2024 Homecoming Festival Feedback & Community Archive Submission Form
Sponsored by the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund and the MS John Hurt Foundation
We need input from everyone who attended and participated in the 2024 Homecoming Festival. Please answer the first series of questions to help the MS John Hurt Foundation and Mt. Zion Memorial Fund provide the best possible experience in the future…
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Beginning in 2024, the MS John Hurt Foundation will work with the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund to establish a community archive, which will contain photographs, videos, and stories from attendees as well as official marketing and promotional materials. We strive to prevent the erasure of African American history in Mississippi.
The growth of the community archive will depend on media contributions and information. To give each contributor proper credit, we need you to provide as much information (or metadata) as possible about your submissions. Over the next few months, we will curate your submissions into a digital exhibition and make the collection available to the public.
Please answer the second series of questions to contribute to the archive…
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October 8, 2024 @ 8:44 pm
My favorite parts of the 2024 festival included seeing folks I met last year, meeting new people, Andy’s playing, watching Dee never stop playing, the descendants’ panel, Harmonica Jock’s music-filled MC role, the great new documentary, and Super Chikan! The weather was perfect, and sitting under those majestic trees, bathing in the country blues, made for a blessed and healing weekend.
October 9, 2024 @ 2:35 am
I saw John Hurt perform in a coffee house called Ontario Place in Washington DC I the winter if 1966. He died later that year.
This event in a beautiful wooded setting was lovely in every way- great presentations, great food, and varied an excellent music! The other attendees were warm and friendly. It was great to meet John Hurt’s granddaughter!
October 9, 2024 @ 4:25 pm
I absolutely loved the Oct. 5, 6 event.
Loved the attendees, musicians, the film, and glad I got a chance to play a few times.
Obviously, the location is challenging to get to.
Happy that a decent hotel rate was established for Holiday Inn.
I really enjoyed everyone’s music and also the round table discussion.
October 11, 2024 @ 3:01 pm
It was good for me to be back with Mary Frances and my tribe on this side again for the celebration and to honor the roots and culture of the people who raised her grandfather, Daddy John, and her. One of my favorite parts of the weekend, besides viewing the excellent film she and her team brought about together, was the conversation Dr. Tara White facilitated on Sunday. I cannot overstate the importance it has been for me to see the voices of this community centered in their experience and the space that’s being made to support the youth who are coming up now to be centered in their experience as we celebrate community, roots, inter-generational and multicultural greetings acknowledgement, as my Brother Kwan expressed, healing and celebration. Thank you to everyone who is helping Mary Frances vision for the foundation reach and support the youth. The youth will lead the way! 🌻