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Legacy of Stones River Symposium With scholarly talks, cemetery walks and living-history programs |
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Legacy of Stones River Symposium With scholarly talks, cemetery walks and living-history programs |
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The following news release was furnished on January 22, 2007 by Ashley Falls Tate, Graduate Research Assistant, Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area, Middle Tennessee State University, Phone: 615-898-2947:
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Mark your calendar for the fourth Legacy of Stones River Symposium, to be held in Murfreesboro on Saturday, March 31, 2007, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Remembering the Civil War” will address battlefield preservation and Civil War commemoration during the 80th anniversary year of the establishment of Stones River National Battlefield. |
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Morning sessions at the Rutherford County Courthouse Morning Agenda |
| 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast | 8:00 - Noon | Registration |
| 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. | SESSION 1 Miranda L. Fraley, Tennessee State Museum, and Jim B. Lewis, Stones River National Battlefield: "Remembering Stones River: From Burying Ground to National Battlefield" |
| 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. | SESSION 2 Karen L. Cox, University of North Carolina at Charlotte "Honoring the Generation of the Sixties: Women's Role in Vindicating the Confederacy" |
| 10:00 - 10:15 a.m. | BREAK |
| 10:15 - 10:45 a.m. | SESSION 3 William A. Blair, Pennsylvania State University "The Politics of Commemorating the American Civil War" |
| 10:45 | QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION |
| 11:30 - Noon | BOOK SIGNING |
| Noon - 1:00 p.m. | LUNCH (ON YOUR OWN) |
| Afternoon sessions
Stones River National Battlefield and Cemetery Afternoon Agenda |
| 1:00 - 1:45 p.m. | Olde Towne Brass Band of Huntsville, Alabama (At the Cemetery Rostrum) - OR - |
| 1:00 - 1:45 p.m. | Walk to Hazen Brigade Monument |
| 1:45 - 3:15 p.m. | Hallowed Ground Tours of National Cemetery (Departure times are pre-assigned - see Registration Form) |
| 3:15 - 4:00 p.m. | Olde Towne Brass Band of Huntsville, Alabama (At the Cemetery Rostrum) - OR - |
| 3:15 - 4:00 p.m. | Walk to Hazen Brigade Monument |
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Sponsors of “Remembering the Civil War” are: Eastern National, The Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area, The Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University, The Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University, Teaching American History: Discover TAHO! (Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools), Olde Towne Brass Band of Huntsville, Ala, and The Friends of Stones River National Battlefield, Inc.
Registration is $10, and registration brochures are available on the Web at: http://histpres.mtsu.edu/tncivwar or http://www.nps.gov/stri. You may also call (615) 893-9501. |