Visit Ebenezer ❖ LANDING DAY 2019 ❖
On Saturday, the 9th of March, 2019, the Georgia Salzburger Society (GSS) will hold its annual Landing Day meeting at Ebenezer.
❖ LANDING DAY 2019 ❖
On Saturday, the 9th of March, 2019, the Georgia Salzburger Society (GSS) will hold our annual Landing Day meeting at Ebenezer.
All descendants of Salzburger immigrants
and all our friends are invited to join us at
Jerusalem Lutheran Church, at Ebenezer,
to mark the 285th anniversary of the landing of
the first transport of Salzburgers in Georgia.
☞ HISTORY FOR OUR MARCH GATHERING ☜
"And we vowed to have a yearly thanksgiving in His honor, on which we would use our diary to bring back to their memories the trials of the wondrous Divine Guidance."
~ Detailed Reports of the Salzburger Emigrants who settled in America, edited by Samuel Urlsperger, Volume I, page 55
☞ GOOD RICE SOUP ☜
On Tuesday, the 12th of March, 1734, aboard the ship Purysburg, Salzburgers first sailed up the Savannah River, and were welcomed by "nearly all the inhabitants of City of Savannah," many of whom had founded the British Colony of Georgia only thirteen months earlier. "They fired several cannon and shouted with joy, and they were answered in the same manner by the sailors and the rest of the Englishmen on our ship."
In Savannah the next morning, Wednesday the 13th, Benjamin Sheftall and his wife Perla (Ashkenazi Jews who spoke both High German and English, and who had arrived only eight months earlier) generously presented the 50 or so weary travelers with a breakfast of "a good rice soup."
~ based on Detailed Reports of the Salzburger Emigrants who settled in America, edited by Samuel Urlsperger, Volume I, pages 59-60
☞ SCHEDULE ☜
Our annual Landing Day meeting is held on the Saturday closest to the 12th, and, in this 285th anniversary year, the meeting falls on Saturday the 9th.
• At 11:30 PM, we will gather for a meet and greet in the Jerusalem Lutheran Church Social Hall.
• At noon, we will have a meal of ♨ Good Rice Soup ♨ to commemorate the Salzburgers' first breakfast in Georgia. In addition to hearty chicken with rice soup, we will have bread, and deserts (donation of $5). We will then adjourn to the church.
• At 2 PM, our meeting begins in the church. The program includes a worship service, followed by our business meeting which includes election of new GSS board members, and hearing brief committee reports.
• Following the meeting we'll return to the Church Social Hall fpr a reception to honor new and outgoing GSS board members, and to hear:
• Our guest speaker, Norman Turner, Historian, who will share with us Remembering Life at Old Ebenezer, 1734-1736.
• At about 3:30 PM we will caravan from the flagpole area for a tour of the Old Ebenezer Cemetery (off Log Landing Road), guided by Norman Turner.
(Note: The GSS Museum will be closed this day to allow our volunteers to participate in Landing Day activities and in this tour).
☞ R. S. V. P. ☜
Please notify our GSS Office if you plan to join us for our meal on Saturday the 9th of March. To help us plan for the day, please send us an e-mail to [email protected] (or call 912-754-7001) at our GSS office with your name and the number of people who will be attending. What a great way to remember our ancestral links at our Landing Day celebration!
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Note: The image shows the ships The London Merchant and The Simonds passing the Isle of Wight (England) as the third transport of Salzburgers set sail for Georgia in the fall of 1735 (arriving in February of 1736). Baron Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck (1710–1798), who was aboard with both the first and third Salzburger transports, sketched this illustration of the ships sailing past the row of prominent "Needles" west of the Isle of Wight at Alum Bay; they were named for the very slender formation shown left of center, which was known as Lot's Wife (and which was, however, not made of salt, but of chalk). Today, the three largest of the four "Needle" formations remain, but Lot's Wife collapsed in a storm in 1764. ... See more