Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:07:20 -0400
From: Jim and Beverly Wiggins
Subject: Apples! Lecture, Cooking Contest, Art Contest
The Chatham County Historical Association invites you to come learn about the history of apples in the South and in Chatham County, enter our apple recipe competition, and have the kids enter our apple art contest.
Free Lecture: Apples – Chatham County and Beyond
Sponsored by the Chatham County Historical Association
Creighton Lee Calhoun, Jr.
Apple Historian – Pomologist – Orchardist
Sunday – 17 August 2008
2:30PM
Admission is FREE
Light refreshments will be served following the presentation.
The Music Barn
G. T. Petty Memorial Grounds
Home of the Silk Hope Farm Heritage Center
Silk Hope, NC
(Silk Hope is located four miles north of NC Route 64 between Pittsboro and Siler City. Follow the signs for the fairgrounds at the Silk Hope-Lindly Mill and Silk Hope-Liberty crossroads.)
For three hundred years, from the early 1600s to the early 1900s, apples were widely grown on southern farms to feed farm families. Southerners developed their own apple varieties, adapted to southern growing conditions. These apples filled the need for apples to eat fresh, cook, dry, press for cider and vinegar, store through the winter, and sell from the back of a wagon in nearby towns. At least four unique apple varieties originated in Chatham county and two still exist today.
Our speaker, Creighton Lee Calhoun, Jr., has degrees from NC State University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has searched for and collected old southern apples for thirty years and is the author of the book Old Southern Apples (Blacksburg, VA: McDonald & Woodward, 1995, 326 pp.).
Apple Recipe Competition
We know no better way to celebrate the apples of the lecture than with a cooking contest! If you have a special recipe for virtually anything with apples as the main ingredient, then whip up a batch, bring it along, and enter the contest. First prize is a one-night stay at the Fearrington House. Other prizes will include gift baskets from Southern Supreme and many other valuable items. Our panel of judges will be led by none other than Chef Graham Fox, Five Star Executive Chef at Fearrington House.
Rules for the Apple Recipe Competition
All dishes must contain apples as a major ingredient.
No cooking allowed on the premises. Dishes must be complete upon arrival.
No dish may contain meat or uncooked dairy products.
Apple Art Contest
Open to Children 12 and Under
As long as we are cooking, we should have something for the young ones, so how about an Apple Art Contest? Make pictures of apples, sculpt apples into whatever, decorate apples, make an apple doll–make any kind of art from apples and let us see your talents. Prizes will be awarded by a judging panel of local artists.
For more information email history-at-chathamhistory.org
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