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2019 Grand Canyon History Symposium - Day One
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Shrine of the Ages Auditorium and other South Rim locations.
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There is a fee to attend this symposium. Spots filled up in record time and we are at capacity!! (General Admission is sold out, there is a waiting list option)
If you HAVE registered for the event and did not receive a confirmation email please double check your Spam Folder just in case! Sometimes confirmations get lost in the Bermuda triangle that is a junk box.
The Grand Canyon Historical Society will hold the 5th Grand Canyon History Symposium at Grand Canyon National Park, on February 20-23, 2019.
Background
Since January 2002, there have been five history symposia, bringing together historians, witnesses to history, park employees, and others with a passion for Grand Canyon history.
One Hundred Years of Grand Canyon National Park
Upon seeing one of our beautiful National Parks for the first time, many of us dreamed of finding a way to live and work in these places of boundless vistas - places with the delicate natural sounds of insects, birds, flowing water, and occasional silence - places that are steeped in human and natural history. Those dreams have become a reality for people working for Grand Canyon National Park whose 100th anniversary will be marked in 2019. To celebrate that milestone, the Grand Canyon Historical Society will sponsor a history symposium February 20-24.
Paper Selection
(alphabetical order by last name)
Harris Abernathy - History of Mules at GC
James Aton - Jimmy Jones (painter) at GC
Eric Berg - Lindburgh 1929 Aerial Photo Survey
Lucy Bowditch - Interpreting William Henry Jackson and Timothy O'Sullivan's photos of the Colorado Plateau
Bryan Brown - History of Pearce Ferry
Dick Brown - Teddy Roosevelt
Paul Davis - Building and rebuilding GC Lodge
Loie Belknap Evans - 3 Generations of Belknap at GC
Helen Fairly - USGS Research in GC
Dennis Foster - Old Maps and Forgotten Trails in GC
Karl Karlstrom and Laurie Crossey - Depicting GC Rock Layers
Harvey Leake - 1909 Townsend visit to GC and Rainbow Bridge
Tom Martin - Otis Marston and the history of GC River Running
Barbara Matusik - 2012 Desert View Watchtower Restoration
Randy Moore - The Grand Canyon and Modern Christian Fundamentalism
Shane Murphy - The Old Hance Trail
Tom Myers - Ron Mitchell and First Traverse of Marble Canyon
Edward Oetting - Representative Hayden and the creation of GCNP
Richard Quartaroli - Placement and wording of plaques placed in GC regarding Powell
Al Richmond - 118 years of railroads to GC
Mindy Riesenberg - GC Association - the last 10 years
Glenn Rink - History of Bison on the Kaibab Plateau
David Schaller - 1967 Kennedy River Trip
Craig and Traci Schellbach - Louis Schellbach III - Mr. GC
Matthew Toro - Mapping GC - 150 years of history
Susie Verkamp - NPS Concessions Law and Policy
Registration
Spots filled up in record time and we are at capacity!! (General Admission is sold out, there is a waiting list option)
If you HAVE registered for the event and did not receive a confirmation email please double check your Spam Folder just in case! Sometimes confirmations get lost in the Bermuda triangle that is a junk box.
An Official Grand Canyon National Park Centennial Event, as sanctioned by the National Park Service Centennial Committee!
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