Get to Know the Athens Society in Georgia
The Athens Society in Athens, GA is small but mighty! During the pandemic, they’ve partnered with the Washington D.C. Society to share virtual lectures put on through the National Lecture Program. Athens Society members and University of Georgia students (where the Society is based) have benefited from this collaboration. Society President Prof. Ervan Garrison offers his students extra credit if they attend the lectures and he commented that he was impressed at the depth with which the students examine the lectures.
The members of the Athens Society all have fascinating stories to share and today we’d like to spotlight Lindsey Thomas. Lindsey is a nautical archaeologist and writer (using the name Linsey Hall). She received her B.A. from the University of Georgia and her M.A. in nautical archaeology from Texas A&M University. She excavated a Gold Rush era steamboat at the Yukon River Survey Project. You can read more on that here in an
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