Annual Meeting June 2

The Reece Society’s ninth annual meeting will be held at the Reece Farm and Heritage Center on Saturday, June 2, beginning at 10:00 a.m. in the pavilion.  

In anticipation of the Grand Opening of the Center for general visitation on Sunday, June 3, the day’s activities will include a special ribbon-cutting ceremony.  We will have special guests with us for that event, some of whom will make brief remarks.  Accordingly, we will dispense with the keynote speaker for the annual meeting and will limit the business session to those agenda items required by our by-laws.  Lunch will follow the morning activities in the area near the pavilion.

Following lunch, attendees will have the opportunity to visit the Gift Shop and Museum in the Welcome Center and to take a tour of all the exhibit areas that will be open to visitors the following day.

To register for the meeting contact us at reecesociety@gmail.com or call 706-379-5196. We hope to see you there!

A CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

With the opening of the Reece Farm & Heritage Center to public visitation, we need to establish a group of volunteers who are willing and in a position to serve as assistants in the Welcome Center or as occasional docents for the touring of the venue.

A gift shop manager will be available on a permanent basis to oversee the activities in the Welcome Center, which will include admitting visitors to the site and handling sales in the shop.  This person will need someone to assist in such things as welcoming visitors, stocking the inventory, conducting sales, and handling monetary transactions.  And while the bulk of the tours through the Farm & Heritage Center will be of the self-guided sort, pre-arranged visits by large groups (such as school children) will require the services of a tour guide or docent.  Training for this duty will be provided.

Please understand that we are not asking for fulltime commitment during the months the venue will be open.  If we can establish a large enough pool, no volunteer would be expected to assist more than one day or a half day each week or month, depending on one‘s availability and willingness to serve.

If you live in driving distance of the Center and will commit to serving on a limited basis in one of these volunteer capacities, please e-mail or call Patti Kay at jandpkay@gmail.com or (706) 379-3219.  The success of our venture at this venue hinges upon the cooperation of many volunteers!

The Pavilion is now available for your summer event!

Click The Pavilion above, or go here to find information about the beautiful pavilion by Wolf Creek!

Welcome

Byron Herbert Reece lived and wrote in the Choestoe valley of North Georgia. He lived the life of a small farmer, on land his family farmed for generations. He was lucky enough to attend high school and college, and went on to be a published and respected poet and novelist. His most prolific years were between 1938 and 1955, and saw the publication of four books of poetry and two novels. Financial success as an author and good health eluded him and he died in 1958, at the age of 40.

His legacy lives on as a respected Georgia author. The Byron Herbert Reece Society formed in 2003 to increase awareness of his work through programs, publicity and development of the Reece Farm into a destination to learn about the poet and mid-twentieth century farm life.

Use the above tabs to learn more about Byron Herbert Reece, about the work of the Reece Society including the Reece in the Schools initiative, about the Reece Farm Heritage Center, and to explore some of his poetry.