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Spring
2005 Newsletter
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Trust
to Fund Fellowship
The University of South Carolina’s Department of Anthropology
is offering a new graduate fellowship that will focus on research
of South Carolina’s historic military sites. Funded by the South
Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust, the fellowship is for $10,000.
The South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust Fellowship Fund
is intended to support candidates whose research and career interests
are devoted to preserving and protecting historic military sites.
Applicants for the fellowship must submit a letter of intent and documentation
of qualifications and must be accepted into the graduate program in
USC’s Department of Anthropology. Recipients must complete a
dissertation or thesis as well as a report and presentation to the
SCBPT upon completion of their research. They will also present their
findings to the public.
If you would like to make a direct contribution to the SCBPT Fellowship
Fund or learn more,contact Michael Taylor, Executive Director of the
trust at 843-689-3223 or write the trust at PO Box 21781, Hilton Head
Island, SC 29925.
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The
Morris Island Coalition By
Blake Hallman
In
January 2004 a rudimentary roadway and
wellhead were seen on Morris Island. This discovery led to research
that revealed a development plan was being proposed for the historically
significant barrier island and the plan called for twenty homes to
be built on the Cummings Point portion of the island, ten times more
than the current zoning allows.
Concerned for the cultural and ecological
impact that the development would have on
Morris Island, two Executive Board members
of the South Carolina Battleground Preservation
Trust (Blake Hallman and Nora Kravec) were
authorized by the trust’s board to begin the groundwork for
what is now the Morris Island Coalition. A grassroots organization,
the coalition held its first meeting February 6, 2004. The group’s
mission is to stop the proposed rezoning of the island and to help
raise the funds needed to purchase the island, which would then be
donated to an appropriate organization or governmental agency.
The simple mission statement of the Morris Island Coalition has attracted
over 900 members including representatives from the Civil War Preservation
Trust, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Sierra Club,
the Surf Rider Foundation, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry,
the Palmetto Battalion the S.C.V. Fort Moultrie and Secessionville
Camps, the 37th Texas, the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League
and the Folly Island Voter’s Association.
Along with local, state, regional and national media attention, the
coalition has been instrumental in convincing the councils for the
City of Charleston and the towns of James, Seabrook, Folly and Sullivans
Islands to pass resolutions against any incorporation of Morris Island
into their municipalities. To learn more about the Morris Island Coalition,
its goals and member organizations, log onto www.morrisisland.org.
Blake Hallman is the Treasurer of the South Carolina Battleground
Preservation Trust and is Chairman of the Morris Island Coalition.
The SCBPT is a member of the coalition.
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