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World on Wheels: Number 7 - 2019 edition

World on Wheels: Number 7 - 2019 edition

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Carriages, Wagons and Horses in War and Peace: End of a Conflict, 1918
Presented by the Carriage Association of America and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in association with the National Sporting Library & Museum, the CAA/CWF International Carriage Symposium is the largest gathering of carriage enthusiasts in the world. World on Wheels is a publication of select presentations given at the 2018 symposium.

Contributors:

DR. THOMAS KINNEY became interested in the wagon and carriage industry during his doctoral studies at Case Western Reserve University. A lively and energetic author and speaker, he has been honored to share his work on the carriage-making firms of New Haven and New York. A professor of History at Bluefield College since 2004, Kinney lives and homesteads with his wife and children in the mountains of southwest Virginia.

DR. ALEXANDRA LOTZ has studied Interior Architecture, Architectural Conservation and World Heritage management. She is currently working on a PhD thesis about the architectural history and cultural landscape of the German State Stud at Marbach. She focuses on equestrian heritage and especially on European stud culture. She has set up a network of thirty traditional horse breeding institutions in fifteen European countries.

RICHARD C. V. NICOLL retired from the Bill and Jean Lane Director of the Coach and Livestock Department at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, where he managed the carriage and horse operations at the historical area, as well as the oxen, rare breeds of cattle, sheep, pigs, and poultry. He was formerly the chairman of the Driving Committee for the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI), served as the course designer for the 2010 and 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian. He was the course designer for the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games in Tryon.

DR. CATHERINE ROMMELAERE graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) with a degree in art history and archaeology. She wrote her thesis on the subject of the horse and chariots in Egypt. She studied at the Franco-Egyptian Centre at Karnak, studying the representations of horsedrawn chariots of the Amarna period. She received her doctorate from the Free University of Brussels, presenting a dissertation on 18th- and 19th-century coachwork in Belgium. She manages the historic and iconographic archives for the D’Ieteren Company. Her book is Voitures & carrossiers aux xviiie and xixe siècles.

WILLIAM J. STEWART joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police In July of 1971. Bill spent 37 years with the RCMP Musical Ride. He also selected, trained and presented three of the six horses that the RCMP has presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

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