Special Programs

Feed The Mosasaur

An annual fundraising dinner celebrating food and cooking. Proceeds benefit the programs and exhibits of the Georgia Southern Museum. Please visit our Feed the Mosasaur site annually in February or March for complete details. If you missed us March 6, 2009, click here for pictures. Save the date, Friday, March 5, 2010, for our next Feed the Mosasaur Cuisine Cum Laude so you don't miss out on the fun!

Concert by The Eighth Regiment Band:
Sunday, November 15, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
Georgia Southern University, Performing Arts Center

Come experience the music from both sides of the Civil War conflict, as this band performs a program intended to be “a museum of 19th-century American emotions...
so you can feel what the men and women of the Civil War period felt,” states a member of the band. The Eighth Regiment Band uses all original instruments from the period.

Click here to DOWNLOAD an informational Postcard about the concert.

Learn more about this unique band by visiting their website at www.eigthregimentband.com.

For a sample of their music, come visit the“Portraits in Gray: A Civil War Photography Exhibit,” currently on display at the Museum, and hear their music take you back to these turbulent times as you take in the the gallery.

Concert Tickets:
$10.00/adult
$8.00/Museum member
$5.00/student or child

Tickets available from the Performing Arts Center Box Office: Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 912-478-7999

After the show, visit the complementary exhibit:
"Portraits in Gray: A Civil War Photography Exhibit."

The Museum will stay open until 6:00 p.m. this day so visitors may enjoy and peruse these excellent portraits that help link us to the past! LIght refreshments will be available.

Missed the lecture?? No worries, as you can click here to download an MP4 Podcast of Mr. Vaughan's presentation, "Confederate Faces in Color," approximately 1hour & 20 minutes.

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Exhibit Lecture & Reception: David Wynn Vaughan
Thursday, September 10, 2009, 7:00 p.m.,
Georgia Southern University,
Biology Building Lecture Hall Room 1119

Join us for “Confederate Faces in Color,” a presentation by the“Portraits in Gray: A Civil War Photography Exhibit” collector, David Wynn Vaughan.

Reception immediately following at the Museum where visitors can tour the exhibit, talk with Mr. Vaughan, and have him help identify any period Confederate and/or 19-century images and give conservation tips to help preserve your family photos.

David Wynn Vaughan, a native Atlantan, began seriously collecting Confederate images over 20 years ago and has amassed the largest and most significant collection of Georgia-related Confederate images in the nation. The crown jewel of his efforts is to amass the eight of twelve known rare Georgia Military Institute cadet images. David's collection also holds a broad spectrum of important pieces relating to the wider conflict which documents the photographic history of the period.

Seventy images from his private collection are featured publicly for the first time in the traveling exhibit“Portraits in Gray: A Civil War Photography Exhibit” now on display at the Georgia Southern Museum.

David once said, "Images...represent a time capsule, a link to the past. To hold an image and look into the soldier's eyes, just as he was the day it was taken, always gives me goose bumps." This exhibition offers the same experience for the visitor. They are a true link to the past.

David's presentation will feature selected period images from his collection which were beautifully hand colorized and tinted moments after they were taken. Additionally, he will discuss 19th-century photography, the coloring processes, Confederate uniforms and insignia, and elaborate on soldier's personal stories.

David requests that you bring any period Confederate and/or 19th-century images and he has agreed to help identify and give conservation tips to help preserve your family photos.

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