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Susan Young to Talk about Early Manners and Customs at Hobbs State Park

Susan Young to Talk about Early Manners and Customs at Hobbs State Park
. Please Note --> This is a Past Event!! .

Date: 5/22/2016
Time: 2:00 PM

20201 East Hwy 12
Rogers, AR 72756

Phone:
479-789-5000

Event Description: Ozark History Expert, Susan Young, to Speak at Hobbs State Park on Early Ozark Manners and Customs Back in the 1850’s, a dinner party was a well-planned ordeal. Many host and hostesses received proper instructions on how to pull off a successful gathering from a book written by Catharine Beecher entitled, Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt Book. As Miss Beecher put it in the beginning of her paperback, “The details will be given with great minuteness that a novice might know what to do in every particular.” Timing was ever so serious: when to prepare what part of dinner, when to season each dish, and when and how to serve each course. Was the table properly set, and as Miss Beecher put it, “The jelly and pickles must be set at diagonal corners of the table. If coffee is to be served at the dinner table, the furniture for this must be put on the side table, or in an adjacent room, or closet.” Susan Young, outreach coordinator for the Shiloh Museum in Springdale, doesn’t think that such extreme etiquette is a stretch for the Ozarks. Susan is a 5th generation Ozarker, and she found an 1851 edition of Miss Beecher’s book in her grandmother’s house that dates back to the 1860’s. Young is going to offer some suggestions for summertime entertaining as presented in Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt Book. She noted, “Folks will learn the proper way to set a table as well as what is expected of the host and hostess to have a successful soiree. I’ll also include some of the recipes for ice cream, cake and other seasonal fare as presented in Miss Beecher’s book.” Young offered another quote from Miss Beecher, “When men become so refined and cultivated that they can supply wit and good sense instead of the overflows induced by the excitement of wine, diluted by the stupidity resulting from excess in eating, a house keeper will find the giving of a dinner party a very different matter from what is ordinarily found to be.” Ouch Miss Beecher. Maybe there’s a reason you were a “Miss”. Don’t you miss Susan Young’s program at Hobbs State Park. There are going to be some funnies. When: Sunday May 22, 2016 Time: 2:00 pm Where: Hobbs State Park visitor center located on Hwy 12 just east of the Hwy 12/War Eagle Road intersection. Cost: Free - The public is invited. For more information call: 479-789-5000 This program is part of the Friends of Hobbs Speaker Series. For information on other upcoming programs at Hobbs State Park, go to: http://www.friendsofhobbs.com.

Directions:
Hobbs State Park visitor center located on Hwy 12 just east of the Hwy 12/War Eagle Road intersection

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