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Film Supports SHAF
Support quality history-based filmmaking and Antietam at the same time! The well-received short film “Hold My Horse”, based on the life of Gen. Israel Richardson, is a perfect diversion for current times! It represents good history, a good story, and good material culture all at once. The film has garnered glowing reviews from both Civil War News and Military Images magazines. It depicts an
SHAF presented with award by the American Battlefield Trust
“The Trust presented its Brian C. Pohanka Preservation Organization Award to the Save Historic Antietam Foundation (SHAF), a nonprofit group established in 1996 to preserve more of the Antietam battlefield’s landscape in a fast-growing part of the Washington metropolitan area. SHAF has conserved more than 3,000 battlefield acres in the Sharpsburg, Md., area, restored historic sites, and helped reforest the
SHAF Wins Preservation Award!!
Preservation Maryland will be presenting their 30th annual awards on Thursday May 21 in a ceremony in Baltimore. This year SHAF will be receiving their Volunteerism Award in recognition of our 30 years of volunteer service preserving historic sites in the Antietam Valley. Obviously everyone who is a member of SHAF has made this award possible, and the Board of
2013 Harsh Award Results
Our 2013 Joseph L. Harsh Award winner, Jamesina Thatcher, created a detailed study of the maps accompanying Gen. Ezra Carman’s maps of the battle of Antietam. Below are links to the narrative of her work, the illustrations or slides, and the GPS figures to locate each site she mentions. We are pleased to offer these to our members and guest
SBPA Potomac River Crossing 2010
To honor the 148th Anniversary of the Battle of Shepherdstown, the Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association (SBPA) has scheduled a Battlefield Tour including a wading of the Potomac River. The tour is set, rain or shine, for Saturday, September 18, 2010. Dr. Tom Clemens and Tom McGrath will be the guides. Two tours are scheduled; one to begin at 2:30PM followed
Tour Phase I of the Maryland Campaign of 1862
On Saturday, July 31, 2010, the Save Historic Antietam Foundation (SHAF) will sponsor a tour of “Phase I” of the Maryland Campaign of September, 1862. The tour will be led by SHAF board members Dennis Frye, National Park Service Chief Historian at Harper’s Ferry, and Dr. Thomas Clemens, editor of Ezra Carman’s “The Maryland Campaign of September, 1862, Volume I:
John Brown Sesquicentennial at Harpers Ferry October 16th
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park and the 150th Quad-State Committee, from West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland, are planning and coordinating a range of commemoration events … dramatic productions, exhibits, academic lectures, special tours and much more. SHAF members are encouraged especially to act as volunteers to assist visitors gathering for and attending the “Proceed to the Ferry” event at and near
President’s message – July ’09
(from the July 2009 SHAF Newsletter) I am happy to tell you about some exciting changes at Antietam National Battlefield. The wayside exhibits at the various tour stops in the park have been updated. After much careful research and discussion, new plaques had been placed which aid greatly in enhancing the visitor’s experience. By and large they include a visual
Battlefield Work Day, November First, 2008
Please join SHAF members and other volunteers for the Work Day at Antietam National Battlefield (ANB) Park on Saturday, November 1, 2008. We’ll be doing battlefield scene restoration work. Piper Barn, 1989 (J.E. Boucher, LoC/HABS) We will be working on the trail SHAF helped fund through the middle of the field. Specifically, we will be clearing a portion of the Piper Lane.
