41st Annual Conference | Pipestem, WV | October 29-31, 2009
2009 Awards
Henry H. Douglas Distinguished Service Award
Honors an individual who has made significant contributions in furthering the goals of the Pioneer America Society
Dawn S. Bowen, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Mary
Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia
Fred B. Kniffen Book Award
Recognizes a best-authored book in the field of North American material culture
Ann Norton Greene of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008
Allen G. Noble Book Award
Recognizes a best-edited book in the field of North American material culture
Dianne Harris and D. Fairchild Ruggles, eds., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007
Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Award
Recognizes excellence in original graduate student fieldwork, documentary research, and writing in the area of traditional North American material culture
Jonathan E. Kay of the Department of Folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, "The Alvis Partin Farm: Memories of a Farm in Eastern Bell County,
Hubert G. H. Wilhelm Student Research Award
Awarded to an undergraduate or graduate student to recognize excellence in student fieldwork, research, and writing in the material culture of the Americas
No award was given in 2009.
PAS:APAL Historic Preservation Award
Established in 2000, recognizes the preservation, interpretation, instruction, celebration, or exhibition of North American material culture
Historic Preservation Award
Cockayne Historic Preservation Committee for its project, first, to preserve the Cockayne Farmstead in Glenn Dale, WV, and secondly, to create an educational and cultural center at the farm that will benefit all West Virginians. http://www.cockaynefarm.com/
Historic Preservation Certificates of Merit
Historic Beverly Preservation in recognition of its outstanding efforts to preserve, restore, and interpret four historic downtown buildings for use as the Beverly Heritage Center, Beverly WV. http://www.historicbeverly.org/bevhcent.htm
Don C. Wood and the Berkeley County Historical Society in recognition of their outstanding efforts to promote preserve, restore, and use the Belle Boyd House in Martinsville, WV, as an archive and research center. http://www.bchs.org/civilwar.html