Friday, October 7

Afternoon Sessions

3:00-6:00 Activity One (Three Hour Tour, Meeting Place: Chimney Tops Trailhead, an hour's drive from Cades Cove): Holly Jones, Friends of the Smokies

Trails Forever Restoration Highlight: Chimney Tops Trail

The presenter will meet participants between 2:45 and 3:00pm at Chimney Tops Trailhead, which has a 1 hour and 15 minute one-way drive time from the Cades Cove campground (you may want to check in at Cades Cove after the hike, depending on where you're coming from). This is a link to Google maps showing directions from the Cades Cove Campground to the Chimney Tops Trailhead - https://goo.gl/maps/UbPSvssKySG2. The presentation will end by 5:00 p.m. so that the participants can be back for supper at 6:00 p.m. We will not hike the entire trail, but this trail is quite strenuous, and hiking boots or sturdy hiking shoes are necessary.

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3:00-4:00 Activity Two (One Hour Walk and Talk, Meeting Place: Picnics Happen): Lynda Doucette, Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Andrew Denson, Western Carolina University, From Neighbors to Partners: the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Historical Interpretation at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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4:15-5:15 Activity Three (One Hour Walk and Talk, Meeting Place: Pavilion): Brian Forist, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Two-Way Interpretation—A Walking, Talking, Seeing and Feeling Experience of a New Pedagogy for Park Interpretation

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6:00 Supper

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7:00 Keynote: Nigel Fields, Chief, Resource Education, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Meeting Place: Campsite 4 Fire Pit (bring a lawn chair or blanket to sit on)

 

8:00 Campfire/Smores sponsored by Young Harris College

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Saturday, October 8

Morning Sessions

8:30-11:30 Activity One (Three Hour Tour, Meeting Place: This Is A Rock): Danny Bernstein, Hiker to Hiker, A Walk Through Elkmont

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9:00-11:00 Activity Two (Panel, Meeting Place: Picnics Happen): Interpreting History in Outdoor Places

Margo Shea, Tori Hinshaw, Grey Jones, Christopher Murphree, and Lexy Rouse, Sewanee - University of the South, Landscape, Memories, and Hidden Histories: Interpreting the Campus of the Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, TN

Evelyn D. Causey, Independent Consultant, History and Recreation in Washington, DC’s Fort Circle Parks

Sarah Berlinger, North Carolina State University, "Why not? It’s a jolly good hobby!”: Commemoration and Dissociation in American Civil War Reenacting in Britain

 

9:00-10:00 Activity Three (One Hour Walk-and-Talk, Meeting Place: Big Log): Samantha Roberts and Lynn Anders, Fernbank Museum, 100 Years in the Making: Fernbank Forest as the “School in the Woods”

 

10:15-11:15 Activity Four (Discussion/Art Experimentation, Meeting Place: Pavilion): Sharon Osofsky, Tennessee State Museum, and Elizabeth Gonzalez, American University, Art in the National Park Service: The Portrayal of the Great Smoky Mountains Throughout History

 

11:15-1:00 Lunch (On your own)

 

Afternoon Sessions

12:30-3:30 Activity One (Three Hour Tour, Meeting Place: This Is A Rock): Angela Sirna, Independent Consultant, War on Poverty Hike

 

1:00-3:00 Activity Two  (Panel, Meeting Place:Picnics Happen): The History of Interpretation and Preservation of Outdoor Places

Jennifer Betsworth, Adirondack Architectural Heritage,  Forever Unrestored?: Challenges in Preservation and Interpretation at Great Camp Santanoni

Stephanie Holyfield, PhD, Wesley College and Emily Martz, PhD, Independent Scholar, Adirondack Campsites & Reforestation in the 1920s: the Hopeful Compromise

Derek Huss, North Carolina State University, Their Own Unaided Effort: Perception and Use of the Appalachian Trail in the 1970s

 

1:00-2:00 Activity Three (One Hour Activity, Meeting Place: This Is A Rock):  Chris Gordon, UNCW Center for Education in STEM and Tammy Gordon, North Carolina State University, Activities for the Outdoor Classroom: Connections Between History and STEM Education

 

2:15-3:15 Activity Four: (One Hour Walk-and-Talk, Meeting Place: Big Log): Aaron Ahlstrom, Boston University,  Building Cabins, Constructing Identity: Cades Cove, the CCC, and Real and Imagined Log Cabins in National Parks

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3:00-6:00 Activity Five  (Three Hour Tour, Meeting Place: Pavilion): Jared Champion, Young Harris College “Little Magellans”: Benton Mackaye, Barbarians, and the Appalachian Trail

 

6:15 Supper

 

7:00 Book Discussion, led by Tameria Warren, Ph.D. Environmental Specialist, US Army Fort Jackson. Participants will discuss Carolyn Finney's Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors Meeting Place: Campsite 4 Fire Pit (bring a lawn chair or blanket)

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8:00 Campfire/Smores sponsored by Young Harris College

 

Sunday, October 9

9:00-10:00: Meeting: What concrete actions can we take toward better history learning in outdoor spaces? Meeting Place: Pavilion

10:00: Pack up and depart

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