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Board Awards Grants, Names New Member at Meeting
At their regular quarterly meeting in Jackson on Friday, January 20, the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History awarded more than $440,000 in grants, designated three new Mississippi Landmarks, and elected a new board member. Nancy Carpenter will fill the seat of Martis D. Ramage, Jr., who died November 28, 2011.
Carpenter is the director of the Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau. A former executive director of the Columbus Historic Foundation, Carpenter began her career as a banker in 1971 and rose to vice president of marketing and sales manager at Unifirst Bank in Jackson. After moving to Columbus in 1990 she served as vice president of marketing for First Columbus National Bank and then as regional vice president for Deposit Guaranty National Bank. In 2011 she was appointed to the Civil Rights Museum Advisory Commission by Governor Haley Barbour. All nominees to the board of trustees must be confirmed by the state senate.
MHS Meeting Theme "War of 1812"
The 2012 meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society will be held March 1-3 in Columbus on the campus of Mississippi University for Women. The theme of the meeting will be the bicentennial of the War of 1812, and presentations will examine the battle for the southern frontier, Mississippi's American Indians, the Natchez Trace, and local history projects.
A public reception at the historic Greek Revival townhouse Whitehall will begin the meeting on Thursday, March 1 at 5 p.m. On Friday evening, March 2, author Robert V. Haynes will give the banquet address, "'Some Dark Mysterious Business': Aaron Burr in Mississippi Territory" Haynes' book The Mississippi Territory and the Southwest Frontier, 1795-1817 won the society's McLemore Prize for book of the year in 2010. The work traces the development and expansion of the Mississippi Territory through the political and diplomatic events of the times, including the arrest of the traitor Aaron Burr and the bloody Creek War. Haynes, a retired professor of history at Western Kentucky University, lives in Bowling Green.