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The heart of the festival takes place at the Atlanta History Center's 1860s Smith Family Farm where festival-goers of all ages find enjoyable, engaging activities that provide a thorough explanation of the fall harvest and preparation for the colder months ahead – before the invention of central heat.
Find out why food just seems to taste better in the South through garden tours as well as cooking and preserving demonstrations that showcase our region’s foods. Woodworking and blacksmithing activities teach not only the necessity of these skills during the 1860s, but also the creativity that went into shaping the materials into useful everyday tools.
For a complete festival experience, enjoy live musical performances while indulging in delicious local refreshments. Atlanta’s favorite food truck vendors provide tasty treats for purchase, and a selection of local craft beer is available at cash bars. Don’t forget to participate in the photo contest for a chance to win a Fall Folklife Festival prize-pack!
CLICK HERE to read about all program highlights and a schedule of events! A condensed list follows:
Smith Family Farm Activities
Smokehouse Demonstration by Allan Benton
Recipient of Southern Foodways Alliance’s 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award, Allan Benton, of Benton’s Smoky Country Hams, and his employees demonstrate how they have honed the dry-curing of hams and bacon into a culinary art and catapulted the products from a simple breakfast mainstay into the world of gourmet cooking, where they have been praised for their characteristic flavor. Benton is passionate about slow-curing pork, using traditional methods established in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, to ensure the best quality culinary experience possible.
Johnnie Gabriel, How to Cook Like a Southerner
Partake in Johnnie Gabriel’s cooking demonstration – she makes it, you taste it! Johnnie Gabriel started baking cakes alongside her grandmother as a young girl in South Georgia. Today, Johnnie is known as Atlanta’s “Cake Lady” for her mouth-watering red velvet cupcakes, award-winning wedding cakes, and other delectable desserts.
In her book, How to Cook Like a Southerner, Gabriel isn’t just sharing her recipes; she’s taking her Southern expertise to the next level, offering step-by-step photos for thirty-five of the most iconic Southern dishes, curating and testing over one hundred recipes from some of the best and most gracious cooks in the South, and offering tips to help you dress up even the most basic recipes for special occasions.
Phickles Pickles
Hear Phickles Pickles owner, Angie Tillman, talk about the history and art of pickling. Phickles Pickles is a gourmet pickle company from Athens, Georgia that is family owned and operated using the freshest, closest produce – and taking pride in every hand-packed jar!
Smith Family Farm Garden Tours
11:00 AM, 1:00 PM
Explore the historic and cultural roots of each of the Smith Family Farm’s interpretive gardens with our resident Historic Farmer.
Storytelling, Betty Ann Wylie
11:30 AM, 1:30 PM, 3:30 PM
Enjoy hearing traditional Southern folktales and learning about the history behind them. Betty Ann Wylie, a local storyteller, is a gentle Southern belle with a mischievous imp hidden deep inside who will bring these tales to life!
Additional Ongoing Smith Family Farm Activities:
Petting Zoo, by Little Red Barn
Blacksmithing
Woodworking
Cornhusk Dolls
Musical Performances
Musical acts include Sourwood Honey, Grits and Soul, and In-town Down-home Dulcimer Band. Schedule and location of performances is on the AHC website.
Food Vendors
Happy Belly Curbside Kitchen
Pressed for Time Paninis
Coca Cola Café, serving Chick-fil-A Noon – 2:00 PM
Honeysuckle Gelato
Local Craft Beers
LOCATION AND TICKETS
The Atlanta History Center is located at 130 West Paces Ferry Road NW, Atlanta, GA 30305
Tickets are:
$16.50 - Adults
$13.00 - Seniors 65+, Students 13+
$11.00 - Youth 4 to 12
FREE - Members, Children under 4
* Purchase Online and Save $2 per ticket.
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ENTER TO WIN A FAMILY GUEST PASS TO THE
ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER (Including Fall Folklife Festival)
Valid For 2 Adults & Up to 4 Children
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