Rosenwald Acres' EARTH DAY MUSIC FESTIVAL
Motown, Jazz, Blues and Country music in Huntsville on the old Rosenwald School Grounds!
An afternoon of "Old School Jams”--Motown, Soul, Vaudeville, Country and Jazz in the Huntsville Woods on Earth Day, April 22, 2023, from 3-8pm. This free spring afternoon celebration of newly reclaimed historic land will feature live entertainment, vendors, food trucks, artisans, entertainers and storytellers.
See the 2022 Earth Day at Rosenwald School Acres
Photos by Photo-historian ROY FONER :
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Featured article in the Huntsville Item, 4/25/22:
A Free Live Music Concert on Huntsville Texas' 101 year old Rosenwald School Grounds!
The property is being developed by a family of generational educators to create an earth-friendly, conservational totally sustainable habitation on the 2 acres of Huntsville's Rosenwald School grounds,
LOCATION: Just 3 miles north of the new Huntsville Police station at 639 Rosenwall Rd., Huntsville Texas, 77340.
DIRECTIONS:
Take Highway 45 to exit 118 turn east to TX-75. Turn right onto TX-75 S... Turn left onto FM 2821..... Past the Wynne Prison Unit and Turn left onto Rosenwall Rd between the new Huntsville Police Station and the prison. Drive 4 miles north,. The festival will be on the left, a few blocks past George Wilson Road (named after a Rosenwald alumnus).
Honoring the Ancestors...
Community Beneficiary:
The Kittrell-Wilson Cemetery Restoration Fund
This cemetery is where the bodies of the Rosenwald School founders and primary caregivers are buried. 50% of the Funds raised will help repair the overgrown 1/4 mile access trail from Rosenwall Road to the Cemetery gate; renovate the headstones and purchase headstones for folk who are missing a marker (Ironically,we discovered that the school's founder, John Wesley Wilson, does not have a marker on his grave) . The project also helps repurpose the old Rosenwald School grounds for an earth-friendly, zero-emission, atmospheric water generated, solar-powered multigenerational family homestead!
DIRECTIONS
Highway 45 to Exit 118. Turn to 75 south and merge east to 2821
Turn left on Rosenwall Road (at the new Huntsville Police Station) and drive 4 miles north, to just past George Wilson Road, to Rosenwald Acres at 639 Rosenwall Road, Huntsville, TX 77040.
The festival will be on the left, 1 mile north of George Wilson Road (named after a Rosenwald alumnus and current resident of the Kittrell Wilson Cemetery).
MAP LINK:
GET DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO ROSENWALD SCHOOL ACRES:
639 Rosenwall Rd Huntsville TX 77320-7427 https://www.google.com/maps/place/639+Rosenwall+Rd,+Huntsville,+TX+77320/@30.7884647,-95.6051262,15.68z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8647a82d81cbf5bb:0x24d50f20da8106ef!8m2!3d30.7863909!4d-95.6010989
...with Community Enrichment!
Non-Profit Beneficiary:
The Samuel Walker Museum and Cultural Center.
NPO # 73-1720777
1604 Tenth St Huntsville TX 77340
25% of funds raised wil go to this small African American Museum and Cultural Center of South Texas History and Culture. The Museum is in the process of raising funds to rebuild on the original site of the Samuel W. Houston Industrial School and Dormitories on Highway 30, just west of downtown Huntsville TX.
Samuel Walker Houston's highway 30 school location is also the site of the state of Texas' first boarding school for African American Children. Most of Prof. Houston's buildings were heavily supported by the Julius Rosenwald 's Fund.