Homecoming 2023

Co-founded Theo Perkins addresses the homecoming group.  From film by Bess Johnson.

This video gives a good overview of the experience of our 2023 Black and white Wallace homecoming October 6-8, 2023. We began on Friday the 6th with a visit to the Datcher History House and a “Meet and Greet” at the Harpersville Community Center. Our reunion continued in the Wallace Family Cemetery on Saturday morning, followed by discussion groups at the house. Right after dinner on the grounds, artist Elizabeth Webb invited Black descendants to sign their names for inscription into a column of the With Love, For Grief sculpture. Saturday ended with a jazz concert from the front porch of the house. On Sunday, family convened at the Scott’s Grove Baptist Church, the mother church of the Black community, which was founded during enslavement.