The A NewsletterTraveller of the Bartram Trail Conference Fall, 2013 The Bartram Trail Exhibit features maps of ConferenceOctober 11–13, 2013 Bartram’s Florida The Mountain, Scaly Mountain, North Carolina he Tampa Bay History Center (http://www.tampabayhistorycen- ter.org)“T in Tampa, Florida is opening a he Bartram Trail Conference will be ing tour into the “Vale of Cowee,” ending major exhibition of Florida maps on Sep- holding its biennial conference along our trip at the Cowee Mound along the tember 20, 2013. Entitled Charting the theT Bartram Trail in North Carolina. This Little Tennessee River. On Sunday we Land of Flowers: 500 Years of Florida Maps, fall we will meet at The Mountain Retreat will finish our gathering on the foot trail the exhibition is celebrating the 500th and Learning Center—just west of High- with a hike. Anniversary of Ponce de Leon claiming lands, NC. The Mountain is perched on A schedule of events and instructions Florida for Spain. Among the 150 maps, Little Scaly Mountain on the Blue Ridge for registration are found on page 2. books, globes and a powder horn telling at 4,200 feet, with outstanding views of Looking forward to seeing you in North the story of the 500 years of Florida’s ex- the Blue Valley below. Two miles to the Carolina! ploration, settlement and growth is the west is the Bartram Trail, extending to the 1792 English edition of William Bar- south into Georgia and to the north over Conference Registration tram’s Travels through North and South Scaly Mountain. We will hike a short seg- Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, ment of the trail on Sunday morning. The 1. There are two options for participants: the Cherokee Country…(etc) and A Map of conference will start on Friday evening Full Registration the Coast of East Florida, from the River St. with a display of traditional 18th Century 2 nights lodging, 6 meals and the full pro- John, Southward, to near Cape Canaveral Crafts: gram which is included in Bartram’s book. Wil- 1. Rivercane Basket making—Ramo- The fee for full registration is $225 (dou- liam Stork’s A Description of East Florida na Lossie ble occupancy fee per person for two with a Journal kept by John Bartram is also 2. Stamped Pottery—Mary Thompson sharing a room). This fee includes lodging on display. This is the most important ex- hibition of Florida maps and books which 3. Moccasin making and blowgun (double occupancy), all meals and events. has ever been mounted. It will close on demonstration—Sonny Ledford Given the limited number of rooms at The Mountain, we are encouraging as February 15, 2014.” On Saturday morning we will have an ex- many registrants as possible to sign up citing program that will feature: for double occupancy—that is having a Officers and members of the board 1. “A Cherokee Looks at William roommate. If that will not work, we can President: Chuck Spornick, Decatur, Georgia Bartram”—presentation by Tom Vice President: Dorinda Dallmeyer, make on a request basis a single occupan- Athens, Georgia Belt cy room available for $295. Please note Secretary: Anna Martin, Alabama 2. Botany Panel lead by Dan Pittillo that fees listed here do not include North Treasurer & Membership Chair: Carolina sales tax. Anne Weeks Hurst, Athens, Georgia 3. “Cherokee Trails and Trading Please hurry up and register! Given the Newsletter Editor: Mark Jolley, Macon, Paths”—presentation by Lamar popularity of The Mountain as a fall re- Georgia Marshall Web Master & Newsletter Publisher: sort we are encouraging you to register Brad Sanders, Athens, Georgia 4. “The Cowee Townsite and Chero- as soon as possible. We are likely to lose Historical Marker Coordinator: kee History”—presentation by Ty- any rooms that we do not reserve by the T.R., Henderson, Headland, Alabama ler Howe middle of August. Board: Kathryn Braund (Alabama), John Hall (Alabama), Thomas Hallock (Florida) On Saturday afternoon we will take a driv- continued on page 2 1 continued from page 1 Partial or “Day” Registration FridayBartram Trail Conference Schedule Participants can register for specific days: Friday evening session (including dinner) 4:00–6:00 . Check-in and Late Registration is $40. Registration fee: $225 for double occupancy Saturday session (including 2 meals) is 5:30 . Reception $70 6:30 . Dinner Sunday session (including lunch) is $40 7:30 . Welcome to The Mountain—Chuck If you have any questions about the con- 7:45 . Demonstration of traditional Eighteenth Century Crafts: ference and/or registration please contact Ramona Lossie, rivercane basket making Chuck Spornick at [email protected] Mary Thompson, stamped pottery 2. Registration instructions. The Moun- Sonny Ledford, moccasin making and blowgun demonstration tain will be managing all of our registra- Saturday tions for this year’s conference. Just follow 9:00.........Open the meeting the link below to the registration. You will 9:15.........