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Bounty-Pitcairn Conference 2012
Co-sponsored by the Pitcairn Islands Study Group and the FRIENDS of PITCAIRN Yahoo! Group
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Bounty-Pitcairn Conference
2012
Co-sponsored by the
Pitcairn Islands Study
Group and the
FRIENDS of PITCAIRN Yahoo! Group
Sunday-Tuesday, August 19-21, 2012
at the
Pitcairn Islands Study Center
in Angwin, California
A note for philatelists: The
American Philatelic Society's annual
StampShow will be
staged
Thursday-Sunday, August 16-19, 2012 in
Sacramento, which is about 80 miles from Angwin.
As of May 11 only 4 Pacific
Union College dormitory rooms with shared shower/toilet were still available
for up to
four nights (in August 19/out August 23) at a cost of $78.00 per night per double or single.
These rooms are now being allocated on a first-come,
first-served basis
to those paying the registration fee.
More dorm room information is available
here.
Accommodation is also available at
higher rates in
St. Helena (8 miles away),
Calistoga (12 miles),
Yountville (17 miles),
Napa (26 miles) and
Santa Rosa,
CA (40 miles).
List of Speakers, with Topics
or Titles of Talks
Commitments to speak have been received from 15
individuals. Three are currently Pitcairn Island residents and one
was raised on Pitcairn. Two are from
Australia, one is from Australia and Norfolk Island, and the remainder are from the U. S. Pitcairn Islanders Jacqui Christian
and Kari Boye Young, Marie Christian Thomas (who was raised on Pitcairn Island) and former Commissioner for the Pitcairn Islands, Leslie Jaques OBE,
will all make presentations.
The following will also speak: Australian
numismatist Ron Edwards; Australian linguistics professor Dr. Peter Muhlhausler;
Australian historian Roger Stuart-Andrews; marine conservation advocate Heather Bradner; philatelist and former Pitcairn
Islands Study Group President Mark Butterline;
Pitcairn Islands Study Center Director Herbert Ford; author Dr. Bob Kirk; author Donald A. Maxton;
history professor Dr. Tillman Nechtman, author and former Pitcairn Log Managing Editor Steve Pendleton; and
maritime, Bounty and Pitcairn collector Tony Probst.
Program:
All events will be
held in the Fireside Room, a building on the Pacific Union College
campus near the Dining Commons and only a short walk from the Nelson Memorial
Library where the Pitcairn Island Study Center is located. The Fireside
Room is marked as number 18 on the
Pacific
Union College online campus map and on the
Pacific Union College larger campus map (PDF).
Sunday, August 19, 2012:
7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Informal
mixer with video presentation and snacks:
"Highlights of Bounty-Pitcairn Conference 2005 in St. Petersburg,
Florida"
(Sign ups open this evening for four
Pitcairn Islands Study Center orientation tours.
These short sessions will take place in the mornings prior to the group presentations
which begin at 10:00 AM.)
Monday, August 20, 2012:
9:00 AM
Pitcairn
Islands Study Center small group
orientation tour 1
(featured event)
9:30 AM
Pitcairn Islands Study Center small group orientation tour 2
(featured event)
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10:00 AM
Introductions
and short welcome talks:
Welcome by
Co-Host
Herbert Ford
on behalf of
Pitcairn Islands Study Center
Introduction of Moderator
Barbara Stein
Welcome by Co-Sponsor Ted Cookson
on behalf of Pitcairn Islands Study Group
&
FRIENDS of PITCAIRN Yahoo! Group
10:15 AM
Kari Boye Young: "How
the isolated Pitcairn Islanders have had to become resourceful
in order to survive"
10:45 AM
Mark Butterline: Topic:
Pitcairn Islands Philately
11:15 AM
Ron Edwards:
Topic: Pitcairn Islands Numismatics
11:30 AM [short break]
11:45 AM
Herbert Ford: "Pitcairn:
Survival by Ship"
12:15 PM
Leslie Jaques OBE: Topic:
A retrospective on seven years (2003-2010) as Commissioner
for the Pitcairn Islands: What was achieved and where we go from here, with insights into the
workings of government during this
difficult period. There are some interesting and surprising
stories to
tell.
12:45 PM
Pitcairn handicrafts market
(featured event) and lunch (optional)
2:15 PM First
Q & A video chat with Pitcairn Island (featured event)
3:15 PM [short break]
3:30 PM
Tillman Nechtman, PhD: "Joshua Hill: The Self-Instituted
King of Pitcairn -
Separating the Truth from the Lies"
4:00 PM
Heather Bradner: Topic:
Prospects for the establishment of a Pitcairn Islands marine reserve
4:30 PM [short break]
4:45 PM Dem Tul Pitcairn
documentary film premiere
(featured event)
5:45 PM End of Monday program.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Time at leisure to explore
Pitcairn Islands Study Center
(optional).
6:00 PM Dinner (optional)
Tuesday. August 21, 2012:
9:00 AM
Pitcairn
Islands Study Center small group orientation tour 3
(featured event)
9:30 AM
Pitcairn Islands Study Center small group orientation tour 4
(featured event)
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10:00 AM
Bob Kirk, PhD:
"Some Highlights of Pitcairn History"
10:30 AM Jacqui
Christian:
"Back to the Future: Jacqui Christian,
who grew up on Pitcairn Island,
returned after 20 years of successfully living overseas to offer her skills and
experience
to contribute to creating Pitcairn's future. This is a story that will
encourage."
