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On December 2, 2010, Save The Franklin
Battlefield, Inc., Board members and guests met at Otey Hall, St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, for the Annual STFB Dinner and Membership Meeting. STFB
President Mike Walker welcomed the guests as he opened the meeting. Sam
Gant offered an invocation before the dinner which was served by Puckett’s
Grocery.
Following the meal, Mike called the business meeting to order and
recognized the STFB Advisory Board members present, Mike Skinner and Susan
Burns. Sam Huffman gave a summary of STFB’s activities of 2010 including
some detail on the proposed acquisition of two important battlefield sites
on the Eastern Flank: Loring’s Advance and the Willow Plunge properties.
Two Board members were then reelected by acclamation: Sam Huffman and
Tommy Burnett.
Sam Huffman officiated the presentation of the Tenny Pinkerton Dozier
Award. This award is given each year to the Individual who, in the
judgment of the STFB Board, made the most notable contribution during the
past year to historic preservation. The 2010 Tenny Pinkerton Dozier Award
was presented to Mary Pearce, Director of the Heritage Foundation for her
continuing work to preserve Franklin’s Battlefields and for her recent
project to save and restore the Franklin Theater.
The evening’s keynote speaker, Thomas Flagel, Instructor of History,
Columbia State Community College, presented, “The Vitality of Historic
Preservation.” He emphasized the importance of
preserving the battlefield sites so that one can better visualize the
significance of the conflict when walking the ground where the battle was
fought. The meeting closed, after concluding remarks by Mike Walker.
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Thomas R. Flagel
- a Dynamic Speaker
At the 2010 STFB Annual Membership Meeting, we were most fortunate to have
Thomas R. Flagel, Instructor in History at Columbia State Community
College, as the keynote speaker. An ardent historic preservationist, his
subject was “The Vitality of Historic Preservation.” He is a dynamic
speaker who holds the interest of the audience with enthusiasm and with
his understanding of history in its relationship to life today. One
person, after hearing Flagel speak, remarked, “I never had a history
teacher who was that enthusiastic.”
Thomas Flagel is the author of a series of history books: A History Buff’s
Guide to the Civil War, A History Buff’s Guide to Gettysburg, A History
Buff’s Guide to World War II, and A History Buff’s Guide to the
Presidents.
Thomas is a Board member of the Friends of Fort Negley and of the Franklin
Civil War Roundtable, and he assists and speaks at a number of other
historical organizations.
Thomas Flagel came to Columbia State from Kirkwood Community College in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He holds degrees from Loras College (B.A. History),
Kansas State University (M.A., European History), Creighton University
(M.A., International Relations), and has studied at the University of
Vienna.
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