Welcome
... to the official website of the Oregon Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation. The founding meeting was held on September 19, 1998 at Fort Clatsop National Memorial. The chapter now boasts over 230 members from throughout Oregon, Washington and other locations as well. The chapter's mission is to encourage, support and undertake, either individually or jointly with others, projects that stimulate and advance public knowledge and awareness of the historic, social and cultural significance of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The scope of chapter activities to achieve these goals are broad and diverse including the promotion of membership, the preservation of Expedition related sites and educational projects, programs and field trips that enhance the enjoyment and understanding of the Lewis and Clark story.NOTICE: Given uncertainties in the marketplace, the November 22, 2008 fundraiser featuring Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs and an opportunity to view Mike Carrick's period firearms collection will be postponed. Watch for news of a future date on the Events page.
We're pleased to present two new uncontested candidates to serve on our Chapter Board for 2009-11 terms.
We will vote during our chapter meeting on December 6.
Marty Boehme
Marty is a retired mechanical design engineer with an advanced degree from Oregon State University, specializing in opto-mechanical design and state-of-the-art mechanisms. He’s a history buff with an extensive collection of hundreds explorer-type stories in book form. His wife, Katie is a Shields (via her mother), related to John Shields of the Corps. He belongs to the family of friends owning vintage-like teardrop camp trailers and edits a quarterly newsletter.He lives in Oregon City and also belongs to a number of car clubs, serving on the board of the Northwest Vintage Car and Motorcycle Museum located on the grounds of Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon. He has a street-rodded 1937 Ford 2-door sedan powered by a modern Chevrolet 350 cubic-inch V-8 engine. He recently completed two years as project manager in building a gazebo on the museum’s two-acre campus show grounds, and with a woodworking hobby he built his own house.
Tom Wilson
Tom lives in Astoria, having recently retired from teaching elementary school there for 30 years (he coached high school volleyball for 26 years). He began working with Fort Clatsop on its curriculum advisory board and later volunteered the n worked as a ranger.Since 2001, he has portrayed Corps members in Ft. Clatsop’s living history programs, and now focuses on William Bratton (Saltworks) and William Clark. He was Clark in “A Clatsop Winter Story” and the 2008 Ron Craig PBS film about York. He is president of Pacific Northwest Living Historians. His most memorable moments doing living history were during the Bicentennial: setting up camp in the woods at Ft. Clatsop just a month after the replica, paddling Native American canoes as the Corps arrived at Ft. Clatsop and departed, and skippering a canoe with Discovery Expedition of St. Charles for the last 50 miles down the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers into St. Louis for the big “Welcome Home” celebration in 2006.
Memories
Don’t forget to check out more photos (and upload your own) at the Member Photo Gallery
Happy 150th birthday, Oregon!
Yes, on Valentine's Day 1859 Oregon was inducted into the Union. And that means during 2009 we will hold our sesquicentennial (that's pronounced ses-kwi-sen-ten-ee-uhl, by the way) celebration of this magical place.Governor Ted Kulongoski has launched Oregon 150, and encourages all Oregonians to contribute their stories.
Check out the new website at www.oregon150.org and help us ready for the big celebration.
Celebrate, Beaver State!
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