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Great news!
Colleen Coury, our Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau executive director, shared the following wonderful article with us. Thank you Colleen for all your hard work on behalf of Jackson and Southwest Tennessee:
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Juanita Shaw on TV!
Updated October 30th, 2009: Juanita Shaw with the Old Country Store was cooking up some greens on this week's Jackson 24-7 show shown on JEA Channel 6. Juanita has a gift for making cooking both fun and educational. Here's her recipe for this Southern classic:
Updated October 9th, 2009: Juanita's cooking segment on Jackson 24-7 will re-air on Saturday, October 10th at 6 pm and Sunday at 7 am and Noon. A free download (to be able to watch Channel 6 online) is available on the Jackson Energy Authority EPlus TV6 website at www.eplustv6.com .
Updated October 3rd, 2009: Juanita Shaw's Bread Pudding segment re-aired today on Jackson Energy Authority local cable Channel 6 and her Fried Okra cooking segment aired Friday. Here's her delicious recipe for Fried Okra. Many thanks to Juanita for her dedication to Southern cooking education and to keeping these awesome recipes passed on from generation to generation. Many thanks also to Steve Beverly and the Jackson 24-7 show for having Juanita on the show on a regular basis again this season.
"Greens" cooking instructions by Juanita Shaw
4 cups water
1 country ham hock
2 to 2 ½ pounds of greens
salt and pepper to taste
Put water in heavy stock pot. Bring to a boil, add ham hock and continue to boil for 15 to 20 minutes covered. To prepare greens for cooking, fill sink full of cold water, place greens in water. Remove the stems and as you do transfer the greens to other side of the sink. If the leaf is large tear in halves or thirds. When all the stems are removed, drain first rinse water and refill sink with fresh water and rewash greens. Add prepared greens in batches to boiling ham hock water. As greens cook down, continue to add all greens. Reduce heat to low and cook uncovered for 1 ½ hours. Add salt and pepper to taste.
4 cups water
1 country ham hock
2 to 2 ½ pounds of greens
salt and pepper to taste
Put water in heavy stock pot. Bring to a boil, add ham hock and continue to boil for 15 to 20 minutes covered. To prepare greens for cooking, fill sink full of cold water, place greens in water. Remove the stems and as you do transfer the greens to other side of the sink. If the leaf is large tear in halves or thirds. When all the stems are removed, drain first rinse water and refill sink with fresh water and rewash greens. Add prepared greens in batches to boiling ham hock water. As greens cook down, continue to add all greens. Reduce heat to low and cook uncovered for 1 ½ hours. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Updated October 9th, 2009: Juanita's cooking segment on Jackson 24-7 will re-air on Saturday, October 10th at 6 pm and Sunday at 7 am and Noon. A free download (to be able to watch Channel 6 online) is available on the Jackson Energy Authority EPlus TV6 website at www.eplustv6.com .
Updated October 3rd, 2009: Juanita Shaw's Bread Pudding segment re-aired today on Jackson Energy Authority local cable Channel 6 and her Fried Okra cooking segment aired Friday. Here's her delicious recipe for Fried Okra. Many thanks to Juanita for her dedication to Southern cooking education and to keeping these awesome recipes passed on from generation to generation. Many thanks also to Steve Beverly and the Jackson 24-7 show for having Juanita on the show on a regular basis again this season.
FRIED OKRA
1 – 1 ½ lbs fresh okra
½ c. White cornmeal
½ c. flour
½ t. salt
¼ t. white pepper
1 c. buttermilk
Pour enough vegetable oil to fill deep fryer or a cast iron skillet to 1 inch depth. Wash okra well. Drain. Remove tips and stems. Cut into ½ inch slices. Mix dry ingredients together in a bowl. Pour buttermilk into a separate bowl. Place cut okra into buttermilk. Remove okra with a slotted spoon and roll in cornmeal/flour mixture.
Fry okra at 350° turning to brown on all sides. When golden brown, drain on paper towels. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Posted September 21st, 2009: Watch Juanita Shaw with the Old Country Store on the Jackson 24-7 TV show on JEA cable Channel 6 at noon today! She will be cooking today and tomorrow on the show. You will love it! www.eplustv6.com It airs at 7 am, noon, 6 pm and 10 pm.
