The Apron Museum

“A primeira função do avental da vovó era proteger a roupa que estava por baixo, mas além disso... servia de luva para tirar a frigideira do forno. Foi maravilhoso enxugar as lágrimas das crianças e, às vezes, limpar rostos sujos. Do galinheiro, o avental servia para transportar ovos e às vezes pintinhos. Quando chegavam visitas, o avental servia para proteger as crianças tímidas.
Este velho avental era um fole, mexido no fogo de lenha...
A vovó também usava para colocar a torta de maçã direto do forno no parapeito da janela para esfriar. Muitos anos se passarão até que qualquer invenção ou objeto possa substituir este velho avental...
Em memória de nossas avós".

Aristides Rodríguez

What a nice surprise to see on the Pine Belt Quilters of Hattiesburg, MS page. THANKS Jackie Watkins.

Southern Fiber Artist Mississippi Challenge, made by Jackie Watkins.

Aprons 😊 and Books 📚!😃

This is what Aprons are about. The people that wear them and their stories. Before everyone was holding a cell phone people did things, created things, grew food and needed an Apron. We all have a story to tell. May your story be good.

Florida shoe cobbler mends more than soles Jim McFarland, a fourth-generation shoe cobbler in Lakeland, Florida, never anticipated his trade mending shoes would lead to millions of views on social media. People are captivated by his careful craftsmanship: removing, then stitching and gluing soles on leather footwear. Across the country, some...

Sharing some of the early Courtyard garden plants at the Apron Museum. Just getting started. 🌺🌺

In June 2019, The Apron Symposium brought people together from all over the U.S. to celebrate the Art, Fashion, and History of this special garment. (Click to view video montage)

Apron Symposium Apron enthusiasts gathered in Mississippi for an Apron Symposium on June 7-8, 2019

Great turnout and lots of fun at the Tishomingo Arts Council Food Poetry Competition 2023 held at the Apron Museum Courtyard in Iuka. Such a nice family gathering with food and food poetry. Wonderful to see so many young writers from Tupelo, Corinth and surrounding area. I loved the poems about Spam and Slug Burgers and family 4th of July Stew.

Food Poetry Competition 2023 was a great success Thursdsy night. See photos I just posted.

What memories spring to your mind if we bring up...

Breaking beans...
Shucking corn...
That special Sunday food your grandma knew was your favorite...
An ice cream cone you had to hurry on before it melted...
Not enough coffee...
Way too much wine...
Feeling the warmth of soup or stew settle in your belly and bring you back to life on a winter's day...

Food is more than nourishment for the body. Food and drink carry an enormous emotional connection to the moments in our lives that are the most communal... and the most solitary. A simple whiff of a dish can bring with it weighty recollections of people, places, and points in time that define who we are.

Tishomingo Arts Council, The Crossroads Poetry Project & Cats After Dark - Poet Society invite you to explore your own emotional connections through food with our Food Poetry Competition 2023 :)

Adult Awards:

1st Place- $100 / 2nd Place - $50 / 3rd Place - $25 / 4th Place - $25

Youth Awards:

1st Place - $50 / 2nd Place - $25 / 3rd Place - $25

Additionally, all winners will be published in the 2024 edition of TAC's annual arts and letters magazine THE VIEW FROM WOODALL.

This competition is open to poets from anywhere!

To enter, email up to three poems (along with name, age, and contact information) to [email protected] with subject line: Food Poetry Competition. An entry fee of $5 per poem may be paid via PayPal to [email protected]

Entry Deadline: 11:59 pm, September 17th

Winners will be announced at a poetry reading and reception open to all participants in the courtyard behind Iuka, Mississippi's famous Apron Museum at 7 pm on Thursday, September 21st. A tour of this very unique museum will be set ahead of the reading at 6 pm :)

We give a HUGE thanks to Iuka Piggly Wiggly & Ace Hardware and to The Apron Museum for supporting what we expect to be a tremendous gathering of poets for this program :)

I have been hearing about some interesting exhibits headed to the Old Courthouse Museum on September 2nd. Big day in Iuka, Mississippi. Think we sort of celebrate the thought of cool weather coming soon too.

My oldest Mississippi Cook Book. Not dated but with a little research I should be able to get an idea of when it was published. Great recipes inside asking for old ingredients like Snowdrift.

