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Dear Friends of Lewis & Clark,
Welcome to the very first issue of Proceeding On. Each month Lewis and Clark Trail news, travel planning, and events will be featured. During the bicentennial years we formed a community of people across America who shared the excitement of learning about our national and local heritage, who worked together to promote tourism, and who traveled the trail.
Many of you were contacted during the six years it took to write Lewis and Clark Road Trips. The over 800 destinations featured in the book are now up on our website's new Trip Planner, with links to their websites and to individual MapQuest maps. - If you are working for a museum or tourism center and have received this email, we may have linked to your website. Please look at the Trip Planner for your area and get back to us if map corrections are needed, or if you have suggestions for better links. We would also like you to link back to us.
- If you want to have your news and events included on the website or featured in Proceeding On, or have any comments, send an email to me.
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| Trip Planner with MapQuest Maps & Links
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The website's innovative new Trip Planner has links to websites for over 800 destinations and direct links to MapQuest maps showing their location, which can be used for planning your own travel routes. The Lewis and Clark Trail is divided into ten regions, shown here. Use the links on the bottom right hand side of this email to look at the regions you are interested in. The Trip Planner offers a wonderful opportunity to surf the web and visit a great many interesting websites related to Lewis and Clark, Native Americans, historic buildings, museums and interpretive centers.
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Celilo Stories and Maya Lin at The Dalles, Oregon
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Celilo Falls on the Columbia River was one of the great Native American market places and North America's most important salmon fishery for ten thousand years. Maryhill Museum of Art has an exhibit, The Day the Columbia River Ran Backward, March 10, 1957, documenting the story of the submerging of Celilo Falls by The Dalles Dam. The Columbia Gorge Discovery Center is hosting "Celilo Stories" March 17-18. Contact the Center for Columbia River History for info.
Maya Lin and tribal partners will conduct the Confluence Project's
"Blessing of the Land Ceremony" at Celilo Falls Park at The Dalles,
Oregon on Sunday, March 18 at 3:00 PM. The public is invited to attend. Maya Lin is the architect who created the Vietnam Memorial on the National Mall. She is working on seven Confluence Project sites along the Columbia River. The first one has been completed at Cape Disappointment State Park, the end of the Lewis and Clark journey.
An article in The Oregonian (3/4/07), Still Waters, Stolen Lives tells about $13 million worth of improvements provided to the Native American community at Celilo Falls. The U S Army Corps of Engineers is building 14 new homes; installing new sewers, water, electrical facilities; and improving the road. A longhouse was built last year. Four member tribes of the Columbia River Inter-tribal Fish Commission are engaged in Tribal Salmon Restoration Projects. The tribes are the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Yakama. $88.9 million has been spent by the Corps of Engineers in restoring 32 Native American fishing sites along the Columbia River.
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Great Falls Portage Threatened by Power Plant
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The Lewis and Clark Great Falls Portage Route became a National Historic Landmark in 1966. Several dramatic episodes occurred in this area where the men hauled dugouts on wooden wheels for 17 miles over extremely rought terrain around the Great Falls of the Missouri River. The magnificent landscape is the proposed home of a giant new electrical plant. To learn more visit www.preservemontana.org.The dugout seen here is on display at the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center in Great Falls. Great Falls is also the home of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation office, library and archives. The Foundation is asking our support in opposing the location of the power plant at the Portage site. Letters and comments on the final Environmental Impact Statement are due by March 12th. Wendy Raney, Publications Editor and Director of Field Operations, is requesting emails be sent to Mark Plank of the USDA Rural Utilities Program. mark.plank@wdc.usda.gov
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LCTHF Annual Meeting at Charlottesville, Virginia
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Shown here are members of the Discovery Expedition of St Charles visiting Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, in Charlottesville. The annual meeting of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation will be held on August 5-7, 2007 in Charlottesville. Tours of the homes of three Presidents, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and James Madison, and Mr. Jefferson's "Academical Village" (the University of Virginia) are featured. A Teachers Workshop and Camp Pomp for children are also available. Optional side trips are: the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC (8/8); Williamsburg-Jamestown 400th Anniversary (8/2-4); and Cumberland Gap-Wilderness Road-Fincastle (8/9-11). Visit the foundation's website to learn more, or call (888) 701-3434. Join the Trail Heritage Foundation to receive an outstanding quarterly magazine, We Proceeded On. The foundation has 38 chapters.
