The Center for Public History is conducting research and oral histories connected with the Georgia tour of Key Ingredients, a Smithsonian exhibit on American food culture, sponsored by the Georgia Humanities Council. Graduate research assistant Kristi Hartmann and Ann McCleary will be researching and writing a catalog on Georgia foodways to accompany the exhibit, and Kristi is preparing materials for the Key Ingredients website, including a bibliography, list of restaurants and food festivals, and other materials for the website.

Katie Hicks is coordinating our Southern Baking Traditions program. This year, she and project director Ann McCleary are working on a catalog for the exhibit, which we hope to complete by the end of the year.

Sue Verhoeff is developing the traveling trunks on World War II and the Cold War for the Georgia Humanities Council grant, directed by Joe Anderson.

Several students are helping in the Center's on-going documentation of textile mills and apparel companies in Carroll and the surrounding counties. In the fall 2007 semester, undergraduate research assistants Lauren Miller and William Nesbitt are developing an educational website to accompany the exhibit. Graduate research assistants Catherine Hendricks and Ashley Judy, along with Lauren Miller, will be archiving the Center's new collection from Printed Fabrics, a Carrollton Company.

Lindsay Gustafson is helping the City of Bremen develop a new museum focusing on its railroad and apparel industry history.

Catherine Hendricks is organizing the Center's archives in the fall 2007 semester, focusing on the Powder Springs oral history project and the textile and apparel company history project.

Graduate research assistant Carla Ledgerwood and Joe Anderson have initiated a new project to document rural farmbuildings in Carroll County, assisted this fall by undergraduate intern Nicole Forleades.

Undergraduate intern Jerome Danner and Sue Verhoeff are helping to promote the Regional Music Project and to market our newest CD, Everyone's Tuned to the Radio Volume 2. Jerome is also researching the African American shape note tradition in the west Georgia region.

Sheila Milton is the first Joseph Johnson Fellow for the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. She spents some of her time in Macon, but other days working on projects for the Museum at the Center.