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Civil War
Roundtable of Arkansas
Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park
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August 10th - Spinning & Lace
Making Demonstrations will be from 1 pm
- 4 pm
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August 17th - Burgess Civil
War Collection will be from 1 pm - 5 pm
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August 23rd - Cannon Firing
Demonstrations with First Arkansas Light
Artillery from 10 am – 2 pm
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August 24th - Webb Civil War
& Antique Collection will be from 1 pm -
5 pm
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August 30th – September 1st
- 57th Annual Clothesline
Fair
Historic
Washington State Park
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August 23, 2008 - Join
Billy Nations Saturday August 23, 2008
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the James Black
Forge, home of the Bowie Knife, for a
hands-on class covering the basic
operations of blacksmithing.
Participants will make simple art
objects as well as more functional
objects with the beauty that only hand
forging can give iron and steel!
Materials and tools are supplied.
Register by submitting a nonrefundable
deposit of $25 to the park by Wednesday,
August 20. The minimum age is 16
(accompanied by an adult) and the class
is limited to six participants. General
observers are welcome to come free of
charge.
To register contact:
PO Box 129
Washington, AR 71862
870-983-2684
Or email Billy Nations - billy.nations@arkansas.gov
Reed's Bridge Battlefield
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Civil War
Roundtable of Arkansas
Historic Washington State Park
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September
12 - 14, 2008 - Southwest Arkansas will be celebrating its 35th
Anniversary on September 13, 2008. The celebration will be
part of the formal exhibit opening for "Celebrating Our Historical
Jubilee," an exhibit commemorating the 75th Anniversary of Arkansas
State Parks, the 50th Anniversary of the Pioneer Washington
Foundation,
the Southwest Regional Archives, and the anniversary of Historic
Washington. The time for the exhibit opening will be from 2-4
pm. I would like to invite all members of the Arkansas Living
History Association to attend and to wear their period clothing.
Historic Washington State Park's time period covers the years
1801-1900 and the Southwest Regional Archives collects information
from 1801 to the
present, so any period dress representing the Red River Region (Ark,
Tex, LA, and OK) from 1801-2008 will be appropriate. Memorable
periods
interpreted by the park include: frontier/settlement, antebellum,
slavery, Mexican War, Civil War, and Reconstruction. In addition,
the park's interpretive department will be having a jubilee weekend
celebration from September 12-14. Activities will include a
quilt show, frontier activities, and a dance workshop. I would
also like to invite all members to come set up a camp or spend the
weekend at the park portraying a character or presenting programs
from your living history time period.
For more
information about the exhibit and exhibit opening, contact park
curator Bryan McDade at 870-983-2284 or by email at
bryan.mcdade@arkansas.gov.
Mid-America
Conference on History - Springfield, Missouri
September 25 -
27, 2008
This major
regional history conference, sponsored by the Department of History
at Missouri State University, is free to the public. It features
presentations and discussions by more than sixty historians from
across the nation. The conference is open to the general public
without charge. For times, places, and full details of the
conference, click
here for a link to the Mid-America webpage.
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Civil War
Roundtable of Arkansas
Scott Settlement
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October
4th, 2008 - The High Cotton on the Bayou Event at the Scott
Plantation Settlement in Scott, Arkansas between the hours of
10:00A.M. - 2:00P.M., Saturday, October 4th. Our historic time
frame dates from 1840 through 1945 and we focus our activities on
different periods of plantation life at the event. The Settlement is
located on Ashley's Bayou where the Ashley's Mills skirmish took
place. The location is a part of the Little Rock Campaign where the
Union Army crossed the river to advance on Little Rock.
Legacy of Stones River Symposium: Pathways to
Freedom
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
October 18,
2008 from 8 A.M. to 4 P.M.
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The fifth
Legacy of Stones River Symposium will be held at the Rutherford
County Courthouse in the morning and at Stones River National
Battlefield in the afternoon, “Pathways to Freedom” will take a
fresh look at wartime emancipation through the experiences of men
and women who were enslaved, Union officers and soldiers, and
civilians. The symposium is coordinated by the Tennessee Civil War
National Heritage Area and Stones River National Battlefield.
Registration is $10. For more information, visit http://www.nps.gov/stri
or http://histpres.mtsu.edu/tncivwar, or call 615-893-9501 or
615-898-2947.
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