Preliminary Program
Bluestone Gorge in Pipestem Resort State Park
Thursday, October 29
4:00-7:00 p.m. Registration
5:00-7:00 p.m. Board Meeting
6:30-7:30 p.m. Reception
7:30-9:00 p.m. Dave Cooper – Mountain Road Show & Patty Sebok – Coal Mountain Watch
Friday, October 30
8:00-9:00 a.m. Registration
8:30-11:45 a.m. Paper Sessions
12 noon-1:30 p.m. Luncheon and Business Meeting
1:40-4:55 p.m. Paper Sessions
5:30-6:30 p.m. Cash Bar
6:30-9:00 p.m. Banquet and Award Presentations
Saturday, October 31
7:50 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Field Trip to the Pocahontas Coal Field
Sunday, November 1
9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Horseback Trail Ride around Pipestem with local Folklorist
Schedule of Paper Presentations
Session A-1 – From the Distant to the Recent Past in Appalachia
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Chris Mayda
8:30 a.m.
Finding Fort Morris: The Search for Shippensburg’s Elusive Colonial Fort
Paul Marr
8:55 a.m.
Finding Fort Shirley: How Archaeology Can Trump History
Jonathan Burns, George John Drobnock, and Jared Smith
9:20 a.m.
The Evolution of Mountain Top Removal Sites
Chris Mayda
Session B-1 – Small Towns, Near and Far
Room: TBA
Session Chair: TBA
8:30 a.m.
An Imperial Russian Log Town in America: Sitka, Alaska as a Late-Absolutist Colonial Company Town
Michael Conzen
8:55 a.m.
Speak, Landscape: Conversation With a North Carolina Textile Mill Village’s Nodes, Edges, Paths, and Landmarks
Julie K. Trotter
9:20 a.m.
Toward Small Town Revitalization in the Middle Susquehanna River Valley: Re-Assessing Historic Resources and Regional Landscapes for Collaborative Development
Caru Bowns and Alison Stevenson
9:45 – 10:05 a.m.
Break
Session A-2 – The Heritage of Appalachian Coal Mining
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Artimus Keiffer
10:10 a.m.
Coal Patch Communities in Indiana County, Pennsylvania: Industrial Age Urbanity in Rural Appalachia
Kevin Patrick
10:35 a.m.
Reforming a Danger-Prone Industry: The Monongah Mine Disaster and the Bureau of Mines
Jeff Cook
11:00 a.m.
Excavating Memory: Mining History, 1931
William M. Hunter
11:25 a.m.
Exploring the National Park Service as a Federal Partner in National Heritage Areas: Perceptions and Practices Over Time
Susan Martin-Williams
Session B-2 – Architecture: From High to Low and Beyond
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Marshall McLennan
10:10 a.m.
The Baroque Parapet: Cultural Diffusion and the Sense of Place in the American Southwest
Marshall McLennan
10:35 a.m.
The Johnson-Marquis House: A “Cajun Cottage” in Appalachian Ohio
Kevin Coleman
11:00 a.m.
Nineteenth Century Decorative Cast Iron Downspout Boots: Indicators of Socio-economic Status in Alexandria, Virginia
Mark Michael Ludlow
11:25 a.m.
The Invisible Streetscape: Vernacular Buildings and Being in 1850s Wheeling
Dan Bonenberger
Session A-3 – Southern Appalachian Communities
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Keith Sculle
1:40 p.m.
Rediscovering Rural Appalachian Communities with Historical GIS: A Case Study of Summers County, West Virginia
George Towers
2:05 p.m.
The Case for Coalwood, West Virginia: Historic Preservation and Economic Development in Appalachian Coal Mining Towns
Lisa Mroszczyk
2:30 p.m.
Uncovering Sundown Towns in Southern Appalachia
James W. Loewen
Session B-3 – Perspectives on Industry and Transportation
Room: TBA
Session Chair: TBA
1:40 p.m.
A Social Geography of Saltpeter
Katie Algeo
2:05 p.m.
The Curious Landscape of Automotive Proving Grounds
Michael Davis
2:30 p.m.
Transportation Costs and Social Change in Western New York, 1900-2010
Tom Rasmussen
2:55 p.m.
Moving Coal to Market: Anthracite, Gravity Rail, Roebling, and the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Wayne Brew
3:20-3:40 p.m.
Break
Session A-4 – A Factory, a Farm, and Folk Graveyards in Appalachia
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Michael Davis
3:40 p.m.
Preserving the Lonaconing Silk Mill
Richard J. Brand
4:05 p.m.
The Alvis Partin Farm: Memories of a Farm in Bell County, Kentucky
Jonathan E. Kay
4:30 p.m.
Graveyard Traditions in Southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia
J. Daniel Pezzoni
Session B-4 – People and Place: Innovative Approaches
Room: TBA
Session Chair: Jeff Cook
3:40 p.m.
The Power of Place
Margaret J. King and Jamie O’Boyle
4:05 p.m.
Sheet Music as an Indicator of Material Culture
Ralph Hartsock
4:30 p.m.
Spatial Patterns of Recent Native American Body Proportions: Climate or Colonization History?
Claire Jantz, Paul Marr, and Richard Jantz