| Special Meeting: July 23, 2008In an effort to recapture and expand on the founding philosophy of ARRT-Richmond, the Board has decided to experiment with a July meeting. A number of members have expressed disappointment that we don’t meet over the summer. Others have lamented that we aren’t a real “round table.”
So, we will meet on Wednesday, July 23, from 5:30 until
7:00 p.m. for dinner at our regular location, the Heilman Dining Center. Check the link below for directions. There will be no speaker, but rather a format likely including brief presentations by a few members, dinner discussions on different topics led by members, and maybe small group discussions based on a specific question, such as "Could the British have won?"
But we need your help with all of the above. If you are interested in leading a discussion, want to make a brief presentation, or have a discussion topic or question to propose, we want to hear from you. Please contact Lynn Sims at lsims@richmond.edu. Please remember that this is both an attempt to try something new and an effort to really do some "round tabling." This experiment will not succeed without your assistance and input. Please help! Our Next Meeting: September 17, 2008Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 17, 2008, in the Westhampton Room in the University of Richmond Heilman Dining Center. Dinner will be available from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. and will be followed by the meeting at 6:30 p.m. Jim Jordan will present "The Black Sheep of the American Colonies: Georgia Fights for Survival and Respect During the Revolutionary War." Georgia was America’s youngest colony by fifty years and perhaps the poorest and most Loyalist. She was strategically located next to British Florida and had always served as the back door to the other colonies by America’s enemies. Georgia was also the last colony to join the revolution, and after she did, she had three disastrous forays into Florida between 1776 and 1778. When the British army stalled in the North in 1778, the British developed a new strategy: attack the South and drive northwards. Their first target was Savannah, which fell in less than a day. Four years of bloody losses and ravaging the land followed, until Generals Nathanael Greene and Anthony Wayne rescued the state. This presentation explains how this happened, and how Georgia survived. Jim Jordan is an historian, lecturer, and author whose novel of antebellum Georgia, Savannah Grey, was published in early 2007. Please plan to park in the lot adjacent to the Modlin Center for the Arts (location 50 on the map). Our meeting room is in Heilman Dining Center, location 34 on the map. Please note that the map prints out much more legibly than shown on-line. Here is a link to directions to the campus: http://www.richmond.edu/about/directions/. A deep knowledge of the period 1763-89 is not needed to enjoy the group and the presentations. If you are interested in becoming a member, please contact: |