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Michael W. Twitty, culinary historian & author...was able to join us once again at the 2023 Behind the Big House program.

He has been with us since 2015.

Michael, coming off another successful book project: Kosher Soul...was busy doing what he does best in his cooking demonstrations - "Serving up Culinary Justice!"...as his mission is to reclaim the rightful place of generational African-American ingenuity in the kitchen in the creation of our beloved Southern Cuisine.

This year, he had a most welcome assistant: Jordan Wimby - and we look forward to her being a future part of this team of professional historic interpreters.

So this was not only a post-pandemic re-boot of the Behind the Big House (BTBH) program, as we have not had an in-person program since 2019; it was also a year of transition.

The Hugh Craft House and its attendant slaves quarters & kitchen, the primary site for our program, since its creation in 2011 now belongs to a non-profit: The Rosa Foundation. It’s local partner non-profit: North Mississippi Roots & Wings is working with them, as they assume future management of PMCHS’ Behind the Big House program…so again, this was a year of transition.

North Mississippi Roots & Wings asked me to produce a rendering of the brick-making process and the Hugh Craft House under construction in 1851, which gave me an opportunity to illustrate, as a teaching tool, how the house was actually constructed.

As I am usually the one to give Orientation comments inside the Hugh Craft House for the BTBH program, I try to place the house in a proper context with the one of program’s objectives: to recognize the contributions of enslaved people in the building arts in antebellum America. I tell groups in attendance, “Everything you touch in this house was made by the hands of skilled craftsmen: the doors, windows, floors, walls, ceiling and wood trim. – Everything made by hand – not a machine involved in any of this work.

It took many people to construct a house like this in 1851 and most of them were enslaved people rented from local slave owners, according to their skill set. These people were added to a construction crew of white overseers and craftsmen and perhaps a few freedman who had purchased their freedom through their craftsmanship.

These historic structures are significant and need to be studied and preserved…but they need to be understood in the proper context of how they were built and pay due tribute to the skilled craftsmanship of un-named enslaved people who were in involved in that work as tangible testaments to their contribution to the building arts.

The Hugh Craft House was built of heavy-timber framing, held together with mortise & tenon joints and wood pegs – I tell the assembled groups, “Think of it as a cubed tree.”

In between the exterior timber framing is brick in-fill called “nogging” which in 1851, is a rather archaic form of construction, but I suppose it provided some benefits to insulation over a 6-inch void.

To that exterior surface was added hand-split lathing, to which exterior stucco was applied…and yes, to those who are familiar with the home’s traditional history: “Holly Springs’ first insulated house”…there is about a one-inch gap left between the brick face and the wood lathing…which was filled with charcoal - all this was confirmed in 2007-08 rehabilitation work on the house.

Here are some of the students passing around a section of heavy timber, with emphasis on “heavy” and an excerpt from the rendering I did for our program partner, showing how the timber frame and brickwork were done.

Behind the Big House program returns in 2023.

Take it all around, this was a most successful re-boot of our Behind the Big House program, bringing back professional historic interpreters Joseph McGill, Michael W. Twitty and Tammy Gibson. Our local historic interpreters included Wayne Jones and Dale DeBerry.

On Thursday and Friday, I figure we had some 450 students go through the program and on Saturday, usually a slow-paced day...we had families, single and small group visits, totaling about 200 and it stayed pretty steady all day.

This year we had funding assistance from the Mississippi Humanities Council; Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area Alliance; the Mississippi Arts Commission and the David B. Person Memorial Fund...for which we are most grateful!

We also had a strong contingent of both professors and student volunteers from several departments at the University of Mississippi, conducting archaeological excavations and survey work - more details on a later post.

It was also a transitional year for Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc., who co-hosted the event with two additional non-profits: The Rosa Foundation and North Mississippi Roots & Wings.

Here is one shot, a still from Tammy Gibson's video - which gives a pretty good perspective view of the program and its site: the domestic area of the historic High Craft House.

