CFCS Annual Meeting

CENTER FOR FRENCH COLONIAL STUDIES
Centre pour l'étude du pays des Illinois

October 16-18, 2009
St. Louis/Florissant


	CENTER FOR FRENCH COLONIAL STUDIES Centre pour l’étude du pays des Illinois 2009 Annual Meeting and Conference Program St. Louis/Florissant, Missouri October 16-18, 2009 Friday, October 16 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Reception at Taille de Noyer (1896 S. Florissant Road on campus of McCluer HighSchool) 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, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 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 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, St. Genevieve, and dinner speaker will be Marc T. Boucher, Quebec Government Representative in Chicago, “Quebec: Adapting to North America for 400 Years.” Reservations required. Sunday, October 18 Historic Florissant 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. Tour of Old Ferdinand Shrine, #1 rue St. François, Florissant, and presentation by Joe Harl, Archaeologist, St. Louis, on excavation of first St. Ferdinand Church (1779-1836), with a tour of Historic Florissant led by Esley Hamilton, Preservation Historian. Accommodations 30 rooms have been reserved for the nights of October 16 and 17 at the Drury Inn St. Louis Airport, 10490 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, MO 63134, 314-423-7700. $89.99 per room plus 15.07% tax. To reserve online, go to www.druryhotels.com, click on Book it Fast, then enter group number 2040733. Please call 1-800-325-0720 to make your individual group reservations. Please specify the Hotel Location and reference your Group Name. Reservations received after Wednesday, September 30, 2009, can only be provided on a space available basis at prevailing rates.