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Winter 1999 Center in Park Tom Hahn Donates C&O Canal Books to Association Photography Workshop New Publications Set for February 27 Due This Spring Published for the Members and Friends IN THIS ISSUE: of the Harpers Ferry Association to Historical Association Open Research Winter 1999 Center in Park Tom Hahn Donates C&O Canal Books to Association Photography Workshop New Publications Set for February 27 Due this Spring n February 27, the Association will One gentleman who has partici- sponsor a Photography Workshop pated in Jim’s workshop along with ofeaturing nature photographer and author, members of his camera club states, Jim Clark. Jim recently visited the Park to “Thank you for the best short course on promote his new book West Virginia: The photography that I’ve attended in more Allegheny Highlands. Visitors and staff were than 40 years of pursuing photography most favorably impressed with his musical/ as a hobby and quasi professionally. slide presentation, A Natural Celebration, Your pictures, discussions and slide which has been enjoyed by audiences programs were excellent and inspiring. I throughout the nation. We are delighted to especially enjoyed your in-depth expla- find that Jim offers day-long photography nations of how you metered specific workshops, so we have invited him back so scenes and how you determined what that others may be instilled with his enthu- adjustments you made and why you siasm and inspired by his work. made those adjustments.” Nature’s View: Tips for capturing out- This will be a day filled with fun standing images of nature, is a one day work- and information with the workshop begin- Nature photographer and shop that provides participants at the begin- ning at 8:00 a.m. and closing about 5:00 author Jim Clark will present ning and intermediate skill levels with p.m. with a break for lunch. The fee for the the Association's one-day approaches for capturing nature images that workshop is $25.00 per person. A maximum Photography Workshop on exemplify the “essence of the moment.” of 20 people will be registered, so call us February 27. Photo courtesy The workshop emphasizes practical applica- soon at 1-800-821-5206 (or phone 535- Westcliffe Publishers. tions and techniques. Methods of instruc- 6881 if you live in Jefferson County). The tion include classroom instruction, slide session will be held in the Park and direc- presentations, video, camera and equipment tions will be provided when you register. demonstrations, and question and answer Jim currently works for the U. S. Fish sessions. It establishes a foundation for and Wildlife Service, serving as Chief of the understanding the basic techniques of na- Branch of Wildlife Training for the Na- ture photography, the importance of devel- tional Conservation Training Center oping a personal style in photography, and (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. the use of compositional guidelines for His wildlife career has taken him from The picture which appears creating exceptional images. Other topics Alaska to Texas and New Mexico, and back on our newsletter’s nameplate, include the basics of wildlife, landscape, to the East. He has also been a freelance dating from 1803, is one of the wildflower and close-up photography, tips nature photographer, writer and workshop oldest prints of Harpers Ferry. Twenty years earlier, in 1783, for selecting equipment, editing your im- instructor for the past 23 years. His images Thomas Jefferson had declared ages, and ethics. This is a classroom setting have appeared in books, calendars, catalogs, that this view was “worth a with no field trips or photo-shoots. Partici- and advertisements. Jim’s articles and im- voyage across the Atlantic.” pants may want to bring a camera and lens ages have been published in magazines such to practice some of the techniques to be as Outdoor Photographer, Birder’s World, discussed. Continued on Page 2 1 Recent Donations Bicycling Education Association Nan Carolyn Howard Enslow Publishers Americal Division – Veterans Association Old Line Field Music Capt. Thomas Hahn John Brown's Bible is once again on display in the John Brown Museum in Lower Town Harpers Ferry. The Bible was temporarily removed from the Lower Town following the record Floods of 1996, pending installation of a new flood-safe display case. National Park Service photo. Association to Open The Association welcomes donations of appropriate material to add to the Research Research Center Center, as well as volunteers to assist visi- The park maintenance staff has begun reno- tors in using the resources. Please call the vations to a former storage area adjacent to Association at 304-535-6881 for more infor- HARPERS FERRY the Bookshop in preparation for installation mation. National Historical Park of computer stations and a small research on the library by the Association. This area will