Recently got a request from the Southern Foodways Alliance, the organization that’s been laser-beam focused on an effort to get a landmark restaurant — Willie Mae’s Scotch House — in New Orleans open before the end of the year. If ever there was a determined grassroots operation, this is it.
I’m going. I will be there next weekend, paintbrush in hand, to volunteer. Wanted to pass along this request, in case there’s anything anybody feels compelled to donate to the cause and/or join me. Let me tell you, they feed the volunteers very well.
Here’s the request:
“Under the leadership of SFA’s own John Currence, we’re closing in on the final details for the Scotch House rebuilding project. Our next (and probably last) volunteer work weekend will be Nov.17-19. We need all hands on deck! We hope to finish trim work this weekend so Miss Seaton may move in the following week and celebrate Thanksgiving in her newly refurbished home. Won’t you help us?
SKILLS NEEDED
Any/all. We’ll be painting, sanding, hammering, and sweeping. Carpentry skills a plus, but we can match skilled folks with non-skilled folks and create some good teams.
WORK DAYS/HOURS
Friday and Saturday, 9-5. Sunday, 9-noon. Nov. 17, 18, 19 (the weekend before Thanksgiving).
WHAT TO BRING
Once you confirm that you can work with us, we’ll send out a list of materials that you should bring with you to New Orleans. In addition to construction materials, we’ll also have a list of furnishings needed for the home. If you have extra bedspreads, curtains, a spare couch…anything that you could lug along in your car or truck…we might be able to use it. Miss Seaton lost everything in the flood.”
For additional details, log on to the SFA site.
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