Friday, June 6

Registration Desk Opens - Book Exhibits Open, Coffee, etc.
Key Auditorium, Saint John’s College

Welcome: Ellen O. Moyer, Mayor of Annapolis
Welcome: Barbara Goyette, Vice President, Saint John’s College
Conversation Room, Key Auditorium, Saint John’s College

9:15 – 9:45 a.m.

Keynote Address: “George Washington’s Resignation: Reflections on an Iconic Event in Annapolis History," Stanley Weintraub

Dr. Weintrab is Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts & Humanities, Pennsylvania State University, and author of numerous biographies and histories including, most recently, Iron Tears. America’s Battle for Freedom, Britain’s Quagmire: 1775-1783 (2005) and George Washington’s Christmas Farewell, A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783 (2003).
Conversation Room, Key Auditorium, Saint John’s College

Session I - Annapolis: The City and Its Charters
Conversation Room, Key Auditorium, Saint John’s College

Chair: Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse, Maryland State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents

“Governor John Seymour and the Charters of Annapolis”
Dr. C. Ashley Ellefson, Professor of History Emeritus, State University of New York at Cortland. Author of The County Courts and the Provincial Court in Maryland, 1733-1763 (1990), The Higher Schooling in the United States (1978), and William Bladen of Annapolis, 1673?-1718: “the most capable in all Respects” or “Blockhead Booby”? Vol. 747, Archives of Maryland Online.

“Interpreting Archival Evidence: The Final Draft of Washington’s Resignation and the Original 1708 Charters of Annapolis, Then & Now”
Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse, Maryland State Archivist. Author, In Pursuit of Profit: The Annapolis Merchants in the Era of the American Revolution, 1763-1805. (1975).

“’Few die, and none resign,’: The Charter Crisis of 1819”
Jane W. McWilliams, co-author, Bay Ridge on the Chesapeake: An Illustrated History, (1986); author, City on the Severn: Annapolis, Maryland, A History (forthcoming)

Lunch on your own

Session II: Annapolis and the American Historic Preservation Movement
Conversation Room, Key Auditorium, Saint John’s College

Chair: Patricia Blick, Chief of Historic Preservation, City of Annapolis

“Restoration without a Rockefeller: Historic Preservation in Annapolis, 1935-1957”
Glenn E. Campbell, Historic Annapolis Foundation

“’Preservation Was a Fight: An Oral History of Historic Preservation & Progressive Reform in Annapolis City Government”
Matthew M. Palus, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

“Saint Clair Wright and the Historic Annapolis Foundation: Historic Preservation Comes of Age in Annapolis”
Ann Fligsten, Esq., Former President, Historic Annapolis Foundation

Break

Session III - What’s Next in Annapolis History
Conversation Room, Key Auditorium, Saint John’s College

Chair: Dr. Joseph F. Meany Jr.

“What’s Next in Annapolis History: The Case for an Annapolis Social History Project”
Stefan Bielinski, Director, Colonial Albany Social History Project, New York State Museum

Dinner on your own

Evening Presentation:
Actress Mary Ann Jung as
      “Clara Barton at Parole”

The Great Hall of McDowell Hall, Saint John’s College

Saturday, June 7

Registration Desk Opens - Book Exhibits Open, Coffee, etc.
Key Auditorium, Saint John’s College

Session IV-A: Annapolis; Change Over Time
Conversation Room, Key Auditorium, Saint John’s College

Chair: David Fogle, Professor of Historic Preservation Emeritus, University of Maryland.

“Annapolis at the Turn of the Century; the end of its first hundred years as a chartered city, seen through the Diary of Annapolis silversmith William Faris”
Dr. Jean B. Russo, Historian for Historic Annapolis Foundation; Associate General Editor, Archives of Maryland Online; co-editor, The Diary of William Faris, The Daily Life of an Annapolis Silversmith (2003).

“The Irony of Authenticity: Reckoning the Future through Historic Preservation in Annapolis”
Matthew Cochran, Department of Anthropology, University College, London

Break

Report on the EnVision Annapolis Program

Gregory Stiverson, President, EnVision Annapolis Foundation

Session IV-B: Annapolis: Change Over Time
Conversation Room, Key Auditorium, Saint John’s College

Chair: Hon. Richard Israel, Alderman, Ward One, incorporating the Annapolis Landmark Historic District

“Making a Way Out of No Way: Relations Between Blacks & Whites in Annapolis, Maryland, 1902-1952”
Dr. Hannah Jopling, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology, Fordham University

“Eastport-Annapolis: Maritime Republic or Rebel Province”
Ginger Doyel, Annapolis Historic Preservation Commission, author, Gone to Market: The Annapolis Market House, 1698-2005 (2005), and Over the Bridge: A History of Eastport at Annapolis, 1868-1968 (forthcoming).

Session V: Annapolis and American Urban Archaeology
Conversation Room, Key Auditorium, Saint John’s College

Chair: Dr. Mark P. Leone, Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Maryland.

“25 Years of Archaeology in Annapolis: A Synthesis”
Mark P. Leone, Founder & Director, Archaeology in Annapolis

“Annapolis & the Lost Towns of the Chesapeake: Archaeological Views of Town-Founding in Colonial Maryland”
Dr. James G. Gibb, President, Gibb Archaeological Consulting.

Session VI: Annapolis, the Navy, and the Chesapeake Bay
Conversation Room, Key Auditorium, Saint John’s College

Chair: Dr. J. Scott Harmon, Director, Naval Academy Museum

“Annapolis and the Navy Before the Naval Academy”
James W. Cheevers, Curator of Collections, United State Naval Academy Museum

“Annapolis & the United States Naval Academy”
Professor Frederick Harrod, United States Naval Academy

Final Session: Exerpts from the film Pip & Zastrow: An American Friendship

Urcunina Films, produced by Victoria Bruce & Karin Hayes, introduced by Associate Producer Janice Hayes-Williams, columnist, Capital Newspaper, & community historian [invited]

Conference Ends