I regret to inform you all that there will be no symposium in 2011. Due to a variety of reasons, but primarily financial, the roundtable leadership has decided to cancel the event. It might resume some other year, or maybe it never will, I just don't know.
I do know that I had a great time helping to put on the events. Some years I was more involved than others but despite the hard work it was a great time. I got to meet and talk with many amazing people including some historians whose work I really admire. Made some friendships along the way and generally learned a lot.
In the meantime the roundtable plans to bring in one speaker a year. We went this route in the years before the symposium and that success is what prompted us to dream a little bigger. Maybe the one speaker a year format will expand into two, or maybe it will expand back into the symposium again.
And 2011 was going to be a good year, no need to go into details on who was going to come but I was really excited about the panel. We were going to follow the 150th as best we could and 2011 was going to be an early Eastern Theater focus. Oh well
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The Rocky Mountain Civil War Round Table is a Denver-area group of Civil War enthusiasts. We meet on the second Thursday of the month to discuss the war. For more information please check out our past newsletters or email us at RockyMtnCWRT@aol.com.
Upcoming Presentations
August 13, 2009 - Second Bull Run by Matt Spruill
September 10, 2009 - The Bloody Lane at Antietam by Dave Townsend
October 8, 2009 – South Mountain by Matt Spruill
November 12, 2009 - Stephen Douglas by Richard DeTar
December 10, 2009 - Fighting at the Crossroads at Shiloh by Nick Kurtz
September 10, 2009 - The Bloody Lane at Antietam by Dave Townsend
October 8, 2009 – South Mountain by Matt Spruill
November 12, 2009 - Stephen Douglas by Richard DeTar
December 10, 2009 - Fighting at the Crossroads at Shiloh by Nick Kurtz
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Due to the upcoming symposium it was decided to do a short battle study this summer and then next spring begin our next longer battle study. And instead of the Civil War we will study a battle that is much closer to home, the Battle of Little Big Horn. Email us here or contact Mike Lang for more information. There will likely be 2 or 3 meetings before the trip. The trip will likely be in August or September.
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2 comments:
What sort of cost is involved in putting on the symposium? How much money would be needed?
In a perfect world the symposium would break even, or make money, so there would be no dollar cost. The money lost is not the real cost here though it is the time needed to do the event. Several times membership was prompted to help or it would die out and no one stepped forward. Maybe there would be enough support to do it every other year. If you want to help out please let me know and maybe we can get some fresh blood running the event and get it running again on some sort of schedule.
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