DECK LOG Society Joins North American Society for Oceanic History For a joint Meeting in Savannah in May
Good Conversation NMHS trustee Bill White on the ramparts at Fort Jackson with dinner committee member Bob Kamm. In the background, chairman Walter Brown and treasurer Ron Oswald look out on the Savannah River from Georgia's oldest brick fortification. After three days of impressive papers by NASOH members highlighting the significant contributions of the South to our maritime history, our members had a lot to discuss.
Great Trips Here we are on one of the three boats we took for a tour of the Savannah harbor, both the historic and the active port of today. Savannah is so rich in maritime history we barely scratched the surface. We visited two of the city's fine historical museums, the Savannah Museum and the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum. My cousin, Alvin Nealy, hosted a reception for us in his beautifully-restored home in the Savannah Historic Landmark District, giving us a glimpse of gracious southern hospitality. We also toured Tybee Island and explored the lighthouse, Fon Screven, and Fort Pulaski National Monument.
Where Are You? Our last event was at Old Fort Jackson, where we talked with Civil War reenactors, walked on the parapet and through the casements, feasted on the traditional low country boil, and enjoyed the fiddlers and rifle firing demonstration. Here we are ending the conference with a bang, quite literally, waiting for a re-enactment group to fire both the 32-pound cannon and a 9-inch Dahlgren from the parapet. Can you find yourself? If you're not here, will you join us next year?
A Triumph Joseph Meany, program chairman and New York State Historian Emeritus, was congratulated by John Hattendorf, President of NASOH, and Walter Brown, Chairman ofNMHS, for a joint program that was, most assuredly, a triumph.
We are honored to welcome Carla Rahn Phillips to the Editorial Advisory Board. Dr Phillips is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota and an authority on Spain's influence in the Age of Sail. She has written Six Galleons for the King of Spain: Imperial Defense in the Early Seventeenth Century. With William D. Phillips she wrote The World ofChristopher Columbus and Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. --BURCHENAL GREEN,
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Executive Vice President
SEA HISTORY 112, AUTUMN 2005