CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Annual Conference 2017 – National James-Younger Gang Inc. Georgetown, Kentucky

Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017

4:00 pm Registration Comfort Suites

4:00-9:00 – Author Fair & Book Signing

7:00 pm Eddie Price, author of Widder’s Landing, performing “What I Saw at Cane Ridge.”

Friday, Sept 29, 2017

9-10:00: Jesse James Identity Theft. Mark Bampton of Ampthill, England: Topic – A Forensic Analysis of the Bob Ford/Jesse James Photo Hoax

10:30-12:00: Eric F. James, author of This Bloody Ground, Vol. II of Jesse James Soul Liberty; Topic – The story of Frank & Jesse’s grandfather John M. James from the American Revolution to revolution against banks

12:00-1:30: Lunch

1:30-3:00: Georgetown College

• Dr. Glen Taul; Topic – Georgetown’s Records of Rev. Robert Sallee James & Rev. John James
• Dr. James C. Klotter, Kentucky State Historian; Topic & author of The History and Culture of Central Kentucky, 1792-1852; Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood

3:30-4:30: TOUR Ward Hall

• Ron Bryant, former research historian, Kentucky History Center. Sustaining the Southern Plantation Life of William Ward, Richard Mentor Johnson, & their Lightfoot, Chinn, & Pence Slave Families

5:00: Business Meeting

Saturday, Sept 30, 2017

9:00-10:00: Shirl Marks, co-founder of The African-American Genealogy Group of Kentucky, descendant of enslaved Pence family; author of The Enslaved Pence & Chinn Families of Scott County

10:30-12:00: Guerrilla Symposium: Topic – What Made a Civil War Guerrilla?

• Gerald Fisher author of Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Kentucky
• James M. Pritchard, Civil War Guerrilla Collections at the Filson Historical Society, author of Embattled Capital, Frankfort During the Civil War
• Dr. Thomas J. Sabetta of the University of Kentucky, currently writing two books, one about Capt. Delos T. “Yankee” Bligh who pursued the James Gang, and another on “Dynamite” Dick Mitchel, a rider with John Hunt Morgan, Basil Duke, Sue Munday, and Sam Berry.
• Kent Masterson Brown Esq., author & film documentarian, The Civil War in Kentucky: Battle for the Bluegrass State, First editor Civil War magazine, former chairman of Gettysburg National Military Park Advisory Commission & Perryville Battlefield Commission

12-1:30: Lunch – Wallace Station – Box Lunch

1:30-5:00: TOUR

• Black Horse Inn, Airdrie Farm, Nantura Farm
• Cole Family’s Midway Presbyterian Church, Cole’s Bad Tavern, Cole Cemetery: Scott Richard Cole, Board of Directors, Liberty Bank Museum, Liberty, Missouri
• Great Crossings Church – From Rebel Preachers to Missouri Missions
• Judge James Madison Lindsay Home – Site of Robert Sallee & Zerelda Cole James Wedding & the Zee James Collection discovery

7:00-10:00: Banquet: Wilshire’s Restaurant Special Guest Speaker: J. Mark Beamis, second great-grandson of Drury Woodson James & son of Joan Malley Beamis, author of Background of a Bandit.

Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 – Adjourned

Maps provided to self-tour the Bluegrass & additional historical sites

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REGISTER NOW

ENTIRE CONFERENCE $89.00 – Includes Banquet dinner

THURSDAY ONLY $ 20.00

FRIDAY ONLY $ 30.00

SATURDAY ONLY $ 40.00 – Banquet excluded

DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM HERE

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RESERVE HOTEL NOW

Comfort Suites Hotel, Georgetown, Kentucky

Discount room rates are available now at Comfort Suites in Georgetown, Kentucky.

The group rate for the James-Younger Gang is $85/night for two adults plus applicable taxes. $10 more for each additional person. Amenities include a deluxe complimentary breakfast, indoor heated pool, fitness facility, guest laundry, & game room. Each suite has a micro fridge, coffee maker, hair dryer, alarm clock radio, iron & ironing board, sofa sleeper, and wired & wireless Internet.

CALL (502) 868-9500 ext. 403 for James-Younger Gang reservations. The discount rate of $85/night will automatically apply after 8 rooms are booked. Prior to 8 rooms booked, a rate of $100/night applies. Reserve early to insure availability. Only 20 rooms have been set aside. The discount rate expires August 31, 2017.

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CRAVING SOME SWAG ?

The official tee shirt of the James-Younger Gang and Family conference is available now.

Chose from 9 colors in sizes small to 6X.

Order by July 1 for July 15th delivery.

(Orders have closed; the conference took place in 2017.)

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