2014 Annual Meeting in Nashville – 80th Anniversary of Association

    

    80th ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING

 

 

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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

 

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Past – President Calvin Lehew and President Bryant Boswell

 

 
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Congressman Marsha Blackburn expresses her support for the parkway

 

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Board member Tom Morales welcomes attendees to the Acme Feed and Seed Building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

 

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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

 

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Natchez Trace Parkway Association Living History portrays soldiers recruited in Nashville prior to the Battle of New Orleans

 

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WAR OF 1812 BANQUET AT BELLE MEADE PLANTATION

 

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Kim and Paul Caudell entertain guests with tunes from 1812

 

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Dr. Monty McInturff discusses the “Horse and its Relationship to the Soldier”

 

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TRAIL FIT INTRODUCTION ON VANDERBILT CAMPUS – A TRAIL GATE PARTY HONORING OUR 80TH BIRTHDAY

 

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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

 

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Eastside Cycles provided free bike repairs

 

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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

 

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The inaugural ride of the James Robertson 40 raised funds for the Gary Holdiness Cycling Fund

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War of 1812 Lectures at Dunham’s Station, one of the last surviving inns on the old Natchez Trace

 

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Dr. Jim Atkinson demonstrates a common method for bleeding a patient as a medical treatment in 1812

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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

 

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Early 1800- era Army medicine chest

 

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Tonya Staggs demonstrates fashion of the 1812 era

 

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Annie and Bob Perry portray Chickasaw travelers

 

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Nancy Conway, the longest serving Natchez Trace Parkway Association board member, and speaker Dr. Jim Atkinson

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