Meeting will highlight city’s historic families
Published 9:00 pm Friday, February 17, 2012
Brookhaven has a rich history going back to1818 that was built by some of the original families who settledhere.
No one knows that better than The Lincoln County Historical andGenealogical Society.
The society will gather for their first meeting of the springMonday at the Jimmy Furlow Senior Citizen Center at 6:30 p.m. withthe topic of the meeting being some of the old Brookhaven families.The public is invited to the event and is invited to join thesociety.
Two guest speakers, Betsy Penn Smith and Phyllis Spearman, willdiscuss old Brookhaven families and have historical artifacts fromtheir families for people to view, according to society member RitaRich.
Smith will go over the Penn family while Spearman will discuss theMcGraths, Moretons and Johnsons.
The topic was suggested by Michael Harris and featured familieswere chosen based on information from a cookbook the society hasfor sale. The cookbook was originally printed in 1904, but wasrecently re-released as a society fundraiser, according toRich.
“The recipes back then were not very detailed, in fact they weremore vague,” said Rich. “They did not give exact measurements, butused lots and lots of margarine. They just assumed you knew how toprepare the dish.”
Refreshments will be provided.
Four cakes made from the original recipes in the cookbook will beserved. The cakes will be chocolate, blackberry, vanilla wafer andvinegar.
Rich said the Lincoln County Historical and Genealogical Societytries to meet several times a year, with their last one being inOctober 2011.
“We usually try to have a few meetings in the fall and a few in thespring,” said Rich. “We’ll try for a meeting in March, April andMay this year.”
Cookbooks are still for sale and may be purchased at the meeting.Cookbooks are also available Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m.until 2 p.m. at the museum on West Chickasaw Street.