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Nancy Carpenter, executive director of the Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau, will lead a double-decker bus tour of historic downtown Columbus. Winners of the McLemore Prize, the Bet-tersworth Award for outstanding history teacher, and other awards will be announced on March 3 at the awards luncheon. The
B.L.C. Wailes Award will be presented at the banquet on March 2.
Registration for the annual meeting is $35 for MHS members and $60 for nonmembers. Additional costs are $23 for the March 2 luncheon, $43 for the March 2 banquet dinner, and $23 for the March 3 awards brunch. Reservations for the Friday luncheon and banquet and Saturday awards brunch should be made by February 27. Call 601-576-6849 or email mhs@mdah.state, ms.us for more information.
Rooms are reserved at the Fairfield Inn and Suites, 2011 Sixth Street North in Columbus, 662-241-1990, until February 15, 2012; when making reservations, be sure to specify the MHS rate of $84 plus tax per night.
The society thanks its sponsors for their generous support: Dixie Butler, Joe and Carolyn Fant, Gene and Leigh Imes, Stephen D. Lee Foundation, Dick and Jo Anne Leike, the Columbus/Lowndes County Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Columbus & Lowndes County Historical Society, and the University of Southern Mississippi Foundation.
THURSDAY. MARCH 1
3-5 p.m.—Registration, Fairfield Inn and Suites, 2011 Sixth Street North, Columbus
5-6:30 p.m.—Welcoming Reception,
Whitehall, 607 Third Street South, Columbus
FRIDAY. MARCH 2
8-10 a.m.—Registration, Parkinson Hall, Mississippi University for Women
The Friday luncheon and banquet and all presentations will take place in Parkinson Hall unless otherwise noted.
9	a.m.—Battle for the Southern Frontier: The War of 1812 in the Mississippi Territory, Clay Williams, director, Old Capitol Museum, and J. Michael Bunn, executive director, Historic Chattahoochee Commission
10:30 a.m.—Mississippi’s American Indians and the War of 1812, James F. Barnett,
Jr., director, MDAH Historic Properties Division
11:15 a.m.—Zachariah McGirt and the Creek Indian War, Charles Lowery, professor emeritus, Mississippi State University, and Sara Bradford Lowery, Starkville
12 noon, LUNCHEON
Our History Matters, Daniel P. Jordan,
president emeritus, Thomas Jefferson
Foundation
1:30 p.m.—The Natchez Trace and the
War of 1812, Tony L. Turnbow, president, Natchez Trace Parkway Association
2:15 p.m.—The Bicentennial of the War of 1812: Living History for All Missis-sippians, Daniel Kimes, northern district ranger, Natchez Trace Parkway, National Park Service
3-5 p.m.—Double-decker Bus Tour of Columbus led by Nancy Carpenter, executive director, Columbus/Lowndes Convention Center and Visitors Bureau
6	p.m.—President’s Reception, Puckett House.
7	p.m., BANQUET
“Some Dark Mysterious Business”: Aaron Burr in Mississippi Territory, Robert V. Haynes, professor emeritus, Western Kentucky University
SATURDAY. MARCH 3
8	a.m.—Annual Business Meeting, Parkinson Hall
9:15 a.m.—Returning Is Such Sweet Sorrow: Mississippi Soldiers and Civilians Transition from War to Peace, Rebecca Zimmer, University of Southern Mississippi
10 a.m.—Undergraduate Student Research Panel, Charles M. Yarborough, Mississippi School for Mathematics & Science, moderator
10:45 a.m.—Deep Roots and Wide Branches: MUW’s Influential Role in the History of Women’s Education, Bridget Smith Pieschel, MUW
11:15 a.m.—Columbus and Lowndes County Historical Society: Preserving Local History, Lillian Wade, president
12 noon—Awards Brunch, Pope Banquet Room, Hogarth Dining Center
DIRECTOR’S NOTE, continued from p. 1
completed improvements and interpretive work at Ingomar Mound and a living history tour that’s helping raise money for repairs to a local cemetery. It also features stories on the upcoming annual meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society and the Department of Archives and History’s records services, historical markers, and other outreach programs useful to historical societies.
One such program is the department’s Speakers Bureau, which offers presentations on dozens of topics for groups large or small, younger or older. The subjects covered vary from ways to conserve your family photographs and beginning genealogy—including presentations on African American and Native American family research projects—to the history of quilting in Mississippi, the Natchez Indians, early baseball in the state, and the use of mules during the Civil War. We also offer professional presentations to groups on starting a local archive or museum, managing records—both historical and electronic, collection oversight, emergency preparedness, and much more. For a complete list of topics and details online, go to mdah.state.ms.us/ education/speakersbureau.php.
Over the next five years one of the department’s largest projects will be overseeing construction of the new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Museum of Mississippi History. Groundbreaking for the museums is expected to happen summer 2012, and the museums will open in 2017 as the centerpiece of Mississippi’s bicentennial celebration of becoming a state. The museums, alongside the restored Old Capitol Museum and William F. Winter Archives and History Building, will serve as a gateway to heritage tourism, directing hundreds of thousands of visitors to historic sites across Mississippi.
H.T. Holmes, director
Mississippi Department of
Archives and History