Note from the moderator:

It is a pleasure to forward the following to you from our 41st annual
meeting. The weather was relatively warm (not from a Florida perspective
tho) and the location was near perfect with autumn foliage, tame wildlife
and a great field trip thru the southern WV coalfields. Quite a museum of
industrial production.still in production. Perhaps the biggest observation
that hit me was the lack of open mom/pop operations and the location of a
dollar store in most towns. The franchised operations seem to be booming in
the current economy..by 2012 56% of all businesses in the states will be
franchised. The coal trains, the black dust, the wildness of the area and
the perceptions of the people would make a good article as well as their
endurance of political/economic/environmental issues, least of which is
mountain top removal. West Virginia is the epitome of the "true grit" of
American culture and a prime example of how exploitation and extraction
continues to pervade our sense of place.

It was a good time to renew friendships and purpose and refocus the goals
and missions of the organization. During this era, many groups have
struggled as have businesses. Change has been the dominant theme and our
focus on our website as an archival tool for future researchers has taken a
lot of our time and energy.and money! Please visit it and use it, and of
course contribute to it.

www.pioneeramerica.org

Next year we will be in Castleton, Vermont, and the following year in
Stuart, Florida. We have direction, we have purpose and we have plenty of
material culture to document. Please join us.



Artimus Keiffer, Ph.D.

Executive Director





From: C. A. Wilson [mailto:cajwilson@verizon.net]





2009 PAS: APAL Award Recipients



The Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts
&
Landscapes (PAS: APAL) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2009
Awards.  The Awards were presented during the Friday Evening Awards Banquet
on October 30, 2009, at the Society's Pipestem, West Virginia Conference.


Henry H. Douglas Distinguished Service Award

The Award is named in honor of the founder of the Pioneer America Society:
Association for the Preservation of Artifacts & Landscapes, Mr. Henry H.
Douglas, and is given to an individual who has made significant
contributions over the years in furthering the Society's goals through
service, teaching, publications, and/or the promotion of historic
preservation.


The recipient was:

Dawn S. Bowen, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Mary
Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia.



Fred B. Kniffen Book Award

The Fred B. Kniffen Book Award, established in 1989 by PAS: APAL, honors the
work of Fred Kniffen, a long-time scholar at Louisiana State University.
The Kniffen Award recognizes the best-authored book in the field of North
American material culture.


The recipient was:

Ann Norton Greene of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, for: Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008.



Allen G. Noble Book Award

The Allen G. Noble Book Award is given in honor of the scholarship Allen G.
Noble contributed to cultural geography.  The award recognizes the
best-edited book in the field of North American material culture.


The recipients were:

Dianne Harris and D. Fairchild Ruggles, eds., both of the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, for: Sites Unseen:
Landscape and Vision. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh
Press, 2007.



PAS:APAL Historic Preservation Award

The Historic Preservation Award, established in 2000, recognizes the
preservation, interpretation, instruction, celebration, or exhibit of
American material culture.

The Historic Preservation Award winner was the:

Cockayne Historic Preservation Committee for its project, first, to preserve
the Cockayne Farmstead in Glenn Dale, WV, and secondly, to create an
educational and cultural center at the farm that will benefit all West
Virginians.

 <http://www.cockaynefarm.com/> http://www.cockaynefarm.com/


The Historic Preservation Certificate of Merit recipients were:

1) Historic Beverly Preservation in recognition of its outstanding efforts
to preserve, restore, and interpret four historic downtown buildings for use
as the Beverly Heritage Center, Beverly WV.

 <http://www.historicbeverly.org/bevhcent.htm>
http://www.historicbeverly.org/bevhcent.htm


2) Don C. Wood and the Berkeley County Historical Society in recognition of
their outstanding efforts to promote preserve, restore, and use the Belle
Boyd House in Martinsville, WV, as an archive and research center.

 <http://www.bchs.org/civilwar.html> http://www.bchs.org/civilwar.html



Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Competition Award

The Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Competition, established in
2004 in memory of folklife scholar Warren E. Roberts, a longtime PAS: APAL
member and former member of the Board of Directors, is an annual competitive
award that recognizes excellence in original graduate student fieldwork,
documentary research, and writing in the area of traditional North American
material culture.


The recipient was doctoral student, Jonathan E. Kay of the Department of
Folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, for his paper
entitled, "The Alvis Partin Farm: Memories of a Farm in Eastern Bell County,
Kentucky."



Hubert G. H. Wilhelm Student Research Award

The Hubert G.H. Wilhelm Student Research Award, established in 2006 in honor
of long-time PAS: APAL member, Hubert Wilhelm, a cultural geographer, whose
enthusiasm for teaching has had a global impact, is a annual competitive
award in the field of American material culture which is open to both
undergraduate and graduate students.


There was no award presented in 2009.

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