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| Society for Women and the Civil War, Inc. Box #9066 8345 NW 66th St. Miami, FL 33166 (804) 244-1864 www.swcw.org |
FRIDAY, July 23, 2010
Workshop 1: “Behind the Scenes at the North Carolina Museum of History”. Walk or drive just a few blocks from Peace College to the museum, where our conference
planners have arranged a very special "behind-the-scenes" tour just for us. The museum has an extensive collection of clothing and other artifacts related to women and the
Civil War.
Workshop 2: “On Your Own Walking Tour of Mordecai Square Historic Park” Walk or drive a few blocks from Peace College to Mordecai Square Historic Park and visit the
Mordecai House and the Ellen Mordecai Garden and other buildings that have been moved to the site including the original birthplace of President Andrew Johnson, the
Badger-Iredell Law Office, Allen Kitchen and St. Mark's Chapel.
Workshop 3: “Holding the Fort Alone: Giving Voice to the Woman Left Behind.” – Candy Grover recounts the journey to find evidence (beyond a single remaining photograph)
of the life of her ancestor, Almira Curtis Smart, as she ran her household of nine children, a great-grandmother, a grandfather and several grandchildren. The workshop
includes an excercise in "leaving our own voices."
4-6:00 WELCOME RECEPTION:
Enjoy a traditional Picnic of North Carolina Barbeque!
6-7:00 ANNUAL MEETING of SWCW
7-8:00 PRESENTATION
"Immunity from the Consequences of War: Female Academies in Confederate North Carolina"
by David Sikenat, Independent Scholar
This study of three dozen Civil War female academies in North Carolina that survived and prospered during the war proposes that they did so because they became places
of refuge, where parents could send their teenage daughters away from the front lines.
8-10:00 MOONLIGHT MADNESS and SILENT AUCTION:
Pose for a photograph - We'll Provide the setting and costume (or wear your own reproduction clothing) so you can pose for a commemorative CDV photo.
Donate – or buy -- items in the Silent Auction. (Proceeds go to our student Scholarship Fund.)
Buy – or sell – items at sales table.
SATURDAY– July 24, 2009
7:30 - 8:30 REGISTRATION opens & Breakfast Buffet at Peace College - Be sure to sign up for the 'Commuter Breakfast" if you are not staying
at Peace College for the Conference.
8:30-12:30 FIELD TRIP
We will visit historic Stagville and the Bennet Place. Historic Stagville comprises the remnants of one of the largest plantations of the pre-Civil War South. With both the "big
house" and extant slave quarters, this site offers a view of the lives of women at either end of the social and economic spectra.
Bennett Place is an example of the housing lived in by much of the middle class majority of North Carolina residents. It survives and is a state park today because it also
represents the way that event of war affected the lives of women. It is the location of Joseph E. Johnston's April 1865 surrender.
12:00 – 1:00 Box Lunch
1:30 - 5:00 PRESENTATIONS:
"Swift Fingered Sisters of Benevolence: Female Sanitary Fair Volunteers & the Promotion of Sewing Machines as a Patriotic Purchase"
by Amy Breakwell
The sewing machine was in wide-spread commercial, but not domestic, use at the outbreak of the Civil War. Breakwell proposes that public portrayal of sewing machines at
Sanitary Fairs countered Americans' resistance to the introduction of machinery in the home.
“Women at Work During the Civil War: Wheeling, West Virginia Case Study"
by Barabara Howe
This presentation looks at the ways women earned their living in Wheeling, (West) Virginia, from the desperate work of prostitutes to the work of women religious. Howe
recreates the lives of women who left almost no records and maps their places of employment.
Ice Cream Break
"Wound That Never Healed: The Women of Arkansas and the Hardships They Faced During the Civil War'
by Ellen Lewis
"War is Hell"... especially for Arkansas women left at home to face its consequences. This presentation includes stirring testimonies of strong-hearted women facing the
consequences of an undecided government, emancipation and humiliation from both armies.
5:00 - 7:00 Local Establishments are open for bar, cocktail service
We will not be serving alcohol at the banquet due to college restrictions.
7:00 - 9:00 BANQUET
Our Southern Hospitality banquet includes a multiple-entree buffett to offer you a taste of traditional Southern cuisine.
