TVA has had a major sociological impact on one of the most underdeveloped and poverty-stricken areas of the nation, the rural South. The history and sociology panel of the Stonecipher Symposium explores TVA's role in these regional sociological changes. Rather than concentrating on an institutional history of the agency, the history and sociology panel explores how TVA altered the lives of the people it touched. Historian Melissa Walker of Converse College will outline how TVA affected the lives of rural women, both for good and ill. Dr. John Muldowny of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville will recount the significance of TVA's relocation programs for people whose families had lived on their land for generations. Dr. Jefferson Chapman, director of the Frank H. McClung Museum of Anthropology in Knoxville, will discuss his anthropological excavations during the construction of the Tellico dam. He will explain the importance of TVA to the study of the archeology of the region over the last 65 years.

Panel moderator: Patricia Ezzell, Historian
Tennessee Valley Authority
Natural Resources Building
17 Ridgeway Road
Norris, TN 37828
(423)632-1582
pbezzell@tva.gov

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