Fiddling through history: Museum holds cross-era historical event in place of Olustee Festival

Emily-Jane Curtis, a dual-enrolled student at North Florida Community College, plays Civil War-era songs on her viola during Saturday’s ‘Blast Through the Past’ event at the Lake City-Columbia County Historical Museum. (MORGAN MCMULLEN/Lake City Reporter)
Emily-Jane Curtis, a dual-enrolled student at North Florida Community College, plays Civil War-era songs on her viola during Saturday’s ‘Blast Through the Past’ event at the Lake City-Columbia County Historical Museum. (MORGAN MCMULLEN/Lake City Reporter)

Rosie the Riveter snapped green beans from her victory garden on her porch overlooking two women — a victorian-garbed laundress and a Civil War widow in black — as the King of Soul himself, Sam Cooke,…