Southern Tales 2024
Sunday, February 25 | 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Southern Tales 2024
Join us for retelling of A Sweet Strangeness Thrills My Heart: The Journal of Sallie Independence Foster, 1861–1887 with storyteller Dolores Hydock and musician Bobby Horton!
Sallie Independence Foster was 12-years-old and living in Florence, Alabama in 1861 when the Civil War began. She was keeping a diary at the time, and kept on keeping a diary for 26 years. In this dramatic performance, storyteller Dolores Hydock and music historian Bobby Horton Interweave Sallie’s diary entries with camp songs, popular tunes of the times, and original melodies to tell a funny, touching, and uniquely personal true story of a world of innocence turned upside-down.
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