11th Annual Confederate Heritage Conference
May 2001

The Eleventh Annual Confederate Heritage Conference has come and gone, and if you missed it, boy did you miss it! Below is a basic look at the structure of the weekend's schedule.
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Here is what you missed!

It all started Thursday evening with the Patron's Banquet. We were blessed with a great meal as usual, plus an interesting lecture by Dr. Marshall DeRosa, professor of political science at the Florida-Atlantic University, Boga Raton, Florida and author of The Confederate Constitution of 1861 and other books and numerous articles. His lecture was entitled "The Confederate Rule of Law: Liberty's Shield and Justice's Sword."

Friday morning took us to the park for the picnic. We were served some excellent Bar-B-Que chicken and beef with tasty side dishes.

After eating, we were treated to some beautiful Celtic music by Charles Roberts on the Recorders, his wife Amanda on the Dulcimer, and her sister Rebecca Cranston on the Fiddle. Click to hear a sample.

Following the music, we were graced with some more hilarious stories by Mr. Trisler. Click to hear the jokes. (The recording is actually from the 2000 picnic due to it's superior quality) Following the jokes, we were again this year blessed by David Rockett playing and singing three moving tunes. Click to hear one of the.

After all of this, it was time to pack up, clean up, and get back to rest a bit before heading back to the Convention center for the start of the Conference.

L to R: Franklin Sanders, Steven Wilkins, Marshall DeRosa, Eugene Case

Upon reaching the Convention hall, the conference began at 7:00 with opening remarks and announcements from pastor Wilkins, as well as the first lecture. We had a very nice, large crowd this year. It just seems to continue to grow each year, making it THE place to be each May.

Opening this years conference was Pastor Eugene Case, pastor of Woodville Presbyterian Church in the home town of our President, Woodville, Mississippi, as well as the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Gloster, Mississippi. Rev. Case enlightened many with his lecture "John Lafayette Girardeau: The Spurgeon of the South." A pastor of the South who is often overlooked, Rev. Case brought him to life in this moving lecture.

 

Next up, after a short break, Franklin Sanders, editor of The Moneychanger, a monthly financial and cultural newsletter, and the author of four books, most recently (for Jim Blanchard) Silver Bonanza: How to Profit From the Coming Bull Market in Silver, took the lectern to amaze many of us with statistic after statistic, comparing the old South to today, showing us just how much we haven't progressed, in his lecture "The South as it Was."

This brought an end to the first night of the conference, and as the crowd disbursed and began fellowshipping and purchasing from the many vendors.

Saturday morning started at 9:00, with Pastor Case taking the fellow shipping to give us yet another amazing lecture on "John Randolph: The Eloquent Enemy of Leviathan," and often overlooked southerner.

After his lecture and another short break, Dr. Marshall DeRosa took the stage with another enlightening lecture entitled "Calhoun’s Disquisition On Government: Time for a Reality Check."

After a dinner break, Franklin Sanders took the stage again, challenging us with a look at what we need to preserve and take back our culture from the constant decline it is in, in his excellent lecture "The South as it Must Be."

And, rapping up this years conference was the host himself, Pastor J. Steven Wilkins, with a look at our heritage in his lecture "Faith and Freedom: Our Celtic Heritage." This was the end of another amazing Conference year, and most attendants exited to spend a bit of time resting before the evening festivities.  

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