PAS: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts & Landscapes is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2007 Awards that were presented at its 39th annual
conference in Hagerstown, MD, on October 12, 2007:


Henry H. Douglas Distinguished Service Award

The Award is named in honor of the founder of the Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts & Landscapes, Mr. Henry H.
Douglas, and is given to an individual who has made significant contributions over the years in furthering the Society's goals through service, teaching, publications, and/or the promotion of historic preservation.

Charles F. Calkins, Ph.D. of Waukesha, Wisconsin -
former Executive Director of PAS: APAL


Fred B. Kniffen Book Award

The Fred B. Kniffen Book Award, established in 1989 by PAS: APAL, honors the work of Fred Kniffen, a long-time scholar at Louisiana State University.  The Kniffen Award recognizes the best-authored book in the field of North American material culture.


Maurie D. McInnis of the University of Virginia for
The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston


Allen G. Noble Book Award

The Allen G. Noble Book Award, established in 2001, is given in honor of the scholarship Allen G. Noble contributed to cultural geography.  The award recognizes the best-edited book in the field of North American material culture.


Claudette Stager of the Tennessee Historical Commission & Martha A. Carver of the Tennessee Department of Transportation, eds., Looking beyond the Highway: Dixie Roads and Culture


PAS:APAL Historic Preservation of Merit Award

The Historic Preservation of Merit Award, established in 2000, recognizes the preservation, interpretation, instruction, celebration, or exhibit of North American
material culture.

The Catoctin Center for Regional Studies, Frederick, Maryland, was created in 1998 by Frederick Community College and the National Park Service to promote the research and study of the history and culture of central Maryland and the adjacent areas of neighboring states.  In pursuit of this mission, the Center has been working to develop a History Resource Center in which students are compiling bibliographic information
for the central Maryland counties; obtained a History Channel Save Our History grant to teach a local middle school class about historic preservation and local African American history associated with the Civil War; publishes a regional history magazine called Catoctin History, and sponsors a regional history conference every two years; funded a multi-year project to document historic sites and landscapes associated with industry, agriculture, and transportation, as well as documenting traditional culture in central Maryland; and was an important partner, through grant writing and manpower, in the preservation and restoration of Tolson's Chapel, an African-American church and Freedmen's Bureau school in Sharpsburg, Maryland.  “Simply put,” notes Frederick County Library, Maryland Room Manager, Mary Mannix, “the Catoctin Center for Regional Studies is changing the way local history and the study of material culture is practiced in Western Maryland.”


Honorable Mentions:

Dorchester Historical Society, Dorchester Massachusetts,in recognition of its outstanding dedication to the preservation and restoration of the ca. 1650 James Blake House;

St. John's Union Church, Thurmont, Maryland, in recognition of outstanding dedication to the preservation and restoration of its 1834 church building;

The Master of Arts in Historic Preservation Program, Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, in recognition of outstanding accomplishment and excellence of instruction in material culture and preservation in
North America;


Hubert G. H. Wilhelm Student Research Award

The Hubert G.H. Wilhelm Student Research Award, established in 2006 in honor of long-time PAS: APAL member, Hubert Wilhelm, a cultural geographer whose enthusiasm for teaching has had a global impact, is a annual competitive award in the field of American material culture which is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

Amy Drake of Grinnell University, Grinnell, Iowa, for her presentation, "Immortelles, Roses and Lilies: Flowers at the Funerals of Winnie and Varina Davis"

Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Competition Award

The Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Competition, established in 2004 in memory of folklife scholar Warren E. Roberts, a longtime PAS: APAL member and former member of the Board of Directors, is an annual competitive award that recognizes excellence in original graduate student fieldwork, documentary research, and writing in the area of traditional North American material culture.


No award was made in 2007.


The Fred B. Kniffen Book Award recognizes a best-authored book in the field of North
American material culture.

The Allen G. Noble Book Award recognizes a best-edited book in the field of North
American material culture.

The H.H. Douglas Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has made
very significant contributions in furthering the goals of the Pioneer
American Society.

The Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Competition recognizes excellence
in original graduate student fieldwork, documentary research, and writing
in the area of traditional North American material culture.

The Historic Preservation Award of Merit recognizes the preservation,
interpretation, instruction, celebration, or exhibition of North American
material culture.