Workgroup 1: Coordination

Includes oversight and monitoring of:

• Location, event, and information coordination throughout the Commonwealth (including coordinating museums, battlefields, parks, and events)
• Local sesquicentennial committees
• Other states' sesquicentennial commissions
• National sesquicentennial planning and events
• Welcome Center information, kiosks, and/or orientation film
• Website, publications, etc.
  

Members
Senator Charles J. Colgan, Sr., Chairman
Senator Janet D. Howell
Delegate R. Steven Landes
Delegate L. Scott Lingamfelter
John P. Ackerly, III
Michael Amyx, Virginia Municipal League
Alisa Bailey, Virginia Tourism Corporation
L. Preston Bryant, Jr., Secretary of Natural Resources
Mitch Bowman, Civil War Trails
James Campbell, Virginia Association of Counties
Margo Carlock, Va. Association of Museums
The Hon. Patrick O. Gottschalk, Secretary of Commerce and Trade
Kathleen Kilpatrick, Dept. of Historic Resources
Joseph H. Maroon, Dept. of Conservation and Recreation
Donna Purcell Mayes, Virginia Department of Transportation
Don Pierce, Civil War Traveler

Advisory Participants
Michael Beard, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Col. Keith Gibson, Virginia Military Institute Museum
Will Greene, Pamplin Historical Park
Scott Harris, New Market Battlefield State Historical Park
Barbara Joyner, United Daughters of the Confederacy
Howard Kittell, Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation
Cynthia MacLeod, Superintendent, Richmond National Battlefield Park
Nick Picerno, Bridgewater College
John Quarstein, Virginia War Museum
John Sandridge, Ft. Defiance/Staunton
Larry Schwab, Portsmouth
Russ Smith, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County National Battlefield Park
Cathy Strite, All-in-One Tours
Waite Rawls, Museum of the Confederacy
Edwin Watson, Fredericksburg Area Museum