This is a film piece we assembled in 2022, in order to give access to the Behind the Big House program online.

2023 Behind the Big House (BTBH) program returns to its in-person format on 20-222 April 2023 - our post pandemic re-boot.

This basically this is an introduction on film by The Bearden Company, to our program. BTBH was created by Jenifer Eggleston and myself in 2011 in an effort to appropriately interpret the legacy of slavery in our region and establish what we envisioned as a pilot program to be duplicated at other sites...and it has been:

BTBH Final 9-21-22 This is "BTBH Final 9-21-22" by W***y Bearden on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Behind the Big House program: post pandemic re-boot for 2023

Our good friends at Oxford's The LOCAL VOICE - strident supporters of the Behind the Big House program gave the program's 2023 re-boot a brief shout out in their latest issue:

https://www.jta.org/2023/01/18/culture/michael-twittys-koshersoul-a-memoir-of-food-and-identity-named-jewish-book-of-the-year

Michael W. Twitty's new book, "Kosher Soul" was selected as the 2022 Jewish Book of the Year by the Jewish National Book Awards.

So...to Michael, we say: "MAZEL TOV!!!

Plan to attend the 2023 Behind the Big House program this coming 20-22 April at the Hugh Craft House slave quarters & kitchen in Holly Springs, MS. Michael will be there performing his craft as Culinary Historian and serving up some, as he prefers to say, "culinary justice!"

We, Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc., rejoice in his receiving this due honor and will be honored to have him return to join our program, once again...

Michael Twitty’s ‘Koshersoul,’ a memoir of food and identity, named Jewish book of the year - Jewish Telegraphic Agency A memoir by an African American Jew tops the Jewish Book Council’s list of honorees for 2022.

Dates? April 20 - 22 2023

Where? 184 S. Memphis Street - Holly Springs, MS

Who can come? :The public is invited to this no-fee public educational event

Preserve Marshall County and Holly Springs, Inc. , along with our long partnership with The Center for Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, we are pleased to introduce our new partnerships with the Rosa Foundation and North Mississippi Roots & Wings, as we bring you the 2023 Behind the Big House program.

Here, guests will be allowed a rare look into the other side of antebellum life through these few surviving structures with historic interpretations by Joseph McGill of the Slave Dwelling Project, featured in Garden & Gun Magazine. Culinary Historian, Michael W. Twitty, author of The Cooking Gene - winner of 2018 James Beard Foundation's Book Of The Year Award, will discuss the cooks of antebellum kitchens and the lives of enslaved people’s unique role in giving the South her mother cuisine through live cooking demonstrations.

Joseph McGill will be returning with the "Slaves Dwelling Project" and additional historic interpreters will illustrate the roles of an antebellum brick maker and a laundress all during the 10th year of the program in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

Also taking place on site: active archaeological work around the slaves quarters & kitchen at the Hugh Craft House, undertaken by professors and student volunteers from the University of Mississippi.

This program is made possible through funding-assistance grants from the Mississippi Humanities Council; Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area Alliance; the Mississippi arts Commission and the David B. Person Memorial Fund.

Go to https://preservemarshallcounty.org/ for details and schedule of events.

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The successful Arkansas "Behind the big House" program is a direct and most welcome result of Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc.'s program by the same name, work which began in 2011 in Holly Springs, MS.

21st Annual Arkansas Delta Byways Awards for Tourism Achievement JONESBORO – The 21st annual Arkansas Delta Awards, which recognize tourism achievement in Eastern Arkansas, were awarded Friday, Jan. 27, during a ceremony held at the Hendrix Fine Arts Center on t…

Holiday Greetings to all on this Christmas Day of 2022!!!! Three early protectors of Holly Springs' architectural heritage, taken in the early 1970s after a winter storm in Holly Springs: Vadah Cochran, Hubert McAlexander & Charles Dean.

Happy Christmas!!!

