{"id":410,"date":"2012-10-30T17:45:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T17:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nashcc.edu\/news\/?p=410"},"modified":"2012-11-02T12:28:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T12:28:35","slug":"ncc-professor-presents-at-community-college-humanities-association-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2012\/10\/ncc-professor-presents-at-community-college-humanities-association-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"NCC Professor Holds Special Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After her proposal was selected from competitive entries throughout the Southeast, Nash Community College\u00a0Humanities Professor Dr. Mary Wayne Watson of Knightdale presented her talk, \u201cWomen\u2019s Attitudes towards Secession and the Civil War,\u201d\u00a0at the regional conference of the Community College Humanities Association (CCHA)\u00a0 in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 19, 2012.\u00a0 She will give the full presentation at a special event on November 20, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. in NCC Science and Technology Building Room 7104, where her student, the late Caitlin “Caitie” Elizabeth Davis, will be honored.\u00a0The public is invited to attend. \u201cWhen I found a series of\u00a0eloquent, moving letters written by my great-grandmother and her sisters in what is now Scotland County to a family in Moore County, NC, during the Civil War, I felt compelled to research this matter further.\u00a0I am pleased that the conference selection committee chose my proposal for presentation at this conference,\u201d Dr. Watson said.\u00a0\u201cIn what may be an even more important event to me,\u201d Watson continued, \u201cI will present the full version of the talk to my Honors English classes in November.\u00a0Had Caitie lived, no doubt she would have been in Honors English, and I hope she would have been in every other class that I taught.\u00a0Her work ethic was beyond reproach, and she was a talented writer.\u00a0 She had a strong intellect, and she reasoned at a very high level.\u00a0 Like the women whom I will quote in my talk, she was uncompromising and unabashed in her quest for fairness and justice. Caitie sought the good in people and in the world. I am honored to have taught her in two classes at Nash Community College.\u00a0Although she lived only a short time, she accomplished much, and she will not be forgotten.\u201d\u00a0 A special guest at this event will be Caitie\u2019s father, Glenn Davis.<\/p>\n

Dr. Watson is a Road Scholar with the North Carolina Humanities Council, and after giving the talk in Caitie\u2019s honor, she will present it throughout the state under the auspices of the Council and Nash Community College.\u00a0It is particularly appropriate that this talk be given at this time since it is the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War.\u00a0Dr. Watson resides in Knightdale.<\/p>\n

Abstract of Talk<\/em><\/p>\n

Original, unpublished documents and correspondence from gifted\u00a0women provide fascinating perspectives of the beginning, middle, and end of the Civil War period in North Carolina.\u00a0An initially uplifting, idealistic support of the Union as a great experiment in democracy and self-rule ultimately fades into prayers for return of the surviving men as well as hopes for peace, followed by ultimate acceptance of the bitter realities of war on a land and a people crushed in the aftermath.\u00a0 Poignant descriptions of the impact of Sherman\u2019s \u201cscorched earth policy\u201d on a once proud and surprisingly literary\u00a0community remind us once again that war is hell, even when it is brother against– sister.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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