Triple-Header Saturday for Chapter Members
Not only a great Saturday presentation but bring a brown bag lunch and stay for the OR-LCTHF board meeting following the activities listed below.
Bringing History to Life: Three Lectures About Historical Projects
in the Lewis &
Clark College Special Collections
Saturday, February 20,
2010, 9:30-11:30 am,
Miller 105 at Lewis and Clark College.
(To get to Miller 105 - Turn left at the first
entrance to the campus and
drive to the very rear parking lot, go up the steps,
first building on the left)
On February 20th the Lewis & Clark College
Special Collections in cooperation with the Lewis
& Clark Trail Heritage Foundation will host a
series of three lectures by Stephen Dow Beckham, Gary
E. Moulton, and Roger Wendlick. Recently all three of
these individuals have spent time working on
historical projects in the Lewis & Clark College
Special Collections, and at this event the three will
share their discoveries. This event is free to the
Lewis & Clark College community and to the
general public.
- “Onomastics of an Indian
Woman” by Gary E. Moulton, Thomas C.
Sorensen Professor Emeritus of History, University
of Nebraska—Lincoln. Moulton is the editor of
authoritative edition of the Journals of the Lewis
and Clark Expedition.
- “James Gilchrest Swan
(1818-1900): Wilderness
Intellectual” by Stephen Dow
Beckham, Dr. Robert D. Pamplin, Jr. Professor of
History, Lewis & Clark College. Beckham is
editor of Oregon Indians: Voices from Two Centuries
and curator of Watzek Library’s current
exhibit on James G. Swan.
- “Recollections of Assembling a One-of-a-Kind Lewis and Clark Library and Thoughts on Writing an Autobiography” by Roger Wendlick, antiquarian book collector and Lewis and Clark expedition scholar, Portland, Oregon. Roger is the author of Shotgun on My Chest: Memoirs of a Lewis and Clark Collector.