The Friends of the University Libraries invite the public to an author talk and book signing featuring Dean Meador Smith, who will speak about "Historic Designation and the Meador Homestead," on Thursday, June 27, at 6 p.m. in the Cook LIbrary (map) Art Gallery. Meador Smith, a Hattiesburg resident, will discuss her work to have her family’s historic cabin, built of hand-hewn pine in 1884, declared historic designation. She and husband Eddie Smith restored the log cabin in 2009 and opened Meador Homestead Bed and Breakfast in 2010. There, Meador Smith also operates Simply TeaVine, a popular tea room where she serves Southern delicacies and tea in a setting surrounded by camellias, azaleas and pine trees. Meador Smith will also discuss her cookbook, "Momma Dean’s Southern Cooking at Meador Homestead," and have copies to sell and sign. The stories and historic photos in the cookbook are integral to the history of Mississippi’s Piney Woods region. For example, Smith devotes a chapter to her Circuit Rider’s Tea, a nod to her great-great-grandfather, Levi Meador, a Methodist who traveled on horseback preaching to settlers and organizing congregations in rural areas. The menu includes preacher man’s stew, hoecakes, grilled apple and cheese sandwich and heavenly hash cake. Visit the Meador Homestead Bed and Breakfast website here.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:44:39 +0000
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