Two words describe my reaction when artist and lecturer Luanne Stovall and I met for the first time over coffee last year to discuss her idea of a community wide pie social to celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday: Shock and Awe. Since 1995, Stovall had been serving pie to friends and family as a way of coming together to celebrate Dr. King's birthday, but last year she moved the homage into the public domain by inviting the members of Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church to host an inaugural Dream Pie Social. The Clarksville church, which was founded by freed slaves, agreed, and on Jan. 17, 2009, homemade pies, a children's program, and a silent auction generated a lively gathering of 200 participants, good will, and conviviality and raised $1,000 for a much needed handicap access ramp for the church.
Two words describe my reaction when artist and lecturer Luanne Stovall and I met for the first time over coffee last year to discuss her idea of a community wide pie social to celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday: Shock and Awe. Since 1995, Stovall had been serving pie to friends and family as a way of coming together to celebrate Dr. King's birthday, but last year she moved the homage into the public domain by inviting the members of Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church to host an inaugural Dream Pie Social. The Clarksville church, which was founded by freed slaves, agreed, and on Jan. 17, 2009, homemade pies, a children's program, and a silent auction generated a lively gathering of 200 participants, good will, and conviviality and raised $1,000 for a much needed handicap access ramp for the church.
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