80th ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING
80TH ANNIVERSARY PHOTO- Some attendees from the opening session of the 80th Anniversary Annual Meeting at the Acme Feed and Seed Building at 1st and Broadway, where the old Natchez Trace led to the Nashville Wharf on the Cumberland River.
OPENING SESSION
Past – President Calvin Lehew and President Bryant Boswell
Congressman Marsha Blackburn expresses her support for the parkway
Board member Tom Morales welcomes attendees to the Acme Feed and Seed Building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Superintendent Mary Risser in the foreground and Chief of Interpretation Terry Wildy in the background present a plaque honoring the 80 years of partnership between the National Park Service and Natchez Trace Parkway Association and introduce the new visitor center film
VOLUNTEERS! To New Orleans
Natchez Trace Parkway Association Living History portrays soldiers recruited in Nashville prior to the Battle of New Orleans
WAR OF 1812 BANQUET AT BELLE MEADE PLANTATION
Kim and Paul Caudell entertain guests with tunes from 1812
Dr. Monty McInturff discusses the “Horse and its Relationship to the Soldier”
TRAIL FIT INTRODUCTION ON VANDERBILT CAMPUS – A TRAIL GATE PARTY HONORING OUR 80TH BIRTHDAY
Dr. Brooks Tiller invites Vanderbilt University students to take our new Trail Fit Challenge, a new trail program to encourage people to hike the trails for health and fitness
Eastside Cycles provided free bike repairs
Rich McClure on the left introduces FitFood Revolution’s new Natchez Trace Trail Fuel, specially blended for hikers on Natchez Trace trails
JAMES ROBERTSON 40 BIKE RIDE
The inaugural ride of the James Robertson 40 raised funds for the Gary Holdiness Cycling Fund
War of 1812 Lectures at Dunham’s Station, one of the last surviving inns on the old Natchez Trace
Dr. Jim Atkinson demonstrates a common method for bleeding a patient as a medical treatment in 1812
Reverend Von Unruh discusses the life of Jackson’s chaplain Rev. Learner Blackman using one of Rev. Blackman’s own books, which he may have carried on the old Natchez Trace during the 1813 Natchez Expedition
Jeff Brewer demonstrates a War of 1812 Tennessee Volunteer’s uniform based on a pattern he discovered in an unpublished officer’s orderly book
Early 1800- era Army medicine chest
Tonya Staggs demonstrates fashion of the 1812 era
Annie and Bob Perry portray Chickasaw travelers
Nancy Conway, the longest serving Natchez Trace Parkway Association board member, and speaker Dr. Jim Atkinson