Carol
Canales, State President of 1812 and Gwen Causey, Honorary Vice President National attended a
Symposium Committee meeting on November 14, 2011 with representative from the
city of Southport, Brunswick Town/Ft. Anderson, Fort Fisher and Jeffery Bocket,
Assistant Curator of Education with the NC Division of State Historic Sites. The
meeting was held at the Fort Johnston Garrison in Southport. The initial goal of
the committee meeting was to oversee the planning of a symposium scheduled in
Southport for October 20, 2012. The symposium will include lectures, living
history, a luncheon, children’s activities and the day will end with a memorial
service. During the meeting it was agreed this committee should oversees the
activities also planned or to be planned for the entire week long commemoration
of the Bicentennial of the War of 1812. One suggestion made by Gwen Causey,
Honorary Vice President National from North Carolina was to hold the same
program held in 1938 for the existing marker to include a new plaque
duplicating the original words on the marker that has faded over time. The
committee’s next meeting is scheduled for January 23, 2012 at 10:00 am at the
Fort Johnston Garrison in Southport.
