Samantha Wallace
This guest post is by Samantha Wallace, the co-founder and publisher of edible Upcountry magazine, a quarterly publication dedicated to telling the local, seasonal food stories of our region.
Perhaps the coolest thing that has happened to me in starting edible Upcountry magazine is I now have Mac Arnold’s cell phone number programmed in my phone.
Mac Arnold
I met him at last year’s Potlikker Film Festival in Greenville where the Southern Foodways Alliance screened a short segment of Stan Woodward’s documentary of this stellar bluesman and serious farmer, and I was, in a word, compelled. Compelled to visit his farm in Pelzer a few weeks later, sit at his kitchen table, walk his rows of organically grown collards, just be near this prince of a man. Mac has this effect. If you’ve read Scott Gould’s centerpiece article Edible Rhythm: The Stuff Mac Says in our recent spring issue you know it can happen. (Article available online here)
And now you have a chance to enter his orbit as well. We are delighted to co-sponsor a special night with HUB-BUB at The Showroom this coming Thursday that provides a full circle of experience. We will screen a 50-minute segment of Stan Woodward’s documentary film Nothing To Prove, host a facilitated discussion between filmmaker and subject, and then let Mac’s music reign as he and his longtime Plate Full O’ Blues band take the stage. Please join us.
Food, Farming & The Blues
@ The Showroom
Thursday, 3/22 6-9pm
149 S Daniel Morgan Ave
Tickets $25
Sold at the door or purchase in advance: www.macarnoldfam.eventbrite.com
