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Friday, September 19

1:00p.m.

“Overview of
Mini-classes, Community Activities, and Fieldtrips”

R. Leith

Bowman Auditorium

Friday, September 19

2:00p.m.

“Lincoln Slept Here—In My House!”

G. Sea

Bowman Auditorium

Friday, September 19

3:00p.m.

“Binding Up the Nation’s Wounds: Healing the Slaves, Nursing the ‘Boys in Blue’ and ‘Gray’ and Looking Ahead to the 20th Century in Medicine”

OUS Nursing Corps

Bowman Auditorium

Friday, September 19

4:00p.m.

“The Official Lincoln: Leadership, Skills, and Management Philosophy in Times of Our Greatest Crisis”

Dr. Kim Keffer

Bowman Auditorium

Friday, September 19

5:00p.m.

Class Dinner Break

Old Fashioned Barbeque

Bowman Auditorium

Friday, September 19

6:00p.m.-8:00p.m.

“Hymns Heard in The Quarters and Military Marches of the North and South”

Dr. Pat McCoy and OUS Band

Bowman Auditorium

Friday, September 19

8:00p.m.

“Question and Answers”

Staff

Bowman Auditorium

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Saturday, September 20,
2008

9:00a.m.

“What Are We Teaching Future Generations (Northern ‘Yankees’ and Southrons) to Become?”

Dr. Lynn Walsh and Linda Mann

OUS Nature Center

Saturday, September 20

10:00a.m.

“Signs, Stars, and Signals, and Quilts from the Southern ‘Grapevine’ Through the Images of Photography”

Mr. Tom Suter and Assistants

OUS Nature Center

Saturday, September 20

11:00a.m.

“Slave Narratives That Reached the Northern Printing Presses”

Dr. Hayley Haugen

OUS Nature Center

Saturday, September 20

12 noon

Lunch Break

Barbeque

OUS Nature Center

Saturday, September 20

1:00p.m.

“Gifts of the Terrain and Environment Available to the Runaways-From the Ohio River to Canada”

Dr. Orianna Carter

OUS Nature Center

Saturday, September 20

2:00p.m.

“Producing Iron by the Ton (Hence Ironton) and Hiding Slaves by the Dozen”

Dr. Robert Culp and Mr. Adam Wilson

OUS Nature Center

Saturday, September 20

3:00p.m.

“Origins, Terminology, Philosophy, Personnel, and Effects of the Underground Railroad”

Dr. Edward Duffy

OUS Nature Center

Saturday, September 20

4:00p.m.

“Within These Chains-The Dreaded Middle Passage to the Americas”

Mr. Ron Sims

OUS Nature Center

Saturday, September 20

5:00p.m.

“A Day in the Life Of A Female Slave-In the ‘Big House’, The Fields, and At Home In the Quarters”

A Plantation Master And A Female Slave

OUS Nature Center

Saturday, September 20

6:00p.m.

“Pig-out Time”
(Pig Roast)

Army Hardtack and Soup  Beans

OUS Nature Center

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Sunday, September 21, 2008

10:00a.m.-12:00 noon

“Civil War Camp Meeting”
(Participation Optional)
**

Reverend John Rankin and Reverend Peter Cartwright

OUS Nature Center

Sunday, September 21

12 noon – 3:00p.m.

“Flight to Freedom Trail”
(Hike over moderate surface on developed trail)

Mr. Adam Wilson and Staff

Lake Vesuvius Woods

Sunday, September 21

3:00p.m.

“’…and, I will Be Heard’, Said the Little Man Whose Eyes Gleamed Like Fire”

Celebrity Guest (Born 1805, Died 1879)

OUS Nature Center

Sunday, September 21

4:00p.m. – 4:45p.m.

“Hayfoot! Strawfoot!”

A. Lincoln

OUS Nature Center

Sunday, September 21

5:00p.m.

“The Lincoln-Douglas Debates in Illinois”

A. Lincoln and Stephen Douglas

OUS Nature Center

Sunday, September 21

8:00p.m.

“Freedom Rap”
(Participation Optional)

One Day Left!

OUS Campus

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Monday, September 22, 2008

11:50a.m.

“Welcome to Our Town”

Mayor Rich Blankenship

Lawrence County Court House

Monday, September 22

11:50a.m.-
12 noon

“Pledge of Allegiance”

All in Attendance-Led by Mayor

Lawrence County Court House

Monday, September 22

11:50a.m.-
12 noon

“Community Prayer for Our President, Congress, Union Army, and Those Held in Bondage” **

Reverend Wayne Young

Lawrence County Court House

Monday, September 22

12:00-12:40

“The Need to Free All Peoples”

“Sojourner Truth”

Lawrence County Court House

Monday, September 22

12:40-1:30

“Lincoln’s Announcement of the ‘Emancipation Proclamation’”

President Lincoln

Lawrence County Court House

Monday, September 22

*Start of a Lawrence County Tradition?

Lawrence County Court House

Monday, September 22

1:30p.m.-1:45p.m.

“Meet ‘Sojourner’ and President Lincoln on Court House Lawn and Posing For Pictures”

“Sojourner,” President Lincoln, and Schoolchildren

Lawrence County Court House

Monday, September 22

1:45p.m.

Embark to Home Schools

Teachers and Schoolchildren

Lawrence County Court House