Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum has plans to host its first ever Harvest Home Dinner, a fundraising event honoring the farming roots of the Stoutsburg Sourland community.
The event is scheduled to take place at the historic Reasoner/True House on Saturday Nov. 16 from 5 to 8 p.m. The event is open to the public, and tickets to attend are $50.
SSAAM is Central New Jersey’s only museum with the mission of telling the local and regional stories of African Americans from the time of the transatlantic slave trade to the present day. The organization plans to continue this work with the support of a Preserving Black Churches grant.
The dinner will feature locally sourced dishes, live music and storytelling from descendants of the True family and Mt. Zion AME Church members.
“Harvest Home Dinner has been happening in the Sourland region for over 100 years,” says co-founder and historian Elaine Buck, citing a news clipping in the SSAAM archives that dates from the early 1900’s.
The dinner will include a toast, a three-course meal and “reflections on faith, food, family and fortitude.”
Tickets are available for purchase online. The historic Reasoner/True House is located at 183 Hollow Road, Skillman, NJ.
