Relive History at the Franklin County (Va.) Historical Society’s Barbecue Gala at the Jubal Early Home Place
Franklin County, Va. (PRWEB) July 31, 2013 -- Learn more about local history while enjoying food, music and fellowship at the Franklin County Historical Society’s Barbecue Gala at the Jubal Early Home Place, Aug. 24 in the Red Valley Community, from 2 p.m.-8 p.m.
The event will feature living history, re-enactors and live and silent auctions. Patrons can also enjoy period dancing with a caller who will provide instruction for reels, all to the tune of period music by the Lone Ivy String Band.
Bud Derey will present a Civil War Times skit and Gerald Via, a member of the Jubal Early Preservation Trust Board which owns and is restoring the house and grounds, will present information about the site.
Live auction items include a Civil War print framed in barn wood, a numbered replica of the Confederate statue on the Franklin County Courthouse lawn, which is one of the only 150 made, a framed Franklin County Settlers Map, collectible glassware and more. Silent auction items include hardbound books on General Jubal Early and the War Between the States, “moonshine glassware” featuring a handcrafted likker still and more.
The cost to attend the gala is $30 per person or $50 per couple, which includes a tour of the house featuring guides in period dress and the barbecue meal at 6 p.m.
The Jubal Early Home Place and Archaeological Site is located just off Jubal Early Highway (VA 116) in the Red Valley Community, and is only site in Franklin County on the Virginia Civil War Trail. Confederate General Jubal Anderson Early was born in Franklin County in 1816. He went through much of his childhood at the home and on grounds nearby.
General Early went on to fight in more battles than any other Confederate general and came closest to entering Washington, D.C. at the Battle of Fort Stevens, within the city limits in July of 1864. After escaping federal warrants, he exiled in Canada where he was the first Confederate general to recount his war exploits and set a tone for all who followed. After an amnesty was declared in 1869, he returned to Lynchburg and practiced law. He died in 1894 and is buried in Lynchburg.
Tickets for the Barbecue Gala at the Jubal Early Home Place are available at the Franklin County History Museum, 460 S. Main Street in Rocky Mount or by phone at (540) 483-1890. Credit and debit cards are accepted.
For more information about the Franklin County Historical Society, visit http://www.franklincountyvirginiahistoricalsoc.org. For more information about Franklin County, visit http://www.visitfranklincountyva.org.
Tarah Holland, Franklin County Office of Economic Dev., http://www.visitfranklincountyva.org, +1 540-483-3040, [email protected]
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