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| GPS Inventory of the Trail in Nebraska & Iowa
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What would Lewis and Clark have thought of the wonders of GPS as they were struggling with their celestial navigation?
Following the lead of trail supporters in Missouri and Montana, the Nebraska Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission is undertaking a GPS inventory of trail signage, and other pertinent information on both sides of the Missouri River Corridor. The inventory will help maintain
the stewardship of markers, signs, statues, icons and hiking trails. Artifacts, exhibits and collections will also be noted.
Training sessions are at National Park Service headquarters in Omaha (3/5), Ponca State Park (3/13) and at the Missouri River Basin Lewis & Clark Center at Nebraska City (3/16). Participants will be trained in using handheld GPS units to determine latitude and longitude readings.
The Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail is managed by the NPS Midwest Regional Office, located at Lewis and Clark Landing on the Missouri Riverfront in downtown Omaha, Nebraska shown here. They are providing guidance to organizations and agencies wanting to participate in the inventory. Contact Suzanne Gucciardo, Natural Resource Specialist, at (402) 661-1804.
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Lewis & Clark at MO Valley History Conference
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Lewis and Clark scholars now have a home at the Missouri Valley History Conference held annually during March by the University of Nebraska at Omaha. A session at the 50th Anniversary of the conference featured papers by Carl Camp and Orville Menard, both Emeritus Professors at UNO. Paul Sivitz of Missoula, Montana provided comments. The session was chaired by Bob Pawloski, President of the Mouth of the Platte Chapter of LCTHF. The session was well attended and we have been invited back for next year's conference. The MVHC has always welcomed papers by independent scholars, grad students and members of the academic community. |
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We are Proceeding On along the Lewis and Clark Trail, developing an internet heritage tourism trail across the United States. Please add a link from your own website to the Lewis and Clark Road Trips website and subscribe to the blog. We will link back. You can also help spread the word by asking local libraries and schools to buy the book and bookstores to carry it. The book may be ordered through our website's Amazon Affiliate Bookstore which has a wide selection of Lewis and Clark books. Retailers may order through our distributor IPG. Please use the link below to forward this email to anyone who might be interested.
Sincerely,
Kira Gale
River Junction Press LLC
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Lewis and Clark
Road Trips
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Lewis & Clark
Motor Coach Tour
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St Louis to
Sioux City(Cahokia Mounds to Spirit Mound)June 25-July 1, 2007
Lewis and Clark Motor Coach Tour
Open to the general public. Scholarships are available for 3 hours of graduate credit in Teacher Education
Contact:
Dr Will Locke
(402) 461-7311
wlocke@hastings.edu
Hastings College
Department of Teacher Education
Hastings, Nebraska
Leaders
Dr Will Locke
Trails Expert
Gilbert Adrian
Biologist
Richard Fruehling MD
Medical history
William Kloefkorn
Nebraska State Poet
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Trip Planner Links
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Over 800
Heritage Tourism Destinations
with Links to their
Websites and
MapQuest Maps
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Trip Planner IntroductionRegion OneEast of the Alleghenies VA, DC, WV, MD, PA Region TwoPittsburgh to Cincinnati PA, OH, WV, KY Region ThreeLouisville to Wood River Camp KY, IN, IL, MO Region FourSt Louis to Kansas City MO, KS Region FiveNebraska and Iowa NE, IA Region SixSouth Dakota and North Dakota Region SevenMontana to the Rockies MT Region EightWestern Montana and Idaho Region NineWashington and Oregon Region TenNew Orleans and the Natchez Trace
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