Seventeenth Annual Heritage Homecoming Luncheon

Our guest speaker this year will be Marsha Folsom. She is married to Jim Folsom, Jr. and resides in Cullman. As a business development consultant, she works with companies seeking to expand their footprint both domestically and globally.
Since the spring of 2010, Marsha has been working to introduce bamboo as an agro-forestry alternative in the fertile region known as The Black Belt. She has been working to educate the public and farmers about bamboo’s potential to help the region thrive.
With development in mind, she cofounded Resource Fiber/Alabama in 2011. The focus for this venture is growing rapidly renewable bamboo in large-scale farming operations in the Alabama Black Belt region to create jobs and drive economic development.
You will want to hear how the bamboo park we are planning at the Van de Graaff Arboretum and Historic Bridge Park will become an educational resource exploring the history, future, and creative uses of this diverse plant in order to raise awareness of how bamboo could be a catalyst for a new type of agricultural development in Alabama.
HomeFriends of Historic Northport was founded in 1996. Since then the organization has grown to over 1000 members across the country. FHN produces a quarterly fact-filled historical newsletter, operates a Victorian-era Museum, a Heritage Records Room at the Historic Clements House, and the Umbria Schoolhouse - the oldest standing schoolhouse in Alabama. FHN is currently developing a 200-acre park named the Van de Graff Arboretum and Historic Bridge Park. The park property was a donation of the Jemison-Van de Graaff-Rountree Family. In September 2010 efforts to move the 1882 King Bowstring Bridge back to Northport were completed. The 1882 Bridge will be the centerpiece of a one-of-a-kind recreational & historic site. Each year FHN, along with the City of Northport, has an Annual Heritage Homecoming Luncheon in May, participates in the Dickens Downtown festival the first Tuesday each December, and has an Annual Bake Sale. If you are interested in becoming a member of FHN, you will receive our newsletter as well as mailings keeping you informed on the activities of the organization. Friends of Historic Northport, Inc.
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