THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND HER PEOPLE
Memphis, Tennessee
March 14-16, 1996
Draft Program (Part 3 of 3)
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SESSION D
SATURDAY MORNING (8:30 A.M.-10:00 A.M.)
D1
PERSPECTIVES ON FLOODING IN THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY
Chair: Mary Linn Wernet, University Archivist, Northwestern
State University of Louisiana
Dorothy Shawhan, Chair, Division of Languages/Literature,
Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi: "Woman's
Place: Judge Lucy Sumerville Howorth and the Mississippi
River Flood of 1927."
Mary Linn Wernet, University Archivist, Northwestern State
University of Louisiana: "The U.S. Senator John Holmes
Overton
Collection and The History it Holds Relating to the Control of
Floods in the Alluvial Valley of the Mississippi, 1936-48."
Michael Wiseman, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies,
University of Iowa: "'Take Away the River and Take Away the
Old Buildings, You Won't Have Keithsbury': Relocation,
Community, and Continuity."
Comment: John Anfinson, District Historian, St. Paul District,
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
D2
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE CIVIL WAR'S
DESTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURE IN THE MISSISSIPPI
DELTA
Chair: Berkley Kalin, Professor, Department of History,
University of Memphis
Jack Custer, University of Louisville: "Towboats and the
Development of the Coal Industry and the Grain Industry in
the
Mississippi River Valley."
Robert Pace, : "To Lose a Kingdom: Confederate Mississippi
River Agriculture and the Destruction of Self-Sufficiency."
Comment: Audience
D3
EARTHQUAKES AND FAULTING: NEW MADRID,
1811-1812
Chair: Arch Johnston, Seismologist, University of Memphis
Roy Van Arsdale, Geomorphologist, University of Memphis:
"Geophysical Investigation of Faulting from the Great
1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes in the New
Madrid/Kentucky Bend Region."
Mike Ellis, Geologist, University of Memphis: "Deformation of
the Land in the Mississippi River Valley from the 1811-1812
New Madrid Earthquakes."
Arch Johnston, Seismologist, University of Memphis:
"Reconciling Historical Accounts of the 1811-12 New Madrid
Earthquakes with
Seismology."
Comment: Audience
D4
DISCOVERING THE LINK BETWEEN UNCLE SAM AND
OLD MAN RIVER:
RECORDS IN THE REGIONAL ARCHIVES
Chair: Rosanne Butler, Regional Archives System Director,
National Archives, Washington, DC
Peter W. Bunce, Director, National Archives-Great Lakes
Region, Chicago: "The Mississippi River And Her Litigious
People: Federal Court Records."
Meg Hacker, Assistant Director, National Archives-Southwest
Region, Fort Worth: "Shipwrecks and Beyond: Mississippi
River Maritime
Records."
Gayle P. Peters, Director, National Archives-Southeast Region,
Atlanta: "Battling the River: The Records of the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers."
Mark Corriston, Assistant Director, National Archives-Central
Plains Region, Kansas City: "Channels, Canals, and Tributaries:
Connections and Links in Federal Records Relating to the
Mighty Mississippi."
Comment: Audience
SESSION E
SATURDAY MORNING (10:30 A.M.-12:00 N.)
E1
FLOODS AND DRAINAGE IN THE MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI
VALLEY
Chair: Margaret Kimball-Brown, Site Manager, Cahokia
Mounds
Historic Site, Collinsville, Illinois
Susan Flader, Professor, Department of History, University of
Missouri, Columbia: "Ste. Genevieve and the River,
1750-1995."
Bonnie Stepenoff, Department of History, Southeast Missouri
State: "Flood Culture: Thad Snow and the Overflow Lands of
Southeast
Missouri, 1912-1937."
John Thompson, Professor Emeritus of Geography, University
of
Illinois: "The West Quincy Bottoms: Threads of Midwestern
Drainage History."
Comment: Martin Reuss, Senior Historian, Office of History,
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alexandria, Virginia
E2
PHYSICAL LANDSCAPE: FLUVIAL AND TECTONIC
CONTROLS
Chair: Eugene Schweig, U.S. Geological Survey, and Adjunct
Professor, University of Memphis
Roger Saucier, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Ret.),
Vicksburg:
"Geological Evolution of the Lower Mississippi Valley:
Scientific Contributions of the U.S. Corps of Engineers."
Ron Nassar, Coordinator, Lower Mississippi River
Conservation
Committee, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: "Morphology on
the Lower River."
Eugene Schweig, U.S. Geological Survey, and Adjunct
Professor, University of Memphis: "Paleoseismology in the
Mississippi River Valley."
Comments: Audience
E3
INTERAGENCY SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENT AND
STRATEGY TEAM (POST-1993
FLOODING)
Chair: Clayton Brown, Professor, Department of History,
Texas
Christian University
Loyd Waite, Assistant District Chief, Missouri District, U.S.
Geological Survey: "The U.S. Geological Survey and the 1993
Flood."
John Kelmelis, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia: "The
Science of the Scientific Assessment and Strategy Team."
