The meeting and all events will be held in the State Museum of Pennsylvania.
The Comfort Inn on Front Street in Harrisburg has been selected as the hotel for the conference.
They are offering a special rate of $79 per night and parking is free.
Reservations can be made by calling 717-233-1611.
Identify yourself as being with the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology.
The rate is in effect until March 20, 2009.
The hotel is six blocks from the State Museum.

The banquet speaker will be Bruce Bomberger, Curator, Landis Valley Museum.
He will speak on the French and Indian War Forts of Pennsylvania.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The theme of the 80th annual meeting will be "The Archaeology of Penn's Woods".
SPA registrants are invited to attend the PAC symposium on Friday afternoon.
This year’s PAC theme will be the Archaeology of the Terminal Archaic/Transitional Period.

There will be three open sessions, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
Anyone wishing to participate should send abstracts of 150 words or fewer to the Program Chair by March 1, 2009.
Note that all presenters at the Annual Meeting must be members of SPA for 2009 and be pre-registered for the meeting.
SPA membership does not include meeting registration.

Program Chair

Jim Herbstritt
Bureau for Historic Preservation
400 North Street
Harrisburg, PA 17120-0093
Phone: 7170214-8648 Fax: 717-772-0920
E-mail: jberbstrit@state.pa.us

Arrangements Chair

Kurt Carr
The State Museum of Pennsylvania
300 North Street
Harrisburg, PA 17120-0024
Phone: 717-783-9926 Fax: 717-214-2990
E-mail: kcarr@state.pa.us