The Bartram Trail Conference is now accepting applications for its Fothergill Research Award. One or more fellowships of $500 are awarded annually to an advanced graduate student or recent Ph.D. whose research promises to lead to publication, book, article, dissertation, or other substantive product in studies related to William Bartram. Appropriate areas of scholarship include but are not limited to the natural sciences, history of science, literary studies, journalism, history, biography, archaeology, art, photography and ethnohistory. Recipients are asked to make a informal report on work to be published in BTC newsletter, The Traveller and/or presented at biennial meeting of the BTC (at discretion of program committee). Deadline for receipt of applications is August 1, 2009. The award is for use in 2009-2010. For more information and to receive an application form, please contact Dr. Kathryn H. Braund, Dept. of History, 310 Thach Hall, Auburn University, AL 36849. Phone: 334-844-6649.; email braunkh@auburn.edu.

The Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, based in Franklin, NC [about four blocks up hill from the mound of Nikwasi (Bartram's Nucasse)], recently announced that it has acquired a  "working farm conservation easement" on the Spring Ridge Dairy—one of the largest riverfront farms at the head of the valley." The dairy lies close by the spot where Bartram entered the "Vale of Cowe," forded a "delightful brook, the water of the Tanase" (the Little Tennessee River), and looked out on "the opening of the extensive and fruitful vale."  The easement will protect the area from development. To learn more about the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee and their work, visit their site at  http://www.ltlt.org/index.html.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: The on-line encyclopedia has posted a biography of William Bartram, written by Dr. Edward J. Cashin. The article may be found at http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2179

On-line exhibit features Bartram. Bartram is featured in the American Philosophical Society's on-line exhibit: "Scientific Views of the Colonial American South." To view the Bartram page, visit;
http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/exhibits/nature/bartram.htm 
The exhibition home page is located at; http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/exhibits/nature/bartram.htm

Bartram's Travels is available on-line at the University of North Carolina's DocSouth Collection. The electronic edition of Travels may be found at http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/bartram/bartram.html

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