Jackson 24-7 is a wonderful show in its second season. It is produced by Steve Beverly and Union University students and is a daily 30 minute news show broadcast Monday to Friday. Great job, Juanita!
Juanita Shaw's Recipe from Jackson 24-7 for
Bread Pudding
1 loaf of bread (6 cups)
1 qt whole milk
3 eggs, beaten slightly
1 ½ c sugar
2 t pure vanilla extract
¼ fresh nutmeg
3 T butter, melted
Break bread into small pieces and put in a large mixing bowl. Add milk, set aside and let soak for 20 minutes. Add eggs, sugar, vanilla and nutmeg. Coat bottom of casserole dish with butter. Pour mixture into dish and bake at 350° for 20 minutes until top is brown. Reduce heat to 200° and cook another 40 minutes. Serve with your favorite sauce.
Favorite Bread Pudding Sauce
1 stick butter
1 c sugar
½ c half n half
1 T pure vanilla extract or rum flavoring (whatever your favorite may be)
Put butter, sugar and half n half in a heavy sauce pan and cook on medium heat until sugar dissolves. Bring to just a slight boil and then reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool. Add favorite flavoring.
Enjoy!
Facebook & Twitter!
Did you know we're on Facebook & Twitter! Sign up on our homepage at www.caseyjones.com. . Be our fan at "Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store" on Facebook and follow up on Twitter under www.twitter.com/oldcountrystore. Join the fun!
We're in Budget Travel Magazine
Posted October 21st, 2009:
We're in Budget Travel Magazine!
We are excited to announce that we are in the November 2009 issue of Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine. As they say on their website www.budgettravel.com their magazine is for the smartest and most passionate travelers. It is an international publication and we are very honored to be included in the article "Blues Travelers" by Lisa Kirchner. Please pick up a copy or read it online at www.budgettravel.com and search "Casey Jones Village". Enjoy!
We're in Budget Travel Magazine!
We are excited to announce that we are in the November 2009 issue of Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine. As they say on their website www.budgettravel.com their magazine is for the smartest and most passionate travelers. It is an international publication and we are very honored to be included in the article "Blues Travelers" by Lisa Kirchner. Please pick up a copy or read it online at www.budgettravel.com and search "Casey Jones Village". Enjoy!
Juanita Shaw on Radio Show this Month!
Posted October 8th, 2009: Juanita Shaw with Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store will be a guest on WIGH's radio program "Chick Chatter" on Thursdays this month with host Donne Smith. Be listening as these two friends talk about the family table, food and family. You won't want to miss it. Listen at 9 am to 10 am on Thursdays on WIGH 88.7 in Jackson and online also.
Coming Soon to Casey Jones Village!
Posted October 5th, 2009....Exciting News!!!
Two New Businesses To Open in Casey Jones Village
(Jackson, TN) Two new businesses, Art in the Village and the Little Artist Studio, are opening in Casey Jones Village in mid-October. They will be located in the Shoppes at Casey Jones Village.
Art in the Village, operated by Mary Spellings, will showcase local and regional original artwork including painting, pottery and jewelry and offer art lessons for children and adults. For more information contact Mary Spellings at 731.616.8083 and by email at mary.spellings@gmail.com . The Little Artist Studio, operated by Laurie Denbrock, will teach one on one potters wheel lessons and private art lessons. For more information on the the Little Artist Studio contact Laurie Denbrock at 731.394.6592.
Hours of operation for Art In the Village will currently be Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. They will be opening on October 15th in conjunction with the grand opening celebration at the Casey Jones Home & Railroad Museum to be held October 16th, 17th & 18th, 2009 in the Village.
Deborah Shaw Laman, marketing director for Casey Jones Village, said, "We couldn't be happier to have these talented artists join us. With Wildlife in Wood Studio and Native American Legacy, the Village will truly become an arts community."
Casey Jones Village is located on Casey Jones Lane off the Highway 45 By-pass at I-40 exit 80A in Jackson, Tennessee. The website is www.caseyjones.com.
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The Wellwood Country Store is Open!
The Latest on Wellwood. Come see the phenomenal renovation and Dee Moss's new studio soon:
The Wellwood Country Store is Open!
