rural renaissance roadshow

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Georgia Sports Hall of Fame

Located across the street from the Tubman Museum, The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame is one of the country’s largest state sports museums. Created in 1956 as the Georgia Prep Sports Hall of Fame, the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame has been in existence for more than 50 years. It was expanded in 1963 to encompass prep, college, amateur, and professional sports. In 1999, it moved into a permanent new home in Macon. The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame’s building resembles a turn-of-the-century ballpark with a red-brick exterior and green roof. From the old-style ticket booths to the brick columns in the rotunda and special lighting, the museum invites visitors to experience the history of sports in Georgia with more than 14,000 square feet of high-energy exhibit space and a Hall of Fame Corridor that honors the over 400 inductees. In addition, there is a 205-seat theater with exposed steel trellises based on the design of Ponce de Leon Park in Atlanta.

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Special Screening of Farming While Black

Farming While Black is a feature-length documentary film which examines the historical plight of Black farmers in the United States and the rising generation reclaiming their rightful ownership to land and reconnecting with their ancestral roots.

As the co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York, Leah Penniman finds strength in the deep historical knowledge of African agrarianism – agricultural practices that can heal people and the planet. Influenced and inspired by Karen Washington, a pioneer in urban community gardens in New York City, and fellow farmer and organizer Blain Snipstal, Leah galvanizes around farming as the basis of revolutionary justice.

In 1910, Black farmers owned 14 percent of all American farmland. Over the intervening decades, that number fell below two percent, the result of racism, discrimination, and dispossession. The film chronicles Penniman and two other Black farmers’ efforts to reclaim their agricultural heritage. Collectively, their work has a major impact, as each is a leader in sustainable agriculture and food justice movements.

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Tour the Houston Solar Farm

Join us on the afternoon of Nov. 13 for a field trip to Houston Solar Farm to get up close and personal with the largest agrivoltaic project in the U.S. that is wholly owned and operated by one company at Silicon Ranch's Snipesville Ranch, a 2,600-acre agrivoltaic project in Jeff Davis County, Georgia. Silicon Ranch launched a first-of-its-kind, utility-scale agrivoltaics in-house operations and maintenance program at this Ranch in 2021 to build our capacity to deliver Regenerative Energy and restore ecosystems using the power of animal impact.

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