Out of an abundance of caution, all public programs will be suspended from Thursday, January 6 through Sunday, January 9, 2022 due to the rise in COVID infections in the area. This affects Films on Friday: Wise Blood. Thank you for understanding. Stay safe & well. Adapted from Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 novel, this film is a very dark comedy that succeeds in capturing the novel’s eccentric,…
Adapted from a novel by Sally Benson, this utterly charming MGM musical stars Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Leon Ames, June Lockhart, and Harry Davenport. It relates a year in the life of the Smith family in St. Louis leading up to the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition—the great St. Louis World’s Fair of…
Author, critic, and longtime National Public Radio mainstay Michael Lasser, along with Alan Jones and Jessica Ann Best, celebrate the work of Savannah native, lyricist, and composer Johnny Mercer. Reservations are encouraged. Members, FREE; nonmembers, $10.
Violinist JaVonne Jones performs pop, soft rock, gospel, R&B, and country in her electrifying style. FREE. Funded by the Cleon W. Mauldin Foundation.
Learn about the South’s unique role in bootlegging during Prohibition (1920–1933) when Kathryn Smith discusses her new book, Baptists & Bootleggers: A Prohibition Expedition through the South . . . with Cocktail Recipes. Lecture, 6:00 p.m.; reception and book signing, 7:00 p.m. Presented by the Center for the Study of Georgia History, Historic Augusta, the Augusta Museum of History, the…