The Little Store That Could
(Jackson, TN) Sometimes a story comes full circle. So it is with the acquisition, move and restoration of the Wellwood Country Store now open and located next to Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store in Casey Jones Village. Founder Brooks Shaw worked at the historic 1925 building as a teenager and it inspired his love for country stores and Southern antiques. It led to a collection of over 15,000 antiques on display since 1965 at Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store in Jackson today one of Tennessee's legendary attractions.
The Wellwood store was moved in March to Casey Jones Village literally on the back of a large truck. In the past six months it has undergone an extensive renovation and now is connected to the Old Country Store accessible by a breezeway in the gift shoppe.
A ribbon cutting and reception is planned for Friday, October 9th at 11 am. The public is invited and the Wellwood community is encouraged to bring and share any mementos they have of visiting the store when it was in
operation.
The Store has important family ties for the Shaw family. Clark Shaw, 55, son of Old Country Store founder Brooks Shaw, and now company CEO said, "It's a dream come true to bring the store where my Dad worked as a boy to sit next to the Old Country Store it inspired. It really completes the story of the very store that led to his journey to collect antiques in the early 1960's. His doctor told him for health reasons to find a relaxing hobby ~ antiquing as it turned out ~ that led to the Old Country Store we know and love today. Now they are side by side."
Shaw continued, "For 15 to 20 years, it's been my dream to someday own the little store and relocate it to the Village as a tribute to our father, Brooks Clark Shaw. Our cousins, Joy Carr Moss and Linda Carr Czigan, stopped there for years as children on their school bus stop. They helped us lay out the store with their vivid memories of what it looked like at that time."
The Wellwood Store is a classic rural Southern country store. It is a white wood frame shotgun style building that is 52 feet long and 20 feet wide. It has over 700 square feet of space created to look much like it did when Shaw worked there. It is filled with hundreds of original antiques that are a part of the Shaw collection and authentic country store reproductions items as would have been found from the 1930's back to the 1880's. A portion of the building is the new studio of the world class artisan and master wood carver, H. Dee Moss. The building was decorated and set up by Nancy Jane Hall, Juanita Shaw's sister.
The Old Country Store was founded in 1965 as an antique museum dedicated to Pop's Old Country Store and Mom's Home Cookin' by Brooks and Anne Shaw. Mr. Shaw passed away in 1971 at the age of 46 of heart disease.
Shaw explained, "Our goal was to lay out the Wellwood Country Store as close as possible to where everything was at the time my Dad worked there including the checker board, pot bellied stove, candy case, soda box, dry goods and hoop cheese." He concluded, "Dad was fond of saying, "I worked for 50 cents a day and all the hoop cheese I could eat." It is also a tribute to the hardworking people of the Wellwood community where the store was a focal point of the rural West Tennessee community for many years. We are honored to restore and preserve the Wellwood Store for future generations to enjoy."
Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store is located at 56 Casey Jones Lane in Jackson, Tennessee. The Old Country Store serves Southern food in its award winning restaurant and has a Gift Shoppe, authentically recreated 1890's Ice Cream Parlor, "To Go" Market and private meeting rooms.
The Wellwood Country Store is Open!
The Little Store That Could
(Jackson, TN) Sometimes a story comes full circle. So it is with the acquisition, move and restoration of the Wellwood Country Store now open and located next to Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store in Casey Jones Village. Founder Brooks Shaw worked at the historic 1925 building as a teenager and it inspired his love for country stores and Southern antiques. It led to a collection of over 15,000 antiques on display since 1965 at Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store in Jackson today one of Tennessee's legendary attractions.
The Wellwood store was moved in March to Casey Jones Village literally on the back of a large truck. In the past six months it has undergone an extensive renovation and now is connected to the Old Country Store accessible by a breezeway in the gift shoppe.
A ribbon cutting and reception is planned for Friday, October 9th at 11 am. The public is invited and the Wellwood community is encouraged to bring and share any mementos they have of visiting the store when it was in
operation.
The Store has important family ties for the Shaw family. Clark Shaw, 55, son of Old Country Store founder Brooks Shaw, and now company CEO said, "It's a dream come true to bring the store where my Dad worked as a boy to sit next to the Old Country Store it inspired. It really completes the story of the very store that led to his journey to collect antiques in the early 1960's. His doctor told him for health reasons to find a relaxing hobby ~ antiquing as it turned out ~ that led to the Old Country Store we know and love today. Now they are side by side."
