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Historic Johnson Farm is offering “History Bites: A Winter Lecture Series

January 10, 2020 @ 8:00 am - February 14, 2020 @ 5:00 pm

For the second year, Historic Johnson Farm is offering “History Bites: A Winter Lecture Series”.   Come during your lunch hour for an informative talk and light refreshments. Admission is $5 per person. This year, a history bites pass is available for $12 for the 3 lectures.

January 10: Speaker Jeremy Jones-

Topic: Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland.

“Jeremy Jones and his wife move into a small house above the creek where his family had settled 200 years prior. He takes a job alongside his former teachers in the local elementary school and sets out on a search to understand how this ancient land has shaped its people—how it shaped him. His search sends him burrowing in the past—hunting buried treasure and POW camps, unearthing Civil War graves and family feuds, exploring gated communities and tourist traps, encountering changed accents and immigrant populations, tracing Wal-Mart’s sidewalks and carved-out mountains—and pondering the future. He meshes narrative and myth, geology and genealogy, fiddle tunes and local color about the briskly changing and oft-stigmatized world of his native southern Appalachians. Somehow, these journeys continually lead him back to the mystical Bearwallow Mountain, a peak suddenly in flux.” (From Jeremy Jones’ book website.)

January 24: Speaker Mark Williams-

Topic: Agriculture in Henderson County. Join the executive director of Agribusiness Henderson County to learn about the history of farming in Henderson County, what farming looks like in the present day, and what to expect in the future.

February 21: Speaker Kemper Gibson

February 14, Kemper Gibson, forensic biologist at the Western Regional Crime Laboratory, located in Edneyville, will discuss the lab and what scientists work with on a daily basis.

Historic Johnson Farm is a heritage education center owned by Henderson Co Public Schools, and managed by the Historic Johnson Farm Foundation, Inc.  It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and was designed a NC Cultural Treasure.  It features 10 historic structures on 15 acres.  It was a gift to the schoolchildren and community from the late Vernon and Leander Johnson.

The farm is located at 3346 Haywood Road, Hendersonville, NC 28791.  For more information call 828-891-6585, or visit www.facebook.com/HistoricJohnsonFarm/ .

 

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January 10, 2020 @ 8:00 am
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February 14, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
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