Mississippi Heritage Trust

This year the National Preservation Conference, sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation is going to Nashville! Take advantage of the opportunity to explore and learn from the preservation challenges and successes in Nashville and the communities and countryside that surround it. Pasts filled with frontier hardships, Civil War battles, civil rights struggles, and the development of American music are blending with New South energy and thriving Main Street communities. The unfolding stories are told through plantations and farms, town squares, battlefields, city streets, historic African-American institutions, 19th and 20th century neighborhoods, and music venues from intimate bars to the world-famous Ryman Auditorium. See for yourself how Nashville and Tennessee are national leaders in developing sustainable and cultural tourism.

The Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) holds its 2009 Annual Meeting in Jackson, October 28-31, 2009, and invites all lovers of architecture to attend! SESAH is a regional chapter of the national Society of Architectural Historians and includes twelve states - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

This year's meeting in downtown Jackson will consist of paper sessions, walking tours, a plenary session, and awards banquet on Thursday, Oct. 29 and Friday Oct. 30. Todd Sanders, MDAH architectural historian, will introduce us to Jackson's architecture at the plenary session on Thursday, and the awards banquet that evening will kick off with a genuine Mississippi fish fry. After paper sessions on Friday, attendees will enjoy a walking tour of downtown Jackson, ending with a reception at the newly renovated Old Capitol (1839). Robert Ivy, editor of Architectural Record, will deliver the keynote lecture at the War Memorial Building, sponsored by MSU's College of Architecture, Art + Design as part of the Robert V.M. & Freda Wallace Harrison Lecture Series. Saturday’s bus tour will include sites around Jackson including the Tudor Revival-style house of author Eudora Welty, Medgar Evers’ 1956 Ranch house, Fondren's Mid-Century Modern treasures, and Tougaloo College. Conference co-hosts are the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) and Mississippi State University’s College of Architecture, Art + Design (CAAD).

For more infromation contact Jennifer Baughn with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History at (601) 576-6940.

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