Visit Ebenezer ❖ LANDING DAY 2017 ❖
❖ LANDING DAY 2017 ❖
On Saturday, the 11th of March, 2017, the Georgia Salzburger Society (GSS) will hold our annual Landing Day meeting at Ebenezer.
PLEASE see the last section, R. S. V. P. - IMPORTANT, at the end.
All descendants of Salzburger immigrants
and all our friends are invited to join us at
Jerusalem Lutheran Church, at Ebenezer,
to mark the 283rd 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 Friday, the 12th of March, 1734, aboard the ship Purysburg, Salzburgers first sailed up the Savannah River, and were welcomed by those who had helped to found Savannah and the British Colony of Georgia only thirteen months earlier.
In Savannah the next morning, 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 "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 283rd anniversary year, the meeting falls on Saturday the 11th.
• At 12:30 PM, we will gather for a meal of ♨ Good Rice Soup ♨ in the Jerusalem Lutheran Church Social Hall, to commemorate the Salzburgers' first breakfast in Georgia. In addition to hearty chicken with rice soup, we will have Brats, German potato salad, and deserts. We will then adjourn to the church.
• At 2 PM, our meeting begins in the church. The program includes election of new GSS board members, hearing committee reports, and our guest speaker, Candace Rousch of the greater Atlanta Chapter of GSS, who will describe the exciting places and details from the recent GSS tour of Germany
• Following the meeting, we'll adjourn to a Reception in the Old Parsonage to honor new and outgoing GSS board members.
• The Museum will be open during its regular Saturday hours, 3-5 PM. Current members receive a 10% on purchases in the Museum gift shop.
☞ R. S. V. P. - IMPORTANT ☜
Please notify our GSS Office by Monday, the 6th of March, if you plan to join us for the meal and meeting on Saturday the 11th 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 the meal and meeting. What a great way to remember our ancestral links at our Landing Day celebration! ... See more