FRIDAY COTTAGE

Friday Cottage Artspace is inviting Columbia’s art lovers to visit Alejandro García-Lemos’ studio on April 20 and 21. Alejandro will have some art for sale.

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All the way from Mexico, Palmetto LUNA is proud to present our new resident artist Edgar Cano López. Please join us for the opening of his show

“Piedra de dos Caminos”

(Stone of two paths)
Sept. 30, 2011 7 pm
Friday Cottage ArtSpace
1830 Henderson St.
Columbia, SC
29201

Curated by Alejandro García

Performance by Nicolai O. and Jonathan Sharpe

Installation of the show

We are starting to review proposals for solo and two-people shows for 2011. We tend to focus on contemporary art proposals, please send us your ideas, images and art statements by email to a@fridaycottage.com.

Thanks for your interest.

African street vendor in front of the Tour Eiffel. Paris, France 2009 (photo by Alejandro García)

During Sherman’s raid on Columbia, of course no place was sacred, so the soldiers came into her home and ransacked it from top to bottom. For several months during the latter part of 1864 a Mrs. Pringle and her grand-daughter Mrs. Balaguer from Charleston, S.C. were staying in the house. They had brought with them a large sugar barrel packed with all of their silver plate, some of it perhaps 150 years old. They put this barrel in the storeroom. When the Yankee soldiers were ransacking the house they burst open the storeroom and began to poke with bayonets into all of the barrels there, breaking them open. They found so many of them empty that the soldier who was standing guard with the butt of his gun on Mrs. Pringle’s barrel of silver decided that it too was empty and there was nothing to be gained by wasting their time there left, leaving Mrs. Pringle’s barrel intact, and the owner of course was very much amazed on her return from the mountains of North Carolina after the war to find her barrel of silver awaiting her.

–Mrs. Samuel D. Friday (Mary E. Mahoney)  From Girls of the Sixties, 1937.

During the latter part of 1862 and to 1865 many people from the coast and Charleston, S.C. refugeed to Columbia and the homes in that city were crowded with women and small children during that time. The old Friday home on Henderson Street had what we called a basement containing four large sized rooms. During the years 1864-1865 these rooms were occupied by different families waiting to be transported to the mountains of North Carolina where many of them had homes.

– Mrs. Samuel D. Friday

Mrs. Friday had a large white horse which had always been driven to the carriage for family use.  The Yankee army took every horse they could find and of course took her horse too.  Uncle Ned, an old colored man belonging to the family as house servant and driver, on finding that the horse he had driven and loved was to be taken away from them took a blunt knife and scraped the horse’s back making a large raw spot just where the saddle would be placed–when the Yankee hostlers found the horse with this raw place they turned him loose as unfit for their use and he came straight back home to his own stable, reaching there the second day aster he had been taken away from it.

– Mrs. Samuel D. Friday

Presentation at the Columbia Museum of Art.