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MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER 5A Activities include: art-making in the studios, music by the Lo-Fi Loungers, and dinner catered by Oyster House. Military Open House is co-sponsored by Oyster House. Ab the Flagman (American, born 1964), Untitled (Flag), paint on found wood objects, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Ron Drinkard, 2010.17.1 For more information, please call the Museum at 334.240.4333 or visit MMFA.org. Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park One Museum Drive Montgomery, Alabama 36117 THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2015 5:30 TO 7:30 P.M.

THE MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS invites all active, reserve, and retired military personnel and their families to our annual Military Open House. 67th Annual Labor Day BBQ Greek Pastry Sale All plates come with coleslaw, camp stew bread. Drive-thru, eat-in or take-out. Call 263-1366 for tickets or more info. GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH Community Center Grounds 1721 Mt.

Meigs Montgomery, AL AL-0000521801 Monday, September 7, 2015 a.m. UNTIL SOLD OUT $10 Pork or Chicken Plate $12 Camp Stew (Quart) $12 Lamb Plate Granville Automatic, a band with roots in Atlanta, is releasing its collection of songs inspired by Civil War battles, part of a related project to film videos of the songs on battlefields across the nation. he album released his weekend, Army Without includes songs about soldiers, horses and ghosts in sev- ral Southern states. he band has filmed videos of the songs in the places that inspired them and has plans to shoot more videos in Tennessee, entucky and Virginia. very second of battle i the American Civil War was filled with stories, many of which have gone untold, band member lizabeth Elkins said.

The goal is to apture the immense emotional and human imp rints the war left, not only on soldiers but their loved ones, she said. at Horseshoe for instance, recounts the night when mothers and daughters of soldiers used lanterns to search for their dead or dying loved ones near Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1863. Many of the songs were inspired years ago, when Elkins and Granville Automatic vocalist Vanessa Olivarez lived in metro Atlanta. Elkins recalls driving down Moreland Avenue, across battlefields now covered by streets and stores, and hoping the sto- ies of the Civil War were ot lost to history. paving over a tragedy and not remembering Elkins aid in a recent phone in- erview.

Music, she said, is one way the stories of the war can be told and re-told, even if many of the battle- ields in Atlanta, Nash- ille and other cities are ow buried by neighborhoods and business districts. whole principle i about writing music about things that are dis- a said Robert Harrison of Smyrna, eorgia, whose ancestor Grancer Harrison is the subject of one of the songs on the new album. landscape changes, other connections to the past disappear with Harrison said. The song is set in southern Alabama, the final resting place for Harrison, one of the ghosts of Harrison, who lost several sons in the Civil War, was known for throwing huge parties every full moon. He asked to be buried with the dancing shoes he wore and the fiddle he played during those parties.

They did so much re- earch on the story, and they were so detailed about Robert Harrison said. found out a lot details that even our amily In 2013, the band filmed a video to go with the song at Grancer grave in Coffee ounty, Alabama. ther battlefields that et scenes for their songs of soldiers, horses and ghosts include Perryville, Kentucky; Franklin, Tenn essee; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Antietam, aryland; Mansfield, Louisiana; Glorieta Pass, ew Mexico; and several sites in Virginia. AP Re-enactors gather at Perryville Battlefield, the scene of Kentucky's bloodiest Civil War battle. ranville Automatic, a band with roots in Atlanta, has released Army Without Album inspired by battles in Civil War Group sings about soldiers, horses, ghosts JEFF MARTIN ASSOCIATED PRESS.