8:00 am     Registration

8:30 am     Welcome and Introduction

                   William Stark, Director, LSU Rural Life Museum

                   Dr. Trenton James

9:00 am     Louisiana's German Coast: A Tricentennial 

Jay M. Schexnaydre, President, German-Acadian Coast Historical & Genealogical Society 

10:00 am  Break

10:15 am  The Establishment and Settlement of the German Coast

Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., CEO and Executive Director of the Jefferson Council on Aging, Inc.

11:15 am   German Influence on Louisiana Foodways

                  Jennie Merrill, Director of Education, Southern Food and Beverage Museum

12:15 pm     Lunch

1:15 pm      From the Bottom of the European Feudal System to the Master of the House in Two Generations:

The German Coast Families of Evergreen Plantation

                     Jane Boddie, Director of Evergreen Plantation

2:30 pm     "Meet the Speakers“ Reception