be Photography Workshop WORLD WIDE WEB: available to the public in early Spring, and continued from Page 1 www.nps.gov/hafe/home.htm will be open during regular Bookshop hours. Visitors, students, and scholars will be able WildBird, Nature Photographer, Petersen’s to access a database of historic photographs; Photographic, Nature Photographer, Outdoor Explorer (the Jefferson County module of Traveler, Nature Conservancy, Horizons, the West Virginia history database); a vari- Country, and Outdoor & Nature Photo- ety of Civil War records; genealogical refer- graphy. A charter member of the North ences; cemetery records; and research re- American Nature Photography Association, ports. We anticipate that this area will assist he serves as a member of its Youth Educa- in meeting the needs of the many queries tion Committee. A native of West Virginia, which the park receives for access to re- Jim now resides in Leesburg, Virginia, with search materials. his wife Jamie, photo-dog Bailey, and photo- This space will also be used as a gallery cat Nikon. for the exhibition of works created by the Please mark February 27 on your calen- Artist-in-Residence program, and for recep- dar and call us to reserve your space for this 2 tions showcasing the artwork of current exciting and informative day. visiting artists. Artist-in-Residence Program a Resounding Success The 1998 Artist-in-Residence program Duluth, Minnesota, contrib- recently came to an end and the new 1999 uted a two-part oil painting program began on January 1. We reflect on B&O Bridge, Maryland Heights the success of the old year’s program while and the Point. Jane Ingram looking forward to a new and rewarding Allen, a sculptor and paper- experience for the park community and its maker from Hamilton, New visitors. York, donated the map sculp- In 1998, this program brought six prac- ture called Harpers Ferry. Rod ticing artists to the Park to live and work for T. Smith, a poet/writer, will one month each. The Park proved to be a publish a booklet of poems he great inspiration for these artists. Local produced during his tenure, community and area schools, as well as our including John Brown’s Sharps visitors, were able to participate in work- (see below). Marie Postle shops in creative writing, printmaking, Stewart, a painter from Louisa, papermaking, painting, and photography. Virginia, donated an oil paint- Association-sponsored Elderhostel groups, ing entitled Pulp Factory Ruins. for example, joined Jane Allen for spirited Dohrn Zachai, a painter from papermaking sessions. Visitors and park staff Oxford, Maryland, gave three expanded their visual knowledge of the works to the park: a pastel 1860 park’s environs, and each artist donated to Election Day Lunch, a water- Artist-in-Residence Jane the park a piece of their work that was color entitled The Gap, and a charcoal Allen instructs Elderhostel created during their stay. drawing named Railroad Tunnel. participants in the art of Tony Sweet, a photographer from Balti- These wonderful and diverse works will papermaking. Photo by Sue more, gave a color photograph titled Past be on display in the Association Research Baker. Reflections. Patricia Canelake, a painter from Center upon its completion this Spring. John Brown’s Sharps for Luke Quinn White gloved as any honor guard from mortal oils, I test the heft or riverboat minstrel, and balance, rehearse port arms I lift the heavy weapon and shoulder, but will not aim from the vault until light or snap it. Even in this cellar, can gloss the barrel and walnut stock. I’m sweating to feel the owner’s The Harpers Ferry So this is the lethal artifact, energy and zeal in the trigger’s Historical Association one of “Beecher’s Bibles,” a slant new moon. Wood and iron, sponsors two Elderhostel breech Sharps sent how easy to be death’s animal, programs annually in to Bleeding Kansas, the wrested to yield to temptation, the smolder September. For infor- at the Harpers Ferry Armory of a righteous anger. mation on all Elderhostel from the flint-eyed martyr. I need to prop it back in shadow, programs, please call Wound in a sheet and kept before it has to speak, before Elderhostel toll-free at 1-877-426-8056 or visit in a summer cabin’s dark, I mistake fireflies by the bridged their Website at its action is still crisp, as if river for carbines discharging, www.elderhostel.org awaiting a new arising, brass before my dream of ploughshares fittings and blueing intact. is over and I start hoping The hammer is sleek as a cock for targets and share that old urge heron’s crest. So long asleep, to sight down the barrel it is starved for a spark. with a divining eye’s gray ice. Ghost-handed to protect the steel – R. T. Smith 3 collection. The oil painting, which is cur- rently undergoing conservation treatment, dates from the 1790s and is the only known image of a close Robert Harper relative.
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