MURFREESBORO — You can learn more
about a new limited-edition book, "Plowshares and Swords: Tennessee Farm
Families Tell Civil War Stories," published by MTSU's Center for Historic
Preservation, direct from one of the authors.
Caneta S. Hankins, who coauthored “Plowshares and Swords” with her
late CHP colleague Michael Thomas Gavin, spoke about the project recently at the Heritage
Center of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County. MTSU’s Mike Browning
captured a portion of her talk in a video available now at http://youtu.be/XLF3hHitJaY.
Hankins
and Gavin cover the entire state in the new hardcover volume, using the lives
of individual farm families to tell about war, the homefront, military occupation
and emancipation.
"Plowshares and Swords,” which is being released as part of
the Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial commemorations, includes more than 100
images of Tennessee farms and farm families, many of which have never been
published before.
Hankins
directed the Tennessee Century Farms program from 2002 to 2013 and recently
retired as the assistant director of the Center for Historic
Preservation
after a career of more than 35 years. Gavin, who passed away earlier this year,
was the preservation specialist for the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage
Area from 2002 to 2013. Hankins and Gavin also collaborated on “Barns of Tennessee,”
published in 2008.
“Plowshares and Swords” costs $55, shipping included, and can be ordered with a check or money
order made payable to the Center for Historic Preservation, Attention: Civil
War Book, P.O. Box 80, MTSU, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 37132. All
proceeds from the sale of the book will go to the MTSU Foundation to support
the work of the Center for Historic Preservation across Tennessee.
You can read a more complete story about the new book at http://mtsunews.com/new-historic-preservation-book-farm-families.
For more information, please contact the Center for
Historic Preservation at 615-898-2947 or email histpres@mtsu.edu.
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