“Ringing in the New Year with Old time Music”

Saturday January 17 at the Hagood Mill Historic Site & Folklife Center

Come join the friends of the

Pickens County Museum as “Music in the Mountains 2009”

kicks off the new year with the Hagood Mill playing host for a free, foot-stomping old time music

concert and jam, Saturday, January 17 from 11:00 until 3:00 in the Visitor Building at the Hagood

Mill. Hosted byBob Buckingham and featuring members of the Blue Ridge Rounders and the

Long Mountain Ramblers

Seating is limited and first come, first seated. The site will be open from 10:00 until 4:00 with the

old gristmill running and a variety of folklife demonstrations.

Hagood Mill operates just as it has for the last century-and-a-half. In the old mill, fresh stoneground

corn meal, grits and wheat flour will be available, as well as Hagood Mill cookbooks and a

variety of other mill related items.

The Hagood Mill hosts a variety of folklife and traditional arts demonstrations each month,

including(and others), this is sure to be a buffet of delicious mountain music.blacksmithing, bowl-digging, flintknapping, chair-caning, moonshining, broommaking,

quilting

instrument building

the day.

There promises to be lots to do and lots of fun! So, head on out, grab a plate of

Barbeque

Museum by joining them at this monthly

shine, the third Saturday of every month and is

miles south of Cherokee Foothills Scenic Hwy 11 off SC Hwy 178 at 138 Hagood Mill Road., spinning, knitting, weaving, woodcarving, open-hearth cooking, musicaland more! Hagood Mill’s 1890 Cotton Gin will run several times throughoutKannarney’sand enjoy a day at the Mill. Show your support for the Mill and the Pickens CountyThird Saturday event. The Hagood Mill operates, rain orlocated just 3 miles north of Pickens or 5 ½

Hagood Mill is

and grounds and to visit the Mill Site Gift Shop.open Wednesday through Saturday from 10:00 until 4:00, to tour the buildings

“Music in the Mountains 2009”

Museum of Art & History is funded in part by Pickens County, members and friends of the

museum and a grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission, which receives support from the

National Endowment for the Arts.

For additional information please contact the

County Museumis sponsored by a private benefactor. The Pickens CountyHagood Mill at (864) 898-2936 or the Pickensat (864) 898-5963.