Keynote speaker is National Park Service Archaeologist, Stephen Potter.

 

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/press/html/pr114-11.htm

 

 

The Civil War Comes to Fairfax County

Your chance to learn more about historic places and the Civil War in
Fairfax County is coming. The Seventh Annual Fairfax County History
Conference is set for Saturday, November 12, 2011 at the Stacy C.
Sherwood Community Center  in Fairfax. The conference is an opportunity
to meet local authors and historians as well as to get a peek into plans
for local sesquicentennial events as the nation marks the 150th
anniversary of the Civil War. 

The conference's keynote speaker will be National Park Service
Archaeologist Stephen Potter, who will speak on archaeology and the
Battle of Brawner Farm. Other speakers will include Rich Gillespie, the
director of education at the Mosby Heritage Area Association; David
Blake, the director of the Buckland Preservation Society; Susan Hellman,
the deputy director of Woodlawn, a National Trust Historic Site; Civil
War Historian Art Candenquist; and Gar Schulin of the Virginia Division
of the Sons of Confederation Veterans. 

The Sherwood Community Center is located at 3740 Old Lee Highway in
Fairfax. The conference hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and admission is
$20. More information and a registration form for the conference are
found online
<http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/offsite/?pg=http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/h
istcomm/event.htm> . 

 

If you have any questions contact Lynne Garvey-Hodge, Conference
Chairperson

703-322-1811 or [log in to unmask]

 

 


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