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Austin Slave Quarters Austin: A Weekend for Community: Community Welcome and Launch

Austin Slave Quarters: A Weekend for Community

Community Welcome and Launch

April 24, 2022 | 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT

Enjoy a celebration of the launching of the Austin Slave Quarters Experience. This event will take place throughout the Neill-Cochran House Museum site and highlight the ongoing work preserving and interpreting Austin’s only remaining slave quarters. The event will include live music featuring MICHEAL, Museum tours, living history activities like moveable-type printing, baskets weaving, and soap making. While visiting enjoy a Heritage Lunch on our spacious and shaded lawn. Then stick around for the presentation The Slave Dwelling Project: How Austin Fits In, featuring Joe McGill of the Slave Dwelling Project.

Program

Doors Open 11:00 AM
Heritage Lunch Begins 11:30 AM (Registration Required)
Presentation 2:00 PM

Lunch Menu
Provided by Roots Chicken Shak

Lunch Registration Now Closed!
We will have a limited amount of extra meals available on Sunday.

Bird Bird Sandwich Box $15
Fried Chicken Sandwich
Potato Chips
Banana Pudding

Spicy Bird Sandwich Box $15
Spicy Fried Chicken Sandwich
Potato Chips
Banana Pudding

Vegetarian Box $15
Garden Salad
Banana Pudding

Kid’s Chicken Nugget Box $8
Chicken Nuggets
Chips
Fruit


Sponsored By

Restorer Sponsors
Cathy Brown
Marian Casey

Susan and Bob Morse
Jane Hilfer and Alec Rhodes

Cultural Ambassador Sponsors
Joyce Statz

General Sponsors
Judy Farrell
Suzanne Labry
Sue Moss


Refreshments Donated by

Lunch Provided by