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Jan Wyatt Symposium
Issue: July - 2022
Cashiers Historical Society’s Jan Wyatt Symposium presentation of Ancient Rocks and the Modern Plateau – set for July 20 at The Country Club of Sapphire Valley –is a deep dive into the Deep Time of this far end of the Southern Appalachians.
Whether you’re a born-here native or someone who spends a couple of hurried weekends on the Plateau every year, you’re bound to be aware of the undeniable truth that these mountains are old, really old. Their peaks are rounded and they’ve been con-toured into deep hollows and folds, especially when compared to their younger cousins, the Rockies.Cashiers Historical Society is going to spotlight these geological marvels with its July 20 Jan Wyatt Symposium presentation entitledAncient Rocks and the Modern Plateau: How a Billion Years of Geology Shaped Our Landscape, Ecology and Human History.Featured speakers are Bill Jacobs and Dr. Gary Wein.Mr. Jacobs is a retired lawyer and geology enthusiast.He is the author of Whence These Special Places? The Geology of Cashiers, Highlands & Panthertown Valley.Mr. Jacobs’s presentation will be The Geologic Processes that have Created the Plateau and Shaped its Mountains and Waterfalls.Dr. Wein is the Executive Director of the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust.He has a PhD in Botany, is a professor and a conservationist.Dr. Wein’s presentation is A Sense of Place:An Ecological History of the Plateau.This year’s symposium, sponsored by Silver Creek Real Estate Group, is chaired by Bob Carroll and will be at The Country Club of Sapphire Valley on July 20 from 10:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. Lunch will be served at noon.Tickets are $75 and may be purchased online atCashiersHistoricalSociety.org.Cashiers Historical Society is a 501(c)(3) organization.
