THE COLLARD PATCH will be featured at Prater's Mill Country Fair.
The Collard Patch Will Be Highlighted at Prater’s Mill Country Fair, A Southern Festival of Quality Artists, Craftsmen, Music, and Food.Prater’s Mill Country Fair will highlight The Collard Patch, the best collard cookbook in the world, as its featured selection for 2006. Mary Cheatham and Paul Elliott will exhibit and autograph their collard and cornbread reader October 14 & 15, 2006, at Prater’s Mill Country Fair north of Dalton, GA.
Jane Galay, whose recipe for Memories of the Mill Cornbread along with her true story, “Memories of the Mill,” are featured in The Collard Patch, will be present to autograph her selections.Prater’s Mill Country Fair is one of the most visited autumn events in the Southeast region. The festival provides an opportunity adults and children to experience life as it was in the middle 1800’s. Prater’s Mill, which is still in operation, is a gristmill that grinds grain into flour or corn into meal.
The fair features numerous types of entertainment:
Southern food
Live history exhibits
Original art
Blacksmithing
Handcrafted quilts
Quilting
Woodcarving
Rug Hooking
Hand tufting
Civil War encampment
Antique engines in operation
Tours of the gristmill
Country store
Shugart Cotton Gin
Farm animals in Westbrook Barn
Canoe rides in Coahulla Creek
Nature trail hikes
Pony rides
Clogging exhibitions
Country bands
Gospel singers
Jugglers
Storytellers
From http://www.pratersmill.org/ the essential information:
Fair hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5, children 12 and under enter free. There is no charge for parking. Visitors are urged to dress casually and wear comfortable shoes.Prater’s Mill is located on Georgia Hwy. 2, 10 miles northeast of Dalton and about 30 miles south of Chattanooga, TN. Interstate travelers should take I-75 to the Tunnel Hill-Varnell Exit No. 341; drive north 4.5 miles to the intersection with Georgia Hwy. 2 at Varnell; turn right and continue 2.6 miles to the Mill, a total distance of 7 miles from I-75.For more information or to inquire about sponsorship and volunteer opportunities call 706-694-MILL (6455) or visit www.PratersMill.org.
Fair hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5, children 12 and under enter free. There is no charge for parking. Visitors are urged to dress casually and wear comfortable shoes.Prater’s Mill is located on Georgia Hwy. 2, 10 miles northeast of Dalton and about 30 miles south of Chattanooga, Tenn. Interstate travelers should take I-75 to the Tunnel Hill-Varnell Exit No. 341; drive north 4.5 miles to the intersection with Georgia Hwy. 2 at Varnell; turn right and continue 2.6 miles to the Mill, a total distance of 7 miles from I-75.For more information or to inquire about sponsorship and volunteer opportunities call 706-694-MILL (6455) or visit PratersMill.org.
Fair hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5, children 12 and under enter free. There is no charge for parking. Visitors are urged to dress casually and wear comfortable shoes.Prater’s Mill is located on Georgia Hwy. 2, 10 miles northeast of Dalton and about 30 miles south of Chattanooga, Tenn. Interstate travelers should take I-75 to the Tunnel Hill-Varnell Exit No. 341; drive north 4.5 miles to the intersection with Georgia Hwy. 2 at Varnell; turn right and continue 2.6 miles to the Mill, a total distance of 7 miles from I-75.For more information or to inquire about sponsorship and volunteer opportunities call 706-694-MILL (6455) or visit PratersMill.org.
Fair hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5, children 12 and under enter free. There is no charge for parking. Visitors are urged to dress casually and wear comfortable shoes.Prater’s Mill is located on Georgia Hwy. 2, 10 miles northeast of Dalton and about 30 miles south of Chattanooga, Tenn. Interstate travelers should take I-75 to the Tunnel Hill-Varnell Exit No. 341; drive north 4.5 miles to the intersection with Georgia Hwy. 2 at Varnell; turn right and continue 2.6 miles to the Mill, a total distance of 7 miles from I-75.For more information or to inquire about sponsorship and volunteer opportunities call 706-694-MILL (6455) or visit PratersMill.org.
Fair hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5, children 12 and under enter free. There is no charge for parking. Visitors are urged to dress casually and wear comfortable shoes.Prater’s Mill is located on Georgia Hwy. 2, 10 miles northeast of Dalton and about 30 miles south of Chattanooga, Tenn. Interstate travelers should take I-75 to the Tunnel Hill-Varnell Exit No. 341; drive north 4.5 miles to the intersection with Georgia Hwy. 2 at Varnell; turn right and continue 2.6 miles to the Mill, a total distance of 7 miles from I-75.For more information or to inquire about sponsorship and volunteer opportunities call 706-694-MILL (6455) or visit PratersMill.org.
Information sources:
http://www.georgia.org
http://www.pratersmill.org/
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Monday, July 31, 2006
Handmade quilts offer comfort to ill (Rindy Metcalf, Reporter) 07-24-2006
Quoted from the Ruston [Louisiana] Daily Leader http://www.rustonleader.com/news.php?id=1539 :
Thread, fabric and prayers.Those items are all that is needed to comfort a friend in a time of need, Letty Strawbridge, associate pastor of the Jonesboro-Hodge United Methodist Church, said.
