Annual Meeting, Museums FREE, and Wash Pot Chicken Pilau Fundraiser

115 Duffle Avenue,Greensboro FL 32330

22 January, 2022

Description

West Gadsden Historical Society’s Annual Fundraiser to support historic preservation projects throughout the County . Saturday, January 22, 2022, is the day we have all been looking forward to eating that wonderful washpot chicken pilau prepared by our own Pilau King and Crew - Scott, Shirley and Lamar. Please Plan to join us at the Greensboro Depot Railroad Museum (curb side takeout available) or bring a lawn chair and we will enjoy others company outside. Please plan to adhere to social distancing requirements. Plates will be $8 each and also include slaw, pickles, crackers, tea and a slice of homemade pound cake. We will begin serving pilau at 4:30 p.m., NOT ONE MINUTE BEFORE, and will serve until it’s gone! Beginning at 1:00 p.m., the Greensboro Depot Railroad Museum and the Dezell House Museum will be open for viewing. Please plan to come and enjoy time visiting with your family, friends, and neighbors. We appreciate the tremendous support received each year from our members and guests and look forward to seeing you again this year. Remember to pick up your copy of our newest book, A Trip on the Apalachicola Northern Railroad. Get your appetite prepared for the classic recipes and old-time tales of the Florida Panhandle's revolutionary railroad, the Apalachicola Northern Railroad (ANRR). We tend to romanticize the past, most especially when set to the sound of a dark night train whistle and the rhythmic chants of the gandy dancers. This book does nothing to dispel that sentiment. It is historically accurate and impeccably well researched. The stories and recipes that typify the 97 miles of the ANRR track from River Junction to Port St. Joe evoke the poignant past. Perhaps most impressive, this collection reveals the sweeping changes that the past 100 years of progress have left on the landscape, our social structure, and our communities. The technological advances we so appreciate, are countered by the loss of many things we mourn. Stories that may have been lost are revived, bringing the past tantalizingly alive. From a WWII POW camp near Telogia, the purchase of the entire town of Port St. Joe, a fire in River Junction, a tornado in Greensboro and to a cattle drive in Hardaway, catch a ride to the past with some true southern characters recounting their tales with humor, tenderness and insight on A Trip on the Apalachicola Northern Railroad. $30/book. Dezell House Museum of area history 328 E. 8th St., Greensboro, FL 32330