OKTOBERFEST 2010 – October 8 & 9, 2010
First Baptist Church Family Life Center
2855 Columbia Road
Orangeburg, South Carolina
Our 2010 Octoberfest will be held October 8 and 9 at the First Baptist Church Family Life Center in Orangeburg. Family discussion tables will be set up on Friday afternoon from 3:00 pm until 6:30 pm.
Our dinner speaker on Friday night will be Mr. Risher Fairey. Mr. Fairey is a native of Rock Hill, SC. He is a graduate of Wofford College and received his Masters Degree in History from Winthrop College. He has done post graduate study at USC in Public History. A respected historian and researcher, he is presently Adjunct Professor of Humanities at Midlands Technical College, Columbia, SC and has been for the last ten years; a former Director of the Camden Archives and also Berkley County Historical Museum; served as publisher and co-owner of Southern Queries Magazine; and immediate past president and past historian of the Fairey Family Reunion. He is a descendant of Phillip Washington Fairey son of Jesse William Fairey and Mary Ann Syfrett of Branchville, SC. His topic for the evening will be “South Carolina: A Diverse Colonial Heritage: How Genealogists and Historians must view their work in context.”
Programs will begin at 8:30 AM on Saturday morning. During the morning Lynn Teague will update us on the Orangeburg DNA Project. She will also report on the First Families Project. Margaret Waters, Professional Genealogist and author, will also give a presentation. All OGSGS publications will be available for sale. Other vendors of genealogical publications will attend, including Brent Holcomb. A copier will also be available for general use.
At lunch Jonathan M. Leader, head of the Office of State Archeologist will speak about his subsurface interface survey of the Pioneer Cemetery. During the afternoon, he will lead a tour of the cemetery and a discussion of his work there. (tour is tentative)
Again during the afternoon family discussion tables will be set up for attendees to share information on their families.
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