Special Tours
Sidney Lanier Cottage in Macon, GA - Private guided tour for 6 with light refreshments
- Item Number
- 186
- Estimated Value
- 100 USD
- Sold
- 55 USD to MGCARS
- Number of Bids
- 7 - Bid History
Item Description
A private guided tour for up to six (6) persons of the Sidney Lanier Cottage (circa 1840) located in Macon, GA's famed Intown Historic District. The tour will be conducted in costume by it's lead interpreter, Marty Willett, who has been a Sidney Lanier re-enactor since 1982. Tour will include poetry recitations by Mr. Willett and your choice of wine & cheese refreshments, or desserts and coffee.
The Sidney Lanier Cottage House Museum is the birthplace of noted poet, musician & soldier, Sidney Lanier (1842-1881). Perhaps best known for his poems "The Marshes of Glynn" and "Song of the Chattahoochee," Lanier was also a renowned musician, as he was first chair flute in the Peabody Symphony Orchestra in Baltimore for seven seasons. Furthermore, Lanier received a federal commission to compose a Cantata for the Centenniel celebration of the United States in 1876 in Philadelphia.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Sidney Lanier Cottage House Museum was designated a Landmark of American Music in 1976, and in 2004 "the Cottage" was designated a Landmark of American Poetry by the Academy of American Poets. Among the objects on view at the Cottage are one of Sidney Lanier's flutes (a silver, alto flute made by the Badger Flute Company), his wife Mary Day's wedding dress of 1867, and several portraits and first editions.
Item Special Note
Reservations and arrangements must be made in advance. Expires May 31, 2010.
Explore "the Cottage" at the Historic Macon website: http://www.historicmacon.org
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