South Mountain Speakers Series: Nourishing the Troops

Nourishing the Troops!
When:

Thursday, August 12th, 2010 from 5-9 PM

Where
(Tour Round Barn until 6:45 PM, Lecture starts at 7 PM)

The Historic Round Barn

298 Cashtown Road Biglerville, PA 17307

Learn about the unique role that Pennsylvania’s farms and farmers played duringthe civil war in supporting the Union troops and their allure and resources that drew Robert E. Lee across the Mason Dixon line and into the “Pennsylvania Breadbasket”. Lenwood Sloan, director of cultural and heritage tourism for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania will conduct a spirited open dialogue concerning preservation, conservation and commemoration projects for the upcoming Civil War 150 commemoration and the year long commemoration of American Patriots of the Civil War.

Sloan will also share ways information about the United States Colored Troups (USCT) Hallowed ground project through the conservation of a league of important historic sites in Adams, Franklin and Cumberland Counties. He will end by extending an invitation to participate in the identification of USCT descendants throughout the South Mountain who will be invited to march in their ancestors’ memory during the Grand Review Parade Nov 6, 2010 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Sponsored by the South Mountain Partnership, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, the Historic Round Barn and Farm Market- Knouse Fruitlands.

In the Spirit of the Michaux Lectures

Pennsylvania has a long and compelling history of conservation. Inspired by the state and the nation’s early conservation leaders and their struggles, the South Mountain Partnership seeks to put today’s environmental issues into a broader context and inspire action within our communities.

The South Mountain Speakers Series are organized in the spirit of the Michaux Lectures, a series of talks given by Joseph Rothrock in his work to preserve and restore Pennsylvania’s forests and natural landscape. During the late nineteenth century, the Michaux Lectures as presented by Rothrock were an educational mission that became a catalyst for real change in our state’s environmental history.

It is our hope that as we face the challenges of the twenty first century, the South Mountain Speakers Series can encourage a new generation to find in the past a positive vision for the future of the South Mountain landscape and beyond.

Building on our past to create a legacy for our future

Nourishing the Troops