This is an event that follows up on our friend and partner, Dr. Jodi Skipper's recent publication: Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South:

Behind the big House - a film project.

This is the FINAL edit of the Behind the Big House program's film project; this is the introduction...much more program content will be added.

It's a beginning...but I feel a good one.

The Bearden Company is the filmmaker and eventually the documentarian for this project...this is just the beginning - like I said an introduction to the program:

BTBH Final 9-21-22 This is "BTBH Final 9-21-22" by W***y Bearden on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Event by Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Department of Archives & History

Public · Anyone on or off Facebook

Join us on site at noon on Wednesday, May 11, for History is Lunch or watch the livestream on Facebook when Jodi Skipper will discuss her new book "Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South."

The work explores Skipper’s eight-year collaboration with the Behind the Big House program in Holly Springs, a community-based model used at local historic sites to address slavery in the collective narrative of U.S. history and culture.

“All too often when people visit sites of slavery, it is the lives of slaveowners that are centered, obscuring the lives of enslaved people,” said Skipper. “My book takes a candid, behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to interpret the difficult history of slavery in the South.”

Dave Tell, author of "Remembering Emmett Till," wrote of the book: “Part memoir, part communal autoethnography, part history, and all activism, 'Behind the Big House' presents historic preservation as a form of memory activism. In Skipper’s telling, a local effort to preserve the legacy of slavery wends through classrooms, national nonprofits, ill-fitting academic benchmarks, and intimate friendships. Historic preservation—and Skipper herself—emerge as models for work in the public humanities.”

Signed copies of the book will be for sale at the program.

Jodi Skipper is associate professor of anthropology and southern studies at the University of Mississippi. She earned her BA in history from Grambling State University, her MA in anthropology from Florida State University, and her PhD in anthropology from the University of Texas. Skipper is coeditor of "Navigating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region." Her book "Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South" has just been published by the University of Iowa Press.

History Is Lunch is sponsored by the John and Lucy Shackelford Charitable Fund of the Community Foundation for Mississippi. The weekly lecture series of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History explores different aspects of the state's past. The hour-long programs are held in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building at 222 North Street in Jackson.

MDAH livestreams videos of the program at noon on Wednesdays on their page, https://www.facebook.com/MDAHOfficial/

The videos are posted on the department’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/MDAHVideo

Our dear friend and program partner: Dr. Jodi Skipper was recently interviewed as to the intended and hoped for impact of her book, which chronicles her trajectory and work on the Behind the Big House program:

https://www.aaihs.org/public-history-autoethnography-and-community-an-interview-with-jodi-skipper/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=public-history-autoethnography-and-community-an-interview-with-jodi-skipper&fbclid=IwAR0Tu97dlojWiu4ceB6kvmcLDd-YAkpOYmdhE_JzeFeQQWusuGSfP6gkQ4E

From our friend, Joseph McGill and The Slave Dwelling Project:

In June 2021, the board of directors at James Madison’s Montpelier took the important and necessary action of adding descendants of people who were enslaved at Montpelier to the site’s board. Sadly, that action has recently been rescinded.

The Slave Dwelling Project firmly opposes the rescinding of board membership for descendants of the enslaved community at Montpelier. We fully support the descendants of the enslaved at Montpelier in their effort to govern and ensure that the narrative at Montpelier is complete. We believe that in the current political climate, especially, historic sites should not take actions that could be misconstrued as “anti–critical race theory.” Reneging on the action to include descendants of the enslaved community as Montpelier board members does just that.

Since our founding in 2010, the Slave Dwelling Project has had many encounters with Montpelier, including assisting in the construction of a slave cabin at Montpelier and contributing to the creation of a rubric of best practices developed by Montpelier in 2018.

Our work with Montpelier and other historic sites is a vital part of the Slave Dwelling Project’s vision of a future where Americans acknowledge a more truthful and inclusive narrative of the history of the nation–one that honors the contributions of all our people, is embedded and preserved in the buildings and artifacts of people of African heritage, and inspires all Americans to acknowledge their Ancestors.

