Date: July 16, 2014 Time: 12:00 AM Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Strother Conference - 2014

The Strother Conference 2014 was held in Atlanta, Georgia, and the host hotel was the Atlanta Marriott, Perimeter Center.   Members and their families enjoyed a series of activities in and around Atlanta that included, in addition to the Board and Business Meetings:

• a tour of the Atlanta History Center, including the Tully Smith Home and the Swan House.  At the Kenan Research Center in the Atlanta History Center, members were able to view documents from the Strother Collection.  The Society also presented a check for $50,000 to the Atlanta History Center for four microfilm scanners to aid in digitizing the Strother Collection.
• dinner at Maggiano's included a presentation by Sue VerHoef from the Atlanta History Center on migration patterns out of Virginia.
• a visit to Oakland Cemetery, which contains graves of Strother descendants and local Atlanta celebrities Margaret Mitchell and golfer Bobby Jones.
• at the Business Meeting on Saturday, Bill Garner and Andrew Barry from the George Washington Foundation made a presentation on the progress and plans for the development of Ferry Farm, once owned by William Strother, grandson of William the Immigrant, and boyhood home of George Washington.  The Strother Society presented a check for $250,000 to Bill and Andrew to assist in funding the renovation.
• following the banquet on Saturday night, Dr. Thomas Daniel Knight made a presentation on the Virginia gentry.

For more details on the activities at the 2014 conference, and especially more information on the Strother Society partnering with the George Washington Foundation, please check the October 2014 issue of the Houses of Strother Newsletter.  This newsletter also contains many photographs from the conference.