Date: June 6, 2011
Presenters: Timothy Crimmins, Georgia State University
Presentation: Shades of Gray: Stone Mountain and the Changing Landscape of Atlanta’s Memorials
Program Description: 7:00 – 9:00 PM – Stone Mountain Park’s Memorial Hall Auditorium.
The landscape of Confederate memorialization in Atlanta might not be apparent to the casual observer, but it stretches along Memorial Drive from the State Capitol, past Oakland Cemetery to Stone Mountain. Using photographs and other historic documents, Tim Crimmins will explore this landscape from the simple head stones in Oakland Cemetery to the three acre carving on Stone Mountain.
Date: July 14, 2011
Presenters: Barry Brown & Rich Elwell, GA Civil War Commission
bbrown@georgia.org
richelwell.1864@gmail.com
Presentation: Crossroads of Conflict: Touring Civil War sites in Georgia
Program Description: An overview of Civil War sites in Georgia and what can still be seen today , 150 years after the conflict. Georgia was a primary agricultural, industrial and transportation hub of the Southern Confederacy and important in the events and outcome of the Civil War.
Date: August 11, 2011
Presenter: Garrett Silliman, Archeologist
Presentation: Battlefield Archeology
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