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9:45
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Opening
Remarks, John Dougan, Executive Director, KTASA
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Session 1
Barkley Room in Curris Center
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10:00-11:15
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Moderator:
Permeable Borders: The Cultural and
Physical Boundaries of the Altamaha River in Colonial Anglo-Creek Relations
Lisa Crutchfield, LaGrange College
Indian Water Rights to the Colorado
River
April Summitt, Arizona State
University, Polytechnic Campus
The Eastern Band of Cherokee and Geography's Homeland Concept
Doug Heffington, Middle Tennessee State University
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11:15-11:30
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Break
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Session 2 Barkley Room in Curris Center
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11:30-12:30
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Moderator: Ellen Donavan, Middle Tennessee State University
“There Was Water Everywhere” in the
Novels of Thomas King
Martha Viehmann, Independent Scholar
Maria Thompson Daviess: The Making Of a Writer
Kay Baker Gaston, Tennessee historian and writer
Sula and Huck: Orphans and the River
Judith Hatchett, Western Kentucky University
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12:30-1:30
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Lunch
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Session 3a Barkley Room in Curris Center
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Session 3b Mississippi Room in Curris Center
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1:30-2:30
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Moderator: Martha Viehmann
Up the Down River: The Illusion of
Freedom in Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead
Wilson
Bernard Lewis, Murray State University
Mark Twain, Rivers, and the Critics
John Butwell, Middle Tennessee State
University
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Moderator:
Teaching Children in National Parks
Susan B. Hawkins, Fort Donelson
National Battlefield
Gilbert Backlund, Stones River National
Battlefield
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2:30-2:45
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Break
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Session 4a Barkley Room in Curris
Center
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Session 4b Mississippi Room in Curris
Center
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2:45-4:00
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Moderator: John Dougan
Roll on Forever: Rivers in the Songs of
the Grateful Dead
Randall Clark, Clayton State University
‘It rained five days and the skies turned dark as night’: The 1927
Mississippi Flood and Blues Music
T. DeWayne Moore, Middle Tennessee
State University
Crossing Over: The Mississippi River
and the Diffusion of Jazz
Matthew Sutton, College of William and
Mary
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Moderator: Mary Hoffschwelle
The Revival of American Quilting
Catherine E. Lewis, Murray State
University
Western Rural Women and Education,
1900-1950
Jennifer McPherson, Murray State
University
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Session 5a Barkley Room in Curris Center
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Session 5b Mississippi Room in Curris Center
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4:15
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Moderator:
William
Whitley House
Carol Crowe Carraco, Western Kentucky University
Is Kentucky
a Southern State?
Leah D. Pritchett, Western Kentucky University
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Moderator: Van West
Micki Y. Kaleta, “Changing Views of
Race Through the Pages of De Bow's Review, 1865-1867."
Adam Meredith, "Wizard or Devil:
The Controversial Image of Nathan Bedford Forrest."
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5:30
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Reception (traditionally known as the
Attitude Adjustment) Murray State University Faculty Club
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6:30
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Dinner
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7:30
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Keynote
speaker: John Guider, The River Inside
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Saturday
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Session 6 Faculty Hall, Rm. 201
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9:00-10:15
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Moderator: Doug Heffington, Middle Tennessee State University
The River Meets Its Master: A Yankee Engineer Remembers the Taming of
the Caney Fork
Lynn Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University
“A World in Miniature”: Life aboard the
steamboat Heroine, 1832-1838
Heather Jones, Texas A&M University
Reclaiming Underwater Structures in
Kentucky Lake
Tiffany Goldhamer, University of West
Florida
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Session 7 Faculty Hall, Rm. 201
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10:15-11:30
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Moderator: Bill Mulligan, Murray State University
Documenting the Cultural Landscape of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in
Macon County, Alabama
Carroll Van West, Center for Historic Preservation & Middle
Tennessee State University
Cotton-picking Monkeys and Hypercivilized Apes: American Anxieties in
Popular Accounts of Richard Garner’s Monkey Stories, 1892-1920
Jeremy McMaster Rich, Middle Tennessee State University
Black Women in Kentucky during World War II: Voices for Democracy
Bruce Tyler, University of Louisville
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Session 8 Faculty Hall 201
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11:30-12:15
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Moderator: Antoinette Van Zelm, Middle
Tennessee State University
Are We Having Fun Yet? Self-Improvement
and Hard Work in American Family Vacations on the Road, 1945-1965
Amy Rohmiller, Middle Tennessee State
University
The Commercialization of Wilderness and
the Formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Virginia Wallace-Falck, Middle
Tennessee State University
Between the Rivers into Legend: Robert Penn Warren's "The Ballad of Billie Potts" Jacque E. Day, Murray State University
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