7th Annual
Western Reserve Studies Symposium
MAPPING THE LAND :
WESTERN RESERVE SCAPES AND SHAPES
The Western Reserve Historical Society
Cleveland, Ohio
November 13-14, 1992
Friday, November 13, 1992
1:00 Registration
1:30 Welcome & Introduction
Gladys Haddad, Symposium Director, Case Western Reserve University
1:45 "Ohio: A Social Laboratory for Land Survey and Sale"
George Knepper, University of Akron
2:30 "Early Western Reserve Impressions: The Surveyor, the Artist and the Land Speculator"
Gladys Haddad, Guest Curator
BREAK
"Early Western Reserve Impressions"
November 13, 1992 - January 31, 1993
4:00 "Lines on the Land: Evidence of the Original Survey on the Western Reserve Landscape"
Rob Nurre, Acorn Land Resources
6:00 DINNER PROGRAM
FILM
"The Forgotten Frontier: Connecticut's Western Reserve"
Lois Cunniff, Producer
Saturday, November 14, 1992
9:30 The Western Reserve: From Wilderness to Thriving Community
Moderator: Theodore A. Sande, Western Reserve Historical Society
"The Land and Its Riches"
Harvey Webster, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
"Native Americans: Early Householders"
David Brose, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
"Western Reserve Waterways"
Harry F. Lupold, John Carroll University
BREAK
11:15 Speaking of Community: Some Case Studies
"Nineteenth Century Manifestations of Community in the Western Reserve"
The Connecticut Land Company, Shakers, Claridon Township
Robert A. Wheeler, Cleveland State University
"Twentieth Century Escape from the Landscape"
Shaker Heights, Walden, Pirate's Cove
David R. Anderson, Hiram College
12:30 LUNCH
1:30 "The Poet Gives Voice to the Landscape"
David Brendan Hopes, University of North Carolina
2:15 "Stewardship/Conservation/Advocacy: The Issues"
Moderator: John Debo, Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area
James K. Bissell, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Siegfried Buerling, Hale Farm and Village
Thomas W. Stanley, Cleveland Metroparks
3:30 Closing Remarks
For more information call Professor Gladys Haddad, Symposium Director, at
Case Western Reserve University (216) 368-4117,
or email Professor Haddad
