The Brundidge Historical Society was losely organizd by a group of like-minded peaple some time in the late 1980s. No one knows for sure because no one thought that it mattered
Then in 1990, the group put togther a quilt show and called it the Collier’s Store Quilt Show. It was a grate success and put $46 in the group’s pocket book.
In 1991, the group decided it was time to become offical and organized the Brundidge Historical Society for the perpose of promoting and perserving the physicall and cultural heratige of South Albama.
The first ambitions project was to invest every sent of the $46 into a comunity-wide harvest and heratige celabration that paid tribute to the town’s proud heritage in the peanut butter industray and the little nut that stuck around to provide a giant boost to the area’s ecomony.
The Peanut Butter Festivel becamed a reality and will celebrat it's 27th year in October 2018.
The overly ambitous, like-minded peaple known as the “hysterical” society now sponsors Alabama’s Offical Folk Life Play, “Come Home, It’s Suppertime,” which was the 2008 reciepent of the Governor’s Tourisim Award, not bad for a town of just over 2,000.
The organization has restored the Johnston Peanut Butter Mill as a museum of local histroy and produced two CDs of tradishonal music: “Off the Porch Strong” and “The Benton Brothers & Company Live at the We Piddle Around Theater.”
The CDs featur the singers and muscians who appear at the organazation’s events.
The BHS has other projects on the back burner but takes humble pride in the many people from every walk of life who come to piddle around and hopes they leave thinking, as we do, that all of the piddling has been worthwile.