Civil War Institute

I'm grateful for these summer conferences in part because it provides an opportunity to relive my freshman year of college,  eating in the same dining hall and attending presentations in the same auditorium although both buildings have had considerable alterations since the 1968-69 school year. 

As glad as I was to leave the college behind me in 1969 I have many great memories of the year I spent there and it seems like each time back some forgotten memory pops into my mind.  For example, during a break one morning I went outside and walked across Lincoln Ave.  to a group of wooden chairs on the lawn between the gym and the dining hall.  Sitting there by myself I recalled how in 1968-69 there were a couple of old two story houses in the same area.  These served as girls' dormitories.  One night there was an open house and I visited some girls who lived in one of these houses.  On the wall of their room was this picture of Joe Namath fresh from the 1969 Super Bowl.  I could not imagine a single girl at either of my two high schools doing something that cool.

At the June 2023 Civil War Institute I was asked several times how many years I had attended so when I returned home I pulled out the material from past programs and compiled this list.  I had guessed  the 2023 conference to have been my ninth,  but it was only my eighth.  

2023 

June 9-14 (Part Time)

Federal Pointe

Saturday Evening Tour - Eisenhower At Gettysburg 

Return via Kentucky.

2019

June 14-19 (Part Time)

Federal Pointe

Saturday Evening Tour - Shriver House - Nancie Gudmestad

Return via Greensboro.

2018

June 22-27

Quarry Suite

Main sessions in the gym.

Saturday Evening June 23rd - Monuments with James Robertson

Little Round Top Tour Berden's

Half Day Benner's Hill

Return via Ashland.

2011  - Mobilizing For War & First Manassas

June 26 - July 1  (Sun-Fri)

Colonial #41

Cute Irish Girl

Ethan Rafuse - First Manassas Full Day Tour & Picnic - Wednesday June 29

Gettysburg Half Day Tour - Wayne Motts

Railroad Cut Expansion

Direct Return to Madison

2010  -  "Election of 1860" Carmichael Intro To CWI - 28th Conference

June 27 - July 3  

Colonial  #19

Chuck Teague Early Bird Tour - Terror In The Town

Underground Railroad Pinsker - Tuesday - June 29 All Day

Dean Shultz - Lost Avenue Tour - Half day Thursday July 1 AM

Direct Return to Madison

2009 - Assassination of Lincoln & Mary Todd Lincoln

June 21 - 27

Apple Hall 310C to Colonial #24

Car Battery Trouble - Mike's Kars

Pelham HS Teacher

Chuck Teague Early Bird Tour - Barlow's Knoll

Joan Chocanus Closer Look at History All-Day Tour - Library of Congress,  National Park Resource Center - Tuesday June 23rd

Gettysburg Tours Thursday Morning June 25th - Ed Bearss Advanced Tour

Direct Return to Madison via Brandy Station?

2008 - "Abraham Lincoln"

June 22-28  

Quarry Suite 201E  Room Switch - Meals In Field House

Ken Burns,  James McPherson, Ed Bearss

Marine Color Guard presented Ed with his birthday cake. 

Chuck Teague Early Bird Tour

Lincoln Cottage Full Day Tour with Matthew Pinsker & Craig Symonds on June 24th

Half-Day Tour with Ed June 26th  -  Pickett's Charge 

Budapest To Gettysburg - Gabor Film at the Majestic

Direct Return to Madison

2003 - "After Gettysburg"

June 22-28

Quarry West 102A

Little Round Top Print Donation

Peter Jennings 

Alpha Xi Delta Sorority Inquiry - Selling House In Oxford - Kidney Stone

All Day Tour Gary Rinkerman - Retreat Route To Williamsport

Willard's Brigade Half Day Tour with Scott Hartwig & Barb Sanders

The Hulk at the Majestic

Return to Oxford via Ashland HS Reunion