Having Our Say opens as 103-year-old Sadie and 101-year-old Bessie welcome us into their Mt. Vernon, NY home.

Their stories take us on a remarkable journey through the last hundred years of our nation's history, recounting events and anecdotes drawn from their rich family history and careers as pioneering African-American professionals.

Their story is not simply African-American history or women's history; it is our history, told through the eyes of two unforgettable women as they look not only into the past, but also ahead to the twenty-first century.

Admission is Free to Historic Macon and Theatre Macon members. $5 admission for non-members. Refreshments will be served at 2 and the program will run from 2:30-3:30. 

Archer Records is excited to announce the release of Amy LaVere’s new record, Stranger Me, on July 19, 2011. Produced by Craig Silvey (Arcade Fire), Stranger Me is LaVere’s third record and is the follow up to the Jim Dickinson-produced Anchors & Anvils. Always texturally rich and often employing dissonance and off-kilter instrumentation, Stranger Me is her most exploratory work to date. Alternately haunting and exuberantly defiant, it is a perfect backdrop for this collection of songs about frustration and feeling emotionally disconnected.

Organizers have canceled their attempt at a mass potluck dinner at the Georgia State Fair in Macon this weekend.

They planned to shoot for the Guinness Book of World Records for largest potluck dinner.

In a Facebook post, organizer Chris Horne says the Bibb County health department raised "some legitimate safety concerns" about the Macon Bacon & Kazoo Festival.

He noted, "This is a matter of hundreds of strangers feeding each other with no control over the preparation or source of the food. The potential for someone to get sick is too great to ignore."

"The only way to proceed, they said, would be if no one ate the food," he wrote. "Obviously, that puts a kink in things -- it would be an incredibly unfair temptation to look at all that bacon and not be able to eat it."