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Meetings are usually held monthly at The McCallie School, 500 Dodds Avenue,
Chattanooga, Tennessee on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Occasionally, we
will have a day, time or location change. Please check this website for the
latest information.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 7:00 PM
Orchard Knob Reservation of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park located on Orchard Knob Avenue at Ivy Street
"Constraining the March of Time: Monument Conservation
on the Chattanooga Battlefields"
Scott Jones & Hector Abreu - Museum Exhibit Specialists & Conservators, National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center
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What happened here in the shadow of Lookout Mountain in the later summer and fall of 1863 was significant in determining the outcome of the War for Southern Independence/War of the Rebellion. Those who experienced the Campaign for Chattanooga as it unfolded knew even then just how significant it was. Many visited the ground hallowed by themselves and their comrades within hours, days, and months of those battles and they continued to do so in the two and a half decades after the war. In the 1890s, those men's and their nation's recognition of those events led to the creation of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and the erection of more than a 1,000 monuments, markers, tablets, and plaques across those battlefields. In the century since, time and some visitors have not necessarily been kind to all of those commemorative features. And, even with durable materials by and large having been selected, even granite monuments need some tender loving care too. As you hopefully have seen in the local media, some of the larger monuments are receiving that care this summer on the Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge battlefields; its making those monuments look almost new. For our program this month, we'll get a tour and talk of what is being done for some of the monuments within the Orchard Knob Reservation by two of the experts doing the work. Orchard Knob has been closed during this process but we'll get to visit under the escort of the crew and get to see and hear up close what they've been up to and what they've been finding.
Museum Exhibit Specialist and team leader Scott Jones is a Navy (seven years) and construction trades veteran. Joining the National Park Service in Florida in 1990, he transferred to the Historic Preservation Training Center in 1997 and has since worked on may historic preservation projects around the National Park System, including at Stones River National Battlefield.
Conservator Hector Abreu was born in New York but raised in Puerto Rico. Trained as a civil engineer at the University of Puerto Rico, he returned to school to study architectural conservation at the University of Pennsylvania. Since, he has done conservation work or taught conservation for the University of Pennsylvania, the Puerto Rico State Historic Preservation Office, Savannah College of Art and Design, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and as a private consultant. |
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The following dates are the normal Tuesday meeting days for Round Table meetings in 2010.
Actual dates may vary due to program requirements.
January 19, 2010 -- Tom Carson and Dennis Schafluetzel, "Tennessee's Civil War Era Currency Notes & Script"
February 16, 2010 -- Sam Davis Elliott - "Isham G. Harris of Tennessee: Confederate Governor & U. S. Senator"
March 16, 2010 -- Chris Young - "Confederate General Sterling Alexander Martin 'S. A. M.' Wood"
April 20, 2010 -- Jim Ogden - "Barbed Words Before Battle: Campaign for
Chattanooga Participants and the Elections of 1860"
May 18, 2010 -- Zack Waters, Historian & Author, author of forthcoming book on Florida Confederate Soldiers
June 15, 2010 -- E. Raymond Evans on "The Struggle on the Hiwassee: The Civil War in
the Charleston & Calhoun Area"
July 20, 2010 -- IN THE FIELD at Orchard Knob Reservation, Chattanooga & Chickamauga National Military Park -
Scott Jones & Hector Abreu on "Constraining the March of Time: Monument Conservation on the Chattanooga Battlefields"
August 17, 2010 -- To be announced
September 21, 2010 -- IN THE FIELD "Forrest vs. Old Rosey: The First Days After Chickamauga"
October 19, 2010 -- To be announced
November 16, 2010 -- To be announced
December 21, 2010 -- To be announced |
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