News and Announcements
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Brockington Historians Advocate for the Georgia Archives
Jan 25, 2012
Mike Reynolds and Cameron Sexton visited the Georgia Capitol on Tuesday the 24th to speak with legislators about the need to restore funding to the Georgia Archives. The archives are currently open two days per week- the fewest hours of any state archive in the United States.
Since 2010, pubic access to the archives has declined from 42.5 hours
per week to 17 hours per week, a 60% decrease in accessibility.
Aside from making it more difficult for professional historians to conduct their research, the archives hold "deeds, mortgages, court records, legislative records, marriage and birth records, and many other documents that Georgians depend on to protect their health, their property, and their civil rights." (Georgia Archives Fact Sheet)
Brockington Archaeologist Josh Fletcher Interviewed on South Carolina's Inland Rice Fields
Jan 18, 2012
Josh Fletcher, of Brockington's Charleston office, was interviewed for a local TV program called RoadWise and More about South Carolina's inland rice fields. The fascinating story of inland rice cultivation and its impact on the South Carolina Low Country can be found here:
http://inlandrice.ccroadwise.org
Josh's interview was divided into four parts and posted on YouTube:
Part 1, http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gk7eKK6-jMc
Part 2, http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=U57ysWEz_QQ
Part 3, http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mr1RmWqvq74
Part 4, http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KU0N_sf0Q14
Major General John Peabody Tours St. Louis Veterans Curation Program Lab
Jan 05, 2012
Major General John Peabody, Commander of the USACE Mississippi Valley Division, toured the St. Louis VCP Lab managed by Brockington and Associates on December 14. After talking with veterans and lab employees, he commented, "This is a great program to get veterans into the civilian workforce and back to work in these difficult economic times after their great service to the nation in our armed forces."
Ben Roberts to Chair Roundtable at Archaeological Institute of America Conference, January 5-8, 2012
Jan 05, 2012
Captain Ben Roberts of Brockington's Savannah office will be chairing a roundtable discussion on post-crisis contingency planning for cultural resources as part of a workshop entitled Cultural Preservation in a Dangerous World- Revolutions and Humanitarian Crises.
Ben's expertise and interest in this area developed while he was serving in Iraq as a Combat Engineer Officer. He is currently interested in examining the parallels between protecting heritage resources while responding to disasters such as earthquakes/ tsunamis (abroad as well as domestically) and during armed conflicts such as civil unrest (Egypt, Libya, etc.) and all out combat (Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Balkans). His goal is to facilitate the contingency planning process by capitalizing on the common tactics that can be used to protect cultural resources during both natural disasters and armed conflict.
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Dec 07, 2011
Today is the 70th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor in which more than 2,400 Americans were killed and more than 1,100 were wounded. Brockington remembers those who were lost and honors their sacrifice by serving veterans through the Veterans Curation Project (VCP).
Managed by Brockington and Associates for the St. Louis District of the Corps of Engineers, the VCP trains recently separated veterans in marketable job skills, including digital photography, scanning, data entry, and technical report writing. While receiving this training, veterans work to rehabilitate and preserve U.S. Army Corps of Engineers artifact and archive collections. Doing meaningful work and being part of a team also helps the veterans make the sometimes-difficult transition to civilian life.
Brockington's Charles Philips to Speak at Middleton Place
Dec 06, 2011
Brockington and Associates historian Charles Phillips has been asked to present his research on inland swamp rice fields at an exclusive event for volunteers and members of the Middleton Place Foundation. Using historic documents as well as modern mapping technology, Mr. Philips will provide insight into the 18th century rice cultivation carried out by European planters and enslaved Africans. Mr. Philips has studied inland rice fields for over a decade and recently co-authored the Inland Swamp Rice Contextual Study for the National Register of Historic Places.
Film Created by Brockington and The History Workshop Wins Award
Nov 18, 2011
"Up From the Roots: Remembering Rural St. Johns County," a collaborative
effort between The History Workshop and Brockington and Associates, has
received the 2011 Outstanding Public Participation Award from the
Florida Planning and Zoning Association.The award was presented November 17, 2011 at a banquet held in Jacksonville, Florida.
"Up From the Roots: Remembering Rural St. Johns County" documents the region's
history through recent efforts of our Oral History Program to record
audio and video interviews with residents along the William Bartram
Scenic and Historic Highway. The interviews and film were funded by a
National Scenic Byways Program grant. The film will be used
as a fundraiser by the William Bartram Scenic & Historic Highway
Corridor Management Council.
The History Workshop Awarded Civil Rights Exhibit
Nov 18, 2011
Jackson State University has asked The History Workshop to prepare an exhibit on the Freedom Struggle in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. The exhibit will be housed in the headquarters of the Council of Federated Organizations, which served as a Civil Rights call center in the early 1960s. Members of the African-American community and Civil Rights activists used the call center and the chalkboard posted outside the Council of Federated Organizations headquarters to communicate with each other and share news events. The History Workshop's exhibit will include an interactive element in which museum visitors will actually be able to listen to recordings of calls that were placed to the call center between 1961 and 1965.
Brockington's Elizabethtown Office Celebrates Halloween
Oct 28, 2011
Members of Brockington’s Elizabethtown office got into the Halloween spirit when they dressed a parking meter in downtown Elizabethtown as an archaeologist. October’s parking meter decorating effort was part of a series of monthly events intended to promote preservation and economic growth in downtown Elizabethtown. As good corporate citizens dedicated to community building in downtown Elizabethtown, the office also hosts a monthly open house to educate the community about archaeology. Perhaps they have a few more people to reach, because the local newspaper identified the parking meter archaeologist as a construction worker!
History Workshop Tells Story of Buford's Massacre
Oct 28, 2011
The History Workshop recently completed its installation of interpretive panels at the Waxhaws Battlefield in Lancaster County, South Carolina. The panels tell the story of Buford’s Massacre, a bloody engagement that many historians consider a turning point in the Revolutionary War. In 2010, Brockington archaeologist Scott Butler and his team made a landmark discovery in Revolutionary War history. Using metal detectors and mapping software, they were able to determine both the precise location of the massacre as well as the progression of the fighting.
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