the NEW ENGLAND - SAINT LAWRENCE VALLEY GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 

 
A Brief History of NESTVAL
 

From Donald C. Dahmann's "Timeline of Geography in America" (George Washington University)  
  http://www.gwu.edu/~geog/gat/gat.html
     Note: Timeline does not appear to have been updated since 2002.  Dahmann is not listed on the GWU faculty, and may be a graduate of the GWU program? (Web page was current as of November, 2008.)

     " [The] New England Geographical Conference is established as the nation’s first regional professional geography society. It becomes the New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society, today’s New England-St. Lawrence Valley Division of the Association of American Geographers. Proceedings, New England/St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society, a compilation of papers presented at the division’s annual meeting, begins publication in 1971 and continues to the present.
     William A. Koelsch. Before NESTVAL: the New England Geographical Conference. Proceedings, New England/St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society 2 (1972): 23-33;
     Harold Meeks. The New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society: a Short History. Proceedings, New England/St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society 5 (1975): 74-78 "

     Bryon Middlekauf added that NESTVAL was founded in 1922 as the New England Geographical Conference, and  the group was renamed in 1951 as the New England - Saint Lawrence Valley Geographical Society to include our geographically like-minded neighbors to the north.

     Note that the Society has ceased publication of the Proceedings, but began publishing the Northeastern Geographer in 2006-2007.

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