Everyone has a story and Rabbit Box Storytelling offers a place for those stories to be told. Rabbit Box began 10 years ago and was inspired by the Moth Radio Hour on National Public Radio. All our storytellers are local and all the stories are true. This presentation will review the history of Rabbit Box, explain how the shows are produced and tell how you can become involved as an audience member or a storyteller. Then three seasoned Rabbit Box storytellers will treat you to some of their favorite stories.

Issues of race, history, and culture simmer just below the surface of our everyday lives. Few take time to talk “calmly and rationally” about how we Americans can reconcile the past to build a common future using logic, reason, and data. How do well-meaning people help a community move beyond its past when confronted by those who hold ingrained stereotypes, profit from maintaining the status quo, or are filled with antipathy toward others? Arthur Dunning, an accomplished African American higher education administrator, journeyed through this quagmire as he led the consolidation of the historically black Albany State University and the historically white two-year college in Albany, Darton State College.

Thomas Cole, the so-called father of the Hudson River School of American landscape painting, was born in England's industrialized Lancashire and immigrated with his family to the United States at the age of 18. Essentially self-taught, he would transform landscape painting into what he called "a higher sort" that combined scenic specificity with history, literary and allegorical meaning. We will examine how specific terrain like the Catskills intersected with his growing concerns about environmental degradation and the Jacksonian greed for things, not thoughts. In addition, we will analyze his epic masterpiece, The Course of Empire of 1834-36.

Come celebrate Halloween and Octoberfest together at Southern Brewery Co., 231 Collins Industrial Blvd Athens, GA.  Have fun – wear a costume and/or mask! 

Choose a 16 oz beer from a wide variety of choices from Southern Brewery Co. and enjoy dinner catered by BentWillys BBQ from 5PM-7PM.

Mains: BBQ Pork or Chicken Sandwich: $8; Brisket Sandwich: $10; Pork or Chicken Mac "n" Meat (double serving of creamy 3 cheese mac topped serving of BBQ pork or chicken): $9; Sides: Mac: $3, Creamy Cole Slaw: $3; Texas Style Pinto Beans (mildly Spicy): $3

Dessert: Heaping Serving of Banana Pudding topped with a Chessman Cookie: $5. Bottled water, Coke and Diet Coke available $1 each