Announcements

SPRING 2009 89 Union Terminal Photo Shoot Sunday, June 7; 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Attention photography enthusiasts! This is your opportunity to take pictures of Union Terminal. Capture photographs of areas not routinely open to the public such as the restored President’s Office, The Cincinnati Dining Rooms and the original Men’s Lounge, now the Amtrak Waiting Room. Also, the balcony will be available for shooting the Grand Rotunda. Fee: $25 members; $30 non-members. Registration Deadline: June 4 Cincinnati Museum Center Announcements Announcements Cincinnati Museum Center invites you to see Union Terminal through the lens of your camera, to tour several homes on Cincinnati’s Westside and to view “Bats and Battles in Louisville.” Sign up for one or more of these public tours that will be offered by the Cincinnati Heritage Program docents in June and July. 90 ANNOUNCEMENTS OHIO VALLEY HISTORY Westside Houses with History Wednesday, June 17; 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Travel to the river hillsides of western Cincinnati to Riverside and see the 1849 Greek Revival-style McWilliams house. See the oldest house in Sayler Park, originally built in 1806. Visit two painted ladies nestled in a park-like setting and a 1910 home filled with a treasure trove of antiques. See the Thornton Indian statue located in Cincinnati’s smallest park and have lunch overlooking Ohio River Dam Number 37. Enjoy afternoon refreshments at the 1820 John Clermont House overlooking downtown Cincinnati. This tour has several uphill treks on uneven steps and walkways. Fee: $70 members; $75 non-members Registration Deadline: June 10 Bats and Battles in Louisville Wednesday, July 15; 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tour the world-famous Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory. Find out what the “crack of the bat” means to the development of the major league bat and hear the stories of the “Heavy Hitters.” At the Frazier International History Museum, learn about historical events covering one thousand years of history from two continents, including our early North American Settlements, to the era of the Pony Express. See such artifacts as Teddy Roosevelt’s Big Stick and Daniel Boone’s family Bible. Fee: $85 members; $90 non-members Registration Deadline: July 8 To make a reservation, call 513-287-7031. The Filson Institute Public Conference • May 14-16, 2009 “From Country Lawyer to Commander-in-Chief: The Making of Abraham Lincoln” The upcoming spring conference will explore different facets of Lincoln’s life and career before and during his presidency. The institute will begin on Thursday evening with a keynote speech by a leading Lincoln scholar, followed on Friday by a day of visits to important Lincoln sites in Kentucky. On Saturday, four nationally prominent historians will discuss different aspects of Lincoln’s career, including “Lincoln as Lawyer,” “Lincoln as Politician,” “Lincoln as Emancipator,” Filson Historical Society Announcements SPRING 2009 91 ANNOUNCEMENTS and “Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief.” Come learn about the many phases of our greatest president’s life and career, from his professional beginnings as a lawyer in Illinois to his days in the White House as he led a nation at war. The conference is free for members of The Filson and $10 for non-members. Reservations are required. Please e-mail Judy Miller at miller@filsonhistorical.org for more information. Call for Papers: The Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS) invites paper proposals for its twelfth annual meeting, March 5-6, in Louisville, Kentucky. The meeting is co-sponsored by the Innominate Society. Deadline is October 15, 2009. SAHMS is an international society that welcomes papers on the history of medicine and science, broadly construed to encompass historical, literary, anthropological, philosophical, and sociological approaches to health care, including race and gender studies. While some sessions will relate to the U.S. South, SAHMS is open to a wide range of topics. Scholars from all areas and disciplines are welcome. MD/PhD students may submit works in progress and should indicate their graduate/professional student status. Participants may propose individual papers or panels of several papers on a particular theme. Each presenter is limited to twenty minutes, with additional time for...