THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND HER PEOPLE Memphis, Tennessee March 14-16, 1996 Draft Program (Part 3 of 3) For hotel and registration information contact: Meg Hacker, National Archives-Southwest Region <[log in to unmask]> 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 *** SATURDAY EVENING OPTIONAL ACTIVITY MUSIC AND MERRIMENT AT A BEALE STREET CLUB (Approximately $15, including dinner, details and sign-up at the registration desk)