11:00 AM Peter
Muhlhausler, PhD: "Ned
Young, creator of the linguistic landscape of Pitcairn Island"
11:30 AM [short break]
11:45 AM
Donald A. Maxton:
"Illustrating the
Bounty/Pitcairn Saga"
12:15 PM Steve
Pendleton:
"The Neighbors - Pitcairn Isn't Alone (Though It Might Seem So):
Stories about Isla
Robinson Crusoe,
Mas Afuera,
Sala y Gomez,
Easter,
Ducie,
Oeno,
Henderson,
Temoe and Mangareva"
12:45 PM Pitcairn handicrafts market (featured event) and lunch (optional)
2:15 PM Second Q & A video chat with Pitcairn Island (featured
event)
3:15 PM [short break]
3:30 PM Roger
Stuart-Andrews:
"The Ultimate Fate of Fletcher Christian:
Did He Return to Cumberland?"
4:00 PM
Tony Probst:
"A Photographic View of Pitcairn's Bounty: The Present (The People
and the Island)"
4:30 PM
Marie Christian Thomas:
"A Photographic View of Pitcairn's Bounty: The Past (Growing Up on Pitcairn Island)"
5:00 PM
Closing remarks by Moderator
Barbara Stein
5:15 PM End of Tuesday program
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Time at leisure to explore
Pitcairn Islands Study Center
(optional).
6:00 PM Dinner (optional)
Conference attendees will have an opportunity to peruse the extensive resources
available at the Pitcairn Islands Study Center (PISC), which contains one of the
world's largest collections of materials relating to the Mutiny on the Bounty,
Captain William Bligh, HMAV Bounty, and both Pitcairn and Norfolk
Islands. Included in the Center's collection are approximately 1,500 books and
numerous journal articles and non-print items. PISC will remain open for
browsing and research until 8:00 PM on both Monday, August 20 and Tuesday,
August 21. On Wednesday, August 22 PISC will be open from 8:00 AM until
4:00 PM.
Planned Feature Events:
* Dem Tul Pitcairn, the much-anticipated documentary film about Pitcairn,
will have its premiere showing on Monday, August 20, 2012.
* Q & A Skype video chats will be held with
Pitcairn
Island
residents on Monday, August 20 and Tuesday, August 21. The video
image will be projected onto a large screen
in Angwin.
* Small group tours of the
Pitcairn
Islands Study Center will be offered.
Sign-ups will be on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at the mixer at 7
PM on
Sunday, August 19.
* A
Pitcairn handicrafts
market with Pitcairner-woven baskets, wood-carved flying fish, Pitcairn & Bounty
T-shirts, Pitcairn stamps, wood-carved models of HMS Bounty, painted
“Hattie” leafs, etc. will be featured on Monday, August 20 and Tuesday, August 21.
*
Several pieces of tapa cloth produced by Pitcairn Islander Meralda Warren will displayed
and offered for sale on Monday, August 20 and Tuesday, August 21. For
details and a photo of the largest piece, click
here.
* New!
A United States Postal Service station operating at
scheduled times on Monday, August 20 and Tuesday, August 21 will feature a
special postmark.
* New!
The Pitcairn Islands Philatelic Bureau is expected to be represented, with
stamp sales at scheduled times on Monday, August 20 and Tuesday, August 21.
* A DVD containing
digital copies of all of the issues of the Pitcairn Island Study Group's
quarterly, The Pitcairn Log, since its
September 1973 inception as well as some of the out-of-print monographs published by the
Pitcairn Islands Study Group (over 3,000 pages in total) will
make its debut.
* New!
A DVD containing
digital copies of all of the issues of the The UK Log, the semi-annual
journal published by the former Pitcairn Islands Study Group-UK (now known as
The Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands Society) since its January 1991 inception will
make its debut. As a bonus, the DVD contains two monographs published by
PISG-UK.
*
Pitcairn Island and the Bounty Saga -
Institutions and Monuments: A Worldwide List of Related Museums,
Libraries, Archives, Churches and Monuments, will make its debut.
(Ted Cookson's new monograph reveals where
Pitcairn- and Bounty-related artifacts may be viewed in the U. S. and around the
world.)
Miscellaneous:
*
Any funds remaining after covering conference expenses will be donated to
the Pitcairn Islands Study Center.
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Pitcairn Islands Study Center and the Pacific Union College campus, click
here.
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various other California locales, click
here.
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Island and the Bounty Saga, click
here.
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here.
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To register for BPC 2012, click here.
For info on the successful Bounty-Pitcairn Conference
2005 in St. Petersburg, FL, click
here.
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enthusiasts, your financial assistance is sought as this conference is being run
on a not-for-profit basis. Click on
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or more will also be included in the official BPC 2012 program. Please
click here for donation details at
the BPC 2012 Donor Hall of Fame. No donation is too small
nor too large. Thank you for your generous support.
Those unable to contact the conference organizers via email at
2012bpc@gmail.com may
correspond with:
Herbert Ford, Director
Pitcairn Islands Study Center
1 Angwin Avenue
Angwin, CA 94508-9713
Tels.: 1-707-965-6625
1-707-965-2047
Fax: 1-707-965-6504
www.pitcairnstudycenter.org
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