I had the pleasure this morning of talking on Mississippi Public Broadcasting Radio program Deep South Dining about the Apron Museum….and several other things connected through food. Thanks so much to Malcolm White, Carol Puckett and Java Chatman for inviting me to share the Museum with everyone. It was a wonderful surprise to be asked to talk.
Thought I would also post a little inspiration Poetry & Aprons for the Food Poetry Contest coming up at the Apron Museum which I mentioned this morning. The poem “A Toast” came out of the very old “Woman’s Club Cook Book Greenwood, Mississippi” that I talked about. Put on an Apron and cook something up tonight.

The Apron Museum in Iuka, Mississippi is happy to host the Food Poetry Contest on Thursday, September 21, 2023 beginning at 6:00 pm in the Museum Courtyard.
You may even want to wear your favorite Apron.

What memories spring to your mind if we bring up...

Breaking beans...
Shucking corn...
That special Sunday food your grandma knew was your favorite...
An ice cream cone you had to hurry on before it melted...
Not enough coffee...
Way too much wine...
Feeling the warmth of soup or stew settle in your belly and bring you back to life on a winter's day...

Food is more than nourishment for the body. Food and drink carry an enormous emotional connection to the moments in our lives that are the most communal... and the most solitary. A simple whiff of a dish can bring with it weighty recollections of people, places, and points in time that define who we are.

Tishomingo Arts Council, The Crossroads Poetry Project & Cats After Dark - Poet Society invite you to explore your own emotional connections through food with our Food Poetry Competition 2023 :)

Adult Awards:

1st Place- $100 / 2nd Place - $50 / 3rd Place - $25 / 4th Place - $25

Youth Awards:

1st Place - $50 / 2nd Place - $25 / 3rd Place - $25

Additionally, all winners will be published in the 2024 edition of TAC's annual arts and letters magazine THE VIEW FROM WOODALL.

This competition is open to poets from anywhere!

To enter, email up to three poems (along with name, age, and contact information) to [email protected] with subject line: Food Poetry Competition. An entry fee of $5 per poem may be paid via PayPal to [email protected]

Entry Deadline: 11:59 pm, September 17th

Winners will be announced at a poetry reading and reception open to all participants in the courtyard behind Iuka, Mississippi's famous Apron Museum at 7 pm on Thursday, September 21st. A tour of this very unique museum will be set ahead of the reading at 6 pm :)

We give a HUGE thanks to Iuka Piggly Wiggly & Ace Hardware and to The Apron Museum for supporting what we expect to be a tremendous gathering of poets for this program :)

Tishomingo Arts Council Pet Poetry Competition 2023 held at the Apron Museum Courtyard was so much fun. The wonderful talented writers were a great group of people to get to know and hear their entertaining poems. And Yes some even looked at thousands of Aprons. Thanks Brent Bonds & Rachael Emery for such great event in Iuka.

The Apron Museum Courtyard is ready for a fun evening of Poetry & Pets.

Be sure to get your entries in by 11:59 pm this evening :)

Tishomingo Arts Council , The Crossroads Poetry Project and Cats After Dark - Poet Society have teamed up to celebrate poetry and pets in the month of June 🙂

Winners will be announced at a pet-friendly reading and reception (open to all participants) in the courtyard behind Iuka's world famous The Apron Museum beginning at 7pm on Thursday, June 22nd.

Major thanks to the Apron Museum for hosting and to Doc's Doggie Daycare & Boarding and For The Puppies Training Academy LLC. for sponsoring 🙂

Maine quilter wins big at international show, takes home $20K The quilt, called "Sweet Madame Blue," took Gorham resident Margaret Solomon Gunn more than two years to complete.

Copies of Quiltfolk Magazine Issue 26 MISSISSIPPI edition are available at the Museum During the month of June Special price of $19. Quiltfolk Magazine is such a wonderful story telling publication and a great read about Missisdippi quilters.

In a Sheep to Shawl competition, you have 5 people, 1 sheep, and 3 hours — good luck! At the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival, the Sheep to Shawl event is simultaneously cut-throat competitive and warm and fuzzy.

Thanks Jennifer Duty for the laugh and sharing

Newsflash ~ The Apron Museum is featured in the May 15, 2023 edition of Antique Trader magazine. See pages 12-15 of this link to the magazine:

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TURN AN OLD SHIRT INTO AN APRON - Love this idea!! And it looks so cute!!

http://www.ehow.com/how_7822235_make-aprons-shirts.html

If you plan to visit Asheville NC check out Cottage Cooking for a cottage style cooking class. One of the Apron Museum’s Apron friends.

Even the Field Museum in Chicago shows ‘someone’ in an Apron. Aprons have certainly been a part of humanity for a very long time.

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