WHAT: BEACON HISTORY DAY
WHEN: SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23rd 9:00 a.m.-
1:00p.m.
WHERE: FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH OF SWANNANOA- 503
PARK ST SWANNAOA
The
Swannanoa Valley Museum, in partnership with Warren Wilson College, Serpent Child Ensemble, and the
Swannanoa Pride Community Coalition, will hold a Beacon History Day, February 23
at the First Baptist Church of Swannanoa, 503 Park St in Swannanoa.
Community members are invited to bring by their old
photographs of Beacon, the mill village, and downtown Swannanoa to be scanned
into a computer and returned to them immediately. NO PHOTOS WILL BE KEPT –
unless the owner wants to donate them to the Museum.
The
“photo swap” will take place from 9 AM till 1PM. The scans will become part of
the Swannanoa
Valley Museum’s archives and possibly be used in
a new documentary being produced by Serpent Child Ensemble about the Beacon
Blanket factory and life in the Beacon mill village. Community members without photos to
share are encouraged to come look at the Beacon history memorabilia that will be
displayed on site. Coffee and
snacks will be available.
Serpent Child Ensemble, which created the “Way Back When”
series of plays at the Black
Mountain Center for the Arts, based on oral history interviews
with Swannanoa
Valley residents, is
creating a documentary film about Beacon and looking for people to share their
stories about working at the mill and living in the village. SCE has received
support for this project from the North Carolina Arts Council and the Center for
Documentary Studies at Duke University
For
more information, call Jerry Pope or Rebecca Williams 686-3922 or the Swannanoa Valley Museum at
669-9566.