Hull House Foundation, in collaboration with Mo’ Better Buffalo, the heritage tourism/historical re-enactment marketing and development company, will host the “Abolition Meeting and Cookout” on Saturday, September 10, 2011 from noon to 3 p.m. at the Hull Family Home & Farmstead, 5976 Genesee Street at Pavement Road in Lancaster, New York. This first-of-its-kind fundraising and awareness-raising event will include:
Advance reservations are required. Tickets are $50 per person or $75 per couple. Proceeds go toward the restoration of the Hull Family Home & Farmstead. Reservations should be made online at www.HullFamilyHome.org. For special rates for children, families and groups, or for more information, call 716-362-0230 or email mobetterbuffalo@gmail.com “We are very pleased to collaborate with Mo’ Better Buffalo to prototype this Living History adventure as a new heritage tourism product that potentially can become a source of income for the preservation of our site,” Hull House Foundation President Hull Family Home & Farmstead, 5976 Genesee Street at Pavement Road, Lancaster, NY 14086 www.HullFamilyHome.org Mo' Better Buffalo is a partnership of Kevin Cottrell’s Motherland Connextions Underground Railroad Tours and Outside the Box, a marketing and development communications business. Founded in 2004, its collaborative mission is to develop and market heritage tours and living history re-enactment products as a sustainable strategy for regional economic development. “This concept of ‘histonomics,’ cultivated with foresight, has a great potential to bring positive economic change to Buffalo and the surrounding region,” Cottrell said. “There is an untapped market for innovative tourism products that immerse people in a viable and authentic living history experience. With its rich history, multicultural history and many historic structures and landmarks, the Buffalo-Niagara region offers a nearly limitless resource for the development of these products, which can be implemented as an effective tool for both not-for-profit and private sector advancement.” Mo’ Better Buffalo has mounted two re-enactment series this summer: “Dug’s Dive” and “Hodge’s Frontier Trading Post,” both sponsored by Buffalo Place as part of the vibrant programming at Buffalo’s emerging waterfront. The final re-enactment of “Hodge’s Frontier Trading Post” will be on Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 4 p.m. at Erie Canal Harbor. “Our September 10 event is an opportunity for an enjoyable different sort of afternoon, a fine outdoor meal and sharing in regional history in an engaging and entertaining way. You’ll also be supporting our ongoing efforts to fully restore Erie County’s oldest intact residence, a singular historic resource for the WNY region,” Costello said. The Hull Family Home & Farmstead is the project of Hull House Foundation, the all-volunteer non-profit organization formed in 2006 to research, restore and operate the site, anchored by Erie County’s oldest residence c. 1810, as a Living History interpretive experience representative of the lives of the earliest settlers of the Western New York region. www.hullfamilyhome.org |
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Living History Special Event “Abolition Meeting and Cookout” to be Held at Hull Family Home & Farmstead September 10posted Aug 29, 2011 5:06 PM by Dennis Hirschfelt [ updated Aug 29, 2011 5:09 PM ] |