Lecture Series

2pm Thursdays unless otherwise noted.

Free for FHC members, $10/non members

4/30 (SATURDAY, 2pm): Ornithologist Georgann Schmalz will give a lecture on identifying raptors in Georgia

7/9 (SATURDAY, 10am, FREE): Dr. Andrew Denson will give a talk on how we commemorate the Trail of Tears in the South.

9/8- Northwest Georgia History Center will be presenting “Legal and Legislative Aspects of Cherokee Removal." Additionally, FHC will have their exhibit on the same through the end of October.

9/15: Wayne Glowka will be telling stories with his banjo

9/22: Donna Longino will discuss Cherokee history in conjunction with her novel, Sarah's Way, about nineteen-year-old Sarah's experiences on the Trail of Tears.

9/29: Karen Coody Cooper, via livestream, will discuss her new book, Cherokee Women in Charge: Female Power and Leadership in American Indian Nations of Eastern North America

10/6: Miriam Brown Spiers, professor at KSU, will discuss her book, Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction, which examines the ways that American Indian novelists have adapted the generic tropes of science fiction as a means of resisting cultural assimilation and reasserting the value of Indigenous knowledges in the twenty-first century.

10/13: Bill Cagle will discuss his book, The Road to Georgia Marble, a history of the marble industry in Georgia that began with a road that cut through Cherokee land.

10/20: Dr. Grace Hale will discuss her book, Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture

10/27: Laine Kirby Wood will discuss her work with the Etowah River Alliance.

11/3: Meghan Gerig from the Folk Pottery Museum will give a talk on the history of pottery in Georgia.