The Blanchard House Museum of African American
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The Museum will be closed the week of Thanksgiving.
We will resume normal house on Tuesday, Nov 27.
Enjoy Thanksgiving!
Dear Members, Friends, and Supporters,
The season is off and running and we are proud to host our new exhibit:
African Roots of Southern Cooking
All year, we will be talking about and tasting African-based Southern foods at Blanchard House sponsored events.
Click here for the new exhibit flyer. Hope we see you this season.
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We were the location for Lee Pitts Live!
We will resume normal house on Tuesday, Nov 27.
Enjoy Thanksgiving!
Dear Members, Friends, and Supporters,
The season is off and running and we are proud to host our new exhibit:
African Roots of Southern Cooking
All year, we will be talking about and tasting African-based Southern foods at Blanchard House sponsored events.
Click here for the new exhibit flyer. Hope we see you this season.
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We were the location for Lee Pitts Live!
Lee Pitts, Punta Gorda Mayor Rachel Keesling, and Blanchard House Museum's Executive Director Martha Bireda.
On June 18, the Lee Pitts Live Show came to the Blanchard House to tape four shows. The first show will air at 8:30 on Sunday, July 22, on Fox 4. The Lee Pitts Live Show reaches 750,000 households in Lee, Collier, Charlotte, Hendry, Glades, Desoto and Sarasota counties. We are delighted that Mr. Pitts chose to visit and highlight the Blanchard House Museum.
https://www.leepittslive.com/
https://www.facebook.com/leepitts.live
See the Blanchard House through the years - here.
On June 18, the Lee Pitts Live Show came to the Blanchard House to tape four shows. The first show will air at 8:30 on Sunday, July 22, on Fox 4. The Lee Pitts Live Show reaches 750,000 households in Lee, Collier, Charlotte, Hendry, Glades, Desoto and Sarasota counties. We are delighted that Mr. Pitts chose to visit and highlight the Blanchard House Museum.
https://www.leepittslive.com/
https://www.facebook.com/leepitts.live
See the Blanchard House through the years - here.
What's new at
the Museum?
13th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King
Community Breakfast
19 January 2019
Breakfast served: 8 - 9 a.m.
Program: 8 - 10:30 a.m.
Punta Gorda Middle School
Guest Speaker: Canter Brown
Florida Historian and Author
Tickets $15 Adult, $8 Child
Available at the museum or on this webpage.
(Click here for the Flyer)
Museum's History Quest
Questing - A place-based, educational scavenger hunt with clues and questions designed to pass along knowledge about a location.
Download and start your Quest today!
(Click here for the Quest)
the Museum?
13th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King
Community Breakfast
19 January 2019
Breakfast served: 8 - 9 a.m.
Program: 8 - 10:30 a.m.
Punta Gorda Middle School
Guest Speaker: Canter Brown
Florida Historian and Author
Tickets $15 Adult, $8 Child
Available at the museum or on this webpage.
(Click here for the Flyer)
Museum's History Quest
Questing - A place-based, educational scavenger hunt with clues and questions designed to pass along knowledge about a location.
Download and start your Quest today!
(Click here for the Quest)
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