Sat, Oct 15
|Hugh Torance House and Store
HEARTS Event - HEARTS Harvest
Featuring award-winning author and professor, Dr. Ashli Stokes, exploring local food history and our regional identity; and Singer-songwriter legend, David Childers and The Serpents, performing their original music in the Americana tradition.
Time & Location
Oct 15, 2022, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Hugh Torance House and Store, 8231 Gilead Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078, USA
About the event
What did harvest mean to the people in our region throughout the ages? Join us for Harvest, the October HEARTS happening at Huntersville’s historic Cedar Grove and Hugh Torance House and Store, where Dr. Ashli Stokes will explore our local foodways and traditions from the Paleo-Indians through the 21st century.
Dr. Ashli Quesinberry Stokes (PhD, University of Georgia) is a Professor of Communication Studies and former Director of the Center for the Study of the New South at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A 20-21 Fulbright scholar, her research about communicating identity in the Southern food movement has been described as “a call to action." She recently edited City Places, Country Spaces: Rhetorical Explorations of the Urban/Rural Divide (Peter Lang), and co-authored Consuming Identity: The Role of Food in Redefining the South with Wendy Atkins-Sayre. Stokes’ research exploring intersections between food, identity, and regions has been featured in…