The Eastern Shore: The Place and the People

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On Thursday, March 9, 2017 at the Spanish Fort Public Library at 6 PM , two of Alabama's premier experts in their fields will discuss Eastern Shore's original inhabitants and the environment they called home. Dr. Greg Waselkov , Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Alabama and the Director of the Center for Archaeological Studies, as well as author of dozens of report on area archaeological sites and books including A Conquering Spirit, Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-14 and Old Mobile Archaeology , will focus his remarks on the Woodland and Mississippian peoples which resided in the area centuries ago, giving particular attention to the nationally-important nearby Bottle Creek mound complex. Appearing on the program with him will be Dr. Kathryn Braund , Hollifield Professor of Southern History at Auburn University, for a discussion of Native American occupation of the Eastern Shore in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Braund is author of Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815 , History of the American Indians , and editor of Bernard Romans' Concise Natural History of East and West Florida , William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians , and Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812. FREE to the public