Comments: Audience
E4
BRIDGING THE MISSISSIPPI
Chair: Mark Corriston, Assistant Director, National Archives-
Central Plains Region, Kansas City
David Pfeiffer, Archivist, National Archives, Washington, DC:
"Crossing the Father of Waters: The Building of the First
Railroad Bridge Across the Mississippi River, 1853-1856."
Warren E. Grabau, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Ret.),
Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg and H. Jesse
Walker, Boyd Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography
and Anthropology, Louisiana State University: "James Eads and
His Wonderful Bridge."
Comment: Audience
SESSION F
SATURDAY AFTERNOON (1:00 P.M.-2:30 P.M.)
F1
AFRICAN-AMERICANS ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Chair: Martin Tuohy, Archivist, National Archives-Great Lakes
Region, Chicago
Paul Finkelman, Charlton W. Tebeau Chair in American
History,
University of Miami: "The Mississippi River: Highway to
Slavery, Highway to Freedom."
Thomas Buchanan, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History,
Carnegie- Mellon: "African-American Steamboat Workers and
the Politics of Geographic Mobility on Post-Bellum
Mississippi Valley Rivers."
Comments: Audience
F2
COMPREHENSIVE MANAGEMENT PLAN, THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER RECREATION AREA
Chair: Joann Kyral, Superintendent, Mississippi National River
and Recreation Area
(Panel will consist of representatives of organizations and
institutions interested in, or participating in, the planning for
and implementation of the Mississippi National River and
Recreation Area Comprehensive Management Plan.)
Comment: Audience
F3
RIVER-RELATED RESEARCH RESOURCES
Chair: Barbara Rust, Archivist, National Archives-Southwest
Region, Fort Worth
Ed Frank, Curator of Special Collections, University of
Memphis: "The Hidden (Mississippi) Valley (Collection):
Resources for the Study of the History and Culture of the
Lower Valley at the
University of Memphis."
Sally K. Reeves, Archivist, Notarial Archives, New Orleans:
"Steamboats and Flatboats, Contracts and Mishaps: A View of
Mississippi River Commerce, 1780 to 1950, Gleaned from the
Maritime Records of the Notarial Archives."
Vernon Behrhorst, Former Executive Director of Gulf
Intracoastal Canal Association, New Orleans: "Waterway
Transportation: Collections in the Howard-Tilton Memorial
Library, Tulane University."
Comment: Audience
F4
NATURAL AND CULTURAL VALUES OF THE
HEADWATERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Chair: Rosanne Butler, Director, Regional Archives System,
National Archives, Washington, DC
Christy Hohman-Caine, and Grant Goltz: "From Glaciers to
Reservoirs: Developing a Proactive Approach to Conservation
of Natural and Cultural Values of the Headwaters of the
Mississippi River."
SESSION G
SATURDAY AFTERNOON (3:00 P.M.-4:30 P.M.)
G1
ENVIRONMENT, ART, AVIS, AND EXTINCTION ON THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Chair: F. Jack Hurley, Chair, Department of History,
University of Memphis
Roger Still, Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of Kansas:
"Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway: Economics, Environment,
and Foreign
Affairs."
Ari Kelman, Ph.D. Candidate, History, Brown University: "The
Power of Art: The Eads Jetties, New Orleans, and the
Mississippi".
Mikko Saikku, Licentiate of Philosophy, The University of
Helsinki: "Birds of a Disappearing Forest: Human-Induced
Environmental Change and Avian Extinctions along the Lower
Mississippi."
Comment: Philip V. Scarpino
G2
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI
RIVER FLOODPLAIN AND TRIBUTARIES
Chair: Gayle P. Peters, Director, National Archives-Southeast
Region, Atlanta
Robert L. Delaney, Director, Environmental Management
Technical Center, National Biological Service, Onalaska,
Wisconsin:
"Environmental History of the Mississippi River Floodplain:
Forecasting the Future Given Current Management Practices
and Use."
Jerry L. Rasmussen, Project Leader, Large River Fisheries
Coordination Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Rock
Island, Illinois: "Management of the Mississippi River and
Tributaries: Past, Present, and Future."
Comments: Audience
G3
ENVIRONMENTAL TAPESTRY: AN OVERVIEW OF
CORPS ENVIRONMENTAL
ACTIVITIES IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
Chair: Michael C. Robinson, Chief of Public Affairs and
Division Historian, Lower Mississippi Valley Division, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers
Steve Cobb, Ecologist, Lower Mississippi Valley Division, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers: "Corps Environmental Initiatives on
the
Mississippi River."
Ed Lambert, Wildlife Biologist, Memphis District, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers: "Waterfowl, Rice, and Water: The Grand
Prairie,
Arkansas, Demonstration Project."
Jim McNeil, Archaeologist, Memphis District, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers: "Archaeology of the Mississippi Delta."
G4
LANDSCAPES AND PEOPLE IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
Chair: Beverly Watkins, Archivist, National Archives-Great
Lakes Region, Chicago
Robert H. Lafferty, III, President, Mid-Continent Research
Associates, Inc., Lowell, Arkansas: "Earthquakes and
Prehistoric Adaptation in the Lower Mississippi Valley."
Margaret Guccione, Professor, Department of Geology,
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville: "Landscapes and Their
Impact on Human
Habitation In the Mississippi Alluvial Valley."
Comment: Audience
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