{"id":142,"date":"2014-10-27T19:55:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T19:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/?p=142"},"modified":"2017-02-22T13:22:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:22:55","slug":"professor-hudgins-and-history-student-attend-wfa-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/2014\/10\/27\/professor-hudgins-and-history-student-attend-wfa-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Hudgins and History Student Attend WFA Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, Professor Hudgins and\u00a0UB student\u00a0Stephanie Danesie met at the War Memorial Building on Gay Street to attend the fall meeting of the Western Front Association<\/a>\u00a0East Coast branch.\u00a0 They heard talks from the translator of a French soldier’s memoir, a member’s account of the German victory over the British navy at Coronel (off the coast of Chile), the director of the Woodrow Wilson House in D.C.<\/a> discussing American neutrality, and more.\u00a0 The Western Front Association gathers amateur researchers and experts twice a year to discuss\u00a0various aspects of the Great War.\u00a0 The fall meeting of the East Coast Branch takes place at the War Memorial building every year.\u00a0 At noon, an intermission allowed us to walk just a couple of blocks to the Inner Harbor for lunch.<\/p>\n

This year is the centennial of the war’s commencement, and 2017 will be the centennial of U.S. entry in the war.<\/p>\n

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The War Memorial Building was constructed in 1925 to honor the Maryland veterans of WWI (photo by Wally Gobetz).\u00a0 WFA member Dane Coffman attended the meeting <\/em>in a replica of General Pershing’s wartime uniform.<\/em><\/p>\n

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