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

 

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Jeff Brewer demonstrates a War of 1812 Tennessee Volunteer’s uniform based on a pattern he discovered in an unpublished officer’s orderly book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