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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">2019 AGS Annual Meeting and Conference</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">AGS holds an annual conference every June. Held in a different location each year since 1978, the conference features lectures, demonstrations, exhibits, conservation
and documentation workshops, classroom sessions, slide presentations, and guided cemetery tours. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Our 2019 Annual Meeting and Conference will be held at Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, North Carolina on June 25-30. Join us!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">**Please note that this is a week later than our usual conference dates.</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001IHP2uKKbz8iuz1F4W1pE5-NuddHtQ62hatp0UbB91zfudXf7a3A_aahfX1rC4nwgxisv-5Kgpjaz7PzZK-Qony-cwGG3JgZl5FkLZqDTDQjV0G5k8BqPPxmHigoatZtnX62GBGxMKILtc66iG9VOqPL3tdphxaBOXUN9xs4X-zze_4Efxtphnu7-DxqnTJAD3L_4aiAaWH9-XdVdiL-biIRPt7tbzmojqb4oSh2zGS-eaKfxnrqe1A==&c=-D0c59rrQeATbFUNS7QdF2iS-oFhzhYNCwe5_7aIT6H9SGLnqXnp8w==&ch=Ne9MqLFkoTV7_8AybIdZHQ0ZEM2LLaV6pGBwNKskcNmxXOPNArKSwg==" target="_blank">Click
here</a> to see a video about Garder-Webb University. Questions? Contact: <a href="mailto:ags2019conference@gmail.com" target="_blank">
ags2019conference@gmail.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Our keynote speaker</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> for the first night of lectures will
be folklorist, Appalachian culture specialist, poet, singer, and banjo player Joyce Compton Brown. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">2019 AGS Conference Scholarship for Students <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">STUDENTS: Have you been doing research on gravestones, cemeteries, or a closely related topic? Would you like an opportunity to attend the next Association for
Gravestone Studies Conference and Annual Meeting as a guest of AGS? Enter the AGS Student Scholarship Competition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The next AGS Conference will be held at Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, North Carolina, June 25-30.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Requirements: The applicant must be a graduate or undergraduate student at an accredited college or university, as well as a member of the Association for Gravestone
Studies. A student membership is just $25 per year and includes the next published issue of <em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Markers</span></em>, four issues of the <em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">AGS Quarterly</span></em>,
and more. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Application: Each applicant should submit a proposal for a twenty-minute presentation: a scholarly paper suitable for delivery at an academic conference, or a
report of comparable quality on an on-going research project, to be presented at the Friday evening lecture session. PowerPoint is the preferred presentation medium. <br>
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Each entry should include the title, a summary or abstract and a PDF of the PowerPoint program, as well as a letter of recommendation from an academic adviser. Your entry should consist of a cover letter, with attachments, emailed to <a href="mailto:info@gravestonestudies.org" target="_blank">info@gravestonestudies.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">The award will cover registration and activities fees, plus room and board for the full conference (about $525) and will include a cash prize of $200, which will
be presented at the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Deadline: March 31, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Address all questions to the AGS Office, <a href="mailto:info@gravestonestudies.org" target="_blank">info@gravestonestudies.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">2019 AGS Conference: Call for Proposals for Participation Sessions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Proposals are solicited for participation/class sessions of 45 minutes in length. These sessions are not for presenting research papers, unless the paper is about
how to do a particular type of research using the presenter's research as a case study. We encourage panel discussions and will allow more than one time slot if needed. Send a description of your session along with a biography to: Judy Juntunen,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:rycraftjuntunen@aol.com" target="_blank">rycraftjuntunen@aol.com</a><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> by March 1</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">2019 AGS Conference: Call for Papers </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Proposals are solicited for scholarly papers, 20 minutes in length, to be presented during the lecture sessions, June 25-30. Please send an abstract of your paper
(no more than 250 words) along with a brief biography (2-4 sentences) to Lectures Coordinator,
<a href="mailto:info@gravestonestudies.org" target="_blank">info@gravestonestudies.org</a> <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">no later than March 1</span></strong>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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