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Society of Georgia Archivists
Preserving the past and the present for the future...

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Volume 42, Issue 2, Summer 2010



 
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Calendar of Events

Please visit SGA's Events web page (http://soga.org/events) for a complete calendar of Exhibits, Events, Lectures, Conferences and Workshops.

Know of an interesting event to include in the calendar?  Please contact Kevin Fleming (kfleming@gsu.edu), SGA's web site assistant manager, with the date, time, title, location and a link for more information.

Exhibits

Through August 29, The Working White House: 200 years of Tradition and Memories. Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History http://www.southernmuseum.org/se_working-white-house.html

Through August 30th Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke: the First Methodist Bishops Durham Reading Room Pitts Theology Library Emory University. http://www.pitts.emory.edu

Through September 25th  Voices Across the Color Line: The Atlanta Student Movement.  Atlanta History Center.   http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com

Through September 4th  Music Lives on in Macon.  Georgia Music Hall of Fame.http://www.georgiamusic.org/

Through December 31sth Native Lands: Indians and Georgia. Atlanta History Center. http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com

July 27th –October 3rd. Freedom’s Sisters. Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/

August 7th-October 1st, 2011   War in Our Backyards: Discovering Atlanta, 1861-1865. Atlanta History Center, http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com

September 4th- November  6th.  With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition.  Atlanta History Center, www.atlantahistorycenter.com

Events

July 21st  6:00 PM. McIntosh County Shouters. Second African Baptist Church. 123 Houston St. Savannah GA.  Sponsored by Georgia Historical Society. http://www.georgiahistory.com/events/439

Lectures

July 28th July Lunch and Learn With Speaker Joe Alcock on Kirkwood. DeKalb History Center http://www.dekalbhistory.org/

August 9th at 7:00 PM. The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and his Mysterious Disappearance. David V. Herlihy  Lecture and book signing. Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/


Lunch and Learn
series at the Georgia Archives http://sos.georgia.gov/archives/
  • July 13th Thinking Outside the Coffin. Panel Discussion of Oakland Cemetery’s restoration.
  • August 10th Using Georgia’s Lane Lottery’s to Prove Family Relationships. Susan Sloan.
  • September 14th. Georgia’s Sacred Architecture: the Bible Belt and Much, Much More.  W. Ray Luce.

Lecture series at the Literary Center at Margaret Mitchell House. Atlanta History Center, www.atlantahistorycenter.com:

  • July 16th   7:00 PM Jennifer Weiner, on her book Fly Away Home.
  • July 22th  7:00 PM Alison Weir, on her book Captive Queen.
  • August 24th 7:00 PM Pearl Cleage, on her book Till You Hear From Me.


Conferences and Workshops

July 10th, Time TBA, 2010 Symposium on Haiti. Heritage Education Center Auditorium. Auburn Avenue Research Library. http://www.af.public.lib.ga.us/aarl/

July 31st 9:30-4pm. Digital Scrapbooking Hands-On Workshop. National Archives at Atlanta. http://www.archives.gov/southeast/

August 14th, Time TBA, Gabonese Cultural Heritage Through the Prism of Time.

Heritage Education Center Auditorium. Auburn Avenue Research Library. http://www.af.public.lib.ga.us/aarl/



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