The Slave Dwelling Project

Check out these articles about SDP's involvement with Montpelier:

If We Build it Will They Come?
Archaeology, Slave Owning Presidents and the Descendants of the Enslaved
Montpelier and the Power of Archaeology
The Dirt on President James Madison
A Night With the Ancestors
A Rubric of Best Practices of Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites

Re-posted by MISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES COUNCIL:

https://www.facebook.com/mississippi.humanities/posts/10160034838346197?notif_id=1649684822992195¬if_t=page_tag&ref=notif

A Virtual Behind the Big House program.

On March 4th – 6th, Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc. managed and hosted its “Virtual Behind the Big House (BTBH)” film project at the Hugh Craft House & slaves quarters in Holly Springs, Mississippi. This was done in response to our inability to conduct an in-person program…which we have conducted each spring since 2012.

With the tragic introduction of the COVID-19 into our midst in early 2020, we cancelled the program slated for April 2020 and with the virus’ persistence…we were forced to cancel the event once more in 2021 and began making plans for filming a “Virtual BTBH” in the fall of 2021…then came the explosion of the “Delta Variant.” It was thought best to postpone that project until spring 2022, as it was patently clear that no in-person program was happening until…perhaps 2023.

The weather over March 4 – 6 could not have been more perfect for a film project that was primarily to be done outside; it was sunny, with a slight cooling breeze for the entire three days.

We must be doing something right.

For the program itself, we had Joseph McGill of the “Slave Dwellings Project” here from South Carolina; Michael W. Twitty, Culinary Historian and James Beard Award-winning author came over from his home near Fredericksburg, VA to serve up some "culinary justice!" and Tammy Gibson, Professional Storyteller was down from her home near Chicago, IL. W***y Bearden, filmmaker, documentarian and author was on deck with The Bearden Company to film and document the program, in its entirety.

As program support, Drs. Jodi Skipper and Carolyn Freiwald were there from the University of Mississippi’s Center for Southern Studies and their complement of student volunteers from both the University’s Anthropology and Archaeology departments. As well, we had Dr. Ron Counts from the University’s Department of Geology with his students, conducting GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) survey work to determine where disturbed soils indicated additional outbuildings and intense activity in the domestic areas between the Hugh Craft House and its slaves quarters & kitchen.

We had quite a busy site for three days with active excavation going on; the GPR device rolling about the area and Michael Twitty, tending his open fire-pit cooking and Tammy Gibson, presenting her historic interpretation of an enslaved woman charged with the back-breaking task of “Laundress” – while Joseph McGill gave his interpretation of the life of an enslaved person for an in-town property. All presented for documentation by W***y Bearden’s cameras.

This critical era of the virus will pass and we will be able to get back to our in-person programs; in the interim, once this filmed “virtual” version of the BTBH program is edited…it will be broadly available to schools, institutions or any individual with access to the Internet, thereby broadening our reach. The pandemic pushed us towards this approach and as a result, the program’s educational outreach effort will benefit from this “virtual” option.
Know that this film project would not have been possible without the interest and support through grants-assistance funding provided us from the Mississippi Humanities Council; the Mississippi Arts Commission; the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area Alliance and donations to PMCHS, in tribute to our late friend and program partner: David B. Person.

Check back with us, once The Bearden Company produces a “teaser” that will give us something to put out there, in advance of the curriculum-based final end-product to be produced.

"Behind the Big House" - a book by Dr. Jodi Skipper is OUT!

We just received our copies of Jodi's chronicling of her own personal trajectory into this difficult subject...a trajectory that happened to merge with Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc's education out-reach program: "Behind the Big House" which had its first live programming in 2012.

Dr. Skipper soon became an indispensable partner in our work towards interpreting the legacy of slavery in Marshall County and Holly Springs, Mississippi and this is her personal chronicling of that endeavor and the subsequent programs it has given birth to.

