The Augusta Genealogical Society will be hosting a “Digital Scrapbooking and Photo Preservation” workshop at the Augusta Museum of History on Thursday, April 4 at 3pm. The workshop will be presented by Beryl Morgan, owner of Beryl Morgan Scrapulescence: http://www.berylmorgan.com/id75.html.
The workshop is free and open to the public.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA (3/28/13) – The Augusta Museum of History is pleased to announce the special hours that the Museum will be open and available for visitors during Master’s week:
Sunday, April 8, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Saturday, April 9th to April 14th, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, April 15th, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
All exhibitions will be open which will include: Celebrating a Grand Tradition, The Story of Golf, The Godfather of Soul, Mr. James Brown, Local Legends, and Augusta Story. Statues of golf greats Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Bryon Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, and Arnold Palmer will be on view in the Museum’s Rotunda.
Augusta Museum of History, the only Museum in the CSRA accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, was established in 1937 for the purpose of preserving and sharing the material history of Augusta and the region. From a 10,000 year-old projectile point to a 1914 locomotive, to James Brown memorabilia the collections chronicle a rich and fascinating past. The museum is located at 560 Reynolds Street in downtown Augusta. Please call (706) 722-8454 for more information or visit our website www.augustamuseum.org.
Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm; Sunday 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm; Closed Monday-Wednesday
Admission: Adult: $4 • Senior: $3 • Child (6-18): $2 • Child (5 & under): Free
The 1797 Ezekiel Harris House¸ said to be “the finest eighteenth-century house surviving in Georgia”, is located at 1822 Broad Street and is an excellent example of early Federal architecture. Fully restored in 1964 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the Ezekiel Harris House is a reminder of the days when tobacco was the primary cash crop of Georgia. For more information, call (706) 722-8454 or visit www.augustamuseum.org.
Hours: Guided tours by appointment Tuesday – Friday, with the last tour beginning at 4:00 pm; Saturday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, with the last tour beginning at 4:00 pm; Tours by appointment only Tuesday – Friday; Closed Sunday & Monday. To schedule tours call (706) 722-8454.
Admission: Adult and Senior: $2 • Child: $1
Join Aiken State Park (Windsor, SC) on March 23, 2013 at 2 p.m. for a special program devoted to park’s African-American legacy. The program will talk about the African-American detachment of the Civilian Conservation Corps and tour some of the buildings built by the group.
Aiken State Park is Redcliffe Plantation SHS’s sister park in Aiken County, South Carolina. The program will be presented by Redcliffe Park Interpreter Elizabeth Laney and Aiken Park Manager Robert Mahoney.
Thank you to Elizabeth Laney for providing this information!
We look forward to seeing you at our March regular meeting at 6:30 in the Conference room of the Burke County library. We are very excited to have Christine Miller-Betts, Executive Director of the Lucy Craft Laney Museum, as our guest speaker! We hope to see you there!
Burke County Genealogical and Historical Society
The Paine College History Club students will present free tours at Cedar Grove Cemetery this Saturday, March 9, at 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. Each tour will have historical re-enactments of famous African Americans buried at Cedar Grove. For more information, please call 706-821-8371.
March 11, 2013 Monday, 7 p.m.
The fifth event in the Augusta Viewpoints: Understanding the Civil War reading and discussion series is scheduled for Monday, March 11, at 7 pm in Washington Hall on the Summerville campus.
Dr. Debra van Tuyll, Professor at Georgia Regents University, will moderate discussion of James M. McPherson’s “For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War.”
This event and all others in the series are free and open to the public. Information can be found online athttp://guides.aug.edu/augustaviewpoint orhttp://augustaviewpoint.wordpress.com/.
The series is an eight month reading and discussion series which includes six book titles that reflect on the multiple experiences and perspectives and experiences of Augustans during the American Civil War.
The project is a collaborative effort led by Carol Waggoner-Angleton, Special Collections Librarian, with special grant-funding from the Georgia Humanities Council.
Books in the series are available at Reese Library, Collins-Callaway Library at Paine College, the Augusta Public Library, and the Columbia County Library. They are also available for purchase at the ASU Bookstore.
Location Information: Summerville Campus – Washington Hall, 4th floor The Towers room
The Friends of the National Archives-Southeast Region will be hosting a monthly webinar on Tuesday, March 12th at 2pm. The webinar is titled, “loc.gov: Using Our Nation’s Library Online.” According to the website, webinar attendees will “explore one of the most rewarding, yet overlooked online resources: The Library of Congress, loc.gov. Laura will show you hidden treasures like maps, diaries, books, manuscripts, and photos. Learn effective search and navigation techniques and add a dimension of social history to your research.” The webinar is free and easy to use and you can sign up here: http://www.friendsnas.org/webinarSch.htm
by Aspasia Luster
Just a reminder that the Georgia Room is hosting a Civil War tour at Magnolia Cemetery this Saturday, March 9 at 2pm. We will meet at the main entrance and the tour will be conducted by Russell Liner, our in-house Civil War buff and Reference Department staff member. We will tour the Civil War section and General’s Row and talk about the people who are buried there. Please call the Georgia Room at 706-826-1511 to pre-register. Wear comfortable walking shoes and bring a camera to take pictures!
by Aspasia Luster
In preparation for a class later this spring, I’ve been searching out hair and eye color, length of life and any other physical tidbits I can find. I’m putting this information on an ancestry chart. The results have been very interesting. Now I know the red hair that my brother and daughters have didn’t come just from my mom. My dad’s dad also had red hair. My daughter’s blonde hair came from my dad, as it turns out. Like my daughter, my dad’s hair didn’t turn dark until he was thirty.
These personal genealogy discoveries flesh out my ancestors. I hope when you are researching your family, you remember to look for traits to trace through the generations.
Dr. Leslie J. Pollard, retired Calloway Distinguished Professor of History from Paine College, will be speaking on his manuscript on African American doctors in Augusta in the late 19th/early 20th century tonight at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 2230 Walton Way, Augusta. The meeting starts at 7pm and the public is welcome to attend.
Dottie Demarest, of the Georgia Heritage Room at the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library was featured with Gloria Lucas and Corey Rogers on a Channel 6 program about African American Funeral Programs. Watch it here:
http://www2.wjbf.com/news/2013/feb/13/2/local-african-american-funeral-program-collection-ar-5586500/
