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Catfish Row Museum

Mary Beth Lasseter, interim co-director of Southern Foodways Alliance, on storytelling and food and the creation

Catfish Row Musuem

Mary Beth Lasseter, interim co-director of Southern Foodways Alliance, is coming to the Catfish Row Museum!This event is part of the Food For Thought: Catfish Row Museum Lab and Pop-Up Exhibition. Through grant funding from the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area, the museum will present a series of hands-on workshops, curatorial events and programs centered around local foodways. Through public programs and workshops, the museum will develop content and collect artifacts for the Catfish Row Museum. In the museum’s lab space, visitors can scan, copy and donate documents, such as letters, recipes and historic photographs, as well as record oral history interviews. In the exhibition space, community members can observe and provide feedback on how their artifacts and stories will be used in exhibits.This programming will present rich stories of crossing barriers and borders, of lives intertwined with food, as food and place are linked through the diversity of income and ethnicity in the South.<a href="https://catfishrowmuseum.org/catfish-row-museum-announces-food-for-thought-lab-and-pop-up-exhibition/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">LEARN MORE</a>About the speaker:Mary Beth Lasseter is interim co-director of the Southern Foodways Alliance. She earned an M.A. in Southern Studies and an M.B.A. from the University of Mississippi, and holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. She became involved with the Southern Foodways Alliance as a volunteer in 2000, and has worked for them ever since. Mary Beth is from South Georgia, but now lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with her engineer husband and four children. She&#x27;s always loved visiting farmers&#x27; markets and grocery stores when traveling, to see how people eat in other places.

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