Shaw continued, "For 15 to 20 years, it's been my dream to someday own the little store and relocate it to the Village as a tribute to our father, Brooks Clark Shaw. Our cousins, Joy Carr Moss and Linda Carr Czigan, stopped there for years as children on their school bus stop. They helped us lay out the store with their vivid memories of what it looked like at that time."
The Wellwood Store is a classic rural Southern country store. It is a white wood frame shotgun style building that is 52 feet long and 20 feet wide. It has over 700 square feet of space created to look much like it did when Shaw worked there. It is filled with hundreds of original antiques that are a part of the Shaw collection and authentic country store reproductions items as would have been found from the 1930's back to the 1880's. A portion of the building is the new studio of the world class artisan and master wood carver, H. Dee Moss. The building was decorated and set up by Nancy Jane Hall, Juanita Shaw's sister.
The Old Country Store was founded in 1965 as an antique museum dedicated to Pop's Old Country Store and Mom's Home Cookin' by Brooks and Anne Shaw. Mr. Shaw passed away in 1971 at the age of 46 of heart disease.
Shaw explained, "Our goal was to lay out the Wellwood Country Store as close as possible to where everything was at the time my Dad worked there including the checker board, pot bellied stove, candy case, soda box, dry goods and hoop cheese." He concluded, "Dad was fond of saying, "I worked for 50 cents a day and all the hoop cheese I could eat." It is also a tribute to the hardworking people of the Wellwood community where the store was a focal point of the rural West Tennessee community for many years. We are honored to restore and preserve the Wellwood Store for future generations to enjoy."
Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store is located at 56 Casey Jones Lane in Jackson, Tennessee. The Old Country Store serves Southern food in its award winning restaurant and has a Gift Shoppe, authentically recreated 1890's Ice Cream Parlor, "To Go" Market and private meeting rooms.
Exciting News about Native American Legacy's John Lone Eagle
HURRAY!
John Lone Eagle, owner of Native American Legacy here in the Village, and Chris James have been nominated in the Native American Music Awards (the Native American equivalent of the Grammys) as finalists for Songwriter of the Year and Debut Duo or Group of the Year.
You can help! Go to www.nativeamericanmusicawards.com and cast your vote now!
Thank you for your support. Here is a portion of the press release below.
and these are the categories they are nominated in:
F. DEBUT DUO OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
1. Desert West Live At Totah Theater (Navajo)
2. Jimmy Shendo & Moiety Walking The Life Road (Jemez Pueblo)
3. Lietsoiitah Ye’ii Bi Cheii Singers Lietsoiitah Ye’ii Bi Cheii (Navajo)
4. Out of the Blue Out of the Blue (Cree)
5. Red Hand/White Hand Soothing Spirits (Apache)
6. Will & Lil Jess Reservation Nights (Oglala Lakota)
X. SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
1. Chris James & John Lone Eagle Soothing Spirits (Apache)
2.Darryl Tonemah Ink Blots and Random Thoughts (Kiowa/Comanche/Tuscarora)
3. Jace Martin Jace Martin (Mohawk)
4. Gary Small I Don’t Play By The Rules (Northern Cheyenne)
5. Kris DeLorenzi & Jonathan Maracle The Father’s Dance
6. Samantha Crain The Confiscation: A Musical Novella (Choctaw)
Thank you for your support. Here is a portion of the press release below.
and these are the categories they are nominated in:
F. DEBUT DUO OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
1. Desert West Live At Totah Theater (Navajo)
2. Jimmy Shendo & Moiety Walking The Life Road (Jemez Pueblo)
3. Lietsoiitah Ye’ii Bi Cheii Singers Lietsoiitah Ye’ii Bi Cheii (Navajo)
4. Out of the Blue Out of the Blue (Cree)
5. Red Hand/White Hand Soothing Spirits (Apache)
6. Will & Lil Jess Reservation Nights (Oglala Lakota)
X. SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
1. Chris James & John Lone Eagle Soothing Spirits (Apache)
2.Darryl Tonemah Ink Blots and Random Thoughts (Kiowa/Comanche/Tuscarora)
3. Jace Martin Jace Martin (Mohawk)
4. Gary Small I Don’t Play By The Rules (Northern Cheyenne)
5. Kris DeLorenzi & Jonathan Maracle The Father’s Dance
6. Samantha Crain The Confiscation: A Musical Novella (Choctaw)
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NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nominees Announced for the Eleventh Annual Music Awards To Be Held On October 3rd, 2009 In Niagara Falls September 4, 2009 – Niagara Falls, NY. Nominations for the 11th Annual Native American Music Awards (NAMA) were announced today by The Native American Music Association & Awards, reflecting the combined votes of the NAMA Advisory Board Nominating Committee.