SUNDAY – July 25, 2009
7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast Buffett at Peace College
8:30 am -1:00 pm PRESENTATIONS
“Ways of Providence are Passing Strange: Northern Women Interpret the Civil War”
by Sean Scott
Many women understood the war in theological terms and interpreted it as an event with profound spiritual consequences. Scott uses the words of women living in the "Old
Northwest" states to reveal the importance of religious beliefs in their understanding of the Civil War.
"Love in Battle: Courtship in the Confederate South" by Victoria Ott
This presentation examines the consequences of war on the courtship activities of the young women from the slaveholding South, seeking and finding comfort in marital
ideals rooted in the antebellum values that included family honor and feminine duty.
North Carolina Flags by Rebecca Rose
Women across the state of North Carolina produced and presented flags to their men as they went off to war. This presentation will focus on the thirty North Carolina flags in
Museum of the Confederacy collection and select flags from the North Carolina Museum of History.
Vinnie Ream by Maureen Sappey
Vinnie Ream was only 16 when she finished her famous sculpture of Abraham Lincoln's "face of unfathomable sorrow" just before April 14, 1865. Learn about Vinnie's
career and her sculptures located in and around Washington, DC.
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Join in the Fun
Mount an Exhibit
Present your own research on women's lives and roles in the Civil War by displaying a tabletop exhibit from noon Friday through Sunday.
Sign Your Books
Conference attendees are invited to bring, sell and sign books they have authored or edited during Moonlight Madness.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE
Mailed registrations: postmark by July 1st. July 1 is also the deadline for registering for on-campus housing.
Internet/email (Paypal) registrations: transmit by July 15th.
Walk-ins may register onsite. If you register after July 1st, you may not receive a notebook.
A $40 per person surcharge will apply to registrations postmarked or emailed after July 1, 2010.
CANCELLATION POLICY
Substitutions are welcomed anytime. We are unable to offer refunds for cancellations made after July 1, 2010.
Refunds for cancelled registrations will be made as follows:
If postmarked or emailed by June 15 - full refund less 20% service fee.
If emailed between June 16 and July 1: 50% refund.
Refunds are paid 45 days after the conference.
****ACCOMMODATIONS****
We are delighted to offer two exceptional options for accommodations --- On-Campus Housing or Courtyard Marriott hotel!!
CONFERENCE HOUSING:
Marriott - Courtyard Raleigh Midtown
is offering conference attendees a phenomenal rate of
$69
when you use reference number: 1-ZG7OHT.
Deadline for conference rate is 6/25/2010.
Contact the hotel direct for reservations at
1041 Wake Towne Drive, Raleigh, NC, 27609
(800) 321-2211 or (919) 821-3400.
OR
For a lower-cost housing alternative,
stay on-campus at Peace College
$40 Conference Rate
for two-bed, one-bedroom suite sharing a bath with
one other bedroom.
These suites are air conditioned
and are 100% non-smoking. Sign up for a dorm room
on the conference registration form.
Offer expires 7/1/2010.
Conference Location
Peace College
15 East Peace Street
Raleigh, NC 27604-1194
DIRECTIONS:
By Car to Peace College
From the NORTH
On Interstate 95 - Take Highway 64 West exit in Rocky Mount. Follow 64 Business into Raleigh (64 becomes New
Bern Avenue) Turn right onto Person Street. Turn left onto Peace Street (Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is on the corner). Go
through one traffic signal, and Peace College is on the right.
For directions from other highways or additional driving instructions, visit http://www.peace.edu/content/page/id/178.
By Air
Peace College is 17 miles (30 minutes from Raleigh-Durham International Airport. From the airport, head northwest on
Airport Blvd/State Rd 3015 toward West International Drive. Turn left to merge onto I-40 toward Raleigh, continuing onto
Wade Ave. Continue onto Capital Blvd/Downtown Blvd.
Take the exit toward Peace St., and turn left on Peace St.
By Car to Hotel
From I-95S take Hwy 64 West in Rocky Mount. Go to Raleigh (about an hour drive) where 64 connects with 440
beltline. Turn right off 64 onto I-440 which becomes the road known as the OUTER beltline. Go two exits to Exit
#10 which is Wake Forest Raod. Get off 440, turn left on Wake Forest Rd. The hotel is the first road on the right.
| “Antebellum Antecedents of War” on July 23-25, 2010 at Peace College Raleigh, NC |