[Scmusenet] Last Chance to Register for Saturday's WWI Symposium

[Cassidy-Shaiman, Jai]

Today is the registration deadline for the WWI Military History
Symposium on November 15, from 9:30am-4:30pm, at the SC Confederate
Relic Room & Military Museum.  For more information and to register,
visit www.crr.sc.gov/events/ww1
<blocked::http://www.crr.sc.gov/events/ww1>  or contact Sarah Wooton
Garrod at swooton at crr.sc.gov <blocked::mailto:swooton at crr.sc.gov>  or
803.737.8094.   
 
Guest speakers include Les Jensen, with the US Military Academy, Dr.
Mitch Yockelson, with the National Archives and Records Administration,
and Lt. Col. (Ret) Robert L. Brown.  Museum curators Sarah Wooton Garrod
and Joe Long will also speak.   

 

Other activities include informal presentations by military living
historians, WWI collector artifact displays, and a book signing by Dr.
Yockelson for his book Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British
Command, 1918.   Lunch, break-time snacks, admission to the museum, and
a 10% museum gift shop discount are included in the registration fee.  

 

Founded in 1896, the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is
the oldest museum in the Columbia area. The museum focuses on South
Carolina's military history from the Revolutionary War to the present
War on Terror.




About the Speakers

Les Jensen is a well-known military historian and curator at the West
Point Museum, US Military Academy.  Dr. Mitch Yockelson is an archivist
at the National Archives and Records Administration of the United
States.  Additionally, he teaches history at the United States Naval
Academy and military history at Norwich University.  Lt. Col. (Ret)
Robert L. Brown is an English Professor whose Grandfather served in the
118th Regiment, 30th "Old Hickory" Division. 

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