The 11th Annual Native American Music Awards will be held on Saturday, October 3, 2009 at the Seneca Entertainment Center in the Seneca Casino & Hotel in Niagara Falls, New York. The Awards ceremony will be hosted by Gil Birmingham who has received recent public acclaim for his portrayal as Billy Black in Twilight. Birmingham’s other TV and screen credits include; Dreamkeeper, Skins, Nip/Tuck, 10 Items or Less, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and his powerful portrayal of Dogstar in Steven Spielberg's six-part TV miniseries, Into the West. Birmingham will return as Billy Black in the Twilight sequel, New Moon, scheduled for release in November 2009. The Native American Music Awards is proud to announce the nominees for this year. A plethora of new up-and-comers were nominated alongside established artists and previous winners throughout a diverse array of 30 music categories spanning all genres. These nominations throughout all 30 music categories reflect an astounding and diverse range of both new and established talent from our community," said Awards President Ellen Bello. We are extremely honored to be able to pay tribute to a music great as the late Ritchie Valens and give special recognition to international artist, Stevie Salas. We are also honored to have the participation and support of Gil Birmingham as our host and music veteran Tommy Allsup as a special guest presenter. We look forward to a spectacular Awards celebration running the full musical gamut of popular and traditional initiatives.” Public voting to determine the winner of each category has now commenced and is open to the general public. Anyone interested in voting can visit the Awards websites; www.nativeamericanmusicawards.com. Music from all nominees is currently featured on the audio players on the website. # # # Read all about it in the Jackson Sun newspaper online written by Ashley Anthony.... |
Thank you VIP Magazine!
We are so proud to have our CEO, Clark Shaw, featured in the August 2009 issue of VIP Jackson magazine! This prestigious magazine has a full page article on Clark beautifully written by Lyda Kay Ferree and photographed by Kristina Only. We couldn't be happier! Clark has long been a tireless champion for tourism in Jackson and a wonderful leader for our company. We are so blessed to have founder Brooks Shaw's only son at the head of our business. His passion for our company and impeccable character are a role model for us daily. He truly is a very special person and we so appreciate VIP Magazine choosing Clark for this profile. http://www.vipmag.com/Jackson_eMag/49.html
We also can't thank VIP enough for the two page story on the Ribbon Cutting of the expansion of the Casey Jones Home & Railroad Museum. It is outstanding! Many thanks to VIP magazine publisher Jeff Watson and writer Leanne King for this great coverage. http://www.vipmag.com/Jackson_eMag/50.html
We also can't thank VIP enough for the two page story on the Ribbon Cutting of the expansion of the Casey Jones Home & Railroad Museum. It is outstanding! Many thanks to VIP magazine publisher Jeff Watson and writer Leanne King for this great coverage. http://www.vipmag.com/Jackson_eMag/50.html
We're in Edible Memphis Magazine!
Posted July 10th, 2009: We are so happy to announce that the Old Country Store is featured in the summer issue of Edible Memphis magazine! Edible Memphis is a part of Edible Communities Publications that celebrates local foods and foodways all over the country from Cape Cod to California. It is published in Memphis by Rich Ground Media and Melissa Petersen is the editor. The article about the Store was written by the talented Paul Knipple and includes the Old Country Store history, about our restaurant and our local food initatives, the West Tennessee Culinary Map and an interview with Clark and Juanita Shaw who operate our business. Clark is the son of founder Brooks C. Shaw. Paul really captures the essence of our story.
Thank you to Edible Memphis for highlighting the goals we are striving to accomplish daily with our family business. Clark and Juanita are the real deal and their passion about our restaurant is truly palpable. We couldn't be happier to be included in such a quality publication as Edible Memphis. To read more about it and where to pick up a copy in the Memphis area visit www.ediblememphis.com .