2023 JANUARY 19
This month Myrna Crook will talk about Native Americans on coastal
Georgia and their pottery as it pertains to their culture. She will
bring a display case that will show the types of pottery they made and
it’s evolution in their culture.
Ms. Crook is a retired university administrator. She also had the
pleasure to work along side her husband, Dr. Ray Crook , for decades
uncovering the secretes on various archaeological sites across Georgia
coast.
Currently, she retains the position of Coastal Georgia Historical
Society Archaeology lab manager and Serves on the St. Simons Land Trust
History Task Force.
It is will be an exciting look into the some of the original inhabitants
of our precious coast.
2023 FEBRUARY 16 Jingle Davis, author, and Ben Galland, photographer, will
speak at our
Thursday, February 16th at 7:00 p.m. Jingle Davis initially wrote children's stories for
magazines like Jack and
Jill and Children's Playmate, later moving on to freelancing
for magazines and
newspapers like the New York Times and Sports Illustrated.
Eventually she
moved to Atlanta to work full time for Atlanta
Journal/Constitution in various
capacities, during which time she wrote a weekly column for
two years and won
first place in its category from the Georgia Press
Association both years
In 2006, Davis, a native of St. Simons Island, retired and
now lives on
property her parents bought in the 1930s which overlooks the
St. Simons
Sound. Her constant companion these days is Ransom, a big
brindle bundle of
love who may be an American Staffordshire. And now she is
writing books.
Since coming back home, she has written three award-winning
nonfiction
books, all published by the
University of Georgia Press and all illustrated by Benjamin Galland, renowned
local photographer.
Their first book, Island Times, is an illustrated history of St.
Simons. Their
second book, Island Passage, is an illustrated history of Jekyll
Island. Their
third is entitled Following the Tabby Trail, Where Coastal
History is Captured
in Unique Oyster Shell Structures, which was published last
year. The southeast
chapter of the Association of Architectural Historians awarded
this book its top
prize in their guidebook category.
We look forward to seeing both Jingle and Ben at a our February
16th
meeting at the Fort for a "show and tell”--Ben to show videos of
his photos and
Jingle to tell us all about her unique history book
2023
MARCH 16 Our March speaker will be Paul Foster whose
presentation will be, “Exploring the Past and Uniting Family
and Community Through Family History Research.”
He will
share stories of how he has found living descendants of
people named in books, etc., that he has found, and how he
has returned these items to family to appreciate and
treasure as family heirlooms and keepsakes. His experiences
will be both uplifting and will inspire you to think of your
own love for history and community and lead you to consider
how you could use it to bless the lives of others.
He says "Sometimes we happen across something from days gone
by (a book, a letter, a photo, etc.) which contains a name
and other identifying information inside. When that happens
most of us might think “Oh, that is interesting “ but our
minds may not immediately consider that these items were
once a precious possession in the life of an
individual...highly valued by an actual living and caring
person.
"When we think of our own ancestors with fond affection, we
quickly realize that we owe much of our own success in life
to their sacrifices on our behalf.” Mr. Foster will discuss
how people can use resources like Family Search, Ancestry.
com, and often the internet in general to connect with their
past. He has taken this process of historical and
genealogical research to another level in his desire to be a
part of what the Holy Scriptures refer to as the time when
“the hearts of the fathers shall be turned to their
children, And the hearts of the children to their
fathers...” (Malachi 4:6).
Paul Foster is retired from some 40+ years of public service
in the U.S. Navy and Federal civil service. He loves family
history research - albeit he says being a self-taught
hobbyist, he knows just enough to be dangerous! He and his
wife Ann Foster, a retired Glynn County school teacher, run
the Family History Center at the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints on Community Road in Brunswick.”
Come and join us for an interesting night of stories and
dialogue
2023 APRIL 20 Navy and Federal civil service. He loves family history
research - albeit he says
being a self-taught hobbyist, he knows just enough to be
dangerous! He and his
wife Ann Foster, a retired Glynn County school teacher,
run the Family History
Center at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints on Community Road in
Brunswick.”
Come and join us for an interesting night of stories and
dialogue.
At our April meeting, Pam Mueller will make her sixth
visit to LAHS in the last
fifteen or so years to tell us about a new book she has
written. The Sky Is My
Home is the ninth and latest in a string of historical
novels, each of which brings
to life the story of an amazing, unforgettable person.
Hazel Jane Raines, a Georgia girl, is just such a
person. She logged 6,400 hours
of flight time during her 20 years of service. She was
the first female pilot
licensed just before World War II broke out. Because the
U.S. government did
not allow female pilots to fly fighter planes, Hazel
moved to England and flew
Spitfires and Hurricanes for England's Royal Air Force.
Later, back in America,
she flew as a WASP and then with the Third Air Force
during the Korean
War. She learned Portugese to teach pilots for the
Brazilian Air Ministry. She
became one of the first female officers in the new
United State Air Force and
later became a recruiter and advisor to young women
entering the military.
She followed her dreams, never letting rigid,
traditional restraints hold her
back.
Pamela Bauer Mueller was raised in Oregon. She has
worked as a flight
attendant, commercial model, actress, English and
Spanish teacher, and a U. S.
Customs officer.
Pam's young adult and historical novels earned her
acclaim as 2006/2008 and
2009 - Georgia Author of the Year, three Mom's Choice
and Children's Choice
gold medals, the Independent Publisher's Gold Book
Award, and other national
awards with Writer's Digest and Foreword Magazine.
Currently, Pamela lives on Jekyll Island with her
husband Michael and their cat,
Morgan Maurice. They are long-time members of LAHS.
She's an endearing
speaker.
2023 MAY 18
The speaker for the May 18 Lower Altamaha Historical Society's
monthly meeting will be Dr. Fred Marland. His subject for the
evening will be “SAPELO ISLAND: How a Georgia Barrier Island was
Formed.”
Dr. Marland is certainly superbly qualified on this subject,
having received his BS in math and biology from Union College in
Kentucky; his MS in oceanography from Texas A&M; studied as a Fellow
at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts; and
received his PhD from Virginia Tech University.
He worked for three years as the First Marine Scientist at Fort
Johnson Marine Lab at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. On
the Georgia coast, he worked on Sapelo Island at the University of
Georgia Marine Institute, later served as Director of Marsh and
Beach for the DNR, and lastly as Reserve Manager of Sapelo Island
National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Now retired, he and his wife Sarita live in a marsh front home
off Hwy 99 in McIntosh County. He believes it is especially
important to continue the study of our many coastal systems.
Since 2.6 million years ago, near the end of the last Ice Age
called the Pleistocene, the Earth's climate has undergone
alternating changes, from icehouse to hot house. The details of
these changes have become known through the study of deep-sea
sediment cores, the waxing and waning of deep polar glaciers in the
Arctic and Antarctic, and their effects on the layered circulation
of the world's oceans. In a complex interplay of factors, the
formation of Sapelo can be proposed.
Come and let Fred put it all together for you; pictures included!
That's Thursday, May 18th, at 7:00PM, in the auditorium of Fort King
George State Historic Site, in Darien.