Lunch and Lecture
Every Thursday during the month of February 2010, the Columbus Museum will feature its annual Lunch and Lecture Series. The series will focus on topics related to two exhibitions: The Way We Lived: Residential Architecture and Life in the 19th Century and Let the Records Show: Discovering the Valley's Black Community in Slavery and Freedom. All Lunch and Lecture programs will be held in the Museum’s Wright Room from noon to 1 p.m. The lectures are free and open to the public.
Box lunches are available by advanced request; contact Melinda Durham at 706.748.2562, ext. 651 or mdurham@columbusmuseum.com.
February 4, 2010
The Way We Lived: "Landmarks of Georgia Architecture" with William R. Mitchell
Bill Mitchell is an Atlanta native and resident, and a ninth-generation Georgian; he is a graduate of Westminster School, Emory University and the University of Delaware. An architectural and cultural historian, historic preservationist, lecturer and award-winning author, he was a founding trustee of The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation in 1973 and author of its first major book, J. Neel Reid, Architect, published in 1997. In 1998 he was the founding president of Southern Architecture Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit educational corporation that has published his The Architecture of James Means (2001) and a reprint of the rare 1931 Southern Architecture Illustrated (2002), for which he wrote a new preface. He has written numerous monographs on architects, such as Lewis Edmund Crook, Jr. and William Frank McCall, Jr., among others, and is author of numerous books, including Landmark Homes of Georgia.
February 11, 2010
The Way We Lived: "American 19th Century Flatware" with Bill Hood
A native of South Carolina, Dr. Hood graduated from Clemson University and the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Having received permission to do research in the Tiffany Archives on multiple occasions, Dr. Hood became the principal author, with Roslyn Berlin and Edward Wawrynek, of Tiffany Silver Flatware, 1845-1905: When Dining Was an Art, published by Antique Collectors’ Club in 2000 and reprinted in 2003. He has also done research in the Gorham Archives at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He has contributed some 50 articles on flatware to Silver Magazine and The Magazine Antiques. He has lectured widely in the United States and also in Canada and Germany. His collection of antique flatware has been exhibited in the Lauren Stanley Gallery in New York City and in several museums across the South, and a part of his collection of contemporary flatware is currently on view at the Jules Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art on the campus of Auburn University.
February 18, 2010
Let the Records Show: "African Americans and the Forging of Freedom" with Patience Essah
Patience Essah is a professor of history at Auburn University and the author of A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638-1865. Her research focuses on the history of the slave trade, slavery and emancipation. Her current research, an analysis of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, examines the struggle to ratify the amendment that offered freedom to all slaves throughout the United States. She teaches courses in Africana, African, African-American and World history.
February 25, 2010
Let the Records Show: “Reconstruction and the Evolution of African-American Churches and Schools in the Chattahoochee Region” with Jeanne Cyriaque
Jeanne Cyriaque coordinates African American programs for Georgia’s Historic Preservation Division in the Department of Natural Resources. She is the staff liaison to the Georgia African American Historic Preservation Network steering committee and is the editor of their award-winning publication Reflections. She features articles about African American churches and schools in the publication. Jeanne recently completed a two-year term as a commissioner of the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, a National Heritage Area that includes the barrier islands and coastal regions in Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina. She is a member of the selection committees for the Georgia Historical Society historic marker program and Georgia Women of Achievement.
Jeanne completed her bachelor’s degree at Bradley University and holds a master of arts from the University of Illinois, both in sociology. She is a founding member of the Rosenwald Schools Initiative of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She represents Georgia on the Board of Advisors for the National Trust.
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