THANK YOU SHOPPERS FOR FLEA MARKET SUCCESS
Our spring Flea Market, which closed Sunday, was a resounding success, thanks to our shoppers and months of work by our volunteers.
On Saturday alone, we had more than 1,200 shoppers. And on Sunday, hundreds of shoppers showed up to snag half-price deals.
We’ll start picking up donations from our kind contributors soon, and then we’ll resume our preparations for the fall Flea Market.
Our members get 15 percent discounts on their Flea Market purchases, so join our preservation family if you’re not a member. You can do so HERE.
NEXT SALON: VOTING RIGHTS CHALLENGES IN THE SOUTH
On April 17, author, historian and biographer Dr. Steve Suitts will present his book, “A War of Sections: How Deep South Political Suppression Shaped Voting Rights in America.”
In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of disfranchisement, Suitts illuminates how a century of political conflicts in Alabama came to shape both some of America’s best achievements in voting rights and its continuing struggles over voter suppression. “A War of Sections” tells the unknown political history symbolized today by the annual pilgrimage of presidents and celebrities across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
It is the story of how that tragic day in Selma in 1965 was only the flashpoint of a much longer history of failures and successes involving conflicts not only between blacks and whites in Alabama but between white political factions warring in the state over voting rights. Suitts recasts the context and much of the content of disfranchisement in Alabama as an unremitting, decades-long sectional battle in white-only politics between the state’s rural Black Belt and north Alabama counties.
Our salons are free, but it helps us plan if we know you’re attending. Register HERE. Doors at 5:30 p.m., and the talks start at 6.
If you’re not a member of Historic Macon, join our family to support our preservation mission and help us continue to offer these free educational events to the community.
Our mission is to revitalize communities by preserving architecture and sharing history.
One of the benefits of your property residing in a National Register Historic District is preservation incentives. Historic tax credits allow citizens to undertake rehabilitation projects at a reasonable cost and Historic Macon is here to walk you through that process.
A key part of Historic Macon's mission is education. We tell the stories of people who make a difference in our preservation community, as well as those pioneering visionaries whose shoulders we stand on today. Read more about them HERE.