2009 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
8:45am: Welcome, opening ceremony, blacksmith demo, weaving demo, vendors, sale tent, food
& drink sales open all day. Silent Auction begins.
9am: Cannon firing demo - north field
9:30am: Cliff Kelley_ Sam Davis "Boy Hero of the Confederacy" - front porch
10am: Artillery demo - north field
10:30am: Music by Coleman's Scouts - front porch
11am: Cavalry demo - north field
11:30am: Women's program: Elizabeth Coker, "Origin of Southern Hospitality" - garden
tent
12pm: Infantry Demo - north field
12:30pm: Storytelling by Dr. Michael Bradley - front porch
1:30pm: Artillery demo - north field
End of
Silent Auction
2:30pm: Cavalry Demo - north field
3pm: Women's Program: Barbara Marthal, "Black Confederates" - garden tent
3:30pm: Infantry Demo- north field
4pm: Book signing by Ruth Hill Fulton McAllister: Sam Watkins, Co. Aytch
4:30pm: Mint Julep Toast to General Forrest
* Other speakers & demos may be added later.
Silent auction items needed for this year's event! Please contact Bryan Sharp @ membership@scv.org or call 1-800-380-1896 ext.201 to donate an item for the auction. All donations very much appreciated.
All funds raised go towards the continuing restoration efforts on the general's boyhood home & grounds.
Contact
Chairman Gene Andrews @ 615-833-8977 or genecsmc@yahoo.com for questions regarding schedule & vendors. Please mail all monetary donations to:
Forrest Boyhood Home
P.O.Box 59
Columbia, TN 38402-0059
