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Delight & Distraction: Material Culture of Southern Amusement
Step right up to the fascinating world of southern pastimes and play! The 2025 Antiques Forum will explore the history of southern amusement through its eclectic material culture—objects that reveal the sights, textures, and stories of life’s pleasures amid the region’s complex history. With sessions on board games, the circus, nineteenth-century pleasure gardens, and how …
$360.00
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Drink & Draw!
Drink & Draw!
Drink & Draw @ Okay Bar 1700 Port St, Wednesdays 7-9pm! Each evening will feature a model adorned with local designers' creations! There will also be an area to purchase these creations at the bar! We will provide some drawing supplies, but please bring some as well!! Suggested donation: $5 We are also looking for Models …
$5
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Book Signing with Betsy Golden Kellem
Book Signing with Betsy Golden Kellem
Join us at the Shop at the Collection for a book signing with Betsy Golden Kellem, author of Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the 19th Century Circus. Kellem’s book explores the unusual performing women of the nineteenth century—wire-walkers, bearded ladies, strongwomen, conjoined twins, and more—and how these extraordinary outliers used their variable bodies to shape …
Free