THE CENTER FOR FRENCH COLONIAL STUDIES

Centre pour l’étude du pays des Illinois

2009 Annual Meeting and Conference

St. Louis/Florissant, Missouri

October 16-18, 2009

Friday, October 16

6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Reception at Taille de Noyer (1896 S. New Florissant Road on campus of McCluer

High School) hosted by Quebec Delegation Chicago. Music provided by String

Connections of Prairie du Rocher.

Dinner on one’s own.

Saturday, October 17 Conference (University of Missouri-St. Louis, J. C. Penney Conference Center,

8000 Natural Bridge Road)

8:00 – 8:40 a.m. Registration

8:40 – 9:00 a.m. Welcome

9:00 – 9:50 a.m. “New Archaeology at French Domestic Sites in the Illinois Country,” Robert Mazrim,

Archaeologist, Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, University

of Illinois, Urbana

10:00 – 10:50 a.m. “A French Descendant Community after the Fall of New France: Archaeology in

Nouvelle Ste. Genevieve, 1780-1880,” Elizabeth M. Scott, Illinois State University

and Donald P. Heldman, Illinois State University

11:00 – 11:50 a.m. “French Creole Musical Traditions in Upper Louisiana,” Dennis Stroughmatt,

Independent Historian and Musician

12:00 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch

1:15 – 2:05 p.m. “Language, Communication, and the End of a Missionary Middle Ground in Illinois,

1673-1712,” Robert Morrissey, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois

2:15 – 3:05 p.m. “Preserving French Colonial Material Culture: A 1790s Vertical Log Structure,”

Hilliard Goldman, Independent Historian, St. Louis

3:15 – 3:45 p.m. Panel discussion moderated by Peter J. Kastor, Washington University at St. Louis

4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Annual meeting and election followed by a short Board meeting

6:30 – 9:00 p.m. Reception and dinner (Glen Echo Country Club, 3401 Lucas and Hunt Road,

Located off Natural Bridge Road). Entertainment by Pieds Gauches, Ste.

Genevieve; dinner speaker will be Marc T. Boucher, Quebec Government

Representative in Chicago, “Quebec: Adapting to North America for 400 Years.”

Sunday, October 18 Historic Florissant

9:00 – 11:30 a.m. Tour of Old St. Ferdinand Shrine, #1 rue St. Francois, Florissant, by Bill Bray,

President and Shrine Director, and presentation by Joe Harl, Archaeologist, St. Louis,

on excavation of first St. Ferdinand Church (1779-1836), with a bus tour of Historic

Florissant led by Esley Hamilton, Preservation Historian.