Join us as we explore how textiles are used as a vehicle for expression, how the act of making supports community organization & how material culture documents activism and movements throughout history. The 2022 Project Threadways Symposium will offer in-person & virtual experiences. In addition to the presentations, in-person guests will experience the local community—steeped […]
Join us from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, May 7, as we help the Village School Foundation restore the schoolhouse of U.S. Nitrate Plant Village One. We'll learn about the history of Village One -- built during WWI in 1918 in the design of the Liberty Bell -- and continue renovating the schoolhouse's main hallway. […]
The Shoals Storytelling Festival, a Top 20 Events in the Southeast, began in 2011 as the Front Porch Storytelling Festival on the campus of the University of North Alabama. In 2017, the Festival moved to the historic Shoals Theatre in downtown Florence & was renamed The Shoals Storytelling Festival, acknowledging its home in an area […]
Join us as we tour the First Quarters & Reservation Road Trails in the TVA Reservation Complex, 10-11:30 a.m. & learn about the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama and the Shoals! Carolyn Barske Crawford, Ph.D. & MSNHA director, will lead our approximately 2-mile hike along both flat paved trails & uneven dirt […]
Florence Indian Mound Museum's Young Learner's Series on Southeastern Foods is 10 a.m. Saturday, July 16. The program will focus on foods grown & made by the Southeastern peoples in our area. Students will create an exhibit about what they have learned. Sign up at www.florencealmuseums.com/young-learners. YLS is a series of elementary-age programs for students […]
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Florence, AL 35632-0001
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Florence, AL 35630
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