Events for February 6, 2010

Library Hours: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

February 06, 2010

The Georgia Historical Society Research Library and Archives will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Library has Saturday hours on the first and third Saturdays of the month.

Savannah Book Festival

February 06, 2010

GHS is proud to partner with the Savannah Book Festival in bringing this exciting series of events to our community.

Savannah Book Festival

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Telfair Square, Savannah

2010 Savannah Book Festival Schedule

Saturday, February 6, 2010

10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Speakers and Locations:
Fiction Authors – Sanctuary, Trinity Church
Poets – Fellowship Hall, Trinity Church
History & Biography Authors – Rotunda, Telfair Academy
Contemporary Issues Authors – Sculpture Gallery, Telfair Academy
Lifestyle Authors – Neises Auditorium, Jepson Center for the Arts
Free Speech Authors – Free Speech Tent, Telfair Square

8:00 pm
Concert: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kate Campbell, Claire Holley and
Caroline Herring in a Musical Tribute to Eudora Welty
Location: Trinity United Methodist Church, Telfair Square

For more information, contact Katherine Oxnard at 912-358-0575 or katherineoxnard@savannahbookfestival.org, or go to www.savannahbookfestival.org.

Colonial Faire and Muster

February 06, 2010 - February 07, 2010

Saturday (Family Day) and Sunday, February 6-7, 2010, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Wormsloe State Historic Site, 7601 Skidaway Road, Savannah

Take your family back in time to the site of one of the earliest and most beautiful colonial-era plantations of the Georgia coast. This popular annual living-history event features costumed re-enactors and vendors offering students and adults a taste of the excitement and adversity of life for the first settlers of colonial Georgia. Highlights of this weekend-long event include cannon and musket firing; blacksmithing, craft, and cooking demonstrations; Native American and slave life interpretations; and period music and dance. An hourly schedule of events will be available upon arrival at Wormsloe. Free and open to the public