In fact, three years ago it was a friend who gave Strawbridge the idea to use these items to make quilts in conjunction with the Prayers and Squares Ministry.“A friend of mine in Alexandria told me about an organization called Prayers and Squares,” Strawbridge said. “She said I could go to the Web site (www.prayerquilt.org) and get all kinds of information, so I did that and signed up.”
At that time she pastored in Choudrant, and when she signed up the Methodist church there, the organization sent a package with pins, labels and needles to help her begin the quilt ministry.“What you do is you make a quilt top; you can make a lap quilt depending on the size of the fabric,” Strawbridge said. “Then you just pull the thread through. If someone is ill, we put it in the fellowship hall, and each person that goes in and says a prayer for that person ties a knot in the thread. Then you take it and give it to the person. You can say that the person is covered in prayers.”
Strawbridge said that at some of her churches, the group has expanded its ministry into knitting shawls for those who lose a family member.But, Strawbridge said, the most exciting part of the ministry has been when she got a notice from a friend she met in a hospital’s Intensive Care Unit waiting room.“I was at Glenwood with someone who had surgery, and I met one of her friends,” Strawbridge said.
“She had a fit because of the prayer quilt, so she went back to her church and started (a prayer quilt group).”Kimberly Winston, a 2005 recipient of the 2005 American Academy of Religion awards for Best In-depth Reporting on Religion, is the author of “Fabric of Faith: A Guide to the Prayer Quilt Ministry,” which was published last month.
She said while in the process of gathering information for the book, she has seen the effect giving and receiving a prayer quilt has on people.“I think the most interesting thing that I’ve found is basically everyone I talked to got involved in the ministry because they wanted to give something back, and they found in their participating in the ministry that they got so much more than they were giving,” Winston said.
“People all over the country told me about how the time they spent in prayer while quilting had taken them further on their faith journey than they thought would happen, and so while they set out to help others, they found that they were really helping themselves.”
Winston also said that while the prayer quilt ministry started in California, the message of its comfort has spread from California to North Carolina and to half a dozen foreign countries.“It’s as if each quilt plants a seed,” Winston said. “Somebody gives one to somebody whose church doesn’t have it, and people want to get involved.”
Also, though the ministry began in the Methodist church, it is often affiliated with most Protestant denominations and the Catholic church, as well.“
Thread, fabric and prayers.Those items are all that is needed to comfort a friend in a time of need, Letty Strawbridge, associate pastor of the Jonesboro-Hodge United Methodist Church, said.
In fact, three years ago it was a friend who gave Strawbridge the idea to use these items to make quilts in conjunction with the Prayers and Squares Ministry.“A friend of mine in Alexandria told me about an organization called Prayers and Squares,” Strawbridge said. “She said I could go to the Web site (www.prayerquilt.org) and get all kinds of information, so I did that and signed up.”
At that time she pastored in Choudrant, and when she signed up the Methodist church there, the organization sent a package with pins, labels and needles to help her begin the quilt ministry.“What you do is you make a quilt top; you can make a lap quilt depending on the size of the fabric,” Strawbridge said. “Then you just pull the thread through. If someone is ill, we put it in the fellowship hall, and each person that goes in and says a prayer for that person ties a knot in the thread. Then you take it and give it to the person. You can say that the person is covered in prayers.”
Strawbridge said that at some of her churches, the group has expanded its ministry into knitting shawls for those who lose a family member.But, Strawbridge said, the most exciting part of the ministry has been when she got a notice from a friend she met in a hospital’s Intensive Care Unit waiting room.“I was at Glenwood with someone who had surgery, and I met one of her friends,” Strawbridge said.
“She had a fit because of the prayer quilt, so she went back to her church and started (a prayer quilt group).”Kimberly Winston, a 2005 recipient of the 2005 American Academy of Religion awards for Best In-depth Reporting on Religion, is the author of “Fabric of Faith: A Guide to the Prayer Quilt Ministry,” which was published last month.
She said while in the process of gathering information for the book, she has seen the effect giving and receiving a prayer quilt has on people.“I think the most interesting thing that I’ve found is basically everyone I talked to got involved in the ministry because they wanted to give something back, and they found in their participating in the ministry that they got so much more than they were giving,” Winston said.
“People all over the country told me about how the time they spent in prayer while quilting had taken them further on their faith journey than they thought would happen, and so while they set out to help others, they found that they were really helping themselves.”
Winston also said that while the prayer quilt ministry started in California, the message of its comfort has spread from California to North Carolina and to half a dozen foreign countries.“It’s as if each quilt plants a seed,” Winston said. “Somebody gives one to somebody whose church doesn’t have it, and people want to get involved.”
Also, though the ministry began in the Methodist church, it is often affiliated with most Protestant denominations and the Catholic church, as well.“
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