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Please
join us for our 2011 Fall Lecture Series
7:00
PM in the Tennessee Aquarium Auditorium
Free of charge and open to the public
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Monday,
September 26 @ 7 p.m.
Stephen N. Dennis, Ph.D.
Historian and Author
“Unknown, or Unknowable? The Archaeologist
and the Sociologist”
Stephen
Neal Dennis was born in LaFayette, Georgia and is a
great-great grandson of Abraham Belton Neal, who had
settled in Walker County’s West Armuchee Valley
by 1840. He is a graduate of the Baylor School in Chattanooga
and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He received a Ph.D. from Cornell University and a law
degree from Duke Law School.
Mr.
Dennis’s career focused on legal issues pertaining
to historic buildings and included an opportunity to
help pre-pare arguments to the United States Supreme
Court. He helped create the nation’s first state-wide
revolving fund for historic buildings in North Carolina.
Following that, he accepted a legal position with the
National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington,
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Mr. Dennis has recently published A Proud Little Town,
a comprehensive history of LaFayette. He had previously
written three books about Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania architecture
and community. During the course of his most recent research,
Mr. Dennis reviewed military records that led to five
chapters of the book detailing Fort Cumming and the Cherokee
Removal. With continued research, he hopes to write two
more books, one dealing with the forced removal of the
Cherokee, and the other about the Union Army occupation
of Chattanooga during the Civil War. |
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Monday,
October 10 @ 7 p.m.
Bobby Horton
Civil War Historian and Musician
and the Chattanooga Boys Choir
Civil War Songs and Stories
Born
and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Bobby Horton de-veloped
his lifelong passion for music at an early age. With
musicians in the fam-ily, he was exposed to a variety
of music from big bands, jazz and classical to Southern
gospel, sacred harp, and “hillbilly.”
Horton is a multi-instrumentalist, com-poser, producer
and music historian. He has produced and performed music
scores for thirteen PBS films by noted documentarian
Ken Burns, including The Civil War, Baseball, and National
Parks: America’s Best Idea. |
Founded
in 1954, the Chattanooga Boys Choir
is a music education and performance organization. It
includes over 140 choristers in five different ensembles
for grades 3 through 12. With a wealth of Civil War history
in the Chattanooga area, it is fulfilling to give breath
to the songs that were already living in the battlefields,
cemeteries and strategic strongholds that many of us busily
pass by every day. Acknowledging that many soldiers who
fought on both sides were the same age as several of the
boys performing on this program makes this evening’s
presentation even more poignant. |
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Monday,
November 7 @ 7 p.m.
Nevada Barr
Author, Artist, and Former National Park Service Ranger
Nevada Barr
is an award-winning novelist and New York Times best-selling
author. She has a growing number of Anna Pigeon mysteries
to her credit as well as numerous other books, short
stories, and articles. She currently resides in New
Orleans with her husband, four magical cats, and two
adorable dogs.
Nevada was born in the small western town of Yerington,
Nevada, and raised on a mountain airport in the Sierras.
Pushed
out of the nest, Nevada fell into the theatre, receiving
her BA in speech and drama and her MFA in acting before
making a pilgrimage to New York City, then Minneapolis,
Minnesota. For eighteen years she worked on stage, in
commercials and industrial training films, and did voice-overs
for radio. During this time she became interested in
the environmental movement and began working in the
national parks during the summers.
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first novel, Bittersweet was published in 1983.
The Anna Pigeon series, featuring a female park ranger
as the protagonist, started when she married her love
of writing with her love of the wilderness. The fictional
Anna Pigeon is a law-enforcement ranger with the National
Park Service, and readers find her in any number of national
parks solving despicable crimes. Sixteen Anna Pigeon national
park mysteries have been published, with her next book,
The Rope, to be released in January 2012.
Nevada
Barr is the 2011 recipient of the Robin W. Winks Award,
given annually by the National Parks Conservation Association
to people and/or organizations recognized for enhancing
public understanding of the national parks.
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Continuing the fine legacy established
in 2006, lectures are underwritten by
Greg A. Vital, President of Independent Healthcare Properties,
LLC.
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