It is a superbly written and fine accounting of a critical dialogue in taking on a much conflicted chapter in our nation's history. Here's link to purchase it on AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Big-House-Reconciling-Humanities/dp/1609388178

It's now easier to send Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs a message.

Some of you might be familiar with Larry Washington, aka: "Big Larry" - who has, since we first met him in 2011, provided Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc. with overnight security at all of our outdoor events.

Larry is a humble, kind and gentle giant who with his son "Little Larry," manages an auto-detailing business and does odd jobs to make ends meet in Holly Springs, Mississippi. We have grown quite fond of him.

Yesterday, we got the dreadful news that "Little Larry" died in a tragic incident out on Highway 72 and we wanted to seek some method to help Larry Washington out - so I put together a GoFundMe Campaign...as while I know he was not prepared for this deep personal loss, I'm sure he was equally unprepared to meet the funerary costs that are now facing him.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-larry-washington-big-larry?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

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Recent profile on Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc.'s work in Mississippi Heritage Trust's (MHT) Fall 2021 issue of ELEVATION: pages 10-12.

MHT is the statewide preservation advocacy organization, being deftly managed by Ms. Lolly Rash, whom I originally met while directing the NPS Hurricane Katrina Grants Program for Historic Preservation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast for Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

Lolly was an ardent preservation advocate down there, based from her home in Biloxi, MS; she has taken those honed skills to MHT's Directorship:

https://www.mississippiheritage.com/elevation-fall-2021

Elevation Fall 2021 — Mississippi Heritage Trust The mission of the Mississippi Heritage Trust is to save and renew places meaningful to Mississippians and their history.

William Otis Fitch: 1933 – 2021

William Otis Fitch known alternately as “Mr. Fitch” or “W. O.” or “Billy” when he was in high school in Holly Springs or to those most familiar to him, he was simply “Bill”…passed away on 22 September 2021. He was born on 01 August 1933 near Laws Hill, Mississippi - in Marshall County.

Bill graduated from Holly Springs High School in 1951, on the cusp of the Korean War and enlisted in the U. S. Naval Air Corps Cadet program, earning his wings and flew as a U.S. Navy fighter pilot, flying F4U “Corsairs” into combat from aircraft carriers. He often arranged to get his old combat unit together for their annual reunions.

After the war, Mr. Fitch started his career in consumer finance and lending, while feeding his abiding passion as an outdoorsman and the preservation of old ways. He accumulated property in rural Marshall County, naming it for a long-past estate near his rural residence: “Galena Plantation“ – a place which became synonymous with renowned field trials and old world style hunts for Wild Turkey, Quail and Deer…but the Field Trials were the big event that drew hunters from all walks of notice - be they Hollywood celebrities or political elites from Washington, D.C. and the State of Mississippi. In the latter categories, Bill, through his many interests in historical and cultural preservation, fashioned a persona, which had far-reaching connections to political machinations with W. O. Fitch becoming a most effective political operative with wide ranging influence. People wanted Fitch on their side of any contest.

I met W. O. Fitch in 1996, when I was hired to design and manage the stabilization and restoration of “Old St. Joseph’s Church of the Yellow Fever Martyrs” in Holly Springs, Mississippi, a project that Mr. Fitch helped to fund. It was to be the first of many historic restoration projects in Holly Springs that I was to take on…but I didn’t know that then. My casual meeting with W. O. Fitch at a reception for that project was the beginning of a long enduring preservation alliance and an abiding friendship, which began several years later, when I moved to Holly Springs in 2002; but I didn’t know that in 1996.

My 2002 move to Holly Springs was to be a quiet one, but the purchase of what is traditionally known as “Fort Daniel Place” – a much beloved property in Holly Springs, precluded that plan and was only exacerbated by my meeting David B. Person, who had just purchased “Crump Place” – another much-beloved property in town. “Crump Place” soon became my next project in Holly Springs and then came the invitation to one of the political dinners out at “Galena Plantation.” It was to be the first of many such invitations.

