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For Release
April 25, 2002
Honoring Fallen Soldiers
America's First Memorial Day
May 1st, 1865
Charleston, South Carolina
A Program in Remembrance
May 3-4, 2002
All Events are Free
and Open to the Public
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FRIDAY,
MAY 3
Symposium:
Bond Hall 165, Citadel campus
3:30-5 pm
Chair:
Catherine Clinton
Mark Clark
Chair, The Citadel
"Decoration
Days"
David
Blight, Amherst College
"Sites
and Rites of Civil War Memory"
Thomas
Brown, University of South Carolina
Reception
Riverview
Room, The Citadel, 5-7 pm
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SATURDAY,
MAY 4
Hampton Park
Celebration: the Gazebo
10 am
Re-Enactment
of 1865 Event
(In
case of severe weather: Jenkins Hall Auditorium, The Citadel)
Guided
Tour
Ft.
Sumter Education Center
Liberty
Square, 1:30 pm
Guided
Bus Tour
African
American Civil War Sites, 2:30 pm
(Limit of 40: first come-first serve at Liberty Square.
Tour will stop at reception at Avery Center and return to Liberty
Square at 5:30pm)
Reception
Avery
Center for African American
History
and Culture, College
of Charlestom
125 Bull
Street, 4-6
pm
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Co-sponsored
by the Charleston Parks Department, the College of Charleston, The Citadel,
Citadel, Mayors Office for Cultural Affairs, Ft. Sumter National Park
and South Carolina Humanities Council.
For further
Information, please contact Catherine Clinton: 843-953-5073 or
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