Please note that this event is in the past.

The distinctive culture of the South will be celebrated on Friday evening, June 17th, 2011 beginning at 6:00 PM. The public is invited to enjoy an evening of food and entertainment that will highlight the wide range of cultural influences from Africa to the British Isles that shaped the traditional cuisine, music, and dance of Appalachia and the Deep South.

The evening will begin with a supper served family-style at 6:00 PM. The menu will feature glazed ham, Deborah's delicious sweet potatoes (back by popular demand!), black-eyed pea salad, corn casserole, sour cream-mustard potato salad, biscuits, and lemonade and sweet tea.

After dinner, local performers will treat guests to a clog dancing show. Some new dancers will wow us with their fancy footwork at this year's performance.

We'll top off the evening with a choice of pie for dessert!

Tickets are $20 per person by pre-paid reservation only; the deadline is Wednesday, June 15. E-mail saintmark161 (at) yahoo (dot) co (dot) uk or call the church at 320-656-1200 to add your name to the guest list, then send your check to the church.

We hope you can join us! Put some South in your mouth!

Guests can also take a tour of our Gothic Revival church building. There is a small bookstore in the fellowship hall with books and gifts for sale, and the nave of the church is richly ornamented with icons, candles, oil lamps, and the iconostasis, a feature unique to our worship.

Holy Myrrhbearers is located off 9th Ave S, between Lake George and the SCSU campus, on the corner of 6 St S and 7 Ave S. (Please check out the driving directions if you aren't sure.) (Unfortunately, our building is not handicap-accessible. There are stairs up from the sidewalk to the front door and then down to the dining room or up into the nave.)