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2023 OLD FEDERAL ROAD STORYTELLING FESTIVAL
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Join with us to honor Southeast Alabama's significant historical and cultural legacy while supporting
our efforts to foster community well-being and social cohesion through the arts and humanities.
our efforts to foster community well-being and social cohesion through the arts and humanities.
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For more information about the festival contact Dr. Shari L. Williams, Executive Director
at 770-843-1913 or contact@digtheridge.com
at 770-843-1913 or contact@digtheridge.com
The Ridge Macon County Archaeology Project and the Town of Shorter, Alabama present the 2023 Old Federal Road Storytelling Festival, Saturday, October 28, 2023, 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. CT at the Old Shorter High School near the Cubahatchee Baptist Church on Macon Co. Rd 8 (Old Federal Road). This arts and culture educational and entertainment event acknowledges the multicultural history and people of The Federal Road, one of the nation’s first federally-funded interstate routes that simultaneously prompted settlement and displacement. The Federal Road made possible the “Alabama Fever” land rush which comprised the early settlement of Alabama and its population growth during the 1800s yet contributed to the forced removal of the Muscogee Creek Nation to Oklahoma. According to historians, if your family roots trace back to ancestors who migrated from the east to the “Old Southwest,” chances are they traveled on the Federal Road. This festival is the one and only event of its kind in Alabama that is dedicated to this history.
The event theme is “When Freedom Came.” The meaning of freedom varies from person to person in our society today. For some people freedom means being able to work and live and raise a family. For others freedom means being able to travel and enjoy life. This festival will highlight what freedom means to us, and what it has meant in the past to others. For example, the festival program booklet cover shown above was inspired by formerly enslaved men who recalled vividly the moment when freedom came as they left their plantations near the end of the Civil War to go with Union Army troops as they marched across Alabama heading towards Columbus, Georgia.
The 2023 Storytelling Festival is made possible by a generous grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and a sponsorship from the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities.
The event theme is “When Freedom Came.” The meaning of freedom varies from person to person in our society today. For some people freedom means being able to work and live and raise a family. For others freedom means being able to travel and enjoy life. This festival will highlight what freedom means to us, and what it has meant in the past to others. For example, the festival program booklet cover shown above was inspired by formerly enslaved men who recalled vividly the moment when freedom came as they left their plantations near the end of the Civil War to go with Union Army troops as they marched across Alabama heading towards Columbus, Georgia.
The 2023 Storytelling Festival is made possible by a generous grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and a sponsorship from the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities.
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