Congratulations to this year's wiinners

Photo collage of the 2009 award winners Sharing a brew before the awards ceremony begins. Alice Reed Morrison, a member of the Warren E. Roberts Award committee,  presents to Indiana University folklore graduate student, Jonathan E. Kay, the 2009 Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Competition Award. TO COME Artimus presents to Ainsley Director forgets glasses TO COME

There was lots of excitement and fun at the 2009 awards ceremony. Click any image for a larger view and/or to view the photos as a slide show. All the details follow:

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.

The recipient was Dawn S. Bowen, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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.

The recipient was Ann Norton Greene of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for: Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Allen G. Noble Book Award

The Allen G. Noble Book Award 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.

The recipient was Dianne Harris and D. Fairchild Ruggles, eds., both of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, for: Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.

PAS:APAL Historic Preservation Award

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

The Historic Preservation Award winner was Cockayne Historic Preservation Committee for its project, first, to preserve the Cockayne Farmstead in Glenn Dale, WV, and secondly, to create an educational and cultural center at the farm that will benefit all West Virginians. http://www.cockaynefarm.com/

The Historic Preservation Certificate of Merit recipients were:

1) Historic Beverly Preservation in recognition of its outstanding efforts to preserve, restore, and interpret four historic downtown buildings for use as the Beverly Heritage Center, Beverly WV. http://www.historicbeverly.org/bevhcent.htm

2) Don C. Wood and the Berkeley County Historical Society in recognition of their outstanding efforts to promote preserve, restore, and use the Belle Boyd House in Martinsville, WV, as an archive and research center. http://www.bchs.org/civilwar.html

Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Competition Award

The Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Competition, established in 2001 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.

The recipient was doctoral student Jonathan E. Kay of the Department of Folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, for his paper entitled, “The Alvis Partin Farm: Memories of a Farm in Eastern Bell County, Kentucky.”

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. There was no award presented in 2009.

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Executive Director, Artimus Keiffer shares a brew with a new PAS: APAL member, Wayne Brew of Philadelphia, PA, prior to the Friday Evening Awards Ceremony.
Alice Reed Morrison, a member of the Warren E. Roberts Award committee, presents to Indiana University folklore graduate student, Jonathan E. Kay, the 2009 Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Competition Award.
Keith A. Sculle, a member of the Henry H. Douglas Award Committee, presents Dawn S. Bowen of Fredericksburg, VA, with the 2009 Henry H. Douglas Distinguished Service Award. Dawn, a geographer at the University of Mary Washington, is the first woman to receive this award.
Executive Director, Artimus Keiffer presents W. Frank Ainsley of Wilmington, NC, with a special Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of his 20 years of distinguished service as the Society's Secretary-Treasurer.
Executive Director, Artimus Keiffer announces the Society's 2009 Historic Preservation Certificates of Merit recipients -- Historic Beverly Preservation of Beverly, WV, and Don C. Wood & the Berkley County Historical Society of Martinsville, WV.
Margaret J. King of Philadelphia, PA, receives a Certificate of Appreciation from Executive Director, Artimus Keiffer, for her dedicated service as a member of the Society's Board of Directors.