Martin Luther King's (MLK) Birthday is right around the corner, so I have him on my mind. For me MLK, the black church, Atlanta, and Morehouse College are synonymous. Today let me start with food and the black church. MLK’s father was a prominent black preacher in Atlanta, and thanks to the Black Southern Baptist Convention, and nationally. As such MLK and his family most likely spent a lot of Sundays as the dinner gets of members of his father’s congregation. In most parts of the South, “every family was expected to feed the preacher at least once during the year” writes Joyce White. In addition to roast pork, rice with gravy, stewed tomatoes, corn, macaroni and cheese, corn bread, pies, and crowder peas with okra, White’s mother always served fried chicken when the congregation’s minister Reverend Barlow came to dinner. Here's a list of southern okra recipes you can try you can try:http://southernfood.about.com/od/okra/r/bl10814j.htm
Lecture and Book Signing: Frederick Douglass Opie, "Feeding the Revolution," A Discussion of the Foods of the Civil Rights Movement
Date: Sunday January 17, 2010
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: St. Augustine's Episcopal Church
Street: 6 Old Post Rd North
City/Town: Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520
Phone: 914- 271-3501
Email: august@bestweb.net
Driving Directions to St. Augustine's
From the North or South:
Take Rte 9/9A.
Exit at the Croton exit labeled Rte 129.
At the end of the exit ramp, turn right, away from the river.
At the 2nd traffic light (you will be facing a CVS and post office parking lot), turn left onto Rte. 129, Maple Ave.
Turn left at the 1st traffic light onto Old Post Rd So.-- (Kathleen Reidy, Law Office is on the far lefthand corner.)
Go one block to "T" junction: there is a traffic light in the middle of the road.
Turn left onto Grand St.
Go one block to the corner of Grand St. & Old Post Road North.
There we are!
From the Taconic Parkway:
Take the Underhill Rd exit off the Taconic.
Turn West toward Croton-on-Hudson.
Turn Right onto Rte. 129 where Underhill dead-ends at the bottom of a steep hill.
Coming into Croton, there is a "Y" where Grand St. branches to the right off of 129. A sign for Perry Kennedy Real Estate sits in front of a small house that is in the fork of the "Y"
Take the Right fork of the "Y" onto Grand St.
Continue a short few
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