October 20, 2009
\nContact: Lynn Wolf Gentzler (573) 882-7083
\nThe State Historical Society of Missouri<\/p>\n
Members of The State Historical Society of Missouri will hold their annual meeting October 31, 2009, at the Tiger Hotel in downtown Columbia. This day-long event will feature professional development workshops, a silent auction of valuable art, sports, and history items, research and publication awards, lunch in the hotel\u2019s Grand Ballroom, and a one-woman play about the life of Jane Clemens, mother of Missouri\u2019s most noted author, Mark Twain.<\/p>\n
Morning workshops will teach participants about preserving paper and three-dimensional objects in museums and historical societies throughout the state with three sessions: \u201cPaper Preservation 101\u201d with Claudia Powell, document conservation specialist at the University of Missouri-Columbia Western Historical Manuscript Collection; \u201cCollections Preservation\u201d led by Linda Eikmeier Endersby, assistant director of the Missouri State Museum and Jefferson Landing State Historic Site; and \u201cIn Storage and On Display\u201d featuring Greig Thompson, the Society\u2019s chief museum preparator.<\/p>\n
Executive Director Gary R. Kremer and Society President Doug Crews will give the annual report at 11:30 a.m., highlighting accomplishments from the past year, defining future opportunities, and making awards to accomplished scholars in Missouri history. The $500 Mary C. Neth Prize for the best article on women or gender issues in the past two volumes of the Missouri Historical Review will be given to Dr. Kimberly A. Schreck, Washington University, for \u201cThe Patriarch, His \u2018Wives,\u2019 His \u2018Slaves,\u2019 and His \u2018Children\u2019: Contested Wills in the Case of Keen v. Keen.\u201d The Lewis E. Atherton Thesis and Dissertation Awards will be made to recognize outstanding scholarship in Missouri history and to honor Atherton, a former trustee and president of the Society and longtime professor in the University of Missouri Department of History. The $500 Atherton Thesis Prize will go to Peter K. Johnson of Blue Springs for \u201cThe Origins and Nature of Indian Slavery in Colonial St. Louis,\u201d and the $1,000 Atherton Dissertation Prize will be awarded to Dr. Adam Arenson, Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas-El Paso, for \u201cCity of Manifest Destiny: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War, 1848-1877.\u201d Carolyn Gilman of the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis will receive the Society\u2019s $750 annual Missouri Historical Review best article award for \u201cL\u2019Anne\u00e9 du Coup: The Battle of St. Louis, 1780.\u201d And finally, Professor Jay H. Buckley of Brigham Young University will be awarded both the 2009 State Historical Society of Missouri Book Award ($1,000) and the Eagleton-Waters Book Award ($1,500) for his book William Clark: Indian Diplomat. The late Senator Thomas F. Eagleton and Society trustee Henry J. Waters III established the Eagleton-Waters biennial award for recognition of the best work in Missouri political history.<\/p>\n
The annual Distinguished Service Award will be given to W. Raymond Wood, Professor Emeritus in the University of Missouri Department of Anthropology. Wood is a longtime supporter and researcher at the Society and the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. Professor Wood is a speaker for the Society\u2019s Missouri History Speakers\u2019 Bureau, has served as a consultant for Society exhibitions and presentations, offered public programs for Society audiences, and has published in the Missouri Historical Review.<\/p>\n
A luncheon will be held at 12:30 p.m., followed by MoHiP Theatre\u2019s (Missouri History in Performance) production of Miz Jane, a one-woman play about the life of Jane Lampton Clemens, mother of writer and humorist Mark Twain. Talented mid-Missouri artists Jane Accurso and Dierik Leonhard will support the play with period music. October 20, 2009 Contact: Lynn Wolf Gentzler (573) 882-7083 The State Historical Society of Missouri Members of The State Historical Society of Missouri will hold their annual meeting October 31, 2009, at the Tiger Hotel in downtown Columbia. This day-long…<\/span><\/p>\n
\nNew to this year\u2019s annual meeting will be a silent auction to include a watercolor landscape painting by Frank Stack, a Mizzou Tiger basketball autographed by head coach Mike Anderson, an original Thomas Hart Benton print, a reproduction of an 1836 map of Missouri, an assortment of wine, and Panera\u2019s \u201cBread for a Year.\u201d
\nThe general public is welcome and encouraged to attend The State Historical Society of Missouri\u2019s Annual Meeting. The fee for the meeting, luncheon, and entertainment is $30 for members and $35 for nonmembers. The fee to participate in the workshops \u2013 in whole or part \u2013 is $15 for members and $20 for nonmembers. Reservations will be taken through October 28, 2009, online at http:\/\/shs.umsystem.edu\/annualmeeting<\/a> or by calling (573) 882-7083. Free parking is available in the Cherry Street Garage across from the Tiger Hotel, and the hotel is handicap accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"