Screening of The Lilies of the Field and Aerial Photos of SE Stokes County

Name: Screening of The Lilies of the Field and Aerial Photos of SE Stokes County — The Lilies Project
Start: 2023-02-12T14:30:00-0500
End: 2023-02-12T16:30:00-0500
Location: Palmetto Theatre

Sunday, February 12, 2023
2:30 PM 4:30 PM 14:30 16:30

Palmetto Theatre 329 N Main Street Walnut Cove, NC 27052 USA (map)

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For Black History Month, The Lilies Project and the Stokes County Historical Society will host a screening of The Lilies of The Field, featuring local composer Jester Hairston on Sunday, February 12th at 2:30 pm at the Palmetto Theater. A Mountains to Sea Trail representative will present images from 1940 USDA Aerial Photographs of the area to help identify landmarks prior to the creation of Belews Lake in the early 1970s.

According to Dr. Dana Dalton, Jester Hairston was born at her grandmother’s home, which was located where Duke Energy’s Power Plant currently stands.

The photographs are available online as part of North Carolina’s State Archives Collection on Flickr. A direct link is available on The Lilies Project web site: https://theliliesproject.org/events.