“A Cherokee Looks at William Bartram” need to set up an account, so select the Tom Belt, Elder-in Residence, Cherokee Language Instructor at West- Create a user name button on the lower ern Carolina University left. After setting up your account, log in. From the login screen select the button on 10:00........Botany Panel: “The Botany of the Cherokee Mountains, Then and Now” the bottom right Add program.” Dan Pittillo, Ed Schwartzman, Jack Johnston You will be prompted: Do you have a 11:00........Break Group Registration ID provided by your 11:15–12:00 . .“Cherokee Trails and Trading Paths”—Lamar Marshall Group Leader? Answer no, and then select the Proceed Lunch button below, which will take you to the 1:15.........“The Cowee Townsite and Cherokee History” Programs page. Tyler Howe, Tribal Historic Preservation Specialist, Eastern Band of On the Programs page, scroll down Cherokee Indians until you find: 2013 Bartram Trail: 2:00.........Following Billy into the Vale of Cowee 10/11/2013–10/13/2013 Leave The Mountain by van for a driving tour down river to Nikwasi, Immediately below select: Bartram Watauga, and Cowee, with the customary “repast” at Cowee—Cowee trail (teen/adult) for $225 and then select Mound, north of Franklin, NC on SR 28. the Next button below. On this page, you can purchase a Con- 6:00 . Return to the Mountain ference T-shirt and pay your dues. This is 7:00 . Dinner a great opportunity to renew your dues for Sunday the BTC! Select the “Next” button below and then you will need to provide infor- 9:00--1:00....Hike on The North Carolina Bartram Trail to Scaly Mountain mation on arrival and departure, lodging, Lunch and Tour of the Bartram Botanical Trail at the Highlands Bio- and whom you will room with. You can logical Station review all your selections, and then pro- ceed to Checkout for online payment. Note: if you are registering more than one person you will need to click the Add Par- ticipant button for each additional person and you will need to go through the same process as you did for the initial registrant, including adding a program for each new participant. The registration software does not automatically register each participant for the 2013 Bartram Trail Conference. For technical assistance with your online registration call 866-433-4548 For more information visit our website or contact our office at 828–526–5838 Angela Fay Martin, Brent Martin, and Debbie Boots inspecting Cowee Mound 2 The First Retail Sales of William Bartram’s Travels in Philadelphia and the Mystery of the Eight Extra Plates By Joel Fry duction to Harper’s “Naturalist Edition” The first subscription prospectus for of Travels in 1958. But Harper remained William Bartram’s Travels was announced arlier this year Nancy Hoffmann, unsure about when Travels was published by the Philadelphia printer Enoch Story, Bill Cahill, Jim Green of the Li- in Philadelphia—“sometime after August Jr. in 1786, and the proposed octavo book braryE Company of Philadelphia, and I 26, 1791” or how many copies might have was to be priced “One Dollar in blue had some back and forth discussion via been printed—“It would be surprising if boards” with three shilling and nine pence e-mail about the publication of William more than a thousand copies of the 1791 paid on subscribing. All the subscrip- Bartram’s Travels in Philadelphia in 1791. edition were ever sold.” The copyright tion locations Story listed in his proposal This led Jim to search through digital notice at the front of the Philadelphia were Philadelphia booksellers. Little is versions of a number of historic Phila- edition of Travels, records the book (or known why this first effort failed. About delphia newspapers, and he discovered maybe only the title) was registered in the all that is known is Story wrote Benjamin what seems to be the first advertisement District of Pennsylvania “on the twenty- Franklin in 1786 to enlist his support for offering Bartram’s book for retail sale. sixth day of August, in the sixteenth year the subscription, and by the end of 1787 The Philadelphia printer and bookseller of the Independence of the United States something had gone wrong, possibly fi- Thomas Dobson announced Travels for of America”—which is August 26, 1791. nancial, or possibly but not certainly a sale January 4, 1792 in the newspaper The The discovery of this January 4, 1792 result of interference by young Benjamin Mail or Claypoole’s Daily Advertiser: ad brings to light when the general pub- Smith Barton. lic could first buy copies of the new book. In 1790 a new printing partnership Just Published Sold by Thomas Subscribers may have got their pre-paid of James & Johnson in Philadelphia Dobson, BARTRAM’s TRAV- copies slightly before this date, at the end launched a new subscription effort.