Bill Fitch, Tim Liddy and I began to work on how to formalize the advocacy for historic preservation in Holly Springs and Marshall County; Tim Liddy was, at that time President of the newly formed Holly Springs Historic Preservation Commission – an arm of the City of Holly Springs administration. After trying to ally with other existing non-profit organizations, it became clear that we would need to start one ourselves and in 2005 W. O. “Bill” Fitch and myself co-founded Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc.” – an organization chartered to advocate for the preservation of historic sites, buildings and those cultural aspects which define the unique character of Marshall County and Holly Springs. Our first project was the 2005 relocation of the original ca. 1850 Plantation Office for “Mack” – a plantation owned by Major Josiah Patrick Milledge Stephenson (ancestor of the McAlexander families), out on Highway 311. It was relocated to a sister plantation: Strawberry Plains (now Strawberry Plains Audubon Center or S**C) for their use in nature education programs and its preservation.

Since its founding in 2005, the list of projects taken on by Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc. (PMCHS) is lengthy: there are both wins and there are losses. In 2009, PMCHS took on its “flagship project” and took ownership of historic Chalmers Institute, once the City of Holly Springs defaulted on their obligation to the building loan needed to acquire it in 2004. With this property’s ownership came a need for a fund-raising event that would provide a regular source of income and the annual “Wrecking Ball” event was created in 2011 to raise funds for a cash-match, in order to secure grants-assistance funding through the Mississippi Department of archives and History, in which we have been successful. W. O. Fitch was always generous with his donations towards both paying down the significant bank loan for Chalmers Institute and the gift of a much-envied slot in the hunts out there at “Galena Plantation” for The Wrecking Ball’s silent auction offerings.

If a significant piece of Holly Springs’ history came up for sale and I found out about it…Bill Fitch was a willing and ready donor; the man absolutely loved Holly Springs’ history; talking about it and meeting others who could share their knowledge with him was a personal passion. Bill was particularly keen on supporting efforts to preserve Confederate military history in his beloved Marshall County and Holly Springs, be it to stabilize Confederate grave markers in Hill Crest Cemetery or on a larger scale, purchasing the log house in Hernando, Mississippi, which at one point accommodated the residence of Nathan Bedford Forrest, and reconstructed that structure out at “Galena Plantation” for his personal residence.

The Lodge, where all the dinners took place, was a combination of a couple of old abandoned Mississippi plantation Commissaries – re-assembled there to suit his needs for large dinner gatherings…and if you’ve not been invited to one of his dinners, count that as a true epicurean loss; particularly the “wild game dinners” – those were absolute feats of another order.
In my own personal history, my namesake was a World War Ii fighter pilot: 2nd Lt. Chelius C. Howard, who was Killed in Action near war’s end. I often managed his unit’s (the 364th Fighter Group) annual reunions. On a couple occasions, I set up personal tours of historic homes and churches in Holly Springs…and the Big Event was a dinner with country music out at “Galena Plantation.” While their numbers have thinned considerably since I organized their first reunion in 1983, those in their 90s today who came to the Holly Springs tours and had one of the dinners out at Bill Fitch’s…they STILL talk about that – meeting and talking with W. O. “Bill” Fitch; old fighter pilots speak the same language.

W. O. was at first an acquaintance I made in 1996, then a friend and ally in 2002…and for the ensuing 19 years. He is the sort of character that doesn’t come into one’s orbit often and I was gratified that we came into each other’s orbit through a shared passion to preserve history…and to eat well, in the Southern style.

He is a dear friend that I shall sorely miss and Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc. is very much a part of his legacy and vision.

Below is a photograph I took of “W. O.” during the dinner at the 364th Fighter Group’s Final Reunion in 2011 – telling a story to another fighter pilot.

If you wish make a donation to PMCHS, go to:

https://www.paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/2084403