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The Filson Institute of The Filson Historical Society presents its 11th Public Conference “Plantation Landscapes of the Upland South,” Friday and Saturday, May 21-22, 2004, Louisville, Kentucky. The conference includes a series of lectures by historians, a guided walking tour of historic Oxmoor Farm, and a wine-and-cheese reception.
The Ohio Valley was a northern borderland of plantation slavery in the antebellum United States. Much of its character and culture filtered westward into Kentucky from Virginia. Together these two states represented the majority of Upland South’s plantation landscapes. The Spring 2004 conference of The Filson Institute explores the nature and origin of this Virginia plantation system and its migration westward from the perspectives of architecture, anthropology, geography, history, and landscape paintings, revealing a dynamic and changing world.
FRIDAY, MAY 21
An Oxmoor Afternoon || 2:00 p.m.
Dr. Dennis Domer, director of the Center for Historic Architecture Preservation at the University of Kentucky, will provide an overview and historical context of the buildings and grounds that will be seen on a walking tour of historic Oxmoor Farm. Scholars from the Historic & Preservation Center will lead conference participants in a visit to the springhouse, slave quarters, slave kitchen, overseers house, and out buildings as we travel down pathways and lanes used in the 19th century.
Ms. Shirley Harmon, Filson Historical Society special collections cataloguer of the Bullitt Family Papers-Oxmoor collection, will share some of the highlights and insights gained from reading the personal journals, diaries, letters and legal transactions from the 1760s to the 1990s of this extraordinary family who kept Oxmoor Farm in continuous operation for over 200 years.
FRIDAY, MAY 21
Dr. John Michael Vlach Lecture & Reception
Reception 5:30 pm || Lecture 6:30 pm
Oxmoor Farm Library
Dr. John Michael Vlach - “Beyond Depiction: The Deeper Messages of Plantation Paintings”
SATURDAY, MAY 22
DAY OF LECTURES || 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Oxmoor Farm Library
A panel discussion following the lectures will be moderated by Dr. John Michael Vlach.
Lectures:
Dennis J. Pogue - “Archaeology at George Washington’s Mount Vernon”
Camille Wells - “Plantation Agriculture in Virginia and Beyond: The Economic Origins of Old Kentucky”
Karl Raitz - “The Gentleman Farm and the Archetype Landscape”
Dennis Domer - “Oxmoor Farm: The Plantation Experience”
For more information and registration, visit the web address below.
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