The Alexander Schaer house in North Little Rock, built in 1912, was the setting May 21 for Scott Connections, the annual spring fundraiser benefiting the Scott Plantation Settlement.
Guests began the evening with cocktails and appetizers while bidding on silent auction items in the side yard of the historic home. Dinner, a buffet of catfish and sides with fried pies for dessert, was catered by Woods Catering of Camden. Guests dined at large round tables on the expansive front lawn. Raffle tickets were sold for a chance to win either a large red cooler worth $480 or a wine rack full of wine of equal or greater value.
More than $30,000 was raised by about 250 guests, all of which will help restore and maintain settlement buildings as well as provide education materials for schoolteachers, students and guests who tour the settlement, said board member Shelia Vaught.
The Scott Plantation Settlement is on eight acres of the Illalee Plantation and contains preserved buildings and exhibits from the antebellum period through the early 20th century.
High Profile on 06/04/2017