FOR A SPECIAL EVENING:
2. Live music from GMU's 8th Green Machine Regiment Band;
3. An expanded book raffle that guarantees you will be a winner;
4. The presentation of the Ed Bearss Preservation and Legacy Awards; and
GORDON BERG'S SPECIAL GIVEAWAY
If you did not get that Civil War history book you wanted this holiday season, this is your chance to make up for lost time.* Gordon Berg will be holding a BOGO at the meeting for in-person attendees only. A $5.00 raffle ticket guarantees you not just one book, but also a free book (and maybe two free books)! The collection of books Gordon has brought to our past meetings has been expansive, and at this meeting he plans on bringing books that are Lincoln-related. Come early to socialize and to get the first picks! The money collected supports our speaker program!
*This is also an opportunity for Gordon to give his garage a gift. He has been holding books for us since before the pandemic, and his garage also thanks those who participate!
GMU'S 8TH GREEN MACHINE REGIMENT BAND
Also come early to enjoy the music of players from George Mason University's 8th Green Machine Regiment Band. The Band plays Civil War-period music using actual Civil War-period instruments while wearing clothing and uniforms reminiscent of the time! They are quite a site to see and hear!
The Band was formed by Dr. Chris Troiano and Dr. Michael Nickens in the fall of 2017. More information about the band is available by clicking HERE or by visiting https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IPzbIfIhGCn1nvGoO9C-eyiFXc9cPQ4a/view
The Band recently played at the dedication ceremony of the readout on GMU's campus, a joint project of the University's History department and the Bull Run CWRT. See https://www.gmu.edu/news/2022-10/mason-dedicates-campus-historic-virginia-site.
PRESENTATION OF THE EDWIN C. BEARSS AWARDS
The CWRTDC will also present the awards to honor
the extraordinary life and legacy of Civil War historian Edwin Cole Bearss. The
recipient of the “CWRTDC Edwin C. Bearss Preservation Award” is the Battle of New
Market Heights Memorial and Education Association, and the recipient of the
“CWRTDC Edwin C. Bears Legacy Award” is Mr. Burrus “Buzz” Carnahan.
For additional information about Ed and the awards, see CWRTDC's New Release available HERE (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypqMpmEKwu0Ff-UuK_2rCRV7xIXYsAMb/view) or visit its website at www.cwrtdc.org. Information about the dinner meeting is available at https://cwrtdc-meetings.blogspot.com/p/jmeacham.html
PRESENTATION BY JON MEACHAM
To cap off the night's events, the CWRTDC and the LGDC is honored and privileged to co-sponsor a presentation by Jon Meacham, detailed below:
JON MEACHAM
presents
"A Sacred Effort: Lincoln's American Theology"
About the Topic:
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.
At once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents—a remote icon—or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. This illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln—an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment, essential to the story of justice in America, began as he grew up in an antislavery Baptist community; who insisted that slavery was a moral evil; and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him to see the right.
This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination in 1865: his rise, his self-education, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans, Lincoln’s story illustrates the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events.
From https://www.amazon.com/There-Was-Light-American-Struggle-ebook/dp/B09VYRM2BV?ref_=ast_sto_dp
About the Speaker:
Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and the author of the New York Times bestsellers:
His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope;
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power; and
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Mr. Meacham is the Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, a contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review, and a fellow of the Society of American Historians.
He lives in Nashville with his wife and children.
DETAILS OF MEETING
When: Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Where:
in the Grand Ballroom
at Patton Hall Officers' Club
214 Jackson Avenue, Ft. Myer, VA 22211
(take the elevator to the right as you enter the building and press Floor 4 or
take the stairs to up three levels)
NOTE: MR. MEACHAM'S PRESENTATION WILL BE VIA ZOOM;
OUR JOINT MEETING AND ACTIVITIES WILL BE IN-PERSON
Schedule for In-Person Meeting
(See Below for Schedule for Remote Attendees)
5:00 pm ET: Social Period at Club for In-Person Attendees (cash bar)
5:45 pm ET: Dinner Served
6:00 pm ET: Start of Meeting/Introductions
6:15 pm ET: Presentation of CWRTDC’s Ed Bearss Awards
7:00 pm ET: Start of Speaker Presentation and Q&A
8:30 pm ET: Meeting Adjourned
Please note our Covid policies and requirements before registering, available by clicking HERE or by downloading it from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c-94whtjSI721WjwMN4aJ6j21ZWI6jcW/view.
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5:00 pm ET: Zoom Platform Opens for Remote Attendee Social Period (Optional)
5:45 pm ET: Remote Attendees Connected to In-Person Meeting
6:00 pm ET: Start of Meeting/Introductions
6:15 pm ET: Presentation of CWRTDC’s Ed Bearss Awards
7:00 pm ET: Start of Speaker Presentation and Q&A
8:30 pm ET: Meeting Adjourned
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