August 13, 2011  9:00 a.m.
MGS Library

August 13, 2011  10:30 a.m.

Vitale Room - On the square immediately behind Holy Family Catholic
Church - 1400 Joyce Road in Mobile (off Overlook Road, East of
University Boulevard)

Regular monthly MGS Membership Meeting

Greg Waselkov, PhD Professor of Anthropology and Director, Center for
Archaeological Studies with the University of South Alabama, will be the
featured speaker at the August 13th meeting of the MGS. Waselkov is
originally from Cleveland, Ohio. He attended the University of
Missouri-Columbia where he met his wife, Linda. He then attended the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill where he received his graduate
degrees in archaeology. He relocated to Auburn, Alabama in 1979 where he
worked with John Cottier and Craig Sheldon at Auburn University on many
interesting projects, including excavations at Fort Toulouse and at
several historic Creek Indian Town sites. Waselkov has been teaching at
the University of South Alabama since 1989 and has led many research
projects at historic sites such as French Colonial "Old Mobile" and Fort
Mims (of Creek War fame) and at prehistoric Indian sites on the coast. 

Topic - "Searching for the Old Federal Road: Alabama on the Eve of the
Creek War."

September 10, 2011  9:00 a.m.
MGS Library

September 10, 2011  10:30 a.m.

Vitale Room - On the square immediately behind Holy Family Catholic
Church - 1400 Joyce Road in Mobile (off Overlook Road, East of
University Boulevard)

Regular monthly MGS Membership Meeting

Jo Ann Flirt will the the guest speaker for the September 10 MGS Regular Membership meeting. Ms. Flirt has been the director of Historic Blakeley State Park in Baldwin County for the past 14 years and a member of the board of directors since it was founded.  She has been a long time activist in preservation work and has restored and owns the 1842 Waring Slave Quarters Building in downtown Mobile. 
 
Ms. Flirt has served on the board of Mobile City Museums and also as president of the Friends of Old Mobile Organization.  She is a native of Baldwin County and resides in Mobile.  She attended Huntingdon College as a freshman and earned a BA and MA degrees form the University of Alabama and was an instructor at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.  Her early career was as a journalist.

Ms. Flirt's topic will be "Blakeley - A Cultural Crossroads"

October 1, 2011  10:00-11:00 a.m.
MGS Library
(re-arranged)