Event Details

Archaeology Lab Volunteer Day

Time: 11:00 am til 4:00 pm

Location: FPAN Coordinating Center, 207 East Main Street, Pensacola, FL 32591

Description: The FPAN Archaeology Lab is open to volunteers throughout the year. Volunteers help rough sort artifacts recovered from local archaeological sites. No experience is needed, but all volunteers are given a brief orientation.

Volunteer days are perfect for students needing volunteer hours for scholarships, individuals and groups interested in history and archaeology, as well as those wanting to get their hands dirty!

All ages are encouraged to participate; however, anyone under 16 years of age must be accompanied by an adult. Individuals, families, and groups as large as 12 can be accommodated.

Please contact Irina Sorset, isorset@uwf.edu or (850) 595-0050 Ext 103, to volunteer and arrange a day and time. Volunteers are not required to commit to more than one day at a time.

FPAN is hosting this event.

Civil War Sesquicentennial Speaker Series

Time: 1:00 pm til 2:00 pm

Location: 139 Miracle Strip Pkwy SE, Ft. Walton Beach, FL

Description: March 4th: Dale Cox, "Asboth’s 1864 Northwest Florida Raid"

The City of Fort Walton Beach Heritage Park & Cultural Center will host a free public speaker series in honor of the upcoming 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. The Civil War was the deadliest conflict the United States has ever waged in terms of American lives lost. It remains one of the most important historical events in the history of the United States and changed the country forever.
This program is titled “Civil War Sesquicentennial Speaker Series” and consists of local historians and archaeologists who will give talks on different Civil War topics beginning in January 2011 and running through the summer. Lectures will be held at different times and days throughout the Spring of 2011 inside the Indian Temple Mound Museum Lazarus Education Center.

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FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.

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Public Lecture: Shipwrecks of Northwest Florida

Time: 6:00 pm til 7:00 pm

Location: Bay County Public Library, 898 West 11th St. Panama City, FL 32401

Description: In celebration of Florida Archaeology Month!

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FPAN is co-hosting this event.

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