conference Center |
Book Signing to Follow |
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6 p.m. |
Sucarnochee Review, UWAs literary
magazine |
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Callaway Schoolhouse |
Reading and Reception |
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Friday, April 18 |
Sucarnochee BBQ & Blues - live stage |
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Intramural Fields |
Featuring Austin Cunningham 7 p.m. - $5
at the gate |
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Gates open at 5 p.m. |
UWA Students get in free with current
I.D. |
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7:00 p.m. |
Sucarnochee Revue Radio
Show -- Bibb Graves Auditorium |
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Saturday, April 19 |
Sucarnochee Folklife Festival and
Sucarnochee BBQ & Blues Judging |
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7:30 a.m. |
Registration for the Sucarnochee 5K
River Run |
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8:00 a.m. |
Sucarnochee 5K River Run |
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9:00 a.m. |
Stage opens - Danielle and Danny
Buckalew, University of West Alabama |
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9:30 a.m. |
Cornbread Cook-off Registration |
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On stage Dr. Joe Taylor, University of
West Alabama |
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Janiece Poole and the Sumter Academy
Players |
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10:00 a.m. |
Cornbread Cook-off Judging |
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On stage West Alabama Gospel Singers |
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Booths open until 4:30 p.m.
Demonstrators for Festival
Mark Rigsby potter
Estelle Jackson split oak basket weaver
Mary Jane Everett basket weaver
Butch Fuller woodworker
Randal Jones woodworker
Martha Wheeler - quilt maker
Alabama Art Castings metalworkers
Benny and Linda Crevitt blacksmith and
broommaker |
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10:30 a.m. |
On stage - Danielle and Danny
Buckalew, University of West Alabama |
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11:00 a.m. |
On stage Red Mountain, old-time string
band |
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Noon |
Folk Play performed by Demopolis Drama
Club & director, Jody Tartt White
Meetin of the Animals Tale collected by
Ruby P. Tartt from Rich Amerson |
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1:00 p.m. |
On stage Gary Jones |
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2:00 p.m. |
On stage Red Mountain |
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3:00 p.m. |
On stage - Russell Gulley |
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4:30 p.m. |
Walking Ghost Tour of Downtown
Livingston
Featuring Dr. Alan Brown, author of six
books of ghostlore |
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