Friday,
September 12, 2008
REGISTRATION
12:30
- 4:00 pm
- Outdoor Tent
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Registration
is required to attend Friday's dinner and Saturday's
luncheon and to hear both keynote addresses.
Cost
is $10; please pay with cash or personal checks (made
out to "Bucknell University"). Credit cards cannot be
accepted. Receipts provided upon request.
NATIVE
AMERICANS AND EARLY AGRICULTURE
IN
THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY
Moderated
by Professor
Katherine Faull
Bucknell
University Environmental Center
1:30
- 3:30 pm
- Trout Auditorium
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A
look at the history and ongoing heritage of Native
American agriculture in the region, and insights from
it for today. This panel is coordinated by the
Bucknell Environmental Humanities Initiative and is a
logical first step leading up to next year's
4th Annual Susquehanna River Symposium - "Native
Americans in the Susquehanna
Valley".
1:30
- 2:00 pm
Indigenous
peoples of the Susquehanna Valley
Katherine
Faull, Bucknell University
Insights
into the relation between indigenous peoples and the
land of the valley based on her work in studying and
translating diaries of Moravian Christians living and
traveling through the area in the eighteenth century.
2:00
- 2:30 pm
Native
Americans and the Land
David
Minderhout, Bloomsburg University
Andrea Frantz, Arizona State
University
Both
authors of the new book "Invisible
Indians"
on the Native American tribes of Pennsylvania, will
discuss their findings on the history of Amerindian
agriculture in the region.
2:30
- 3:00 pm
The
Food Culture of Pennsylvania Native
Americans
Susan
Plaisted, Director of Foodways
Susan
is also director of foodways for the Pennsylvania
Humanities Council, will share her own research and
experiences in reconstructing Pennsylvania Indian
food culture from ethnobotany and
archaeology.
3:00
- 3:30 pm
Local
Native Americans and the Susquehanna
Watershed
Jenny
Dalzell, Bucknell University
student
Research
to support the proposed extension of the John Smith
Trail farther north into the Susquehanna Valley in
commemoration of the watershed's importance in
seventeenth-century Indian
history.
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OUTDOOR FESTIVITIES
Moderated
by
H. W. "Skip" Wieder,
Director
Susquehanna River Heartland Coalition for
Environmental Studies
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4:30
- 5:30 pm
- Outdoor Tent
Display
booths, picnic dinner, and entertainment
Visit
over a dozen
display booths from
a variety of regional and state organizations
involved with Pennsylvania agriculture and the
Susquehanna River, including:
• Chesapeake Bay
Foundation (CBF)
• Susquehanna
River Basin Commission
(SRBC)
• Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture
(PADA)
• Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection (PA
DEP)
• Pennsylvania
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
(PA DCNR)
• Penn
State Center for Agriculture and
Environment
• Pennsylvania
Association for Sustainable Agriculture
(PASA)
• Buy Fresh, Buy
Local
• Buffalo
Creek Watershed Alliance
(BCWA)
• Merrill
W. Linn Land and Waterways
Conservancy
• Union
County Conservation District
(UCCD)
• Susquehanna
Greenway Partnership
(SEDA-COG)
• WVIA
Public Radio/Television
• Gary Holthaus' book, From
the Farm to the Table
Registered guests can enjoy a picnic meal featuring
sustainably-grown food from local farms.
Entertainment will be provide by Susquehanna Valley
resident and recording artist
K.J. Wagner.
5:30 - 6:30 pm
- Outdoor Tent
Opening
comments and keynote address
University
welcome by
Dr. Michael Smyer,
Bucknell
University Provost.
Opening comments by
Chris Carney,
U.S.
Congressman, 10th Pennsylvania District.
Keynote address by
Dennis Wolff,
Pennsylvania
Secretary of Agriculture.
7:00 - 8:00 pm
- Trout Auditorium
Documentary
films on Pennsylvania agriculture
Preview
of documentary films produced and directed by
WVIA,
Wilkes-Barre Scranton.
8:00
- 9:30 pm
- Center Room, Elaine Langone
Center
Student
research posters and evening social
Student
research posters on display.
Evening social featuring wines from local vineyards.
 - Field
of soybeans in late summer, Union County,
Pennsylvania
(photograph by B. Hayes)
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- S P E C I A L G U E S T S
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DENNIS WOLFF
Master
farmer and Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture.
CHRIS
CARNEY
Penn
State University Professor and U.S. Congressman
representing the 10th Pennsylvania district.
K.J.
WAGNER
Folk
singer/songwriter and native of the Susquehanna
Valley, K.J. performs original works about
agriculture and farm life for audiences
worldwide.
- FEATURED DISPLAYS
-
Susquehanna
River Basin Commission
 PA
Dept. of Environmental
Protection
PA Dept. of Conservation of
Natural Resources
Center
for Agriculture and
Environment
PASA
Buffalo
Creek Watershed Alliance
Union
County Conservation District
Merrill Linn
Conservancy
Buy
Fresh - Buy Local
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