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Pam Lee https://carrollcountyms.org Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:29:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Pioneer Day Festival October 7, 2017 https://carrollcountyms.org/pioneer-day-festival-october-7-2017/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pioneer-day-festival-october-7-2017 Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:29:23 +0000 https://carrollcountyms.org/?p=630 … Continue reading →]]> If you like to shop, the Pioneer Day Festival, sponsored by the Carroll Society for the Preservation of Antiquities, is an arts and crafts festival just for you on Saturday, October 7.  In addition to shopping, you can learn

  • about the history of aprons through an exhibit from the Apron Museum in Iuka,
  • about crayon quilts from the Vaiden Quilters Guild,
  • about Mississippi John Hurt through an exhibit from the Mississippi John Hurt Museum,
  • about Mississippi through interactive activities on a giant 16 by 20 foot floor map from the Mississippi Geographic Alliance based at Ole Miss.

All of these activities are free.

More information about the Pilgrimage and Pioneer Day Festival check us out on Facebook or at www.VisitCarrolltonMs.com.

]]> 630 A Walk Through Carrollton with Walt Grayson https://carrollcountyms.org/a-walk-through-carrollton-with-walt-grayson/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-walk-through-carrollton-with-walt-grayson Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:36:07 +0000 https://carrollcountyms.org/?p=628 … Continue reading →]]> Thanks to a Bicentennial Grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council, you can visit Carrollton on your smart device as well as in person.  The annual Pilgrimage and Pioneer Day Festival will be held October 6-7.  Five homes will be open for home tours for a fee.  But the big excitement will be the free walking tour that you can download to your smart device to learn about the history and architecture of 26 buildings in Carrollton.  While the walking tour does not get you in the buildings, it will enhance your walk from home to home.

To Mississippians, Walt Grayson is the voice of Mississippi, taking us along on trips down “Mississippi Roads” for a “Look Around Mississippi.”  Now he takes us through Carrollton’s history and architecture.  Although the app has been available through the Apple and Google Play stores only a few weeks, visitors are already coming to walk through Carrollton with Walt.”

Pilgrimage homes will be open Friday and Saturday, from 9 am to 5 pm.  These are family homes, not museums or staged exhibits.  Tickets will be sold at the Town Hall at 701 Lexington Street.  Adult tickets are $25.  Tickets for students grades 1-12 are $10.

More information about the Pilgrimage and Pioneer Day Festival check us out on Facebook or at www.VisitCarrolltonMs.com.

]]> 628 A New Twist on an Old Art https://carrollcountyms.org/a-new-twist-on-an-old-art/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-new-twist-on-an-old-art Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:03:46 +0000 https://carrollcountyms.org/?p=625 … Continue reading →]]> Quilting is an old needle art that can be something made from scraps sewn together with batting to keep the family warm.  Or it can be something made from carefully chosen fabric, pieced together to form a fabric work of art to be sewn together with batting for either a decorative use or to keep warm.  At Carrollton’s annual Pioneer Day Festival, festival goers can see a new twist on this old art – crayon quilting.

Using crayons to create the design on muslin squares which are then sewn together with coordinating fabric gives an almost water color painted effect to the finished quilt.   Put this together with an age-old needle art of quilting and you have something that you will treasure for years to come.

Most of us learned to use crayons at an early age.  Some folks are quite good at creating designs with them.  School classes use the process and the creative art to make a unique class project.

Members of the Vaiden Quilters Guild will have quilts to look at and instructions for getting started with a crayon quilt to give away Saturday, October 7, 2017.  Look for these talented ladies in the Courthouse halls!

]]> 625 Dr. LouAnn Heath Woodward to Speak at CCDA Annual Meeting https://carrollcountyms.org/dr-louann-heath-woodward-to-speak-at-ccda-annual-meeting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dr-louann-heath-woodward-to-speak-at-ccda-annual-meeting Fri, 12 May 2017 21:19:11 +0000 https://carrollcountyms.org/?p=604 … Continue reading →]]> Dr. LouAnn Woodward, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Dean of the School Of Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, will be our speaker.  A native of Carroll County, she is the daughter of Bruce Heath and the late Bobbie Heath of the Jefferson Community.  She has served as an emergency medicine physician, academic administrator, associate vice chancellor for health affairs and the vice dean of the School of Medicine before being named to her current position.

The Carroll County Development Association Annual Meeting will be held at the Carrollton Baptist Church Fellowship Hall on Tuesday, May 23, at 7 pm.  Dues include the cost of the meal.  Meals for non-members will be $11.00 each.  Please make reservations by May 17 by calling 662-237-6910.  More information about the CCDA can be found on the ABOUT THE CCDA  tab above.

 

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