Annual “Taste-It” Celebrates Fall Harvest

The Saluda County Historical Society celebrated our bounteous harvest with the annual fall “Taste It” on Tuesday night, October 25, at 7 pm. For the last twenty-five years, the Saluda County Historical Society has celebrated the end of summer and harvest time with a program in which members and guests share with others items they have grown or prepared. I am bringing sugar-coated Monetta-grown pecans, but where the sugar came from I don’t know!!

Entertainment was provided by Katie Worthy, instructor at Palmetto Dance Academy and Fine Arts Studio in Saluda, and some of her young students.

We met in the historic Saluda Theater, erected in 1936 and presently celebrating its 75th Anniversary year. Actually it is a wonder the theater is still standing. It is one of the few Art Deco Theaters remaining in the United States today. At one time, the theater was the center of the town and the county with five different movies shown each week, but by the 1980s it was abandoned and deteriorating rapidly.

At that time the Saluda County Historical Society with the help of the Saluda County Council began restoring it for future generations, and today it is used for meetings, programs, dramas, concerts, and many other activities. New marquee letters are needed since the original letters are ill fitting and some are broken. Tommy Willis, president of the Society and chairman of the Theater Committee, has been raising funds to purchase new letters. Funds have been coming in, but more support is needed to purchase sufficient letters to form the words that carry messages to the public.